Why do you go to Duisburg-Calais?

[Guest]

I've created a Poll. I'm very interested, why all these people are at Duisburg for example and not in.. Berlin or.. Paris.

[Leon Baker]

I know that useless traffic is not allowed on C-D road but i've reason why I'm going there, first of all, there're lots of other truckers and i love busy roads and second, I'm recording for my channel moments like "idiots on the road" or just reporting truckers ^^

[Guest]

I love traffic and the crowd, I enjoy making it stop and get up.

[Mistery]

Me too 'coz of the traffic, it's more beautiful when there's a lot of trucks, not just an empty street.

[JeffSFC]

I feel like if everyone who bangs down and up the C-D route would go out and drive regular jobs, it would make the argument that "I like to see traffic" a moot point. You'd see far more players than you already do.

[Guest]

We could change the location and maybe find Cities with bigger highways for more realism and less overtaking and stuff like that!

[NarNar]

Well, technically any job i get from Calais to Germany requires the use of the CD road.

I actually liked it because its interesting.

[mdowner]

Personally I just like the challenge of driving down it, and seeing some of the many incidents that occur

[Babou71]

Hello, 

 

I go on the CD road on the EU 1 server, because on the EU 1 server,  there is nobody, so I can be in peace when I am driving.

 

 

Regards, 

BABOU71

[slayer320]

The congestion is fun to watch.  I usually will just go in and get back out pretty quickly, but I enjoy the challenges of driving there.  I usually just assume that I'm probably going to get damage.  I've made it down the C-D a few times without having a problem though...

[TruckerStefan]

CD Road gets very busy sometimes. Once i seen 200+ at the interjunction

[Pereira-153]

I like the heavy traffic Calais Duisburg is very good.

[sgpch1983]

i only go there if i really have to, normaly i avoid it and take other roads. - btw. a option like that was missing in the poll, so i did not vote.

[Positivetrucking168]

I go onto the C-D road when it's the off-peak period on EU2 as well as the other servers due to the variety of scenery encountered between each of the sections, from the western section going by the coastline and descending into a hilly valley, followed by lowlands in the middle section and then the forestry and the twisty bends on the eastern part of the road before zooming down into Duisburg on a blind bend.

 

I used to frequently go down the middle section of C-D road on EU#1 during November and December 2015 (about a year before C-D became a traffic congestion hotspot) on my cross-map trailer runs to the UK and I liked how things were blended together on the entire stretch of road - the traffic was not bad either back then and not much trolling. 

 

Going down C-D to film idiots on the road is not a good idea as it adds useless traffic to the area (and is also a problem for those taking loads to Calais and Duisburg cities), it is much more interesting to find bad drivers that circulate the rest of the ETS2 map than just one road. 

[Fumiko]

Well when I started playing mp 3 years ago one of the things that I felt was lacking was...well people lol. I remember driving on the highways for about an 30 - 45 minutes realtime and not one person was insight. For the whole time I played I might have passed maybe 4 persons at max. It was quite lonely so I stopped playing until last year. That was when I had my first encounter with the C-D party hah it was fun to be able to talk with everyone for 45 mins while just moving in bumper to bumper traffic on a friday evening, I found the idea of simulating traffic as hilarious . From then on even though I would drive other routes I have to drive C-D at least once during the gameplay...unless I'm in Scandinavia  

[Batslav]

I go there 2-3 times per month only if my job takes me there. sadly many people drive there intentional which creates heavy traffic on EU2 which is good for trolls. If people start to drive randomly to any part of the map, the whole map will be better populated which will make driving more fun. There will always be areas with more traffic but it won't be so heavy and will be more pleasant for driving.

[Rincewind]

Just like Fumiko said, most of the map feels like you're alone. The C-D road feels like actually playing a multiplayer game. All other routes are more fun in singleplayer with AI traffic.

[Nan-Than]

I like the scenery as you get on from the Calais side (The sea and the hills) but as you go inland you're just like: ''Well lets see how far I can get before I take damage, and the Duisburg half is pure chaos 99% of the time I go just from boredom of my day, so I can have a laugh or two at people flying about and Skodas trying to lane split, Aha I can play this mod all day.

[TheSim]

I just usually drive down there to improve my driving skills and reaction times because you get brake checked loads, you get rammed, you have to avoid overtakers so i feel as if it makes me a better driver

[marco6158]

Because I get reports from there, otherwise I wouldn't even get close to it. I've tried a few times to drive there in the past few months but I can't be afraid of being rammed every 3 seconds, I'd rather drive in nearby areas which are still busy but safer. I tend to drive almost everywhere in the map though.

[Trigzd]

See here's the thing, I went through a phase of completely avoiding it, and a phase of only doing it when a job decided I had to take the road. Now I avoid those jobs and have gone back to avoiding it as much as possible. Call it a cowards way out but if you're doing a high payout job like medical vaccines from La Rochelle, France, to somewhere in Scandinavia I will still reroute myself further south than I have to go!

[CreatorInDeep]

I love traffic. I hate when road is empty. And for people how's keep saying all bans are from there.. they are not i don't even have 1 ban in my history.

[TheKiero95]

I like challenges. Driving this way can really train the truck and the nerves.

[Guest]

I love it because many people are there and I love traffic 

[MadCowTransport]

It's not so much the traffic that bothers me about going through there. It's the lags causing other trucks to take flight. I'm usually doing relatively okay going through there until that happens. All the sudden like 8 trucks will go flying in the air and you're basically like Elmer Fudd watching an anvil be dropped on your head =D  Thankfully my truck has not yet take flight like that, knock on wood.  

I think outside of lags, part of the issue is all the people leaving the no-collision zones without really paying attention, resulting in their truck's colliders spawning inside of another truck's colliders, perhaps? So maybe if there was a way to just have no collision zones activate around certain cities when more than a certain number of trucks is detected inside of them, it might make the issue better. I'm not sure if that's even possible though.