RoR needs some way to grow it's community.

[25or624]

Well, I can see his point. RoR and BeamNG aren’t the same game certainly. BeamNG has features like breakable driveshafts, overheating, and other things, while RoR doesn’t, but again, they aren’t the same game. If I had the capabilities to play BeamNG, I know I would choose it over this, even though I like both games. Rigs of Rods wasn’t really built to be an incredibly extensive vehicle simulator, so it’s kinda like comparing a bike to a BMW. Both, I suppose, will get you there in the end, one just has some nice luxuries.

[TurboWafflz]

Yes, but with a bigger, more active community, the game could improve more.

[PenguinvilleRescue1]

Yes, but with a bigger, more active community, the game could improve more.

I see where you're going, but a larger, more active community does not always equal a better game if it ever does.

UPD 8/9/2018: I also realized that my above statement possibly means that there's a chance of a small portion of users worsening our reputation of having nearly 100% user-made content. However, the administration of Rigs of Rods is among the most diligent one will ever see, so that's very likely not a possibility with these admins/moderators.

[Agent V12]

RoR will never really reach the popularity of BeamNG for two reasons:

1. BeamNG gives video creators the ability to make really visually pleasing cinematic crashes, or tense, entertaining challenges that requires strategies to avoid breaking vital components, a prospect that is regularly being improved. RoR does not enable that kind of stimulation; i.e. not many people really enjoy watching someone ship pallets from one end of a map to the other.

2. A quick search on any search engine for Rigs of Rods will show the results of a more popular community: the school bus Role-play community. these have tainted our once glorious community to no end. I personally think that the damage done by this cancerous fan-base has deterred possibly thousands of potential creators from this jewel in the sea.
In addition to this unfortunate truth, a large proportion of the people that still come here are those who came just for the deformation they saw on YouTube. Look on Content-support, here and anywhere on the archives, and you will see two phrases: "I saw this car on YouTube, can you help me find it?" or "can anyone find this bus?" I used to be part of both of those communities, now I am here because of the physics.

[scratch]

A few posts back someone said Beam NG was for "Rich kids" for the most part. And even though Beam NG isn't that expensive, I kinda agree 'cause the majority of people can't afford to spend their money on an stronger PC until they save up a lot of money, and even then there are tons of other things people have to spend money on. Though over time they'll probably be able to afford it, but they have wait quite a while.

As for how to get more popularity? I would suggest to advertise on websites and such. But since the game is free I doubt you guys would want to spend money on advertisements. Not to mention you would probably attract a hordes of kids. (Witch wouldn't be so bad if they didn't post on the forums.)