Cheetah and Venom Release Preliminary Details for Next-Gen Cars

AMC's venerable Cheetah has released some details surrounding the release of which is considered to be the most anticipated new car in the modern era of OTO, the 2007 High Voltage.

Details available at this location:

http://wikioto.pbwiki.com/Cheetah%20High%20Voltage

On their M-40 series website, Venom has also added some preliminary design details concerning the next M-40 car, the 2007 M-43.

See details at this location:

http://wikioto.pbwiki.com/Venom%20M-40%20Series

New 'Factory Factor' Simplifes Complex Delta System

Last summer, the Delta system in OTO was majorly revised, with the novel idea of setting one DLA equal to a single Meshstick. This led to cars being worth many times what they were valued at in the past system and so each team's balance was augmented accordingly. The precision in pricing allowed by the new system also raised some problems; how much should a team charge for labour on a given car or part? In other words, how was a consistent profit margin set up? After attempting to set a Delta rate on the amount of time/labour taken to build a certain part / car, OTO has now settled on a new idea: the Factory Factor (FF).

The FF is a numerical value greater than 1 by which the cost associated with buying parts for a part or car is multiplied to calculate the selling price for that part or car. For example, Venom has set an FF of 1.5 for it's cars. When the total cost to Venom of buying all parts associated with building one of it's M-40 series cars, the total is about 23 DLA. This value is then multiplied by 1.5 to arrive at the selling price of 34 DLA, which is very close to the time/labour-based price from last summer. Therefore, the profit to Venom from building and selling an M-40 car is (34-23) = 11 DLA.

Each company is able to set their own FF's, according to their prestige level, or the amount of labour necessary to build a particular part or vehicle.

GT has tentatively set the FF's for its teams as follows:

NNV: 1.3
Venom: 1.5
Nasa: 1.5
Stairclimber: 1.6

Using these FF's, the following prices for current/future models can be calculated:

Venom M-42: 34 DLA
Nasa HF-1000: 59 DLA

Interestingly, each Nasa HF-1000 would earn Nasa 18 DLA, and Pitz 26 DLA! This is due to the very extensive use of glass pieces in this model.