Motorcycles?

[sauntering and fumbling]

I know its a car game and quite open for design. Just wondered if you had thought of adding 2, and 3 wheels to the mix? Motocycles anymore are just insane, little 1 litter motors putting out over 200hp. Also in the 4 wheel arena there are quite a few open cockpit cars now like the ariel atom that would be fun to design. Seems exciting to me.

[Elias]

Good DLC idea.

[Killrob]

Have a look at the FAQ :)
discourse.automationgame.com/t/automation-faq-updated-12-nov-2015/131

[sauntering and fumbling]

Okay I read the FAQ. About the only thing there that seems somewhat to apply is the 12k rev limit. Ariel is a real car company that focuses on track but also makes them road worthy machines. Just thought I would suggest the idea. You guys do a lot for a three person development team (sort of inpressed).

[Killrob]

Originally posted by theoracleprodigy:

Okay I read the FAQ. About the only thing there that seems somewhat to apply is the 12k rev limit. Ariel is a real car company that focuses on track but also makes them road worthy machines. Just thought I would suggest the idea. You guys do a lot for a three person development team (sort of inpressed).

Ohh damn, I was certain Motorcycles were mentioned there, but indeed they are not. Really need to add that to the FAQ next time I update :) sorry about that! But yes, adding motocycles would be roughly 18 months of work to get right (and ~$500000), definitely not something we can afford money- or time-wise.

[Johnny[HUN]]

Originally posted by Killrob:

Originally posted by theoracleprodigy:

Okay I read the FAQ. About the only thing there that seems somewhat to apply is the 12k rev limit. Ariel is a real car company that focuses on track but also makes them road worthy machines. Just thought I would suggest the idea. You guys do a lot for a three person development team (sort of inpressed).

Ohh damn, I was certain Motorcycles were mentioned there, but indeed they are not. Really need to add that to the FAQ next time I update :) sorry about that! But yes, adding motocycles would be roughly 18 months of work to get right (and ~$500000), definitely not something we can afford money- or time-wise.

Puting bike engines to the game would take $500000 and 18 months? Man, you and your team doing something very wrong :D

[sauntering and fumbling]

^ LOL!!! To be fair to them motorcycle engines are crazy. You have everything from a single cylnder to a 6. Not only that they come in every sort of configuration, L twin, inline twin, horizontal twin, v4, inline 4, and not sure about the different 6 cylinder bikes. Then you have rev ranges from probably like 5k up to 18k. Still it would be awesome!

[Killrob]

Entirely new "car" designer, updated engine designer, new calculations and sounds (expensive), new demographics, stats, etc. etc., plus 5 people working full time = 1.5 * 5 * $50000, plus office costs, plus licenses and 18 months is optimistic on top of that. So yeah mate, you got a warped understanding of game development, rather than us doing it wrong. ;)

[[BiO] SummontheNERDS]

Originally posted by Killrob:

Entirely new "car" designer, updated engine designer, new calculations and sounds (expensive), new demographics, stats, etc. etc., plus 5 people working full time = 1.5 * 5 * $50000, plus office costs, plus licenses and 18 months is optimistic on top of that. So yeah mate, you got a warped understanding of game development, rather than us doing it wrong. ;)

I can do it for free! i dont know anything about game design tho..