New game suggestion: A mix of ATS and Trucker Joe

[slim5oh]

Pardon me if this has been suggested, but I was just thinking how fun it would be to have a game/mod that kind of combined the graphics/physics/driving mechanics/maps of ATS with a "help build your world" type of game like Trucker Joe (mobile game, check it out).

Essentially, instead of just hauling loads from city to city, you kind of have to build your game world up by meeting the needs of a certain place so it can improve. For example, using the ATS base map, you start with maybe a dozen cities spread around California. Each city has one, maybe two "basic resources" like sand, gravel, wood, etc. Then in each city, you have a few unfinished projects like a glass factory, a steel factory, an airport, etc. In order to finish the project, you have to haul a certain amount of the basic resources (or later, the more advanced resources) to the site from around the map. Once you finish construction on the site, it opens up and starts producing more advanced resources like steel, glass, etc. You could block off parts of the map and only allow further cities to open once you transport enough resources to "build a new road". So, similar to Snowrunner but with a more world-building aspect.

Okay, I'll stop drinking for tonight.

[AyMazingATS]

You can submit your ideas and suggestions here:

Feature Wishlist and Suggestions [forum.scssoft.com]

[slim5oh]

Thanks @AymazingATS, but this was more of an idea for a new game versus a feature of ATS. I wouldn't suggest they change the whole basis of ATS, nor would I want that.

[AyMazingATS]

Very unlikely that you would even get a reply from the devs here.

They do read these forums however the best place to post suggestions, game ideas is on their official forums.

[BACON WARRIOR]

AkA File 13 hahaha but I do like a lot of your ideas it will give it a new mix of things. I hope they do change things up in a another game

[slim5oh]

Honestly, I wasn't even thinking the devs would be interested in this idea as it changes the whole focus of ATS/ET from a trucking simulator to more of a "game". For them, I wouldn't suggest fixing with ain't broken. I was kind of fishing my idea out there in hopes that some young, smart game developer is looking for ideas that would sell.

[slim5oh]

Also, I wouldn't want the devs taking focus away from pumping out those new States! i can't wait until we have the full lower 48 done!

Butttt...if SCS is listening and is looking for a side project that they could easily adapt the current code for ATS into a more "gamey" trucking experience...feel free to hit me up for consultations!

[Rookie-31st]

It's not yet clear how the economy works in Alaskan Truck Simulator, but it's going to be the game centered around the driver, not driving like ATS/ETS2. Might be something to offer what you're looking for.

[meatballs_21]

I like the idea. SCS does a sort of similar thing with their events (like the one, way back when, to haul away dirt from a landslide to help reopen a road) but this idea is far more complex than that.

Tycoon-style games where you also have to/have the option to drive your vehicles? I can’t really think of many. Trainz has a route builder (but it doesn’t cost resources to use) and also has an industry chain, and you can drive the trains yourself. Railroads Online takes the idea further, in that you’re laying tracks to reach resources and then driving up there to collect them (I haven’t played it yet, I’m worried it’ll consume my life).

[reuhaul]

The type of game the "original poster" is thinking of does exist, its called transport fever or transport fever 2

[Tuvalu]

Sounds like a mix of Transport Tycoon and Truck Simulator. I Like it.

Could be implemented with some short-haul-trucking jobs. For example: transport x-amount of y from a to b.

[Eclipse]

i like this idea, like Tuvalu said, transport tycoon mixed with TS. I think it would be fun to make it historical even, like start in the 50's and work your way into the future on a relatively slow time scale, helping build the country with your transport company and kinda playing a little RPG into it. it would be a great game Adjacent to ATS and ETS, not as a replacement.

[meatballs_21]

Originally posted by reuhaul:

The type of game the "original poster" is thinking of does exist, its called transport fever or transport fever 2

No, you don’t get to drive your vehicles yourself in Transport Fever.

This (which I just found today) is more like it:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1330660/Train_Life_A_Railway_Simulator/

[slim5oh]

Originally posted by reuhaul:

The type of game the "original poster" is thinking of does exist, its called transport fever or transport fever 2

I feel like you read about half of my post, but you're on the right track as far as the "building" part of my proposal. Think Transport Fever's "deliver the right supplies to build up the city" as the backend of the game, while the ATS trucking "simulation" is the front end. Whereas in TF/TF2 you just built a route to connect a forest to a sawmill, my proposal is you have to get in your truck, go to the depot and get a logging trailer, take that trailer to the forest where it'll be loaded with logs, and then deliver said logs to the sawmill. The sawmill starts producing boards with those logs. Once the sawmill has enough boards, you drive your truck to the depot and switch to a flatbed trailer, where you then drive to the sawmill and load up with boards. You take that load of boards to a "housing development" under construction. A few loads of boards later, that construction site becomes a full fledged housing development, which will then demand things like food, which you can then deliver from the farm or grocery store (that you also had to build by delivering concrete).

So...long story short, TF/TF2 (great games, BTW), may have the basics of what I'm thinking, but are in no way a replacement for this idea.