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Trakaplex·11/26/2020 in Truckers Corner

ATS Texas Over Montana!

So a lot of us are aware that SCS teased a video where a truck pulls into a private farm road, turns on its high beams and sees bison. Strangely the buffalo symbol in the thumbnail looked like the one in the Wyoming state flag, so it's probably Wyoming. Pavel mentioned this in the Idaho release stream as "a small one". Would make sense due to the spare population and its connectivity between three already released states. The "big one" though is disputed between Texas and Montana. I can prove that it's Texas. Pavel's discussions about the state have dated to at least a year back; he's never mentioned anything about Montana. I'd say ever. Also in the stream, he mentioned the state was "huge" but also something they were scared of. Montana is big in land area, but is pretty sparse in population just like Wyoming, so it would be called "small". Montana has little road network, and mostly rural, rugged terrain. I think they over-conquered Colorado, so Montana would be easy. The true "scare" is Texas. The west may be easy, but the east...

Also mentioning that the state has 2.2 million miles of road, and imagine the devs shoving that in a 1:20 scale. In the east, you have a plethora of towns and major cities scattered across the state. In real life, in under a 300 mile stretch of Interstate 35, you have Dallas/Fort Worth, Waco, Temple/Belton, Austin, San Marcos/New Braunfels, and San Antonio, many of these being suburbs and large cities. Imagine shoving this in a 1:20 scale, where is 15 miles instead. It's going to be "scary". They can't cheat distances as well since they may be omitting other important towns. Houston and Beaumont might be a little easier, and when it comes to the far east like Tyler and Longview or Lufkin and Nacogdoches, will be one exit apart and may be easy as well. The real struggle is I-35. That's what they're scared about. Further evidence indicates that in an ETS2 Iberia stream, Pavel mentioned that he sent developers to Texas in 2019, and not Montana. So whoever is saying it is Montana has gotta stop.

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Patrickov·12/10/2020

I think it's best to leave it to SCS. Being such a large state, Texas having a head-start in order to keep up with the 2-state-per-year pace is understandable.

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Geomodelrailroader·1/21/2021

Wyoming is small compared to the rest of the United States half of it is national parks the rest of the state except the eastern part is still in the wild west. Montana is also small with all the cities in the bottom of the state the rest of the state is mountains. To get from The Panhandle in Idaho to Montana and the Great Plains you have to cross 6 mountain grids first the Bitterroots, then the Flatheads, then the Elkhorns, then the Bridgers, then the Crazys, and finally the Bulls before you come to Bozeman and the split between the 94 and the 90 and Interstate 15. 75% of Montana is mountains the rest is the Great Plains right now Montana development will have to wait until Wyoming is released and Iberia is out of the way the same team that is doing Iberia also did Colorado, Idaho, and Washington while the other team did Oregon, New Mexico, Arizona, most of Nevada, and the remake of California they also did most of the map in Euro Truck. It takes time to make maps Texas is big you can cram 4 states into Texas it is the biggest state in the land second only to Alaska and it is the home of Pete who we will be visiting when it comes out. Pavel said they need to get started on Texas right away it is a big project. Last year things did not go to well Idaho released, Colorado released, but Iberia and the Island of Man stalled. The reason Euro Truck development stalled was the UK team was quarantined and the Europe Team could not get to their offices only the Truck Team, the US Team, and the State Teams were out. Truck Team also hit a snag the whole industry did. Western Star faced delays and the Daimler Plant in Portland was shut down they did not resume production until August and they only made one model the 49X Daycab and they just reopened the Sleeper line and that truck will release in the coming weeks. As for the Cascadia it is released and they just got the license It was luck that they found a Cascadia in Europe that Pavel gave them the green light. Later this year we might get more models but that depends on which state we enter. With Texas we might get a new model of Petes because the 579 is looking long in the tooth and SCS still has a license with Paccar and everyone knows Denton is the world headquarters of Pete and we will be going there when Texas comes out.

What do you think?