A free to play online persistent browser-based strategy game where players can live the life of an automotive obsessive!
Buy and sell from a selection of over 440 detailed retro cars & other vehicles. Carry out maintenance, fit performance parts and race them in competition with the other players inhabiting MotorNation.
Whether you're into high powered Italian super cars or fancy modifying a more everyday motor, these can compete using a class system to keep races challenging, progress through the ranks and where anything can happen. But don't forget, pushing a car too far past its limits can make it unreliable or difficult to control around corners...
Or if racing isn't your thing - trade cars for profit and attempt to become the richest citizen, acquiring some of the world's rarest cars along the way! Or - just deliver pizzas...
Big releases have been a bit fewer and far between than I'd have liked, despite the hard work going on behind the scenes, so I'm pleased to kick off this post with the release of a significant new feature: New Vehicle Storage options!
Members now have access to a further storage option - off-site vehicle storage! The options are membership tier dependent to give something back to those that help keep the game afloat! With six options in total:
Other things to note:
The basic premise of this is to provide additional storage options to those that:
It is also a way for me to say thank you to all members, especially those that opt to pay for higher tiers. This keeps the game development progressing, a roof over my head and food on the table! Thank you!
As a monthly in-game fee is taken for the storage, especially the bigger options, it also offers a new layer of strategy for those that wish to have an especially large vehicle collection!
Welcome to the release of the 19th Members Choice Pack as chosen by the community!
The following vehicle was also updated:
As usual, the above vehicles may be available new or second hand in the classifieds, as appropriate, from time to time! All players can access these vehicles. A massive thank you to those that have contributed towards getting these in-game!
* Unfortunately, the 4-door version wasn't available in the UK for this generation. Pictures were also hard, as well as ambiguous, to come by across different versions, so instead I've opted for the more common UK variant — apologies for any disappointment!
In the past, there have been cases where small groups of players try to empty the classifieds. This is something I always anticipated, and took steps to mitigate, but it can still cause disruption to players.
To tackle this, I have now made changes so that vehicles that are bought and quickly re-sold will now re-appear in the classifieds. This all being well should further mitigate the issue, and as part of this I also thought I'd add something of visual interest - vehicles that are now sold will now briefly show as such in the classifieds!
Also: It is no longer required to remove any classified advert before quick selling vehicles!
Unfortunately, this was missed, certainly not helped by once again having some advertising difficulties! I will be spending some time on this very soon to try and get this fixed to hopefully get things back on track!
Due to rampant inflation across much of the world over the past year, I will unfortunately have no choice but to raise the prices for new members and will affect those switching to a different tier in the near future. This will also unfortunately affect those that wish to buy annual memberships through Ko-fi going forwards as there is no automatic renewal for that. Annual Ko-fi members will at least have already benefited from previous annual membership discounts (and new ones will too, going forwards!).
Whilst I wish I could absorb such increases; this simply isn't possible with my own expenses increasing and being behind where ideally need to be from a financial point of view. I will, however, try to keep them as low as possible.
In general, and as before, existing members will be unaffected by these changes providing you do not switch member tiers and that you keep your subscription running.
It is easy to overlook how much work has gone into these changes, but it has been significant. This is reflected in the game jumping from version 0.47.x straight to 0.49.0! I also decided that it was time to try to manage some of the games 'technical debt' as the game, as well as the code base has grown. Because of this, there were a lot of code changes. I will likely talk about this more in the next member update, due soon!
Despite my best efforts, issues may occur. If you spot anything that seems amiss, then please report it and I will look to rectify such issues as appropriate.
Otherwise, enjoy the changes and, as always, know that there is more to come!
With the Job Centre offering the ability to do much more in the game, as well as the new vehicle storage options(!), there has never been a better time to join! Every penny makes a difference and it only costs from as little as £2.50 a month! (when paid yearly)
Don't miss out on the full experience!
The game is intended to be easy to play but is built on a foundation of complex models to provide a rich and detailed game world!
