American Truck Simulator

American Truck Simulator

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Proper Traffic Variety (1.41)
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27 Mar, 2021 @ 11:51am
18 Sep, 2021 @ 6:03pm
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Proper Traffic Variety (1.41)

Description
ATS’s traffic variety is well and all, but could it be more accurate? This mod makes a minor change, but it certainly makes the game more accurate.

I’ve sifted through thousands of Craigslist ads for each vehicle’s year, make, model, and, when applicable, trim, counted every individual vehicle, and factored it into each vehicle’s spawn ratio. For vehicles belonging to a specific department or company, I’ve taken a sample for each state, and factored what vehicles are present in that sample into each vehicle’s spawn ratio.

Resolving incompatibilities:
-You may have to place the mod beneath traffic packs.
-Place beneath Brutal Traffic (maintains in-class traffic variety while allowing Brutal Traffic’s density).
-Place beneath ATS Traffic Behaviour (maintains in-class variety while allowing Traffic Behaviour’s density).
-Place beneath Meatballs Traffic Density Mod (maintains in-class variety while allowing Traffic Density Mod’s density).
-Place above Realistic traffic (allows the spawn of modded traffic vehicles while overriding his edits to spawns).
-Place below Real Traffic Density (allows Traffic Density’s density, while keeping in class variety).
-Place above Island Map to ensure the mod takes effect.

Features include:
-Vastly decreased semi spawn.
-Vastly decreased police spawn.
-Vastly decreased bus spawn.
-Vehicles not sold in the United States no longer spawn.
-Vehicles unrealistic fleet vehicles no longer spawn (some fire trucks, 2012 CHP Charger, etc.).
-Outdated fleet vehicles no longer spawn (MCI MC-12, NHP Crown Victoria, etc.).
-As previously stated, every spawn ratio is grounded in empirical data, at least somewhat accurately portraying the car culture of each state. For example, California has a greater preponderance of electric vehicles, while other states have an increased number of pickups.

Supported maps:
-Island Map
-Montana Expansion
-Some C2C compatibility

Bugs:
-Utah’s lack of variety and some vehicles being far too prolific has been largely been corrected, but some issues still remain.

Other notes:
-Compatible with all map mods, traffic packs, and DLCs, however, map mod traffic isn’t effected.
-Since traffic pack’s aren’t optimized for this mod, and it may cause issues with traffic spawning. This is especially true for Utah, where spawn ratios have been greatly altered (normal spawn ratios hover around 0.5-1.00, but I’ve had to multiply this by 100 for each vehicle) to combat measures hard-coded into the game.

Credits:
Craigslist: Sales data
Google Maps: Fleet data
Cip: General pointers

Feel free to edit, redistribute, claim it as your own, I really don’t care, no credit to me required.

Please let me know of any bugs, suggestions, criticism, constructive, or otherwise. You’re likely to get a faster response through Discord (you can join through this code: Bc4VMxaCNe).
51 Comments
jrnhtown04 14 Oct, 2024 @ 8:00pm 
I fixed errors so it would load to Workshop. Here's updated version: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3349042711
Hope it still works like you like.
jrnhtown04 12 Oct, 2024 @ 8:12pm 
I have edited the mod by fixing a few lines to match 1.51. It loads and works just fine when zipped up and placed in mod folder, however, I can't get it to upload to Steam workshop. Once I fine the errors and fix them, I'll post a link.
kraftwerkd 11 Oct, 2024 @ 9:09pm 
"Feel free to edit, redistribute, claim it as your own, I really don’t care, no credit to me required."
A gentlemanly move, and the only sane way to publish mods. Trying to tell others not to edit a file SCS has provided for the strict purpose of editing is insane, pointless and highly egotistical.
BornToBattle 6 Oct, 2024 @ 3:57am 
Yeah as of 1.51.2.3 this mod will crash your game unfortunately. Great mod, when it worked though. I was sick of seeing ambulances and fire trucks around every corner and waaay to many semis. This cuts down on that - when it worked with earlier versions. Not usable now.
jrnhtown04 18 Sep, 2024 @ 3:57pm 
If you like this mod, just go into the DEF files of this mod, and match those files to the games DEF files(adjusting them with this mods numbers). There is LOTS of literature on the web about how to get into DEF files.
MrUnSavory 11 Sep, 2024 @ 12:56pm 
Now crashing on 1.51. May we get this updated?
stormdj19 7 Jun, 2024 @ 7:33am 
Desn't work fine, crashes the game every time.
lovesstorms 20 May, 2024 @ 6:30pm 
Crashed my game on 1.50. Once I took it out, the game no longer crashed.
Snooze_Button 3 Mar, 2024 @ 5:56pm 
works for me. make sure this is loaded under all ai traffic stuff
Laqueesha 15 Nov, 2023 @ 5:48pm 
Crashes on v1.49 as well.