#5280
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by LAFAYET47 » 10 Apr 2021 17:53
Spain and Portugal have a really really dense network of motorways/highways, they simply can´t be omitted in favour of secondary roads...this would be a huge mistake. These roads are what logistics companies mostly use in their daily operations, not secondary roads for admiring beautiful landscapes. I see that quite a few people who have never been in Iberia (heck,and even many of my fellow countrymen) have a hard time understanding this, but it is what is. I do however recognize that some additional secondary roads could have implemented ofc, but SCS did quite a good job giving us the most important roads. Scale is another factor that people usually forget, you can´t simply put a lot of highways and and a lot of secondary roads in 1:19 scale and expect the whole thing work. This is not how mapping works, there are really a lot of constraints because of the scale the game uses.
In my opinion as native unhabitant of Iberia, this problem with secondary roads is quite low in my list of priorities. I have much more concerns with signage and elevation changes. In both of these fields I have already feel somewhat dissapointed. I just can´t understand why ATS signage is soo awesome and ETS2 (even it is much better than in the past) is still subpair, very simplified and lame at times. With elevation changes same thing, why it is so awesome in the latest ATS DLC's and not in ETS2? Iberia was a HUGE oportunity to prove a broader audience that not whole Europe is flat as a pancake, and yet they have failed. I have been already in 3 well known mountain passes in Spain and they all feel very flat...not even a small struggle for your truck, absolutely anything. I want to believe this will change with the remaining mountain passes that I have not been yet, but man, I have a bad feeling...