Suggestion: Foreign traffic

[Fiend]

If you have made connections to two or more customs houses then you should start getting requests for passage from neighbouring countries. These would be in the form of a contract that allows your neighbour to send a certain amount of traffic across your nation, and may include requirements for road quality and facilities.
Once agreed, vehicles will occasionally arrive from the customs house then drive across your nation to another customs house.

Eg. the simplest (and least profitable) offer might be for a single gravel road connection and no facilities required. Max 10 trucks per month.

A better paid offer might be for an asphalt road with at least one working fuel stop en-route. Max 300 trucks per month.

The best paid offer might be for fully electrified double track railway. Travel time less than 3 hours. Max 500 wagons per month.

A failure to provide the agreed facilities (eg. no fuel or power) would lead to service credits (fines) being charged.

[bballjo]

I like the idea... someone mentioned traffic jams: exactly, it would give meaning to the road network network. Anyone that builds a true highway system right now knows it's just for show, and has barely any real utility.

This does create a potential deadlock for customs house for vehicles leaving and arriving constantly, and would make those houses almost useless for your own needs, which maybe ok if you are able to 'accept contracts' as you mentioned, although I don't know that I like the contracts idea specifically, I'd just like to add some life to the roads. A bonus: tourists could come in that way too after you clear a certain tourism rating threshold.

I would add to your idea that the mechanics could work the same for trains...

Yay, more life!

[Veter]

Foreign traffic that just passing by? I like idea, but in reality we need some bonus for that, like something in rubles or dollars that wil cover all expenses for fuel that all this traffic consume.
But idea is great them self, and some motion in game

[bballjo]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Veter:

Foreign traffic that just passing by? I like idea, but in reality we need some bonus for that, like something in rubles or dollars that wil cover all expenses for fuel that all this traffic consume.
But idea is great them self, and some motion in game

Nice! Tourists are paying for the resources they consume...there is no reason why passthroughs can't pay for the fuel etc they take too :)

[gax]

Oprindeligt skrevet af pawelkrzyzak:

You do know, that everywhere in the world people are thrown to jail just and only because they dare to have different opinion, as we talk?
Read on truck drivers in Canada, who protested for all of us. Read on people sentenced in UK and USA for having different opinion then "mainstream"...

Your brush is not even broad, you throw the paint all over the world. There is much too much to critizice in the west to f/it up with such horrible generalizations. And before that thread gets closed, lets agree to disagree and get back at the topic.

[polle]

i support this but would also want proper multiline roads