vid wrote: ↑29 Oct 2017 07:52 For people who don't buy all states, say if they buy Texas and not New Mexico the only way I can see them doing it is by adding one detailed road through New Mexico to get to Texas. What I mean is New Mexico gets released and people who buy it get the full state, people who don't get nothing, but when Texas releases obviously the people with New Mexico just add Texas and it joins on to it. For the people without New Mexico they could add one road to the base game for free (Once Texas releases) like the I-10 so they can at least get there without teleporting. The road can be the exact detail that's in the New Mexico DLC but with any other roads/cities unaccessable if they pass them. Then if they decide to buy the New Mexico DLC in the future the rest of the state will open up as normal when installed. This can apply to all states. Not sure if this is even possible but could solve the problem, I'll be buying all so it won't bother me anyway.
I have seen this option stated before and I pretty much said something similar. I think all major interstates should make the game for free. It should be the state connectors for just for the purpose of eliminating the teleport system such as ET2 ferry system. When Texas arrives but those that chose not to purchase NM, well they will have a very long trip of not being able to access anything outside of a gas station along that road. Price of not supporting all dlc I guess, lol. Otherwise, they have to implement the teleport to keep frustration down. My mind leans more towards the teleport though to solve that issue. But my complete thought was to provide all or at least one main interstate as the base map road for travel thru all states. Use dlc to fill in the land if you want to be able to get off that road to make deliveries to those areas. The problem I see here is that SCS would have to come up with a system that 100% blocks off people that do not purchase dlc. If SCS just places the xxxxx barrier, people can just dev cam over that. So really, SCS shouldn't use the actual dlc to showcase what they are missing by trying to use barrier blockers. A duplicate copy of that dlc should be used instead that doesn't have anything else but the interstate connection with a few gas stations for non dlc supporters. So in theory, every dlc state should have a duplicate copy that is just added to the base map. I think this could work. It's just a matter of duplicating the dlc and remove 90-95% of it. Leave just the gas stations and rest stops if the dlc has it along that road. Now to get generous, SCS could allow the gas station itself to be a delivery spot though for fuel tankers at least. That would keep players in ATS even if they don't buy dlc in order to get to a state that they will actually buy. This too would work. Hmmm...I like this. I just thought of it actually. Did SCS beat me to the thought, maybe...maybe not. They don't share all their intents so I am claiming this one, lol.
Oregon is cool with me if it is indeed next. The point to get out of desert is crucial to some and I honestly don't care what is next, just bring it. Rescale slowed down SCS. The external team slowed down SCS. The next state will determine how quickly SCS can kick out new content assuming that they learned from their mistakes. It has been noted that development time is decreasing at SCS for content release. Newer ways of doing things are starting to be implemented. Thus making them more efficient and more productive along with adding more staff members for different task. If Oregon really is next, California just grew by 3 times, lol. The footprint of ATS will be one big ole California-ish L shaped map. Oregon would tie into Cali and Nevada nicely with the map as is. With Ca being the base starting point, we will have our first state that will have all its borders surrounded. I wouldn't be surprised if Oregon would be followed by Washington just simply to finish out the West Coast. From there, there really is no wrong state to to hit next. SCS could try to even up the map vertically first before trying to go East. So keeping the map vertical would get us Or, Wa, Id, Mt,Ut, Wy, then Co perhaps in that order. At this point ATS should really be rolling as SCS would have covered that 1/3 I keep mentioning. Support will come and it will grow eventually just like ET2. Semi's are the backbone of most countries. Many people love big rigs and I am sure they are not aware of SCS or perhaps not into video games. But truck lovers will find their way to be involved with a semi any way they can. If SCS could market ATS as they do with ET2, more would jump in. They hold trucking events here just as they do in Europe. Below are just a few that intrigues me all over again every time I watch them and gets me all excited:
- US
- US
- US
- Canada
- Canada
You Euro guys will love the last contestant
- Mexico
Noticed that there is not just 100 people in the crowd. North Americans love rigs just as much as you guys in Europe. Down side is that the expense is probably high for SCS to do so from Europe themselves. With that said SCS, is it possible to partner up with someone here in North America to get SCS marketed here. You all can't do it with Paccar because it would probably conflict with getting licenses with other American truck brands.
) I discovered a TV series called "Aerial America" that comes around with some very beautiful aerial overviews of cities as well as some interesting sights and their background information. The series gives a very good overview of the different landscapes of each state, the vegetation, important industries, the history of the state and more.
