Selling the Rancorous | Automation episode 2
575Taking the Rancorous Adventure GL into full production and generating its first sales - if I can figure out how to work out how it's doing. Never mind, I'll do lots of marketing and get the kind of commercial performance we need in Automation, the car tycoon game.
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(*) - Today's secret: I'm hoping to discern more from the tycoon interface over time but it definitely feels like complexity for the sake of it at the moment. Vitally important to a tycoon game of any kind is seeing the cause and effect relationship. Without the ability to track total unit sales or how the competition is performing it's shooting blind. 2,500 sales per month - is that good? Is it bad? There's certainly money being left on the table.
Here's the featureset I'd swipe from Detroit:
- Open more offices = generate more sales (limited by demand, pricing, economic environment)
- Open more factories = build more cars (affected by worker numbers, efficiency, factory tooling)
- Factory location impacting shipping costs
- Research is staffed, assign staff to different projects to advance
- Media reviews. Adds colour and humanises a mechanical game experience.
- Competitor performance. Are we performing well or being taken apart by the competition?
- Annual car awards.
There are more notions, obviously. But give me taps I can turn to change or tune commercial performance. Force me to lay off workers in bad times. I want unions on strike, bad press, celebrity endorsements, motor shows, racing teams... give me the motor industry's most exciting elements!