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 big thank you to those that have contributed towards getting these in-game!
With the Job Centre offering the ability to do much more in the game, there has never been a better time to join! Every penny makes a difference and it only costs from as little as £1.99 a month! (if paid yearly)
Don't miss out on the full experience!
As promised in the last news update, and as per the title, annual memberships are now available!!!
More detail can be found on the updated membership page but in summary:
If you check out the updated membership page, Ko-fi or Patreon then you can see the new member tier graphics for Gold tier and above! Hopefully you will agree that they are far more interesting than the old ones which were basically a fairly lazy "palette swap"!
Following the membership price changes, all member tiers now get more votes! So, if you had previously used up all your votes, and you haven't already, you should now have some more to play with!
This is currently planned for Tuesday so keep your eyes peeled on your email inbox / Membership Discussion forum!
If you've logged in over the past couple of weeks, then you will have likely noticed that the vehicle photos now also appear when viewing your garage or selecting a vehicle for racing or doing jobs! This makes finding the right vehicle far easier! It also looks pretty...
Ridiculous challenges getting you down? Feeling anti-social or just can't be bothered? You can now block player challenges via the in-game Account -> Your Preferences section!
Yet another large upgrade was rolled out for the game, which thankfully seems to have gone very smoothly! This further sets up the game for more exciting changes in the future, even if the update was otherwise uneventful to the wider player base!
With the Job Centre offering the ability to do much more in the game, there has never been a better time to join! Every penny makes a difference and it only costs from as little as £1.99 a month! (if paid yearly)
Don't miss out on the full experience!
It's been a while since I've posted the changelog so I wanted to share some of what's been going on behind the scenes!
Further to the member update I gave to members back in early August and almost a year on since the last Price increase in the game, which only affected the standard membership tier, I am today announcing the following changes to membership pricing.
Please note: These prices are for new members; however, it will also affect existing members if they switch tiers.
Note: All pricing is subject to change and these amounts are for rolling monthly memberships and again these prices are for new memberships, or members that switch tiers after this date. Existing members will keep their current prices providing their membership is kept up to date.
Save money per month and pay yearly which also helps the longer term financial stability of the game at this crucial time.
Note: This likely won’t be available on 7th September but is planned in the near future!
To reflect the saving in payment processing fees and for showing commitment to the game in the medium / longer term each tier is currently planned to offer a 20% discount for yearly membership. This means that you effectively get at least two months membership free if you go for annual membership based on the updated pricing.
Note: All pricing is subject to change.
As well as my plan to scale up and grow the game I intend to really start ramping up the member benefits with the following potential benefits (subject to change):
Note: That there will be differences per member tier in many cases.
Other Potential New Features:
As usual many other feature and content improvements are planned, see the in-game Development Roadmap for that!
I have been thinking a lot about the future of the game in the past couple of months and this forms a necessary part in trying to secure that. Price increases are never something I enjoy doing but I hope you appreciate the transparency I have given above into the reasons why.
As usual a big thank you to current and past members and if you’d like to secure the current pricing ahead of the changes then I’d recommend you to sign-up well in advance of the 7th of September!
Many thanks and keep safe!
Andrew
Vehicles inspired by those chosen by members from the 11th poll will shortly begin appearing in-game for all players!
A special thanks to those that contributed towards getting the above vehicles in-game!
A note on the Bamby: Unfortunately despite it making it through the poll I determined it wasn't feasible to add it to the game at this time. The Bamby is twice as slow as the current slowest vehicle in-game and I believe it could lead to some abnormalities, especially when damaged. For the time being any vehicles that are closer to a tricycle rather than a car will unfortunately not be accepted into the game.
Apologies for any disappointment, it is certainly a cute looking thing!
As mentioned in the last news post, the first of the naming improvements have now been made:
A massive thank you to the community which inspired a significant number of these new names! There will likely be many more changes in the future, so keep those suggestions coming in the in-game Development Forum!
This poll is will finish on the 28th August 2022 at midnight GMT. The results will likely be announced on the day after.
If you would like to help nominate a vehicle and are not already, then please consider becoming a member!
There have been some substantial upgrades for the games technology stack in the last month to ensure the platform is fit for purpose in the future. There are still some more changes to come on this, but once in place it will open the door for future game improvement opportunities and efficiency gains all being well!
With the Job Centre offering the ability to do much more in the game, there has never been a better time to join! Every penny makes a difference and during Beta it only costs as little as £1.49 a month!
Don't miss out on the full experience!
Following on from the last news post and members update, I just wanted to give an update in how I hope to ease the transition of the vehicle names:
In terms of time scale, I'd hope to get some these changes in-game in the next couple of weeks all being well.
Understandably the reaction from the community on the name changes was mixed, sometimes humourous and in many cases impassioned. As someone who has loved cars pretty much my entire life I can well understand this and it wasn't a decision I took lightly.
The sudden nature of these changes unfortunately was something I couldn't avoid once the decision was reluctantly made. As many people hopefully recognise, I am very transparent in my development and this an unusual exception. I whole heartedly apologise for this and I wish it could have been avoided.
Apart from the vehicle names, the game is exactly the same and the direction of the game has not changed.
As the game grows and hopefully becomes more sustainable financially then there will be further options to pursue to try and revert some of these changes but for now I need to mitigate risk on the games future as it grows and gains more exposure.
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!
With the Job Centre offering the ability to do much more in the game, there has never been a better time to join! Every penny makes a difference and during Beta it only costs as little as £1.49 a month!
Don't miss out on the full experience!
Please do not adjust your set!
Members have access to a post outlining the reasons for this and people are welcome to make suggestions on the forums, please put them on the in-game development forum!
Apologies for the change which I felt was necessary and thank you for your understanding!
Andrew
Also a big thank you to everyone that applied to be a moderator, it was a tough choice with far more applications than I expected. Say hello to the first batch of moderators:
Thank you!
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!
With the Job Centre offering the ability to do much more in the game, there has never been a better time to join! Every penny makes a difference and during Beta it only costs as little as £1.49 a month!
Don't miss out on the full experience!
The vehicles chosen by members from the 10th poll will shortly begin appearing in-game for all players!
Note that as with all vehicles in game, this vehicle is available to all players.
A special thanks to those that contributed towards getting the above vehicles in-game!
If you are a member and would like to be considered for the role of moderator on the MotorNation.net Discord server then please apply by clicking the following link!
MotorNation Discord Application
Applications are open until the 30th July 2022.
Thank you! With your help we can make the Discord server a better and more welcoming place for everyone.
This poll is will finish on the 17th July 2022 at midnight GMT. The results will likely be announced on the day after.
If you would like to help nominate a vehicle and are not already, then please consider becoming a member!
With the Job Centre offering the ability to do much more in the game, there has never been a better time to join! Every penny makes a difference and during Beta it only costs as little as £1.49 a month!
Don't miss out on the full experience!
Today marks the first release of the revised class performance system which is designed to better represent a vehicles performance than the older system. A lot of work has gone into this, however it is also quite possible that further tweaks will be required once players have had chance to try it out for themselves.
Should further tweaks be needed, then can be made far more quickly than would have been possible in the past thanks to the underlying work which was undertaken. This is also part of the reason why the re-balance has taken so long to deliver - I wanted to get it right and make subsequent changes less onerous.
If you are disqualified due to the class system change, then you should get your race entry fee and time refunded to you automatically.
You may have noticed that the current best times system in-game has a number of issues. These basically occurred when the game was re-written. Post re-balance I aim to fix these issues and the previous best times will either be wiped, archived or will gradually disappear once I have decided on the best approach!
In addition to the class re-balance, I am pleased to present a new 'Gold Member' car submission, namely a 1994 Ford Mustang 5.0 GT Convertible! I have also included a number of photos submitted by members of the community for some of the existing vehicles in-game!
A special thanks to those that contributed towards this!
Unfortunately, the game did not hit its second funding goal despite the game continuing to grow. There are still many avenues for me to explore but I believe I should also take this opportunity to invest in the game going forwards to help it scale in terms of player counts, administration effort, community, advertising, the technology stack and so on...
This will allow the game to have more space to grow so that I can focus on other key areas such as creating a mobile app, ramping up the marketing and of course adding features. This all is part of the overall goal of trying to make the project sustainable for the longer term.
To aid in the transparency of this goal, there is a now a simpler, combined, sustainability metric added to the sustainability page which shows at a glance how much of my time is actually being funded at a National Minimum wage level. The general idea being that this figure should aim to be at least 100% for the game to be sustainable in the longer term.
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!
With the new Job Centre offering the ability to do much more in the game, there has never been a better time to join! Every penny makes a difference right now and during Beta it only costs as little as £1.49 a month!
Don't miss out on the full experience!
By popular request I am pleased to not only add two new drag racing events (E and C class) but also to give them their very own section within the Single Race Event section. There will be more to come in future but I wanted to get this out sooner rather than later!
As per the last member update, the class re-balance is currently underway and I have created tools to assist with this. I have benchmarked 4500+ vehicles across every track in the game to get baseline figures to measure the current accuracy of the class system ahead of the tweaks and improvements I will carry out.
If you'd like to know more then please consider becoming a member and reading the last member update!
On top of the on-going work on the class re-balance, I have been making some improvements to the forums. Primarily I've been re-factoring the code to ready it for further changes and I have also now re-instated the previous forum moderation functionality which was partially broken post game re-write.
This will form part of the moderator recruitment which will take place in the not too distant future.
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!
With the new Job Centre offering the ability to do much more in the game, there has never been a better time to join! Every penny makes a difference right now and during Beta it only costs as little as £1.49 a month!
Don't miss out on the full experience!
The following vehicles have been chosen by members to appear as part of the next Members Choice vehicle pack!
And the bonus ball results...
The following vehicles are recognised as being nominated on at least three unsuccessful occasions and one of these was randomly selected to be added as part of this car pack:
And finally the bonus ball result is:
1980 Mercedes-Benz G-Class 240D
A special thanks to everyone that participated in this poll!
The next poll will go live shortly and will be found in the General section of the forums!
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!
With the new Job Centre offering the ability to do much more in the game, there has never been a better time to join! Every penny makes a difference right now and during Beta it only costs as little as £1.49 a month!
Don't miss out on the full experience!
The vehicles chosen by members from the 9th poll will shortly begin appearing in-game!
A special thanks to those that contributed towards the above vehicles!
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!
With the new Job Centre offering the ability to do much more in the game, there has never been a better time to join! Every penny makes a difference right now and during Beta it only costs as little as £1.49 a month!
Don't miss out on the full experience!
It's been a fair while now, but whilst work on the class re-balancing is underway, I didn't want this to hold back new content any longer so say hello to three new special events!
As touched on in the last news post, the RS200 and Cappuccino stats have been updated, making them faster as standard. This means that their class has shifted and as a consequence players may find themselves disqualified from any races that they may have previously entered with them.
Since such changes are of no-fault of the player, and to allow me greater flexibility to carry out such changes, I have implemented a new refund system. This means that in the above scenario the system will automatically refund the player both their entry fee and game time should they be disqualified in these circumstances.
I envisage that this system will also be useful as part of the class system re-balance changes.
Players whose vehicle will be disqualified are now highlighted when viewing an upcoming race event. They will appear the same regardless as to whether or not they will qualify for refund.
As a bonus as part of these changes and following community contributions I've also been able to add another replacement photo for the Cappuccino from a Gold Members former car! Many thanks for this!
Since the last news post there have been a number of changes and balance tweaks to the repair shop, including:
A special thanks to anyone that contributed towards the above changes!
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!
With the new Job Centre offering the ability to do much more in the game, there has never been a better time to join! Every penny makes a difference right now and during Beta it only costs as little as £1.49 a month!
Don't miss out on the full experience!
I'm pleased to report that my little game now has well in-excess of 3,000 valid registered players! It actually hit this around the 22nd of April and unlike when I reported that the game hit 2,000 players, this is excluding the multiple accounts that have since been locked. This means that this number is more accurate to the number of people that have at least tried the game.
This update mainly focuses on the games balance, with a small content bonus.
As a first step towards the vehicle class re-balance, there are now condition limits in-force for all single race events. This requires all areas of vehicle damage to be at or below 80% damage.
This has been implemented to give some degree of realism to the races (e.g. you don't want vehicles dropping oil or having bits of bodywork falling off during races!) and to stop some vehicles dominating every class quite as easily.
This should only affect a minority of players, typically those with the so called 'meta' cars but should improve the game overall.
It has not escaped my attention that the repair shop needs work. At present there is far too much 'restoration-flipping' going on with vehicles being repaired and sold on for profit. As a mechanic this is fun, except it should only apply in the minority of cases which is not the case currently.
It also distorts the market, is not realistic and makes normally cheap cars unaffordable for newer players so this will have to change.
As the first step to balancing this, and to fix somewhat of an omission, it will now take some time to repair vehicles. The time and cost reflect that of taking a vehicle to a garage, discussing work, booking it in and so on. So the time taken is relatively small but previously the only time taken was the drive to and from the repair shop.
Do-it-yourself (DIY) repairs is something else I'd like to implement in future, which would take far more time once implemented.
This is a fairly light touch effort to balance this out and is something I will be focussing more effort on in future but is a lower priority than the class re-balance.
The silver version of the Suzuki Cappuccino has now also been replaced by one owned by a member of the community!
Thank you to the community for contributing these!
As usual these cars will be available in the main dealers or classifieds to all players.
I'm hoping to send out a member update later today which will cover:
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!
With the new Job Centre offering the ability to do much more in the game, there has never been a better time to join! Every penny makes a difference right now and during Beta it only costs as little as £1.49 a month!
Don't miss out on the full experience!
The vehicles chosen by members from the 8th poll will shortly begin appearing in-game!
The tenth poll is now open and members can vote via the forums!
Courtesy of Quotex, a wider variety of colours and photos of the RS200, the MotorNation meta car of choice, are now available! (thank you!) There is a further performance update waiting for this car also but this will have to wait until other improvements are made in hopefully the near future, otherwise people may get disqualified from races due to no fault of their own.
There is a similar issue with the Suzuki Cappuccino and other cars that need the performance updating.
Following my Easter break and catching up on this vehicle pack I will now beginning to tackle the class re-balancing. I have also been planning my work going forwards and I will likely send out an update to Members in the next week or two!
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!
With the new Job Centre offering the ability to do much more in the game, there has never been a better time to join! Every penny makes a difference right now and during Beta it only costs as little as £1.49 a month!
Don't miss out on the full experience!
With some changes to vehicle lightening (now called Weight Reduction!) and the games clocks going back to GMT / UTC time the game has figuratively gone back in time. Again. By the time this news post goes live, the clock will have likely caught up to where it was before, but here are some reasons for why this has been done:
The game no longer follows Europe/London time and instead follows UTC / GMT without the complication of DST / BST.
In what was an oversight at an early stage of the game's re-build I set the game to follow UK time which in hindsight was a mistake. The game should always run on a consistent clock. Whilst it makes sense for UK players to see BST reflected times, it doesn't make sense for the game to run on this and will complicate catering for other time zones in the nearer future.
By popular request the first Lightening upgrade is now removable, however it is now also the first consumable upgrade. This means that once it's installed, if you un-install it then you don't get the upgrade back again.
The second and third stages of lightening will remain permanent once installed.
Also; Lightening has been renamed to Weight Reduction to make it less onerous to spell and to avoid terrible puns like those in this news item...
And yes, the DeLorean is in the game already :)
Members can now not only reduce their hours, but also quit their (passive) day job in-game completely!
This means that if you quit your job, you will have an additional 90 hours game time available per real day to play with compared to working at MotorBurger five days a week! However, you will also lose your day job passive income and won't be able to do overtime. As before though the system is flexible so that you can work anywhere from 0 to 5 days per game week!
Whilst the newer format members polls have the results hidden, it has been a popular request to get somewhat of a sneak preview as to how it is going. Therefore as a compromise, I will reveal the top 10 vehicles in the poll at present, but not the number of votes.
If a vehicle you want is unlikely to make it into the top four, then this will give you chance to prioritise your votes rather than spreading them out, if you so wish.
The current top 10 nominations as of 11:50GMT on 8th April are:
This poll is due to close on 24th April 2022.
Please note that due to the Easter holidays I am aiming to deliver the vehicles from the last poll by the 29th April - so the week after this poll is due to close. Apologies for any inconvenience!
Check out the changelog for a slew of quality of life improvements to the game!
As per the games rules, only one account is allowed per person. I have implemented a system to detect breaches of this rule as it does actively harm the game in many different ways. If you want to create a new account, then please stop using your previous one.
This will be something that will periodically ran to detect and lock such accounts. If you find your account locked, then the system will give you the opportunity to choose which account you would like to use going forwards.
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!
With the new Job Centre offering the ability to do much more in the game, there has never been a better time to join! Every penny makes a difference right now and during Beta it only costs as little as £1.49 a month!
Don't miss out on the full experience!
Hot on the heels of the Gold Member Pack III is the vehicles chosen, by members, from the earlier Members Choice Poll! Featuring:
As usual the above vehicles may be available new or second hand in the classifieds from time to time! And a massive thank you to those that have contributed towards the above vehicles!
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!
With the new Job Centre offering the ability to do much more in the game, there has never been a better time to join! Every penny makes a difference right now and during Beta it only costs as little as £1.49 a month!
Don't miss out on the full experience!
Slightly later than intended, but it is here! The next Gold Member Vehicle Pack! Featuring:
And as a bonus, bonus:
The existing 1990 Ford Fiesta Bonus has been corrected to being a Popular, and the Bonus is now a Bonus Bonus. Glad to have straightened that one out!
As usual the above vehicles may be available new or second hand in the classifieds from time to time! And a big thank you to those that have contributed towards the above vehicles!
I'll be starting to implement the vehicles chosen from the previous poll fairly imminently and the current poll will be drawing to a close on the 13th of March so there is not long to get your votes in!
It might have been a couple of days late, but thanks to the generosity shown by members, the first funding goal was met! The second one has now been set for the end of June 2022! At the time of writing, we are already 54% of the way there towards that goal!
With the new Job Centre offering the ability to do much more in the game, there has never been a better time to join! Every penny makes a difference right now and during Beta it only costs as little as £1.49 a month!
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!
Don't miss out on the full experience!
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.
Whilst usually seen as a sign of hard times in the UK, I hope that the in-game Job Centre will be somewhat more enjoyable!
The main perk of the new Job Centre is for members, allowing players to customise their permanent passive job. What does this mean? You can trade off some passive income for an increased regeneration of game time.
The effect of which means you can get onwards of 60% more gameplay per day if you choose to reduce your working pattern to just one day a week! If you log in often or simply have more to do each day, then this is a fantastic new addition!
Not a member? It also provides a handy way to jump into the classified temporary jobs and give an overview of just how much money and game time you get working the standard five day week.
As the title graphic shows, the map has been expanded to allow more features and areas to be added to the game. The map will continue to be a central part of the game and consequently more real estate was needed to fit it all in!
Those with a keen eye may also notice some other subtle updates; with downtown being renamed to City Centre and Race Centre being renamed Race HQ. The former is to keep more in-touch with the British theme of the game and the latter because a) it sounds more catchy b) it avoids the name conflicting with the newly named City Centre
The recent influx of new members has been fantastic to see and with the new Job Centre offering the ability to do much more in the game, there has never been a better time to join! Every penny makes a difference right now and during Beta it only costs as little as £1.49 a month!
Don't miss out on the full experience!
At the time of writing, we are approximately 82% of the way there! Note that the mechanism for calculating this has shifted since the last news item where it was more like 76% using the same calculation method. The difference is that I've separated out business expenses from the goals to keep things simpler!
Check out the Sustainability page via the Support section in-game when logged in for more details!
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.
Following the last member car pack poll, the bonus ball has been chosen! Out of the three qualifying vehicles I'm pleased to announce that the bonus ball vehicle is the:
1988 Daihatsu Charade GTti!
The 1.0 three-cylinder turbo’d pocket rocket sounds very ahead of its time, paving its way for a glut of turbo powered 1.0 cars of all sizes in the 2010s onwards.
This will be delivered as part of the next members choice car pack!
Following player feedback the following tweaks have been made:
The first funding goal for the game is due at the end of the month (see the Sustainability page on the Support section when logged in for details). At the moment, whilst I am very pleased with the progress that has been made and the generosity shown by Members to date, it is unlikely it will be hit despite being somewhat close.
It would be fantastic if more members could join and get the game as close to the target as possible by the end of the month! Every penny makes a difference right now and during Beta it only costs as little as £1.49 a month!
At the time of writing we are approximately 80% of the way there! There are also a lot of exciting new member features on the horizon!
I released a substantial member update on friday featuring details about plans to expand the in-game map and a number of upcoming in-game features. If you are a member then you should have received an update via Ko-fi or Patreon, but if you aren't yet a member and are interested then now might be a good time to join!
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.
The first non-member update of 2022, but there's been plenty going on in the background! If you'd like to be the first to know then please consider signing up for membership! It really would make a difference, no matter how small your financial contribution!
Help me hit the first funding goal by the end of Feb! If you'd like to see the progress, you can do so via the Sustainability page via the Support section in-game!
But without further ado:
A massive thank you to Quotex and other members of the community for assisting with this pack!
The next Members Choice Poll will start tomorrow in the forums but with the following differences:
Now updated for 2022, check it out via the Support page when logged in!
The game hit 2000 players just after Christmas and is well onto its way of hitting 2,500 activated players!
Image attributions are now largely complete and as part of this work it necessitated the introduction of player preferences and a re-structuring of the in-game Account area! This will open the door to new preferences for players to set later down the road e.g. time zones for non-UK based players!
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.
