I saw a guy trying to comfy truck but he didn't look very comfy since his load came unstrapped and some of this glass fell onto the road. This is also after I saw someone cut a corner and almost get stuck while going up a small rise. These guys need to learn how to comfy it up.
IRL in Germany, you MUST stay to the right, or you could get a ticket. Cars are allowed in the left and far left lanes only to pass, and are expected to stay as far right as possible.
I do not quite understand the right exit bit and if it applies IRL or not. For what it's worth, you can tell the lanes by looking at the green signs prior to the exit. For every straight down arrow on the left sign(s) for the non-exit road there is a lane going forward.
Finally did my first really long haul, 1,900km. Got to a point where it started to feel like real long haul trucking because it took me about an hour and a half to complete. The stress was getting to me since the more time spent driving on one delivery means more chances for damage to the rig which turned out to be a real fear. Got stuck behind a semi doing some mild hill climbing.....the dude stopped dead in the road when we were doing over 50kmh. Nothing like going from a 1% damage because of a speed bump on a guard rail to 26% because a NPC truck just needed to stop.
@_k_ dude that crap pisses me off so much. I had an NPC truck stop in front of me at an intersection and never move, so I cautiously went around it after a few minutes. Got hit by cross traffic trucks. Also, I got a red light infraction. All that on a perfect run.
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TeramonaConsulting Tea Specialist Best Coast! Icrontian
I was about to be late for my drop, when I accidentally hit a truck in front of me on a two lane high way. He hit a car going the opposite direction. They stopped. I stopped. We all stopped. I watched the clock tick closer and closer to my demise, and still the driver in front of me didn't move. Dan came to stand next to me, and I took a deep breath. Silently, I hit the gas. Dan and I watched together as I started comfy trucking through the mess I had made. I hit one car. Then another. The dinging coming from the speakers was unmistakable as the fines racked up.
Finally, when I was passed the wreckage, when I was back on open road after having waded through a pile of misery, I turned to Dan and said:
It needs to start somewhere, might as well be me. I'm setting the precedence for Longest Completed Run , Biggest Payday and Most XP in a single run. Time and damage penalties noted for comparison.
Longest Completed Run: 1678 km (52 H 1 M, 2%)
Biggest Payday: $91,715 (-$255)
Most XP in a single run: 2842 XP (-21 XP)
You can see there is room for improvement in damage and also I only had level 1 fragile cargo. My next goal is a $100,000 payday.
Yea, I'd say we should only count the base reward, otherwise it will definitely benefit the higher ranked players.
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midga"There's so much hot dog in Rome" ~digi(> ^.(> O_o)>Icrontian
edited August 2013
Agreed. There's also the problem of longer runs, more valuable items, etc, giving better payouts anyway, and us having stipulated at the beginning that Long Haul 3 would be the max requirement.
My challenge is not to be confused with Ilryas' Truck Off described in the OP. I was basically challenging people to encourage playing the game and sharing their best runs.
I like this. It encourages longer hauls with a slightly less damage penalty percentage and the damage penalty is harsh enough to require minimal damage for top scores.
I deem this the CannonFodder meathod of Comfy Truck Scoring.
Still interested in your best runs based solely on distance, money and XP individually.
The Scores to beat:
Longest Completed Run: 1678 km
Biggest Payday: $91,715
Most XP in a single run: 2842 XP
CF Score: 777.07-Digi
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TeramonaConsulting Tea Specialist Best Coast! Icrontian
It's too bad the results screen doesn't have a load weight (although it might be possible to infer from the name "Digger 500"), so that it could be used as an additional parameter in the CF score.
But then again I think that goes to calculating the difficulty of the run a bit more than the success of the run.
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I do not quite understand the right exit bit and if it applies IRL or not. For what it's worth, you can tell the lanes by looking at the green signs prior to the exit. For every straight down arrow on the left sign(s) for the non-exit road there is a lane going forward.
...That also brings to light an advantage of upgrading your garage.
Ain't no rest for the comfy.
Though clearly European engineering is vastly superior to American, that car doesn't even give a fuck that a semi is all up in it's business.
Finally, when I was passed the wreckage, when I was back on open road after having waded through a pile of misery, I turned to Dan and said:
"I did what I had to do."
Pretty much how I do any kind of turn, jack knifed.
It needs to start somewhere, might as well be me. I'm setting the precedence for Longest Completed Run , Biggest Payday and Most XP in a single run. Time and damage penalties noted for comparison.
Longest Completed Run: 1678 km (52 H 1 M, 2%)
Biggest Payday: $91,715 (-$255)
Most XP in a single run: 2842 XP (-21 XP)
You can see there is room for improvement in damage and also I only had level 1 fragile cargo. My next goal is a $100,000 payday.
I nominate this be the metric of this challenge.
52 hours, 1 min / €53685 = 1032.07 - 255.00 = 777.07
I like this. It encourages longer hauls with a slightly less damage penalty percentage and the damage penalty is harsh enough to require minimal damage for top scores.
I deem this the CannonFodder meathod of Comfy Truck Scoring.
Still interested in your best runs based solely on distance, money and XP individually.
The Scores to beat:
Longest Completed Run: 1678 km
Biggest Payday: $91,715
Most XP in a single run: 2842 XP
CF Score: 777.07-Digi
2428.3 CF Score
But then again I think that goes to calculating the difficulty of the run a bit more than the success of the run.
€521 / 4 minutes = CF Score 9315