Should SCS have a dedicated cargo team???

[Carfreak200]

I just hauled a tanker trailer from Tacoma to a truck stop in Medford Oregon. I had always heard this was possible but never actually did it in over 250 hours. I hope if SCS does release a oil/gas DLC with or after Texas this becomes more common across the entire map.

[flight50]

Yeah Texas will have to revise the entire map imo. The base map was pretty much the only gas stations I recall delivering to. We'll need more gas stations, truck stops and airports to all get fuel deliveries if oil/gas is going to mean much more. Texas should start a semi cargo overhaul.

I think a cargo team could have a field day with ATS/ETS2. Heck this forum has provided a solid 5+ years worth of cargo. That is almost enough cargo to barely see repeats withing a playing day I bet. Use Cargo market with ability to load own trailers per pallet and LTL and the combinations to repeat cargoes would nearly go away.

For devs that read this forum, please pitch the idea to Pavel in a team meeting. You never know where things can go.

[Optional Features]

Hopefully, we start getting new industries added back to old states. Colorado, Utah, Oregon, and Idaho should get ranches. Deliverable gas stations if they come should be in every state and so on.

[Viper28]

I just hauled a tanker trailer from Tacoma to a truck stop in Medford Oregon. I had always heard this was possible but never actually did it in over 250 hours. I hope if SCS does release a oil/gas DLC with or after Texas this becomes more common across the entire map.

this shouldn't be that hard to implement. Course if they had some detail to it there could be underground tank access graphics at most stations and a delivery point icon above this area where you pull the trailer over/up to. Course I offend many on these boards with my detail-oriented-ness.

[plykkegaard]

I've had the same run a couple of times in the past not sure if it was ATS, ETS2, both games though or even Promods though, sorry
But it was fun, I had to use the whole width of the road to reverse in, to the AIs delight lol

[Tristman]

I only remember doing one in California a few years ago, to some gas station that looked more like a European prefab and was way too small to properly park in.
If we actually get to deliver to the big truck stops though, that would definitely make it interesting. They would have to implement some kinda mechanic where you can only do the job with an owned trailer or you have to deliver the trailer back to an oil depot afterwards or something. Just leaving the tanker at the drop-off point is kind of strange.

[xXCARL1992Xx]

ETS2 has gas station deliveries, in France at least but they are really rare

[kostraelpayaso]

Something that bothers me more than the lack of cargo is the lack of interaction during the process of loading/unloading it. I find the way that it works now pretty aseptic so I normally don't really care about what I am delivering: you simply park in the designated area and the loading screen comes off; then you are ready to continue driving. Obviously, nobody would like to simply wait as an animation shows a forklift loading the truck without any interaction, but I feel like sea port/train station cranes, industrial or agricultural silos or harvesters have the potential to make that process more dynamic and interesting than the current alternative, as well as adding a new small gameplay mechanic. For example, a real time working silo where you have to drive under it at slow speed with an open trailer as it loads with grain or mineral, which may require a phsyics overhaul, the port crane placing the container in your trailer, as other ai trucks are loaded in front of you or driving alongside a harvester while it puts grain in the back of your truck.

[flight50]

They would have to implement some kinda mechanic where you can only do the job with an owned trailer or you have to deliver the trailer back to an oil depot afterwards or something. Just leaving the tanker at the drop-off point is kind of strange.

Totally agree. Currently (iirc), you can only use TPD and b-trains if they are owned. Neither are in Freight market for whatever reason. If they can lock trailers out.....they can lock them in too for certain jobs. Maybe that is why those those type of jobs are so rare. As more states come, the oil/gas industry has gotten bigger. Its time for tankers. I'm not even a tanker guy but I understand the importance of them to the game. Petroleum, to inert gases....we need them. Hydrogen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, helium, etc. They are some inert gases that could find industry in ATS. If there are 2-3 depots to get inert gas to them, bring them. ATS can use as many cargo loads as SCS is willing to put in. The problem is........they are not moving on the subject. This dedicated cargo team seriously needs to happen. The game is growing and depending on one's purpose to play, the same cargoes is disappointing to see day in and day out.

Most hardcore ATS fans put in 20x or more hrs than an SCS employee. It would be nice to see the day cargo starts getting address on a continuous basis.

[Optional Features]

this shouldn't be that hard to implement. Course if they had some detail to it there could be underground tank access graphics at most stations and a delivery point icon above this area where you pull the trailer over/up to. Course I offend many on these boards with my detail-oriented-ness.

Your desire to do more than just drive is honestly horrifying. jk.

In all seriousness, though, these are small things that make a big difference. The game needs them badly.

Something that bothers me more than the lack of cargo is the lack of interaction during the process of loading/unloading it. I find the way that it works now pretty aseptic so I normally don't really care about what I am delivering: you simply park in the designated area and the loading screen comes off; then you are ready to continue driving. Obviously, nobody would like to simply wait as an animation shows a forklift loading the truck without any interaction, but I feel like sea port/train station cranes, industrial or agricultural silos or harvesters have the potential to make that process more dynamic and interesting than the current alternative, as well as adding a new small gameplay mechanic. For example, a real time working silo where you have to drive under it at slow speed with an open trailer as it loads with grain or mineral, which may require a phsyics overhaul, the port crane placing the container in your trailer, as other ai trucks are loaded in front of you or driving alongside a harvester while it puts grain in the back of your truck.

There should be a significant difference in gameplay between loading or unloading a car hauler, a hopper trailer, a tanker, and a lowboy. Currently, there is none.

My favorite is the sea containers: they just disappear when the player delivers one to a customer. A 40 foot by 8 foot by 8 foot steel box vanishes into thin air at the press of a button. And we call this a simulator lol.