Something actually new?

[uec397]

How about you guys come up with a dlc that is not just rehashed for the third time from previous years? Maybe making it so you can put your built cars in auction? Making the drag racing more diverse instead of the same couple of "super cars" as all the competitors? More story orders maybe? Something to give reason to keep buying car dlc or give people who feel like me a reason to come back when you put out the next game.

[Grimmslayer73]

Have to agree here. It's nice to see the old DLCs, but you can only use the same puzzle pattern so many times before you start to recognize the shape of the pieces, regardless of what's printed on it. There has been lots of ideas posted so I wont list them. All you got to do is read the forums. This game needs something new. At this rate I won't be buying the next version. By then we will be down to 1 car lift with a max of 3 cars visible!

[FV]

This is the list of things i think would make this game much better and worthy:

- Better driving and engine sounds. This should be fixed ASAP
- Free or 90% discount on Remastered dlc's to people who bought them on the previous game
- Have the Remastered DLC's ready when the game's launched so you can focus on creating new/original stuff
- Buy chassis without parts
- Being able to fix seats, steering wheel, windows and headlights
- Hybrid Cars
- Painting cars should increase their value
- Washing and dusting the cars should make the clients pay some kind of bonus
- Open the gas station as an investment for passive income
- Ending those annoying mini game to repair and scrap parts
- Being able to paint multiple parts with the same paint at a discounted price instead of paying 100€ for each part
- Having special missions to make crazy modifications to the cars like on "Monster Garage" video game
- Online radio station for the garage
- Being able to go to the junkyard for free, but be charged only to get the cars towed to the garage. Sometimes i go to there and end up not buying anything but i'm charged 200€
- Bring back the "Maluch" from CMS 2015
- Not having dumb missions, like having to replace a broken caliper on the front right, a break pad on the front left, a disc on the rear right and a wheel bearing on the rear left. How the hell does that happens? Come on.

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Create "Tuning dlc":
Engine:
- Nitro
- Methanol injection system
- Bigger turbos and superchargers for I4 and I6 engines
- Straight exhaust
- Teach us how to reprogram ECU and tune Carburetors instead of that lame mini game
- Custom made engine blocks like on dragster cars
- 4, 6 or 8 Rotor engines
- 4 Turbos V8, V10, V12 or V16
- Gaskets, hoses and cables;
- Add CNC's on the back to rectify/port engine heads and blocks

Suspension:
- Change ride height
- Add coilovers
- Stronger anti roll bars

Breaks:
- Breaks swap. bigger brake rotors and performance break pads;
- Hydraulic handbrake

Weight reduction
- Remove all the door panels, dashboard, passenger seat, backseat
- Smaller fuel tank

Styling
- Paint the wheels
- Rollcages
- 4 point seat belts
- Change seats colors
- Change the pedals
- Gauges
- Body Kits, spoilers, side skirts, custom exhaust tips
- Sound system on the trunk
- Neons on the engine bay, trunk, wheels and under the car
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It would be great if we could also manage the business and expand it. We could start by having a small garage, then hiring someone to work on the gas station to make some extra money and slowly expanding the garage to the point of having a dealership to sell the cars we restore.

I believe it would be much better if it worked on a day/month system.
For example: suppose you want to buy a part, it should only arrive a couple of days after you buy it, but you could pay extra to have it on the next or the same day, that way you would need to be careful with your budget because at the end of the month you had to pay the expenses (water, electricity, the worker on the gas station, etc) so you'd need to take in multiple cars per day and buy all the necessary parts to repair them. Plus, the clients could pay extra if you got the cars fixed sooner than expected.

[uec397]

Like your list of the modding. Those would indeed be nice. I would definitely like something more in the rest of the game as well though. Past the story orders, it's just the same thing over and over. They need to expand the game.

[SkinGravel]

Originally posted by uec397:

How about you guys come up with a dlc that is not just rehashed for the third time from previous years? Maybe making it so you can put your built cars in auction? Making the drag racing more diverse instead of the same couple of "super cars" as all the competitors? More story orders maybe? Something to give reason to keep buying car dlc or give people who feel like me a reason to come back when you put out the next game.

All '21 DLCs that aren't remasters are new to the CMS franchise, including the upcoming BMW DLC. That's what's new, so it's not just all rehashed. Stay honest.

Definitely agree that drag racing could use a lot of work, but I also think the effort it took to make that DLC could've been better spent on the mechanical side of things, and I hope the devs get back to that core value. That's my taste, though. Lots of people wanted the racing, so it's all good there, even if I don't care much for it. It's there for those that do. (I really liked the addition of the four cars and six engines in the package, though.) However, CMS isn't Forza or GT over here, nor is it a ridiculous gas station/Auto Zone simulator over there. It is what it is, without the extraneous bullsh*t. The Aston Martin vehicles/engines are a great example of where things can go, and a well-deserved nod to Meitzi's 'QoL' mod for where RDG could take things a lot further in-game, even if it's down the road a ways.

People will always point you to Wrench, if they haven't already. I'll do it, too. I've been promoting that game for over two years, because it's awesome. People have been hopping on that wagon lately. If that's what you all want with CMS, you'll be wanting for a long time, if not indefinitely. Two different games. Probably always will be, like it or not. I'd like to be wrong about that, but only to a certain degree. Each has its own lane, and Wrench is not at all polished. It's a bona fide achievement for a two-man team, but it has a very long way to go, objectively speaking. Having said that, if you want a hardcore mechanic sim, that's the one and only. Nothing I've seen compares, even in its current, unpolished state.

But this is CMS, not Wrench.

I wouldn't mind some new Story Orders for sure. Would give me an incentive to do a few jobs again, like you mentioned, even if it's just for a bit. Getting back to the mechanical side of things, as it should be.

And selling our cars at the Auction would be great. It's been requested at least 20 times more than the DLC has been remastered. I'll take 'em both. The more engines and parts to acquire, build with, and auction off, the merrier.

[uec397]

Here is some honesty. An actual 70% is rehash. The drag racing was a great idea that fails miserably. Heck, I get only two opponents in the top class. I quit doing the drag racing after the second day due to lack of any fun factor. They are going the everybody despises EA Madden Route. Put a new name on it and add a couple things and call it all new.

It needs many more story orders which I guaranty are some of the easiest bits of the game to code. Since a huge part of the game is fixing up cars and selling them, the go to auction should be mandatory and not just completely basic like the drag racing dlc was. Then the quality of the models needs to seriously be improved and the diversity of parts much improved. Like another person just eluded to. The parts for a Smith 1500 shouldn't be used on a F-350 model.

[SkinGravel]

That's not true, either. It's 53%, and when the BMW DLC is released, it'll be 50%. This is how it was always intended to be for CMS '21, and it was stated as such not long after launch. Will it remain 50/50 new/remastered going forward? Couldn't tell you. So far, they've done what they said they were going to do a year and a half ago. They're not doing anything they said they wouldn't do.

The reason why I said what I said earlier is that you don't need to fudge the numbers to validate your other points. I love these games, but they're far from perfect, and you already made some valid points, like a lot of other people have. We would all love more parts, model-specific parts, etc. You name it, it's probably been suggested at some point in the past. I also think RDG should really look into the QoL mod for inspiration. Maybe they already are. A lot of what Meitzi's mod does for the game has been requested over and over to be officially implemented.

One thing I partially disagree with you on is that only some of the models' quality needs to be improved. Some of the cars look really freaking great, and a lot look pretty decent. Some of them definitely need an ironing for sure.

Concerning DLC: Yeah, I'm buying them all. Despite the game's flaws (and the drag racing), I love messing around with the car editor, and then restoring that config in-game. Those are the two areas where I get most of my enjoyment, so I want all the parts/engines I can get to build what I want.