[WIP] Middle-East add-on

[EdgeGladiator]

nice work

[id777]

very nice, how much roads you will build in Lebanon ?
from screens i noticed only road 51

[johnboy32115]

This looks awesome hope at some time it could include Saudi, Qatar and the Emerats

[kReX]

Nice! However, wouldn't the Italian city roads (much brighter) fit better to Lebanon and the rest of Mid East than the ones from Scandinavia? This way, you would give even more authentic feeling to this part of the world, as the road textures are much brighter there IRL as well.

[keremguvercin]

I know there is a war in Syria, but i want to ask this. Are you going to make Damascus? Because, the city is under the control of the government that recognized by UN.

[brainiac]

Personally, I think that war in Syria isn't problem for Promods and Platypus. There is anti-government revolution which failed. Nobody declared any independence.

[Wombat Trucker]

Thank you for doing this Platypus. I personally look forward to going from Turkey or Italy via ferry to Dubai or Doha but Im more then happy with any additions that enables us to haul further south and east. I hope you reevalute Syria and add all of its main roads. Im not here for the politics and most of us arent I guess. Were here to play ETS2 and haul and to avoid politics, mark all disputed areas as part of switzerland

[bogdac]

Nice work Platypus, looks really promising. Can't wait to try this one out

[Platypus]

Hi everybody,

Today, I will show one screenshot for each city of the Eilat/Aqaba Gulf :

Eilat (Israël)

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Aqaba (Jordan)

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Taba (Egypt)

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As usual, also some answers to comments I have read :
- Lebanon : for the moment, only road 51. A part of road 30 should come in the future.
- Qatar, Saudia, UAE ... : let's remain realistic. Distances are huge and I'm the only one working on map
Expanding priorities at this stage could be Jordan with Amman and the Suez Canal area in Egypt
- Italian style roads : maybe, but work on map was started when this DLC was not released, so it would require now to replace all prefabs. A lot of work for an upgrade about which I'm not very convinced ... So, maybe later.
- Syria : remains out of scope for the moment, the time to see how the situation changes in this country. Maybe a link between Amman and Beirut could come later, via Damascus. But the rest of the country is definitely not planned at short term, sorry.

Regards,
Platypus

[baetatomska]

Omg those were my summer 2017 holidays!!! Israel and Jordania!!! I crossed that border between Eilat and Aqaba on my way to visit Petra and Wadi Rum desert, and then got back to Israel, where I visited Telavive, Haifa, Galilee sea, Dead sea and Jerusalem!!! It'll be all about déjà vus for me this map (if it's done ofc XD). The new things for me will be both Lebanon and Egypt, where I've never been to, which will also make it interesting