Please Retire the Player Garages Models with Texas

[Optional Features]

As I drive around the map both exploring and looking for places to add to my threads, I'm noticing more and more areas that would be a far better fit for player-owned truck garages than the stock three options the best of which becomes inaccessible immediately after a garage upgrade.

These are empty gravel lots, fenced yards with shops, or buildings with interiors, often within reach of playable areas.

A few examples:

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As the map gets larger and prettier, the tired, old garage models look more and more out of place, and differ more and more from the realistic areas built by the mapping team. So SCS, please retire these garages with (or preferably before) Texas, and instead place the triggers and spawn points in areas like the above. Some need a couple garbage bins moved out of the way, or animated gates, but they look the part and are far better than these old models.

[jab98]

As I drive around the map both exploring and looking for places to add to my threads, I'm noticing more and more areas that would be a far better fit for player-owned truck garages than the stock three options the best of which becomes inaccessible immediately after a garage upgrade.

These are empty gravel lots, fenced yards with shops, or buildings with interiors, often within reach of playable areas.

A few examples:

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As the map gets larger and prettier, the tired, old garage models look more and more out of place, and differ more and more from the realistic areas built by the mapping team. So SCS, please retire these garages with (or preferably before) Texas, and instead place the triggers and spawn points in areas like the above. Some need a couple garbage bins moved out of the way, or animated gates, but they look the part and are far better than these old models.

The main issue with this is all the garage prefab areas have to have the same overall footprint for there to be any sort of upgrade system. Otherwise you get holes in the map or a bunch of overlapping map areas. That being said the could redesign the garages at some point, but they’d have to be the same size as what is currently ingame. Otherwise they’d have to go rework every area there is currently a garage.

You can add your own garages wherever you want and whatever size you want, but they won’t go through the upgrade system, and it will throw an error in the game log because of an unrecognized garage variant.

[AgMech]

as seriousmods said in another post " The current ATS garage system does not fit the realities of American trucking. " We DO need an overhaul of the base game garages for ATS . More than we need a new model of truck . Everyone is talking about what new states will come out next or how they will be bundled .. Let's clean up the current base game now, before anymore expansions. Some aspects have room for improvement . Work on some of those details first ...

[harishw8r]

Barren land with a small shed and a fuel dispenser is more realistic than whatever we have now.

[Optional Features]

as seriousmods said in another post " The current ATS garage system does not fit the realities of American trucking. " We DO need an overhaul of the base game garages for ATS . More than we need a new model of truck . Everyone is talking about what new states will come out next or how they will be bundled .. Let's clean up the current base game now, before anymore expansions. Some aspects have room for improvement . Work on some of those details first ...

According to Pavel, new features are coming as the states get more boring (which is soon). So hopefully with (or after) Texas, we start to see new features. There is a ton of room for improvement in that department, and it will directly contribute to people wanting to play more.

[Trenero]

Hello, one thing i've suggested in other post that can be made to the rework of the garajes, made them modular with upgradeable updates (buyed separately for each garage), and they will improve different things and we can buy them in the order we want.

Here a list of the upgrades i can think of:

-Parking space: that will allow us to hire drivers and buy more trucks up to 10 spaces for example, each one buy separately(truck+trailer per space).

-Trailer parking: that will allow us to buy more than one trailer per truck.

-Fuel pump and tank: that will allow us to refuel the trucks for a much cheap price than in gas stations(something like right now).

-Heavy tools and a mechanic: That will allow us to make our own repairs something like for example repairs under 3% of damage will be free, and up to 10% will cost less than in the repair shop, but for more than 10% you will need to go to a repair shop.
They can also make the mechanic upgradeable so if we pay for more studies to the mechanic we can improve him and percentages will increase.(something like the driver progresion)

-Paintbooth and painter: that will allow us to repaint the trucks for less say 1/3 of the price the repair shop ask for, they can also make the painter upgradeable so if we pay for more studies we unlook more complicated paintjobs like for example by default it can only paint base colours, one upgrade and can make also metalic colours, one more an can do stripes or multiple tones paintjobs.

-A office for a broker and a broker: that will ensure that our drivers will find a return trip always, and for us will make us able to choose depart and destination of our jobs, like we call the broker and mark destination we want to go and he will find us a job near we are to that destination(Jobs not abailables on job market), they will only offer you one job, but if you pay for upgrade the broker they will find more lucrative jobs.

-Service truck/Tow truck: that will ensure that our drivers will always return to base making their job, and for us will allow us fast travel to were we want, free emergency gas and towing to the repair shop we want, and if we have the tools and the mechanic we can also tow our trucks to our own garage, this will be also upgradeable being for example at first only a service truck, that allow us to fast travel and and emergency gas, or repairs on the side of the road up to for example 3% and can be upgraded to a full tow truck.

-Freight depot/Storage: That will allow us to colect small amounts of freight in one city that go to the location we choose and do that will allow us to make a trip to that city and if we have other depot in other city we can have a freight line with us or our drivers doing only runs between that cities, that could be improved with for example a small rigid truck that will autopick the freight for us, or with more space to have trips to more than one place at once.

-Exterior company logos for our garaje and internal decoration, something like the cabin accesories but for our garage, if we have for example drivers with better stats will appear on the driver market.

-Appartament floor so we can sleep and choose the amount of time we want sleep.

This are the ones i can think of but there are probably more that can be done.

Pd: two more.

-Monthly fee to a lawyer's buffet, that will reduce our fines in a random percentaje or will erase them also in random probability of erase.

-Powerwasher and wash bay: this is for when dirts will be a reallity, and will allow us to wash our truck for free.

[Optional Features]

Hello, one thing i've suggested in other post that can be made to the rework of the garajes, made them modular with upgradeable updates (buyed separately for each garage), and they will improve different things and we can buy them in the order we want.

Here a list of the upgrades i can think of:

-Parking space: that will allow us to hire drivers and buy more trucks up to 10 spaces for example, each one buy separately(truck+trailer per space).

-Trailer parking: that will allow us to buy more than one trailer per truck.

-Fuel pump and tank: that will allow us to refuel the trucks for a much cheap price than in gas stations(something like right now).

-Heavy tools and a mechanic: That will allow us to make our own repairs something like for example repairs under 3% of damage will be free, and up to 10% will cost less than in the repair shop, but for more than 10% you will need to go to a repair shop.
They can also make the mechanic upgradeable so if we pay for more studies to the mechanic we can improve him and percentages will increase.(something like the driver progresion)

-Paintbooth and painter: that will allow us to repaint the trucks for less say 1/3 of the price the repair shop ask for, they can also make the painter upgradeable so if we pay for more studies we unlook more complicated paintjobs like for example by default it can only paint base colours, one upgrade and can make also metalic colours, one more an can do stripes or multiple tones paintjobs.

-A office for a broker and a broker: that will ensure that our drivers will find a return trip always, and for us will make us able to choose depart and destination of our jobs, like we call the broker and mark destination we want to go and he will find us a job near we are to that destination(Jobs not abailables on job market), they will only offer you one job, but if you pay for upgrade the broker they will find more lucrative jobs.

-Service truck/Tow truck: that will ensure that our drivers will always return to base making their job, and for us will allow us fast travel to were we want, free emergency gas and towing to the repair shop we want, and if we have the tools and the mechanic we can also tow our trucks to our own garage, this will be also upgradeable being for example at first only a service truck, that allow us to fast travel and and emergency gas, or repairs on the side of the road up to for example 3% and can be upgraded to a full tow truck.

-Freight depot/Storage: That will allow us to colect small amounts of freight in one city that go to the location we choose and do that will allow us to make a trip to that city and if we have other depot in other city we can have a freight line with us or our drivers doing only runs between that cities, that could be improved with for example a small rigid truck that will autopick the freight for us, or with more space to have trips to more than one place at once.

-Exterior company logos for our garaje and internal decoration, something like the cabin accesories but for our garage, if we have for example drivers with better stats will appear on the driver market.

-Appartament floor so we can sleep and choose the amount of time we want sleep.

This are the ones i can think of but there are probably more that can be done.

Pd: two more.

-Monthly fee to a lawyer's buffet, that will reduce our fines in a random percentaje or will erase them also in random probability of erase.

-Powerwasher and wash bay: this is for when dirts will be a reallity, and will allow us to wash our truck for free.

Excellent ideas!

[AgMech]

Hello, one thing i've suggested in other post that can be made to the rework of the garajes, made them modular with upgradeable updates (buyed separately for each garage), and they will improve different things and we can buy them in the order we want.

Here a list of the upgrades i can think of:

-Parking space: that will allow us to hire drivers and buy more trucks up to 10 spaces for example, each one buy separately(truck+trailer per space).

-Trailer parking: that will allow us to buy more than one trailer per truck.

-Fuel pump and tank: that will allow us to refuel the trucks for a much cheap price than in gas stations(something like right now).

-Heavy tools and a mechanic: That will allow us to make our own repairs something like for example repairs under 3% of damage will be free, and up to 10% will cost less than in the repair shop, but for more than 10% you will need to go to a repair shop.
They can also make the mechanic upgradeable so if we pay for more studies to the mechanic we can improve him and percentages will increase.(something like the driver progresion)

-Paintbooth and painter: that will allow us to repaint the trucks for less say 1/3 of the price the repair shop ask for, they can also make the painter upgradeable so if we pay for more studies we unlook more complicated paintjobs like for example by default it can only paint base colours, one upgrade and can make also metalic colours, one more an can do stripes or multiple tones paintjobs.

-A office for a broker and a broker: that will ensure that our drivers will find a return trip always, and for us will make us able to choose depart and destination of our jobs, like we call the broker and mark destination we want to go and he will find us a job near we are to that destination(Jobs not abailables on job market), they will only offer you one job, but if you pay for upgrade the broker they will find more lucrative jobs.

-Service truck/Tow truck: that will ensure that our drivers will always return to base making their job, and for us will allow us fast travel to were we want, free emergency gas and towing to the repair shop we want, and if we have the tools and the mechanic we can also tow our trucks to our own garage, this will be also upgradeable being for example at first only a service truck, that allow us to fast travel and and emergency gas, or repairs on the side of the road up to for example 3% and can be upgraded to a full tow truck.

-Freight depot/Storage: That will allow us to colect small amounts of freight in one city that go to the location we choose and do that will allow us to make a trip to that city and if we have other depot in other city we can have a freight line with us or our drivers doing only runs between that cities, that could be improved with for example a small rigid truck that will autopick the freight for us, or with more space to have trips to more than one place at once.

-Exterior company logos for our garaje and internal decoration, something like the cabin accesories but for our garage, if we have for example drivers with better stats will appear on the driver market.

-Appartament floor so we can sleep and choose the amount of time we want sleep.

This are the ones i can think of but there are probably more that can be done.

Pd: two more.

-Monthly fee to a lawyer's buffet, that will reduce our fines in a random percentaje or will erase them also in random probability of erase.

-Powerwasher and wash bay: this is for when dirts will be a reallity, and will allow us to wash our truck for free.

Those are some great ideas. I'm on board with that.. For those that want to just drive a truck from point A to point B , give an option to skip any of this. But give the rest of us more choices in the current , existing game. Not more future licensed trucks or maps ....

[Optional Features]

I'm fine with new trucks and maps as well, but I wish we didn't have a 1000 potential new drops based on real buildings (none used), a handful of new prefabs, and then a majority of ones that have been in every map.

This is why I'm asking for the garages to be retired. They are so out of date compared with the rest of the map.

[nater6540]

Hello, one thing i've suggested in other post that can be made to the rework of the garajes, made them modular with upgradeable updates (buyed separately for each garage), and they will improve different things and we can buy them in the order we want.

Here a list of the upgrades i can think of:

-Parking space: that will allow us to hire drivers and buy more trucks up to 10 spaces for example, each one buy separately(truck+trailer per space).

-Trailer parking: that will allow us to buy more than one trailer per truck.

-Fuel pump and tank: that will allow us to refuel the trucks for a much cheap price than in gas stations(something like right now).

-Heavy tools and a mechanic: That will allow us to make our own repairs something like for example repairs under 3% of damage will be free, and up to 10% will cost less than in the repair shop, but for more than 10% you will need to go to a repair shop.
They can also make the mechanic upgradeable so if we pay for more studies to the mechanic we can improve him and percentages will increase.(something like the driver progresion)

-Paintbooth and painter: that will allow us to repaint the trucks for less say 1/3 of the price the repair shop ask for, they can also make the painter upgradeable so if we pay for more studies we unlook more complicated paintjobs like for example by default it can only paint base colours, one upgrade and can make also metalic colours, one more an can do stripes or multiple tones paintjobs.

-A office for a broker and a broker: that will ensure that our drivers will find a return trip always, and for us will make us able to choose depart and destination of our jobs, like we call the broker and mark destination we want to go and he will find us a job near we are to that destination(Jobs not abailables on job market), they will only offer you one job, but if you pay for upgrade the broker they will find more lucrative jobs.

-Service truck/Tow truck: that will ensure that our drivers will always return to base making their job, and for us will allow us fast travel to were we want, free emergency gas and towing to the repair shop we want, and if we have the tools and the mechanic we can also tow our trucks to our own garage, this will be also upgradeable being for example at first only a service truck, that allow us to fast travel and and emergency gas, or repairs on the side of the road up to for example 3% and can be upgraded to a full tow truck.

-Freight depot/Storage: That will allow us to colect small amounts of freight in one city that go to the location we choose and do that will allow us to make a trip to that city and if we have other depot in other city we can have a freight line with us or our drivers doing only runs between that cities, that could be improved with for example a small rigid truck that will autopick the freight for us, or with more space to have trips to more than one place at once.

-Exterior company logos for our garaje and internal decoration, something like the cabin accesories but for our garage, if we have for example drivers with better stats will appear on the driver market.

-Appartament floor so we can sleep and choose the amount of time we want sleep.

This are the ones i can think of but there are probably more that can be done.

Pd: two more.

-Monthly fee to a lawyer's buffet, that will reduce our fines in a random percentaje or will erase them also in random probability of erase.

-Powerwasher and wash bay: this is for when dirts will be a reallity, and will allow us to wash our truck for free.

Exactly, the current repair system slightly feels like a game of Russian roulette, sometimes you’ll get lucky and end up at a repair shop that’s conveniently a short distance from your destination, other times, not so much.