Trucking Simulator Games Discussion

[MasterXtreme]

This is kind of random.  In my recent re-exploration of Las Vegas, I had a delivery from the Bitumen there.  I quickly noticed there is no signage that says this is a Bitumen.  I can not think of a single over delivery depot that has no signs saying what it is.  This must be pretty rare?  Driving along on the road, you would have zero idea this is a Bitumen business.

[Silverwing]

I certainly don't think that is common.  I will have to look more closely at the places I stop at.  They definitely usually have a sign or something as you drive in.  To see one with nothing is pretty peculiar.  I will be on the look out for more.

[timmelon]

With a Route Advisor we don’t actually need those signs . I remember the first WoS game, where you needed to follow every sign pointing at the base you need:

or else you will miss not only the base, and even the area where this base theoretically can be seen — as I remember, a lot of deliveries were failed because I skipped a sign and was forced to turn around and search for them, wasting the last seconds of delivery time . You could install the navigator, but its only function was pointing where you are on the highway (no company markers!), and after entering the city the signal was disappearing.
There are some bases in ATS with such signs, but they are in minority .

[FoxTail]

What is Twilight City?

[Graymist]

I find it funny how they have business signs that would only be useful for a truck driver pointing to a specific business.  It would be like EUNICE'S YARN AND SEWING STORE having signs leading you around a city to her store.   And some of her signs are 200 miles away along a highway.

What is Twilight City?

So... Twilight Sparkle made her own kingdom in a remote part of Nevada...

[timmelon]

Another «Guess where we are?»-like post, this time from Texas

[RainySunshine]

Too easy.  I know where they are in every photo. 

They are in Texas.  

The only two I feel like we'd have any chance at getting are the ones with the courthouse building and the overpass with the Texas symbol on it.

[MasterXtreme]

Wikipedia made at least one of them easy.  I just looked up all the county courthouses in Texas.  The first image will presumably be a scenery town as it's in the small town of Anson, Texas, north of Abilene.  Real Life Image    < --- It is the county courthouse for that county.  Jones County.

Abilene will probably be a marked city on the map.

[timmelon]

A huge update for Convoy players, and almost nothing for everyone else!

I can say I’m impressed . A new patch without any new content is something, but for mod users the main change is a dream come true — now you can use a mod truck or mod map in official multiplayer, so soon there will be a lot of streams with driving the KamAZ in Brazil or something similar .
Although there is one new gameplay feature with adjustable steering wheel rotating animation, a useful thing for users of wheels with a turn range not equal to 900° — and it was expectable after SCS made a post about a promotion of new Thrustmaster wheel — this brand usually has 1080°, so not-synchronized wheels in your hands and on the screen could be annoying . So even being a Logitech user, I am glad the game developers have paid some attention to other manufacturer’s products.

[Silverwing]

Perfect!  An update with nothing for me, aka EVERYONE ELSE.  

It's okay.  I know they are working hard, they've been giving us a ton as of late.  Plus there are actually people who only play Convoy, so for them, that's great.

Don't use mods, don't play Convoy.  It's fine.

[Silverwing]

Wikipedia made at least one of them easy.  I just looked up all the county courthouses in Texas.  The first image will presumably be a scenery town as it's in the small town of Anson, Texas, north of Abilene.  Real Life Image    < --- It is the county courthouse for that county.  Jones County.

Abilene will probably be a marked city on the map.

I think you are right.  The building looks spot on!

[Rainberry]

Okay, I have ranked up as high as I needed to make the truck I wanted.  So I purchased my very first truck at an astounding price of $193,000!!  Sorry for the crazy amount of photos of it, but I am pretty excited by it.  I have my first truck!!!!  I can work for myself now!







I even got to play with the photo mode in one of the pictures, you will see a day and a night version of the same spot.   It looks pretty neat at night with all those lights.  It has a big cabin to peacefully rest in for long-hauls across the country too.  Not to mention, it has the extra big fuel tanks so it can drive longer between stops.  Very excited!

[timmelon]

Congratulations! You have bought a real candy for eyes and ears (although some users don’t like its great engine sound and make mods with their own one ). The sharp eyes sees that your truck lives somewhere in Idaho and has wide singles on its rear wheels — my current truck also got that type of tires. How it looks from the inside, do you have a normal multi-buttoned steering wheel or some classic one from the Steering Creation DLC?

Also, there’s some reminder: don’t forget about the «Trailer Selection» button when you are on the base — it’s useful for not only a choice of trailer for yourself (between «more money» and «easier to handle» ), but for getting the maneuvering on the base easier — make all trailers you don’t need as short as possible, it’s helpful when you have a small yard where your trailer stands between two other ones, and the tractor is pretty long.

[MasterXtreme]

I think it looks great, Raine!  I am a little surprised by your truck choice.  You chose a classic style American "long nose" truck.  Great truck for towing big heavy loads!  Nice color, clean design.  I think it looks great!

[RainySunshine]

That is a handsome truck, Raine!  Very nice!  I think you may be the only one here who drives a traditional long nose truck like that.