Mastering Realism Mode: The Comprehensive Starter Guide to Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic 

Greetings Comrades, I have finally emerged from the editing dome after completing our annual tradition of updating the Workers and Resources guide. I hope you enjoyed the video, sorry about the length but despite my efforts I felt like I couldn’t condense the guide more without starting to leave out important details. Thankfully though this video should stand the test of time better has finally it seems like the devs have finished adding new systems and are just polishing the game up to leave early access, so hopefully this is the last time I need to do this.

Nice overview. Total agree with so many little things we find out the hard way (large heater, med/large water pipes only, ignore free agg storage, etc). Would argue one of the better 'crash course videos' for the game. Doesn't go in too deep so peeps can learn on own... points out common pitfalls. Etc. Arguments: ~Focus industries till after city is established. Farm is fine (its self reliant) but make only the clothes or the food/beer zone not both. Get that humming with full staffed then build out next one. Start up cost reasons ~Meat. Buy from border. Your yearly cost on meat is a truckload of clothes from your factory in cost. Building out the entire meat production and supply and staffing is 100x more at the least. Not worth till later game ~Train option for farm you mentioned. Set it up but dont build. Train costs like a million to get going and as you already stated early game light on cash so don't think you can squeeze it in and if you did not worth... youll take a decade to recoup the cost vs. focusing that coin into cloths/food or some other industry. NOTE I expect it be 6 seasons before the farm set up itself pays itself off as is now without train, for refernece Question: Is water from surface worth vs. well? Yeah well needs staff but it gives better quality and staff is easy resource soon as republic going. Ive honestly never tried surface. Also do you add another large line to the pump (between lake and treatment) or does the surface water not produce that much? I believe treatment can handle 2 large pipes worth of volume Maybe worths (someone argue against/for these points please): ~RL reasons I usually make my backbone main road between boarder and end (like a freeway if you will) and asphalt it. I even cheat it and pay for it to be built. Vehicle travel distance is one of the biggest slowdowns in the game and I only have so many hours a day I can play. Head-cannon wise I excuse it as the Party decided to develop the region and I have been assigned party membership to take over the task after initial exploration. ~temporary at least, have angled road from city to border cut down travel time which will build up in no time to be worth ~I try to start 'between' two border points. Then can split traffic through it to help alleviate the lines. Not always possible but when it is a game changer ~Dont use largest Main Powerline. Rep prob only use like 8 max, ever, so why waste all that steal (if going to sell then deal with that then with own line/upgrade). Ive actually seen some peeps break it into 2 lines (2 an 4 or such) because cheaper steal cost ~Why run all that 'dirty' water line... just make another 'brown trout fishin hole' in the industrial area (think cheaper resource wise). Not looked at pipe cost vs new export point so could be wrong. (Also, psssst, I just activate cheat mode and dig the hole it makes it more cleaner and deadly looking since it will have extreme sides. Gotta fear the citizens away least I can do) ~When setting percentages in buildings use the ctrl-click can type in percentages. Its a life changer ~Would advise set up 'garbage transfer' stations from start. So instead of having all those lil load trucks driving to industrial zone you only have 1 big load doing it. Also lets the lil ones deal with the city garbage better (you was already overloading a few of the buildings in this playthrough) ~Hospital/Haz waste has bitten me in butt so many times... I actually have a lil dumper in a shared tech office that ONLY pulls haz waste from city area (hospital) and deals with it quickly. The pollution mechanic of haz waste in bins is just wrong ~HeatPlant Bus run, very smert. But I would run 3-4 busses. Maybe more. You going to have 3 shifts and each shift will take a bus load at least. Always have extra. Esp with Heatplant... that thing will deathSpiral your rep if a mouse farts in your neighbors house the wrong way I swear

8900 hrs in and the entire time I thought it was a laughterhouse. Man! What a tonal shift.

For next tutorial video, when you are showing stuff like, where you are planning to build, do it when it's daytime in game so we can actually see what you are talking about xD

Cant believe zero comments are about the Borat pool reference lol

I really enjoyed this video, the term for the force of water being pushed from your water tower to the town is Head Pressure, water head pressure at a specific location is simply determined by the height (or depth) of the water above that location.

This guide is great, couldn’t have started realism without it. Thanks Tovarishch.

one small thing when building the aggregate storage this way is make sure you turn off fires till you are ready seeing a full gravel storage burn down cause you dont have a city to support a fire brigade is really painful (speaking from experience)

I love these videos comrade!

I started playing yesterday. And of course, even in the easiest difficulty i couldn't make a shopping work correctly, even with buses taking people from their houses. Game would still say that some of the civilians couldn't get food, which i couldn't understand. Maybe they were sick. But with your ideia of building a precise street block, where everyone can walk by themselves without the need of vehicles, now everything makes sense. I watched the whole video and now my mind absorved a little bit more of this game. I did all the tutoriais. And even doing it, it doesn't give you the whole scope of the basic things, as it don't teach you how to put everything togheter and make it work, which is another thing. Even after watching this whole video, which you make everything seem so simple, i know it's not. As playing in realistic mode is much more fun, let's see how many times i'll fail on basic premisses before moving foward. I really wanted to live just cutting trees in the beggining. But as you were progressing, i don't that's a good ideia. Thanks for this tutorial, which was very important to me.

I always start with water and sewage works as well as power together with initial road layout. This save hassles later on when trying to expand by having basic infrastructure in place. I also layout some basic rail though it may not get built for quite some time, just to allow room and remind me in the future. I try to play this game as realistic as I can. It's definitely a challenge but far more satisfying when things start working.

How can anyone play in the dark in this game? I have mine set to Daylight all the time pretty much.

Not sure if the feature was available 4 month ago (at least I see grid is available), but at release they have a grid with "magnet" that allows you to snap roads and buildings to the grid. If you click twice on the first check mark at right bottom menu (where the undeground button is) you'll be able to enter grid mode with snapping.

What are the 5 buildings that are near the town but with in the construction area that show up at 15:39 ?

for some reason i cant build any pumps because there is "no path" any construction offices can access. not sure what the deal is.

What are the buildings which appear without any comment at 15.39???

Here I was looking for some guide videos on this game, something about the video, maybe just the subject/game, had me digging through my memory of an old youtube channel I watched growing up. Started googling not finding anything, finally it sparked that the channel had "Stalin" in the name! Finally found JosephVStalin, clicked the announcement video, hell I remember this, he made a new channel, lets see if he's still active, and by some wild chance it links right back to this channel haha, talk about a blast from the past, remember watching your videos back on that first channel and for a while on this one, I guess I got unsubbed at some point. Cool to see you're still around.

When is the next Kenshi part coming out its been almost a year and i really want to see the khans story continue

With the game finally released into v1.0, will you do a new full series let's play?

my pumps never get built. the game always says " construction is not assigned to construction office" and when i try to assign a construction office it says there is no path to it. what is deal with this? how do i build pumps????? i have to save and then place around 50 pumps to find some random place where the game finally can find a path to it. then reload and place the pump that worked.

whenever i place water pumps it never gets built because theres no path to it and vehicles cant get to it. i build the dang roads right up next to it.

if i were homeless the last place i would camp out is the town's shit pit.

Can someone explain me what is storage pourcentage?

Found your old EU3 series

Personally I prefer to call it the shit hole instead of the poop pit

Question - in which realism mode do you start with 4,5 M roebels at start? That is not my realism mode, where I start with 1,5 M roebels.... Is that when you start in 1960 or something else?

You dont show how to bring workers to the main site at the start

Man, if I ever get this game, I would create the world's largest crap pit.

I'll reiterate the comments about using Daylight Only for tutorials. For big chunks of this video we cannot see what you are doing.

why the F#$# would you load oil and drop off at gas station instead of fuel?

Too bad this game don't have a plant that converts sewage into power and heat.