Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game V4.2.13

The Refined Road: A Deep Dive into Automation v4.2.13 In the world of hardcore simulation, Automation: The Car Company Tycoon Game

Refined Engine Designer: Improved calculations for friction, thermodynamics, and airflow.
Lightweight Campaign: A streamlined economic simulation spanning 1946 to 2020.
Body Morphing: Advanced tools to adjust chassis dimensions without breaking the model.
Steam Workshop Integration: Access to thousands of community-made bodies and engines.

What’s solid about v4.2.13

He didn’t use any of the v4.2.13 optimizations. He used mistakes . A lumpy idle. A manual choke. Cloth seats that stained with coffee. A heater that took exactly four minutes to warm up—long enough to have a real conversation. He gave it a name from his childhood: The Unreliable . Not a car. A promise that it would try. And fail. And try again. Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game v4.2.13

: Players reported that well-designed cars could drastically increase company profits under the new economic model. Mechanical Refining The Refined Road: A Deep Dive into Automation v4

What doesn’t:

The tycoon layer remains shallow compared to dedicated management sims. Competitor AI is rudimentary—they don’t seem to dynamically engineer new cars, just spawn generic rivals. The market simulation, while improved, still produces odd results (e.g., a 900hp hypercar selling well in a recession). It’s functional for context, but most players with 100+ hours still spend 90% of their time in the sandbox. What’s solid about v4

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LCV4.2.13 - Open Alpha · Automation - The Car ... - SteamDB

Light Campaign Balance: Tweaks to the "World Market" algorithm ensure that niche vehicles (like high-end luxury sedans) are viable profit centers, rather than forcing players to only produce high-volume city cars to survive.

Bug Fixes: Addresses specific instances where negative engine friction values could cause physics glitches, and resolves saving/loading errors when importing custom logos or fonts.