#1964
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by flight50 » 28 Oct 2021 20:16
@Bedavd. I agree with all you said. For glass....I hope there is at least 4-5 types of glass. Even if from the same plant, I don't really care. The industry is there at least. If SCS wants, they can expand on it. There are tons of non used building in cities. Remove some and add some much needed diversity. There's always space where there are no mountains/terrain to conflict. Tons of filler buildings. I don't think the number of functional depots should be factored in. When new industries come online, I do think SCS should go back and implement some of these new depot........without having to do a base map reskin. 1-2 depots added to existing cities where real life counterparts isn't asking for too much. That's just the way the US is laid out. That is why I've said many times, SCS should produce a fairly large library for ATS depots. Whether they establish all the companies now or later, at some point more diversity needs to come.
If they establish a very large library now, there are two ways to go about doing this.
1) brainstorm. Research research research. Come of with every possible industry that makes since for the ATS model. Sure there will be some not accounted for but added in the future, but at least thinking about it now, makes planning for (x) depot in (x) depot in (x) city. If you account for it, the layout per dlc is solved.
2) this requires resources....now or later. Let say SCS set aside 1-2 asset people and did nothing but depots. They could basically make 20-30 new depots for new companies to get implemented. With #1 in mind, as these dlc's come, drop in the corresponding depot now that the industry is now introduced into ATS.
I will give a few examples of industry that are worthy but not in ATS. Car manufacturers, rubber, textiles, poultry/hogs, healthcare/pharmaceutical, Wholesale retailers, confectionery manufacturing, snack foods, aerospace, apparel, consumer goods like (personal goods/hygiene), Food distribution, waste management and household products. Industries that need to be deeper...transportation, Technology/semicondutor, Retail, petroleum, manufacturing, food processing, automotive and construction.
I'd take Dow hands down. Dow and Chemso are cool for now. But by the time we get to to the East coast, we need another in the mix. That's why I was hoping for about 3 chemical companies. For the next 3-5 years, one would suffice but it would get old and overused just like Chemso now. I'd love nothing more than for SCS to thin out some of older over used prefabs/companies to add diversity. This is the part they seem unwilling to do a lot of. We did get NAMIQ at least but can we get more thinning out than that? The car dealerships was great. But if we actually get a car industry in ATS, we'll need another car dealership. Something like CarMax. A depot that is at least twice the size of the current dealerships. We'll need more space to move around these lots.
For Ikea...I don't think Texas needs more than 3. I 'd do Houston, San Antonio or Austin and then the one in Grand Prairie. All though Frisco is out of reach, if SCS was creative, its actually the one that has the most space to make something fictional. I think US-75 should make the game. I don't see any North Texas toll roads coming or at least accessible. What I'd do is make one of those East to West roads and squeeze in Frisco that way. El Dorado makes the most sense. It connects to both US-75 and US-75. We should get Lewisville lake for sure anyways. We can get a portion of the toll road near Ikea just for immersion. But we can use Preston (TX-289) South from El Dorado.
