Fiberglass? Track Cars?

[Trifler]

Before the car category rebalance, Track cars preferred fiberglass over steel or aluminum. Now, my tests indicate that they prefer aluminum best, then steel, and fiberglass last, and not by a small margin. As far as I can see, this leaves no car category that prefers fiberglass. I figured I should probably mention it.

I've tested 1955, which is when fiberglass first becomes available, and 1975, which is when the Track category becomes available in all regions.

[Killrob]

Have you considered that fiberglass cars can be built with very low tooling costs in tiny factories?
I'll look into the balance, that's actually on the ToDo list still :)

[Trifler]

Originally posted by Killrob:

Have you considered that fiberglass cars can be built with very low tooling costs in tiny factories?
I'll look into the balance, that's actually on the ToDo list still :)

I hadn't considered that (especially since I don't have access to factories atm ;-) ), but even so, cars in the Track category should care about the weight savings, with no care about the loss of prestige. Are they disliking the loss in safety? I did notice they want much more safety than they did before (they used to be happiest with none!). I guess the tiny factory thing is nice, but other than perhaps 1955, I doubt I would ever make use of it.

Thanks for looking into it (and the luxury SUV thing too!). The luxury SUV thing actually bothers me a lot more. It's just a shame to have no good uses for fiberglass. As it was, having the Track categories as the only ones that preferred it was already very limited.

[Trifler]

Regarding the tiny factory:

You gave me the idea to test switching from monocoque to a spaced frame chassis. That allows the use of a tiny factory and doesn't require presses like steel monocoque does. It also has minimal tooling costs. It turns out that at the moment, the penalty from not using monocoque is inconsequential compared to the penalty from using fiberglass. Fiberglass doesn't beat steel unless I switch to a ladder chassis, and even then, not by much. Aluminum dominates strongly on all settings.