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maybe but in this case it is being used to help the car decide what to do

 

I saved the image and was wondering if anyone else noticed the file name. Sense the name most likely starts with a W would Wirtschaft be a possible name?

 

But Wirtschaft means "economy" in German... That makes no sense

 

If you can make name out of that tiny pic, I applaud you:

 

msn wand

 

I can't even tell if letters are upper or lower case, last one would be D not d, which would not make sense, especially when first appears to be m which it certainly can't be, unless it is spelled backwards...

 

I found the word means economy in google translate

 

Likely not the drivetrain from the T-series, as the T-series is a 70's big rig, compared to this bus from the 90s.

 

In my opinion, they're definately lower case... That's why the msn wand

 

But if you flip it twice you get all new kinds of guessing possibilities


It really is impossible to say.

 

I found the word means economy in google translate
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I found the word means economy in google translate

 

Yes, you have said. It might not even be the correct name, but it does make sense as in some situations a bus pass is more economical than a car.

 

Economic and economical do not have the same meaning!
Economic is used regarding to money, industry or trade,
economical is used regarding environment, not using a lot of money, fuel-saving, something like that.
The german Noun Wirtschaft translates to Economy and it's adjective wirtschaftlich translates to economic.
Economical would be something like ökonomisch or sparsam.

 

You can get a slightly higher resolution version of the image by removing the size constraints here, but its still not really enough to make out any name.



Direct link https://weserreport.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Wirtschaft_BeamNG_4sp_4C.png

 

And that "Wirtschaft" in the filename just means that the article where the image is from is in the category "Economy" in this newspaper, like Politics or Culture.

 

.....but it didn't hit anything. It just went off a tabletop jump.

 

I wonder if Italy is last map to be added?

There is no news about other maps being worked on and if Italy is only one, then all maps would be in game except Italy.

Considering how long making of Italy has been going on, as well as how long WCUSA took, if they aim to have complete product by end of the year or next year at latest, then there probably is not going to be more maps.

It is of course possible that beta will come within time frame and it might be possible that later content is added or DLC made.

DLC would make sense in financial point of view, but if research projects will bring better income, and/or tie resources, then it might be that there are no planned DLC.

However as DLC gives usually better investment/income relationship, I would think it is worthwhile to make at least one.

I can very well see how Thomas wishes to have game complete in that time period as from financial point of view it would be important, but how realistic that wish is, will be shown in a future. It will be interesting to see how it turns out.

 

Isn't Italy the biggest official map to date? Seen somewhere that it was supposed to be 11x11km2, so having a "grand prize" for the end, would be logical... It would be sad, but what can we (players) do

 

Helping them to sell more copies would of course help to develop longer as enough copies sold would sustain financial balance well enough.

Of course from those 600 000 sold copies many are probably from recent years, but to be able to do more I think they would need to sell considerably more copies.

It is always a worry within game company management that if developing takes longer costs will be greater than potential income, so you need to get project done within some time frame, unless you run a subscription based show, which makes long term development much more feasible, which is why some software houses do that.

600 000 is good number considering how game is not most appealing for the casual gamer, but more appealing to tech geek types. After all visuals are not the jaw dropping part, it is all the inner workings of vehicles and huge customization possibilities.

However project is big with corresponding expenses which need to be covered and for that it appears to me that sales could be bit more. However other sources of income are possible, investment money and so on, which helps to develop longer than self sufficient model would allow.

With more complete product more advertising will boost sales of course and they might count on profit coming from that part, which would make sense and is often how financial planning is done for game development.

Hence getting more copies sold is what we can do, but not sure if that will change plans though