On Vehicles and Purchases Of

Here is an explanation of -how- dealerships in Withmore City work, and hopefully you can understand things a bit better.

Withmore city is a space preimium location, there isn't a hell of a lot of room for the 65 million people crammed into the mile high dome. So, in terms of automobiles, there isn't the type of showroom dealerships you think of around today. There just isn't the space in Withmore to have a huge parking lot with every coloured car you want on it. It wouldn't be feasable or economical, the land alone would make the dealership non-cost effective.

So, instead, things are run much like a Porsche dealership. Typically when you purchase a Porsche, you go into the show room and look at floor models, and then you pick a colour, interior, extras, and there is a car that is -MADE TO ORDER- for you. You even get little phone calls from the factory when it gets painted, and when it gets on the boat, and when it arrives.

In Withmore, due to space and cost constraints, things are the same way, only a hell of a lot less personal. You put in an -ORDER- for a car based on what you see in the showroom, and then in a factory the car is made, then shipped into the city for you to pick up.

Aikon pointed out that in a real new car dealership there are new cars ready to drive off, which is true. In 2003, in North America where there is a ton of land to spare. But this is Withmore, it's 65 million people crammed into a dome just over a mile high and 14 miles in diametre.

I hope this clarifies how the showroom/car sales system works in Withmore.

1) You go into the dealership
2) you look at showroom models
3) you access a kiosk that has order info and specs
4) you insert a chyen deposit and place an order
5) You wait for a message from the dealership in you NLM inbox when your car is ready, it states it takes between 1-2 days I belive. We will look at adjusting that for later.

*wink*

unfortunately this is not the case currently... now am I saying we need another car lot already.. not really, but I am saying if someone has a monoploly when by all rights they shouldn't  then they should not act as if they do...  

my point being: I'm impatient. if you don't have what I want when I want it (espically if you said you do)   then I go elsewhere..it should be taken into consideration that in this case that is not an option..  now if you guys are working hard trying to get a car for everyone who put the deopsit down then good for you, and thanks... if there is no RL backlog and you are holding out because of the rush on a certan car then please rethink what you are doing..

hell of course there is a rush because this is the first car lot... if there were one all along then the rush would be non existant..  but in a city of so many millions I would think that you guys would not want us to rp as though this is the first car lot, ever in such a large city...

this post is kinda broken cause it was the first thing i did as of waking up this morn, but I hope I got my point across..

1) If we were to build an actuall physically to scale version of Withmore City, with all the rooms and streets that would be in it, with all the thousands and -THOUSANDS- of buildings, the MOO would be ten times, nay, a thousand times larger than it is now, and you would need to walk 300 rooms just to get to the drome from Westinghaus. Obviously there are certain elements that you have to fill in with your imagination. Just because there is only one dealership on Green does not mean that it is the only one in the city, it just means it is the only one we have represented for player use because at this time there is no point in making 2.

2) Your impatience is irrelivant. In the -REAL- world nobody gives two shits if you are impatient. And if you go to a dealership, drop a deposit, and order a car that is custom, you better belive that you'll loose that deposit if you back out. Plain and simple man. A dealership isn't going to bring in a custom car just for you to back out at the last minute. And like I said above, in terms of the game, that is what ordering a car is. You order it to be made/shipped into the dome when it is ready.

Tough titties if its late. If you want to back out, you'll be saddling the dealership with a car that they may not be able to sell, so they'll gladly keep your deposit and send you packing, and think twice about doing business with you again.

As to the IC reasonings for the lateness, they are perfectly justifiable and logical. There was a demand spike, and the distribution network was unable to fully meet the projected demand on the product, there-for things are late. It happens all the bloody time in the REAL WORLD. It's why there is an entire industry built around shipping and exporting. HELL, there could be a customs snarl, or some red tape toting bastard who wants a bigger bribe to fast track em in. You just don't know that, and perhaps if you take the time to root about, if you really give a shit, you could find out something more, a reason for it. But I tell you one thing, the poor sod at the dealership sure ain't gonna have the answers. He's just a wage slave who's got to deal with hundreds of bitch 'where's my car' calls every day…

3) Monopolies: Welcome to cyberpunk, where a monopoly isn't just common, it's expected. Live with it, it's part of the genre. Companies have merged and merged and merged to the point where there's hardly any free enterprise, just a bunch of big boys running the world.

4) Yes Tool, that was uncalled for.

I hope this helps clarify things for people, and yes, keep the commentary coming, I am more than happy to explain or expand on any issues that you may have thematically, logistically, or gramatically.

:)

I will also concede I was slightly rude, but I had good reason…

I guess we're both right/wrong, whatever.

the customer base thing too,  hmm never thought of it like that but even so...

You wanna be fawned over? Bring a Judge in full uniform with you. Hee.