When a Professional Highway Engineer builds a Railway... Transport Fever 2! 

I like how he doesn't see a difference between planks and boxes, I was hoping to see the despair of realisation this ep though, not gonna lie XD

You make money taking materials to a manufacturer as well as delivering items to cities. In the early game it's only worth delivering things that are close to the city, growing production in as many nearby industries as possible is a good starter, preferably using boats. That way once you can deliver with regularity and capacity your trains /boats /planes will be making enormous profit each trip. You can also budget your stations with the station options in the bottom right when building. Build the shortest Station for the cargo drop off, trains don't need to have a full length station. Plus, you could build a cheaper 1 lane cargo road terminal. I like to put a 1 lane terminal for pickup, and a drop off station separately. You can technically place terminals far away, but the efficiency decreases the further it is, you'll see the grey change colour on the industry. For a good turn around and to level up the industry it's worth putting the terminals closer. You might want to view the line, vehicle, and station reports (buttons to the right of the build buttons), you can get a breakdown of how much each line / vehicle is making. More importantly the station report can show which stations need more capacity / vehicles. And lastly, to answer your question, the wood gets turned into planks, boxes are somewhere else, look again at the symbols in the load unload. All of that being said, if you're not on hard you don't need to worry so much about build efficiency for cost reduction and industry growth. A few good lines and you'll be making money hand over fist.

Sometimes cuttings are more expensive in the game than tunneling, so think of that, too.

Don't know if anyone already gave you that tip, but basically everytime you're vehicles deliver something to a station (point of demand or station with line that goes to a point of demand) you earn money. Especially in the beginning when everything is slow and can't take much per delivery you need to reduce the distance each line travels. For an exsample a train line: You connected point A with B but your train needs time to travel back and forth and only earns money all 3 years or so (let's say it earns 260000$/per delivery) But costs you money each month (let's say 30000$) which means it doesn't really produce money. (25000*12=300000$/per year but only makes 260000$/per 3 years) But when you divide the line into 4 lines, that means you place in the track you already have (with equal distance to each other) 3 small staitons and buy 3 new trains. With that each line is 1/4 the length and you made [A->B] to [A->C,C->D,E->F,F->B] Because of that the train only needs to travel 1/4 of the distance but as I said at the beginning everytime you deliver something to a station you get money and the money you earn is given by the type of the good and the amount. But these two don't change which means the train still makes 260000$ when arriving the station where the next train can pick it up until it reaches the 4th and last train which delivers it to the point of demand. And every train earns 260000$ when delivering to the station. And because each train only needs to travel 1/4 of the original distance it doesn't take the train 3 years to reach the station instead only 9months so you now earn 260000$/per 9months which is ~346666$/per year which is more than the 300000/per year that the train cost you. This also works with each other vehicle type or at least should work, the only real downside of this is that building cost of the line/vehicles is higher. (Because of more stations and vehicles) I hope what I wrote makes sense to you. If not feel free to ask again.

Ttof is making planks not boxes 😂. I can't explain in words how much I was screaming at my phone "no Matt no those are planks not boxes 😂🙈"

Not gonna lie Matt, it's deeply hurts to see you make so many mistakes lol I love this game, I hope you'll keep this serie

02:33 Screen shows 36k being earned Voiceover: Thirty TWO grand! Me, using a Yoda voice: The math is strong in this one, it is!

Matt always replace your vehicles. I always do in transport tycoon. When they hit durable 1%. I always replace it.

This is really entertaining i hope more of these game is featured in the future.

Hey RCE, I would love to see more of this game! Thanks for the entertainment

You never build a route from the other train station into town - and possibly the flatbed waggons can't carry boxes, but not sure on that one. Cargo only appears in a station to be loaded if there is a viable route to a target - but it will work over serveral interchanges if necessary.

Looks like they need to fix the look of those stone bridges; and maybe put the time in hours but only 14 hours in a year or something...

Back in the days of steam they were called drivers, now they're called operators

Should we tell him that those are planks and not boxes? xD

This is actually educational 😂

I wouldn't trust the Neuken in de Keuken Chemical Plant lol

Can engineers not tell Boxes from planks apart? 🤔 really makes ya think 👀

Matt... Have you forgotten what Neuken In De Keuken means? Lol

Please make another episode!

YES RAILWAYS i am literally a train & railway enthusiast lol

finally, been waiting for this one :D

i like this video the only problem is it too short

Call planks boxes one more time....

Transport fever

Почему Г на заставке перевернута?

9:23 what was that sound?

More pls

Hey

I think the reason you weren't getting any boxes is because the man with the logs was creating planks not boxes you thought they were making

You think a few hours overtime is bad, but then you realize these poor carriage drivers have to be on a route for eight years before going home for the night

"A riverboat line seems expensive - let's build a rail line instead." Oh no, oh no no no no

Finally heard the engineer mantra. "That's a problem for somebody else."

RCE: "Why are you not making boxes?" Planks facility: I don't know man

The title should be "How to be in debt...PROFESSIONALLY"

“This is our lovely bridge that isn’t so lovely” Matt. I thought you were an engineer

"it earns you money" ah yes your crippling debt shows evidence of the immense cashflow

I laughed harder than I should've when the patron-named factory "neuken in de keuken" appeared; I feel so blessed to be alive in a time where these things happen... although... perhaps a medieval britt king at some point also let a [put-colony-name-here] disciple pick a name for some land or castle... anyway, great channel!

Wow, I didn't know that they had electric streetlamps in the 1860's. That's so cool

Those aren't boxes, they're planed timber or something like that. Also, it helps to make some small routes in town to transport people (but they don't really make that much money); it's more necessary when you train people between cities.

The "boxes" you were looking at were actually planks :) So you were mixing up the real boxes (called "goods" I think) with the planks - that's why it wasn't working. Waiting for the next episode :)

3 years per trip at 40 km/h would mean the distance that train traveled was about 1.05 million km, which is 26x longer than the circumference of the Earth. I feel like something isn't quite right here.

Him: burns 500k on a stupid bridge also Him: Let me know what I'm doing wrong in the comments This Comment:

- "Where do you work?" • "In the 'f-ing in the kitchen'- chemical plant." - "Excuse me, where?" • "In the *sigh* nevermind..."

Lmao one of the patreons is called “nueken in de kueken”???

Start with the small routes. Do not go directly for the big distances with X horse carts and trains xD stay more sensible, then you'll relativly fast snowballing.

21:19 you do realise thats a timber mill? means that it doesn't make 'Boxes'

16:47 press F2 to get the line statistics. Great tool to balance your lines, making sure you have enough throughput along the entire production chain. 21:04 if want to de-select all cargo types, press on "Load" and "Unload" on the top. They make not look like it, but those are buttons. 21:32 Pretty sure it's been said by others: That saw mill makes lumber, not boxes. The town you wanted to ship to wants "Goods", which the carboard box icon is for.

Real Civil Engineer... "what are they called? Train drivers? Captains?" Locomotive...engineers. I think he's turning more architect every day...lol

That is a sawmill, so it is making planks, not boxes. The boxes factory (goods) does require planks if I remember correctly so it isn't a waste. Boxes or Tools at least. 2nd Problem was that horse is not configured to carry boxes even if that sawmill could make them. When you buy vehicles the allowed cargo is shown in the panel.

As a dutch person, its very funny to listen him reading the dutch sentence without him realising what it means.

Okay, that was painful to watch, but I still enjoyed it xD Anyway, to make money in TF2: - The demand is the main driving force of all goods. This also means, that there won't be any goods spawning, if there's no demand for it (hence your trouble with the "boxes"... as every other comment already told you, there are "planks" and "goods", and you tried to make goods in a plank factory....). - Faster the goods are delivered, more money you get. This means that especially at the beginning, keep your distance between goods the shortest possible, as you don't have any fast vehicles. (so hauling bricks accross the whole map with carriages was definitely a bad idea(kudos for improving that *thumbs up*)) - Some products are more complicated than others to make, so also, especially at the beginning try focusing on simpler made products, that are near the city that demands it... Check which city needs what and don't even bother with those, that have complex products and far away... - Most efficient way is to have one type of vehicle to haul one type of product. It's much more profitable to have 4 vehicles to haul stone to brick plant and 4 vehicles to haul bricks to town, than have all 8 set in a way, that all of them bring stone, then wait for bricks and then bring bricks to town... Revise the existing network and use the rules from above... I'd add more wagons on the brick train for now. Don't mind the loan, once you start doing profitable train lines, you'll be rolling in dough xD Good luck, fellow engineer =)

I was just thinking about this series and how much I wanted another episode! Flawless timing.

"I think boats are too expensive, let's do a train instead" Oh dear. Boats are an absolute cheat code in 1850 starts for building up money fast. Only cost about 1.5m to start a line, but can carry so much that you make that back in like, 3 or 4 trips.

In the end you mixed up boxes with timber. The first one represents consumner goods and look like gray paper boxes. The others are brown (wood colored) rectangular palets of cut wood.

That travel time is insane. They need to reduce that to 'WEEKS' at most. Those cities aren't that freaking far apart. lol

Can't tell the difference between a cardboard box with some gaffer tape on it, and a stack of lumber... Glad you're an engineer and not a builder, cause that could go horribly wrong.

As dutch person i approve of the chemical plant name! Well done everyone involved!

I really enjoy getting to hear about the details of an actual engineer's job. It makes me feel smart after laughing at a knob joke.

The easiest way to make money is by making short routes, you don't need to complete a production chain to get paid, you pay for delivery and the factories will buy everything you supply, even if you don't producing nothing.

Oooh, it’s really interesting you did a feasibility study on reinstating old railways in Wales, with the line to Okehampton down in Devon having been reopened, I hope that study is going to lead to something similar! P.S. boxes ≠ planks

Transport fever has a lot of mod potential, so there are a lot of mods, especially for vehicles and bridges

You should split up everything into smaller routes, that helps a lot. Especially with horses and early trucks, because they can't carry much and are painfully slow.

RCE: boy that riverboat stuff is expensive, let's build a rail instead. me: ummm, RCE kinda sucks at american history, doesn't he?

"Neuken in de keuken" One of the best Dutch sentences everyone should learn. If you ever see a Dutchy, tell them "Neuken in de keuken?" They'll instantly like you.

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I'd love to see this series continue to be honest, lovd this game myself and it would be great to see you learn as you go along and really build up a proper network

Watching this really put into perspective why companies are willing to pay people like me a nice salary to play around with numbers. One of my previous jobs was to literally reign in the engineers at every turn because they have absolutely zero sense when it comes to how much money they waste. I only wish my old co-workers had the humour level of Matt.

I spent half an hour trying to calculate whether the bridge would collapse under it's own weight before giving up

new veiwers: questioning why the editor is called shmichel. old viewers: remembering a random red blob with a nickname that stuck

Hey because of you I started RU-vid thx I have 5 subscribers

2:29 Bricks dropped off* +36,557$* "Thirty-two grand ?!" Love your videos! Especially loving the infraspace series but they're all awesome

Dude I swear that like 6 months ago RCE had like 400k subs… but now 1.38 million. Good job!!! That many subs that quickly is insane

Early game can be rough. Couple tips I have picked up. As others have said, try to start with shorter, simpler routes, on a small scale (trucks first, less capital). Also do your best to get paid both ways. There is some way to reconfigure the train stops and truck/bus stops so they can have more/longer platforms and different entrances. Hope this helps. Have fun with the learning curve, glad to see you playing this.

"tell me what I'm doing wrong" well nothing you just take too long I guess and your starting with more mid game stuff, like cargo. I usually start with passenger transport between two close cities, one should be smaller then the other in terms of work places and shopping possibilities so that people from city have a reason to travel to city b. You can check these stats if you click on the city names. After i set the train line, i normally build some bus stations in the cities themselves and connect them with each other, this way travelers can travel from the train station all the way to the other side of the village with your vehicles and you earn more cash! I normally try to connect every city with each other as fast as my money allows me to, this way i have a good baseline and can focus on cargo afterwards. Sounds boring but you'll realize relatively quickly that managing 10 cities gets crowded quickly. Hope i could help, then my 150h spent wouldn't be a waste, if you have anymore questions, don't hesitate to ask. Great videos! (I love the Infra ones) Have a great day!

I thought i just got over my Transport Fever 2 addiction, and well, RCE has got me relapsing.... WHY!!! WHYYYY! *starts up a new game*

theres so much to unravel jeez. quick tipps: 1. dont make longer routes than nessecary, single use lines are better. 2. trucks are for short range transport, between trainstops and town buildings. the same goes for busses when you move into the passenger transport. 3. you can click on factories and see exactly what they produce, the menu even includes a nice little list of supplies and consumers, so like in the sawmill you would see forrests as supplier and anything that uses PLANKS as consumer. 4. trains are your main moneymaker, plan and build a rail network as soon as possible. the signals tell trains only that they can go in specific directions. so youre british, which means your trains would be left hand drive. building a one way railway with double rails would mean your signals need to be spaced out along the whole railways with the arrow showing their direction of travel. 5. condition and emmisions are irrelevant for anything that is NOT passenger related. busses and trams need to be in good condition or towns wont grow. cargo vehicles conditions can be ignored, they will not cost more. 6. any vehicle can be modified or replaced on the fly, you only need the money to do so. 7. be aware of which platforms inside terminals you send lines to, there is a small number in the line manager that shows this. sometimes you need to micromanage that. its especially important with many truck lines coming in to say a steel mill terminal, or train lines taking a looped trip from city to city. so, RCE, i heavily recomend you actually play the campaign. its pretty much a tutorial for anything you can do in freeplay. hope that helps. good luck. edit: 8. you can set gameplay speed and gamedate speed seperately from each other. click the date button in the lower right corner. 9. distance between supplier and consumer is important. afaik the larger the distance, the more money you get. 10. in the line manager there is an important information, called frequency. that shows how long a roundtrip for a single vehicle takes, in minutes. its especially important for passenger transport to stay around 20min. 11. be aware that as cities grows, so do the roads and the traffic on these roads. your trucks might get bogged down in heavy intercity traffic. people will take cars between cities, also when you have trains or such between these cities. there is a reason you can build highways later on.

Another thing: Early game you can flat out ignore that vehicles are in bad condition. They don't cost more upkeep or go slower or anything affecting efficiency or cash flow. The only thing the bad condition does is make the vehicle cause more emission (and it actually looking more shabby). Emission negatively effects the growth of the cities, but that's really not something to worry about early on.

Something tells me he got some inspiration from let's game it out...

Early game, you should get a lot more horses for cargo. When I do a line, I typically start with like 20 or 30 horse carriages. 5 is not at all enough :)

Start again Matt 😂 for the love of all that is holy, start, again

Do you know what group of folks are really good at telling the difference between a box and a plank? Architects!

Uh, sawmills make planks; they don't make boxes. Boxes are an entirely different product.

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Architects are bad what are ur views on doctors??

As a dutch guy i love how you named it neuken in de keuken😂👏 #gekoloniseerd

I have no idea what gonna happen when the bank finds out your tricks😂 but i like this game so much

I knew when he picked to start in 1850, he was in trouble lol.

as others said, start small - for each item delivered (coal to the steel mill for example) you get paid, it doesn't have to be the final product in the production chain one other thing I discovered while playing, take a careful look at the routes in the WHOLE CHAIN (pickup and delivery) as factories (of any kind) will not output if the LINES aren't properly set --- one thing I absolutely do not like is that in free play you don't get a complex industry like you get in the campaign scenarios

At this point, with all that you've learned, you may want to start over. It's going to be real hard to get out of that much debt.

Ah, building bridges with borrowed money. The life of an engineer.

2:31 "32 grand" I don't know about you, but I see 36 grand, ATLEAST

See? This is *_proof_* trains make everything better! Praise the train gods! And Matt if you're gonna add more trains on the line you need to add sidings and signals for them, the longer the line the more sidings you need to prevent your trains sitting waiting their arses off. And for the love of god don't ever put two-way signals between sidings because you will have cocked it bigtime, then!

The sawmill is producing planks and not boxes. Boxes are mad out of plastic and steel.

If you start a new map, start with pasangers. I play an older version of the game, but my first steps are always: 1. Conect two cites by a railway line. Optimal are equally sized cites not to far apart I try to put the station close to the living-areas. 2. conect the different areas in these towns(living,working,shoping,leisure) to the station with busses or trams. 3. look for oportunities, where a pasanger and a cargo line can use the same track It is also no shame to have a five perron station in the central town, but only one line finished yet. While the other four lanes just go to the end of the village to prevent buildings in the way. And then expand the network to have one central station for interchange in the long way

You know that n3uken in de keuken is Dutch for: Fu*king in the kitchen 😂🤣 LMAO

You need to see the symbols carefully and decide or ur wasting money and best way to start the is to get bread to the city by horse car and grain to bakery by train

Brick driver: “bye honey I’m off to work I’ll see you in eight years”

i love how every episode of this Matt just losing money and making loans

Ummm... well... you might want to put the Dutch name at 0:52 through Google Translate 😂

First and love the videos. Keep up the great work!