Cost of cars

But the lowest end model, the little 'Mono' thing, is still insanely expensive. Like half a low ranking corpies entire yearly salary. While this may be 'realistic' I think it sucks. We have no taxis in game right now. What is the rationale for making the inferior cars so damn expensive?

Also… since the prices have changed, I think it's appropriate to at least make some cosmetic adjustments to the cars that were bought -prior- to the price change (late model/used, etc.) in order to justify why some people who normally would never be able to afford one already have one.

(Edited by BuddhaBrand at 9:56 pm on April 28, 2006)

Quote: from BuddhaBrand on 9:50 pm on April 28, 2006[br]I understand why the cost of cars has gone up astronomically and I agree with basic the reasoning, but the way it is now it is practically impossible for anyone to buy a Holden. Maybe this is the way it should be and I think the price of luxury cars, if thats what the Holden really is, should be frighteningly expensive.

But the lowest end model, the little 'Mono' thing, is still insanely expensive. Like half a low ranking corpies entire yearly salary. While this may be 'realistic' I think it sucks. We have no taxis in game right now. What is the rationale for making the inferior cars so damn expensive?

Also… since the prices have changed, I think it's appropriate to at least make some cosmetic adjustments to the cars that were bought -prior- to the price change (late model/used, etc.) in order to justify why some people who normally would never be able to afford one already have one.

(Edited by BuddhaBrand at 9:56 pm on April 28, 2006)

As I understand it, they raised prices along with corporate salary. People who have a Holden prior to the price boost still had to save a LONG ass time to get that 150k ride.

I think that it would be more IC to have something of a used car lot (Kros?) where you can buy shit box cars that possibly have a set time (that the player might not know) before they simply break down and don't start anymore, at which time they need to go see a mechanic (it would give any Mechanic players something to do!).

Corpie salaries at the starting level are basically low. This means living on Green is pointless if you want to save money for a car or buy anything fancy (and time, since taking the Lev to work is your only option). Living expenses on Green would mean around two years starting salary to buy a MONO. This means salary increases are vital, because the starting salary is still a barrier to entry to the slightly more upscale corpie life.

I'm guessing a basic corpie job is basically somewhere a little above your crap corpie job (i.e. waitress or something).

My suggestion is make Mono's 150,000. Make Duos 250,000. Koi at 450,000 and keep Holdens at 750,000. I mean, a Mono is practically like a scooter right? It's like a Smart car or something. At least give us easier access to transport. The high end stuff will remain high end but the fact is, Corpies dont have much to play with. What exists should at least be made accessible in some form.

Quote: from FireStorm on 3:03 pm on May 1, 2006[br]New vehicles are in the works. Bicycles, motorcycles, skateboards, etc. etc. These will be the low-end everyday mixer transportation. I don't know who is working on these or if any progress has been made (kind of like the broken taxi problem), but that's the situation.

-I- was working on all of the above… ;) I hope to god you're refering to someone else who has been working on them more recently... :D

Hi FS.

Ok.

Quote: from BuddhaBrand on 9:50 pm on April 28, 2006[br]Also… since the prices have changed, I think it's appropriate to at least make some cosmetic adjustments to the cars that were bought -prior- to the price change (late model/used, etc.) in order to justify why some people who normally would never be able to afford one already have one.

I agree with you to an extent, but I think that all vehicle sshould have timers… and when these timers hit certain points, they begin to fall apart. Because if someone buys a brand new car, and then the prices go up, their brand new car shouldnt be affected. But all cars could have timers which would go off and certain things would stop working. Maybe a certain part on the Holden is faulty and is very notorious of falling apart.

Oh, and hey ross, welcome back ^_~

Surely design decisions should be based on design? I'd like to think SDs design isn't absolute mimickery of the real world, what would be the point?

Saying that, increasing their prices does help keep them out of the hands of the mixers, which I'd say supports a social devide design.
But, couldn't that perhaps be dealt with by having background checks?
You can't buy a car on Gold if you've got a criminal record for instance.
Or if there was a way to easily identify if someone is a mixer (in code terms), the sales people at the car place could simply refuse to "serve scum like yourself, now get out of here before I call the WJF".

(maybe cars could be ordered with/without a deposit, but importantly you must give an apartment address. - only those living on green can have a car. The car peeps can get your details from your SIC, and it would show if you're on the apartment database or something).

Then the mixers might respond by making shitty old bangers that, like was said could break down.

Mixers shouldn't be served should they? They'd either get their cars by making their own ones - crappy bangers, combat cars with plating welded to the front, or by hijacking shipments of the latest top cars.

Err yeah, I'm out of it, that'll do.

I don't think it's too, too bad.. the cost of cars. I mean, the biggest issue is that in a city as congested as withmore, only the wealthy even drive little go-carts.

Space is at such a premium youre practically paying the rent for the volume that your car encloses in that original pric, relative to the entire dome spacee. If you look at it that way, and considering you can park the damn things just about anywhere, that space is damn cheap.

I guess the price of ethanol is like a kind of tax incurred just by moving.

Shit is expensive in the dome. Cars are for middling corpie chars... Way it was before someone could by a holden practically after just a couple months, considering the jacked up salaries.

All is good in my mind.