This has been discussed pretty often in Forum Beta. The answer is that animations are useful in locating road outages, as you will see the incident has developed with backed up traffic. Without animation, you will [most likely] miss the incident, as buildings will hide it. As near as I can tell, the Devs have pretty much ignored this concern (many, many of us have our animations off to reduce memory usage) and continue to tout a 'feature' that is pretty pointless in it's inception.When do inside-town incidents appear? I've been having incidents on live server for a while but not once did I see it on road or somewhere in town. Is perhaps the lack of animations to blame? (I keep then unchecked/turned off)
The Wiki claims that there will be at least 10 Incidents per day. Can 10 be active all at the same time or will i see at least that amount only if i clear them up fairly frequently to make "room" for more ?
Do you need animations turned on to see them? I surely hope not.