BETA 0.23.12
Slightly later than planned, but say hello to the latest member chosen* vehicles!
* There may be minor specification or year differences due to what I was able to find!
As usual a big thanks to all members for participating in the poll and a reminder that the next poll closes on the 24th October 2021! A big thanks also to those that helped provide details / photos for the above vehicles! I am currently looking into ways I can attribute contributions to the game which will also allow a greater variety of photos to be used - fingers crossed!
There have also been some minor amends to a few existing vehicles (see changelog) with more to come and some work has been started to address how the game handles larger vehicles such as vans as they are distinctly more top heavy compared to cars...
I've made some tweaks to the payouts for the following:
As always, thank you to members and donors for your support! If you are not and you would like to support this project in addition to gaining further insight into the game, please find more details on the Membership page!
For this game to be sustainable, it needs your support. I will be able to deliver bigger and better features as well as more content! Every little make a difference and during Beta it only costs as little as £1.49 a month! Those joining and maintaining their membership during Beta will also benefit from a permanent discount going forwards as a thank you for supporting the game at this early stage.
Formally announcing Gold Member Own Car Submissions and the first complete pack made of such vehicles!
If you are a Gold Member (or above) you may submit your own car for inclusion into the game dependent on several requirements. For more details, please view the new Own Car Submission page! You can access it when logged into the game and accessing Support and then Own Car Submission.
Simply put, it is my way of saying thanks in addition to the other perks, to those voluntarily offering more support financially to the game. Without this support, the game is not sustainable, and I will have to divert my time elsewhere. This also allows people to effectively keep their vehicle 'alive' in some capacity in the game, even if the vehicle has long since been scrapped. Think of it as a digital car museum, perhaps.
I will be increasing the basic membership from £1 a month to £1.49 a month for new sign-ups. This will not affect existing Members. The game has evolved a lot since I first set the basic member tier pricing last year(?) and I believe it now provides more value. Free players continue to have access to a lot of content; The game will however, need to shift to more new features being member exclusive to survive long term.
I will be making this change on Monday 18th October so I would advise that if you think you might like Membership, then it will not get any cheaper than at present!
The reasons are simple: I am self-employed, working hard and need money to live on. At present a lot of the standard membership is eaten up by the payment providers (nearly a third) and I feel that the game is well onto its way in providing reasonable value which with your support, will only increase. I would love to keep working on the game but I need the players help to let me do that!
There is however good news to both the new and existing members! With the price increasing, you will also gain slightly more votes in the Member polls! Increasing to 1.5 from 1 to be exact 🙂 Not much but it all adds up!
Thank you for your understanding and I very much appreciate the contribution from all existing members!
As well as the changes to basic memberships I will be launching new higher tiers over the new couple of days which will for now be broadly in line with Gold Memberships in terms of benefits with the exception that such Members will gain additional voting power and a new, more exclusive name plate as a thank you. Existing Gold Members who have offered more than the minimum may qualify for an automatic upgrade to the next tier (at no additional cost) if they are not far off!
I plan to create a post to Members outlining how the game is fairing, as a follow-on from the "State Of The Nation" post very soon!
As always, thank you to members and donors for your support! If you are not and you would like to support this project in addition to gaining further insight into the game, please find more details on the Membership page!
For this game to be sustainable, it needs your support. I will be able to deliver bigger and better features as well as more content! Every little make a difference and during Beta it only costs as little as £1 a month! (£1.49 from 18th October) Those joining during Beta will also benefit from a permanent discount going forwards as a thank you for supporting the game at this early stage.
Introducing a new member feature - Single Garage Rental!
Finding the next house upgrade a little hard to reach? This allows members to rent a garage for £50 per game month (approx. 4 real days) giving players an extra parking space - especially helpful in the early stages of the game and for those wanting a dedicated vehicle for doing jobs!
Members can cancel at any time via the Estate Agent providing they have a free parking space. Renewal is automatic and will be taken when the player has the relevant funds available. As in real life, it is often a good idea to leave some funds in reserve.
Please note that this isn't player owned dealerships / garages - this will be something that will be coming (likely much) later.
As always, thank you to members and donors for your support! If you are not and you would like to support this project in addition to gaining further insight into the game, please find more details on the Membership page!
For this game to be sustainable, it needs your support. I will be able to deliver bigger and better features as well as more content! Every little make a difference and during Beta it only costs as little as £1 a month! Those joining during Beta will also benefit from a permanent discount going forwards as a thank you for supporting the game at this early stage.
You can join the channel with the following link Join the Motornation Discord
Please note however that the Forum, Bug Reports and Member updates will continue to be the main form of communication with myself as Discord is distinctly more chaotic by nature. I will however pop into Discord from time to time and Discord is the perfect place for live chats, looking for people to challenge to a race and so forth with other people who play the game!
I am pleased to announce three new job types:
I've had quite a lot of feedback relating to the job system and whilst there is a lot more to be done I am pleased to announce a number of improvements:
Please note that the job system is still relatively new and I am working hard to improve this and other parts of the game which have come under increased strain due to a large influx of players.
More players and the enthusiasm that has been generated is fantastic but please note it will require some patience as I try to get on-top of things!
As always, thank you to members and donors for your support! If you are not and you would like to support this project in addition to gaining further insight into the game, please find more details on the Membership page!
For this game to be sustainable, it needs your support. I will be able to deliver bigger and better features as well as more content! Every little make a difference and during Beta it only costs as little as £1 a month! Those joining during Beta will also benefit from a permanent discount going forwards as a thank you for supporting the game at this early stage.
Following the previous member car pack poll, I am pleased to announce the release of the Members Car Pack II, as chosen by members of the game!
To celebrate such an eclectic range of vehicles and to partially address capacity issues in the game, I have also doubled the number of Special Event single races from 3 to 6 and introduced the following new special event types:
The track days are basically an unofficial race in the present context of the game rather than an informal track day for now at least. But this should allow an overspill from the main single race events, and whilst the pay is lower, the fees are cheap and it gives an opportunity to try your cars out on the Test Track!
Finally welcome to all the new players, it's great to have you all on board and many thanks for the amazing support received to date - thank you! As a consequence I have also upgraded the server to better meet the increased demand.
As always, thank you to members and donors for your support! If you are not and you would like to support this project in addition to gaining further insight into the game, please find more details on the Membership page!
For this game to be sustainable, it needs your support. I will be able to deliver bigger and better features as well as more content! Every little make a difference and during Beta it only costs as little as £1 a month! Those joining during Beta will also benefit from a permanent discount going forwards as a thank you for supporting the game at this early stage.
Thanks to a tip-off by a couple of players, I was made aware of an exploit involving player challenges. This should now be fixed and I am very grateful to these players for bringing this matter to my attention as it could, and I strongly suspect has, been used as a cheating exploit to gain additional funds. I also believe it will have likely has been used in conjunction with multiple accounts, which is also against the game rules.
I am aware that some players are finding it perhaps too slow going at the beginning with money too easily lost and too slowly gained. This is something I am actively working to address, and previously resulted in the 'Temporary Jobs' functionality being added to the game. I also aim to make some balance tweaks and improve some winnings from the single races. This does all take time.
As MotorNation is a multiplayer game, it does rely on people playing by the same rules, being aware of an exploit and not reporting it goes against these rules. It is also a disservice to other players that aren't aware or do not wish to use such cheats as they are not allowed.
If players also make money through un-approved means, then it will also make it harder to balance the game for the future as it distorts the picture. It's also worth mentioning that there are far grander plans to aid progression through the game, but this is a longer term plan and the game as it is now will feed directly into that. So I need to know what is working and what isn't.
It also potentially creates a large overhead for myself to rectify the abuse of any such exploits, which is time that would be better spent improving on the game. Various activities are tracked in the game for this reason, so if you do it I can track it if I so wish. Therefore can I kindly ask that, as per the game rules, could any exploits that are found please be reported to myself via the 'Bug Report' feature and not used. If you are not sure, then please ask!
Thank you for your understanding!
As always, thank you to members and donors for your support! If you are not and you would like to support this project in addition to gaining further insight into the game, please find more details on the Membership page!
For this game to be sustainable, it needs your support. I will be able to deliver bigger and better features as well as more content! Every little make a difference and during Beta it only costs as little as £1 a month! Those joining during Beta will also benefit from a permanent discount going forwards as a thank you for supporting the game at this early stage.
To celebrate the game reaching version 0.20 I'm pleased to announce the biggest content pack thus far, featuring:
New upgrades for minor tweaks to car setups:
Inspired by the Maxi Kit Cars of rallying in the 90s and 2000s! Such as the Peugeot 306 Maxi!
A more accessible form of rallying, featuring smaller engines, budgets and less weight but just as much drama. Inspired by the small hatchbacks rallying against the rally beasts during the 90s. For example: Dave Metcalfe pushing a Vauxhall Nova to the absolute limit!
The number of special events at any one time has now also been increased to a maximum of three!
As always, thank you to members and donors for your support! If you are not and you would like to support this project in addition to gaining further insight into the game, please find more details on the Membership page!
For this game to be sustainable, it needs your support. I will be able to deliver bigger and better features as well as more content! Every little make a difference and during Beta it only costs as little as £1 a month! Those joining during Beta will also benefit from a permanent discount going forwards as a thank you for supporting the game at this early stage.
Updated 17/08/2021: Server move now complete!
I was notified on late Friday (13th) that the server which MotorNation is hosted on will be migrated elsewhere on Wednesday. However, I will instead be moving to another server provider for a number of reasons which I will shortly outline to members / supporters via Ko-fi / Patreon. I expect this will happen today (16th) or tomorrow, apologies for the short notice.
This will necessitate some downtime whilst I port across the underlying database that powers the game. Basically I will have to turn off the existing MotorNation, backup the database, and restore it on the new server before turning everything back on.
From a player perspective this will mean that at some point the game will be turned off, and then all being well, shortly after will be turned back on. However, as the server itself will be moving there may be a delay with some ISPs whilst their cache updates and they point to the new server motornation.net is hosted on.
Therefore for some the move should be fairly seamless, but for others it could take up to a day before they are able to login and play again. The vast majority should be back in action in an hour or so I'd imagine.
Sorry for the inconvenience! It is unfortunately unavoidable..
As per the recent email to Members, MotorNation is now on Ko-fi! This has the following benefits for you and me:
Please note that Patreon will continue to be supported!
As per the update on the forum, this poll will now close on Sunday the 22nd of August so that I can begin adding some of these vehicles to the game! I expect a new poll will start around then and I will advise which vehicles were selected.
As always, thank you to members and donators for your support! If you are not and you would like to support this project in addition to gaining further insight into the game, please find more details on the Membership page!
For this game to be sustainable, it needs your support. I will be able to deliver bigger and better features as well as more content! Every little make a difference and during Beta it only costs as little as £1 a month! Those joining during Beta will also benefit from a permanent discount going forwards as a thank you for supporting the game at this early stage.
I have now released the first ever Member Car Pack Poll, or indeed any poll, in MotorNation!
This will allow Members to submit requests for certain vehicles via the in-game forum. The more votes, the more likely it will get picked but it is discretionary and subject to some rules. For example, the vehicle must be suitable for inclusion into the game and must have been available in 2000 when the game is set.
As per the Patreon Member post, I am hoping to run one of these a month depending on Member engagement. I am anticipating that this poll will close on Sunday the 5th of September.
As always, thank you to members for your support! If you are not and you would like to support this project in addition to gaining further insight into the game, please find more details on becoming a member via the Membership page!
For this game to be sustainable, it needs your support. I will be able to deliver bigger and better features as well as more content! Every little make a difference and during Beta it only costs as little as £1 a month (+VAT) or regional equivalents! Those joining during Beta will also benefit from a permanent discount going forwards as a thank you for supporting the game at this early stage.
Other noteworthy changes since v0.18.4:
Following on from discussions in the forums, I'm pleased to release the first Members Choice Car Pack! This includes:
In future I will implement a voting system where Members can nominate cars either they or someone else has submitted. I then plan to release one pack of these member chosen vehicles a month. I will announce more about this to members in due course, but for now, time to start building those wish lists!
Those with a keen eye may notice that there are a couple of diesels up there. It is worth noting that diesel isn't yet fully implemented into the game, so for now they will fill up at the same cost as petrol. I'd also like to implement 4-star and super unleaded (probably won't bother with LRP...).
In other crazy news, the game is has hit 400 players. That means it will have doubled in a month and a half!
As always, thank you to members for your support! If you are not and you'd like to support this project in addition to gaining further insight into the game, please consider becoming a member via Patreon.
For this game to be sustainable, it needs your support. I'd be able to deliver bigger and better features as well as more content! It really does all make a difference and during Beta it only costs as little as £1 a month (+VAT) or regional equivalents! Those joining during Beta will also benefit from a permanent discount going forwards as a thank you for joining at an early stage.
Other noteworthy changes since v0.18.0:
Following on from the Odd Jobs update, I've made a number of improvements:
This should make the odd jobs a bit easier to use and now means that you can deliver takeaways in your favourite Reliant three-wheelers if you so wished.
As always, thank you to members for your support! If you are not and you'd like to support this project in addition to gaining further insight into the game, please consider becoming a member via Patreon.
The more support the game gets, the bigger and better features as well as content I'll be able to add! It really does all make a difference and during Beta it only costs as little as £1 a month (+VAT) or regional equivalents! Those joining during Beta will also benefit from a permanent discount going forwards as a thank you for joining at such an early stage.
Other noteworthy changes since v0.17.0:
Introducing the first part of a refresh of the classifieds functionality and also a significant new feature - Odd Jobs! This allows a player to take up temporary vehicle-based jobs by trading game time for a chunk of money. Fancy being a pizza delivery driver? Probably not, but now you can! Like classic cars? Why not take a job as a Wedding chauffeur? Enjoy the company of intoxicated people? Drive a taxi!
This feature is important as it now means that anyone can make a reasonable income in the game without needing to have a competitive car in the races or getting lucky selling a car for lots of money in the classifieds (which is especially hard with cheaper cars - as in reality).
You can find this new feature in the new classifieds contents page, accessible via Classifieds on the map as usual. I hope people enjoy this new feature and I hope to provide more content for this in future.
As always, thank you to members for your support! If you are not and you'd like to support this project in addition to gaining further insight into the game, please consider becoming a member via Patreon.
The more support the game gets, the bigger and better features as well as content I'll be able to add! It really does all make a difference and during Beta it only costs as little as £1 a month (+VAT) or regional equivalents! Those joining during Beta will also benefit from a permanent discount going forwards as a thank you for joining at such an early stage.
Other noteworthy changes since v0.16.1:
In celebration of the game surpassing 200 players, I present the 200 Player Car Pack! This includes:
As you can see there is a distinct 200 related theme going on with this pack! Further updates are on the horizon but that is it for now - enjoy!
As always, thank you to members for your support! If you are not and you'd like to support this project in addition to gaining further insight into the game, please consider becoming a member via Patreon.
The more support the game gets, the bigger and better features as well as content I'll be able to add! It really does all make a difference and during Beta it only costs as little as £1 a month (+VAT) or regional equivalents! Those joining during Beta will also benefit from a permanent discount going forwards as a thank you for joining at such an early stage.
The Road Rally special event has now been updated following the completion of the first stage of a new game feature - race restrictions. This means races, and specifically special events, can have restrictions beyond simply the car class. This will allow for far greater variety of races going forwards.
As an example, the Road Rally Special now has a number of specific restrictions to match the World Rally rules of the time, namely restrictions such as being limited to a maximum of a 2.0 litre engine, 300BHP, at least 1230KG in weight amongst others. Expect more in the not too distant future!
As always, thank you to members for your support! If you are not and you'd like to support this project in addition to gaining further insight into the game, please consider becoming a member via Patreon.
The more support the game gets, the bigger and better features as well as content I'll be able to add! It really does all make a difference and during Beta it only costs as little as £1 a month (+VAT) or regional equivalents! Those joining during Beta will also benefit from a permanent discount going forwards as a thank you for joining at such an early stage.
Other noteworthy changes since v0.15.0:
I have made some tweaks to the game and I have introduced a new special event, Run What You Brung - a drag race event. This event is intended as a bit of fun where anyone can bring whatever car they own to pit its might (or not) against the random cars of other players. Keep an eye out on the special events for this event appearing, which should now be easier as two special events are now available at the same time!
In other news, players can now reset their accounts if they so wish. Perhaps you hate your car and don't want to wait for your money to replenish? Or perhaps you just messed up in some way and wish to start over. This is now possible via 'Reset Account' in the 'Account' section when you are logged into the game. You may only do this once to help protect against abuse, however concessions may be made to members if necessary. Please do this instead of creating a new account where possible.
As always, thank you to members for your support! If you are not and you'd like to support this project in addition to gaining further insight into the game, please consider becoming a member via Patreon.
The more support the game gets, the bigger and better features as well as content I'll be able to add! It really does all make a difference and during Beta it only costs £1 a month (+VAT) or regional equivalents! Those joining during Beta will also benefit from a permanent discount going forwards as a thank you for joining at such an early stage.
Other noteworthy changes since v0.14.25:
Yep it's that time again, say hello to another four cars from the year 2000 as part of the ongoing main dealership population! Namely:
In addition to this, I have made further tweaks to the player classified ads to make it more likely that cars will sell. I also found a small bug which meant expensively priced cars were taking a little longer to sell then they should and in general I've made it so cars are again slightly more likely to sell.
As always, thank you to members for your support! If you are not and you'd like to support this project in addition to gaining further insight into the game, please consider becoming a member via Patreon.
The more support the game gets, the bigger and better features as well as content I'll be able to add! It really does all make a difference and during Beta it only costs £1 a month (+VAT) or regional equivalents! Those joining during Beta will also benefit from a permanent discount going forwards as a thank you for joining at such an early stage.
Other noteworthy changes since v0.14.15:
Say hello to another four cars from the year 2000! Namely:
This forms part of the on-going work to populate the year 2000 car dealerships as they look a little sparse.
Hopefully content updates will become more frequent now that I've got the player classified ads into a reasonable state. However the method for adding cars to the game could do with improvement, so there will be some on-going effort as part of this!
If you'd like to know more about the process behind this and what is to come then please take a look at Patreon if you're a member! If not, please consider supporting the game. The more support it gets, the better it will become. It really does make a difference!
Other noteworthy changes since v0.14.11:
Following on from the last update, changes have been released which allow classified ads to last two (as before) or three game weeks (game week = real day). As well as this, I've tweaked the pricing factors so vehicles should have a (very) slightly higher chance of selling.
Also when your advert expires without sale, you will now get a news entry so it should be slightly easier to keep track of when this happens!
If you'd like to know more about the process behind this and what is to come then please take a look at Patreon if you're a member! If not, please consider supporting the game. The more support it gets, the better it will become. It really does make a difference!
Other noteworthy changes since v0.14.7:
This update irons out some kinks with the second stage of the player classified adverts fixing some bugs and more noticably, members can now advertise 4 cars at once - an increase from 2. One bug resulted in cars not selling when they should've if they had been raced previously. This should now hopefully be fixed.
If you'd like to know more about the process behind this and what is to come then please take a look at Patreon if you're a member! If not, please consider supporting the game. The more support it gets, the better it will become. It really does make a difference!
Other noteworthy changes since v0.14.0:
Following on from the last news post, the second stage of player classified adverts are now live! What does this mean?
This means that it is now feasible to buy and sell cars for profit within the game! Therefore races are no longer the only main income stream (in addiiton to passive income) and this should hopefully open up a lot of possibilities.
As usual the work that has gone into this is far greater than is immediately obvious. Underneath the game is a complex model involving probabilities that resulted in me needing to consult GCSE/AS-Level Maths books to get my head around it!
If you'd like to know more about the process behind this and what is to come then please take a look at Patreon if you're a member! If not, please consider supporting the game if you enjoy it or like the concept behind it. The more support it gets, the better it will become. It really does make a difference!
Other noteworthy changes since v0.13.0:
This is the first major update to the game since the Beta was launched. The first stage of the player classifieds adverts are now live! What does this mean?
Please note that this feature is in a very early stage and a lot of work is planned for it in future, including computer citizens buying cars from players and eventually - haggling! If you spot any issues or exploits then please report them via the 'Bug Report' page in game.
If you'd like to know more about the process behind this and what is to come then please take a look at Patreon if you're a member! If not, please consider supporting the game if you enjoy it or like the concept behind it. The more support it gets, the better it will become. It really does make a difference!
Other noteworthy changes since v0.12.13:
The first round of publicising the game has been a success! Sign-ups increased massively and the game is very nearly at 60 players which is fantastic at a relatively early stage and with still comparatively little advertising! The concept of the game does seem to appeal, with a lot of engagement on social media and whilst the game is still in very early stages, it is seemingly interesting enough!
Much of the work that has gone into the game thus far lays the foundation for the future. This work will have to continue alongside more content or features, however it is hoped that soon I'll be spending more time on the latter which is when the more exciting stuff with happen :)
The next significant update will be re-introducing the player classified adverts, so people can advertise their own vehicles in the classifieds! More detail can be seen on Patreon if you're a member! If not, please consider supporting the game if you enjoy it or like the concept behind it. The more support it gets, the better it will become. It really does make a difference!
Other noteworthy changes since v0.12.3:
Happ(ier) New Year - fingers crossed. Great to see people signing up and hopefully enjoying the game.
As per the title, as well as some minor fixes this update introduces four new Japanese cars to the game. These comprise of:
Note that these are all 'new' cars as far as the game is concerned, although you may spot some in the classifieds if you are lucky! I intend to flesh out the main dealers somewhat as most cars in the game are pre-2000, so they look a little empty.
Other noteworthy changes since v0.12.0:
8 months since the Alpha launched, it's Beta time! Game accounts have been reset.
As per the last news item, it has been an incredibly long journey to get to this point and for the first time I will be actively publicising the game. I'm hoping that people will like it and I will gain some support to keep this project going - fingers crossed!
Other noteworthy changes since v0.11.12:
I'm currently preparing for the beta release which I am hoping to do before Christmas. For the Beta, the game will also be reset but the existing accounts will remain to save people having to sign up again.
It has been an incredibly long journey to get to this point and for the first time I will be actively publicising the game. I'm hoping that people will like it and I will gain some support to keep this project going /crosses fingers!
Other noteworthy changes since v0.11.6:
Following on from the last update, a new special event has been added - the Road Rally Special Stage. Originally I had intended there to be a set of new restriction types for this new special event, however on the realisation that this will take quite a bit more work than I'd hoped, on top of a lot of other changes already made, I've taken the decision to implement these at a later stage. In the meanwhile I wanted to add this new content whilst preparing for the Beta release of the game.
Other noteworthy changes since v0.11.2:
The latest update sees the introduction of special events. These are random events that will take place typically every other day and are designed to provide a bit of variety and encourage more exploration in the cars in the game.
Initially there are only drag racing events, but other events are planned to come in a very near future! These drag racing events replace those in the standard class base races.
Other noteworthy changes since v0.9.8:
Noteworthy changes since v0.9.1:
Well literally no one asked for it but everyone likes anthropomorphised things right? Paperclips especially I'm lead to believe. So introducing your personal MotorNation buddy - Wrenchy. Here to provide top tips and annoyance in equal measure!
Tap on him to get in game help and otherwise his thoughts on the page in question...
Changes since v0.8.28:
Changes since v0.8.26:
