Parking a trailer, more XP or money, please!

[Haamukeisari]

Well, its amazing game and I love to play it, but parking a trailer is something which needs some improvements! I mean this: you drive like 15 min trip and want end the job quickly, but you need park a trailer. So, the game gives you only 45 XP rewards. Its like nothing. Parking a trailer perfectly is more challenging than driving itself. Also there is even more difficult parking slots. They should increase XP much more or give extra money. I usually just skip whole parking scene, because I get easily 50 XP for driving an empty truck to the gas station or the repair. What do you think?

[Deaf Mad Hatter]

So you wants to get paid extra for parking the trailer at a place where you're meant to deliver? That's just not realistic, let alone silly although extra experience probably would do the trick.

Either way, I often park the trailer. NEVER ever skip park. That's lazy! ;)

[Haamukeisari]

Yes its not realistic, but this is a game. ;) Why they give 45 XP at all...

[Tagger]

Originally posted by Haamukeisari:

Yes its not realistic, but this is a game. ;) Why they give 45 XP at all...

It's such a small thing, at the end of the delivery.
That's why you get such a little reward from doing that.
Asking for more, would be silly.

If you really want a higher amount, I'm sure there's some mod somewhere that allows you do alter these numbers (or even a config you can take a peak at).

[Nono54Fr]

When you're a level below 5, 45 xp is really a lot,
When you're a level above 20, 45 xp is really nothing.

Length & size of the trailer should be a xp factor.

Parked a standard size trailer in a standard delivery spot ? Meh, here's your 2 xp.
Parked a 75 feet trailer with a wide load in a narrow spot ? Wow, here's your 200 xp

[Haamukeisari]

Well, one solution is remove skipping ability. Then you get your price after you have done the job. For now its like: why I bother myself to spend minutes for parking? Only if I want really roleplay my driver I can do that, but in game its not worth of it.

[WarmedxMints]

If you look at the trailers for american truck sim, they have put three parking slots in the destinations. 1, 2 and 3 star. By the looks of the trailer, the xp from parking depends on which slot you put the trailer in.

I would like to see that implemented in ETS

[Haamukeisari]

Wow thats cool improvement for sure! I wish also they will put it in ETS... and I will get American Truck sim when its done. :)

Parking a trailer should be a core element in a truck sim in my opinion. Thats why I started this thread because now in the game parking is not worth of it.

[DesertFox]

Firstly parking a trailer is half the fun in the game and if your skipping it your missing out! I do agree that parking a trailer in a more difficult spot should give you more experience but not more money.

[Haamukeisari]

Yeah maybe more exprience would be a good solution. Its fair and also realistic when there is diffent spots to park.

I dont skip all my parking scenes, but after a long driving I feel its not worth to try.

[orb]

In "/def/economy_data.sii" modify "exp_park_bonus" to the value you want.

[myarmor]

I would be all for a somewhat higher experience award for locations with higher difficulty,
while keeping the measly 45 (or maybe even lowering it) for those wide-open spaces in the
older quarries (not those in Scandinavia) and similar.

[Willow Rivers]

So you want a bigger reward for doing your job? You are a truck driver and part of being one is parking the trailer. You already get paid for doing the job that is your reward. I don't think they need to raise the XP given for doing your job.

[Shredder]

I raised the same point 2 years ago. 45 xp to park is no insentive. And with some crazy unloading spots in some mod maps it just wastes time form earning extra dosh.. I park once in a while for fun but that's maybe one out of every ten jobs. The bonus xp should simply be removed completely because it is no bonus!!!.

[myarmor]

Originally posted by Bixillarla:

So you want a bigger reward for doing your job? You are a truck driver and part of being one is parking the trailer. You already get paid for doing the job that is your reward. I don't think they need to raise the XP given for doing your job.

No, experience.. for not using the parking-service, especially where you'd have to use more
than two braincells to park it yourself. For the simple locations it could stay as it is, or
maybe even lowered a bit.

If I remember correctly, the ADR (or was it cars) cargo company in Kristiansand was a bit harder to do without damage than a in-city/german quarry (at least at lv 28).

[Haamukeisari]

My point is that the reward is not enough. Why I should bother myself to park a trailer, when I get better XP for free driving for example? And everyone knows that a parking is more difficult than driving and it should be in focus in a truck game. Question is why I should do parking if I can just skip it and lose nothing?