Ace Logistics

Greetings!
We understand there is a lot of anticipation towards our multiplayer support for version 1.40, and with it, comes lots of questions. Therefore, we are happy to announce our Development Update 1.40, which will hopefully, answer your questions and concerns.

With American Truck Simulator 1.40 releasing on the 23rd of March, and Euro Truck Simulator 2 1.40 releasing on the 24th of March, our community have been anxiously awaiting TruckersMP's multiplayer support of the latest versions…

Today, on April 1st, we would like to spice up our routine. One truck driver is fine, but how about hundreds more?
Twitch Plays Euro Truck Simulator 2 is a social experiment, a crowdsourced attempt to play Euro Truck Simulator 2 through the Twitch chat. Everyone in the chat, with help of chat commands, can drive one and only one available truck and (hopefully) be successful in the game in general. Inspired by many others Twitch Plays games, we expect pure chaos and sudden unity of the chat…

Hi truckers,
It has stopped snowing, the days are getting warmer, the grass is green and the trees are starting to blossom. It can only mean one thing, spring has sprung!

Even if it may not feel like it, we’ve gone full circle and it is spring once again. Where has the time gone!? All jokes aside, we’re excited to confirm that we’re working with Grimes to support the Spring Graphics/Weather mod for Euro Truck Simulator 2 [URL:https://grimesmods.wordpress.com/2017/05/17/spring-weather-mod/]…

We have now officially partnered with Atlantic Logistics.

We are growing on social media.

News from Ace Logistics!

Hey everyone,



 



Today we are starting with a new concept in TruckersMP. We want to bring more diversity by adding new ways of playing TruckersMP.



Of course, our main focus will remain on truck-related things. Hauling cargo together, creating events, … Over the past years, the community has created countless suggestions about bringing new vehicles to the game. Common things we saw are “please bring a new car” or “please bring buses”. Certainly, not everyone likes cars and similarly, not everyone likes buses.



 



Behind the scenes, we have been working for a long time (years) on creating new ways to play our modification. We want to be transparent with the community by providing insight into what is going on. Development on the new game mode which we gave an update about early 2019, is still paused. This game mode is a long-awaited feature, but after doing a lot of research and development, we sadly realized that currently, it is not viable to bring this to the community. Though, efforts are being made to make it possible closer to the end of the year. Game Developers mwl4 and ShawnCZek are working hard to rewrite and improve our current systems, which would allow us to build the ‘new game mode’ in a better way in the future.



 



Apart from these improvements, the Game Developers are also working on a new system that will improve moderation in the game and can create unique situations at the same time. This system will be used on Simulation, Arcade and Event servers. We expect to see this new system come to life within the next few weeks. Keep an eye on our social media to stay up to date.



 



Anyway, let’s get deeper into the new concept we are bringing to TruckersMP now. As said above, we have had tons of requests from the community to bring new vehicles. The new concept will make this happen. Every two weeks, we will create a poll where the community can vote on which car they want on our servers. Patrons will have a separate vote which allows them to vote for a second car only available for them (for the Master Trucker tier only). The polls will happen on multiple systems. Discord, Facebook, Instagram, Patreon (for Patrons only) and the TruckersMP website (a system we are still working on). Sometimes you will be able to choose between two or three cars, while other times there might be five or more. The chosen cars will be removed again after two weeks and replaced with the newly voted vehicles.



 








 



How it will look



Every two weeks, you will be able to vote for new vehicles which will be added to the game for two weeks.



 



Today, 1st March, we will start the first poll which will be hosted on Discord. If you linked your Discord account correctly with your TruckersMP account and navigate to the #alternating-vehicles channel on our official Discord server, you will see that you can vote between the vehicles in the channel. You can also head to #roles, and clicking the blue car emote will give you the Alternative Vehicles role so you can stay updated on new polls. Patrons will be able to vote via a post in their #patrons-updates channel.



 



On Friday 5th March at 22:59 UTC, we will check which vehicles received the most votes. The following Monday, we will then add the vehicles to our servers. A week later, we will start the new poll and the other above-mentioned steps, but the vote will then be on a different system. On 15th March, we will then remove the first vehicles and replace them with new ones. If you have purchased one of these special vehicles, it will be replaced with the new one automatically. The vehicles will either have the existing Scout interior or a truck interior, as it is not viable to create a custom interior for all the vehicles.



 



Using this concept, we want to bring ‘something for everyone.’ Follow us on social media to stay up to date with new vehicle polls.
Please note: We will do our best to stick to the plan, however, things may change along the way. New game updates or other factors might have an impact on this concept. If this is the case, please keep an eye on our social media pages where we will make you aware of any bumps along the road.



 



We have worked hard for the last eight months to bring this new concept to life, and we really hope you enjoy this new feature within TruckersMP! Your feedback is always appreciated, so head over to the feedback system and select the category Community Management to let us know your thoughts. We cannot wait to see how the community reacts to and makes use of these new additions within the game, and we are excited to continue working on other features to bring later this year.



 



Thanks for your continued support. Keep trucking!



 



UPDATE March 2nd 2021: In previous revisions, we have not mentioned the Patreon tier eligible for an additional car. To remove this confusion, we have updated the article and highlighted the availability of Patreon-only cars for the Master Trucker tier only. Sorry for the inconvenience.



 



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Hello everyone,
The latest rules update has been published and with this blog post we would like to explain why we have made such changes, as well as giving an insight on further changes in terms of punishments.
The first relevant change is related to the 1.2§ - Ban Evading rule. The punishment for evading a ban, more often than not, resulted into a permanent ban due to the severity of the offences committed through multiple accounts. We have decided to standardize punishments for Ban Evading to a permanent ban. What is classed as Ban Evading? Evading a ban includes any attempt to avoid a punishment, which includes but is not limited to:

Creating a new Steam account and a new TruckersMP profile to use services you are banned from (appeal, web report and feedback system, servers);
Borrow another player's account and use TruckersMP services you are banned from;
Take down your own evidence that got you banned in order to get the ban removed.

It is worth explaining that we are going to put greater effort to spot Ban Evaders for 2.1§ related offences and severe intentional offences.
Another internal change that will also affect you is the ability to report Ban Evaders. Our focus is to have a lean approach on what we do, freeing ourselves of steps that are often unproductive and provide close to no results. We have worked a lot on web reports and feedback tickets by checking accounts we received and we deem this method highly inefficient. Out of 6496 Ban Evading reports we processed, barely 30% of them was classed as a valid web report and resulted in a ban. Starting today, it won't be possible to report in any way Ban Evaders through the web report system or the feedback system, all BE related processes will be handled internally with the appropriate tools available for the Game Moderation Management.
Further improvements have been made to 1.4§ - Reporting users. We have improved wording to let players and staff members have a better understanding of the rules and we also decided to publicly share the punishments we have been issuing for the past year as per internal rules. From now on, the GM Team will decline any report that does not comply with the rules in order to increase the average quality of web reports and for certain rules violations, the Game Moderation Management will manually issue a 30 days ban from the web report system which will need to be appealed through the feedback system. The second offence will be permanent. We feel like this is a necessary step due to the outstanding amount of total web reports declined that goes as high as 326,989, 26% of the total received.
Following the Road to Simulation #2 blog post, we would like to take further steps forward in preventing intentional offences from happening on our servers. The Game Moderation Management has made wide use of the 2.9§ rule in the past months and issued permanent bans, even as first bans, to players that were intentionally violating rules. Back in 2019 we have issued a total of 14,323 permanent bans which are still active as of today. In 2020, we stepped it up at 17,919 permanent bans with an increase of 25%. We do not intend to stop this trend: we will make further internal changes to ban people even faster that intentionally violate the rules for driving-related offences. We will be restricting the loop further on racist remarks and we will be having a zero-tolerance policy for racism-related offences and we'll go as far as issuing instant permanent bans for such violations. TruckersMP is a worldwide community, full of players of any age and any origin and we won't consider racism as "just" a worse insult any longer. In the past months, we have already started issuing harsher bans for such offences, however, we want to make it clear what we will be doing with such events.
One major change that you can read in our latest rules update is the restricted use of anything related to criminal organizations on tags, avatars, names, VTC names etc. on all our services. At TruckersMP we've always restricted the possibility to impersonate in any way other users, staff members, political figures, law enforcement, leaders and authorities of any kind and we do not believe allowing the use criminal organizations such as the "Mafia" are fit for our community. We do not support nor encourage the views of such organizations and for this reason, we do not want these to be part of our servers.
We are very well aware that some specific names are widely used in the community, which is why we will be giving a 7 days cool down to remove and/or change all criminal organization related content, whether they are in-game tags, usernames, vehicle tags, VTC names and tags, avatars etc. After the cooldown has ended, on the 21/02/2021, we will proceed to issue punishments for in-game related offences and hand-made changes for the other TruckersMP related services such as Forums, VTCs and TruckersMP profiles as we do on a daily basis for other violations of the 1.5§ rule.
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Hello truckers,
On January 21st 2018, we announced that TruckersMP had hit an amazing 2 million users. On November 12th 2019, we announced that TruckersMP had hit an outstanding 3 million users. This is going to be insane, but we are proud to announce that today we have surpassed the 4 million users mark! This is seriously beyond our expectations! When TruckersMP was first created and established in 2014 we never thought this, at the time, a small project would become this popular with this many registered accounts. It seriously amazes us! So on behalf of the entire TruckersMP Team, we thank you for joining us on this journey and thank you for playing your part in our history. As we continue our work to secure a bright future for this project, it is important to never forget how far we have come and what we have achieved. So, let's take a look back at some of the major developments and achievements since the last milestone.

2019..


May 1 2019: TruckersMP turns 5 years old! - we celebrated our five year anniversary. Five amazing, wonderful and interesting years of work to build up this project to where it is today. Thanks to our fans, players and staff for all that they do to make this possible. It is not easy, but we have a superb group of people working behind the scenes.

July 2 2019: Road to Simulation - we decided to change our focus to return to our roots of true simulation. With this, we altered our server settings to create simulation and arcade servers so there is something for everyone. Launch of this was generally mixed but we saw more positive feedback being sent to us. We thought that it was important - that based on your feedback - we make changes to ensure that TruckersMP is going in the right direction.

July 13 2019: VTC System - considering Virtual Trucking Companies play a major part in our community, we wanted to be able to bring all VTC's together and make a dedicated feature for them. Within this new fully integrated system, customisable roles, ranks, VTC information, social media links, ability to post announcements, news and much more are available all within your own page right on our website. Feedback from this has been great and we're glad that company owners are enjoying it.

September 25 2019: ProMods here we come! - after years of our users questioning and asking, we have finally agreed to implement ProMods into the multiplayer experience. We were & are still so excited about this. Demand for ProMods has been high for years and it has taken a great deal of work to get to this point. We hope you love this new feature as much as we do! Our partners over a ProMods deserve a special thanks for making this possible, as well as our own development team.

October 2019: Official Partnerships! - we are delighted for this to become a feature of the community. Recognizing those special projects that bring so much to our community day in day out, contributing to TruckersMP in many ways to bring about an interactive, dedicated and active community within TruckersMP. A special feature that will bring with it exciting additions in the future!

October 2019: Patreon Launch! - to further support our internal projects and the servers, we launched a Patreon where users can pay a monthly amount to support us alongside getting some super cool perks!


2020…


May 2020: TruckersMP turns 6 years old... - another massive milestone for TruckersMP was with our 6 year anniversary where we ran a weekend of events in collaboration with Truckers.FM for the debut edition of “The Festival” event where truckers came out to a custom stage made by our Add-On Team alongside a drag racing strip! Truckers.FM also provided live music from presenters during the entire event.

July 2020: TFM and TMP in-game - a big development for our partnership with Truckers.FM was when we added commands in-game that would give you information on what was going on at TFM. We also added a custom radio box that you could see all this information on!

October 2020: Stream Team - a brand new team was introduced to TruckersMP for the first time in 2 years, the Stream Team! This team consists of members who are dedicated to stream on our Twitch channel.

September 2020: Community Contributor Relaunch - the Community Contributor program was reworked where the public could nominate members and we could promote those in our community who are dedicated and go the extra mile to promote TruckersMP.

December 2020, Event System - a long awaiting feature to be added was the Event System that was released in December where users could publish and promote their events they would hold on our platform. This was later integrated with VTCs and has obtained over 500 events in the first month!

December 2020: Christmas Convoy & Stream Team introduction - our second annual charity Christmas Convoy was held for the RSPCA where we raised over £2,500. Alongside this, it was the first time we saw Official Streamers go live!

December 2020: ProMods Canada - to end the month right, we expanded our partnership with ProMods to support their new Canada modification on day 1 which we were super hyped about alongside the community!


2021…


January 2021. VTC verification reopening - we reopened verification applications for those VTCs who are actively using our VTC system and meet the requirements with over 40 verified VTCs!

February 2021: 4 million users - Here we are today, a massive 4 million users on our network...

We welcome another million users to this amazing community. We are confident that we will continue to grow and prosper in the future, with even more exciting features to come, even more developments to be made and even more fun to be had here at TruckersMP. A serious special thank you to our staff; we could not do this without you. You are the amazing group of people that keep this project running. We once again thank YOU for all your support as we continue this amazing journey. Truly, we could not do it without you.
To celebrate this incredible achievement, we have some incredible giveaways coming up on our Social Media platforms, in-game and on the Forum! Keep an eye out on our social media channels on Twitter and Facebook.
We look forward to seeing you at our next milestone, #TMP7.
The TruckersMP Team
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Hello Truckers!
Community events are one of the most important aspects of TruckersMP, which is why we would like to introduce a brand new feature coming to our platform. This feature will help you greatly when organising events you create and want to attend, as well as provide an efficient way for you to quickly link your event to others.
We understand how much the community would appreciate a single, central place for events where you can schedule your own, mark your attendance for others and keep track of the ones you’ve been to. This is why we believe you will love this new feature on our website that the developers have spent months perfecting; the Event System.
Upon heading to the new area of the website you will immediately be able to see featured events, view all the events happening today if you suddenly feel like a drive with others, or pick events into the future you would like to attend. Keeping track of community events has never been easier.

You can expect an easy to use homepage showing featured events...


...and easy to use tools to mark your attendance, along with much more!


You can access the system by heading directly to https://truckersmp.com/events or by navigating to the new section on the top bar of the website labelled “Events”.
For an in-depth and thorough walkthrough of the system such as how to properly create your own events, you can read our How to use the Event System Knowledge Base article.
Please ensure you follow the rules when creating an event, which can be found here.
We hope that this major update to TruckersMP will be welcomed and appreciated by you, and don’t forget we are always open to feedback about the system!.
Regards,
TruckersMP Team
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Hey Truckers,
As the temperature lowers and the chance of snow increases, it can only mean one thing. It's becoming winter again! For the first time ever, we have been supporting seasonal modifications for an entire year. We have teamed up with Grimes once again to support the Frosty Winter Weather Mod on both American Truck Simulator and Euro Truck Simulator 2.
To use this modification on our servers, there are a few steps you need to follow. As we have done previously in addition to the mod creator’s request, you will have to download the mod from a third-party website.
You can find all the information on how to install this modification in our knowledge base article: How to install the Winter Mod

As with the previous editions of the Grimes environmental mods, this modification is optional and not required to play on our servers.
On top of the Winter environmental mod, we will also support two optional addons for the mod: Heavy Winter Add-on and Physics Add-on as well as the ProMods Canada patch. The Physics Add-on will only be supported on American Truck Simulator. Sadly this year, we will not be supporting the Darker Nights optional addon. We are happy to announce that this modification is also compatible with ProMods and accessible across all servers!
As we move into winter and support for this mod, this does mean that we have disabled support for the Late Autumn environmental mod. Make sure to share your screenshots using the Winter mod with us on social media at @TruckersMP on Twitter and @truckersmp.official on Instagram.

Note: All rules need to be respected, even if you have the winter mod activated. Incidents caused by changed physics or sight are still reviewed in the same way as when the winter mod is not applied. Please refer to our rules for more information. We recommend using the Arcade server, especially, when playing with the Physics Addon.

Have a safe winter from all of us here at the TruckersMP Team!
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Hello truckers,
We have received many questions on our social feeds about this, and today we are very excited to announce that we are supporting ProMods Canada on TruckersMP!
If you didn't catch the stream, we joined some of the ProMods team for a drive through ProMods Canada on a private server. Watch this stream back here where the ProMods Developers answered some of the questions from the chat.
Something different compared to how ProMods for Euro Truck Simulator 2 works on TruckersMP is that ProMods Canada will be enabled on all servers. Despite the fact it will be enabled on all servers, it is optional to use it on the servers. This means with or without ProMods Canada, you will be able to connect to any American Truck Simulator server. If you don't have ProMods Canada installed, you will be able to drive in the base game area but with ProMods Canada you can also drive in the mod area.


How do I install ProMods Canada so it works on TruckersMP?
Similarly to how it's done with ProMods on Euro Truck Simulator 2, you need to put the mod files into your normal American Truck Simulator mod folder as you would for installing single player mods. When you launch TruckersMP, the ProMods Canada files will be searched for, and it will automatically load the files (you don't need to worry about the mod manager). A step-by-step guide can be found here: https://truckersmp.com/kb/1122
Where do I download ProMods Canada?
You can download ProMods Canada right now from our partner's website: https://www.promods.net/setup.php?game=ats
What DLCs are required to use ProMods Canada?
For ProMods Canada, you are only required to have the Oregon and Washington map DLCs!

We look forward to seeing you driving around ProMods Canada!
Happy trucking,
The TruckersMP Team
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Hello truckers and happy holidays!
As we approach the holiday season here at TruckersMP, our Add-On Team has been hard at work making modifications to celebrate the season. From today and throughout the season, you can expect to see a couple changes when playing TruckersMP.

Holiday themed map edits
When driving around in TruckersMP, you see that we have redecorated some cities for the special season. Our Add-On Team has created custom models that have been added in certain cities in-game. You can expect to see some Christmas trees, presents, and a few extra surprises!
Here is something you would see in a redecorated city:

Holiday themed cargo
Our Add-On Team has also created a custom cargo for you to haul! Similar to the World of Trucks presents trailer, we have a custom TruckersMP trailer with festive lights on.


We also have many more changes planned to celebrate the new year.
We hope you have a very enjoyable and safe holiday this year.
Happy holidays,
The TruckersMP Team
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Dear Truckers!



 



We have reworked our Forum Rules to make it more slimline and understandable. We encourage you to read what has changed so you are not caught out in any circumstances.




What's changed?



 



All of the rules have changed or been moved and you will notice there are far fewer individual rules than there were before which is because we have merged a lot into other rules.



One major change is the rule "§4.4 Reputation Farming" which has now been removed after careful consideration to reflect our modern approach on the forums.



Rule numbers have also changed so this means rules will now full under a different number than before.



 




 



You can find all the forum rules here https://truckersmp.com/rules#4-forum-only-rules



If you have any questions regarding the rules changing, please contact 'Community Moderation Management' through Feedback here.



 



Many thanks and Happy Trucking!



TruckersMP Community Moderation Management!

Hello everyone!



 



A great community thrives on its people. Therefore community input is a critical part of this project.
As such we are again asking for your input.



 



This time we are specifically looking at our Event Team. The Event Team is responsible for planning and guiding official TruckersMP events as well as providing assistance at events organised by the community.



The survey will cover satisfaction on several key points of interest of the Event Team as well as questions about your opinion on several topics related to the Event Team.



You can access the survey here.



 




Data gathered in this survey: your submitted answers and quotes, browser version and country. Browser and demographical data is only used to get a general view of all that answered and is not used when the survey is completed after which this is deleted.




 



Have a great day!



TruckersMP team



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