upgrading roads

[brooosta]

i love the challenge of getting from one side of the map to another etc doing tasks but after a while helping out the map community and especially repairing bridges and infrastructure one would think road conditions might improve a little as the game progresses enabling a slightly easier travel around the map but still offering an enjoyable trucking experience. maybe even if the game gave options to improve roads or build roads in place of mud tracks at their was a cost of money and materials per x amount of distance the player wishes to upgrade. it would add a task element to the game of delivering materials to site. a good purpose for building money funds. and certainly with the amount of upgrades that could take place (players might like to pick and chose sections or particular tracks to focus on and leave others as they are) it would add a good extra amount of time to the game as well.. something to think about please devs

[Nestor]

+1

[herrschaftg35]

Repairing or clearing sections of the main roads should have definitely been added to the contracts section.

[ColdFish]

My hope was they would add a feature like this and options/missions to fix more infrastructure (looking at you, bridge between garage and sawmill in Maine) in new game+.

But as that is not coming with new game+, and it would take quite some time/effort to develop/program this, I fear we will never see such a feature.

[Lieo]

i have been thinking the same thing, they should add something like that to the game so we can fix mud roads and destroyed bridges after we completed some of the main quests in a map

[Scobee]

I posted something similar about a year ago. I would LOVE to be able to improve the roads over time in the form of missions. Have a dump truck to haul gravel and fill in holes. Have a road grater to smooth out gravel roads. Back hoe or something to move trees and debris. Would be so much fun.

It's a great game as is, but it gets tedious driving over the same rocks in the middle of the road over and over again. It breaks immersion a bit too, like I just helped remove this fallen tower but I can't get that damn rock out of the way? I built a huge bridge but can't do anything about this tiny section of washed out road?

[Ervik]

It's the one thing everyone has been asking for since release. And the one thing they'll never add for some reason. Let's do racing and farming instead since no one asked for that.

[TonyP75]

A lot of times those sections are left not repairable on purpose to make it like an obstacle course. That bridge between the sawmill and garage in Maine, as someone mentioned, is left broken so you have to figure out how to drive around it. You can actually find a damage-free path through the gully that runs under the broken bridge, or you can exit the garage on the other side and climb up the hill to the sawmill. The broken bridge in Chernokamensk is there for the same reason. Instead of crossing a bridge, you climb up the rocks, which acts as a natural ramp and bridge. You can haul cargo in a semitrailer over those rocks.

I'm not justifying the absence of the ability of fixing things, though. There are definitely spots that you could be allowed to spruce up that wouldn't detract from the obstacle course flavor of the game.

[zwergenaufstand]

I Don't understand why they did release 3 highway dlc trucks. Here they brilliantly could have made main roads repairable, so highway trucks can use them.

[TonyP75]

Originally posted by zwergenaufstand:

I Don't understand why they did release 3 highway dlc trucks. Here they brilliantly could have made main roads repairable, so highway trucks can use them.

They just revised those trucks so they get AWD. So I guess they prefer to do that instead of allowing us to make highways to drive RWD trucks with wimpy engines on.

[DC-GS]

Originally posted by Avolition:

Have a road grater to smooth out gravel roads.

I flipped a flatbed trailer and towed to smooth the surface, but it didnt work as intended.

Originally posted by Avolition:

Have a dump truck to haul gravel and fill in holes.

Yeah, wished for one from the very first map. I first kinda excepted it to be possible, since repairing roads was part of the game (missions). I'm still getting annoyed having mud in main transit roads. The last garage owner might not had the money to repair the raods, but I do.

[AimlessArrow]

"(looking at you, bridge between garage and sawmill in Maine)"

Also looking at every single road, that runs to the kolhoz on the first taymyr-map...

[The Pilgrim]

+1

The fact that I am going around the city repairing all major infrastructure and there is no effort on making the most critical roads free of mud (either by time or by personal upgrades) totally breaks immersion for me.

It also makes me think that if no matter what I do things are not going to improve, then what's the point ?

Devs please give us a "roads get better" dlc/feature. Also, hopefully please don't make us pay for it.

[Nite69]

Originally posted by lovecraftian:

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Also looking at every single road, that runs to the kolhoz on the first taymyr-map...

lol yea for some reason that one just wrecks the hell out of suspension

[Toasted Sunshine]

You know, I would just like to point out that when there is a fallen tree over the road, people get saws and cut it down and drag it out of the way; when there are gigantic rocks in the road, people get out prybars and move them. Lethal mud pits are one thing, but some of these completely non-removable obstacles are just ridiculous, especially if you're trying to sell me the bridge that, judging by tire ruts, people come this way all the time and STILL haven't thought, "hmm, this is hell on my truck/this is physically impassable by almost every vehicle, I should do something about this."

Which is to say that the obstacles in this game that only exist to be obstacles just to make your life difficult, when realistically people can, will, and chances are already would have removed them, need to have ways of removing them. I don't care if it's more work to do, this game is BUILT around work.

My favorite map so far is Black River, because it has so many routes that are closed, forcing you to use longer and more annoying roads, but as you do your due diligence the map opens up and gets easier to do other work; my least favorite map so far is imandra because it has so many nonsensical obstacles that exist only to make your life difficult and cannot be removed or even, really, gotten around.

[Archerodees]

If you could just move those small rocks off the roads at least. People would take it upon themselves to do it. But having contracts to clean up the roads would make super sense. And they're a pita, pretty much the main things that damage my trucks, plus more often than not I don't see what damaged me......I look and I'm like, there's Eff all there!