Special Transport DLC compatibility

[theairwolf01]

Since creating routes can be very time consuming and the active team becomes smaller and smaller, I hope the spare time goes into rebuilding old area's of the map so everybody will benefit. Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of ST DLC, but after a few jobs it get really repetitively to be honest.

Well, i do agree with you, but i also do not. I made another profile to check out the ST DLC and i freaking loved it. So i thought,what if they try to lets say make three routes, two "easy" in Netherlands to germany, and lets say sweden, and then a hard one through countryside roads crossing two countries, that would be so amazing too. Only time will tell what they will do.

[ismailscania]

Since creating routes can be very time consuming and the active team becomes smaller and smaller, I hope the spare time goes into rebuilding old area's of the map so everybody will benefit. Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of ST DLC, but after a few jobs it get really repetitively to be honest.

Well, i do agree with you, but i also do not. I made another profile to check out the ST DLC and i freaking loved it. So i thought,what if they try to lets say make three routes, two "easy" in Netherlands to germany, and lets say sweden, and then a hard one through countryside roads crossing two countries, that would be so amazing too. Only time will tell what they will do.

I have plenty of time. If someone had taught me how to prepare these kind of things I would join ProMods team........ ))

[fikri.noh]

So, do the DLC's route editing is similar to editing the AI traffic routes?

[Vøytek]

What do you mean by "AI traffic routes"?

[mateush05]

I think AI route is [ AI is going left here, now is going straight, now is going right etc .].

[ExplodedgamesPromods]

Hello, i know the team of Promods is working hard on the ST DLC Compatibility with promods and i would like to ask you to make the missions a bit more challenging... in the original map the routes are rather short. maybe mix in some long ones... maybe extremely long challenges?
also the reward for the jobs are always very low, maybe a thing to alter aswell.

kind regards,

[LuisP8]

Hello, i know the team of Promods is working hard on the ST DLC Compatibility with promods and i would like to ask you to make the missions a bit more challenging... in the original map the routes are rather short. maybe mix in some long ones... maybe extremely long challenges?
also the reward for the jobs are always very low, maybe a thing to alter aswell.

kind regards,

That's very unlikely.. In real life this oversized or special cargoes rarely travel long distances (rarely, not never, though) and the reason is that ground transportation of this cargoes is a logistical "pain in the a$$" so they try to minimize traffic and civilian interactions when moving this loads. How? Well, take the a380 manufacturing in tolouse, France. The parts are delivered from different assembly facilities located on France, Italy and Germany if I'm correct (at least when the airplane production started it was, now I believe they do it all in France). bottom line is the wings, turbofans and other parts where shipped to France by air (if they fit in the airbus beluga used for airbus cargoes) or by sea, on special transport boats. If a ground section was unavoidable, they tried to minimize the lenght of the route as much as possible, and it was a real logistical challenge since those were real oversized and fragile cargoes. The ones in STDLC are not so oversized, yet some of them are real challenging due to measures and length. Other reasons long-distance routes are very unlikely is fue to fuel capacity (rarely a truck has more than 600lts of fuel capacity, but again, if they are specially adapted to long distance transportation they may fit large tanks). fuel is an issue, and its because when (and you will) run out of diesel, you will definitely not fit into any normal gas station, and depending on the weight you're pulling, the truck will run out of fuel faster. And finally, the rest stops. You cannot drive more than 10h in a row so with the speed limited to 60k/h on this special cargoes, your 10h will be very long and your traveled distance relatively low, meaning you'll sleep a lot too (depending on the length and the route)
For this reasons I'm sure long-distance ST won't be on the table for now, nevertheless, if they figure a work around this issues, it may come up something really fun! ;);)

[ScuL]

Very long distance ST is not possible anyway because you can't refuel or sleep..

[erkinalp]

Promods, you can route it through fuel stations if it is not a high cargo. Sleeping, on the other hand, requires a code modification.

[RobertKNL]

Reading this thread (which is a common thing to do before posting 'is this DLC compatible with Promods?') I realise this will take a long while. Especially when I saw there was a route from Brussels and then compared Vanilla Brussels to the Promods version... Personally I would suggest the Promods team to relax a bit before tackling this massive headache, celebrate the holidays and start fresh in January. SCS has overdone it a bit on this one, so best of luck!

For the next few months I still have my hands full with the Italy DLC, the amazing work you guys put into 2.20 (I have yet to go all the way north, haven't properly explored Romania and just noticed you guys have now reworked Aberdeen as well...), and I haven't even fully explored the previous heavy cargo DLC from SCS (both for ETS and ATS)

I honestly don't understand why people are pushing for this so much, just enjoy what the game is now and let this new DLC wait a bit (or buy it now to at least support SCS)

Happy holidays!