SCS General Nonsense Thread

[LuzikSebastian]

I still delude myself that in version 1.55 we will get Actros MP5 and MP6

[flight50]

Honestly, I'm still hoping 1.55 brings those needed optimizations Pavel talked about at the end of the Missouri release stream. Even he was frustrated and admitted they are dragging their feet for some time now. Has it been four or five years since they announced they will update the game engine? 2020 Christmas stream right? I don't remember exactly.

Yes it was the 2020 Xmas stream when Texas was revealed when they was talking about some game engine improvements in the works. I remember this well because Dallas & Houston was revealed on that stream as rough drafts. It was mainly talking about getting more activity in the environments but that involves engine updating. So its taken as though the coding was getting upgraded at that time to allow more to happen in the future. That was going on 5 years ago. No telling how long it was in the works before that stream though. But for ease of tracking, we can just go by that 2020 Xmas stream.

Fast forward to today, its been noted that things are ready.........but not ready. So we still wait. Nothing we can do about it though.

[Lionv8]

I wonder if its due to complexity of optimizing the engine due to how game is design. Or they just don't have much of people to sped up the process

[Eduard_Kenobi]

It’s mostly caused by refactoring. To make such a big improvement within existing code, you need to make small, incremental changes. After each iteration, you have to test whether everything still works as expected, and also verify that the new improvements function correctly. This process is repeated again and again. As more features are added, testing takes longer and longer. You end up with a large number of issues that need to be prioritized.

On top of that, there’s another factor. Only a few people are working on it, and they might be on vacation or have doctor appointments. So, the time required increases significantly.

[flight50]

That's a very possible cause. I can agree with that. The level us fans are wanting in game enhancements nowadays, it really requires SCS to totally rewrite the code to their engine to incorporate modern day technology. Not all of modern day will get in but certainly getting their game to do more is what the focus should be. But until the engine update is implemented, we simply won't see a lot of enhancements to avoid doing things multiple time.

[Xefjord]

@Virtual Driver

As someone working in the language education industry I think a lot of people are just kind of ignorant of language topics. Czech and Slovak are exceptionally similar, and given the somewhat one sided exposure, Slovaks understand Czech even better than vice versa. But even then we are talking about a difference between like 95% and 90%. A lot of Americans especially think multilingual is close to impossible unless it's your full time job or you were born speaking both.

Even if you do use translations tools for the English side of things, stuff like ChatGPT is exceptionally good. People seem to think translation tools are stuck in 2010. Even Google translate has been extremely good at functional content for most major languages since 2020z and that was half a decade ago.

I would say don't be too disheartened. I appreciate your translations!

[San_Sany4]

Slavic languages are all closely related and very similar to each other. I have never properly learned any other Slavic language except my native, but I can easily understand at least a half on any Slavic language, sometimes even 80% or more. Just knowing some etymology, some archaic words of my language, a little bit of church slavonic, and using a little bit of deduction.

[pigbrother]

... but Georgian is not a Slavic language, heck, is not even an Indo-European language.

[Pasztecior]

What slavic language is your native? Looking at your profile i see that you are from Georgia which isnt slavic country. (maybe Russian? )
I want to explain a bit of how language creation works for people not in topic in example of Polish and Slovak, so languages didnt spawn ot of nowhere, skipping part of creation of first kind of proto language i will start from Indo-European language, first protolanguage to most of european languages, one of excaptions is Uralic languages which isnt Indo-European (Uralic languages is for example Hungarian and Finnish) Indo-European being used in bigger and bigger territory started to split betwen seweral groups, as i said i will talk about Polish and Slovak so i will take Balto-Slavic group next seperation was split into Slavic and Baltic languages, going further with Slavic language it have splited into East, West and South slaving languages, exaples of each ones respectively Belarussian, Polish and Serbo-Croatian, we are taking further only West Slavic, according to school lessions language creation stops here however it goes further, West Slavic have splited into 2 groups, Lechit languages (north) and Cech-Slovak languages (south) and from here it is spliting into current day languages, Slovak is part of Czech-Slovak language group as name suggests and Polish is part of Lechit anguage group, other languages from those groups are Czech and Lusitian from Czech-Slovak group and Kashubian, Silesian and no longer existing Polabian languages from Lechit group.

And this is why Slovak and Czech are so simmilar, they have splited from one language not long time ago, and that works in every example in any european language, the longer time ago it have spliten from other one the more diffrent from this other one it is.

[Seerman]

... but Georgian is not a Slavic language, heck, is not even an Indo-European language.

As far as I know, he is a native Russian speaker. And he can live anywhere.