Proper load order for Maps

[Jbte]

Yes, now it's correct.

In the Mexico Extremo section, post a note that you if use Chihuahua, you don't need Mexico Extremo, it's meant only for the free version. So i suggest to place the Chihuahua option in the same line to Mexico Extremo, ej.

*Reforma Mexico Extremo or Reforma Chihuahua

[Blackspots]

Has that always been that way, or is it a new thing? I've always thought you had to use both.

[Jbte]

It's a new thing since I released Chihuahua beta 4. This way was easier for me to share the Chihuahua map rather than separating the game sectors from Mexico Extremo every time I do an update, which saves time.

[TMM10]

In the list the Caribbean Map is spelled wrong.

[Blackspots]

Ok, minor, but fixed.

[di9girl]

I seem to have a mod not in the list, I think it's from the Canada files:

promods-cap-v113

Where would it go in the list?

[Qizmett]

That's the ProMods Cabin Accessory pack that adds mugs and things with the ProMods logo. To be honest, I thought it worked only for ETS2, I hadn't thought to try it for ATS myself. To answer your question, I don't think it matters much where you put that as far as I know.

[Blackspots]

@di9girl Since that isn't a map mod, it isn't dealt with here. But as @Qizmett said, its the Cabin Accessory pack, which can go below the maps.

[Wolfseye]

I really dont understand what you're doing there on the first page with the load order you posted there. Especially, since you put after that a video from Wombat, which Combo order ist completely different than what you're saying.

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Thats how I learned it.

And if you post one of his videos, how come you're way of doing is so different ? This is one of the things I never really understood, and what made me never really understand the logic behind the sorting in the Mod Manager. How can there be so many different ways, if everyone says that his way is the way to do it ? If the right order of mods is so important in Games like ATS or ETS2, how come everyone makes his own order and it still works.

No offence intended, its all good.

But its mindbuggling for me to really ever understand the right way of doing things, then noticing so different ways other people do it, and wondering which in the end is the correct way. Cant there be only one right way ? If not, why is there a order of mods anyways

One day i'll understand. Maybe ^^

[Reinhard]

Mod order is only a more or less helpful guideline for people who don't exactly know what's in the mods.

The game don't need any mod order, if the mods don't conflict. I, for example, bypass the mod manager and let the game simply load everything in alphabetical order, never caring about the names. It simply doesn't matter. Because I don't tolerate conflicts, so I never have any such problem.

A mod order can never exclude conflicts, it is just a way to (hopefully) make bad effects, resulting from conflicts, less probable. And even the best mod order can not handle the many mods which don't cover only a single mod order category. If you don't carefully check a mod, you will never know if it is really the kind of mod, as which it is advertised. A map mod can change the AI, a traffic mod can interfere with a map mod, all kind of things can happen. And they do.