A lil' more variety, please?

[Aziz]

Trying to find jobs to places where I haven't been yet has become ridiculous. Just look:

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10 jobs ONLY to Craiova. Two of which are literally copies. And there's plenty of other cities I'd like to visit but the external market won't lead me there. This is also very noticeable inside WB countries, AS YOU CAN SEE here

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The whole south was left undiscovered because there were no jobs from Croatia/Serbia/Bosnia. MNE and Kosovo were miracles that appeared after A LOT of fast travelling.

[m1keY]

well, quick trips to a city you haven't been from or to..and take a delivery to a city you haven't been to....
undiscovered cities will not appear..or atleast very rarely in the offers so when doing a trip travel through some of the non-visited ones
and for easy checkup...look at your log on WOTC page...
or do as me I used the releaseimages and ticked them one by one...

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[Aziz]

well, quick trips to a city you haven't been from or to..and take a delivery to a city you haven't been to....
undiscovered cities will not appear..or atleast very rarely in the offers

That's the problem isn't it. What's the point of exploration events if you can't explore because the game makes it harder than it should be?

[hatsushira]

Well, "not appear" is definitely not true because I got jobs to the new DLC area without being there before. More rarely, perhaps. This I don't know.

[Aziz]

The company viewer is useless as well because available jobs don't match what is shown there. If I can see import-export link from city A to B, I'd expect the contracts to reflect that.
Exhibit A, from right now: I'm in Timisoara, looking for jobs across Romania because I need it for the event. All I get is intracity and one to Resita, which is shorter than required 200km. All others go somewhere through western border.
Spending another hour fast travelling through the map is boring you know.

[Steve Pitts]

The company browser only shows what is possible not what exists at any given moment.

[Madkine]

It allows you to research what can appear. So that for instance you don't wait in City A for a job to City B that can never spawn.

[Aziz]

Yep, that's why after looking at company browser I went for a search for jobs that will lead me to target city. None have appeared.

[Madkine]

In that case it's just bad RNG. The browser also allows you to get an idea of what chance that job is of appearing. If the depot you are interested in has 16 outbound jobs, then the odds of getting the one you want are low. If it has 3, then there's a good chance you'll find it.

[Aziz]

RNG is the main point if this thread. It should be looked into because when there's apparent higher chance of getting intracity jobs than to cities that should have a route available, there's something wrong.
Thankfully I completed the event so I can go back to normal cargo market, where the odds are A LOT better.