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The cities in Coast to Coast are made from the base cities in the game. So you may recognize things from Los Angeles, Phoenix, etc.
Awww, gotcha.
Is SCS's long-term goal to have every state available as DLC?
First off, I want to start by saying that I am impressed with what Mantrid and his pals are doing with C2C. I've played around with the map editor, and it ain't no joke. They've done a hell of a lot more with it than I ever managed, so hat's off to them.
The biggest complaint that I see about C2C is that it's 'bland' and 'plain looking'.
There's a reason for this. The only assets you have to work with are whatever is in the actual game. So when they made the first C2C map, they had very little to work with, and as a result, a lot of 'cut & paste' cities.
It has progressed and got better, but that is due in large part to the assets added by New Mexico, and some general asset upgrades and such that SCS has done since.
Each city in the US is unique, sure there are areas that look similar, but each US city has something that is unique to that city, something that you won't see in any other city.
New York has the Statue of Liberty, of course, and while you can see mock-ups of Lady Liberty in other cities, like Las Vegas, they are smaller, scaled down versions, so not the same. Only New York has THE Statue of Liberty. Then there's St. Loius, with the Gateway Arch, and the list goes on. Those kinds of things cannot be added to C2C yet, because they haven't been added to the game yet. So basically, yes, the cities in C2C are just 'generic looking cities', no real personality that is all their own, it simply doesn't exist yet.
But, you can have a garage in Jersey if you want in C2C, where as, in the regular ATS game, you cannot.
I personally prefer to just wait for each state to be released, but then again, I'm a patient person.
I read the description of the game BEFORE I bought it, I knew what I was getting before I ever punched that little green button... lol.
Each new state that SCS has added so far has been a real treat to see. They've managed to capture a lot of the 'feel' of the states so far. I've been all over Southern California in the past, and most of it looks just like it does in the game. I've been up almost to San Francisco and most of that terrain looks right, from what I remember of it, so when I see people complain about all of the "boring desert" I can help but laugh and say to myself, "If you think THIS is boring, try the real thing. It ain't much better!".., and it actually takes longer to get through it in real life than it does in the game, so yeah, I don't mind that at all... lol
TL;DR - Coast 2 Coast is a nice diversion, but SCS states are superior to the states in C2C by leaps and bounds.
They want to do the entire US just as much as you and I. There will be a "ferry/train" like system soon so there will be no DLC depenandcy.
You 'naysayers' can't even get your own stories straight, but you claim to know how long all of this is going to take? lol
Y'all are funny, funny people...
I bet you guys and the conspiracy theorists have a great time together... lol
What is this ferry/train system you speak of? You mean that all future DLC will be free or something like that?
Some people, like me, plan on buying all of the states as they come out, but others only want the states that they are familiar with, and that's fine, but if you own all East Coast states and get something that ships to California, but you don't own some of the states between you and the West Coast, how are you supposed to get there?
To avoid 'DLC dependencies', SCS has stated that they will implement a system similar to what's in ETS2 in ATS, where the player can 'bypass' the states that they do not own without a penalty.
No...say you only have the base game(Arizona, Nevada, California). You havent bought any of the state DLC's until Texas. Now you want to go to Texas, but you don't have New Mexico. There will be a train like system to travel to Texas from Arizona(probably at Rail Export). Similar to the ferry/tunnel crossings in ETS2.
You seem very confident that it will be a ferry/train system. If those actially exist I can understand it, that is the way it works in ETS2. However, taking a truck and trailer to a rail depot in Nevada and travelling across country to a state like Georgia is not realistic. I know the game has not grown that far but in the future it might. Owning the base game and then only buying the Georgia DLC is possible.
Originally I thought it might be rail or plane but when I think about it, it really doesn't make sense. It doesn't work like that in real life so I doubt it could work in the game. I remember someone also suggested they will have roads with nothing else but that to me doesn't make sense either because that makes it so there is no reason to buy states other than the ones you want because you get to drive through the ones you don't want anyway.
I believe trucks and trailers will spawn at borders. Drive to the border of the states you own and spawn at the border of the states you own. That to me makes sense.
Edit: Corrected a typo.
As to actual workings...haven't been told that yet. Will it be a Rail Export, could be or it couldn't be.
Remember that was used as an example only(based on how ETS2 ferries work).
Thinking about it more and you actually beat me to it as I was about to make an edit to my original post. Transporting the cargo by either ferry, rail or plane does make sense. However, the transportation of the truck makes no sense at all and I really hope SCS doesn't choose to to transport the truck. To me it would only make sense if it was done as a company, delivering a cargo to a rail depot in one state and the picking up that cargo from a rail depot in another state.
Which by the way was how I imagined Hawaii could work if SCS decided to add it. Deliver a cargo to a port and pick up from a port. Transporting the truck makes no sense to me at all unless it exists in real life.
Probably not a good idea, but yea, the train system just don't exist here. But I know it can't be perfect because there is also no way to "own" a state, you can drive through it regardless! :P
That is what I mentioned earlier about someone suggesting roads through states not owned but that gives no incentive to buy other states if you can drive through the ones you don't own anyway. What SCS does is up to them but I hope whatever they do is realistic, as in it happens in real life and I also hope they don't add roads through unowned states. If people want to drive through states they should need to own those states.