Game Scale

[PhotriusPyrelus]

What's the scale like in this game? How does it compare with Euro Truck Sim 2, or maybe The Crew (not the second one)?

[gallagher4005]

Scale is 1:20 on highways, 1:3 in cities.
AFAIK.

[PhotriusPyrelus]

Originally posted by gallagher4005:

Scale is 1:20 on highways, 1:3 in cities.
AFAIK.

Wow. I didn't expect to get ratios like that. Awesome! Thanks!

[ttower]

Originally posted by PhotriusPyrelus:

Originally posted by gallagher4005:

Scale is 1:20 on highways, 1:3 in cities.
AFAIK.

Wow. I didn't expect to get ratios like that. Awesome! Thanks!

ETS 2 is about the same, 1:19 Highway, 1:3 in cities.

[Hiro Protagonist]

Originally posted by ttower:

Originally posted by PhotriusPyrelus:

Wow. I didn't expect to get ratios like that. Awesome! Thanks!

ETS 2 is about the same, 1:19 Highway, 1:3 in cities.

And 1:15 in the UK

[Dark & Realistic™ Nessie]

If my memory isn't failing, even on ATS the scale out of the cities is actually 1:19. We say it's 1:20 to simplify things, and as it doesn't make much difference on time-space calculations. But it's interesting that the map is actually BIGGER than advertised.

By the way, I don't think we can even compare to The Crew, as some states are even non-existent on it. It's only noticeable they chose only some cities to be really bigger, and the rest was simplified to a 10-block town.

EDIT: Just out of curiosity see https://i.redd.it/89sngf62ztj51.png and https://i.redd.it/kb5ont37gi771.png

[Wolfgang]

Originally posted by FelipeVinhao:

If my memory isn't failing, even on ATS the scale out of the cities is actually 1:19. We say it's 1:20 to simplify things, and as it doesn't make much difference on time-space calculations. But it's interesting that the map is actually BIGGER than advertised.

By the way, I don't think we can even compare to The Crew, as some states are even non-existent on it. It's only noticeable they chose only some cities to be really bigger, and the rest was simplified to a 10-block town.

EDIT: Just out of curiosity https://i.redd.it/89sngf62ztj51.png

No, it is actually 1:20 outside of cities. IIRC, according to a dev when they rescaled the map they were thinking about different map scales with 1:10 being too big while 1:30 being too small so they went with the middle and took 1:20 as a map scale which is nearly the same as ETS2 with its 1:19 map scale.

[Dark & Realistic™ Nessie]

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

No, it is actually 1:20 outside of cities. IIRC, according to a dev when they rescaled the map they were thinking about different map scales with 1:10 being too big while 1:30 being too small so they went with the middle and took 1:20 as a map scale which is nearly the same as ETS2 with its 1:19 map scale.

Then my memory is indeed failing. I need to play around the map editor again. 😅

Now I can't say for sure, but in my memory ATS was even smaller before rescale - I could swear it was 1:35.

[Wolfgang]

Originally posted by FelipeVinhao:

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

No, it is actually 1:20 outside of cities. IIRC, according to a dev when they rescaled the map they were thinking about different map scales with 1:10 being too big while 1:30 being too small so they went with the middle and took 1:20 as a map scale which is nearly the same as ETS2 with its 1:19 map scale.

Then my memory is indeed failing. I need to play around the map editor again. 😅

Now I can't say for sure, but in my memory ATS was even smaller before rescale - I could swear it was 1:35.

Yes, it was 1:35 before the rescale.

Edit: Currently trying to find the exact dev statement from that, hope that I find it again.
Edit2: Couldn't find it after 30 minutes, giving up. (There are a ton of posts on the SCS Forum mentioning "scale", "map" and "rescale". And I sadly can not filter to only see posts from SCS devs.)

[wullack]

Scale is 1:20 on highways, 1:3 in cities.

[Ryu]

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

Originally posted by FelipeVinhao:

Then my memory is indeed failing. I need to play around the map editor again. 😅

Now I can't say for sure, but in my memory ATS was even smaller before rescale - I could swear it was 1:35.

Yes, it was 1:35 before the rescale.

Edit: Currently trying to find the exact dev statement from that, hope that I find it again.
Edit2: Couldn't find it after 30 minutes, giving up. (There are a ton of posts on the SCS Forum mentioning "scale", "map" and "rescale". And I sadly can not filter to only see posts from SCS devs.)

It's in the Events & Announcements sub-forum. :)

https://steamcommunity.com/app/270880/eventcomments/1631916406847385989/

[Dark & Realistic™ Nessie]

As an additional information, on the rescale they also changed the map projection from Mercator to Lambert. It doesn't seem to affect scale at first... until you get closer to north pole.

https://steamcommunity.com/games/americantrucksimulator/announcements/detail/744612280178417842