What is the most realistic settings for detour probability?

[fgaliegue]

Hello forum,

The default setting for detour probability is 50%, which is way too high given my experience of driving (400 000 km approximately in total, although not a truck, continental Europe only).

For now I set it to 15% and it's more like I see in real life given the roads I drive on and my relatively poor number of kilometres driven under my belt.

What is your opinion on that?

[Qrazy]

I set it to off.

[fgaliegue]

Originally posted by Qrazy:

I set it to off.

Which does not help; I am looking to set this to as realistic a value as possible. But I'm no 7 figure driver, which is why I ask.

[Underscore_101_3]

Well, off is the most realistic setting, because the map isn't designed for detours.

[Qrazy]

Originally posted by fgaliegue:

Which does not help; I am looking to set this to as realistic a value as possible. But I'm no 7 figure driver, which is why I ask.

Originally posted by Underscore_101_3:

Well, off is the most realistic setting, because the map isn't designed for detours.

This right here. Scaling makes the detour feature...not well thought out to put it nicely.

[Briannospam]

Originally posted by fgaliegue:

For now I set it to 15% and it's more like I see in real life given the roads I drive on and my relatively poor number of kilometres driven under my belt.

Setting the slider to something that gives a result similar to what you experience in real life, I think is a good idea, and which I also practice myself when it comes to the ordinary road events.

But when it comes to detours, I have set the slider to 0 for 2 reasons:
1: As others have also mentioned: Due to scaling there is a lack of small roads for short detours, I doubt that in real life you would have to drive detours of over a hundred km detour.
2: I have never in real life experienced a detour due to an accident... But of course I know well from news media that such a thing can occur.
But it surely happens very rarely that the same person will experience several such detours in his life?

[Drive Safely]

1%

[Underscore_101_3]

Originally posted by Briannospam:

But it surely happens very rarely that the same person will experience several such detours in his life?

Totally agree with you on that, and I'd like to add that irl sudden road blocks are usually handled quickly, not like in game where they never dissapear, you won't get a detour for them unless there's no other way, but then it will be dealt with by the authorities giving directions (through signs over the road).
And with planned roadwork there will be signs to follow, at least where I live you'll see signs like follow A and then you'll have arrows with the letter A all the way through 'till you're back on the highway again.

[123]

Uhh not helping at all
Cant you read?

[Nuheni]

I have 10% on detours and random events in both games.
The detours are easier in Ats `cause you can drive on the shoulder and even off the road many places to drive around it, while in Ets you are stuck and have to drive several miles extra.

[goofyfoot]

This is one of those settings that I think is pretty much adjusted according to your taste. I have mine set low because IRL detours are fairly uncommon (here in the States anyway).

[MagnusA]

Originally posted by Sator:

I have 10% on detours and random events in both games.
The detours are easier in Ats `cause you can drive on the shoulder and even off the road many places to drive around it, while in Ets you are stuck and have to drive several miles extra.

you should not be at the big accident at all. You are supposed to make a detour already at the first police block at the entry of the road section with the big accident.

Don't sneak by the first police block (even if it easy). Do not be at the big accident at all. Or set the detour slider to 0%. You are not making a detour anyway.

[Underscore_101_3]

Originally posted by 123:

Uhh not helping at all
Cant you read?

Who are you talking to?

[The Pitts]

I have mine set at 7% but on the rare occasions that I do Freight Market jobs it still feels like the detours crop up too often, even accounting for the 1:20 compression of time.

[Nuheni]

Originally posted by MagnusA:

Originally posted by Sator:

I have 10% on detours and random events in both games.
The detours are easier in Ats `cause you can drive on the shoulder and even off the road many places to drive around it, while in Ets you are stuck and have to drive several miles extra.

you should not be at the big accident at all. You are supposed to make a detour already at the first police block at the entry of the road section with the big accident.

Don't sneak by the first police block (even if it easy). Do not be at the big accident at all. Or set the detour slider to 0%. You are not making a detour anyway.

I used to work for Tollpost Globe back in the 90`s and as long as you did two things right, they could care less about how you did them.
!. Deliver on time.
2. Deliver the goods unharmed.
So if i see a way to pass a detour without having to drive for "4" hours extra that does not harm the goods, i`ll take it.

[tarc]

Originally posted by Briannospam:

2: I have never in real life experienced a detour due to an accident... But of course I know well from news media that such a thing can occur.
But it surely happens very rarely that the same person will experience several such detours in his life?

I have a 60 mile round trip commute to work via an interstate highway. In the 15 years I have been driving this route, there's been about 4 times when a portion of the highway was closed and we were instructed to take the exit ramp and make one's way through the hills and rural country to get back on at the next exit. It adds about 10 miles to the trip.