Dear Balkan truckers !
The time has come ...
We started 9 years ago, with small Slovenia mapping project. Plan was simple, make Slovenian teritory in ETS2.
First cities introduced were Novo mesto and Udine (Italy). Soon we changed the goal with arrival of Promods into Slovenia to expand to other Balkan states. In the coming years our network stretched all the way to Beograd, Tuzla, Tiranë and Kecskemet (Hungary).
In the meatime we were allways being over-driven by Promods and having some compatibility issues. Its in our DNA (Balkans people know this), that we never give up. And we didn't !
Our work was at its prime for sure the most desired map mod (especialy by Balkan residents) in ETS2. With years passing by and Promods getting deeper and deeper into Balkans - our work declined in popularity. Of course, our team was significantly smaller and less time & resources available. But we had that "special something", we have the knowledge about the regions we made in-game, we had that feeling how to make them as in real life ...
With years and years in mapping the other things got higher importance in our lives. In the last period we were investing our valuable time into making the map stable and compatible rather than expanding to new territories. And this is time & nerves consuming. At the same point we knew that with Balkans DLC announcement, our map sooner or later will go into history.
Well this moment has now come. With open-beta for 1.48.5 version of the game the base of future DLC has been introduced. Trieste and some other areas are already overlaping and causing crashes etc. It would have been pointless to continue this "battle".
Our journey has come to an end
it was a pleasure having such a great amount of players and support in our work, also in bad times. Thank you to each of you !
Part of our work will be seen in Promods (yes, spoiler alert) in next versions. But everything else will be gone forever. We might apear later for Slovenian rebuild (if needed), but highley likely thats the end of our work for the open-public.
Thank you all again for those 9+ years, it was a good time but now it's time to embrace a better & newer Balkans content under the official mapping team !
PB Team