Early Experimental Preview of Career Concept

Doesn't matter if I'm in the vehicles or not, in fact the bottom picture was also taken outside of the vehicle. You can see the tach goes up to 0 RPM cuz of the unicycle.

 

First of all, I want to commend you, krallopian, for the sheer amount of community engagement you do.

My main question is whether the career mode will eventually include functionality that allows players to name their own prices and sell their cars. Something akin to NFS Porsche Unleashed (2000), where in the "Evolution" career mode, there was a fully simulated used car market. AI-generated cars would appear in varying conditions, and players could buy these cars, repair them, upgrade them, race them, and then sell them to make a potential profit. Players could set their own sale prices, and the game would respond with a counter-offer based on the car's year, mileage, condition (overall and parts), and performance. As a kid, I felt this feature was revolutionary at the time, and I’m keen to see if a similar feature will be included in BeamNG's career mode. The former allowed players to earn money on the side by purchasing old cars, repairing and upgrading them, and then selling them for the highest prices, which I think would fit perfectly in the latter with WCUSA's economy.

 

It is set to five vehicles but there's a couple of ways around it. You could download one of the two mods that increases the garage slots to 20 or 99 https://www.beamng.com/threads/0-32...redealerstock-enablepolice-moretraffic.94461/

I went to \steamapps\common\BeamNG.drive\lua\ge\extensions\career\modules, opened "inventory.lua" then find the line that says "local slotAmout = 5" and changed the 5 to 28. It gives me a little more capacity than the 20 slot mot but doesn't leave me with 98 rows of empty garage slots looking bare.

 

The way I've seen favourites implemented in other games is just having a section of the UI set aside for all the items you've marked as "favourite". The section is only sorted by date added or alphabetically, and it is left up to the player to decide which of the items is their "most favourite". In BeamNG, it could look something like this:



This may be what @HerbieVW953 had in mind. It would be best if players could add as many favourite configs as they want and the section would simply add rows to fit them, but allowing as many favourites as needed to fill up the width of the UI would be a good start.

 

What am I supposed to do with this Unpaid Fines mission in career mode? I stop them and then nothing happens other than the timer stops, if I try and abandon it just fades to a black screen and stays that way until I force exit.

I managed to try one of the other missions (one running from Police) but I don't see much benefit from doing it as it cost more to repair my car from all the ramming (B8.4K) than I got from the mission (B450).

I finally managed to get a Miramar. I don't know how many hours I have played but I have checked the vehicles for sale every time I have been back to the garage but still not seen another Pigeon since that once. I have also never seen a single Wigeon, Piccolina or Stambecco, despite some people online saying they are frequently available. Is there any way to increase the chances of these appearing? Is it a certain dealership they will show up at that I need to visit or deliver to more often to get them to show up?

 

With the next update around the corner, would it be possible to transfer at least the money and XP onto the next save? If I'm going to play the missions for the 5th time, I'd like to at least start with enough cash, granted the next version is still experimental and will be reset for 0.34...

Yes I'm broke in my current save

 

Just had another thought, will there be a way to get custom license plates for a cost in career mode?

 

That would been pretty nice to have

 

I've just come across a pretty weird bug when I was trying to deliver a trailer in Career Mode.
I had a trailer spawned in Rent A Box and was backing up to connect it to my truck, but as soon as I connected them, the game paused due to an instability issue and respawned the truck with the trailer stuck inside of a fence a few metres away (where the truck had spawned in the first place).
I just moved on and discarded the delivery, got a new one and then every time I tried to start up the engine the game would pause game due to instability issues... There were mods installed but I don't think they had to do anything with this, we cannot discard that idea though!

I'll keep you updated if this happens again

 

check your mods if you use any at all

 

i'm not entirely sure if anyone have asked this already, but is it gonna be any proper story when the career mode is done? that something i would love to see

 

J/Idea And Feedback: Check your spelling before releasing an update.

Jokes aside, its nice to know your working on keeping saves!

 

Cool, by any chance does the new medium-duty truck have a secure transport upfit?

Still can't wait to see whats new in 0.33!

 

J/Average Dev development question response" "Hmm yes official teaser images that has blaringly obvious content with huge potential in my gameplay development sector... *fake bewilderment* I had absolutely no idea.

(Another) Joke aside, still looking forward to whatever work you guys have completed on the delivery and motorsports sections! Although now that someone mentioned changing plates, now I kinda want official vanity plates
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Another idea I just got, since we have the (very WIP I know) skin editor, what if we could make our own custom plate designs?

 

i did not mean that kind of story, like do this and that. i meant more of a story where the player are the one that decides how it is gonna unfold. i think it maybe be called player driven story (i'm not entirely sure though) that was what i meant, pretty much just something that makes it feel more like what the player does, does actually have a impact while still being in full controll. i can see why you mistake it for the kind of story where the player does not decide what is gonna happen. i maybe did not explain it that well. i hope this explanation is better.
i doubt this is anyone that want the type of gameplay that forces you to play a certain way, but i do see it very likely to be a lot of people that would love the player driven type of story. you can play however you want and still get the chance to experience a good story that makes everything feel more meaningful. pretty much just like in real life. everyone have they own story and everyone decides themselves what the story should be like.

 

So he liked this post. I guess that means my joke is true!
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Edit: He liked this post, and I dunno if this is significant or not, but I thought i'd let the people know.