Noob questions

[Jack]

Just got ATS and Love it!

What is the best/fastest way to earn money?

If I buy a trailer before owning a truck, will the trailer earn me extra money on the side?

If I own my own truck, do I earn more per hour than running the misc jobs available at the beginning of the game?

Is it worth taking a loan to buy a truck or does the interest crush any benefit that would have?

Thanks!

[Smurphy]

At the very start you should save up enoguh money/ get a credit to get a own TRUCK, don't buy a trailer, if oyu don't have a truck a trailer will not do anything.
Once you have your own truck do some Cargo Orders.....once you began doing jobs with your own truck try to upgrade it a little bit (mostly engine and transmission) and try to pay your credit.
When your credit is only worth like 20k get a veery big 400k credit and upgrade your garage and get a 2nd truck with a driver (once u have the driver let him level "long distance drive" [hope u know what i mean]).
After you done that just pay off your bills, after that just gein saving money for more trucks etc....

Hope i could help, for more question add me on steam and feel free to ask me.

[Rookie-31st]

Take quick jobs until you earn about $20k then take credit and buy a truck. Disable fatigue and drive 24/7. You can give bought truck to hired driver and keep doing quick jobs if you cannot keep up with payments or want faster earnings. As you level up, invest points into hazardous and at least one for each cargo type (fragile etc). Don't worry about fuel economy.

[Jack]

Thanks!

[kay]

Originally posted by Jack:

Just got ATS and Love it!

What is the best/fastest way to earn money?

If I buy a trailer before owning a truck, will the trailer earn me extra money on the side?

If I own my own truck, do I earn more per hour than running the misc jobs available at the beginning of the game?

Is it worth taking a loan to buy a truck or does the interest crush any benefit that would have?

Thanks!

i sugest you buy a truck and then get a trailer and there is a mod on steam to help earn wayy more money than regular jobs and yes a loan is worth it unless you dont come up with the money to pay it back enjoy trucking trucker and welcome to ats

[mr nut]

Originally posted by Jack:

Just got ATS and Love it!

What is the best/fastest way to earn money?

If I buy a trailer before owning a truck, will the trailer earn me extra money on the side?

If I own my own truck, do I earn more per hour than running the misc jobs available at the beginning of the game?

Is it worth taking a loan to buy a truck or does the interest crush any benefit that would have?

Thanks!

I’ll answer them in order.

Use cheat engine to boost money and xp.

You can’t buy a trailer before a truck.

Yes/No depending on skills you selected (such as long range.)

No. If you use my suggestion about cheat engine, you don’t need a loan. If you decide not to use cheat engine, the benefits don’t outway the crush of a loan.

Hope this helps you out!

[Twelvefield]

The economy that comes with the game is so easy that you can't help but earn money fast. It does not matter if you take a loan or not. The only thing that can hurt you is very poor driving. So: drive carefully.

[Kimo]

I think loans are not worth it. It's money that you could buy truck, you just have to be patient a bit.

Just like irl, you just pay for a managers swimming pool. In fact, average 25% of everythings price is just interest, making rich men rich, and poor man poor.

My last restart in ets I did quick jobs until I had a large garage full of drivers and had bought the second garage. Without loans.

Also I felt like quick jobs were more profitable than others -- at the beginning, unskilled. Even jobs with owned trailer seemed less profitabel.

[TNX.]

Fastest way...Cheat Engine but if you want to play and earn realistically, I suggest quick jobs that pay about 20 - 40K.

[Asigion]

It is an easy game to earn money and there is really no need to use cheat mods or cheat engine but each to their own. Personally, I doubt you would get any satisfaction out of any accomplishments using cheats.

The quick jobs are fine and you can take jobs from any city you have already visited rather than being tied to only taking jobs in the city you are located. If you want to see more of the map then just stick to quick jobs until you really want to own your own truck.

[UnableRogue]

Since your new here's a tip for when you borrow money. Try not to borrow little amounts. Borrow one big amount. The repayments will be smaller. As an example here's what happened to me. I had about 7 loans going which made my repayments about $13,500 per day. I borrowed $200,000 and payed off all my loans. My repayments are now $3,600 a day and I only have 2 loans.

[SBGaming]

The Best/Fastest way to earn money is to focus your skill points on Long Haul and High Value Cargo. Especially long haul. Each rank opens up longer distances, and with each distance milestone the bonuses accumulate. I was averaging 1 level per delivery in a recent game (I got to Level 15 within 20 deliveries. $80-$100K per delivery is entirely feasible with a few ranks of long distance/High Value.

You're only going to struggle if you crash into a lot of stuff damage your vehicle/load, and get a lot of police fines, especially with the base game settings. Drive safely, stay within the speed limit, and you won't have problems.

Based on my calculation at Level 16, a job in the Quick Job market (where you're given a truck and don't have to pay maintenance/fuel/tolls) paid about 75% of what you got when you take the same delivery in the Freight market with your own Vehicles.

It's worth taking loans. They allow you to fast track your company into profitability. Buy additional trucks with the money you borrow, hire drivers and have them bring you passive income. You'll make far more than the interest you pay on the loan.

The $400K loan has daily loan repayments of $5788. Did you know that only $72 of that amount is actually interest on the loan? If you do end up making a loan payment, $5716 is the principal, $72 is interest. You pay off a $400K loan in 72 days. If you do take 72 days to repay it, you only spent $5160 in interest. You can probably make that back with a single quick job at low level.

For the above character, my profit per day is $45,779. After paying $5788 (of which only $72 is interest), to repay the loan, I'm still ahead by $40K, and every 2 days I can borrow another $10K. With the profit per day above, I can pay off a $400K loan in about 9 days and pay about $650 in loan interest. Meanwhile during those 9 days, I bought and was running 3 trucks, hired 3 drivers, and those 3 drivers are bringing in another $3K each per day ($81K over the 9 days). So, I basically paid $650 in loan interest to have a profit of over $80,350.

The world operates on Credit. Credit is not a bad thing if you have a business/financial model where you can spend a bit of money to make multiple times more back.

Want a hard game? Don't take any loans at all. None at all. Earn and save up all the money. Way back in the days of UK Truck Simulator, that game didn't have the option to allow us to borrow money. We had to scrape by and save our pennies, but as soon as we had enough money to buy an additional truck or three and have someone work for us, the money very quickly started to roll in.

[UnableRogue]

Originally posted by SBGaming:

The $400K loan has daily loan repayments of $5788. Did you know that only $72 of that amount is actually interest on the loan? If you do end up making a loan payment, $5716 is the principal, $72 is interest. You pay off a $400K loan in 72 days. If you do take 72 days to repay it, you only spent $5160 in interest. You can probably make that back with a single quick job at low level.

I was wondering how much interest we pay. I didn't think it would be much since interest is usually less than 20% per annum but I never realised it was so small. Thanks for the info.

[Jack]

Thanks everyone for your input!

[Lord_Chencho]

Insterest are very low. Dont use cheats, that brakes the game.

[mr nut]

Originally posted by Lord_Chencho:

Insterest are very low. Dont use cheats, that brakes the game.

Cheats don’t break the game if you donit right. Don’t change tour amount of money to 99999999999 but 25,000,000. Do the same with XP.