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Cars & Machine Index

Machines are objects

Every car in NCM is a machine: one serialized asset with its own number, owner, odometer, condition, gearbox and history. Two Galenas are two different objects. The Market sells real stock, so a car that sells is gone.

Getting and using a car

• Buy in F6 → MARKET. Start with a base car and build from there.
• Call an owned car from Machine Index (F6 or F10) with CALL VEHICLE. It appears in a clear space near you. Calling a car is separate from buying it.
• Get in by holding E at your car.
• Your car keeps its state: fuel, damage and odometer are stored on the server and restored when the car next appears.

Machine Index

Machine Index is your record of observation: the cars you own, and the machines you have discovered.

• It keeps the evidence behind each fact. What you have not measured stays unknown; no number is guessed.
• Discovering a machine takes the Scanner: Tab or Caps Lock, held on a car within 60 m. Driving past a car does not add it. EXPERIMENTAL The reticle and scan-to-discover are still being proven.
• Driving a machine records measured facts about it. There is no estimator or confidence rating yet.
• Servicing, parts and their actions are not here; they are in Engineering (F9).
• On Online, Machine Index is also where you choose the one car you anchor through the Race Week reset.

Limits

• Wings, spoilers and splitters cannot be attached yet; the platform's attachable catalogue has none.
• Flying machines appear in the Index but are never street cars.

For developers

• Assets, ownership, provenance: ncm_league/server/ (market.lua, provenance.lua) and the vehicle_asset family of tables (see ncm_league/server/schema/).
• Calling, presence and materialisation: ncm_world/server/ and ncm_world/client/.
• Scanner: ncm/online/resources/ncm_scanner/ plus the native ncm/vision reticle.
• Authority: docs/ncm-online/16_MACHINE_INDEX.md, 13_VEHICLE_COLLECTION.md, 12_CANONICAL_VEHICLE_ROSTER.md.