Is it worth setting up a server?

[Asakura Shinichi]

New player here, is it worth repurposing my game cloud to run a server for this game or is normal convoy play enough for a small group of friends.

[ttower]

Regular convoy is plenty if you just want to play with friends together. Setting up a server would only be beneficial if your friends want to play together when you are not going to play, but they can also just start their own convoy for that session.

[Asakura Shinichi]

What about mods? Does everyone need to own the mods for convoy?

[BlunderingFool]

Originally posted by Asakura Shinichi:

What about mods? Does everyone need to own the mods for convoy?

I'm not aware of ANY game that will tolerate modded and unmodded games playing together, as well as modded setups without identical modlists. At best you can probably get away with different visual mods like texture replacements but more heavy handed things might cause issues, ideally everyone should work from the same core modlist in the same order for the sake of compatibility. Just don't go nuts installing dozens upon dozens of mods and you should be good!

[HMaster-II]

I have a convoy server at home running standalone. I need to update it, but I have little time at the moment.
I have set it up for the colleagues at the company that also play ETS2. I have set it up with max 15 mod's for quality of life and even more related skins of the trucks my company have driving around in the Netherlands and (sometimes) Germany. The skin we have is made by myself and uses original logo files and fonts.
So yes you can do mods and have some fun on a own-running server, but maintenance is time consuming with every game update.

[Asakura Shinichi]

Originally posted by HMaster-II:

I have a convoy server at home running standalone. I need to update it, but I have little time at the moment.
I have set it up for the colleagues at the company that also play ETS2. I have set it up with max 15 mod's for quality of life and even more related skins of the trucks my company have driving around in the Netherlands and (sometimes) Germany. The skin we have is made by myself and uses original logo files and fonts.
So yes you can do mods and have some fun on a own-running server, but maintenance is time consuming with every game update.

Will a server help with stuttering on normal convoy which is probably cause by mods? When in normal convoy we get stuttering around 2-3 hour mark of playing and it disappears if we close the session and start a new one. Would a server help with this issue?

We tried adding
-mm_pool_size 8192 -mm_max_resource_size 50 -mm_max_tmp_buffers_size 1000
as per recommendation of the mod creators, and while it made the game run even smoother in solo it did not help with the stuttering in convoy.

[HMaster-II]

Well I can not see what kind of Internet-line you got. Or what system you are running on.
But he had no issues in stuttering or so.
The server I am running on is a ProxMox virtual server running on a Xeon CPU with 32 GB RAM. And my Internet line is a 1GB fiber up/down connection. My colleague runs on a same connection. I have the ports needed open on my Router directly forwarded to the server.
The server is a virtual that is only running the ETS2 server console and is just a member in the domain.
I know the upload speed is the most critical. If this is low and your latency in the connection it will give you problems.