#GearCity: Mid-Cycle Progression of Planning for #SimulationGC7
SimulationGC7 has evolved over the years to the point of expanding into city locations. As mentioned in a previous post, work on this project is divided into a few different categories: third-party, personal, and vanilla. Each of these categories adds possibilities to the GearCity World of Auto Manufacturing.
Added Cities or Countries
Venezuela
Australia
Norway
United States
Canada
Greenland
New Zealand
Each city or country brings a new twist to GearCity as corporations plan their survival in this changing market of manufacturing. As the third reset progresses through the years, currently May 2022, corporations will have to decide whether to stay in their home country or export their vehicles to foreign lands. This creates a strategic outlook that has changed the direction of possible expansion as well as vehicle designs.
Reasoning
Continuing past 2019 is an adventure of choosing the right market to operate in, as well as a target customer to sell to.
Locations
Why were these locations chosen? After reviewing data compiled since 1900, it indicated that most corporations started by expanding rapidly, with factories and branch offices throughout the world. This progression became normal over time, which led to stagnation in growth. Each of these growth cycles, in Emerson Motors' case, was the constant expansion of electric vehicles; the world wanted something different. This difference spawned an idea of expansions in different directions, with different variables assigned to different locations in hopes of a change. This theory of change inspired research into different locations. The initial selection of different locations was influenced by the president's highly publicized news reports, discussions in GearCity forums, and personal understanding of the auto industry gained from family.
Will there be more locations added? Yes, this is just the mid-cycle pause for direction on edits. Through this direction, a newer approach to understanding locations has taken effect, which requires some reading and research.
What data outside my research was used for some locations? MoreGears by Jovi was found on the GearCity page on Steam under Community and Workshop.
Is this project political? No, it just so happens that these edits are being performed during election season.
Assessment
What is the most unusual thing that has happened during this project? Watching how different corporations operate was one of the most unusual events in GearCity. The first cycle was strategizing to become the world's largest automaker. The second focused on expansion and editing. This last reset moved away from the first two directions to a more personal expression. That expression aimed to better understand the factory floor workers, the investors who added individuals to their portfolios, and how the news impacts all of these groups.
Making a profit and being the largest automaker are very interesting positions to be in as a CEO of a corporation. However, this is only as long as the public, investors, and staff believe the product that is being manufactured is worth the expense. This became a thought after seeing how customers reacted to prices, competition, and the products that are being manufactured. This realization opened my eyes to GearCity in a different way that gradually evolved into SimulationGC7.
Possible Outcomes
Updates and file edits in SimulationGC7, which consists of the manual edits made after 2019 for the GearCity automotive game. Creates an unlimited number of outcomes that can take place, as of June 2022, which consist of a corporation merging, cutting operations back to a cluster, going bankrupt, specializing in particular markets, or becoming a subsidiary. All mentioned are choices of new locations and custom configurations but are not limited to those extremes. A good number of corporations are publicly traded, which adds a layer of complexity in expense versus output. As learned, bankruptcies are quickly addressed by mergers, as seen in the months leading up to June 2022. This is an interesting twist of events, leading to the possibility of corporate learning based on data from the past, where these corporations would trigger a memo alert. This leads back to the notion of unlimited possibilities of events.
Disadvantages
- Corporations that have directly competed since 1900 merge: This poses a risk to the stability of the auto industry. Traditional buyers may lose interest in loyalty in exchange for price based on the recent state of the economy.
- Customers decide electric vehicles are not worth investing in: Investments are high for electric vehicles, and depending on the demand of customers, it will be justified if these vehicles will still be manufactured.
- Corporations could stop selling vehicles: This could be a result of a marque going out of business or through its parent company's discontinuation option.
- New innovations could no longer matter to customers: As time progresses, customers make a choice of what they want and need out of their new vehicle purchase. Based on these decisions, it could decrease the buying lure of the next new component or vehicle.
- Investors could reduce or slow the rate of investments: Over time, investors decide how aggressive they are with their stock portfolios. If this happens, it could slow the rate of funding, affecting market capitalizations, return on investments (ROI), staffing, innovation, expansion, and in some cases, profitability.
- Corporations could start to lay people off: Deciding to cut staff due to decreased demand is an unpleasant duty of corporate operations. Corporations have to show justification for staff cuts based on demand for the vehicle it manufactures. If this demand slows or operations shift locally, it could dramatically affect how many staff the corporation can justify.
- Corporations could adopt a new strategy: Deciding a new trajectory for a corporation could involve specialization of product or market. Another new strategy could involve growth through mergers and acquisitions.
- Investors could invest based on ROI: If the market takes a while to recover, it could discourage investments.
- Corporations could consider investing in their home country or continent: Costs could be lower to compete in local countries in comparison to the global markets. This advantage could be upset if current operations are expensive to adjust to a local strategy.
- Corporations could hire more people with the savings from local operations: Expansion of corporations is an advantage for increased hiring and newer product launches.
- Corporations could inspire car culture or cult car following: Racing has taken center stage for automakers developing vehicles just for the racetrack. This could create a following for the corporation due to the vehicles that race and those they sell that are similar.
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