[ARCHIVED] How to survive busy areas

[[VIVΛ HH] KЯΛVΛTIΞ]

 

 

Now we have all heard of the infamous Europoort where it can cause many bans/kicks and also many trips to the repair station. With the help of some fellow truckers (mentioned in the text somewhere) and what I've seen from driving, I have come up with a survival guide on europort.
 

Most important tip - Treat people how you

want to be treated and don't do stuff you wouldn't do in real life

 

There is also an ETS2MP based Highway code you can read (W.I.P)

• CCTV

If you know your journey goes through Europoort, you can check the CCTV to see how busy it is

• Reporting

The following links will help you report someone in game.
 

Report System

 

Report System Help

 

• You're banned, what do i do?

You can make an appeal here

 

• Journey to Rotterdam/Europoort

Make sure you have plenty of fuel, Make sure your truck is 0 or a relativity low damage point, If it above 10%, i would recommend having a repair because engine problems can be a pain and may annoy other truckers.

• Journey towards Europoort

I recommend staying in the left lane as this means you won't need to change lane and at the merge lane section, this will cause less problems and possibly less queues
 
 From the merge lane to the europoort, make sure you don't go on the wrong side of the road as this will cause you more problems, possibly delay your delivery even more as you will have to battle two sides of road at the same time and it will mainly lead you into a ban.
 
As well as this when you are doing jobs, Your GPS will tell you to follow the blue line, But if it busy on that area, Use the red line, I have found this to be faster and less congested then the blue line
 

 
Europoort non-collison zones
 

 
The lines in Orange is where the Non-collision start (Going towards the port) and close (Going away from the port), If you have a trailer truck when going out, please bare this in mind and if you are going out without a trailer, please slow down and leave enough room so you don't go inside of the truck and cause problems.

 

Aurora has created a useful video on how to survive in Europoort which is better than mine

 

 

 

Dashcam
 

For recording Rammers etc, i recommended a service called Plays.tv or shadowplay (Nvidia only)
 

Plays.tv or shadowplay will allow you to record a crash that just happened, you press two keys on your keyboard and then it'll record a previous 2 mins or how ever long you have set it for and then you upload it online and then fill out a report.

 

Plays.tv is like YouTube where you can upload videos but in game you press the key bind to record like the last 2 mins or more then you close the game and open up the plays.tv editor which allows you to crop the video down and then you upload it to plays.tv
 
General Tips

• Turn of beacons whilst in the area if it is laggy as this will reduce lag.
• If you know your truck is truly stuck or broken down press F7 and enter as soon as possible, This will make everyone's lives easier. "I noticed one thing driving with 30%+ damaged tires... once the tires get to a point in % the damage bar only shows the tires damage so you dont know the actual damage with out going to the Diagnosis part of the game (stop in a safe spot hit esc its on the right under my truck). Why drive with damaged tires? Well for one thing if you know what your doing even at 50% the truck is controllable. Second anything beyond 40% simulates a snowy/icy road." - Egg-Roll
• If you accidentally hit someone just say sorry an that you didn't mean it, so it doesn't escalate further down the road or in chat.
• If you want to leave the game, park up somewhere safe so you don't spawn in the middle of the road.
• Don't spam the horn, 1 or 2 times may be long enough but not 10 times in a short time as this is annoying (If they didn't hear you the first time, they probably didn't hear you the 100th time.You could also use your light horn in your truck (Basically turns your lights on for a short time)
• Make sure you leave plenty of room between you and the truck infront
• Just have patience seen as the admins are doing everything
• Also please don't push in, This will generally happen when there is a long queue but people drive past on the wrong side to get further into the queue. Please don't do this and this may hold you even longer and if people are like me ( ), were they hate people who jump in, They will make sure you don't push infront of them.
• If you require the need to chat, it may be better to stop the truck as I've found from personal experiences is that driving at 55mph in a built up area then you use chat, your truck then has no control so you crash and possibly annoy someone.
• Sometimes use an external view instead of a internal view as this may save abit of your framerate, you can also press F11 which will turn off player tags (Saves around 3 - 7 FPS, as tesco says, every little helps)
• Try and remember the correct side of the road you're driving on when going to Ferries - Uk (Left side) Outside of UK (Right side)

 
Also don't park in the tunnel before europoort (Like i did in the pic) as this can be highly annoying at times
 
More tips -  thecharrr

• If you got a longer load, aka not special containers, and unsure if you can make the turn without going in the other lane at the first curve in, enter the opposing lane before turning.
• The GPS route is the one you want when heading out, as you still need to make a right anyways
• Loading into ETS2MP around Rotterdam should be done within no collide areas otherwise you highly risk loading into someone else and giving someone a bad day
• Avoiding Europort is a better idea overall, especially when the 2.5k player cap is gone.  

Anyway good luck truckers:)
 
 
P.S. if you don't feel like going into Rotterdam, travel to Amsterdam, It is only a couple of mins longer added onto your journey but it can be generally safer.

 

WARNING - New rule has been implemented

 

Useless traffic in excessively high population areas - Kick / Ban

Useless traffic in excessively high population areas such as Europoort, Rotterdam or the roads surrounding Oxnard. Driving without reason to and from or anything similar.

 

Edited February 14, 2017 by Kravaty
updated the useless traffic rule

[konfig0]

Pinned.

[DFS_TV]

Great guide! Should help with the traffic at EP!

[Carrythxd]

I was just waiting for a topic that says "Don't go there, it's not safe" or something like that haha

But very nice guide!

[Heemse]

Haha, Welldone

[[VIVΛ HH] KЯΛVΛTIΞ]

to be honest, i just put it is up thinking no one would really read it but thanks everyone and i'll update it every time i think of something new

[konfig0]

to be honest, i just put it is up thinking no one would really read it but thanks everyone and i'll update it every time i think of something new

Thats why its pinned

And dont post a new post when you update, edit the existing one

[Darth Wazawai]

Great guide, however 2 little things...

Make sure your truck is 0 or a relativity low damage point, If it above 10%, i would recommend having a repair because engine problems can be a pain and may annoy other truckers.

 

*Skipped*

• If you know your truck is truly stuck or broken down press F7 and enter as soon as, This will make everyone's lives easier.

 

First part about damage. I noticed one thing driving with 30%+ damaged tires... once the tires get to a point in % the damage bar only shows the tires damage so you dont know the actual damage with out going to the Diagnosis part of the game (stop in a safe spot hit esc its on the right under my truck). Why drive with damaged tires? Well for one thing if you know what your doing even at 50% the truck is controllable. Second anything beyond 40% simulates a snowy/icy road.

 

Second you forgot Possible in ASAP

 

 

to be honest, i just put it is up thinking no one would really read it but thanks everyone and i'll update it every time i think of something new

 

Same with mine, and next thing i knew it got pinned   I actually thought it would of been added to the Report topic...

[konfig0]

Both are importand things that new players dont know, thats why I pinned it.

[caff!!!]

More tips:

If you got a longer load, aka not special containers, and unsure if you can make the turn without going in the other lane at the first curve in, enter the opposing lane before turning.

The GPS route is the one you want when heading out, as you still need to make a right anyways

Loading into ETS2MP around Rotterdam should be done within no collide areas otherwise you highly risk loading into someone else and giving someone a bad day

Avoiding Europort is a better idea overall, especially when the 2.5k player cap is gone.

[[VIVΛ HH] KЯΛVΛTIΞ]

Great guide, however 2 little things...

 

First part about damage. I noticed one thing driving with 30%+ damaged tires... once the tires get to a point in % the damage bar only shows the tires damage so you dont know the actual damage with out going to the Diagnosis part of the game (stop in a safe spot hit esc its on the right under my truck). Why drive with damaged tires? Well for one thing if you know what your doing even at 50% the truck is controllable. Second anything beyond 40% simulates a snowy/icy road.

 

Second you forgot Possible in ASAP

 

 

 

Same with mine, and next thing i knew it got pinned   I actually thought it would of been added to the Report topic...

 

 

More tips:

If you got a longer load, aka not special containers, and unsure if you can make the turn without going in the other lane at the first curve in, enter the opposing lane before turning.

The GPS route is the one you want when heading out, as you still need to make a right anyways

Loading into ETS2MP around Rotterdam should be done within no collide areas otherwise you highly risk loading into someone else and giving someone a bad day

Avoiding Europort is a better idea overall, especially when the 2.5k player cap is gone.

 

Added both of your information and quoted it ) and edited it some more

[NoTime4name]

I just go in SP when I have to go there because my game crashes nearly every time when I enter Rotterdam (or Amsterdam)

[cefetel]

Nice words but.

If you like it-you like it becouse half of the players there not give a potato about these tips and rules.

If you not like it-you avoid it like plauge.

[Darth Wazawai]

I just go in SP when I have to go there because my game crashes nearly every time when I enter Rotterdam (or Amsterdam)

This happened once to me (last time I went into Rotterdam). I was however going full speed.

Have you tried lowering your graphics to the minimum? Might prevent that. Only a strong cpu/gpu combo will be able to go head on at Rotterdam without crashing at full graphics. Also try not to have anything else open, like 50 tabs in your browser (guilty).

I'll try Rotterdam when I get a load that goes threw there... I'm completing the 7 truck company achievement.

[[VIVΛ HH] KЯΛVΛTIΞ]

Have you tried lowering your graphics to the minimum? Might prevent that. Only a strong cpu/combo will be able to go head on with Rotterdam without crashing at full graphics. Also try not to have anything else open, like 50 tabs in your browser (guilty).

 

Especially Google Chrome, that takes up most of your RAM

 

I have 10 tabs currently open on Chrome and this is how much RAM it's using, (My dad use to have problems with Chrome taking up most of his computer memory)

 

[NoTime4name]

This happened once to me (last time I went into Rotterdam). I was however going full speed.

Have you tried lowering your graphics to the minimum? Might prevent that. Only a strong cpu/gpu combo will be able to go head on at Rotterdam without crashing at full graphics. Also try not to have anything else open, like 50 tabs in your browser (guilty).

I'll try Rotterdam when I get a load that goes threw there... I'm completing the 7 truck company achievement.

 

I do run at full graphics but on a relatively strong computer (2500k, GTX 970 and 16GB RAM), but I'll try with lower graphics.

 

(@Chris: My Firefox uses twice as much with one tab open )

[[VIVΛ HH] KЯΛVΛTIΞ]

I do run at full graphics but on a relatively strong computer (2500k, GTX 970 and 16GB RAM), but I'll try with lower graphics.

 

(@Chris: My Firefox uses twice as much with one tab open )

 

 

I cant wait until the new IE thing (code name Spartan)comes out from windows later in the year  

[DrToxic]

OBS for Streaming is a good idea, but when it comes to capturing cold hard evidence, I use ShadowPlay by nVIDIA ^{(Supported graphics cards only)}. I press ALT+F10 and I have the last 20 minutes of footage captured gets dumped to my hard disk ready for Vegas Pro to have a go before it finally hits YouTube.

 

If I'm lucky, Steam will force a screenshot just before ETS2MP ha a chance to say "You need to stop your truck before making screenshots"

 

 

I do run at full graphics but on a relatively strong computer (2500k, GTX 970 and 16GB RAM), but I'll try with lower graphics.

 

(@Chris: My Firefox uses twice as much with one tab open )

 

Nice Specs... Though I still get lag around Europoort, and I run a pair of QuadCore Xeon CPU's in a workstation with a 650Ti SSC, 32GB of ECC-RAM... And believe me when I say she will manipulate HD Video as fast as it can play it.

[ledgeri [HUN]]

I recommend OBS seen as you can set it up to live stream on twitch and then you can download it from twitch but you have a 3 day limit.

What cause the 3 day limit?

I am using twitch and the auto-deleting time is 14 days... And i know about a program what can download videos from any time from twitch (if that was saved or highlighted within the 14 days)... Also with OBS you can record to the HDD, even simulteniously on same quality.

So i do not get it!

[zhivotnoya]

Something that I do, is avoid Europoort when it's busy.  I either go thru Ijmuiden (near Amsterdam), head to the ferry at Calais, or take the Chunnel Train.  Don't rely on the GPS to get you from point A to B.  Use your map, plan ahead, and use your head.

[[VIVΛ HH] KЯΛVΛTIΞ]

Don't rely on the GPS to get you from point A to B.  Use your map, plan ahead, and use your head.

 

Like real trucking

[iReacheR]

Also player can press «F11» button. This will turn off nametags, TAB-menu and will give about ~3-7 FPS.

[SprinterFS]

^{New version of EP survival guide after the In-Game Rules update.}

^{Only one piece:}

 

^{Don't park around EP or drive to EP for no reason, and you will survive from a ban.}

[[VIVΛ HH] KЯΛVΛTIΞ]

Updated

 

• Add a better explanation for Plays.tv and shadowplay
• Update the non collision zone pic (Hate the mirror being in it)

 

To do:

 

• May add how to get out the garage at busy times 
• Another screenshot about the corners
• Tidy it up abit
• And whatever else

[Edinev]

I made a new video when going from Rotterdam to Europoort with a bit more traffic if anyone is interested..