Gas Station Simulator News

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When running a gas station “in the middle of nowhere” things are not always black and white. There are many shades of gray in between and you are unlikely to avoid them while playing the game.

It is thus advised to look into security when hiring people to help you run your gas station. Reliable employees that are also security conscious can be a big advantage when you become a target of fraudulent customers or really shady characters.

Gas Station Simulator has multiple pools of somewhat random events triggered by a series of influencing factors such as revenue, expansion level, customer traffic or time of day.
These event are things like customers trying to steal something from the shelfs in the shop area, people trying to drive off without paying for fuel or some shady characters deciding it’s a good idea to attempt a robbery.
Not to mention really shady characters telling you what pity it would be if something would happen to your large glass windows or educating you on the dangers of dealing with fuel…

Negative events isn’t where it ends. There are also pools of potentially positive events with deals clearly on the shady side. Let’s look at one example that’s representative of various similar events on the supply side of running your gas station. In order to sell fuel to your customers, you obviously have to buy large quantities of fuels and store them in underground depots of your gas station.

You usually buy from known providers and representatives of large fuel delivery companies. But every now and then you might be approached by some shady character offering you a fuel delivery at a significantly lower price, sometimes even half of what you’d normally had to pay.

Certainly a tempting proposition, no question about it. But it comes with some risks. You might not get your delivery or not get it on time. Or the quality might be lower. It can happen, but it doesn’t need to. Actually, you can risk it a few times and discover that some shady characters are more reliable than others. Once you figure out which ones, you can consider seriously cutting your costs making these kind of deals part of your supply chain.

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Gas Station Simulator comes with a large array of customization options for your gas station to allow you to truly personalize it. It all starts with giving it a name. That name carries over to all sorts of things beyond the gas station’s name shield such as advertisement. It also changes style according to how you modernize your gas station and what overall looks you choose.

The most important thing when it comes to customizing the looks of your gas station however is the color scheme. It’s applied to most elements, various furniture items and even appliances you put up and obviously all expansions and buildings. It also carries over to all styles you can choose for your gas station when you modernize it.

Those are the large ticket items, but the customization doesn’t stop there. There is a ton of smaller things you can use to add a more personal touch to your business such as posters, painting, lighting or the type of shelfs or stands you use. You can also pick between different styles for the overall interior decoration, not to mention the different choices for the outside areas around your gas station.
There is a lot to customize. You don’t have to, you can go with a preset template, but if your feel like it, know there is plenty to choose from. Doing so will give you slight bonuses over choosing the template approach and will also boost any advertising you do.

The idea behind the service center is to expand the gas station with a small service/garage building.
Since the gas station is basically in the middle of nowhere, customers who run into trouble with their car on their journey will find your gas station to be the only place for urgent repairs in the area. We are talking smaller fixes here, like a small garage would do in real life.

Another aspect of this addition to your gas station is the ability ot expand it by a towing service. While you won’t drive yourself and tow cars that broke down on the road, you’ll be able to hire someone to run this part of your business for you. It will generate additional revenue on its own, but also provide even more customers for repairs.

The service center will require you to keep an inventory of common spare parts in order to be able to make the repairs. This means that if you decide to go that route, you not only have to invest into the building and its equipment, but also keep a significant investment to maintain the spare parts inventory. The profits that the service center is able to generate can be substantial and allow you to finanse further expansion.

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We chose this short video snippet for this dev Log to bring attention to what we believe is an interesting aspect of Gas Station Simulator: the silly stuff.

Running your gas station at some point also involves hiring employees. In most cases, you get what you pay for, but there are exceptions here and there. You will have to check on your staff every now and then, as some might neglect their duties, others might try to steal from you and some might just do stupid things.
Like you walk in one day and see your employee stacking cups or cans on the counter or building dominos out of the boxes on the shelf.

We will implement many of these situations just to light things up a bit. It is also part of something more serious, namely our effort to differentiate employee beyond looks or stats. We want them to have distinct personalities like you would expect in real-life. This is something important to us as you won’t hire many employees and those few you decide on should feature distinct personalities.


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Welcome to DevLogs for Gas Station Simulator.
The idea behind posting DevLogs on a regular basis starting next week is to provide you with insights into the development of the game, new features we are working on or showcasing some interesting mechanics that we just finished implementing.

For you it’s also a great opportunity to comment on those things using the Discuss button below. We as a development team always valued feedback from the community and are known to take it seriously and incorporate it into the development process more often than not.


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