Comments for Idle Car Manager

I will add a choice when the beta is over. 1. Keep your progress but you can't submit highscores after that. 2. Start a new game and you can submit highscores and you will get a starting bonus depending on how far you were in the beta.

In the settings there is a toggle "keep expenses". When this is on, you need to have more than your monthly expenses and can't spend money if it would go lower than that. You can turn it off, but than you could go into the red and go bankrupt if you make mistakes.

No if you research something, you have to design a new part and this will have higher base values after that.

It seems like the webgl-version in chrome has issues with the backspace. I will look into it, but the webgl-version from unity is still beta, so not sure if I can do anything about it. Until then, you use the del-button or select numbers with your mouse and overwrite them.

The levels for the prototype count. It shows it when you choose a part for designing a prototype.

That is probably not easy to do but I will look into it.

The quality standard goes up for every car you produce. So if you keep older cars too long, people might consider them low quality or they break down. Currently you can be fined as long as you have a car but I will change it soon so it can only happen for 10 years after you sell at least one.

That was a bug a few days ago but should be fixed. Does it still happen if you refresh?

You should be able to produce both. If you look at the car info, you can set a limit at how many you will produce at most. If the limit is reached it won't produce more than that.

I will change it that the max sell price will use the base cost without the reduction of researches soon.

Well it depends. Higher quality can also mean a stronger, more durable material is used which often weights more than less. It could also mean adding more material to make it more bulky. So generally I think it is more often that a higher quality weights more than not.

It is shown on the achievements. The more you have, the more you will be awarded. It is explained exactly at the tutorial.

They improve the basic values of new cars you make. You can sell better cars for more and faster than weaker cars. So have to spend money first to make better cars which will generate a better income.

I will think about it. Currently only the last 4 years of data are saved. Because the games are saved online, there is also a limit of how much I can save, but maybe I could save the most important data or so.

In reality people also become sic, have holiday, die and so on. Making it too realistic would probably be not that good for the game. In the game there is an inflation and people ask for more salary every year to cover it.

For every new car you produce, the time is reset and because a new car is generally better than the last one and you gained some image, you will sell more from the next car with a higher price. You just should be careful not to wait too long to create a new car. But I will add the exact calculation to some description in game with some of the next updates.

You can mouseover the Achievements x/y for details or pressing the button will give you the info.

You are right, there is a problem at the beginning. I will look into it. The first year the loan is calculated a bit different but from the second year on the loan limit is 50% of the avg earnings from the last 3 years and the bug disappears. So if you play a bit longer, it will fix itself.

Glad you like it. I didn't play Detroit but something similar: "Motor City" when I was a child and really liked it. That is how I got the idea for this game and thought I will make a game about cars.

No, it affects only new cars. When you create a car prototype, the stats are set and can't be changed. If you level up your parts after that, you have to create a new prototype to gain their increased stats. And you are right, I thought I added some information about that, but it seems like not. I will add an information for that.

Well the last 3 are already campaigns which include various advertisment methods. Although it would make sense if you could combine the first three. I will think about it.

Well this game is more a management game than an idle game. If you don't like management simulations, then the game probably isn't for you. I think there are more than enough idle games where you have to do almost nothing to get serious gains and I personally like it more if you have to think and can influence the game more than if you only do click - click - success! Than is why I made this game.

Well loans in this game are quite powerful even with the current fee of 5% + at most 5% for the payback. I mostly added the payback-fee to prevent cheating like getting loan -> pay it back -> getting loan and so on to increase your overall yearly earnings for the achievement. But I can adjust it so that you only have to pay the payback-fee of 5% if you pay back more than 20% of the loan in one month.

I can do that.

With the last version I added it that it shows 100, your total count of salesmen and the count of salesmen currently selling this car.

Yep that is just like in real life. But you can prevent most of the end of year taxes if you always spend just as much as you earn before the year ends.

You are right, I will fix the different cars count. Somehow I don't understand what you mean with the rest. You mean you are selling Alpha Car for a negative profit and it freezes the screen? I can't really reproduce that...

When you are afk for a while you should better close the game, when you go offline and come back, you can use your progress more effectively., I also wrote this in the forum. This is not a game which plays itself and you will automatically become better without doing much. You have to do some right choices or you will likely go bankrupt.

It was a typo, it is fixed now.

I will probably add this soon.

Well you can take a loan when the options show up. A few dollars shouldn't be a problem... When the screen shows up it also stops time, so if you could go more into the red before the screen shows up, it would mean that it is harder to get out of the dept. I don't know if that would be better.

Yes I can add this.

When I increased the speed for the initial car, I adjusted the descriptions but forgot to increase the actual progress... Sorry for that, it is fixed now if you refresh.

I agree that it is pretty slow but not much slower than my other game. Though there is less content in this game and it feels slower because of the linear progress. I will think about it but I will wait a bit first and add the Orders in 1-2 weeks which should make the game a little bit faster because you can do more to earn money than just to sell cars. Also I think this game has a pretty good offline-solution. When you are offline for a few hours, you can adjust progress points for instant progress.

thanks I will fix this

I can also see that happens in the WebGL-Version on Chrome. Unity says it is fixed: http://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/webgl-leaving-tab-stops-updating-even-with-running-in-background but if it still appears, I don't know if I can do something about it atm.

This game highly depends on the playing style. So a player who knows exactly what do do and how to progress the most efficient way is probably 5 times faster than a player who makes mistakes. It is also a bit the other way around than most idle games. The start is slower than the mid game because the calculations are not exponential but linear. I know it is probably liked more if the game starts fast and becomes slower over time but I still wanted to make a game which is more realistic than most idle games. But I just uploaded a new version which makes the start slightly faster.