Please, GOD, no more TOLLS!

We already have the infamous ETS 2 (Euro Toll Simulator 2, by SCS--oh, ahem, I mean truck) in the gaming world. For the sheer glut of tolls it has become an unrealistic experience overall. PLEASE, dear TML people, do not continue to add tolls to the Fernbus maps.

The argument seems to always arrange itself along the line of "But it is for realism." My clock keeps real time. My senses keep real time. Neither does shrink to gather itself to fit the mold of a condensed "Simulated" toll experience. Example: "Well," The Developer explains, "There are actually 7 tolls between Atown and Betown. So, you must endure 7 tolls, too, in simulation, as you would n real life!" Thank high Himmel it is only 7. In ETS2 it would be 70! But there is also a 7 hour REAL drive between Atown and Betown. In my study, where I drive in our Simulator, there is not more than 32 minutes, say, between these two points. And as smart as the gameplay may be, and as realistic as the coach in all its beauty and glorious design is--there is no way my senses compensate to make the difference between a real and simulated 7 hour drive. Hence, the tolls are distracting and diminish the overall smoothness of a real drive in a fine coach.

So please, please...by nacht und nebel, lose the plans for more and more tolls...make any plans for more tolls vanish before you create the frustrating experience already there in ETS2. There is enough already.

We could also ask to verify the realism of the tolls extant in Fernbus now--is there really a toll to LEAVE Paris? Why is Marseille walled in by tolls--why are the towns and cities becoming toll zones entered and exited by tolls, tolls tolls? Is it a subconscious appeal to the player to recognize a greater danger--an allegory--of these vast, dark Covid-19 days of checkpoints and lockdowns?

We might also question again the realism of the tolls--no lane lines. No toll pass magic: in real life, it is usually not a gate operated toll, but Toll Pass ''magic'' means you don't even really have to decrease your speed by much to pass through. So please--reality check the tolls.

Signed,
I Hate Tolls.