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Most probably these players were annoyed because you prevented them from exiting/entering the garage at full speed or with a mega long trailer. Well, their needs are not making the rules. You respect the rules. They need to deal with it.

Very interesting indeed. Not sure if I will use that E-Truck much as it might get boring without sound nor gear changes. Also fingers crossed it won't be faster & quicker than the current trucks. Otherwise racing drivers on TMP will have even more fun driving recklessly and bothering the rest of us.

If I wasn't waiting for sooooo many other much more important changes, I would probably find this new improvement super great. I guess now people will be able to write "REC BAN" in multiple languages and with friendly smileys

This is what should have happened (warning: this is a UK video): Another source (check point 179 & 180): https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/road-junctions.html

I personally think that such high sensitivity settings shouldn't be allowed on simulation servers and people should drive more safely. But it's allowed! So, as mentioned by other players above, you won't be punished if you were braking for a good reason and the person behind didn't manage to avoid you (because of no safety distance etc...). That said, as a keyboard player as well, if you're still not happy being rear-ended constantly, I would strongly advise you to keep a good safety distance in front of you to allow a more progressive speed reduction when traffic is slowing down in front. And to simulate progressive/slow braking with a keyboard, I'm mostly using the retarder and engine brakes. That way people can see that you are braking while not being surprised by an instance change of speed. Much safer!

I would looooooove to see the AI traffic finally working correctly in roundabouts! I'm fed up to be get hit by AI traffic not seeing me on the roundabout and entering the roundabout anyway!

Thanks for sharing this video wasn't aware of it. This player spent some time and energy to expose his point of view and suggestions to TMP on a video. Very nice initiative. When I look at it I can see (from what he says) that in 2021 (I wasn't on TMP until 2022) the game moderation seemed quite strict (maybe too strict). I think we can all agree that today the game moderation (including the rules) are MUCH LESS strict with lower/shorter punishments. Is the situation any better? HELL NOOOOO! @Granite [SVK] summed it all up: Want to play with many other players on ETS2 > Go on TMP Want to be in an area with a decent amount of other players > Go to CD area Want to avoid trolls and idiots making your TMP experience a painful one > Go OUT of CD area Want to find more players > Go to step 2 and SHUT UP as we don't care about your opinion/suggestions and prefer to have more and more players (racing/trolling or not) on the server.

100% wrong. Before the limit was reduced from 20 to 10 there was already a very good system to achieve that. And it's actually still in place. Each time you have a declined report (because you reported something which doesn't even deserve a kick), you automatically get your total number of report slots reduced. And ultimately if you keep on doing that you have 0 or 1 slot only. No need to reduce the total from 20 to 10 for everyone I'm sorry! This reduction is ONLY there to reduce the total number of web reports received (good or bad) to reduce the load on the report moderation team.

Yeah! Lets make CD a proper race track! There are too many obstacles. We should also correct some uneven surfaces where it's making trucks shake a little bit and you lose 3-4km/h !!! Also we should remove the speed limit signs as there are some weird people following them and driving super slow!

I'm not sure I understand the rationale behind having a visual external mod like police flashing lights which can't be seen and impact the environment around you? The whole point of police flashing lights is to be seen by others so that they can let you pass etc... OK you will have some fancy police flashing lights but that's it.

Well ideally there should be a game moderator checking in-game reports and the road for any player blocking the road for too long. I don't think the locomotive should be banned from that road because it's fairly easy to transport it when you have a 700+ bhp truck. Of course you can't fly/race like some of these idiots driving with empty trailers as if they were on a Monte Carlo rally stage! But that's not the point of this road! So banning the locomotive would penalise all the players who have a minimum of skills to transport it. It would be a different story if it was almost impossible to transport this cargo. But it's not.

Very interesting reply. You're saying that we shouldn't force a setting on TMP if it's something that can be enable/disable on the base game. But isn't the Arcade server collision free? As far as I know there is no UI setting in the base game to make things collision free (the base game forces collisions)? Still TMP is "forcing" collision free in Arcade. So why is it completely fine to break your rule for Arcade (forcing no collision)? But not for Simulation 2 (forcing fatigue etc...)? That shows the philosophy/strategy of TMP over the last few years: going more towards Arcade and less towards Simulation.

Thanks again for opening an interesting topic! Would be really fun indeed. More simulation/realism can't be bad from my point of view. Unfortunately, until traffic AI is introduced, you will still have the same problem of a very empty map which ruins the fun imho.

Very good question. I don't know where exactly but: People will definitely regroup on the same road/area (because that's what people are looking for in TMP: meeting other players) and, within a few days/weeks one will be more and more popular to become the new C-D It won't be anywhere outside the default map (without any DLC) since a lot of players don't have additional maps DLCs. Even if people mentioned Scandinavia areas, I think you can forget it. Forget also UK/Ireland. Most people don't like driving on the left side (some will say "wrong side") of the road My bet would be a similar single line road close to the old C-D. Sounds boring but I'm afraid it will be the case And, as for me, I will wait and see. I've not been on TMP for a couple of month (not interested in CD madness and too boring outside). If it turns out that people are more spread I might try joining again the flow.

Looks like here we have one of the reasons why the report system load is currently at "Low" If people get their max report slots reduced but never increased back to 10 over time, you will slowly end up with less and less players able to report If it was possible I would happily share some of my report slots with people as I stopped playing on TMP since last year

Well as some said, now that we are at a low activity on web-reports, Game Moderators should have more time for in-game reports moderation which has been inexistant for many months now. From my point of view, immediate in-game kick/ban a few sec/min after you made the offense has the best impact on players and it's also a lesson for other players around seeing the player being punished instantly!

I've recently given my opinion, on another thread, on the effect of the new Game Moderation Strategy since it got introduced back in September 2023. Here it is:

I do like the concept of VTC and think it makes TMP more interesting. However, to be fully part of one (and not just a ghost member) I would need to spend more time on the game, sometimes on specific dates/times, which I'm not willing to do. I prefer my freedom

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Thx @Jeroen for pulling all this data together into this massive post. And thx to anyone else who helped. Thanks again to all the TMP team for their work and time. A lot of very interesting information here even if we always would like to have more details for some aspects . I can see that TMP is still attracting more and more players. Which should be a good news on paper. At least it shows that TMP is becoming more and more attractive. Unfortunately (for me) when I see that most of the players are still on CD area, I doubt we are attracting simulation players. As you know I'm most sensitive to the "Driving Safety Enforcement" stats. And here are my observations: No feedback about the new Game Moderation strategy put in place back in September 2023 (more than 5 months ago)?! In September when we introduced the new Game Moderation strategy and its reduction to 10 web reports per person, the number of new reports surprisingly stabilised for a couple of weeks while the number of users continued to grow. Unfortunately after a few weeks in October while the number of new players stabilised, the number of new reports grew! Looks like more players submitted more reports (and others could finally post new report again). Then in November both curves continued to grow. Then when we look at the staff graph we can see that, as announced with the new Game Moderation strategy, a significant amount of Game Moderators have been recruited from September to December. Actually same progression ratio as the number of new players. That sounds good! Unfortunately that didn't have ANY impact on the reports curve and we still have more and more reports! One would expect that if the moderation has any effect, you would have also a reduction in the number of offenses per player. But no. So even if we have changed the reporting system/limits to reduce the number of web reports. And even if we have more Game Moderators. We still have the same amount of reports per players. No improvement at all as far as I can see Here are some interesting stats I would have loved to see and which I hope you will include in the future: Curve on the number of reports processed versus the number of reports submitted for web reports and in-game reports. Curve on the average number of active bans per player Curve on the average length of bans given Curve on the number of autokicks since we introduced the system to automatically detect people creating/using a new/second account to evade bans. Finally while this is just a game and we are primarily here to have fun, I don't find that funny to joke on stats about "rec" or "rec ban" mentions in the chat while in parallel we clearly see that the Game Moderation strategy is NOT working.

If I'm completely honest, since the end of Operation HQ, TMP HQ has become just another city on the map. I don't see anything special which would make it a special place where players would go regularly. And as far as I can see, looking at the density of players there, I'm not the only player with that view. But if you would like people to be more present around TMP HQ, I would maybe have companies in this city providing unique cargos (preferably visible on the road by other players like the TMP master truckers cargos) only available in that city. Then, as mentioned earlier, you could also create a week/month long event where people have to make numbers of deliveries of these special cargos to various cities in Europe. You could think of TMP HQ move or expansion to other locations. Also, you could also do contextual events. i.e. Tour de France where people need to transport all the TDF logistic from one stage to another. Or the European tour of Taylor Swift etc...

Any event similar to Operation HQ, involving a number of deliveries between specific cities all over Europe which you have to make within a week/month. i.e. between Rome and Munich, or Stockholm and Riga, etc... with special cargos. This would make people drive on different roads than CD.

Well might sound a bit simple but as I'm playing a Trucking Simulation game I'm more a Simulation player and try to play it as realistically as possible. So anything which will make my experience less realistic will be avoided: Finance mod/cheat Racing Trolling/making offenses constantly (i.e. no respect of the speed limits or traffic lights, and more of course) Off-roading Driving with no cargo Also, even if I have the finance, I'll often get trucks which have more realistic specs adapted to the cargos I plan to take. i.e. I'll spec a small 450bhp 4x2 truck with 10-12 gears max to transport 20T or less cargos. Instead of getting a top spec 700+bhp 4x6 truck with 16 gears etc... (I'll keep it for very heavy cargos).

Ahah I like the sarcasm in your message I've also proposed the staff at some point, to make things simpler and easier for everyone, to just change the rules with one line saying "we will monitor how people drive and will punish or not people, with some ban or not, and some duration, depending on our own judgement which we will keep internal" No more moaning about the rule being not fair or not applied

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