How do I turn off those stupid roadblocks?

[gyrotim]

Some of them will spawn with invisible walls with no intersections to turn off to in order to avoid them. I've turned the "random road event" setting all the way down and it does nothing. This is a great game with an otherwise completely awful feature that isn't even realistic.

[Wille Wilse]

It isnt random road events, its detour. Detour has its own slider. All the way to the left and they are gone. (from next delivery)

[madman]

You have to set Detour slider all the way to the left to disable it completely.

[Oz Gaming]

"This is a great game with an otherwise completely awful feature that isn't even realistic"

Yes, it is realistic.

[numbat]

Originally posted by Oz Gaming:

"This is a great game with an otherwise completely awful feature that isn't even realistic"

Yes, it is realistic.

Unfortunately, it's not completely realistic, as they never clear. The first time I came across one I thought I'd wait for them to clear the roadblock. It was a car on fire that was already extinguished. I waited hours, and hours, and hours..... they never moved.

Eventually I found out that the road-block / detour doesn't clear until you complete your job. That part is unrealistic.

[gyrotim]

Originally posted by Oz Gaming:

"This is a great game with an otherwise completely awful feature that isn't even realistic"

Yes, it is realistic.

A random helicopter blocking a busy highway over a tipped over truck is realistic? Also you don't get fined for illegally passing these roadblocks.

[gyrotim]

Originally posted by Wille Wilse:

It isnt random road events, its detour. Detour has its own slider. All the way to the left and they are gone. (from next delivery)

Thanks man, the game is much better without these random events.

[Reese]

I've run into my share of real-world road blocks like this. Crashes or fires that shut down the entire 8 lanes of travel, 4 in each direction.

Had a bad one beginning of this year, driver clipped a trailer that cut him off, blowing his steer, and sent him and his truck over the center divider, killing him. Had the interstate shut down for 5 hours fully, and a total of 7 before all lanes were open again. I drive past the spot every day, it's obvious where he went over. One of our customers, too.

To say it's not realistic, is a bit exaggerated. With how fast time flows in-game, you can't realistically remove it. Why is it so difficult for you to simply find an alternative route? Because you don't want to do the realistic thing, doesn't make the existence of the thing unrealistic.

I've disabled them, but only because I deal with that nonsense enough in real life as part of my job. The game does not provide enough alternatives where these events occur. The implementation of the feature is realistic, the avoidance of said feature is unrealistic, but that's how it goes with every feature in the game. Fatigue is unrealistic, and is by far the most unrealistic thing I've had to deal with in-game.

[gyrotim]

Originally posted by Reese:

I've run into my share of real-world road blocks like this. Crashes or fires that shut down the entire 8 lanes of travel, 4 in each direction.

Had a bad one beginning of this year, driver clipped a trailer that cut him off, blowing his steer, and sent him and his truck over the center divider, killing him. Had the interstate shut down for 5 hours fully, and a total of 7 before all lanes were open again. I drive past the spot every day, it's obvious where he went over. One of our customers, too.

To say it's not realistic, is a bit exaggerated. With how fast time flows in-game, you can't realistically remove it. Why is it so difficult for you to simply find an alternative route? Because you don't want to do the realistic thing, doesn't make the existence of the thing unrealistic.

I've disabled them, but only because I deal with that nonsense enough in real life as part of my job. The game does not provide enough alternatives where these events occur. The implementation of the feature is realistic, the avoidance of said feature is unrealistic, but that's how it goes with every feature in the game. Fatigue is unrealistic, and is by far the most unrealistic thing I've had to deal with in-game. :longhaul::letsgo:

Huh, I actually never knew it could get that bad in Europe. Here in Aus a crash usually results in a couple lanes getting shut down at most and traffic has to funnelled through one lane to go around it. As for fatigue wouldn't it also make sense considering that the in-game time is faster?

Btw what truck do you drive?

[Reese]

Originally posted by gyrotim:

Huh, I actually never knew it could get that bad in Europe. Btw what truck do you drive?

Sorry, hop between ATS/ETS2 forum a lot. This incident was in the US. I drive a tire service truck(Ram 5500) to change tires on semi trucks/trailer, well any commercial vehicle.

Usually it doesn't get that bad, but it can, and does. Usually only gets fully shut down if a tow truck needs a weird position or they need to fly someone to a hospital.

[gyrotim]

Originally posted by Reese:

Originally posted by gyrotim:

Huh, I actually never knew it could get that bad in Europe. Btw what truck do you drive?

Sorry, hop between ATS/ETS2 forum a lot. This incident was in the US. I drive a tire service truck(Ram 5500) to change tires on semi trucks/trailer, well any commercial vehicle.

Usually it doesn't get that bad, but it can, and does. Usually only gets fully shut down if a tow truck needs a weird position or they need to fly someone to a hospital.

I would imagine the worst incidents leading to road blockages would be on single-lane roads?

[Maya-Neko]

Originally posted by gyrotim:

Huh, I actually never knew it could get that bad in Europe. Here in Aus a crash usually results in a couple lanes getting shut down at most and traffic has to funnelled through one lane to go around it. As for fatigue wouldn't it also make sense considering that the in-game time is faster?

I don't know how big the roads are over there, but here in germany we've many 2 and 3 lane freeways (per side) wich can easily be blocked off completely with a crash. Obviously it's sometimes possible to still keep one lane open with smaller accidents, but in case of a big accident the highest priority is to safe the lives.

And on top of that it might obviously also be saver to block the traffic completely to get some evidence of what happened on one side and being able to remove loose parts and leaked liquids, before many people drive over it on the other side.

[welcome_to_the_machine]

Originally posted by Oz Gaming:

"This is a great game with an otherwise completely awful feature that isn't even realistic"

Yes, it is realistic.

LOL! That's funny that you think its realistic. NO, it is not.

[gyrotim]

Originally posted by dazedandconfused:

Originally posted by Oz Gaming:

"This is a great game with an otherwise completely awful feature that isn't even realistic"

Yes, it is realistic.

LOL! That's funny that you think its realistic. NO, it is not.

I mean he is a real truck driver so..

[welcome_to_the_machine]

Originally posted by gyrotim:

Originally posted by dazedandconfused:

LOL! That's funny that you think its realistic. NO, it is not.

I mean he is a real truck driver so..

What does that mean? He's a real truck driver so that makes a feature in a game realistic? I'm a real driver, not trucks but I drive & how they portray roadblocks/detours in the game is not very realistic. Not when I can sneak by them on the shoulder & the cops don't react! LOL! The same accident is still there when I drive by the opposite direction hours later? LOL!
I turn off detours because they are ridiculous. But it's still just a game so I don't get too worked up about it.

[gyrotim]

Originally posted by dazedandconfused:

Originally posted by gyrotim:

I mean he is a real truck driver so..

What does that mean? He's a real truck driver so that makes a feature in a game realistic? I'm a real driver, not trucks but I drive & how they portray roadblocks/detours in the game is not very realistic. Not when I can sneak by them on the shoulder & the cops don't react! LOL! The same accident is still there when I drive by the opposite direction hours later? LOL!
I turn off detours because they are ridiculous. But it's still just a game so I don't get too worked up about it.

Oh yeah, it is kinda weird how you can just drive past them like that. It would've been easy for the devs to add a simple trigger point that activates a fine or something.