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Something happened to me yesterday on the third tour that I think should be better resolved by the event organisers in future. Please don't take this as complaining, but as a constructive suggestion for improvement. Shortly before the finish (Linz), the motorway that everyone had been riding on was closed by the police right in front of me. You can see this in the video from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JQe8Ri8qUk&t=8065s. At first, I was at a loss as to where or how to continue – whether it was just a short closure of the motorway or whether I should take the exit on the right. So I asked if I should go right? The answer by police was that I should drive to ‘Demdepo’. What kind of Domdepo? I asked if I should turn right, which was confirmed. I then took the exit on the right and found myself at a T-junction – without any traffic barriers, police, without any indication of where to go next. I read the road signs with the nearest places that could be reached from there, but found no ‘Demdepo’ or anything similar, which prompted me to end my journey according to my satnav. To do this, I turned left as my satnav suggested – and then found myself at a motorway entrance blocked by a barrier (where it was therefore no longer legal to continue), leaving me and others feeling rather helpless. I ended with standing there several minutes, in awaiting that the barrier will opened by the police, but this doesn´t happened - so it ended that I disconnected and proceeded to Linz at the arcade- server. ;-( And yes, after watching the video I know that it was a company - but what should I there? My unloading company was RT Log - even if I go right at the T-Intersection I was wrong because there is no road to my unloading spot from that company?!? As a suggestion for improvement in the future: if you change the route in the middle of the convoy for individual players, make clear announcements that they should turn right and then right again after the exit. Or even better: only close motorways that were previously open once someone has set up cones or parked their police car in such a way that it is clear and obvious that you should continue to the right after the exit. Later on, this seemed to be clear, otherwise the queue behind us at the closed barrier would have become even longer but when me (and others) are leaving the route it wasn´t that clear because of missing directions...

https://truckersmp.com/events/30394 states that, in addition to Italia, you also need the Vive La France DLC. That doesn't seem quite right to me.

What could possibly go wrong with so many cars?

BTW: With winter mod, during route 2 - there was a tree with collision, standing in the middle of the road?!? This should definitively be fixed, lol: Unfortunally I don´t know the exact location where this tree was. Edit: Found the location:

Thank you for a whole day of Convoy - Trucking (even it starts with some hickups, well)! And a special thank you for all these guys writing in the chat how to fix this "black screen and messy chat" - bug! I thought this was just me which have this issue in highly populated areas where first the in truck cam doesn´t work anymore, and as morer players are appearing one after another cam had this issue, too. If I had known that you simple have to disable "Fake shadow" in the TMP player panel, Graphic section earlier... oh men! I had tried so much in the graphic settings of the game itself and doesn´t find any fix or reason for this bug, and then it´s just this single checkmark in the tmp players panel settings which has to be disabled to fix this issue which happening for about half of a year until now.... really. This was the best part for me about today convoy (I attended the last 3, the first one was without me because of the login issues caused by the not working api... And funny to read the complains about the ones who got kicked because of overtaking, using double trailers, well - just read the rules of the event you are attending (hint: they are mostly the same at each event). Well, have nice holidays!

Ah, OK, if it is not necessary to enter the exact time in a web report (I had a different impression of it in the input mask), removing the display of the exact time is not a problem. Because my recorded videos are sometimes half an hour long, and if I then shorten the video to the time required for the web report, I no longer know afterwards whether it was 11:10 or perhaps already 11:28 at the time of the scenes shown.... On the other hand, I also don't understand why the time isn't simply displayed there, as there would still be space in the previous position? And I would also find it helpful to be able to display the TMPID in the player panel, for example, then you could save yourself the trouble of having it displayed continuously on the actual game screen or having to ask for it every time via /pinfo (which doesn't work so easily with those who first ram you off the road and then disconnect immediately, although of course you can still get to the TMPID - and then get the told "TMP is not visible in the video" from the report moderator as reply...).

Suggestion for the next event: there should be a service station at the beginning or end of the road - which should then also necessarily include a rest function! I was always very tired after driving through the long traffic jam and then found no opportunity for a rest to get some sleep! I fell asleep several times while looking for a place to sleep while driving, which was very dangerous!

It would have been really helpful if the event team had pointed out in advance that you can't really manage the hill just before the finish with a "simple automatic" gear change (or can only ride at 6 km/h). It doesn't really feel great to have been a driving obstacle for the rest of the climb because you didn't know that. Unfortunately, the gearstick doesn't downshift if you're only travelling at 6 km/h (so there's no kickdown or anything), but it doesn't shift up either because you're only travelling at 6 km/h. In other words, it is not possible to go faster than 6 km/h with this type of gearstick, even if you want to. As soon as you have to stop even once on the last climb or ride slower than 6 km/h, you've lost...

Sounds fun. Helping at the emerging festival site at Little Haulland: https://www.worldoftrucks.com/en/image/000000000081470D.

I found the event rather difficult, especially for players who play alone. In any case, I didn't make it, I didn't have the yellow egg. On the other hand, I was often able to screenshot eggs in the other colours several times in several different locations, but in my case I never managed to get the yellow egg colour I was missing, no matter how often I went to the known locations. Players who played together with many other players or were part of a larger VTC, on the other hand, could simply park a player permanently at each position and were then told which coloured egg was currently in the corresponding position, but you didn't have this option if you were playing alone. As a result, you could only go to the same known positions over and over again and had to hope to find the missing yellow egg by chance, but ultimately only built up a collection of red, blue, green etc. eggs in changing positions. In this respect, I found it difficult to find the missing yellow egg in the allotted time. Nevertheless, I found the event fun, even if it wasn't successful for me personally and I didn't get the profile badge. But perhaps we can find a solution to this problem in the future. For example, "find 10 different eggs in different locations" or something like that. In this case, I could have used my 3 shots of the red eggs in different locations and the 2 photos of the green eggs in different locations (I can't remember if it was exactly this combination, I've already deleted the shots), and the missing yellow egg, which was apparently always not where I was going, wouldn't have been a problem for me which is a little bit frustrating for me ("oh, great, the third time I found the red egg at the third location").

Thank you for this update! There is also a "Heavy"? Didn´t remind this. What are the other individual levels? I know besides the now mentioned "Normal" and "Low". And would it perhaps be feasible for the web developer TMP is now looking for to display an estimated processing time for then newly submitted reports in addition to the current status?

I have played a total of 1,062 hours of ETS2 TMP here on the servers since 17 May 2021 (849 days), 26.6 hours in the last two weeks as I have been in bed with a flu infection rather than playing TMP. So, subtracting the total of 24 days I was banned per day I played an averaged of 1.3 hours over the last 2,5 years (if I haven't miscalculated now). I hope this is enough game time for you to have given me my own impression about the situation on the TMP servers. I would be very grateful to you in this respect, not to have to read such a non-argumentation from you again, because I have probably sufficiently justified in https://forum.truckersmp.com/index.php?/topic/113285-update-to-our-game-moderation-strategy/&do=findComment&comment=1114751 what my game experience was and how I got this impression. And yes, of course, I also realize that the situation will not change from one day to the next. But I already see "High" as status in the web report system" again, even though people can now submit only half as many web reports as before - and it's still before the weekend. I haven't submitted a web report yet (because, as I said, I spent the last week in bed) - so I can't report if the processing time of the web reports has actually improved yet. But what I can say already is that I watched a lot of ETS2 TMP twitch streams while lying in bed last week: In-game reports still time out unprocessed (I haven´t seen a single ingame report in the streams which haven't timed out), so obviously nothing has improved in that respect. So, as soon as I start playing again, I will have to create web reports again instead of ingame reports, if I want to make sure that I don't throw the reports about traffic accidents etc. concerning me into a huge garbage can. In this respect, at least so far nothing has improved or even changed for me, except that probably 50% of the people who made my gaming experience negative will continue to do so in the future because they don't even have to take time to think about their driving behavior because they haven't received a ban for it (so everything must be fine if they ram trucks of the road with their caravans - otherwise they would have received a ban..).

You are hiding your ban history so it's not possible to see your last ban. But anyway, you got 5 bans in only 9 months. And the arcade-serrver has of course also rules.

So I should no longer report the wrong-way driver on the highway, even if it is a clear violation of rules, because it does not significantly affect my own game experience, because the wrong-way driver is not coming towards me and has not hit my truck, because he is separated from me by a guardrail. And as long he hasn't driven towards my own driving and can impact my own gaming experience, he should proceed with it during the next days. That's about the summary of your statement. And whether it was a pleasure for me to report such players in the past can't matter to you in the end. Driving instead of reporting others is much more fun, at least for me. What I don't enjoy, however, is this culture of "I only report something that directly and immediately affects my gameplay", because for me that ultimately leads to the fact that next time I could be the one to whom such a ghost driver breaks the truck, because he was not banned before and could possibly learn and reflect that it is perhaps not so cool when he is driving as a ghost driver on a highway (even if he did not ram me away at that moment, because he was driving in the same direction as me on the lane of the opposite direction).

My thoughts, too... This will only mean that you will no longer be intentionally rammed in areas with heavy traffic (where potentially many can then report it), but only in areas where you are alone with the person who is ramming you - so where a maximum of one person can report the violation (and the report will not be processed anyway because it remains at the bottom of the list and timed out). Perfect invitation to stalk others in sparsely populated areas.