Absolute Beginners Guide: Getting Started | Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic Guides | Tutorial 

Finally a good tutorial for newbies to recommend that doesn't take ages and is spot on. Good job, BB.

Been searching for 2 days for a tutorial that I could understand. Thank you and please keep them coming.

My biggest lesson learned from playing is… always build dedicated storage and switches.

Just bought the game and loving it, you seem to be the premier channel for this games content so thanks dude you are awesome

Oh, this is great. Based on your most recent videos, I bought this game yesterday, but I wasn’t sure I wanted to jump right into realistic mode so now I can follow along with you in this series. Thanks for all your hard work.

There is a city level setting to switch off “Get residents”. You can click on city name and set “Allow residents to fill buildings” (or something similar).

Thanks for explaining in an understandable way and not taking 500 Hours doing so. This Video was very very helpful for me to get started!

Great tutorial for newbies! Everything is concise and direct. Love it!

Fantastic beginner guide. Great pacing, on point all the time. Also I like that you start with the more advanced settings! This is the guide for me!

Just got this game and am glad I found your video. Thanks!

I found your channel not long ago and commented on some of the features you used while playing after finding this tutorial playlist i'm really happy that you go into so much detail about a lot of functions of the UI that I have missed. Please keep up the amazing work you are doing fantastic.

This beginner guide is so good! Thank you! 10/10

Thank you for your very useful tutorial videos!

Great video, thanks for the tutorial

This is best in class tutorial. I encourage to do 2 times to have a full picture of all details and how elements interconnect. When I did first time I got issues with pedestrians and distances. Second time, I took that into consideration, building pedestrian roads at same time and went really great.

Thx a lot, keep up the good work. Subscribed.

wow that's wild, I just started with in-game tutorial yesterday, and there is so much more in this game :O

Awesome starting tutorial.

Hi bballjo. Good video as always. One small piece of advice that will make the start much easier. It is advisable to start by finding a place somewhere in the middle between two border crossings that are relatively close to each other and to create a connection between them. This will allow the use of both border crossings at the same time from the beginning.

Thank you for existing, I love colony managers / city builders / factorio and this game scratches all my itches... BUT I have no idea where to start, I am currently watching your realistic Island challange and it's been super helpful in understanding how to play realistic mode. Not there yet by far, so far I am playing without water, electrity and waste because I want to be sure I know how to set up a basic economy first. Scenario 1 in the game was very helpful, but Scenario 2 gets softlocked on "build kindergarten" so having your RU-vid channel with months of material helps alot. I have a handful of friends who recently bought the game too so I will share your videos with them. Thank you comrade!

Thank you for this!

great tutorial! Im beyond this already but still learned new tricks😂 Was watching it coz im expiriencing some hiccups with trash management (whats the next step up after taking trash to the border?) and while you cover it well in the new update introduction video, im still not 100% adept even from watching other channels. Now, in one of the past videos you mentionned building a universty as early as possible... That tip has made WONDERS in my gameplay. Can't imagine how was i making it work before with late coming univs!

At first I thought it was an easy play like cities skylines. Then I accidentally clicked on Realistic, and wow. This is the most realistic game I ever played🤯 Because of that, I following you through this series

great tutorial. i came here to get explanation about heat system, to end up by making a New Game lol. this tutorial has explained everything.

Ever since I was a little kid playing Civilization 4 and Tribal Wars on my old brick of a laptop, I was always really into the whole "building up a civilization from nothing" aspect of those games. It was a lot of great fun at the time, but those games tended to focus a lot more on the war and conquest aspect than the parts I was actually interested in. The diplomacy and battle strategy was always fun in and of itself, though it's a bit annoying sometimes when I have to put everything on hold because George Washington keeps building all the monuments I like and threatening to shove his freedom boot through several internal organs. I've found a few games that scratch that itch since then, but the more I look into this game in particular the more I realize it's pretty much exactly what I was looking for. Thank you very much for making this tutorial so I can actually understand how to play this game and get into the fun of building and maintaining my own little communist utopia. Also, the developers of this game have a lot more games which have piqued my interest, too. I'm especially looking forward to Espiocracy in 2024!

"We're almost done, BUT..." Good tutorial, but omg, didn't think this game would be this complex! (Haven't yet bought it)

BRILLIANT

I am probably clinically insane going for a full realistic playthrough first time ever touching this game :D

It's a very confusing game to get into but a very great one once you finally start understanding it. I was so absolutely lost at first, I tried realistic building mode and couldn't build even the basic stuff, because, how the hell do you get 30 tons of cement? Where from? With what? How? Playing around on sandbox with unlimited money and instant build is absolutely crucial for your first time playing, IMO.

I've got over 300 hours in this game but I still learnt something

Man what a difficult game. The in game tutorials really need some work. I think they should not just SHOW how to do something, but give you some kind of goal that'll take maybe 5 minutes, so that you can actually grasp what's happening and see everything run a bit.

@bballjo with Research set to ON - there will be no separation of waste by your population unless the research has been completed, so the setting on the trash stands will not work and just keep those bins empty until the research is done. Effectively reducing your total garbage space until then. Industries separate from the start, so it works for the hazardous waste from the hospital.

Great video. I do have a question. The High voltage priority switch. What it's for and can you use it at the border?

In difficulty settings can you explan what traffic simulation does? It's the only setting I set to "simple" as I have no idea what complex does. My assumption is complex will prevent vehicles from overlapping after a cooldown period of traffic jams?

This game has a very "in order to solve this problem you first have to solve the universe" vibe. Like, none of these things are just their own thing. it's all parts of a whole.

Hey bballjo! Could you give us a realistic start on the Slovakia Map. I've tried several times with your latest Realistic Tutorial but I've come to a few difficult terms that stall and hinder a successful start. I've used the Workshop to get the realistic vehicles etc, but started with the base buildings. What I usually happen to have is after building the coal to electricity plant connected to the heating factory to run out of power or rather it getting a loop with the voltage beeing there but no power transfer I expect there to be a loop with either the external connection that doesn't deliver until researched or some sort of bug with the way the powerline connects to the AC/DC switch or a mess between the large and small powerlines. The other thing I have problems then is to move workers from the next village to the plants via bus for some reason. I've tried a northwestern start to built towards Bratislava and the village near east, so to have one village connected and sprawl to the capital with the bigger city center. But because of the power issue I tend to loose the people in the winter once I assemble the infrastructure (heat, water, electricity etc.) and because the electricity is mostly not functional towards it for the power loop I assume, I struggle to get going. I added buslanes from the citiy center and the village with a stop to the electrical and heat facilities but the passengers won't board the buses so I rely on about 4-5 foreign workers that undersupply the shift so on top of not distributing constantly I also have difficulties to disect where the loop starts. It seems straight from the electric plant the voltage goes into the entire powerline, but the power distribution not even switches on to the nearby next substation or the switch properly. The Wires are puzzling since you've made a back and forth connection without gridsnap in the realistic tutorial, I'd think you need to have one line going in and one going out on the same spot but having merge points from large to small wires create a tertiary connection that doesn't work at all for me. So I usually run out of money with the initial starting capital for the intial setup and take the loan about extra 2 mil. and then run out of that with the construction finishing and the supply imports (food, clothing, coal) eating it up significantly faster. So I'm unable to have any sort of established money makers going. I've had wood going once but food with the fields or meat won't get finished in time to get any proper income from exports. Without the Geological Map Overlay on Realistic getting a coal industry can be a bit more difficult, so I've gone with the coal mine hover until I found a spot of about 30% just to get going but that is also far removed from the intitial setup and seems like a hinderance. May I just get some Uranium instead and use a Nuclear Plant instead for a bigger import to consumption value until it's possible to get the tech research going. I've had the Tech Universtiy Setup but there were no professors for it so I had students but no knowledable oeople which also seemed off for picking a larger town even

I have yet to play this for the 1st time and this vid makes it seem too overwhelming. Before I even start I have to place all these things. Kinda feels too difficult for me.

Good video. Can I place a bus station in the industrial area and not create direct buses to every workplace, to make it easier to manage in the long run? Or will citizens not consider that they can walk from the end bus station to their respective jobs?

Thanks for this. Is this series still valid now that 1.0 has launched or have there been too many changes to the game?

Great beginner tutorial. Do I see it right, we loose money all the time in the beginning?

I am a bit confused: is it possible some of the housing blocks are out of walking distance of some of the services? I feel like that school is a bit far? Does it matter? Or how do you make sure they reach the schools?

Nice video and good information. Well, right at the start if my map does not have a road connection or power connection or train connection or no custom house???? We just have to "go without"? How do I ad nodes? From there to 20:13 I will say that this tutorial is medium level not beginner, certainly not "absolute beginner" . Thank you.

Wow... are we building a city here?

Excellent. This is exactly what I was looking for. What's the best way to start with an existing town on the map?

I can't for the life of me place these sewage discharges buildings. I have utterly defaced all my lakes to no avail.

Would anything change in your Getting Started plan if Realistic Mode is turned on?

This is a great guide but it’s so hard to make a city that doesn’t look ugly. There isn’t really any passive landscaping you can do to make the place actually aesthetically appealing, plus the lack of prebuilt templates to use makes it really hard to make something more complicated than a a bunch of stuff off a highway

Also, I've been obstinately trying to connect every apartment with roads (for like... Fire trucks and moving vans, I guess). Do I not have to do that?

bb, it just occured to me. Are you part of the Soviet Republic building team? If so there are many feedbacks you would need. Game crashing, Sewage system not working etc. Cheers, a.

What difficulty are you playing on in this?

This game really needs a better UI but otherwise seems awesome

Doing realistic mode on an island that doesn't start with a port o_O idk where to start

15:32 Meme quality :)

what modes are u using?

I would love to play this game! But the more tutorial I am watching the more I face the fact that they took out the fun from this game with the unnecessary micromanagement.

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15:32 What happened there? hahahahaha

do you have to play like this? laying everything out before the game starts? thats a bit lame. isn't there a progression system where as the town gets bigger, there are more needs so it grows over time?

bookmark 7:12

The game has great depth. And I'm sure having its knish. But boy it's a tedious mess. I can see why it never caught on with most. Having to micromanage every single thing it tedious. But you tip your hat to them. It's what they have designed, and they stayed with it. It's not as hard as it is tedious. You can be too easy, and you can be too hard. What makes this hard or painfully tedious is having to click on every single thing in the game.

I am kind of interested how this game works, because the Sovjet Republic did not go out for nothing, i could not support itself annymore. So i am currious how this game would work, money is not important in Socialism. Coffee, check, now watch!

using words like "this, that and those" are not recommended for a tutorial... be spesific and dont go forward so damn fast... i had such a hard time following this guide :I

26:15 Good to know that my people can't reach bus station or shopping center after I placed the entire city and not mentioning it early. Time to spend another 2 hours building a new city :)

A guide really needs to tell you WHY you are doing certain things, not just how to do them. The games tutorial is trash, this guide didn't help me understand the why of things. Figuring out how to build things is easy enough, I need to know WHY I am building these things, what effect it is having on my game, etc. Thanks for the video, just was not helpful to me.

Thanks for this. The tutorial in the game isn't good at all.

whats the diference between bus stops and bus stations?