Update Speculation thread

I find the smart traffic option works

 

Well I see a lot of Covets and BX on WCUSA.

 

Those have USDM configs

 

No I see the JDM, so the RHD configs and the Diana BX.

 

They were sold in the US market, and the configs that spawn have US plates. In the simplified traffic EU configs have EU in their config name, all others are US only

 

Maybe 7.5% chance for pre 1990s and 0.5% chance for super cars like Civettas.

 

That sounds good

 

Hmpf ok

Supercars even less: 0.25 percent. and same for pre 1940's cars.

 

They wont ever make pre 1980s traffic cars. As AgentMooshroom5 said, they would need to make completely new simplified traffic base for a vehicle that old. Scintilla and SBR4 and Hopper should be added to the traffic. Agentmooshroom5 did confirm the Hopper and some MD series configs would be added.

 

Thats good. The T-Series + Trailer should be added too.

 

I think their waiting till they add more systems to the Ai to support large vehicles

 

Maybe, because I spawned a bus manually in traffic and it couldnt handle that one turn in WCUSA.

 

They cant handle any turns

 

I'm still not 100% on the SBR, but where in this convo did the Scintilla enter? I don't know where you live, man, but in my experience, exotics like the Scintilla make 80s cars look like the Toyota Camry in terms of rarity.

Hard agree on the Hopper, though.

 

Spawn percentage would have to be adjusted, but I live in a major west coast city, and Fri-Sun, it feels like I’ll see a supercar (Ferrari, Lamborghini, McLaren) if I spend any decent amount of time downtown or a nice neighborhood.

 

I live in a fairly small US metropolitan area in the Pacific Northwest, and there's a fair few more exotic cars in my area. '80s and '90s cars are still quite common here (and there's also been quite a few '90s Japanese cars imported here over the past couple years, like a first Stagea RS 260 and a late-'90s Crown Royal Saloon Four). Here's a selection of the more exotic cars I've seen in the past year or so:

-Two Porsches (a 987 Cayman at a local car show and a 981 Boxster parked at a local bank)
-A BMW i3
-A Ferrari 308
-A Cadillac XLR
-At least two Chevrolet SSRs
-A Chevrolet SS
-An X350 Jaguar XJ
-A Mercedes-Benz R-Class

For a big city like Belasco, an SBR4 would be quite mundane - a Scintilla would be quite rare.

Also, I feel like the Wydra could still spawn as a parked vehicle only (not sure if that's possible, though) - there's someone near me who has at least one amphibious ATV.

 

Really, if the chance of a scintilla spawning is low, then it’s realistic. I see a Lamborghini or Ferrari every so often

 

the problem is that unlike games like GTA, once you spawn in a set of cars, you're stuck with them.
so you'll end up with scintillas driving around in the industrial estate, in the low income housing area, probably on dirt roads etc. so it's not really suitable.

 

Scintilla would be a fun 1/100 spawn. Vehicles like Porches and Ionic 6s are common enough here, so the SBR4 would make sense as a rare spawn.
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Thats why BeamNG should add labels to the AI roads that dictate what cars can drive there. If there is a label missing on the map, that set of cars can’t spawn

For example 4 levels:

1 - Offroad vehicles, like the D series or Roamer. They are the only vehicles that would spawn on dirt roads.

2 - Older cars, beaters, for spawning in low income neighborhood's.

3 - Average traffic, newer vehicles, to be used in most areas, and would be default if the label was not set.

4 - Highway traffic, same as average traffic but also includes semi trucks and buses

5 - Luxury traffic, only includes very new vehicles and supercars.

And this would be a togglable feature, as if you can’t spawn at least 10 traffic cars you will see the uneven spawns.

 

Maybe certain cars should spawn in certain areas of the map, such as the industrial sites having only construction vehicles. And big mansions spawning only luxury or exotic cars. And a police station should all be police cars