Tow trucks in TMP

[luka153]

Suggestion Name: Tow trucks in TMP

Suggestion Description: I suggest to add usable tow trucks in TMP, so when player hits F7 and ENTER, he/she would get an option to send location to player with tow truck (and keep the trailer) or get teleported to nearest service station (and lose job). If player chooses tow truck option, he/she would get a map of availible tow trucks in the server, choose one and send him location. Tow truck driver would come and attach (or fix tipped truck to the road) broken truck as in real life. For the tow truck driver it would work as a job (so tow truck driver would get paid)

Any example images: no

Why should it be added?: I'm not sure if it's even possible to make it but it would be more realistic and fun and everyone would still have an option to normally teleport to service

[-Tomukas-]

Dear 

 

Unfortunately today I am going to have to reject your suggestion as it is something that has been suggested many times in the past.

 

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Add mod *:
Generally, we don't add 3rd party mods except for aesthetic ones, this is because map mods bring a whole lot of different issues that we necessarily can't handle. Mods that affect the truck are also generally not accepted since they can have unexpected consequences similar to what we see with save file editing (parts in locations where SCS didn't intend causing crashes, etc.).

 

Modifications generally slow down the process of updating the TruckersMP Client to latest SCS Game version after an update. Whenever there is an update to the game, the mod most likely needs work to be done, which can take some time to port over to new version, this is one of the reasons behind not having mods. 

 

The major blocker is the distribution of mods, the larger the mod, the harder it is to distribute. P2p would be an "easy" way, though it still requires infrastructure, in distributing the winter mod, we recently had support from 10gbps.io, even then we pinned a 10Gb port for hours on end, imagine that we'd need that kind of beef every time we updated the mod. Even if we'd get the tail to come quicker, the initial seed is necessary. Add to that, you have to provide a backup since many networks disallow p2p traffic.

 

We could put the mod behind a paywall, but this is something we rather not, we believe that this mod should be freely available to anyone, with the only requirement being a purchase of either ETS2 or ATS.

In future, please ensure you read this topic (and the reply) before creating any new suggestions:

 

Rejected.