How to change speed limits to cars

[walrus1]

Yes you can change the GPS to display car speed limits. However despite doing so you still get fined for going over the truck limit.

If anyone has a mod recommendation that would allow me to change the speed limit to the higher cars that would be great!

If you have come here to tell me why I shouldn't do this please just keep it to yourself.

Edit: formatted this to a question to help find a mod.

[Tark]

Of course you do. You aren't a car.

[Nite69]

Trucks have speed limits for a reason, they take much longer to brake and slow down (especially with a 10 - 40 ton trailer) then a car does on its own, its for safety reasons.

[walrus1]

Then why is there an option to show the car limit? Come on going 90 ALL the freaking time gets boring. The trucks fight you a bit more when you go faster. This is a game not a training simulator.

[TwinShadow]

If you want to go fast, go play Need For Speed. ETS2 is a "simulator". Yes, it is still classified as a game, but simulators aim to mimic things of real life, albeit with some constraints here and there. If you don't like it, modify the game files to suit your needs if you want to race around, or go find another game.

[walrus1]

Originally posted by Masami Fushino:

If you want to go fast, go play Need For Speed. ETS2 is a "simulator". Yes, it is still classified as a game, but simulators aim to mimic things of real life, albeit with some constraints here and there. If you don't like it, modify the game files to suit your needs if you want to race around, or go find another game.

Ok how about you point me to a mod then?

[Nite69]

Yea you are basicly someone that wants to turn this game from a simulator into an unrealistic arcade racer..... this is the wrong game for you if you want do that.

[Murdoch]

And people wonder why I go on my rants and get abit mad around here... Why the HELL would you want to change speed limits for trucks and drive what? 140 km/h in a game like this... All that it will lead to is lots of money loss and frustration. Maybe you're from the US where they think its fine for trucks that weigh almost 40 tonnes to drive 120+ km/h down the highways. Thank god most big companys seem to be sensible and limit their fleets to 55 or 60 mph.

But I have to admit I do like to get to the motorways in Europe, those few that do allow you to drive 90 km/h. That said, IRL you should never drive a truck at the limiter, if you get a puncture your only way to gain control will most likely be being able to accelerate before you then break to a stop. Anyone that has driven a motorcycle or ridden a bicycle should get that. Accelerate to gain balance. :)

[walrus1]

Hmm, ok. So anyone have any mod recommendations? Or just more unhelpful replys? I'm sorry that playing an SP game in a way I deem fun bothers you. Wait, no I'm not sorry.

[Nana]

How to disable fines.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/227300/discussions/0/864957182830190655/#c864957182917861299

Driving a Volvo FH750 at its very limits of stability at first was an "OUTRAGE, THIS IS SIMULATOR" but I gradually became addicted to it...

[88-CLUB]

How to register the Euro Truck Simulator game account?

[B0ze]

Once i get 6 figures in my bank account I don't even give a crap about the fines anymore. I happily take the slap on the wrist €550 fine and give that speed camera the finger as I fly by at 120 kph. And I'll keep doing so until the game is changed where I can lose my CDL and get reduced to delivering pizza.

[walrus1]

Originally posted by Nana:

How to disable fines.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/227300/discussions/0/864957182830190655/#c864957182917861299

Driving a Volvo FH750 at its very limits of stability at first was an "OUTRAGE, THIS IS SIMULATOR" but I gradually became addicted to it...

Thank you very much! :)

[M@ttyB1971]

Originally posted by Murdoch:

And people wonder why I go on my rants and get abit mad around here... Why the HELL would you want to change speed limits for trucks and drive what? 140 km/h in a game like this... All that it will lead to is lots of money loss and frustration. Maybe you're from the US where they think its fine for trucks that weigh almost 40 tonnes to drive 120+ km/h down the highways. Thank god most big companys seem to be sensible and limit their fleets to 55 or 60 mph.

But I have to admit I do like to get to the motorways in Europe, those few that do allow you to drive 90 km/h. That said, IRL you should never drive a truck at the limiter, if you get a puncture your only way to gain control will most likely be being able to accelerate before you then break to a stop. Anyone that has driven a motorcycle or ridden a bicycle should get that. Accelerate to gain balance. :)

IRL the limiter has been set at 56mph/90kph as this is the most econimical speed for the trucks to be running at, so on motorways you do run at the speed limiter for fuel economy. The limit was raised on single carriageways from 40mph to 50 mph as the government recognised trucks of today are safer( in the hands of professionals i may add lol) yet it is still 40 mph in Scotland only................... Anyone doing more has either tampered with it or going downhill lol. Driving a 44 ton lorry is no joke yet sadly we see clowns behind the wheel of both car and truck.

[Mr. Nice]

To the topic. I was pretty sure that you were fined based on car limits regardless. Afterall, a roadside speed camera doesn't know what kind of vehicle it's detecting the speed of, and they don't seem to have programmed to have programmed the police any better (thank christ, they can' already unrealistically snipe you across multiple lanes of traffic while travelling in the opposite direction...). And yes, I drive a truck at 70mph in a computer simulation, shoot me now.

Originally posted by Murdoch:

That said, IRL you should never drive a truck at the limiter, if you get a puncture your only way to gain control will most likely be being able to accelerate before you then break to a stop. Anyone that has driven a motorcycle or ridden a bicycle should get that. Accelerate to gain balance. :)

Well, back to IRL, tell that to every single driver of a speed limited (as required by EU law) truck driving UK motorways! They always, if possible, ride right on the limiter. Hence also the grand art of the "elephant race", where due ot the vaguaries of calibration, one truck is slight faster then the other, so pulls out and takes forever to overtake in the 2nd lane.

I strangely amulsing that vehicles which can legally do 60mph on UK motorways are at the same time speed limited to ~56mph. But I guess there are probably smaller trucks/big vans which are exempt from the speed limiter but still subject to the 60 legal limit...

[Nimir-Raj]

Just turn off the fines in the game settings.