Getting started with Realistic Settings | Ep1 | Workers and Resources Soviet Republic | Season 10 

Thanks! Hope you'll jump back into this one too!

"more realistic" yeah, but in real life we can do many stuff in months 😅. Unlike in the game that it needs days to travel around the region there

Yes please!!!

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Fingers crossed! And I hope some of the originals do too!

Why remove some of the random excitement?!? But that reminds me, it's probably time to expand the fire department...

Have they added the bility with the demolition offices to reconstruct wrecked buildings? It used to be incredibly finnicky to remake things in place of buildings wrecked by random events which is why I always played with normal fires and without natural disasters. I couldnt be arsed to rebuuld half a town because RNGsus decided to screw me over.

Thanks!

Thank you! Welcome aboard! I hope I can keep you entertained, because this will be a long one!

Nice!

Excellent!

Give it a try sometimes:)

Happy to have you back!

I think the issue isn't the complexity, it's just a lack of explanation that confuses new players. Coming in from the sale myself, I found the campaign/tutorial a bit lacking, I was able to complete the first one, but the second one is a bit of a muddle. It just tells you to do stuff without explsing how or why. I started doing the construction one, but it was too confusing down the line. You get multiple requests at once, with no explanation, I could figure out that stone needed to go to the gravel plant to refine it, buy it didn't tell you how to find a valid spot for the quarry, only found it by wiggling the blue print around some hills. I was able to muddle through the first stages, but when it asked me to make cement, I found the gravel plant was in a location that wasn't compatible with connecting the cement factory, and gave up. Problem is, you need to know what you're doing ahead of the tutorial, which defeats the point. I am improving, but I do feel the game needs more structured in game tutorials to explain it's systems

Happy to hear! There is probably more in the next few episodes;)

I enjoyed the first scenario, but dear god it does not do a good job of letting you know 'Hey so this is only like 5 percent of the game'. I gave up on the second scenario and opted to watch this series instead because I feel like it explains it better, I hope they re-engineer the beginner scenarios to make a better flowing tutorial that shows the scale and depth of this game. It is a great game so it would be a shame for prospective players to be turned off from the steep learning curve with an inadequate intro.

redundancy is good eh

Yeah...I do need to expand the fire department

How do earthquakes work? My realistic play through has them all in the same spot and never move, which is my main city as well.

Correct 😄

When was this added and why disnt I know of it, my god paving roads is the most painful thing in this game.

With 100%+ productivity, it can do over 12k, but any dip spirals very quickly. 7500 is a save number.

Where do these numbers come from?

Personal testing. Service capacities for buildings are not given in game. It is probably its biggest fault, since you have bo idea how much of your workforce you need to be in the service sector, or how many service building s to even build, and have to arrive at it through trial and error. And with as unforgiving as the placement system is, having to expand the service capacity of a town post hoc is a major pain in the ass.

Welcome aboard!

@@bballjo sup man,i reply on this post but im at the point i got some building 100% done, got the water substation, electric substation. i purchased electricity at foreign borders. all wires are constructed. plant have some coal. but still i cant manage to have some power. neither water, once u mention driving water truck to substation. doesnt seem to work well for me. i re-did the tutorial water & sewage. i dont see in ur first video any underground pipes, pumping station etc.. would it be my issue for water?

@niveknorac4130 water truck with technical service that has customs as source for water should be all you need...check error messages in technical services

​@@bballjo electric substation issue fixed. water substation thoug, even with technical office with custom as source for everything, with 3 water trucks, and a gravel road in front of the substation, nothing happes. i made a test once i got power, i invited some citizens in a residential building, and it was not long before the issue was '' X numbers of citizens with no drinking water'' im confuse. today i have watched back ur 2nd episode. Tomorrow i guess i will have to rewatch ur 1st one to see the place u put ur substation down the road, or on a foothpath, i dont know man!! or maybe just go back on easy mode at this point geez :( always appreciate ur feedback

@@niveknorac4130 Substations can only be placed with footpaths...but if you play in realistic mode, you either have build a substation, so all connections are there, or you havent. You should be able to hover over the TS office by the 'distance' setting, and all buildings in range should be highlighted in green...

Have you checked the first comment?

@@bballjo first comment seems to say "First, lets gooo" sorry I maybe just can't see it.. thanks anyway

@djignite1 check now

@frankiberlin for vanilla, this is accurate, but there are some "bad" mods out there where this doesn't apply, so the CO is a safer indicator, and pretty easy to verify when playing realistic... otherwise one has to test in a sandbox.

You may learn a thing or two

Honestly...I'm not up to date on mods...I don't really trust them, and only use them when there is no good vanilla alternative...and today, a lot of new vanilla buildings are there that were missing a year ago, so you don't really need mods anymore

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Water consumption info is on every building in the details window...

Did you miss the trailer? You should really check it out 🙂

Yes :)

@@bballjo this is going to be interesting

😂 I don't think I will ever clear out my mods, otherwise doing reviews would take days to redownload them all again...were definitely over 1200 now lol

I wonder if it's just a playtime lock then...idk. I know it's supposed to be free for a little bit.

Yes, there are many differences. When I doubt get an excavator, it can effectively do everything

I get it...but it will be so worth it!

The station also needs to have room, and have the correct passengers enabled...it's true, I made a tutorial on that

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5NxAMYzpr70.htmlsi=w-emtnHbFOd2eXRd

To sum up what bballjo means, if you have a transit station that accepts passengers, any citizen that can't find what need they're looking to fulfill within walking distance will go to the transit station to wait for an hour on a vehicle that will take them to a place they can fulfill that need. If one doesn't show up, they leave the station and recalculate where they want to go. Now if their need is within walking distance station, they'll recognize that and happily go there to get food/clothes/sports/etc. Then I think they teleport back to their house now that the need is fulfilled so long as they can't walk to another place they want to go. So it basically adds an additional hour of wait time between a citizen having a need and fulfilling it, which can cause issues if they have to do this for all their needs and they run out of time between workdays to fulfill all of them, but if it's just a few citizens and just a few needs it's fine. Edit: I checked out the video and it doesn't actually cover what he was talking about with the whole "bus platform extends range people will walk to needs" thing. I think this video is what he meant to link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bYHw_i6WmzM.htmlsi=5c0v3BZF2aQH7MQd

@@bballjo Thanks for answering. The tutorial is good but how does it work with people that want to go get food (not bus lines)? Are they supposed to walk to the bus station first (is their type just "passengers" in that case?) assuming there is enough space and then if the shopping center is withing walking distance from the bus station, they will go there to get their food and then continue their day?

@giannisparanis3373 yes

No. It's implemented as designed. Customs have never been efficient.

@@bballjo As someone who actually had to clear russian (not soviet) customs a few times, I can confirm. They do like their bureaucracy more than other countries, sometimes to the point that they *invent* new rules on the spot.

Emergency vehicles can travel on pedestrian roads (just slowly)

I play 99% vanilla...so I don't think that will be a real thing...

Sub to the mod collection, but honestly, you'd be fine with just vanilla

@@bballjo Thx

That's a clever way to put it!!!

Is your state only 20km² big? Don't be silly, it's a game, there are scales being used...looked it up... population itself actually isn't a key factor for if you call something a city or not, instead it's population density, and for that most cities in this game may actually be considered a city IRL...but it's a game, so who cares.

Here a city is legally defined as any contigous incorporated srttlement with over 10k inhabjtants. And the game is 25x25km, so its 650sqkm. I'd say its compressed about 4:1.

I have played with the DLC since it came out.

What's do you mean? We are on episode 15...

@@bballjo Yeah, my mistake. But I am still perplexed, having looked at episode 2. How are you building a power grid without researching the ability to buy power?

Buying power doesn't need to be researched... building new border power connections does need research

Couple places...in game, left hand menu, there is a "mod menu", click that, and set it to everything. Also in game, for vehicles, you may have "workshop" deselected. In main menu, under workshop and subscriptions, you may have mods disabled there.

Thank you. Will take a look

What exactly is the error?

@@bballjo i have no idea, gas sations are grayed over for me and there's only 2 choises

@0michelleki020 Gray means you have fuel turned off in the settings

@@bballjo oh, ok, thanks lol

No idea...do they not have workshop access? If they don't...I'd just bite the bullet and get the steam version

​@bballjo there are way of ripping items from the workshop, but its a hassle. I'm not exactly in the best financial position to be buying the same game twice. If possible could you upload it to an outside resource like nexusmods? (A mere googledrive drop would also work)

There are no real values...the results are so random even with the same parameters that it doesn't matter much...I often do more rivers and hills than the default, but that's all

Playing with a single mod shouldn't really be a reason to be scared...but that's ok :)

@@bballjo scared that is funny, you missed the point for new people in the game like me the amount of icons on the menus is a problem, well you have mods so you do have a lot more icons , for example you could put moded tutorial on the title and teach people how and where to get those mod , overall i liked your video ok don't focus too much on my critic here (people tend to put critics on top of the mind for some reason) its great that you made the video just be aware that for new people to the game its a deep learning curve and that as nothing to do with you so keep up putting them out. thank you!!!

@1Rictec If you watched the video, you know that I keep the mods off unless I need something...this is not a modded playthrough. I am using mods, but I explain what and why. The game is still short on some items, especially around ships and planes and certain sized buildings, like the small hospital, it just needs more ambulances, but I did explain that. I don't really want to put my whole mod collection here, it's way over 1000 items, and that's too much and confusing.

My mom at 3 in the morning:

​@@hyprux9077 I'm reading this and its 3:00 to the minute, lol

Keep watching...looks like you still have a lot to learn, for example, why would you use workers to make roads? It's very wasteful...

@bballjo I only send workers because it requires manpower? I wouldn't send them if I didn't have too. I find it random that my dozers build some and I need workers to do others. Another issue is I can never upgrade my border connection from mud. Or I lose my manpower to do it. Until I have my own population I guess. Yes lots to learn, but I don't understand how to bypass using workers for roads when it specifically says I need them?

@stefanhager8950 you don't need "manpower" you need workdays... Roads don't need workers unless you are building electrical things like light poles.

@bballjo Thanks for helping, much appreciated. I guess my question would then be why my dozers wouldn't move, or stop moving but the men would do the work

That indeed is an interesting question...but something that should easily be investigated by following the construction site closely...there is also the part of if your piece of road is too small, no mechanism can be used, meaning you have to use workers there...

Obviously you need the KG when you have people...Its just a small building, and you generally need multiple in the city, which is why it's the last building I usually add.

I disagree on time... graveling the roads while planning means I don't have to wait that time after planning. Since I am not right next to the border, the delay for using dirt roads instead would be pretty high.

@@bballjo graveling roads while planning means you're wasting a lot of time on game being unpaused when it absolutely should be paused. There's no delay for using dirt roads, it's still infinitely faster than not building anything at all. I'm not saying you shouldn't gravel the roads, I'm saying while a road is graveled you should have a bypass mud road and construction of buildings ongoing.

​​@@HanakoSeishin except for vehicles getting out of date, there is absolutely no need to pause the game. Time only becomes an issue with citizens getting unhappy. But as long as there are no citizens, you have unlimited time. But yes, bypass roads are always a good idea.

@@weltraumvogel2 > you have unlimited time No, when you aim to get citizens before the end of year 1, you have time until the end of year 1.

lol dirt roads and railroad blueprints, not even the railroad itself. So OP

We haven't started the hard part yet...