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I'm thinking off buying my G27 this month directly from LT.
The things I worry about is how to set up split-shifting and it doesn't look like you can have the same minute control over the retarder like you can with the Driving Force GT.
I'm really torn. The G27 offers realistic shifting, but my DFGT offers a lot of buttons on which I grouped a lot of functions and I simulate split-shifting quite nicely on the sequential shifter and the more I look at what I do with the DFGT and what with the G27 isn't possible or harder to do then I only see the realistic shifting it has over the DFGT...
I just don't know if that warrants migrating... Maybe if my DFGT gives out one day...
The way I would setup a 16 speed gearbox would be to have 1 toggle be your hi/lo range change and the other toggle to be a gear splitter. This effectively means that your range change will be able to completely ignore whatever your splitter is set to.
If you really like your setup but just need that issue fixed you could send me whichever one of the 3 .sii files you are using and I will look it over and try to get it changed over to being a little less clunky without altering how it makes you shift.
p.s. The 2 reverse gears are not usually counted when saying 18 speed. You usually only count forward gear for that which would make this example a 16 speed.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=236812952
If you have any other suggestions for the guide please don't hesitate to send them to me. I have been fiddling with this stuff for so long it is second nature to me and I can't think of all the questions someone may have about the process so suggestions are always welcome
It starts with launching. First of all launching-gear is fully depending on weight and engine-size. On average, you can launch when empty in 6low and work up fully ignoring the splits.
Depending on weight en engine-size again, you can decide to drop a few gears in launch, all the way down to third (treating 1/2 as crawl gears). 10tonnes splitshifting is just working your azz off, work up ignoring the splitter. 25tonnes is 3rd gear launch without fail, and depending on engine size you can decide to ignore the splitter from 9low onwards.
Working down the gears is a different matter. Braking in trucks is only meant to come to full stop when needed. It is not meant to be used whenever you need to change speeds. (Enable air-brake simulation to experience how dangerous braking a truck really is.) You'll need to learn to feather the thottle and to learn how to use the cruise-control to your advantage. Basically, you need to learn how to let the tractor do the work for you while you merely focus on keeping the entire shebang in a rolling state as much as possible. Once you master this you'll find that downshifting comes naturally and you'll become able to be in the required gear at the right times. Off course, downshifting is done non-split. You drop entire gears.
This can only be practised really, not taught.
One thing that irks me in ETS2 is that you can't skip gears entirely, once you start working up, you need to select gears sequentially. I don't know if this is different with the G27, but basically, depending on weight and situation, I (IRL) tend to skip entire gears when working up the gears. This is a likely scenario I find myself working when driving in The Hague.
Launch 4low, skip to 6low, go to 6high, skip to 8low, go to 8high, cruise.
It all depends also on where the RPMs are, sometimes I need to work in 7lo/hi too. Traffic is an important factor in gear-selection as well.
Anyway, the important thing to remember is that a truck isn't a luxury-sedan and you don't wanna treat the gearing as if you're driving one. One of the hardest things to let go off is the desire to work the gears sequentially. Instead, you need to let traffic and your RPMs dictate the gear you're in, relative to engine-size and payload.
It's a whole different ballgame.
That's a question I have regarding the g27. IRL, lo/hi is done by arriving into a gear in low-state, flicking up a thumbswitch (priming for high) and then stepping on the clutch shortly to snap in the high-state. Then, a stickmove is required to shift to next low position.
How does that work with the G27?
So for like when I'm running a super 13 transmission and I'm in 4th which is the low side, I hit my toggle to preselect hi range, then clutch, then stick moves to the position for 5th low(or direct whichever you want to call it).
Then if I want to just go up half a gear I would hit toggle 2 which acts as my splitter then I have to press the clutch to make the game recognise that I want it to change gears again because it doesn't have a logic that would let it know that the split would just be an air shift if I let off the accelerator. I really wish it did notice that because that would be much less wear on my leg, but usually I don't go into the hi side of a gear except for 8th because that is the cruising gear.
Hopefully that got my point across properly.