Confessions of an Automationeer, Part 231: Basic Rules Update

Confessions of an Automationeer, Part 231: Basic Rules Update

This is the first time I have made a major change to the Basic Rules version of the Automation Build Generator spinner wheel set. From this point onward, I have not only renamed the "China" space on the Market wheel to read "South Korea", to reflect the fact that the South Korean automotive industry established a presence in Western markets before the Chinese car industry did. As such, any and all previous Basic Rules combinations in which the Market wheel landed on China (either initially, or after a respin) are retroactively treated as having "Asia (Other)" as their Market choice. The changes are reflected below.

Above: The first major revision of the Basic Rules Automation Build Generator sees the China space on the Market Wheel renamed to South Korea - any previous combinations with China as their market option now retroactively have Asia (Other) as their Market option.

After this major revision, I defined the rules as follows:

• To generate a random combination, either click on the Spin All button at the top left corner, or click on each wheel individually from left to right, top to bottom.
• On the upper row, the Type wheel defines the market segment and/or body style for the build; the Market wheel defines the region in which the car is built and/or sold; and the Year wheel defines the model, trim, engine family, and variant years for the build. As previously stated in the Advanced Rules variant of this set, it now lists all selectable in-game years, from 1946 to 2020.
• On the lower row, the Color wheel defines the main exterior color (i.e., background color) for the build - or more specifically, the one used by the created trim (although other colors can be stored on the trim, but not applied as the main exterior color).
• If the 1x Respin wheel lands on No, do not respin any of the first four wheels (Type, Market, Year, Color) in the set (and if you somehow did so out of carelessness and/or curiosity, you must ignore the new result). If it instead lands on Yes, you must respin the wheel that corresponds to the space the Option wheel lands on (and accept the new result generated by that wheel). Finally, if it lands on Choice, you may (but don't necessarily have to) perform such an operation, and even if you do, you can decide whether or not to accept the new result (although if the new result generated from any respin is identical to the original one, the respin effectively doesn't count). In all three cases, you cannot respin any wheel more than once before the next combination is generated.
• You can generate an unlimited number of combinations, but you may reject some of them for lack of realism.

All of the above also apply to the Advanced Rules variant of this spinner wheel set, not just the Basic Rules variant shown here. So enjoy, and have fun!