tantarino
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1 year ago I would also like to add that, since money is harder to make and nobody has a lot of it, it'd bring variety to the city if everyone could get a different starter car with the price changes. <3
Suggestion Description As the title suggests, I think that a lot of the car prices are unbalanced at Luxury Autos. This suggestion not aims to only lower, but also increase some of the cars' prices. I will try to explain it with some comparison examples now:
1st example: 9F (Audi R8) - 140.000$ Kanjo SJ (2000 Honda Civic) - 140.000$ Kanjo SJ is a slow paced, low performing(especially compared to 9F) car. It's more like a first car, rather than a luxury car. On the other hand, 9F is a straight up performance car.
2nd example:
Jester RR (New Gen Toyota Supra) - 160.000$ Ruiner ZZ-8 (1998-2000 Pontiac Firebird) - 190.000$ While Jester being harder to reach, in my opinion it makes no sense to pay 30k more to get a old, low performing muscle car. Therefore nobody buys it.
3rd example:
Tahoma Coupe (1978-1980 Chevy Monte Carlo): 140.000$ ZR350 (Mazda RX-7): 140.000$
While I think even ZR350 is high priced compared to its performance, Tahome Coupe, which is essentially what people whould call a "shitbox car" being priced at the same price is really weird. Therefore, nobody buys it. Therefore, no variety in people's cars sadly.
Reason There are a lot of examples like these that I've preseted, but I didn't want to go over each car. But it is easily examinable. I think that a car such as a SM722, which is a performance Mercedes-Benz car, being 200.000$ is really fair, even cheap. But it being only 10k more than a 2000 Firebird makes no sense. These facts add up to everyone having the same cars, thus brings no variety to the city. It'd be so cool to see everyone having different cars, different builds. If the low-performance cars were fairly priced, we would see everyone having different cars and builds. But as it is right now, we can only examine one general cycle. This "cycle" shapes up like this:
-Get a Seminole Frontier or a Youga. -Then get a 8F Drafter -Then get a Jester RR -Then get an Elegy Custom -Then a supercar or an Import.
To me, the pricing is made to the cars' "DLC" rather than their performance or model. This takes most of the realism factor since nobody buys the high priced low performing cars. This is very observable on Kanjos. Blista Kanjo is 30k-40k, but Kanjo SJ is 140k. They are the same exact car, one is hatchback and performs better even though its priced 110k cheaper. Why?
Additional context I hope I've made myself clear about the prices. I do not wish to lower overall car prices. Some cars should be hard, even harder to reach. But those cars being priced same as the "shitbox", old, 2000s commercial cars drives people to not buy them while starting out. This would be such a cool change to see since everybody is trying to start out once more, we could see more than seminole frontiers and yougas around. Thank you for your time and attention.