Beta (City of) Los Injurus 2023-12-20

Great! That's exactly what it's meant to do - provide a little bit (or A LOT) of that something-something everyone is looking for - in more than just one or two ways. That means it's doing it's job of making people happy, and that makes me happy.
However, should you find some short-coming in the map / find it doesn't in some way have enough of what you looking for, or if I seemed to pass over some type of game-play ideas and it seems lacking, DO hop on the [discussion] thread (find the tab for it above this review) and let me know:
*What you do or do not like
*Why you do or don't like this (give me some ideas)
*What is missing or you couldn't find?
*What is the most important feature / least important feature of any map?
Of course, you don't have to do this, but it does help a bit (and I don't limit this idea to just you, anyone can say such) and helps me make a map better suited to the demographic that plays this game (I do already have a pretty good idea, but more info is always better).
--Thanks for the review & writing in!
This map is far from done and there is much more in-store for us here.

Thank-you, you are very welcome also.
It takes so much time to do things properly, but when it brings people joy then it's all worth it. I enjoy playing the finished product also, so I'm not entirely missing the good part of it either. As long as people want to play it and some even support the map which of-course IS optional, I have zero issue spending thousands and thousands of hours making it.
That said there's plenty of good stuff to come in future updates. I just have to catch up on my house a bit here before the thing falls in on my head or before my yard turns into a jungle (my grass is a foot high and I'm still not done fixing the riding mower, eek! hopefully I get it fixed before I need to do a controlled burn to tame the yard, especially because my house is in the middle of it). God bless NOT living in an HOA.
--Cheers and best wishes!

10,000 hours (estimate, no way I can keep track). If I put 40 hrs a week (more weeks than not) into the map, over about 5 years this map has been in production (it will be 5 years this May/June when I started making models and revising the old map into Los Injurus City), that'd work out to just over 10,000 hours. I include the time I spent modeling things for this map, scripting indices or even making textures also, not just in-game-editor or AI testing time.
It's a lot of work, but I do enjoy it, and since it's something I can do which brings others joy, I will continue doing it (I am also physically disabled, so often it's one of the only things I actually CAN do when I'm stuck in the house for days/weeks/months laid-up injured).
By comparison, Roane County TN map has just over half that much time, but Roane County will be getting just a little more time, to bring it up to modern formatting standards for map asset and texture indices (so it loads more reliably and plays/looks better and not broken and hopefully won't break worse in future updates which would - lacking this - cause it not to load). It's been a while since it's been updated.
--Thanks for writing in!

You're quite welcome. It's a labor of love, and I am glad you and about half a million other downloaders enjoy it. When creating this map I never thought it would reach so many people (even if even many folks may have downloaded it more than once), but honestly I am happy to make someone's day better. Gives a little solace from the pain and being stuck in the house (periodically) due to physical issues/disability (or due to me 'overdoing it' when trying to do things, despite my body falling apart).
However; worry not about me, but just about having a good time and enjoying the map (and of-course the rest of life too).
--Cheers & best wishes!

You can't be serious. Drive around more if you feel there is no difference.
However, future updates will be much more common; because in two weeks I'm getting gigabit fiber internet in-stead of slow capped satellite.
Please follow the development thread for this map, and look at all the pages worth of updates in the last two years.

I have already purchased commercial ground-cover and vegetation / trees and other stuff like that. I just have to get the time to convert the models of things I purchased to work in BeamNG Drive and have the natural bending / swaying in the wind. Not so sure how that works on vegetation but I'll figure it out. It all takes time, which I've been splitting with this mod and my poor house with it's slightly-deferred maintenance.
So yes, still making new things for the map and converting over lots (100's and 100's possibly 1000 buildings already) of stuff to put it in the map, while still working on my house (as much as my physically disabled condition allows me to) so as to make sure it doesn't fall in on me while mapping.
Renters can enjoy my envy right now, put it that way :)
I have my own hosting I am trying to sync up so that the map downloads super-duper fast (vs 12.7kb/s!), and so that supporters get the fast download too. Working with staff on this so it gets linked like normal.
This public version *should* be updated before the holidays once I get some more 'boo-boos' fixed, and development definitely continues.
For now, thanks for the good review, so enjoy it knowing that it's a success story for a fun community project everyone can enjoy.
--Cheers!

Already fixed the traffic lights in the latest supporter beta. It's actually a conflict where the game is pulling the OLD low-res light data from ITALY of all things, for what reason I do not know. That sharing from base-game data when the same name is used, is actually an unsupported feature that's not supposed to work nor intended. So yes, it was fun hair-pulling figuring THAT bug out, which is why it stuck around until late August this year!
So sorry about the lights, know it's fixed though.
Glad you enjoy it, I am sure you'll love the future versions even more.
--Cheers & thanks for the good words.