Automationverse

### Welcome to the Automationverse Wiki!

This is the Wiki for the fictional community content belonging to the players of Automation. The content made revolves around the Automationverse, a world with the history of the real world and companies that behave similarly to real ones, but one where the automotive industry is fictional/parodied. All events, companies, products and otherwise reside within this realm.

## About the game

Automation is a car company tycoon game, released on Steam in 2015. Players are able to construct their own companies with full control over the cars, engines, and factories. They have the ability to choose various chassis configurations and materials, drivetrain layouts, suspension types and more, to then fit them in a range of car bodies, use styling tools and cosmetic design fixtures to allow them to create unique car designs through the time periods of 1946 to 2020 (presently). By testing and tuning car performance to optimise handling, aerodynamics, acceleration and comfort, design potential is maximised. Cars can be made to cater to specific demographics, and the wide variety of choices in bodies, chassis, engines etc allow the player great flexibility to the end of making the most successful company with the best selling cars. This community uses the sandbox mode to make their creations, preferring to use their imagination and adhere to the events of reality rather than the generated in-game markets, and out of this, have created companies, stories and even nations to roleplay an entire player-created world. These companies have been generally maintained on the official forums until this point, but this wiki aims to provide a new roleplaying tool to this end (a list of all current companies in this wiki in alphabetical order can be found here). Typically, companies fall into one of two categories: realistic and lifelike, or unrealistic and lifelike. If these two descriptors are not met, the company is generally considered to not follow the conventions and quality standards of lore that would allow it to fit into the Automationverse.

## Disclaimer and terms of use

* Currently, this wiki is still a work in progress and is still undergoing foundational organization. See the Community Corner for the latest communications on the status of the wiki.
* Many pages across this wiki use content taken directly from Wikipedia (sometimes modified), done under the terms of the GNU license. Authors of pages can be seen in the edit history of any page. All content in this wiki is released under CC-BY-SA 3.0, see Wikia: Licensing.
* Any resemblance to real companies is done not with the intention to demean or slander, but purely for entertainment/roleplaying purposes.
* Defacing content made by others, deleting or any other actions with malicious intent is not tolerated and will be met with a ban.
* The right to delete any inappropriate, irrelevant or low-quality content is reserved by the moderators of this wiki.
* This is *not* the official Wiki for the game, any content within is purely fictional roleplay.

## Further information

* To contact the moderators, message: ramthecowy (available via the forums, Wikia or Discord) or titleguy1 (forums).
* The forums are available here.
* If you are looking for the game modding wiki, go here.
* For general information about this game, visit here.