How do you start this game?

[palathas]

Ok. I went through the "Tutorial" which really tells you nothing. I then started the game and have an empty garage but there's no way to get any cars. What am I supposed to do?

[Fulysic]

pretty helpful guide for new players

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1182071422

[palathas]

This really doesn't help. Anywhere that I can actually interact with asks me what car I want to take. I don't have any. No other site lets me interact with it, places that I would have thought you'd get a car from such as the junk yard or auction. I can't interact with them. I can walk around the garage, workshop and salon and that's it.

[palathas]

Anyone?

[Kowalski]

The first thing you want to do is to answer phone calls for "missions". That's how you get your first cars to fix.

[palathas]

Yeah thanks Kowalski, I just got that.

Maybe there should be a hi-light on the phone considering how easy it is to miss. There's also no infomation as to what the icons to the top right mean. Nor how drastically the right click menu changes depending on context. Actually the right click menu isn't mentioned at all in the tutorial.

Once I found the phone it made a huge difference. You may want to change the name of the "Orders" in the right click menu to Jobs or Work or even Contracts. Orders sugest orders you made on the computer for parts or even auctions or car purchases.

[Oparator Stalker]

Originally posted by palathas:

This really doesn't help. Anywhere that I can actually interact with asks me what car I want to take. I don't have any. No other site lets me interact with it, places that I would have thought you'd get a car from such as the junk yard or auction. I can't interact with them. I can walk around the garage, workshop and salon and that's it.

I am sorry my guide was no use for you, it mainly tells you about the game and how to trouble shoot according to the real thing that works out great for the game cars.

It also includs sample videos to give more detail in sight. So when players are working on the cars, or new people deciding on the game, they can get insight of what is expected to see. And players who have the game, are not stuck on somthing as a fuel pump or filter and running around asking "this is the car problem, what do I change?", "this is the other problem, what do I change?", and "that is the car problem, what do I change?".

After all, no cheat sheet can be made for this game at all. So the guide I did has turned out great for CMS 2014 and 2015 with out a hitch, and thus why it is here. Because the questions of what to do and parts haved missed started droping in 2014 and 2015, and other discussion took over.. So the detail is importaint for first time users..

-How ever, in the videos also dose explain the "Tutorial" which is plain and just as simple as the section "Tutorial" in the game, because every station will explain what it is, and for what. Including the "PHONE", In which I DO go over it in the 1st video. And in order for you to exit the game "Tutorial" and the garage to be emptied, you would have needed to already have interacted with everything. Because the game dose not start out in a empty garage.

Even if you sold all the cars in there, you still need to interact with everything to do this. And when you aproach the phone, a popup will still tell what it is for. Because the game "Tutorial" was made to be simple as possable, and for the player to explore the garage and get to know what the items are. So for you to finish this already and got stuck, then you would HAVE to have left on to the test track. It is the only way.

Which leaves the one question I have, how come your able to compleate the entire "Tutorial" start and yet not know how to interact with anything? Unless you were still stuck in the "Tutorial" section of the game... And rushed through to the work instead of exploring and learning the garage....

I am sorry the guide was no use for you..

[palathas]

I didn't say it was of no use to me. I just said it didn't help with the problem of getting my first car. Which it turns out you don't do to start with. At the time of that post I didn't know that the telephone existed and didn't know that the "Orders" from the right click context menu meant outstanding work orders.

I just didn't want to sit there for a few hours going through a comprehensive guide when I just wanted to get going. After I found the phone everything was straight forward.

[Oparator Stalker]

How did you get out of the game "Tutorial"? The phone is covered in there anyway..
Or did you just rush in to get in the game and skipped everything?

This is importaint to be explained in case someone else gets stuck like you. May not even know that in this game "Tutorial", "how to use the phone" infomation IS explained..

From your statment it looks like your in this game with nothing to tell you anything..

[palathas]

I went around and looked at everything that I could see and then went to the roller door and selected the test track. I then selected the serviceable car and completed the test track and exited the tutorial. After the 3rd attempt at the tutorial I found that I had missed the battery charger but at no time did I see the phone. The tutorial doesn't highlight anything and it doesn't required you to examine everything before letting you move on.

After I found out about the phone I went back into the tutorial and eventually found the phone hidden away on a desk in the office.

[Oparator Stalker]

A second phone is also by the computer that sits by the radio, in the shop on the left out side the office...

[funkbasslegend]

I had similar problems, the tutorial I just put oil in a car and drove it on the test track. And then I was left with an empty shop and... absolutely nothing. After finding out about the phone I figured out you right click to change to the assembly menu. Those 2 things are all I needed to know, hope this helps someone.

[OrgasmicCrouton69]

well you clearly breezed through the tutorial. The phone?