Transport Fever 2 - Ep 1 - First Steps 

Just bought the game lol I love these kinds of games. Cities skylines or humankind or age of empires there all fun

A few tips from someone with 1200+ hrs in the Transport Fever franchise: Squirrel mentions it, but it's extremely critical in hard mode to have as little remaining loan at all times, the interest will kill you over time if you just keep it there 6 vehicles is too few, 12 is better, but if you use the line menu in the bottom right corner, you can see how much "product" the vehicles can shift per year - matching that with the amount of products that the city demands will ensure fulfilled demand and good profits. With this particular line, beware of the two-to-one ratio for crude to oil, so if the city demanded 40 fuel, setting the line up with a rate of 80 would work fine. Setting up a supplemental crude line just to supply more of it is even better, over a long enough distance, it will make money, even with a train. I've never really experimented starting with passengers on hard mode, but all data available suggests, contrary to TpF, that it is better to begin with a goods line, because the new freight system guarantees revenue from the get-go. Glad to see you pick this up, I'll definitely be back for more. Cheers.

I just downloaded TRANSPORT FEVER 2 a few days ago and started my first ever map exactly as in this series. I did start at 1850 and on medium (to give me more time to learn), and am not following this 100%, but this series has to be the BEST explanation of ANY sim game EVER!!!! Thanks so much for this! This is now my favourite game.....and I have only just moved into the 20th century (1901 right now...). I mainly run it at 1/4 speed, or even pause time for stretches, just so time doesn't run away from me while i get the hang of it...

I enjoy games like this and have played them for a long time. The Transport Fever was good, this one was better and is still getting updates. Devs are apparently working on improvements to the Tycoon elements, which is a great sign.

People ask for a let's play and you give them a full blown tutorial. Awesome stuff, really nice you take the time to do so.

Looking forward seeing this let’s play

Trains are good, because they work about after a few hours of gameplay, and they also work wonderfully as the map ages and the cities grows.

This is absolutely a great game. I have some good times playing this.

When you can't afford a gaming PC at the moment so you just binge watch other people playing. Great video!

I never had a proper tutorial of this game and this videos has been a tremendous help in explaining the core of how this game works. Great job!

7:45 This actually isn't true in Transport Fever 2, it was true in 1 and Train Fever, but now a factory will demand as many raw goods as it could potentially use at it's current level, even if it doesn't have anywhere to send it. That said, it also won't upgrade unless you deliver it's goods somewhere, so you do still need to deliver the goods to the cities.

Thank you so much Squirrel for doing a youtube let's play over this. Looking forward to the rest of it.

Appreciate you explaining this. I havent played transport fever over the stress of how complex it appears at the beginning

I'm don't plan on really ever playing transport fever 2, and I don't have a PC (connected), but if I did get a PC, I would definitely play this. This was entertaining to watch

I’ve been looking everywhere for a series like this!! I love this game so much and I’m eager to learn things I might have missed and boy does this series have that in spades. Bravo!!

Was trying to find a new game, love this content. Very detailed explanation

Is there a Mr Beeching mod that decides at the peak of production its a good idea to scrap all the railroads and put cargo onto narrow windy roads in big trucks instead?

I haven't seen a squirrel playthrough in so long! They're much more bearable at 1.5× speed

Haven't played this game in a while so great to see some gameplay again. I want to get back into it now. My favourite map set-up is maximum map size, rectangular rather than square with low city density and low industry density. Makes for some truly epic train journeys.

Excited for this. I usually do double truck drop offs(both sides of the road) , so they are more efficient at dropping things off.

Excellent job at explaining everything quickly and concisely, other videos either don't explain it well or take hours getting to the point; you've nailed it!

I used to watch someone else playing this, and I thought the game was awful, it wasn't the game, but the way it was being presented...watching your video has transformed my understanding and the sheer scope of the game. Very much my type of strategy gaming! Loving the deep logistics simulation and the whole supply and demand mechanics. The other channel I used to watch made it feel like a total joke of a game with no really gameplay. So thanks for an honest let's play series

Had this game for a while and had trouble figuring it out, going to try play it with you. Thanks for picking this up for a lets play.

So, this is a 21st century version of Transport Tycoon. Great!

This dude is a professional. the way you understand the most effective steps to take is amazing. I'll vote for you as the President of Nigeria

I am new to this games (2 years on), but very much enjoying your style of delivery (pun intended).

Coming from Transport Tycoon and locomotion, this game seems to address a lot of the shortcomings. I used to try and find coal mines and transport coal to power stations to make bank initially.

24:45 wrong! This is the way they dealed with aging vehicles in Transport Fever 1. in part 2 they’ve introduced emissions wich increase as the vehicle ages, they don’t get more expensive anymore (!). This leads to it only being effective to ramp up the maintenance for vehicles that mainly operate through residential areas, I never use it for trains (It’s not worth it).

You don't need to complete the supply chain It's not necessary the producer and consumer factory don't care about it whether the end product is supplied or not . Put down your headquarters it will gonna show you many many mor information and it will look cool too

When I play, I add another line from crude to refinery only, so to fill in the empty spot caused by 2 to 1 ratio. OR another similar line to second city.

This reminds me of the time I used to play Sim City. Can't wait for the next episode of this one to roll out. 👍

This game always reminds me of that time when I was like 15, so back in 2007. A teacher at my school asked if I ever played Transport Tycoon, and I said I hadn't, so he told me I could have the game from him if I wanted. Then he hauled a whole computer to school, and told me it had the game installed and I could have it, cause he didn't find the floppies of the game to give me. It was a really old one too, I think it ran Windows 95, and he included a huge CRT monitor lol

So glad to find this; there's nowt like a Squirrel playthrough to fully understand a game. Superb commentary as ever.

I was waiting for this from you for a long time. I do miss trucking dairies.

This is an AMAZING game. I've spent A LOT of time on it.

You caused me to buy this game. Awesome video!

Was hoping you were going to do this, and it's good to see how much you've picked up from your twitch series. I remember watching the first couple of episodes on Twitch and almost shouting at the screen "Click there for christ sake" sometimes as you were refamiliarising yourself with things haha :-D So, for those of us who cannot give the time to twitch, thanks for doing this series :-D

Thanks for posting these, they are very useful for a person, thinking about me, who has zero idea about playing the game but doesn't wish to spend time playing the campaign / tutorial. A great deal of most useful information and tips Thanks

This playthrough was so good... please please please do another one on this game please please

Dude, you are an awesome teacher and because you make the game look interesting, I will prob buy it soon..

Hmm, those flat earth people are correct

First off sorry for the long comment. Your channel was recently recommended to me by RU-vid and it was video 3 in this series. I really enjoyed it and went back to watch the entire series from the beginning. I have watched the complete series twice now and play the game regularly. This was hands down the best let’s play/tutorial video series I have ever watched. So well thought out and delivered in the best way possible it was fantastic. I would love to see another series on TF2 since there has been a lot of changes and updates to the game. Anyways thanks again for this amazing series. Sincerely your new subscriber. Cheers 🍻

Geeez ! I think I just fell in love with this type of game ... I do love these games wich you make your own tons of money ...

Damn. I feel like I just went through a basic crash course in logistics and economy. More pls.

Finally! A game you're enticing me to play that I already own! :) Time to reinstall it and get playing. It's been a while.

The man, once again you manage to creat a very nice youtube series. Great work

Can't wait to see more of this series

After having a successful city, where is the replay value? I mean I love builders and some SIMs were nice to play, but never found much replay value other than one great time thru... maybe twice or even three times. Wish games like this had an up to 4 player competitive world...that would add replay value...

Never played the game but like the look of it. I'm glad your doing a lets play on it

Ah, 3D Transport Tycoon Deluxe. Nice.

Just GREAT. Another addictive series from Squirrel. LUL

My map ended up being different from yours. I do like the way you setup the truck terminals.

Saw an upload and had a "these aren't the droids your looking for"' moment.

You should place your truckstops as far away from the industry you can, while being in the catchment area. That way you reduce the distance your trucks have to travel from there, to the drop-off point and back. It might not seem like a lot, but every second you can win back, is money earned at the end of the month.

Please go to the settings of the playlist and make it list them in the opposite order from now, because it starts with episode 3, continues with episode 2, and then episode 1, and so on.

New to your channel, compliments on a great introduction to this really fun game. I had to put it away before it consumed all of my free time. Looking forward to future episodes.

just a tip for landlords super if u get a TV and turn it on u can c the weather forecast so u will know what's happening outside without having to look at the UI

When squirrels let’s play is more informative then the game’s actual tutorial

15:08 Mistake. He added platforms on both sides when one could do.

My father has been playing this game since release and i always scoffed at it but after watching this video and playing a ton of Cities Skylines i can see why he played so much, nice to know my dad has taste in games :D

I love how you explaining everything, i’m thinking about buying this game and would love to know more about it . Please keep on explaining and reexplaining , thanks!

I would never play these types of games (too complex for me) but I do like watching them

I know its way late to the game, but one thing you can do, the first truck that brought the crude to the oil refinery, rather than having it run the whole route, you can turn it around back to the first stop. May not seem like much but it could be the ace up your sleeve on a tight game.

finally, somebody who actually knows how to explain things.

I would've put a dedicated line from crude to refinery then the rest on the other line. Probably would have spent the money to build the bypass too. The game looks fun though, very much so

I need 10 hours of this

Sadly it appears that the 2022 Spring Update has changed the map calculations for Seeds so it is no longer possible to create this exact map using the 0VjcYjYb seed and play along.

Couldn't miss the fact that Biggleswade looks like a giant swastica... 9:51

wow, this was awesome. loved the video. thanks

Note: what squirrel here wanted to showcase is - You always want to be travelling with goods on your vehicles. However, i don't think he did it the right way. 1- The timing: He's setting up the entire production chain right away, but, as you saw, there were not goods available yet on most of the route. 2 - The percentage of use The first industry to pump out usable resources is the crude field. It stands to reason you should first put vehicles to work on moving those resources to the crude refinery, so they're actually being used FULL. A half filled vehicle may simply be a money drain. Money doesn't just have to come in, it has to come in more than it goes out. 3- My solution (and overall how i do it most times) The points he created are dead on the same ones i would. However, i'd make a station, not just a dropoff point in the city for futureproofing. First line - Leaving from the closest crude station to the town, dropping off at the crude refinery, and stopping by the town station before restarting. This ensures the only distance travelled without cargo is from the town to the oil field. Second Line - From the Crude refinery to the fuel refinery. This line has 100% use, as all vehicles here will be full on the initial leg as well as the return of the trip. (This will likely make the most money) Third Line - Very optional, still reccomended A trip from another oil field, to the crude refinery. This will not be as profitable, but will feed the other two lines, and make it so they're always running at capacity. Why this layout? This enables you to measure how many vehicles are necessary with regards to the ratio's of the production. Fuel to oil is a 1x1 ratio, so the vehicles on line 2 will aways go back and forth full after one or two trips. Crude to oil is a 2x1 ratio. This means if you use similar amounts of vehicles from line 1, you'll ensure the vehicles on line 2 will never be running at capacity. (and that's not good for you wallet)

You should split up your route into 2 separate parts. the first part is where you bring crude oil to the refinery. The second part is where you take the refined oil from the oil refinery to the fuel refinery and back. The first part should also pickup the fuel and take it into the city and then go back to the oil well. Otherwise you take 2 crude and for the rest of the trip, your trucks run half empty because you only produce 1 refined oil.

As I am new to the channel, (via this series) I have caught up to the latest episodes now! This has lead me to restart the series as I start my own play through. Keep it up! I love the fine details in the series.

Game had a massive update, we need a new series S! :D

Nice video, Squirrel! As a player of TF2 myself, I'm a little confused why you built the truck stations where you did. I'm speaking specifically of the Lower Laughton station. Why place the truck station directly across the street from the factory? If you placed it up the road to the very edge of the catchment, you could cut off a pretty significant chunk of travel time, especially important given the slow trucks in 1900. The others have traffic coming from both directions (or will once you start service to Mableforth and Sutton) so I can understand why you'd want them in the middle. The other thing I'm wondering is, why start with a multi-stage good like Fuel? You have a perfectly viable food route in the same area. It pays less than your Fuel Oil run for sure, but has a lower infrastructure cost and will get up and running and profitable much faster than Fuel. I'd definitely want that in place as a "fail safe" to earn something while waiting for that fuel oil run to become profitable. Personally, I'd definitely have started with food. But I really enjoyed the video and am eager for the next! I'm definitely thinking about playing the same map myself and seeing who can get to a billion faster. (Based off in-game date, of course, not real time.)

anyone who played transport giant would love this game

Good stuff. Miss the LPs on this channel.

Aww that brought back memories when you mentioned Biggleswade. Lived near there in Potton and Sandy for a while

Transport Tycoon De Luxe . this game is my favourite and now this new one is upgrade. brill

I love this serie… I want more

I found 3 other Mods in the Workshop on Steam that new players differently need: 1: The UNDO Button. Saves so much time. 2: Rail Tracks X'ing. Yes someone made this, so the rest of us can save time. 3: Free landscaping. I know it might be considered cheating by some, but I feel like it saves time and makes the game so much better. And you can sculpt your environment from the beginning of the game. I hope this helps new players...

I hate broken timescales in games... It took that truck about a year to get from the depot, to the oil rig, to the refinery. A whole year to deliver 5 barrels.

I have been looking for a great video to get started playing this game again! Thanks for the series!

Man, that soothing voice is reason enough for me for a like and subscribe

Railroad tycoon on Amiga and transport tycoon is very similar, many hours spent on those as I will do with this play through too👍 keep em coming Paul🥳

Really wanted to play this game, but missed the steam sale and was annoyed I'd have to wait for the next one, then looked through my library and realized I bought it back in 2020, I was like finding $50 in a pair of pants you hadn't worn for a long time.

Can't wait to see more of this informative gameplay

thank you for making my life easy, i was confused as to how to begin 🙏🤝

Amazing getting started tutorial! Thanks Squirrel. This game reminds me of Transport Tycoon, of course except for the graphics. Ahh good old times

I just picked this game up recently, can't wait to see more of this let's play. Going to check out those mods they seem to fix the main... Weirdness of the game.

Well you said something like: "the shorter your delivery lines are, the more money they makes". But it's actually the opposite. In transport Fever 2, when your lines are huge, you earn tremendously more money for each delivery. Now you also need wayyyyyyyyyyy much more vehicles to have a good rate so the initial investment is huge.

if my teachers explained things this clearly I would've been somewhere else by now

When I enter the seed value, my map doesn’t look like yours. Help?

Love games like this one can`t wait for next episode

This is really Transport Tycoon 2!

Looks very similar to cities: syklines! Perhaps I might try this to tear me away from Transport Tycoon.

Great to see a dedicated RU-vid series. TF2 is a fantastic game and deserves more credit.

27:59 - Should have just told that one to turn back to the oil well (skip to location #1). It's now going to go through the rest of the line completely empty, costing you money, when it could be bringing more crude to the refinery (and getting paid for it) instead.

I don’t know why you’re so negative about debt. In the early game, debt allows you to expand rapidly - as long as your earn more money from what you do with the debt than you spend on the interest, it’s good.

starting tipps= reduce empty journeys and do the intire chain slowly than to spamm raw resource vehicles and then go bancrupt

Hi Paul, I just started to play the game this evening, and dear me, it's a lot.. Thank you for all the helpfull tips so far (I'm at 12:27 now). As soon as I get the chance to play again I'll start a new map, with all the features you've shown in this video. I'm going to use your playthrough as a guide to get me started, without going broke the next time (I hope...). Greetings from Eindhoven NL, Bas