HoR was suppose to be out by now so we don't know where in production West Balkans is. If Iberia thru off ETS2's December pattern, I can see Texas filling that. Texas as been in production much longer than West Balkans. If ETS2's time table is now Q1 like Iberia, then we get a larger gap and less competition between ATS and ETS2. Most that buy ATS map in Nov, stop playing and play the ETS2 map for December. The ATS numbers drop. The ETS2 map is huge already. I know people won't like it, but no HoR is not ATS's fault. I'd move ETS2 to Q1 releases. Give West Balkans time just like Texas or Iberia.
I know right. This is my thing. What new comes. How does Texas follow up with new coming with Montana. One would think Texas should get more. Larger cities and larger area to cover. Looking at the microsite, this may not be the case. Less new industries...no problem. Pick up the slack of no new industries with new companies by revisiting old industries. We should have 3-4 farms by now. Lets get more use out of these reworked trailers. More new trailer skins and cargo to fit the bill. If we got the likes of Lowe's, Target, Sams, Costco, Albertson's, HEB, Kroger, etc we don't need to see those new companies teased/blogged........just do them and implement them by replacing some of these over used depots. The same cargoes that goes to Walmart, Eddy's, Tidbit can go to the same new companies if its part of (x) industry.oldmanclippy wrote: ↑27 Jun 2022 20:36 Whenever it comes, I don't want it to be rushed. I want it to feel like Texas, and I want it to come with new companies, new non-deliverable companies, new industries, new prefabs for existing companies, new cargo, and hopefully new features. Rushing it out the door will compromise that. And this map has been in development for so long, that there's no point in rushing it anymore. Just get it out the door when it's finished. Montana and West Balkans will cover for it just fine in the meanwhile.
Global Mills, there is 1-2 new company's that could come to Texas and share that same cargo. I'm sure there are several food manufacturing facilities in Texas that could make the game. Butimen, Plaster & Son's, Olthon Homes and many others. The asset team more than capable of making nice new prefabs. Most depots in the US are boxy. Easy to model. ATS should have a flood of these boxy type of depots. I bet one could be modeled and setup in 2-3 weeks of various sizes. They are low poly and only need some thought on how to implement. Then give it to the concept artist to come up with designs/logos. Petr is a 3d modeler. Teach Annie 3d. She mentioned she wanted to learn it. Now 3d signage can be made by them and let the asset modeler go on to another depot and repeat the cycle. The more SCS can double back to replace things just like these gas stations and rebrand a few Coastline Mining to NAMIQ, the better ATS will hold up.
Replace these fictional Walmart locations that don't even exist. That would get rid of more than half all these Wallberts. 150 and counting is too much for the few states we have. I'd rather fictional or made up buildings instead of fictional Walmart locations. When you use the caliber of a Walmart, the location should be pretty accurate imho. Same with any NA company that is being parodied. If no parody is being represented make that fictional, but not Walmart. That is like putting Ikea everywhere in ETS2 when there is no Ikea there in real life. I can bet you ETS2 fans would complain if Ikea was dropped everywhere where it shouldn't be. Have some type of realism for reality locations when it comes to depots. We don't need their true branded name but a parody, put the right building in place at least.