Euro Truck Simulator is awesome!

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Euro/American Truck Simulator Event Announced.

Virtual Truckers of the world, we are all enduring a difficult time, as the world fights against COVID-19. It's time for us to respond in the best way we can.

Heroic drivers and support crew around the world are currently delivering much-needed supplies and providing life-saving services. Their work keeps the world moving and is incredibly challenging and dangerous.

When reflecting on this we might ask the question, what can we do. The scientific advice is clear, the best thing we can do is to stay at home and keep physical interaction to a minimum. So, we are calling on you, our #BestCommunityEver, as a salute to these heroes, to unite and to #TruckAtHome. Let's stand alone together, keep the world safe, and let's participate in a World of Trucks community event!

Our slogan for this event is #TruckAtHome and our goal is simple, to get as many people involved, in any way they can, while remaining at home. Complete as many jobs as you can, there is no special cargo and no minimum distance. Choose the longest jobs possible or do many short jobs, it's up to you because we are going to track the delivery distance required for all jobs completed, then add them up. You can even use your own trailers in the External Market!

We are in the middle of beta testing upcoming updates to our games, and injecting new content into the games is just not possible unless we restart the betas. So, instead of going the usual Steam Inventory route, we have had to improvise. As an incentive to get more players involved, we are providing a free Steam Workshop #TruckAtHome paint job mod for the event. We'll be handing out free Steam keys to get even more people playing. And, we also pledge to undertake positive actions to help those who are combating COVID-19, more details in the rules. The more distance covered during the event, the more keys we will give away and the more pledges we will make. Every kilometer, every mile counts! We feel that it is crucial to send the message now, when it matters most.

#TruckAtHome Event Rules:

Using External Contracts or External Market, with a World of Trucks-connected profile, in Euro Truck Simulator 2, American Truck Simulator or both, the community is to cover as much distance as possible while making deliveries. All completed jobs will have their planned route distance added to the event progress.

For each milestone of 20,000,000 km reached by the community, we will be offering Steam keys in a special social media giveaway campaign. Furthermore, we pledge to undertake a positive action to help those who are combating COVID-19 for each milestone reached, and will announce these on a case by case basis.

A player will reach their personal goal once they have delivered over a combined planned route distance of 2,500 km or more.

Reward:

Personal goal: An individual contribution of completed deliveries reaching a combined planned route distance of 2,500 km (ca. 1,600 miles) or more earns that player a prestigious World of Trucks Achievement. Then, after 1.37 has been released, we will further complement this with a special Steam inventory item reward, yet to be announced.

Community goals: For each milestone of 20,000,000 km (ca. 12,500,000 miles) reached by the community, we will be offering Steam keys in a special social media giveaway campaign. Furthermore, we pledge to undertake a positive action to help those who are combating COVID-19 for each milestone reached and will announce these on a case by case basis.

The event will be concluded on Monday the 6th of April at 23:59 UTC.

Let's get the message out there to #TruckAtHome, and make the world a safer place. Play Euro Truck Simulator 2 or American Truck Simulator during this unprecedented event. Any content under #TruckAtHome along with tagging our profiles on Facebook (SCS, ATS, ETS2), Instagram or Twitter will be in the running for a special reward. Post videos, take screenshots, write reviews, create chat rooms and discuss the event and message, make artwork about it. Do whatever it takes, just stay at home and stay safe.

Are you an established streamer? Get in touch with us (through this email) to obtain Steam keys to engage your audience during the event. Please make sure your message is written in English.

If you are a modder and would like to enhance your custom paint job mod with our #TruckAtHome logos or use them in a video stream graphic, you can download the source files here.
 
Are you a trucker? Pictures of your beast plz.

Not the most exciting, but this is the MAN that I'm currently driving:

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And this is the one occasionally people see me pottering around ArmA 3 public or joint-op games doing 'Logistics' work.

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And this is the one occasionally people see me pottering around ArmA 3 public or joint-op games doing 'Logistics' work.

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Interesting. Is the clothing on your PC from a mod or is that vanilla game content?

If the latter, what do you think about the dev adding curve ball content the likes of a road ambush by NPC criminals near drop off points? A scripted hijack scenario where hostile NPCs engage you at gun point and attempt to steal your rig. And your PC has the ability to defend themselves. If your PC and truck survive with minor damage, they get a big commission bonus for delivering the merchandise safely (and negligible medical/hospital bill).

However, if your PC survives but the truck is too damaged (so the goods are damaged) then you pay the merchandise/truck insurance, plus any hospital bill penalties (assuming they took out insurance before taking the job).

If your PC dies in the random encounter, the truck would be stolen and your PC would lose whatever commission they had for taking that job. Which if you weren't driving as an independent operator/truck owner, then this would put a black mark against your career and reputation.

Is a feature like random hostile/takeover and/or friendly encounters (NPC helping your PC fix their tire, reboot battery en route etc) something that you as a player would find more engaging?
 
The new Colorado DLC for American Truck SImulator might be the best DLC the entire Truck Simulator franchise ever had. The scenery is spectacular, especially the million dollar highway.
 
ETS needs a real challenge. Like an Ice Road Trucker road map equal to the challenges Truckers face driving on the infamous North Slope/ Dalton Highway at peak of the Alaskan winter. Whatever the equivalent body of ocean, lake/fresh water is in Scandinavia. Trucking across this 414 mi long highway frozen sea and tundra is literally a trip through purgatory. This American highway only has 3 (sparsely populated) towns of population 25 or less right out of a Steven King book. And even less seasonal settlements dispersed in between.

 
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