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Hello I’m fairly new to TMP and have only been playing for a few months, Truckers multiplayer is brilliant and I enjoy running a VTC with my friends. However there is one major problem, traffic lights. When I first started playing there was no problem, all vehicles stopped at the junction and moved accordingly to the lights, but recently in the last month I have noticed when ever I pull up to a red light I get someone beeping their horn or calling me an “idiot” or “why are you sitting there”. The fact the lights are not the same for everyone hit me when I was at one of the road works traffic lights on the road to Paris, I waited for the light to go green and proceeded through. But as I got nearly half way a truck started to come my way. Eventually after talking to a few people I found out that it’s ‘hit and miss’ to weather my friends (or someone else has a red light or green light too.) I have also noticed it causes a lot of traffic problems at many places where people are arguing who’s right of way it is with annoyed drivers waiting behind. I have heard of the problem before last year but it sort of disappeared and has come back now. I haven’t seen any suggestions of fixes and maybe it’s not possible to fix but who else here agrees it’s a big problem? I’m not personal too bothered but I’m not sure whether to just go through but be cautious or just wait? What’s everyone else’s idea? Sorry if it sounds stupid but being a new member I thought I’d check with people that have experience. (I’m good at driving so do my best to avoid crashes)

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I guess this can differ from player to player I guess

It's not 100% necessary to stop at red lights but it IS necessary to stop at them in high populated areas such as;

  • Calais & Duisburg
  • Amsterdam & Rotterdam

People play the game properly (following rule of the road) are a lot more interesting to see because they are following the "simulation" aspect of the game

Personally - I follow the rules of the road.

Kind regards,

Ali.

TruckersMP Senior Support Manager

 

TruckersMP Support System | Knowledge Base | TruckersMP Rules | Feedback System

 

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The lights are the same for everyone. So keep driving like in "real life"  ;) If its red you better stop especially on places where it's full with players. Go on green and it's all alright. Cuz if u go on red light and ram someone /or cause any type of accident/ you may end kicked or banned later. So at least you're "safe" if you drive on green light and someone rams u.. it means he drive on red.

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2 minutes ago, Tosh8 said:

The lights are the same for everyone. So keep driving like in "real life"  ;) If its red you better stop especially on places where it's full with players. Go on green and it's all alright. Cuz if u go on red light and ram someone /or cause any type of accident/ you may end kicked or banned later. So at least you're "safe" if you drive on green light and someone rams u.. it means he drive on red.

But I stopped at a light earlier and my friend said it was green? He showed me a video from his truck and it was green when my light was red?

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9 minutes ago, Akoa said:

The traffic lights are the same to everyone. Here you can see that when the light is red everyody is stopped and when becomes green everybody acelerate, there are a few examples in the following video (from sec 25 approx)

 

 

Thanks for showing me this it partially clear up my problem and I understand but my friend showed me physical evidence that when my light was red his was green. I just wanted to see if it’s a one off or an intermittent problem. Also wanted to see if anyone had the same issue, but thanks for helping 

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7 minutes ago, Akoa said:

When did that happen?

 

It happed this afternoon around 1PM GMT when I was hosting a 3 Vehicle convoy. It happened at the 3rd set off traffic lights we stopped at.

 

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22 minutes ago, Akoa said:

Wow, is stranger, I think that the server is syncronized.

 

Ill have a look tomorrow when I’m on see if the problem happens again, if so is there anything I can do about it?

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49 minutes ago, FernandoCR [ESP] said:

AFAIK, traffic lights at road works aren't synchronized, all others are. If you're inside a city and you see a red traffic light, all other players on the same street will be seeing it red. But if you're driving on a county road, come to a road work and see the light red, the player behind you might see it green.

 

Yep totally happened to me, I would say this is something that needs to be fixed as it causes a danger

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20 minutes ago, Joao Rodrigues said:

According to this post, traffic lights issues were fixed:
 

 

I saw it, but I believe that "Fixed traffic lights" in that post is not about synchronizing the road works ones, but to fix some bug in the traffic lights inside cities that had been happening since the previous update. IIRC, they weren't going into blinking yellow at nights or something like that.

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8 hours ago, China?LeitinG said:

On a densely populated section, we still have to follow the traffic signal

 

Yes

8 hours ago, FernandoCR [ESP] said:

I saw it, but I believe that "Fixed traffic lights" in that post is not about synchronizing the road works ones, but to fix some bug in the traffic lights inside cities that had been happening since the previous update. IIRC, they weren't going into blinking yellow at nights or something like that.

 

I agree, today I had an update when I logged on and it’s fixed the sync problem but the traffic lights at roadworks still need to be fixed. Some of the road works sites that are long are very dangerous because some players don’t have the long draw distance and don’t see oncoming vehicles till it’s to late 

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1 hour ago, Rootyyy said:

I always stop at Red's, to the point where in my VTC (LGO Logistics) driver exam, we see if the driver under examination stops at it. Its a good show of how careful a driver is, and they really should be followed across the entire map.

 

Oh hi I saw you earlier on today! Anyway yeah with my VTC we always stop at lights for obvious reasons and even when not in convoy we always stick to pure realism.

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5 hours ago, Rootyyy said:

Where did you see me? What does your livery look like?...

 

My VTC livery is the one in the image below, but I was in a pilot car because I was returning to Dover after escorting a convoy I organised.

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If somebody goes through a red light, and yours is green, the player rams you, you are entitled to submit a report against the player.

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It is good to stopping in the red light even if the road is empty Because it's a simulator game. The players who do not like Skoda say that this is a TIR simulator game. but most player are violating the rules.
the person there was reported and banned.

 

13 hours ago, Rhyssss said:

Don't see why not

you can record such a video and report them HERE.

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