Havre circuit breakers

[smroncmm]

Why make an achievement into a witch hunt? I have been looking for this since Montana became available. Havre has never once been available and I check every job I take to see if it is. This is a game and should be enjoyable as well as challenging but not frustrating, if you get my drift. I have 12,000 hours between here and ETS so understand procedures and l like to have 100% road discovered and achievements complete. Anyone have a suggestion on this one achievement?

[AyMazingATS]

Use the Company Browser in the game. Content Browsers >> Company Browser.

You can search specifically for the Circuit Breaker load. I have the achievement done. It is not impossible. I did it using an ownable trailer.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2886517226

Red signifies receiving only. Green dots are shipping out. Red/green on cities mean that city will ship and receive said cargo.

[smroncmm]

I don't know how to use a "company browser" unless I have without knowing. Can you advise, please?

[AyMazingATS]

New feature that came in 1.46. Using this you can locate what cities where a certain load originates from and delivers to.

ETA: This is not attached to any freight jobs though. But will give you an idea of what cities the circuit breaker loads originate from.

[smroncmm]

I have chosen destination and typed FARADAY in search window but am still not getting desired load. Is this considered "company browser"?

[AyMazingATS]

No. That is in the Job screen. Go back to main menu. Click Content Browsers on the bottom.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2886527362

[smroncmm]

Ok, thank you. I found it, but seeing cities where breakers are available still will not get me a job I need, correct? I guess I will forget this one since one open achievement between ETS2 and ATS won't kill me. It takes away from the simulator experience when you need to be a PI to find something this hard to locate.

[smroncmm]

I wish ATS would give us more challenging hills to climb rather than witch hunts. I really enjoyed hilly terrain of Montana Extension and now they are gone. Cruise control driving is rather boring compared to hilly areas where you have to drive the truck rather than steer it but that is for another topic. Have a great day and thanks for info. I had not noticed the browser icon.

[AyMazingATS]

You can click on Havre as the receiving city(right click on mouse) and then you will see what cities that the load ships from. Select the Circuit Breaker load.

That will narrow down of the cities that you will be looking at.

[smroncmm]

If I understand correctly, knowing where the job could be is not going to help me unless when I go to job screen "destination Havre" I find one available to the southern destination. So I am still just waiting for a pie in the sky to become available, correct? Sorry for bothering you but I do appreciate your trying to help.

[AyMazingATS]

Knowing the cities that you can take circuit breaker loads from will allow you check Freight Market, Cargo Market(Lowboy or flatbed trailer), Quick Jobs, and even jumping around the map to find an external contract/market job.

In a way this is waiting for the apple to fall in your lap when search the job menus.

[mojo_musica]

Ever looked up the meaning of the word "achievement"?
"noun
1. a thing done successfully with effort, skill, or courage."
Handing something to you on a plate, requiring no effort, is the polar opposite of an achievement. It isn't a "witch hunt"
Using the advice given already it is quite easy to get, one afternoon of play will easily be enough.
SCS like to make some of the achievements deliberately hard, to give players who like a challenge a chance to feel they did something special. There are countless posts here and in ETS2 about not being able to complete certain achievements, and the same ones crop up over and over again. They are all "do-able"
If you are a completionist, there is no getting around it, to get them all, you have to make the effort.

P.S. Power On!
Spark up Montana and support the power network by delivering a Circuit Breakers cargo and a Utility Poles cargo to the electric substations in each of the following cities: Butte, Glasgow and Havre (requires Montana DLC)
Unlocked 23 Sep @ 4:03pm
It pays to keep a written record of jobs completed for achievements, eliminates duplication and confusion.

[smroncmm]

I understand the effort. I have been months but will continue as I have been doing. Regardless of company browsing, if there is a load out there somewhere it would have to be listed under Havre in available jobs, in my mind. I can't force Faraday to take something they did not order if that makes sense.

[ReverendTed]

I'm still waiting on the Circuit Breakers job to Glasgow, but here's my advice:

If you're already running other jobs (for instance, for other achievements or while checking out Texas), then after each job, check the Quick Jobs and use the search function for "circuit". Then run through the list to see if any are going to Havre.
Also, at least a couple of those cities had two Faraday locations in the city and only the construction site counts, so be sure it's going to the right one. In Havre, it's the one to the south. Because you can only zoom in so far in the job browser, it can be difficult on the map screen to know which one it is, so to figure out what you're looking for you can search for "Faraday" and find a couple of jobs (of any type) in Havre and click between them to see how the icon moves, then you can more easily gauge which location is the southern one.

If you're NOT running other jobs, I recommend parking at the Vitas Power factory south of Pueblo, CO so you can watch the External Contracts. Circuit breakers can originate at a number of places, like rail yards, but those produce a TON of other cargoes. The Vitas Power factory only makes a few things aside from circuit breakers, so there are usually a few circuit breaker jobs each day. The External Contracts jobs are usually more plentiful, and they're on a real-world timer, so I fire up ATS and check it each evening.
Also, if you go to External Contracts from the main menu, it may not show all the currently-available jobs and you'll see different jobs when you click refresh. If you go to Vitas Power and activate the "View Jobs for this company", that will show you ALL of the External Contracts currently available, and no need to refresh. If it's not there, check again tomorrow.

[Qrazy]

An alternative method is to use this tool and spawn the job yourself. https://forum.scssoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=266092

Doesn't work on WoT jobs to my knowledge.

[Xegethra]

Originally posted by mojo_musica:

If you are a completionist, there is no getting around it, to get them all, you have to make the effort.

It's not really any effort, you are waiting for it to happen. For a job to show up. Other than take the load to it's destination, you do nothing for it. Some jobs take a while to show up.

You can try to game the system with sleeping and reloading....or as previously stated, cheat the job. Which both methods ironically take more effort to get it started and are more proactive, and have more steps to it than just waiting does. But you get the results quicker, if you've been unlucky in the job showing up naturally.

But yeah, taking notes would help.