Driver bug in ATS (excluding updates) [319460]

[k2000]

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Hello, could you please forward my translated information to SCS to notify anyone who has a driver in ATS who has a bug?
I am sending you all the necessary information and I thank you for seeing what would be possible to do.
Please see why there is one that remains at 0 and does not do this task.

[Madkine]

If this is what I think it is, you'll also need to provide a copy of your save game file.
@ThePits Can you provide instructions and check please?

[ScaniaKing326]

I know exactly whats happening here
This happened on my old modded profile
This is bug caused by economy mod
fire bugged driver reset game economy and hire a new driver

STOP USING ECONOMY MODS

Not a bug

[Madkine]

@ScaniaKing326 If it's what I think it is, thePitts has seen it in several unmodded profiles.

[Steve Pitts]

@Madkine you've used a variant on my Steam username which is not right here so I've only just seen this (I've long considered changing Steam to use my real name because it only isn't for historical reasons that no longer apply).

what would be possible to do.

I've seen a few examples of this and unfortunately the only way of solving it is save editing. I suspect that trying to explain that via a translation tool, even DeepL, is going to end badly but you could have a try at understanding this:
viewtopic.php?p=2029015#p2029015
but bear in mind this was for a user who had already dismissed their problem drivers. FWIW I know that they have also successfully made this change for a driver that was still employed - you just have to use a different method of finding the driver_ai entry.

This is bug caused by economy mod

I have seen this in saved games that show no evidence of mods and where the user claims never to have used any. I believe that this is simply an obscure bug in the game, that appears to only affect ATS and not ETS2.

fire bugged driver reset game economy and hire a new driver

This just hides the problem driver and solves nothing.

[Madkine]

Dammit. And there just happened to be another user with a very similar name.

[ScaniaKing326]

I have seen this in saved games that show no evidence of mods and where the user claims never to have used any. I believe that this is simply an obscure bug in the game, that appears to only affect ATS and not ETS2.

You maybe missed them in log
Look
This is from game log :

00:00:04.004 : [mod_package_manager] Received list of the steam workshop subscribed mods. (received 3 mods total, 3 loaded, 0 scheduled for download)

00:00:36.847 : [mods] Active workshop mod ID 915506978 (name: Real Fuel Prices, version: 10.07.2025, author: Nener)
00:00:36.848 : [fs] device C:/SteamLibrary/steamapps/workshop/content/270880/915506978/universal mounted.
00:00:36.848 : [mod_package_manager] Mod "Real Fuel Prices" has been mounted. (package_name: mod_workshop_package.0000000036918722, version: 10.07.2025, source: Steam Workshop)

Its this mod

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/ ... uel+prices

[Madkine]

And we've seen multiple instances with no mods with the same issue. I don't believe the mod is the cause. (That said, the bug report is not valid.)

[Steve Pitts]

You maybe missed them in log

In the instances where no mods had been used my view was based on info.sii and game.sii not on any logs. I also find it quite difficult to believe that a mod could cause event_queue entries to be removed so, to me, it doesn't feel like a mod issue.

[Madkine]

Agreed, I'm 99.99% sure it's a game issue.