Category: Community

Hello community!

Today we are celebrating the second anniversary of ProMods.net! With a forever growing number of fans, over 170 000 people have joined the fun on our website, making ProMods the largest fan forum in the Euro Truck Simulator 2 community! Now is a good time to set things in retrospective to see how our humble project could grow to something this big…

ProMods started around three years ago as a two-man project between Scul and Nico. Their initial plan was to build Scandinavia for Euro Truck Simulator 2, called the Scandinavia Map. This would eventually become ProMods 1.0, which took ten months to complete. At the first release of the ProMods map, the website ProMods.net was opened to the public, exactly two years ago on this day.

Throughout the years, the team grew in size. Kutchek and MandelSoft joined quite early on after the website launched, and other team members with their own set of skills were invited and joined the team. Our current mapping team has 18 members and we are still looking for new members.

But not only did ProMods grow in size; it also grew in quality. Innovation has played a big part in the ProMods history. We don’t profilate ourselves that we try match SCS’ quality; we strive to go beyond that, to find new ways to design roads, landscapes and decoration. Pushing the boundaries, so to say. And we will keep on doing that to give you an increasingly better map.

We are more than just a map mod; we are a modding platform and a community. Our forums are full of activity of our fans and we even have recruited some of our developers on the forum that convinced us about the quality of their work. We have merged the Italy Addon mod in ProMods and Poland Rebuilding will be fully integrated into ProMods 2.0 in the future.

Therefore, we would like to thank our team members for all their effort and countless of hours they have put in the map to make it the map that it is today. We would also like to thank our moderators that keep our forums tidy and under control. We would like to thank our beta testers for their efforts to catch bugs for us to solve before the public has to deal with them…

But most of all, we would like to thank all of our fans that supported us, follow our work and that help other players out when they are having problems with Euro Truck Simulator 2, ProMods or any other mod. Without you, ProMods could never have become this big. As a little gift, we will add a special ProMods 2nd Anniversary truck skin for the Mercedes New Actros and the ProMods 2nd Anniversary trailer for you to drive with. You can pick it up from here.

 

ProMods is not just a map. It’s a community!

 

Happy Trucking!

Most of you may have noticed a blackout of promods.net websites. This was caused by a corrupted hard disk on our server. Fortunately no data was lost, so we could start from backups on a temporary hard disk. The second maintenance offline period was nescessary to replace the corrupted hard disk by a new one and move all data to it. Now everything is up and running again. Thanks for your patience!

What about another host?

Some people suggested to move to another host service. But we believe that we already found a powerful one: LeaseWeb, based near Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Just to give you an impression why we need to run our services on such a professional host:

Our WIP folders contain about 10 GB of data and we’re working with 16 developers in parallel on the various projects all over the map. To manage this, we use a professional document management software (SVN).

Our current release has a size of 1.6 GB. With over 170,000 installations, our server has to handle dozens of terabytes of data transfer within a few days or even hours when we release a new version. This is way beyond what a “simple” webhost can handle.

When will you release the next versions?

During the server failure we were able to work on our local copies of the WIP folders, but had to ensure not to overlap our work. This caused a delay in releasing the compatibility update for Euro Truck Simulator 2 v1.19 – Even though we’re still working hard on it, you should not expect a new version within the next 1-2 weeks.

In parallel, we’re working on our next big step: ProMods 2.0 – That version probably will become our biggest update ever! Our long time partner Poland Rebuilding joined us and will be included to the ProMods map. And there will be additional content in northern Sweden, Finland, the Baltic States, Romania and much more!

Hello community!

Today we are very happy to tell you that ProMods and Poland Rebuilding are merged together into one map mod. And with that for some of you a long awaited wish came true. Poland Rebuilding always has been a must for ProMods Map players! Until now, these map mod was a separate option. In version 2.0 of the ProMods Map, Poland Rebuilding becomes an integral part of the ProMods experience!

Poland Rebuilding is a beautiful map done by a team of four map developers. The map is the proof of an awesome co-operation performed by a Polish team that have been investing all of themselves to give you the best possible driving experience of their home country. And they are not finished yet to give you a real driving impression of the Polish road network!

Radol – the leader of the Poland Rebuilding Team – always has been in contact with the developers of the ProMods Team. However, the compatibility between the two was still limited, especially at the bordering map sectors of the two maps, because each Team was working with the other released map version and not with the current version that’s in development.

But finally Radol made the decision to merge his Project under the flag of ProMods. ScuL took a lot of time and started and completed the merge of the data. MandelSoft assisted to properly connect all the overlapping map sectors. At this point, the merge have been completed!

Of course this will increase the size of the entire ProMods map package. This allows us to improve the bordering sectors perfectly by having actual versions and share our assets. It also helps greatly with co-ordinating the work between the two teams in the bordering areas.

Finally, in the future Poland Rebuilding Team has the support by the ProMods Team to help with Beta Testing and bring it on the performance standard level of the rest of ProMods map (which by the way will be further optimised for version 2.0).

So with upcoming ProMods 2.0, you no longer have to wait for a compatible Poland Rebuilding version; you no longer have to download it separately. It is an all-inclusive package! We want to give you the complete experience!

Best regards from your Promods Team