lol hilarious historical discussion on new Orleans. mostly correct, but the language morphed into Cajun which I understand to be a sort of "dirtier" version of French (not in a bad way). the local pronunciation I've always heard is closer to "naw-linz" but sometimes a little bit of "r" - naaah'r-linz. lots of fun ways to pronounce it really :)

I am a bit confused, so is there option for being romantic like go on date, or in relationship with, or is it just one indicator of closeness?

This game ticks a lot of boxes for me. But I just can't reconcile a brand new starting company with tens of millions in the bank. I feel the game would have a better flow if the player started a fraction of the size and built up more slowly. It's just a little too arcadey at present.

nicely done loving the different shades of orange on the wagons

Brilliantly done!

Yep spotted that 😆This was a fun episode and great to see another way of putting things together. Thanks for the cheeky cabrides as well.

Enjoyed the episode. It was nice to see some boats in the test. I had forgotten about them. It was a close test for all of us, each using different methods.

Love that scene where the Trans Collabrian Express overtakes you! Nice cab ride mate... and some epic music!!!

Cool Ajax

Awesome 👍 mate

What a thoroughly entertaining episode mate! Well done!

That was fun :) I think you only need one train on that new grain line though! Cheers mate.

Having a lot of updates is nice knowing the dev is working on the game, which is a big reason I bought it, but the downside is, I tend to want to restart, on a new update or just wait for things to slow down. As such, I have not played at all since your last episode. I keep up with the updates on discord, and keep them in mind for, when I see where the game ends up. I also don't want to burn out before it is done either. Usually for the Gym I just tell them to do everything at the same priority. That way when the guy wants to work out he can spread out the negative effects, if you do that it is rare that you will get injured, but really I don't worry much until I get up to 25% or more, before I a lower any priories. Generally, your guy will consider how, high that negative stat is, and choose one of the other workouts instead. None of the negatives are too bad if they lead to a status, you will want to stop them from doing that activity, and maybe get treatment in the hospital but for the most part it's not horrible to have one negative status appear, they only last 2 or 3 months in most cases. I would have taken to bonus and quit that old job. Anything over 160 hours is going to risk burning you out unless you really love to work. But if you are keeping the job always take the pay raise, it pays out more money than a bonus in about 8 months, if I remember right, also odds are next year you get offered a new higher raise. Every year your skills get better, so you more than recover any negatives to work performance, and it will go above 100%. There is no reason to schmooze your boss unless that was literally the only option. The job list defaults to the ordering jobs your person would most like. I usually look at the best, most interesting one there for a future job, and then choose a good path to get there. Like Real Estate Agent was the best, followed by Lead Developer and Chief Technology Officer. Then after I pick a future job, I look for what I am actually qualified to do that gives the right XP for that later job. I am sure the Software Tester will be a great start to go down the Lead Developer route, but there is little thinking needed to look at the list and see what they game says your character would like to do.

For what it's worth, I name you as the winner here, too! :)) Thank you so much for the series again! I love watching your episodes and it also helps with the development. In the new version, you won't have issues with finding a new manager haha! :D (as far as I remember I've changed that already). Please do not start a series with the version that you can find in the Discord branch - it is not ready for that. But I will release a new version into the open beta public branch in 1-2 weeks, that will be a proper candidate for that. You are the best!

I laughed out loud when I saw those half-bodied people in the office! :'D (still watching)

You should have been able to have a train station connect to both farms

This looks interesting but I wonder if it needs something more to increase longevity. I did play a demo of a game kind of like this but it was co-op and while it said you could play solo, it was rather chaotic because it was balanced for a team of people working. But it seemed to have more interesting systems for making beer, and cooking, but those systems are what made it to where you needed more players.

This has been super helpful with understanding trains. Thanks for a great informative video.

Why do you have only 2k subs? U have such a great communication and content, if you allow me to express my youtube experience owing some channels i recommend you to create a “brand image” (profile pic/ banner / tubnails style) define a color and shapes pattern to your channel visual image, even though you have a great content your branding looks very amateur, you have over 1k videos you should have like 50k subs at least!!!

I don't think food gets wasted. They seem to cook 2 meals but you eat like 1/3 or 1/4 of a meal at a time. The rest is saved for next meal. Think of it as time spent cooking for each set of meals. You spend 30 hours cooking and this gives you about a week worth of meals. I think the cooking time is a little long, but it seems to work in the game okay. With the performance review I would only do the lowest option, that is unlocked. I never had to Schmooze the boss. If you go to your job everyday, you are going to qualify for the bonus, and taking the slight hit to take a bonus you should make that up and qualify for a raise next time. The only exception is when you are about the change a job, or a few times I kept a job an extra month or two to get to the performance review, just to take the bonus then quit right away. If you are not going to stick around the bonus is likely to be better than a raise. I would have chose all 4 Overconfidence, Endorphin rush, Energetic and Inspired on your birthday, they are all great buffs and the Energy + of Endorphin rush and Energetic Stack. This works out to your energy bar decaying at half the normal rate, so you sleep about half the amount of time for a year. Which gives you more time to work out and recover the health cost you spent, and get your fun bar maxed which will recover your spent happiness points. Why not just give in and buy a year long Gym membership? 8 Months of gym membership costs the same as the 1 year. And 400 euro is not that much to not have to worry about it for 12 months. I think you ended up buying 8 months in this episode, or at least close to it. :)

Yeiy, im happy you still playing this! And 30 min feels really quick! You make me laugh when you cant find the movie button, we know we had been there, looking for something right in front of our eyes 😂

When building bridges using > for height, I tend to stick with 3 > and 4 shift+>. This almost always gives me the clearance I need without excessive height. Really enjoying the series. 👍

Why does the guests say "bad service" all the time, even when I trained the receptionist both with service 1 and guest happiness 1 and he is at good energy level?

Just caught up with this series Ajax I'm absolutely loving it cheers

That was a slick move starting the game to earn a bit more cash. It is interesting to see how all of you come up w/ ways to meet each test.

Nice start to second test. Wonder if adding that stone train so close to the end date may impact your profits abit.

Another interesting route choice but great job. I imagine the navvies must hate you after all that tunnel digging though! 😂

Awesome video, and lovely idea with the start for a little extra cash. And glad i wasnt the only one to notice the weeds 😂

And holy tunnel batman that was impressive

Very cheeky start lol week done, i played with going that same route so many times, so thank you for making it work. It was doing my head in

Interesting start... I saw what you did there LOL. Nice idea actually! And yes - the weeding!!! I did not notice that until you pointed it out! I thought our new "flavour" mod and ballast made that task redundant! Dammit! Great effort! But not too sure about the late addition with the stone train though... that $3m you spent could've nerfed your final result! Cheers mate!

You bild too ineffective programs. Every comparison takes huge time

At this point, you really have won already, but it would be nice to see the goodbye messages! If poor Annabelle won't get support from you haha then we will see those soon I think.

I wish there was a simplified version of this game like game dev tycoon! I just want to build and research computers and not care about economics and politics i need to rob my brain! lol

There is no way to move to a new city map, it has been suggested but does not seem like a priority of the dev, it might take a lot of work to pull off. Priorities are pretty broken. Basically they are weighted so high that most of the time they will always do something over and over, unless it is something limited like cooking food or buying groceries. I usually put these kinds of tasks at 1 so they do them when I am out of food. Everything thing else; fun things, eating, sleeping, going to work, etc. I leave at 2, you can put them at 3 if you want, just make sure they are all the same level. Only adjust them if there is a good reason to do more or less of a task then they are doing now, because if you lower it they may never do it again, and if you raise it, it's all they want to do. I'd also save buying food at a restaurant as a manual task, unless you are rich. If they are hungry they should eat at home, also keep cooking at a higher priority, as they will cook 4 meals at once, and they will eat those as needed before cooking more. Often they eat the last meal, then start cooking right away, for the next few meals, which will be eaten as needed. If it was me to fast track the actor job, i'd get a student loan from the bank, and keep 1 part time job, You may need to watch closely to make sure you get all your work and school hours done, as it will be like working 2 jobs still, and school can take up a lot of hours, at least for the base game schooling I have done. But it should not be too bad if you adjust your priorities as I stated above. This will add a little debt but it would be quick. If that feels risky keep working 2 jobs if needed, and 10,000 is not hard to get after a promotion or 2, but it may take a few in game years. You did lose the points for your birthday, you just looked at your health and not the happiness. Those buffs can be pretty powerful so I might have taken the dopamine rush as well as inspired. it would have helped kept your fun up at the cost of a few hours of sleep, any time your fun is filled you get those happiness points that can then be used to change your likes and dislikes, to more match what you are doing. The points are really just there to spend on birthdays, and don't have much relevance otherwise unless you let your bars go to 0, I tend to get more health than I can spend. Always check your tool tips. When you sleep in your bed since you dislike sleep how much is that lowering your fun? When you are at work, what are you getting bonuses penalties for? Especially when you get the actor job you will want to try to like or even dislike things that are hurting your fun stat. And if you love something your job uses, you get a new needs bar that will fill every time you go to work. Though there is nothing wrong with loving things you don't use at work, you just need to do those things for fun outside of work. But if you have a few extra love and addicted bars filled, you can really rack up those happiness points. One of the coolest things about the game is disliking something can be just as good as liking something. For example, I have a guy who is an auto mechanic. When I started he liked comfort and got -80 fun penalty at work. Now with birthdays changing things, he dislikes comfort and gets a +80 fun bonus when working, instead of the -80 penalty. It is possible to rake up enough buffs at the right job for your character, that you actually have fun at work, despite a base -400 penalty. Though I am at a net -40 in my game, which is good enough. :) Looks like you got the moving in working. I have never moved out, if you just move into the new place it will boot you out of the old one at the end of the month. You just made it an extra step than it needed to be. And you can always go back the summary screen, and resign the old lease. Sometimes I will look for something bigger, and find I can't afford it or it is too far away from work, so I resign with the old place.

Nice Video Ajax, watched this while having my first practice for next weeks test. :)

Hi, ive stumbled upon you by chance, this game looks really good and so much potential. Maybe you can even make series where you have a kid and move into another town? Because the town itself is amazing. For example, if you make a business, a bakery, then the town is very lack in agricultural, it might not suited. Then maybe you can make into some goal per generation? Like, one to build business, one to reach the top of career, and many more. I hope you can make this as series into your youtube channel, i like how you play this, not rushing, carefully learn things along the way… quick question, where did you set for socializing? I think i missed it..

I just got this game yesterday and I love it already.

Honestly, I think I might pick up this game!

I always wonder... do you read the descriptions of the CEO Stuff that you buy? Great video as always! :)

ive been playing this game recently, is it still in pre-release?

Great video Ajax

The most important thing i have learned is setting a filter on what vehicles can load. Otherwise, you will get chaos

As Mrs Brown would say "That's nice". No really well done

Well done mate! Nice complicated little setup there LOL As map maker, I envisaged an industrial hub there, so you called it! And congrats on your first "no-flip-flop" challenge! It wasn't compulsory as far as the "rules" go... but now you have no excuse not to do it in the future :) Cheers!

The naming of the L2 cache CPU and its description is kinda werid in reality there is the L1 L2 and L3 CPU cache they are just fast access DRAM for CPU, L3 can be 9MB, L2 can be 1,5MB, L3 can be 348KB. before 2010 L3 and L2 were on the motherboard while L1 was in the CPU (except server CPUs wich had them in) after 2010 all Caches were in the CPUs

Glad to see you are slowly getting around to double tracking. I konw I would have a hay day sorting out your tracks especially around Seattle. Then again I've been playing Train games since the first Railroad Tycoon that came out on the Amiga 1990 (that's 34 years ago .... man I'm old). Since then I've played almost all Train games that have been released.

Love the series can’t wait for more