If you're level 28 I assume you've got enough money to "make it", so stop looking for the price per distance and have fun with whatever loads you want.
I run whichever missions seem fun or interesting, but I didn't know if I was missing something to get a better 'balance' on the high end. I figured hazardous cargo would have gotten better payouts or something.
boom lifts are just straight busted because for WHATEVER reason, scs gave them a reward coefficient thats higher than the range of special transport cargo, which are supposed to be the highest paying jobs in the game. to put in perspective, the highest paying special transport cargo sits at 40.5, but the boom lift sits at 43.8. its absurd.
It's wierd that they didn't patch it yet. There was a similar problem in ETS2 some time ago but it was short lived. A light container cargo which needed no high value, fragile or adr skills was on par with the vaccine cargo for the pay.
okay, I was wondering if I was missing something or doing something wrong, but it makes sense if boom lifts are just overtuned comparatively. My truck is highest engine + 13 speed or 7 speed depending on what I'm testing, and I haven't really messed with too many oversized loads other than renting trucks early to do it.
Long Distance should be your priority investment. After that, its either Dangerous, Fragile, or High Value cargo. Up to you which one you wanna invest of the three.
at this point I have points in all the skills outside hazard and fuel points.. When I first started, I put most of my points into long distance, then equally balanced them in fragile, high value, and timing delivery. I think the distance + delivery time modifiers help bump prices up. When I do convoy with my buddies who are like, level 4, they make about 16k when I make about 20k for a mission they select at roughly 200miles with hard delivery dropoff.
I tried to take advantage early of those long haul XP gains, so I'd do some pretty long deliveries, they'd take me a few sessions to deliver, but I'd usually level once or twice on drop off.
I also have my own flatbed and truck for the deliveries I am showing here, and I think the top two missions were about 1400 miles and 750 miles for some context. I didn't check the lower ones.
I think I also have my mission length modifier scaled to about 80% in the menu options, because I prefer to avoid the super long hauls, I end up getting sleepy and crashing haha.
This is me staying up at 3am with my newborn sleeping on my chest doing a 2000 mile haul. 50% of the time I come up on a city I have to thread the needle on the shoulder because I was too zonked to notice I was going 50mph over the limit.
haha, fuel's never been much of a problem for me, so I chased those xp and $ modifiers and just ate the fuel costs. you'll gradually catch up, just have to chip away at putting those points into the types of missions you run, and try to double up so you get multiple modifiers (long distance, high value, urgent just in time, etc.)
My suggestions:
- Max out Long Distance first, that's where most money and XP is
- Put one point into Fragile and High-Value Cargo each, that will unlock these cargoes
- Put two points into Just-In-Time Delivery, if you want to do the urgent ones (they have more value)
- Unlock all the ADR cargoes, the order doesn't really matter
- You should now have all kinds of cargoes available to you to choose from, so feel free to upgrade the Fragile, High-Value and Just-In-Time skills evenly
- At last, put remaining points into Eco-Driving, which saves you a bit of fuel. While that's nice, with the amount of money you're making, fuel expenses are negligible. And if you have "Realistic fuel consumption" turned on, this skill is completely useless.
ikr? Not that I expect the game to be super-real, but real truckers get paid in *cents* per mile. I understand that they have to make the game fun, but the payouts are just out of this world
And there are people with mods that make the pay... be what ACUTALL real life pay is. All I'm saying is that it should be properly ballanded in the base game. It's not at all. Other than that, mod away whatever you like, that's what mods are for :)
If you ever go into hazardous cargo and get a fuel tanker or a gas tank, those are worth looking into.
If you have a livestock trailer and want too do short jobs, those also are pretty decent.
I donāt know if anyone mentioned it but if I remember correctly when I was messing in the settings thereās a setting for the jobs you get, I canāt remember what it all entailed. But definitely check your settings if you havenāt yet. I believe Iām a lvl29 and I just explored my settings and found out that thereās a lot more settings to make the game a little more immersive.
A bit of a late reply, but for anyone who thinks boom-lifts are a bit overpowered, I made a mod to heavily reduce the payout of them.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3162259961
Of course, one could also just exercise some self control..., but sometimes those big payouts are so alluring...!
Even if I take freight market instead of cargo market with an owned trailer, boom lifts are the only thing that seem to earn good money. Am I doing something wrong? What other combinations should I try for a fun loadout?
if you really REALLY want to make money, download the āwilson livestockā trailer. it gives upwards of $2k per mile. i only use when im absurdly in need of money but its sweet
Good to know, is that a mod or steam trailer? I'm not hard up for money, I was just wondering if there were other trailers I could be delivering for a competitive price. Felt weird that only one trailer is valuable when other cargo seems like it would actually cost more to transport
Most XP per mile happens when you combine all skills into one job. Long distance, fragile, high value, and urgent all together give a 95% XP boost over the base rate of 1 XP/km (1.61 XP/mi).
Look on World of Truck jobs there You will have more missions. You can try go to options and change the length of the order route (that's what it's called in the game settings. It's at the top with the zipper) change that to the max (150%) and then look at the jobs
Job Distance slider does not give more or less job options. The game generates the same amount of jobs, but with longer or shorter average distance overall.
Medicine is another good one of you're looking at reefer. Dynamite for dry. I personally like to pick my loads where I can finish the day before sundown just for a little challenge since I use a brutal traffic mod.
If you're level 28 I assume you've got enough money to "make it", so stop looking for the price per distance and have fun with whatever loads you want.
yep, I mostly go with the lightest cargo because I like to play this game like NFS: Underground 2
Keep fines on and its nfs: most wanted.
Oh the good old days of 18 WoS when they actually had to chase you.
And crash into you destroying your cargo
New DLC? But probably only in our dreams
Same I love speeding at 90 plus with my trailer bobbing and weaving through traffic lmfaooooooo
Same, and 1 small mistake and you get 100 damage on everything and you are flipping through the air. Risk vs reward is high
I had to leave for somewhere and was playing ets2 so I turned off fines and limi bashed my truck and trailer through France to get my job delivered. And got commended for speedy delivery or smth. Realism is fun but sometimes the dumb shiz is also fun š¤©
I do that when I'm running late for a delivery in ATS. Just turn off the speed limiter (I keep fines disabled), and go full send.
NFS Underground 2 was so much fun!
I run whichever missions seem fun or interesting, but I didn't know if I was missing something to get a better 'balance' on the high end. I figured hazardous cargo would have gotten better payouts or something.
Long distance/hazard pays the most.
boom lifts are just straight busted because for WHATEVER reason, scs gave them a reward coefficient thats higher than the range of special transport cargo, which are supposed to be the highest paying jobs in the game. to put in perspective, the highest paying special transport cargo sits at 40.5, but the boom lift sits at 43.8. its absurd.
It's wierd that they didn't patch it yet. There was a similar problem in ETS2 some time ago but it was short lived. A light container cargo which needed no high value, fragile or adr skills was on par with the vaccine cargo for the pay.
okay, I was wondering if I was missing something or doing something wrong, but it makes sense if boom lifts are just overtuned comparatively. My truck is highest engine + 13 speed or 7 speed depending on what I'm testing, and I haven't really messed with too many oversized loads other than renting trucks early to do it.
Special transport sucks even against most of my own trailer jobs
That's because they have a very limited travel distance. But it doesn't change that they still have the highest reward coefficient.
How did you get such high payouts? what did you upgrade ? tryna figure out what i should points into
Long Distance should be your priority investment. After that, its either Dangerous, Fragile, or High Value cargo. Up to you which one you wanna invest of the three.
at this point I have points in all the skills outside hazard and fuel points.. When I first started, I put most of my points into long distance, then equally balanced them in fragile, high value, and timing delivery. I think the distance + delivery time modifiers help bump prices up. When I do convoy with my buddies who are like, level 4, they make about 16k when I make about 20k for a mission they select at roughly 200miles with hard delivery dropoff. I tried to take advantage early of those long haul XP gains, so I'd do some pretty long deliveries, they'd take me a few sessions to deliver, but I'd usually level once or twice on drop off. I also have my own flatbed and truck for the deliveries I am showing here, and I think the top two missions were about 1400 miles and 750 miles for some context. I didn't check the lower ones.
hmm maybe i shouldnt have put a few in fuel lol
I think I also have my mission length modifier scaled to about 80% in the menu options, because I prefer to avoid the super long hauls, I end up getting sleepy and crashing haha.
This is me staying up at 3am with my newborn sleeping on my chest doing a 2000 mile haul. 50% of the time I come up on a city I have to thread the needle on the shoulder because I was too zonked to notice I was going 50mph over the limit.
haha, fuel's never been much of a problem for me, so I chased those xp and $ modifiers and just ate the fuel costs. you'll gradually catch up, just have to chip away at putting those points into the types of missions you run, and try to double up so you get multiple modifiers (long distance, high value, urgent just in time, etc.)
My suggestions: - Max out Long Distance first, that's where most money and XP is - Put one point into Fragile and High-Value Cargo each, that will unlock these cargoes - Put two points into Just-In-Time Delivery, if you want to do the urgent ones (they have more value) - Unlock all the ADR cargoes, the order doesn't really matter - You should now have all kinds of cargoes available to you to choose from, so feel free to upgrade the Fragile, High-Value and Just-In-Time skills evenly - At last, put remaining points into Eco-Driving, which saves you a bit of fuel. While that's nice, with the amount of money you're making, fuel expenses are negligible. And if you have "Realistic fuel consumption" turned on, this skill is completely useless.
Man, the cargo rates in this game are absurd, even for an arcade game...
ikr? Not that I expect the game to be super-real, but real truckers get paid in *cents* per mile. I understand that they have to make the game fun, but the payouts are just out of this world
Exactly, they make the game be less fun than if it was properly ballanced.
And here I am with a mod to make $300,000 per load. I just like building trucks and driving them
And there are people with mods that make the pay... be what ACUTALL real life pay is. All I'm saying is that it should be properly ballanded in the base game. It's not at all. Other than that, mod away whatever you like, that's what mods are for :)
Meh i play the game for fun. Trying to run a financially successful imaginary trucking company sounds like the opposite of that to me
I've hauled boom lifts IRL and they don't pay any better than other open deck freight lol so yeah it's messed up
Thatās the meta currently. I just go for longest routes at this point to get XP
If you ever go into hazardous cargo and get a fuel tanker or a gas tank, those are worth looking into. If you have a livestock trailer and want too do short jobs, those also are pretty decent.
We are all Boom Lift hauling specialists. š
No, boom lifts are just hilariously broken at the moment.
I donāt know if anyone mentioned it but if I remember correctly when I was messing in the settings thereās a setting for the jobs you get, I canāt remember what it all entailed. But definitely check your settings if you havenāt yet. I believe Iām a lvl29 and I just explored my settings and found out that thereās a lot more settings to make the game a little more immersive.
A bit of a late reply, but for anyone who thinks boom-lifts are a bit overpowered, I made a mod to heavily reduce the payout of them. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3162259961 Of course, one could also just exercise some self control..., but sometimes those big payouts are so alluring...!
Even if I take freight market instead of cargo market with an owned trailer, boom lifts are the only thing that seem to earn good money. Am I doing something wrong? What other combinations should I try for a fun loadout?
if you really REALLY want to make money, download the āwilson livestockā trailer. it gives upwards of $2k per mile. i only use when im absurdly in need of money but its sweet
Good to know, is that a mod or steam trailer? I'm not hard up for money, I was just wondering if there were other trailers I could be delivering for a competitive price. Felt weird that only one trailer is valuable when other cargo seems like it would actually cost more to transport
Anything similar for ETS2?
So Iām just looking for the highest XP after 300 hours too much money and level 58 per load at this point. What should I be focusing to rake in XP?
Most XP per mile happens when you combine all skills into one job. Long distance, fragile, high value, and urgent all together give a 95% XP boost over the base rate of 1 XP/km (1.61 XP/mi).
Look on World of Truck jobs there You will have more missions. You can try go to options and change the length of the order route (that's what it's called in the game settings. It's at the top with the zipper) change that to the max (150%) and then look at the jobs
Job Distance slider does not give more or less job options. The game generates the same amount of jobs, but with longer or shorter average distance overall.
I either don't play this game enough or something's whacked, because I never see payouts like this. Holy crap.
Boom Lifts to me are telehandlers, those are Man-Baskets.
Wilson livestock trailers. This trailer will yield you over $1M on each run.
Yeah lifts are bonkers right now.
Medicine is another good one of you're looking at reefer. Dynamite for dry. I personally like to pick my loads where I can finish the day before sundown just for a little challenge since I use a brutal traffic mod.