My Feedback for the New Trucking Job

[Hanro]

Hello all and especially @Paulius,

I firstly want to thank you for this new detailed job which clearly took effort and time to create, it's truly appreciated and it's been a very fun experience overall. I'm going to put together the positives and negatives and overall thoughts and feedback on the new Trucking in a way that's hopefully easy to understand and at level 26 with almost 200 runs done at this point, I hope I can provide some insight to how I feel about it all, keeping in mind that these are my opinions and not necessarily everyone's experience. I'll first start off with the positives.

• The grind. Possibly a hot take but It's been fantastic to sit back and relax and tune out while I run some deliveries, roleplaying with others on the CB radio and watching out for cops. As someone who is not lost on grindy games like OSRS, this tickles my brain and hearing the level up noise keeps me going to the next tier to see whats next. To me it's something to work toward and I hope to do more runs and hopefully hit 100 one day.
• The leveling system. I really enjoy the different perks we get as we level up and it's been great using them as a target to hit to keep going. It really gives that sense of progression and it feels good achieving those perks, which in turn helps you for future runs, the cash bonus great as it adds a little more money and reward to the mix and the loading speed is very helpful
• Variety in location and load. I am yet to take many deliveries outside of the city but for the variety of locations inside LS has been great, and keeps it fresh instead of getting stale. There were a couple bugged store locations but they have since been fixed and it's been smooth ever since. I enjoy taking varying contracts with different materials and locations, it's not just 'pick up here, deliver here', the different loads have different types of drop offs which is nice.
• Involvement from Law Enforcement. I don't know how they feel about it, whether they think they're babysitting us or it's more of an annoyance, but it's nice to see them getting involved and giving us that risk of getting caught speeding or evading. When I do get pulled over, of course my character gets angry but at the end of the day the goal is toward community and involving PD and SD has given them something else to do, especially in the off hours. I don't feel like I've been targeted or stalked by them waiting for us to do the wrong thing, most of my interactions have happened because my character deserved it.

Here is where I bring up my only real negative/suggestion and as I mentioned earlier it's my opinion and others may not feel the same but this is what I've experienced so far.

• The trucks. This is probably my main frustration with the system. Don't get me wrong, I love the variety of different trucks, In total I've now got 4 to choose from, but the "new vehicle hype" dissipates as you first drive off the lot. What I mean by that is that the sense of progression feels off because each new truck feels nerfed, slower, and overall worse to use than the last and feels like they've been manually tuned down script wise, whereas I would think the speed or the handling would be at least similar or slightly better (Not by a lot obviously, they are trucks), but at the current moment it feels flipped and tedious. I have started doing 5+ stage deliveries and I probably say once I get out into the county it's going to feel more of a chore than a fair grind. The Biff I obviously expected to be slow, and hitting level 10 and getting the Benson felt great. It accelerated faster and had better handling, but the level 20 fuel truck was a bit of a let down, and the mule i was shocked as to how bad it is, it feels slowed down by a tonne, unsure if it was done on purpose but it weighs significantly less than a fuel truck and should not be that slow in my opinion and I am personally dreading using it all the way until level 40. The way I would solve this is to make them feel like a reward, perhaps re-tune the trucks to have a slightly-better-than-the-last feel while keeping them immersive and in line with the server.

Overall, the new Trucking experience has been a massive W. It's just the right amount of grind, level up perks feel great and we earn a decent bit of cash from it. As I said I'm yet to enter the county with trucking deliveries but that will hopefully change soon and maybe I will amend my post with the changes after a bit more work. I've really enjoyed the RP scenarios with PD/SD, mechanics and medics as it's also given them something else to do. For a while I've been looking for a goal or a task to do as sometimes things get a bit slow and this has been a good thing to focus on and the leaderboard is a great touch too as it gets people competitive and we can see who is on top. It's been really fun and if the rest of the jobs are going to be overhauled to a similar fashion, I can say I am excited for what's to come for the server (omg please hunting/fishing next). I'd love to hear other people's thoughts and suggestions!

Edited April 4, 2025 by Hanro

[Bala]

Ayyyy, we made it into the positives column on something!

[Diligo]

I agree with the statements of @Hanro
When I started trucking, it was fun, community on the go, now its more chill.
Before I reached level 10 it was little bit more grindy than expected, but afterwards I understood the gist of it and how I should perceive and how much should I actually be trucking.

I should be trucking as I did previously - whenever I felt like it.
And now seeing the variety of what I can do - very good feels!

But yeah still need some buffs for the higher level trucks

[Requiem]

Keep in mind the suggestions provided regarding buffing the trucks should be weighed against the advantages of using a personal truck. If you bring your own truck to use for these jobs, you can have mods/upgrades on it that can make these jobs go faster and have the truck feel better to use. If the "loaned" trucks were to be buffed, this would further disincentivise the use of personal trucks. 

[Hanro]

On 4/12/2025 at 2:04 AM, Requiem said:

Keep in mind the suggestions provided regarding buffing the trucks should be weighed against the advantages of using a personal truck. If you bring your own truck to use for these jobs, you can have mods/upgrades on it that can make these jobs go faster and have the truck feel better to use. If the "loaned" trucks were to be buffed, this would further disincentivise the use of personal trucks. 

This is fine, not trying to take away from that, but as an example you get the Mule at 25, and unlock personal trucks at 45. That's a long time, especially with how bad the Mule is. It actually feels like a punishment rather than a proper sense of progression and by the time you unlock the personal vehicles you'll be moved on from Mule deliveries.

I'm not going to lie since starting with the Mule, I have almost basically stopped doing runs, it feels awful. I max out at 105, where as the Benson can easily hit 170-180. Again I know it's a truck and shouldn't be as fast as a car, but that's a lot of levels to suffer through, whereas it can be tuned to be in line with other trucks and it won't be a problem.

Edited April 13, 2025 by Hanro

[DaddyShrood]

1 hour ago, Hanro said:

This is fine, not trying to take away from that, but as an example you get the Mule at 25, and unlock personal trucks at 45. That's a long time, especially with how bad the Mule is. It actually feels like a punishment rather than a proper sense of progression and by the time you unlock the personal vehicles you'll be moved on from Mule deliveries.

I'm not going to lie since starting with the Mule, I have almost basically stopped doing runs, it feels awful. I max out at 105, where as the Benson can easily hit 170-180. Again I know it's a truck and shouldn't be as fast as a car, but that's a lot of levels to suffer through, whereas it can be tuned to be in line with other trucks and it won't be a problem.

100%. The benson is absolutely rapid but after that it just seems to get worse and worse.

[Earl Mud]

Also to add to this I think once you get to higher level trucks you should be able to do more types of loads with them. If my money and xp are nerfed to the ground doing stuff in a phantom I should be able to use it to do lower-level deliveries that makes sense for it too like clothing and building materials. Also I'm still in the early grind under lvl 20 and one thing that messes me up the most is the fact that benson and biff can building mats but only certain orders allow the benson. Being able to sort or toggle all deliveries in your current truck would be great. Also using your own truck and having only very limited deliveries you can do seems like it would be a pain. I don't want to chase different trucks in the city just to do a certain delivery since after an hour in one truck everything is nerfed now. Overall though W update I would just suggest a little refining.