This is inspired by LukPanc "Community car" thread, but with a scope extending beyond the official brands. It would be a series of polls that would give the devs insight into what car the community wants. First, there would be a poll about which decade would the car come from. Then a poll about the car type. Then one about the exact body style. Then one about the size. Then a poll about what country it would be from. Then one about what exact real-life model should it be based off, and maybe one about the name. Each poll would come a week after the previous one. So, let's start with the car's decade, which will be our focus between 18th and 25th August. I voted for the 1960s.
Good idea, I went for the 1910s as I like watching wooden vehicles with poor quality steel turn into scrap after a crash.
The next official vehicles will be the Gavril Bluebuck (1960's) https://wiki.beamng.com/Gavril_Bluebuck, then the Soliad Wendover (1980's) https://wiki.beamng.com/Soliad_Wendover. But after these are added there might be a official poll from the devs.
Except that the poll would only have a few cars, while this would give a deeper insight into the community's wants.
I think this approach would just end up in a mad-lib sorta car mashup. Don't get me wrong, I would love to see more cars in this game that other games aren't willing to have, I just don't see this working as intended. I doubt that the devs will do another car poll at all tbh, they have a good idea of what the community wants and what the game needs. Maybe a long ways down the line, or to get a feel of what vehicles would get priority. Threads such as the vehicle suggestion thread are mostly gibberish, but just skimming through it is an easy enough way to see the general wants of the community. It seems like the vast majority of "me want plz put in game here is Kool licensed ker" posts are asking for a minivan, modern SUV, or modern muscle car. I miss the two days or so when Fera's alt. suggestion thread was used/open, the posts that made it on there were more thought out. Yeah I have my own set of complaints about that thread, but it was still better than the picture dump that's pinned in the suggestion forum. *sneaks in a plea for a Japanese muscle car because I don't want to be bothered with the annoying dedicated vehicle suggestion threads*
The point is that the poll would show Gabester what maybe he doesn't want to make, but the game's community wants. For example, he'll see that while he might like making 80s and 90s cars, the community doesn't necessarily want him to.