Poll: Which area should SCS add to ETS2 next?

[IvanKuz]

I added cities to my Russia map - I would be interested in some feedback.

Looks pretty neat overall!
Some thoughts:

• I wouldn't mark Alakurtti on the map. It's all just military bases and related territories, much of them abandoned. I briefly considered it for my concept map, but didn't find anything that would qualify as a delivery point for commercial trucks there.
• Not sure why you marked Kashira with an energy icon. It has a power plant, yes, but it's a coal-powered one, and those aren't normally represented in the game. I'd still keep the town itself though, at the very least for the Pepsico plant.
• On the other hand, you missed some actual nuclear power plants, most of which we can definitely expect to be included in the game (as per tradition since VLF).
• Heart of Russia seems a bit too barren IMO, especially west-northwest of Moscow. In recent DLCs there seems to have been an increased focus on small single-industry towns, so maybe consider adding more of those?

[krmarci]

@Komen.413 Thanks! I checked your map as well, it seems almost the same with the exception of the Volkhov - Vologda route which you don't seem to have included (and some "minor towns" around Moscow which might or might not be absorbed by it).

@IvanKuz Thank you!
Alakurtti: I mean, it still has a supermarket? But yeah, the Mercator projection is tricky, and Kandalaksha and Kemijärvi seem further apart than they actually are. They are still closer to each other as the crow flies than Oslo and Bergen.

Kashira: Wikipedia says it's the largest source of electricity in Moscow Oblast. But yes, other industries are plausible as well.

I checked the map on Wikipedia: I included every active NPP in European Russia (at least their homonymous cities - they could be located further away from the cities, which I didn't take into account). I changed the map really slightly to add the Beloyarsky NPP slightly east of Yekaterinburg.

The area northwest of Moscow: seems a bit too barren on the map, too. I'm not sure if there are any industries in the region (if there are, let me know), but there is always room for a small town with a supermarket (Alakurtti-style)...

[dsf.fernando]

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An example of a trip that would be very abridged with a Balkans DLC

[krmarci]

@dsf.fernando Just wait for Heart of Russia, we will have larger detours... What does Bryansk-Istanbul via Rezekne sound like?

[Evil_Jason]

Balkans will come for sure. The empty holes are getting less and less.

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[dsf.fernando]

Only the Brindisi-Igoumenitsa ferry and Kragujevac are missing. I would change Lamia for Larissa, and maybe there's even space to put Blagoevgrad as a new city in Bulgaria

[jackalnxt]

The precedent of adding extra cities in VlF gives me hope that we can indeed maybe see Blagoevgrad (or another nearby city) as a single industry town. I don't know what kind of industry it would be though, since that area is more known for its tourism than anything else.

RttBS in general has a lot of room for future expansion, given that it had to be hurried towards the end.

[Shiva]

RttBS? Blagoevgrad area, possible.+ 1 or 2 in northern Romania.

[jackalnxt]

And Tulcea. The possibilities are big.

[IvanKuz]

The forum stopped working yesterday just as I was about to post this

I checked the map on Wikipedia: I included every active NPP in European Russia (at least their homonymous cities - they could be located further away from the cities, which I didn't take into account).

Yes, many of them are located quite far from the cities with which they share names. Smolensk NPP, for example, is much closer to Roslavl than Smolensk. Think of them as named after the regions they are in rather than the capitals of their regions. I am certain they will come as separate dots in the game, just like, for example, the Leningrad NPP is not part of Saint Petersburg in BTBS.

The area northwest of Moscow: seems a bit too barren on the map, too. I'm not sure if there are any industries in the region (if there are, let me know)

Well, you are right, there doesn't really seem to be a lot of activity in that direction. Still, off the top of my head, here are some towns to consider: Staraya Russa (aircraft repair plant), Torzhok (quite a few notable factories there), Porkhov (pig farm, cheese and butter factory), Ostashkov (not really an industrial location by any means (although there are some minor companies like a sawmill or a steel door factory), I just think it would be a good way to fill the emptiness between M-9 and M-10/11, plus it is located on lake Seliger, which is kind of famous).

And some suggestions for locations in other directions from Moscow: Chekhov (tons of warehouses as well as some factories), Shatura (furniture factory, quite a popular brand actually, or at least it used to be some years ago), Voskresensk (chemicals), Dorokhovo (a small place that probably should count as Ruza or Mozhaysk on the map, but I just know there is an LG factory), and, honestly, you can just randomly pick any big town within or near A-108, and chances are there will be a notable factory or a large distribution center or something.

Also, I wanted to mention the city of Zheleznogorsk in Kursk Oblast, which you didn't include in either HOR or Steppe. I sure hope we will see its giant quarry in the game one day.