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  1. Positivetrucking168

    I have become an adrenaline junkie because I get close to danger and find it quite interesting to see what can happen. I just delivered a load to Calais from Scandinavia, and I am willing to hatch another load from the danger zone, no matter what the risks are. 

    1. Positivetrucking168

      Positivetrucking168

      Thank you, I initially judged it as an adrenaline junkie because of the risks but anyways I am going to go to Dover to get the repairs on my truck sorted and then come back and fight my way out of Calais and maybe go somewhere else on the European continent with a different load. 

  2. Positivetrucking168

    130 people in Duisburg - I honestly think that the load there has been taken from the people who escaped from Scandinavia due to the high numbers of double trailers there. 

  3. Positivetrucking168
    ^ If you're looking for a quieter land route to Bergen, use the E134 west of Oslo which will put you on the outskirts of Stavanger and then head north on the E134 which will put you back on the E16 south of the Hardanger bridge, which you can take that north then west to enter Bergen.
  4. Positivetrucking168

    When you know you're in Dusseldorf but tempted to go to Duisburg service or the C-D road... 

    1. Rev.

      Rev.

      Can't relate sorry. ^_^

  5. Positivetrucking168
    There has been a massive spike in players in Bergen and Oslo, so I think that the high density status for Oslo that was removed a year ago should be reinstated for Oslo and Bergen. Consider marking Stavanger in green too due to the heavy amounts of traffic there. Kalmar is no longer a peaceful city and should be marked grey - there is on average about 10 - 15 players there now.
  6. Positivetrucking168
    -1 sorry, but I highly doubt that SCS will incorporate this suggestion into SP for one simple reason - the AI cars in SP do not drive into parking garages, repair stations etc and so the function to teleport to the nearest safe location would be useless in single player. Likewise, if a truck gets damaged by a troll in MP and Duisburg service is full (which it is 90% of the time), the residue of chaos would end up spilling to depots and the hotel in Duisburg, making the city a total no-go zone for sensible truck drivers. Teleporting multiple drivers at one time to the next nearest services (Dusseldorf) would result in chaos there as there would be a lot of truck drivers on the Dusseldorf-Duisburg road (particularly going northbound) because most of them want to get back onto the Calais-Duisburg road (which is why the service stations in both cities witness flipped over trucks, traffic jams etc). I'll use Duisburg as an example because of the chaos there.
  7. Positivetrucking168

    New updates - we now advise against all travel to Bergen after there have been reports of 100 players present in the city, as well as the heavy influx of double trailer jobs present in Bergen, which can lead to increased trolling caused from the trailers getting stuck exiting depots around the city. 

     

    Rest of Scandinavia - travel advice has not changed. 

    1. Positivetrucking168

      Positivetrucking168

      We also advise against all travel to Stavanger between 20:00 on the 23rd of August and 09:00 and the 25th of August due to incidences of major double trailer traffic. 

    2. stilldre1976

      stilldre1976

      Whose "we"?

    3. Positivetrucking168

      Positivetrucking168

      I do apologise if I am mocking the ETS2MP administration by using "we" - this is just more my opinion so it is a little bit misleading. I am here to give the information on traffic in Scandinavia based on sources and current situation but I should be more careful in the phrases and terms that I use next time. 

  8. Positivetrucking168

    And one more thing, on your ETS2 traffic data page I noticed that Jonkoping was with the Italian cities, when Jonko is in Sweden. When you have the time, perhaps could you have a look at it? 

    1. Krashnz

      Krashnz

      Fixed

  9. Positivetrucking168

    Traffic updates for Scandinavia for 23rd August:

    Norway:

    • Traffic has deteriorated in Stavanger with heavy amounts of traffic around the southeastern and northwestern side. The travel level has raised - exercise a high degree of caution in Stavanger. 
    • Bergen continues to receive dangerously high amounts of traffic, with queues building up on the E16 highway heading into the city. The Bergen to Oslo road is also receiving an increased amount of traffic. We now advise against all but essential travel on the E16 highway from Bergen to Oslo. We continue to advise against all but essential travel to Bergen and Oslo. 
    • Continue to exercise normal safety precautions in Kristiansand.

    Sweden: 

    • Traffic is building up around the normal hotspots (Gothenburg, Malmo, Stockholm and Jonkoping) but the rest of Sweden has remained relatively stable. The travel level has not changed - exercise a high degree of caution in Gothenburg, Jonkoping and Stockholm and defer non-essential travel to Malmo. 

    Denmark:

    • In most places around Denmark, there has been a slight lull in traffic in many places, including Odense, but traffic is on the rise in the Aalborg area. Continue to exercise a high degree of caution in Odense and Aalborg. 
  10. Positivetrucking168

    Although the situation is going to calm down in a few days I am going to provide a traffic update right now on Scandinavia. 

    Norway: 

    • Bergen and Oslo are incredibly busy with 55 and 70 players respectively. The travel advice for Bergen and Oslo has changed. We advise against all but essential travel to those cities due to the heavy amount of stuck double trailers and to exercise a high degree of caution on the tunnel road south of Oslo. 
    • Figures for Stavanger and Kristiansand have remained relatively steady.

    Sweden: 

    • Traffic figures across Sweden have risen massively over the past 24 hours, particularly in Gothenburg, Malmo and Stockholm. The level of advice has changed. Exercise a high degree of caution in Gothenburg, Malmo, Jonkoping and Stockholm and watch out for double trailers exiting the depot in those cities.  

    Denmark: 

    • The travel advice for the area around Odense has now changed. Exercise a high degree of caution in the city due to the double trailers. 
    • Exercise a high degree of caution in Aalborg. Although the figures have remained steady from before the double trailers update, truck drivers continue to come there on a regular basis as a stopover point to and from Frederikshavn and Hirtshals. 
    1. Positivetrucking168

      Positivetrucking168

      UPDATE 9:00pm: We now advise against all but essential travel to Malmo due to the congested traffic from the large amount of double trailers present in the city. 

  11. Positivetrucking168

    Just noticed a massive rise in players across Scandinavia - my main base in Kalmar currently has 25 players 

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    2. stilldre1976

      stilldre1976

      agree mate I picked up a double and logged off are was packed with stuck doubles everywhere lol should calm down in the next few days

    3. caff!!!

      caff!!!

      ^ it seems like nobody practiced with doubles in SP, resulting in stuck players in MP

    4. Positivetrucking168

      Positivetrucking168

      There were actually 80+ trucks in Bergen which was I think the record highest number of players the city has ever recorded in its two year history. Many other cities across Scandinavia also recorded their highest ever turnout of players, as Oslo peaked at about 70 players, Odense at 50 players and Stavanger at roughly 50 players. 

      Honestly, some of the cities in Scandinavia had higher truck numbers than Calais and Duisburg at one point. 

       

  12. Positivetrucking168
    Next step - try out singleplayer and see if you can even load the game on SP (for this test you can use v1.28 to run the game). Are you sure that downgrading the version to the supported version for MP (v1.27.2.8s) hasn't solved the problem?
  13. Positivetrucking168

    If we were allowed to put up a sign, there should be a road sign coming up to the E20 turnoff for Esbjerg on the E45 south saying:
    "ADVANCE NOTICE: Double trailers must exit onto E20" 

    and another one at the junction itself saying "Double trailers prohibited on E45 South" 

    If the driver does go past that point the player can face a kick or ordered to F6 and Enter. 

    There should also be road signs for the ferries Esbjerg - Hull, Karlskrona - Gdynia, Trelleborg to Rostock, Gedser to Rostock and Nynashamn to Gdansk saying "No access for double trailers unless heading into Polaris Lines depot" 

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    2. DJ Jefferz

      DJ Jefferz

      The rules do increase the work load to admins. but I can imagine the quota they have isn't decreased

    3. [23]ThunderSky

      [23]ThunderSky

      @McFreshi That's much easy. Trolls? Nah, lets ban calm players :troll:

       

       

      <_<

    4. Positivetrucking168

      Positivetrucking168

      @Dj Jefferz Atlas GG Owner yes, that "similar zone" that you are talking about would cover every city and all roads in the base map, Going East and Vive la France, including the southern half of Scandinavian portion of the E45 highway, which the zone is defined from the E20 near Esbjerg down to the border with Germany.

      When I meant "if we were allowed", I was talking as if SCS stopped supporting ETS2, which I highly doubt it's going to happen because of the huge popularity of the game.  

  14. Positivetrucking168

    I was thinking about doing a "danger zone" section of my trucking business, with a main garage of operations based in Groningen and two garage feeders in Calais and Duisburg. The purpose of operations is to do deliveries to and from Calais and Duisburg, both short and long-distance deliveries to/from those destinations.

     

    The reason why I chose Groningen as the head base for that section instead of being based direct in Calais/Duisburg is because Groningen is a much safer place to be running head operations and it's the closest safe city to the danger zone. This leaves Calais and Duisburg as smaller-scale places where I can fast-travel to and hatch deliveries from. 

    1. Positivetrucking168

      Positivetrucking168

      Just to clarify - the operations are going to be to other destinations around the game map from those two places - these places will not be used for C-D road delivery runs. 

       

      By the way, entry into Duisburg and Calais will be tightly controlled depending on the players present (if there are over 100 players present in the city then entry may be denied). The routes used to get in and out will also be co-ordinated at the start of the journey or even beforehand.  

       

       

  15. Positivetrucking168

    Happy birthday! Keep up your fantastic work on your web projects (including your reformed ETS2MP traffic page) and in your position as a web developer for TruckersMP, work together with your fellow web devs to make sure that the websites work flawlessly. 

  16. Positivetrucking168
    Install a Microsoft Windows operating system (needs to be 7 or above) and then install the game through the usual means (Steam). The TMP developers have already stated that they won't bring TruckersMP to Mac OSes or Linux, for that they would need to port a considerable amount of code to TMP in order to support those OSes and they don't have the time for that. The closest means of running TMP on Mac is Wine.
  17. Positivetrucking168
    You can use the no damage mod, so long as you are not using it to troll people and it's not an NCZ hack (NCZ hack can get you banned for at least one month). Speedhack and the like is forbidden from use though. You can also go on EU4, the non-collision server if you want to mess around (the rules of the road do not apply to EU4).
  18. Positivetrucking168
    You quite likely have accessories that can only be legally used by IGAs. If you're not an IGA you are not allowed to have any police-related modifications to your Scout car. Try removing the accessories and make sure that you're not playing on EU1, where cars are totally banned.
  19. Positivetrucking168
    Another tip for Duisburg - if you are coming from the North or East of Germany (on the A1 or A2 corridor) and your GPS takes you into Duisburg from the northeastern entrance, ignore the GPS. Instead head on southbound and stay on the motorway until you get to the A45 exit for Duisburg, which you'll take that exit. You'll eventually come across a series of tunnels which you'll go straight ahead and through and you'll be in the city. If you need to access the LKW depot, do not turn right at the lights (this will take you to the service station and the chaos), but turn left and go through a series of left turns at junctions to eventually arrive at the depot. If your truck needs servicing, don't service it in Duisburg (as you will damage your truck even more!), but instead get out of the city and head south to Dusseldorf, where it is a lot less chaotic and the service station there is easier to access.
  20. Positivetrucking168

    Pulled off a load from Bergen to Duisburg without taking damage... 

    feel absolutely elated about that achievement. 

  21. Positivetrucking168

    Hello, after 15 months I am back. Long time no see. 

     

    I am going to do some more deliveries on ETS2MP (particularly long distance ones). I will be present on the EU1 server just as I usually were if you ever find me. I am still based in Kalmar as I did before that long break.

     

    Becoming active on the forums again will still take a long time, but I am definitely up to the challenge to try and get back to my heavy-handed posting schedule that I used to have until January 2016. 

     

    The situation on the Calais-Duisburg road has gotten a lot worse during my absence and is now extremely dangerous for travel on EU2. If I ever get around to that server, avoiding that road at all costs is going to be essential to complete a job. The last time I was on the Calais-Duisburg (which was December 2015) the situation was not that bad and was just like any countryside road. The trolls started moving away from Rotterdam and started taking control of the C-D road - it's now a civil war between the IGAs and the players. 

    The situation on the Calais-Duisburg on EU1 has remained relatively peaceful, and EU3 has seen some sporadic clashes but was spared the worst.  

     

    JULY 24TH, 2017

    1. User_9806

      User_9806

      Welcome back again :)

       

    2. Rev.

      Rev.

      Welcome back to the community. :)

  22. Positivetrucking168

    There is not going to be a lot of activity on this profile until 06/17/2016 due to GCSE exams and other things to do during free time. So if you don't see anything new coming from me, please don't worry about it. 

    Planned absences from this forum beyond 06/17:

    • There will be an absence between 08/22 and 08/29 due to preparations for GCSE results day coming on 08/25/16. 
    • There are going to be sporadic interruptions during 2016 - 2017 due to other academic commitments.

    So I'm sorry if I can't get in touch with you during this time of the season, but education has to take over everything else I'm afraid.

     

    MAY 14, 2016

     

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    2. FirestarteR93

      FirestarteR93

      Good luck

    3. OriginalDoubleO

      OriginalDoubleO

      Good luck :) 

    4. RadioactivePotato

      RadioactivePotato

      Good luck! :)

  23. Positivetrucking168

    The ETS2 EU#1 population appears to be dwindling down because at 1:00pm there was only 600 players online compared to 1,300 on EU#2. Might be partially due to personal things by players but also the interest by some players in ATSMP. If this keeps up we might only get 1,400 players on EU#1 at the busiest time and more coming on EU#2.

    1. caff!!!

      caff!!!

      ats was updated today, so at least for a few days I see an increase of ETS2 players

    2. heyhococo

      heyhococo

      I also believe it's because of the speed limiter on EU #1, and no speed limiter on EU #2.

    3. Positivetrucking168

      Positivetrucking168

      I wonder if there has ever been any day where Rotterdam was near-empty (like less than 15 players) during daylight hours? I know that Rotterdam is usually empty between 2am and 7am and by 9am things are usually very busy there (with 50+ players). And EP only has on average 3 - 5 players compared to the typical 20+ numbers we had at the start of the year.

  24. Positivetrucking168
    You could use Wine to run ETS2MP, however I need to ask a question for OP. Do you have an actual Microsoft Windows PC (e.g. Windows 7, 8, 10 etc) that meets the minimum system requirements for ETS2? If you have, you can install Steam on that computer (since the licence key for ETS2 is attached to your account permanently), the single-player game (if required) and ETS2MP (no new account needed).
  25. Positivetrucking168
    Try reinstalling ETS2 and ETS2MP. Consider verifying the game's cache and you may also need to delete your profile from your ETS2 folder in SteamApps and start a new game. If you still can't get your multiplayer to work, create a support ticket on http://ets2mp.com/support/. If you experience problems with your single player game, you can post on Steam Support or the SCS forums.
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