Do you think Calais-Duisburg road or Kirkenes quarry will ever die off?

[dragonslayingmaster1000]

Although I only started playing TMP in Nov 2017, from what I've heard CD road has been popular since October 2016 (I found out from this post https://forum.truckersmp.com/index.php?/topic/37953-calaisduisburg-road-information-and-alternative-routes/), before that Europoort was popular but completely died off after just 2 years. There has always been occasions where other roads become popular, such as during official WoT events like One Truck Family and Operation Genoa Bridge, and a few weeks ago the Operation HQ event from TMP, but the events never affect CD road that much. Even the Operation HQ event didn't affect CD road much, despite being unique from any other event because after the event there's a brand new city people can drive around in.

 

As for the Kirkenes quarry, it's been popular for over 2 years now, since the start of Promods MP support in late 2019. There's rarely any good competition to that road, even if there is it only lasts about a month and it's over. The first time there was competition was all of Iceland when Promods MP first released, although it seemed to have really died off at the end of 2019. And about exactly 2 years later, there was good competition to it once again in late December 2021 to mid February 2022, the new road that was added in northern Iceland in Promods 2.60 was relatively popular (40-50 players first few weekends at peak time) for about a month maybe a month and a half and then died off completely. 

 

I don't think there's any hope for another popular road or any hope that players will just spread out over the map. The problem is if people spread out it's boring to drive on empty roads, it feels like you're playing singleplayer with AI traffic disabled. With that being said, the only way I can see CD road or Kirkenes quarry potentially going away or at least being way less congested is if TMP can come out with AI traffic sometime in the future and that will encourage people to spread out over the map. 

[NexusMEISTER]

I think these routes have their "cult of personality" well rooted and it will be very hard for them to die off. C-D Road is somewhat of a meeting point for most players. Usually, they go to busy areas instead of having the choice of driving alone and I can't blame them, without AI Traffic it's kind of boring when you drive long distances. AI Traffic will be needed outside of very congested areas as it would create more chaos on C-D Road/Kirkenes-Quarry Road than it probably is. The only way I can think of clearing the C-D Road is by making it a No Collision Zone but that wouldn't be desirable and it would anger the players. :))

[_raffaele_]

I don't think soon, but in the future update of ets 2 i see the potential in the Großglockner-Hochalpenstraße road, let's see 

[ash.exe]

Someday it may happen.

 

Thing is that the reason why a lot of people know about the C-D road and Kirkness quarry road comes from ETS2 content creators spending most of their time there. Maybe if there is a new road or if SCS revamps the area, there's a chance. 

[Tundra_Gaming]

I like that the C-D road has been a baseline for years and years here at TruckersMP. Even through many DLC's and events it has stayed as the top! Now SCS i'm sure knows how popular the road is, so it wouldn't surprise me if they decided to upgrade the road and visual aspects of it!

[Whelve]

通常，它不会消失。有很多人在这里奔跑，他们不会被遗弃。

[JimmyAlexGaming206]

I dont think Kirkenes or CD Road will ever die off . However think about how busy Europort used to be with queues going for miles and waiting for hours . Now that's completely dead in that area . Maybe they will end up like that one day . Who knows really . We'll just have to wait and see

[Franze P.]

In my view its impossible. It's true that those places are prone to accidents, but it won't be deleted unless there are alternatives. 

[dragonslayingmaster1000]

Good replies on this so far, maybe other people will have some ideas on this topic as well so I'll bump this.

[DieseL.]

I am sure it will remain popular as long as it is not deleted from the map. 

[Passion.]

This is really difficult to answer this question. Nobody knows what will happen in the future. That's why anything can happen at any moment.

[CJ Top.]

I don't know,it's hard to answer.

[Signore Luca]

İf something like this happens, many player says goodbye but of course I don't think anythink like that will ever happen 

[!drkYVZ]

I think it will die off, but I don't think it will happen soon, maybe 6 or 7 years from now.

[dragonslayingmaster1000]

Bumping again

[CN.ZX-Zhi Yu]

In fact, I hope the popularity of these two places decreases, because there are still many places on the map of this game worth exploring, and when we and other players discover more scenery, no one will quit because of boredom.

[Bеаn]

Yes. People moved on from the Europort area, and the same will eventually happen with CD. Just look at the effect operation HQ had on CD. When something attracts people, people will flock there, there just needs to be a new attraction. 

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