Starting Tips?

[ubermatt3]

Does anyone have some tips for first starting out with the game?

[Hypertext Eye]

Yeah.
Just drive.

[XBL Laberbacke]

Originally posted by Hypertext Eye:

Yeah.
Just drive.

Also, don't hit too many things with your truck.

[Silamon]

When you start out, you will get an email from the bank offering you a loan. Take the loan and buy your own truck ASAP. You make a lot more money if you use your own truck vs doing quick contracts, and the loan is really easy to pay off.

[Ragequit Inc.]

Originally posted by Silamon:

When you start out, you will get an email from the bank offering you a loan. Take the loan and buy your own truck ASAP. You make a lot more money if you use your own truck vs doing quick contracts, and the loan is really easy to pay off.

Not necessarily. Keep in mind, when you're doing quick jobs, your employer covers the costs, fuel etc. And when you take a loan, you're basically throwing away money due to the interest. But either way is really fine, just depends on how you prefer doing it. You'll soon have money coming out "yerass" anyway :)

[MaskMcgee]

Originally posted by Ragequit Inc.:

Originally posted by Silamon:

When you start out, you will get an email from the bank offering you a loan. Take the loan and buy your own truck ASAP. You make a lot more money if you use your own truck vs doing quick contracts, and the loan is really easy to pay off.

Not necessarily. Keep in mind, when you're doing quick jobs, your employer covers the costs, fuel etc. And when you take a loan, you're basically throwing away money due to the interest. But either way is really fine, just depends on how you prefer doing it. You'll soon have money coming out "yerass" anyway :)

Yes nessecraily. There are no costs. Fuel is dirt cheap, about 1000$ a tank, which will allow you to complete 20,000$ worth of jobs that in quick drive would only pay you 10,000$. So throwing away $10,000 vs. Paying off your loan in a week and double pay. Yea real 'throwing money away;'

[Hypertext Eye]

Originally posted by Ragequit Inc.:

Originally posted by Silamon:

When you start out, you will get an email from the bank offering you a loan. Take the loan and buy your own truck ASAP. You make a lot more money if you use your own truck vs doing quick contracts, and the loan is really easy to pay off.

Not necessarily. Keep in mind, when you're doing quick jobs, your employer covers the costs, fuel etc. And when you take a loan, you're basically throwing away money due to the interest. But either way is really fine, just depends on how you prefer doing it. You'll soon have money coming out "yerass" anyway :)

The extra income from owning a truck far outweighs the extra cost, even including a loan payment.
Where it starts to go pear-shaped is if you're taking out loans to buy trucks for hired drivers. They definitely do not make enough money to cover loan payments.

[ttower]

Something else to consider, is if you can drive properly. If you find yourself always taking lots of damage, then stick with Quick Jobs for a while. If you ruin a Quick Job truck or trailer, you dotn make any money from that run. If you ruin your own truck with a freight market job, you wont make any money, and you need to pay for repairs. If you can drive without getting damage, just stick with whatever you want.

[Briannospam]

I have try both start up with quick jobs until I have earn the first 50.000, and then loan the rest to my first truck, and start ASAP loan all the money to my first truck, and my experience from these 2 methods is that it's much faster to build up your own company by ASAP loan to your first truck.

[JohnnyBoythePilot]

If you want to start running with your own truck ASAP, as others mentioned, get a loan. On my second playthough of ATS I built my company without a single loan. I just drove quick jobs until I had enough to buy my first truck. And from there I just kept grinding.

Oh and when you start hiring your first drivers if that's what your gonna do, I recommend getting them experinced in long-distance driving, long-distance really pays.

[Twelvefield]

Don't put any skill points into fuel economy. Put your first couple of points into Long Distance, but no more after that.