Quality Purchased MODS

[SwampBottom]

I've gotten several great trucks from RTA MODS. Are there other quality content creators that have mods you can purchase? 99% of what I see when I search is all endless click bait sites. So who else is selling high quality truck, trailer, other mods for ATS?
DO NOT POST A LINK AS THIS IS A VIOLATION OF THIS COMMUNITIES RULES.
Please just post the name of the creator or the name of their website so it can be googled and found.

[Trucker_71]

The workshop and the SCS forums will get you quality truck & trailer mods without going to pirate sites or to paid mods which in most cases are just hacked & enhanced free mods anyway.

[ketfliper]

produced by jon-ruda - facebook

[bukkie661]

one of the best ever truckmods, the Kenworth 100E is on the Workshop, also, the great Mack CHU, the Argosy and even a beautiful Australian Kenworth. Some great Petes too. Volvo and Freightliner is too meh to take seriously.
There's a lot of trailer stuff on the Workshop too, traffic mods, cosmetic mods.
The great thing of the Workshop here is that you can be pretty sure that the mod-author is actually the creator and not the thief/copy-cat. The workshop also allows mod-authors to quickly and easily update their mods, provided that they're still active. Because of the shady sites, mod-theft, mod-authors betraying eachother, stealing from eachother under the guise of collab and generally are at eachothers throats on Facebook, accusing eachother from everything stopping short of calling eachother sexually offensive- I rather only approach mods on the Workshop. Somehow the mods on here are relatively free of drama. You might not get the worthwhile shiney that pops up on every russian and turkish 'mod'-site now and then, but at least you know that you didn't unintentionally endorse bad practice.
And seriously, the Workshop isn't that bad at all. You can also visit the SCS official website here:
https://forum.scssoft.com/index.php
But the mods there are generally hosted on file-sharing platforms. However, the mod-authors are the people that actually created the mods on offer and they often support and help eachother out. SCS Official is a great source of mods that you can use without actually harming the modding scene.

[SwampBottom]

Originally posted by ketfliper:

produced by jon-ruda - facebook

Yes, jon-ruda was who I was looking for.

[ketfliper]

hmm is really interesting that when i was looking for some TOP trucks last night. Today I will find this request.
and I did not find some great others ... mybe I would try something from this guy : kishadowalker

Do someone know if could be taken for example MODs, which are marked as WIP on SCS blog in Modding section?

[pieperjohanns]

You should never pay for mods.

The Workshop has several top-rated trucks (see link), the SCS forum as well.

https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/browse/?appid=270880&requiredtags%5B0%5D=Trucks&actualsort=totaluniquesubscribers&browsesort=totaluniquesubscribers&p=1

[Sandhill]

Originally posted by pieperjohanns:

You should never pay for mods.

Unless, like so many people, you want to, in which case you should pay for mods.

[room217au]

RTA Mods - upside:
I have 6 trucks and 3 trailers from RTA. I bought the first one, KW T908, about 4 years ago.
The detail in these trucks is outstanding. The K200 is superb.
Hundreds of hours driving the 908 and for $20, that's pretty cheap entertainment imho.
Yes, there are multitudes of free trucks downloadable from the Workshop or the usual mod sites, but RTA produce trucks that nobody else does.
You should know that Kriechbaum does not provide sounds for RTA anymore. That may or may not be a selling point. But again, that's just my opinion.

downside:
1) The truck models are rather 'large'. SCS trucks' models range around the 10 or 12mb mark, whereas RTA trucks are usually more than three times that. What does this mean? Well, the game only allows for 22Mb per resource. The game will happily load bigger ones, but I have had issues in the past where the game crashed after continuous play because of the enormous model sizes. RTA has been reducing these over time through updates and are actually getting much better at it.
2) If you're wanting regular and frequent updates, RTA doesn't really do that. Since offering their mods on a Mega account for customers, it is better, but they do take a long time to update to keep inline with SCS game updates.

I'm not saying you should buy their trucks. I'm not saying you shouldn't.
You can cruise around the modsites and you'll find RTA trucks that have been 'leaked' to the public but I haven't seen one for a couple of years and the ones that you do find are significantly out of date.

[SwampBottom]

Originally posted by room217au:

RTA Mods - upside:
I have 6 trucks and 3 trailers from RTA. I bought the first one, KW T908, about 4 years ago.
The detail in these trucks is outstanding. The K200 is superb.
Hundreds of hours driving the 908 and for $20, that's pretty cheap entertainment imho.
Yes, there are multitudes of free trucks downloadable from the Workshop or the usual mod sites, but RTA produce trucks that nobody else does.
You should know that Kriechbaum does not provide sounds for RTA anymore. That may or may not be a selling point. But again, that's just my opinion......................

Yes, I freaking love the K200. Have many hours and countless miles in ATS in that one.

[Robinicus]

I am doing all the engines for RTA for 1.37, so I may have a slanted opinion but will say Oleg and his brother are pretty committed to their customers. We have a lot of discussions about quality and value; more so that a lot of others I am also working with who are more focused on a quick update to 1.37 than taking the time to get all the benefit FMOD can give their customers or to fix any errors I find when testing...I have stopped working for a couple of paid modders based on their approach to updates and their customers.

They also do some very unique trucks like the Peterbilt 359 that is just awesome to drive and they are in the midst of putting the final stages on a Ford LTL 9000 that will be free, not paid.

Stanislav is also doing some very nice work now that he is on his own under MtG; I am also doing his engines and have gotten to know him better as well; also very committed to making sure his customers are happy with the work.

[RGH]

You might be interested in BlueprintMods on facebook. 2 items right now, a Mack MH and a Kenworth Needlenose (or 521). High quality if I may say so.

These mods are kept up to date as well.

[room217au]

Originally posted by Robinicus:

I am doing all the engines for RTA for 1.37

It'll be a great package all 'round.
Hopefully they'll trim some more off those .pmgs :)