GearCity: January 89, new electric motor batteries, S150 million pension investment, & market share.

GearCity: January 89, new electric motor batteries, S150 million pension investment, & market share.

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pension account

i was under the impression that the pension account was like a savings account... you put money in and it stays until it gets payed out through pensions. is it tied to the stock market somehow?

before the great crash i dumped all my stocks and had about $3B in cash i didnt know what to do with besides sit on, so i put a third into the pension account. in 4 months it dropped to 25m.

i thought i was crazy so i reloaded again and put less into the pension account. it again dropped from 200m to 25m. i have kept playing the game, but i am scared to put money into the pension account.

my total liabilities have gone from 25m (about what it dropped to) to 50m in that time, lots of near strikes at the beginning of the depression.

afaik there wasnt any notice or anything in the reports that told me where the money went

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Phantasmagoria has GearCity Aug 21, 2021 @ 2:22am 

Ford Achievement

Is the Henry Ford achievement even possible? I can survive on hard mode, but 15M sales by 1930 seems ludicrous. Does anyone have this achievement, and how did you get it?

You might think it ludicrous, but that's what Ford did. By 1920 Ford had 55% market-share, world wide.

Numbers wise, pure AI sim, no player, sales figures average about 1 Million per year. A keen player can probably generate more sales on top of that. You'll need to average roughly around 40% market share over the period. So while it is feasible to do it, yes, it'll be pretty difficult to do. As it is meant to be. It's the halo achievement of the game.

How would I go about it? Buyout and consolidations, and really really really cheap, sell-able vehicles.

(Some feature bounty tickets might make the achievement a little more attainable, specifically the ones that merge the trimming system into the base models, so you don't have to manage many different trims. And the ones that make unlimited factory sizes.)

Shady Ed has GearCity Aug 21, 2021 @ 3:27am  

Originally posted by Phantasmagoria:

Is the Henry Ford achievement even possible? I can survive on hard mode, but 15M sales by 1930 seems ludicrous. Does anyone have this achievement, and how did you get it?

It's more than achievable. I sold 16.4 million just from 1920 to 1929 on nightmare difficulty.

The key is non stop expansion. I was constantly building 5 or 6 factories and when ever one completed I'd start a new one. I got the achievement months ago but from memory I was somewhere from 1 to 2 million in yearly missed sales for most of the 20s too.

Pioneer320 has GearCity Apr 24 @ 12:20am  

For the record, I just got this achievement in July 1924. I was so afraid of missing the deadline, I was subsidising my cars using a late IPO and an even later sale of stock to keep going, selling around 2.4 million cars a year by 1923 at a heavy loss. It's probably possible to do it profitably, too.

Oleg Jughashvili has GearCity May 6 @ 6:39pm  

i think the best i ever managed was about 10,000 vehicle a year total, even in the 1970s

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Traksimuss has GearCity Jun 10 @ 3:25am  

Oleg, then you are doing car design wrong or pricing wrong.

You can sell 10,000 cars yearly by 1910 easily, sometimes even earlier.

Sheppis has GearCity Jun 10 @ 5:54pm  

Originally posted by Traksimuss:

Oleg, then you are doing car design wrong or pricing wrong.

You can sell 10,000 cars yearly by 1910 easily, sometimes even earlier.

Actually to be on route to make the Ford achievement you ought to be at around 100,000 by 1910 or else you will have a big (maybe to big) montain to climb in the 20's.

To make the Ford achievement you will need to average 500,000 yearly, for every year you cannot do so you are accumulating sales you have to catch up later. The roaring twentys will allow you to make up quite a bit, but there are limits to just how much you can make up.

When I did Ford I passed 100k before 1910, was at 500k when the war broke out. Hovered between 350-450k troughout the war. And made the achievement in 1924, so I had a few years to spare. You can do it at a slower pace, but after 1910 you really should be pushing 100k+ yearly.

00:00 Driving up and entering Emerson Motor Company Detroit, Michigan

00:17 Market Share

01:15 Sales

01:53 Awards

02:12 Pension

03:17 Construction

03:57 Design

07:14 Exiting and driving away from Emerson Motor Company Detroit, Michigan