What is the point of this game?

[Archer801]

Need I refine my question? I mean what do you do? Whats your goal in this game?

I was thinking about buying it. I like Farming Simulator too. Am I a good demographic if I like Farming Simulator 17?

What is the best Truck Sim game to date? I'm not sure if this is new, or old or if I should wait for 2.0 or what.

[Rhoklaw]

European Truck Simulator 2.0 and American Truck Simulator are both fairly new games. As you've guessed, with simulator games much like Farming Simulator, which I also play, you pretty much live the life of whatever simulation you've stepped into. For these particular games, you are a truck driver who starts out with no money and no skills, but you do at least have a beat up truck garage. You work for other companies to earn money until you can eventually purchase your own truck(s), trailer(s), upgrade your garage, buy more garages, hire other truck drivers to drive for your company.

Overall, you just earn more money and improve your skills until you're a trucker tycoon. Granted there's probably a little more variety in Farming Simulator 2017, I do rather enjoy the aspect of just driving a load of cargo down the highway, avoiding speeding tickets and hoping I don't fall asleep at the wheel ( yes, you have a fatigue meter in which you have to pull over and sleep for around 8 hours to recover ) along with managing fuel and truck maintenance.

Anyhow, I love both games to be honest and in American Truck Simulator there's a lot of open road, cool scenery and funny accidents to witness.

[Archer801]

Originally posted by Rhoklaw:

European Truck Simulator 2.0 and American Truck Simulator are both fairly new games. As you've guessed, with simulator games much like Farming Simulator, which I also play, you pretty much live the life of whatever simulation you've stepped into. For these particular games, you are a truck driver who starts out with no money and no skills, but you do at least have a beat up truck garage. You work for other companies to earn money until you can eventually purchase your own truck(s), trailer(s), upgrade your garage, buy more garages, hire other truck drivers to drive for your company.

Overall, you just earn more money and improve your skills until you're a trucker tycoon. Granted there's probably a little more variety in Farming Simulator 2017, I do rather enjoy the aspect of just driving a load of cargo down the highway, avoiding speeding tickets and hoping I don't fall asleep at the wheel ( yes, you have a fatigue meter in which you have to pull over and sleep for around 8 hours to recover ) along with managing fuel and truck maintenance.

Anyhow, I love both games to be honest and in American Truck Simulator there's a lot of open road, cool scenery and funny accidents to witness.

hmm ok. so how long are the drives in real time, out of curiosity? do you get more money from longer drives, or how does that work?

[Nono54Fr]

Originally posted by CandyWater:

Need I refine my question? I mean what do you do? Whats your goal in this game?

Every answer here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/270880

Originally posted by CandyWater:

Am I a good demographic if I like Farming Simulator 17?

It's not the same gameplay, it's hardly a fair comparison.

Originally posted by CandyWater:

What is the best Truck Sim game to date?
I'm not sure if this is new, or old
or if I should wait for 2.0 or what.

Best ? It's subjective.
Most accurate ? No.
Most detailed ? No.
More player friendly ? Yes
Beginner and veteran player ? Yes.
Casual and hardcore player ? Yes.

2016

There will not be a 2.0

[JDaremo Fireheart]

This one and it's sister game, Euro Truck Simulator 2 are the Top Trucking Simulator games . . . IMHO of course

You start off as a hired driver taking Quick Jobs and levelling up. Once you get a high enough level, which in my opinion would be 15 or higher. You can buy your own truck either through a bank loan or your own pocket if you have enough. Then you can start getting higher paying jobs.

You start off with a one bay run down garage for your truck, but as you make more money you can buy upgrades for it to add more bays (3 & 5). That way you can buy more trucks and hire drivers to drive those trucks. They work in the background making you money.

You can also Upgrade your trucks when new parts become available. As you level up, more parts unlock that you can use. It's also a good idea to upgrade the trucks taht your drivers use, because this can and does affect your drivers ability to make money.

Go watch a bunch of vid on it, there's a lot available.
Oh, ATS is only a year or so old, so not many DLCs have been made yet (New Mexico & Oregon).
Base game you get to work in California, Nevada and Arizona (Free DLC).

[JDaremo Fireheart]

Originally posted by Rhoklaw:

European Truck Simulator 2.0 and American Truck Simulator are both fairly new games.

Actually, ETS 2 is almost 6yrs old. Released Jan 16 2013.

[Rhoklaw]

Originally posted by JDaremo Fireheart:

Originally posted by Rhoklaw:

European Truck Simulator 2.0 and American Truck Simulator are both fairly new games.

Actually, ETS 2 is almost 6yrs old. Released Jan 16 2013.

True I guess, but when you've been gaming since the 80's, games that are 5 years old seem new.

[JDaremo Fireheart]

Originally posted by Rhoklaw:

Originally posted by JDaremo Fireheart:

Actually, ETS 2 is almost 6yrs old. Released Jan 16 2013.

True I guess, but when you've been gaming since the 80's, games that are 5 years old seem new.

LOL, I hear ya. I remember when games like Pacman, Defender, Asteroids, etc came out

[Jarl Thidrandi]

Originally posted by CandyWater:

Originally posted by Rhoklaw:

European Truck Simulator 2.0 and American Truck Simulator are both fairly new games. As you've guessed, with simulator games much like Farming Simulator, which I also play, you pretty much live the life of whatever simulation you've stepped into. For these particular games, you are a truck driver who starts out with no money and no skills, but you do at least have a beat up truck garage. You work for other companies to earn money until you can eventually purchase your own truck(s), trailer(s), upgrade your garage, buy more garages, hire other truck drivers to drive for your company.

Overall, you just earn more money and improve your skills until you're a trucker tycoon. Granted there's probably a little more variety in Farming Simulator 2017, I do rather enjoy the aspect of just driving a load of cargo down the highway, avoiding speeding tickets and hoping I don't fall asleep at the wheel ( yes, you have a fatigue meter in which you have to pull over and sleep for around 8 hours to recover ) along with managing fuel and truck maintenance.

Anyhow, I love both games to be honest and in American Truck Simulator there's a lot of open road, cool scenery and funny accidents to witness.

hmm ok. so how long are the drives in real time, out of curiosity? do you get more money from longer drives, or how does that work?

The scale of the game is about 1:20. So for every 100 game miles traveled, you go roughly 5 real miles. If you own all the dlc, you can do 1800+ miles on a delivery, which will take just under 2 hours real time if you make good time. There are several great mods for this game that add trucks, cargo, refine the economy ( I prefer realistic, making aroun $2 per mile) but in the vanilla game you are paid quite vast amounts, so you dont have to grind too much to buy trucks or garages if you play vanilla.

[Archer801]

I always buy the whole game when I buy games. It's just how I roll. If I buy a game I buy it, and all DLC. It's not uncommon for me to drop 170.00 on a game I've never played. I have Ero and American Truck Driver in my cart right now totaling something like 108.00

[Verfallen]

each hour in game is 3 (1/20) minutes real time. So assuming you do a 14 hour day with fatigue meter, which equate roughly 850 miles driven, its 42 minutes on highways. Time slows a bit in towns, so you can say. If you enjoy driving sims, trucks in general, and just moving around, you'll love the game. If you don't well you won't like a game about driving around :P

Kinda wondering tough, what people consider the most accurate and detailed truck sim around. I certainly find this one better than the 18 wheels of steel serie.

[Madkine]

Originally posted by CandyWater:

I always buy the whole game when I buy games. It's just how I roll. If I buy a game I buy it, and all DLC. It's not uncommon for me to drop 170.00 on a game I've never played. I have Ero and American Truck Driver in my cart right now totaling something like 108.00

I'd do it with one first and if you like it then get the other.

[Archer801]

I bought this game, 30 bucks. Not so bad. If I like it I'll get the Ero version. Mainly I was interested in learning... I cant say if I like trucks or not I'e never tried this type before. Kind of like Farming Sim. As a city person myself, growing up around tall buildings I never gave tractors much thought but now when I travel and see Harvestors I can tell you what model it is... Even though I've never used a real Harvester in my life I can tell you a lot about them. I was hoping for a similar experience with this game.

[Archer801]

Curious if the cops will give me a ticket for drunk driving. Oh wait they cant tell! hehe!
I'm totaly going to put on the tunes and kick back a few beers while playing, once I get used to the controls. =]

[Archer801]

Far Right, 2nd row down...

That is either a really bad angle for that person, or That is not a girl... lol!

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/942834527347768538/37A7DCAD2EB7B36C013B3D03DE2372F840974721/

[Archer801]

Can people online see my company name? My Company name is Kandy Kargo. How much does your company name play a factor?