Starting with Farms - Transport Fever 2 | EP 2 

Your farm is initially producing at a rate of 200 units. You should always set your line rate to match that as you make money delivering the grain to the food plant at that rate regardless of what your food plant output rate is. Stephen Spry has an excellent video on that and how you make money early in the game by using this technique on several of the raw material suppliers. I also agree with others that your Portland food delivery line is not really the right way to go. Using a ship to deliver food to Portland would be a much better option instead of 100 or more trucks operating in the same line as your grain trucks. If you don’t want to use a ship for Portland, at the very least have the grain trucks bring food back to a truck stop near the farm and set your Portland food line to deliver from there. You will make more money doing that because your grain trucks will not be totally empty on their return trip and you will significantly reduce the number of food delivery trucks you need.

Sorry - another comment :) The truck depot should be located near the farm... that way you avoid the first LONG unfinancial period as grain gets picked up almost immediately, rather than travelling for ages from the factory.

I love the way this series is shaping up mate, excited to see what you do with the rest of the map! Keep up the good work :)

I watch a few TP2 people... I enjoy yours because of your attention to detail and your skill at landscaping everything. I end up yelling at me monitor a lot when builders just slop things together just to have something to show for the day. Keep up your good work.

Not a bad start and like the farm areas. Perhaps using a Cargo Ship would be a nice change to get the grain from the farms. You can also use this to transport food back to the port near the farms and just have a small line into the city, especially as in early days the horses are slow with low capacity so a ship makes more sense in terms of speed and capacity.

Im really enjoying your series so far! It seems like you are only really being punished financially by the high terraforming costs - its obviously something that you enjoy doing. I personally wouldn't think you would be cheating if you simply set the terraforming costs to zero. Just a thought!

Great episode, love your detailed builds, looks so good! Can't wait for the next one.

I prefer the new format for building the assets as it was on previous series. It's good to see the whole transformation of the industry with increased speed, no talking, just relaxing music. Keep up the good work.

That new farm was far too cheap LOL Also, have you checked how much the ongoing infrastructure bill is for industries placed using the sandbox? I was gonna do it that way for my new map and save game, but the costs were ridiculously high on Hard level. What difficulty level are we playing here? :)

As an Englishman the notion of a flattening tool and road grid for farmland hurts my soul. 🙃 Looking good so far.

I just started watching your channel with this new series and I really like the format and style. You might want to consider instead of a train from the frams to the Bakery, why not a cargo ship since there is already a cargo port at the bakery? Keep up the good work.

No offence, but this line setup is borderline idiotic. Your food line overlaps the grain line a lot. Why not use the grain line for bringing the food back to the farm and pick up food from there? You will cut empty running on both lines a lot. You must have played the last series on easy difficulty if you had dedicated lines for everything.

Please please use loots of steamtrains when you can and then use the highspeeed steam trains for passangers, diesel and electric are just so boring go look at