Help with Iberian Pilgrimage

[FireDrake]

Are trips from Pamplona to A Coruña extremely rare or something? I have checked Pamplona in the freight market so many times and I haven't seen any trip taking this route. It's the only one of the 3 trips I have left to do. Is there something I can do to increase the chances of it appearing?

[Wolfpig]

Try quick jobs.......those Achievements with only one destination usually can be made with a drive from those too

If you want to do it with your own truck.....i recommend to look in the external contracts, as there are more jobs generated in general.

[Rendorf]

Or use save scumming: Save game before resting - Rest - Check contracts -> if there isn't job you want = Load game & repeat.

[FireDrake]

After doing much save scumming and checking both quick jobs and freight market, one job from Pamplona to A Coruña finally spawned! A lot of thanks to both!

For anyone in the future reading this with my same issue, three pieces of advice: rest on the gas station going south in Pamplona, so you quickly get to the companies to get the job.

Second is making sure you have 3 sleep cycles available, so for every load game, you can refresh thrice.

The final tip is that external contracts reset in real time, so unless you're not save scumming in a single session until you get the mission, you can just check it once, it'll never change.

[The Pitts]

Two points - the jobs in the Freight Market and those in Quick Jobs are always identical, the advantage of the latter is that you don't have to get to the sending yard by driving there in your own truck thereby eliminating the problem of the job expiring before you get there but if you are sleeping near to Pamplona then that is less likely to matter.

Secondly the trick with External jobs is not to save scum but to repeatedly Abandon jobs in the desired target distance range. Pamplona to A Coruna is around 800 kms so keep taking and abandoning jobs in the 750-1000 km range until you get one (warning, may take a long time, there are lots of other potential targets in that range).

Alternatively just save edit to create the desired route in the jobs list, either by hand, via a save editor or using a program like Virtual Speditor.

[FireDrake]

Originally posted by The Pitts:

Two points - the jobs in the Freight Market and those in Quick Jobs are always identical, the advantage of the latter is that you don't have to get to the sending yard by driving there in your own truck thereby eliminating the problem of the job expiring before you get there but if you are sleeping near to Pamplona then that is less likely to matter.

Secondly the trick with External jobs is not to save scum but to repeatedly Abandon jobs in the desired target distance range. Pamplona to A Coruna is around 800 kms so keep taking and abandoning jobs in the 750-1000 km range until you get one (warning, may take a long time, there are lots of other potential targets in that range).

Alternatively just save edit to create the desired route in the jobs list, either by hand, via a save editor or using a program like Virtual Speditor.

Thank you! I will use this advice for future objectives! I did notice Quick Jobs and Freight Market were identical, but (maybe out of exhaustion) after some attempts I imagined, although not being sure, some differences, so I didn't mention it. I did accept the Quick Job, despite being in the close gas station and the timer going for 10 more hours, since I clicked the moment I saw it instead of checking Freight Market. Lost some money that way, since the latter pays more, but I have heard that later in the game money becomes meaningless.

And about the second point, does abandoning External Market jobs incur paying a penalty, like with Freight Market? I know money later comes in droves, but for the moment it is tight for me, as I only have 2 small and 2 large garage (and a small one were I am alone and store my trucks, so AI drivers don't repair them and cost me money), so while I have a steady influx, I am not swimming in riches yet.

[kaki_gamet]

There is no penalty for abandoning an External Contract, but if you get yourself in the need to tow to service, the job is forfeit, never forget of this single important detail ; )

[The Pitts]

Just to add to the above, you can work around the tow to service issue in many cases (depends on the location of the trailer) by suspending the WoT job, getting the truck fixed and then returning to the location of the trailer and resuming the job (or if you don't mind teleporting, just resume as soon as the truck is fixed and you will be magically relocated to where you were when the job was suspended). Same trick works for running out of fuel.