How To Start Strong in Transport Fever : Tutorial, Guide, Tips

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Transport Fever games can be made significantly easier by starting out strong. In this money making tutorial I cover a guide to making money from goods from day 1. There are other methods to making profit in Transport Fever early on, but this one is simple and effective. This is part of the Transport Fever 5 minute masterclass; 5 minute tutorials aimed to help you get past some of the sticking points in the game. If you're new and are learning how to make a strong start in Transport Fever, or whether you have played a bit but want to improve at Transport Fever, this series may come in useful.
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@msjn23 5 жыл бұрын

Colonel Failure's evil alter ego, Colonel Success is evidently trying to emerge :D

@jdoe77 5 жыл бұрын

Isn't it Major Success?

@colonelfailure 5 жыл бұрын

@@jdoe77 General Success.

@uzmike2222 5 жыл бұрын

@@colonelfailure So he's an even higher rank than the normal Colonel Failure?! Such a feat

@hop1824 4 жыл бұрын

More of these please! This series is genuinely really helpful and more would be much appreciated considering the steep learning curve :)

@Jethco 5 жыл бұрын

I've been playing this game for a couple of years, and I still really enjoyed this tutorial playlist. If there were more it would only help. Well done, sir.

@daverichards4869 5 жыл бұрын

Love these tutorials so helpful, made me start over again, in the 10 years I had a very healthy profit margin, more like these please

@OffTheRails 5 жыл бұрын

That's a funky truck stop!

@imhotepjasonduncanson6068 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much, I mistakenly started off with trains and ended up bankedrupt my first go around. I am still a newbie to the game but that was a nice learning experience.

@MurphyPlays1 5 жыл бұрын

Colonel Failure you've missed a great routing opportunity here, Instead of having the processed food delivered to the first city in a bus stop, have a truck depot in range to that bus stop, you then create your process food delivery routes from that new depot not your food processing plant. Then set up your other city deliveries from this new truck depot and you've future proofed Tronoto to become a distribution point for future materials. Loving the tutorials :)

@murpheylives3968 5 жыл бұрын

Smart, Concise, re-watchable.

@delroyclarke1989 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome tutorial, keep up the good work

@OliverJWeber 5 жыл бұрын

I find that the easiest way to boost demand early on is to connect a number of cities with cargo trucks in a network (think: mesh). Six to eight should be enough. Place the stations so that they cover both industry and trade from the beginning. It's important to use proper stations, not stops. Establish lines between the cities to create a network. Always connect two neighbouring cities point to point, and do not create lines with more than two stops. It doesn't matter that there is nothing to transport yet, what you achieve is creating a single marketplace for products. The moment you connect anything to this network, industry potential will be very strong indeed, so the struggle will be to get the raw materials in and the product out as quick as possible, not keeping up demand. It's a good idea to begin with the industries the Colonel suggested (oil, food, bricks). I would also suggest to use ships as they produce the biggest bang for the buck in the early game until more powerful trains arrive. Ideally, you have a town with raw materials close by. Ship the raw material to a factory on a boat and return with the product, which you then feed into your network. Soon, you will have a dozen or more boats running, earning you millions.

@colonelfailure 5 жыл бұрын

An effective strategy, no doubt, but possibly a little convoluted for a rank beginner.

@OliverJWeber 5 жыл бұрын

Possibly. Especially as you need to run down your budget and get every loan there is. But once you have figured out how demand works, it becomes quite easy to boost industries. The difficult bit is finding a good map, so that you can minimise the distances the boats need to travel empty (ideally, to nil). The boats are the earners, they need to be 100% effective. With trucks, that's less of a problem. They are facilitators, not earners. But they usually cover most of their costs even if they travel empty on the second leg, and even a small loss is no issue when your ships generate 200k per haul or more. In an ideal scenario, you then find a second chain on the other side of your mesh. Say, food and fuel. You then get trucks traveling inside the mesh hauling food from left to right, and fuel from right to left. But I think I get what you meant by "convoluted" - lol. Maybe an "advanced beginners" series?

@RawSlowGaming 5 жыл бұрын

First! Love the tutorials, tips and everything! Here to this episode blowing up! (:

@colonelfailure 5 жыл бұрын

You Are First. Here, have a knowledge pebble.

@andrewinbody4301 5 жыл бұрын

@@colonelfailure Maybe when I am first I will get a cookie.

@RawSlowGaming 5 жыл бұрын

@@colonelfailure Thank you so much for the pebble! :) Will definitely use it if I get into transport fever. I understand that you get shit asked all the time. But would love if you considered to help a fellow youtuber out, any way possible would be much appreciated! :)

@colonelfailure 5 жыл бұрын

@@philmissy1 Leave the nice first claimers alone, they are excitable and still full of the innocence that once made the internet lovely. Go harsh people on channels where that's a "normal" comment. This channel, not like those channels.

@philmissy1 5 жыл бұрын

@@colonelfailure I blame my distinct lack of sleep. Consider my comment removed Colonel in order to obscure your reply. Please dont make me go b bb bbback to "those' channels p pp p p ppplease.

@mousenmcclintock 3 жыл бұрын

You have an unbelievably good speaking voice and you use it well! It really cuts. I have no doubt you could get lots of work.

@colonelfailure 3 жыл бұрын

Cheers Mike.

@vincewilson1 4 жыл бұрын

That should help the newbies.

@waynemcglone6988 2 жыл бұрын

Can you please explain a little further about adding the bus stop. That bit confused me. Also, do you set up a separate line to take the processed grain to the city needing food. For some reason mine just sits in the processing plant being consumed. Not sure by whom. Lol

@112Haribo 5 жыл бұрын

Wait, I thought that the game only understood 1:1 routes? For instance; you can only supply the food factory from 1 single farm, otherwise the 'designated' supplyer keeps switching from farm to farm, killing all demand. Likewise, you can only supply 1 city from 1 food factory, otherwise demand will collapse. Was this fixed with some recent patch that I missed, or was I wrong from the beginning?

@colonelfailure 5 жыл бұрын

Even in Train Fever the secret to success was supplying multiple cities from a single factory. Multiple raw resource producers feeding one factory can mess with demand a little, and honestly you shouldn't ever need to use multiple raw resource supplies. The best way to go is feed 3 cities from one factory, ideally with a couple of routes transporting goods in both directions. Two cities will work fine, but 3 is the sweet spot.

@TraianusMaster 5 жыл бұрын

I would like to see how to start on HARD tutorial. I tried several times and its impossible.

@JakerPlayer101 3 жыл бұрын

Whats your OS? I'm tryna run this game on win 10 and i got an error saying: Steam_api32 missing. And i fixed that then i got SteamUser entry point could not be found or smth

@colonelfailure 3 жыл бұрын

Also Win 10. Are you running it from your Steam account?

@JB-jj4ht 5 жыл бұрын

Are you using the Mainline map? Because i LOVE that map

@colonelfailure 5 жыл бұрын

Nope, this is North Atlantic.

@JB-jj4ht 5 жыл бұрын

@@colonelfailure yeah, Shit, Realised that but didn't know it before you said it, Love *ALL* Your maps though♥️♥️😉😉

@EuropeanOnion 5 жыл бұрын

So you can use bus stops to drop of goods? :-D

@AlwaysRM_ 5 жыл бұрын

Correct

@StephenButlerOne 5 жыл бұрын

Dad voice is back.

@colonelfailure 5 жыл бұрын

Tidy your room.

@StephenButlerOne 5 жыл бұрын

@@colonelfailure we've had this discussion before 😋

@colonelfailure 5 жыл бұрын

@@StephenButlerOne And I believe we came to the conclusion that yes, you should tidy your room.

@StephenButlerOne 5 жыл бұрын

@@colonelfailure I done it. gowd, can you stop please, youre sooo embarrassing me in front of all these people.

@Leebobs1983 5 жыл бұрын

Usually the best way to succeed at TF is to watch the Colonel's failure and do the opposite of what he says. For example, when I run a TGV on a route it always makes a profit... :)

@Trainlover1995 4 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't it be more efficient to use trains?

@colonelfailure 4 жыл бұрын

Only if you can afford them. Road transport is very cheap, scaleable and flexible. So if you are right at the start of the game it's a very cheap way to start.

@lpmriverin 5 жыл бұрын

So you decided to make a tutorial including tips that you actually never apply! :D

@colonelfailure 5 жыл бұрын

Indeed. My playing is just that. Tutorials should present some actually useful knowledge.

@Shauma_llama 5 жыл бұрын

@@colonelfailure We need a bridge-buidling tutorial now. 😊 So difficult to build overpass sections of rails.

@martindixon54 5 жыл бұрын

@@Shauma_llama Next tutorial: How to use the flying junctions mod

@lordwunglerbeckett 5 жыл бұрын

So how do I steel properly?

@adrianblanco9041 5 жыл бұрын

ship iron and coal to a steel plant, and then ship the steel to either a goods or tools and machines factory. you can also ship the slag to a construction materials factory

@lordwunglerbeckett 5 жыл бұрын

I didn't ask "how to steel" but how to steel PROPERLY You see mister, last time I tried it it made a profit of -2.000.000/y

@jdoe77 5 жыл бұрын

First you need something to hide your identity... something like a ski mask. To show you mean serious business some kind of weapon is in order... a bat or a club maybe.... wait ... your talking about a different kind of steal, right?

@colonelfailure 5 жыл бұрын

@@jdoe77 I was thinking a distraction should do the trick. You're evidently going full bore right out the gate, Joe.

@philipbossy4834 5 жыл бұрын

@@lordwunglerbeckett With that kind of loss you're likely running way too many trains/trucks too soon. Industry start out with slow production, so there is no point in putting a ton of throughput at the start. Hard to tell what is wrong with one specific setup without seeing it. I'd say the key is to make sure all legs are profitable. For that the basics apply: shortest routes as possible where the vehicles can travel as fast as they can.

@vaporisedair4919 5 жыл бұрын

Or pork barrel it! You know you want to!

@adrianblanco9041 5 жыл бұрын

dropping goods at a bus station?? really, colonel??

@philipbossy4834 5 жыл бұрын

Now he can say he has obliged to that specific request. And never do it again.

@colonelfailure 5 жыл бұрын

Just because I don't like doing it, doesn't make it invalid :)

@rbroach68 5 жыл бұрын

Minimal expenditure, maximum income. That is business.

@andrewinbody4301 5 жыл бұрын

@@rbroach68 Having a judge in your pocket seems to work too.

@Saviliana 5 жыл бұрын

Well, bus station is a drop off point, you can drop off goods there, but you can't be pile up goods to load at bus stops, they are not design to store/load goods.

@AlwaysRM_ 5 жыл бұрын

And we have not touched trains yet.

@mlevesque3022 5 жыл бұрын

What no billion dollars worth of trains to sell?

@jbark25 5 жыл бұрын

Gawd that video dragged on... seriously though thanks.

@breakcoregivesmewo0od611 5 жыл бұрын

2.5mil in 10 years is horrible for that single route, even on hard.

@BlackStoneMoviesMinecraft 4 жыл бұрын

You sound like Biffa with a voice changer

@N3K0014 3 жыл бұрын

You sound like a professional narrator from discovery channel or from national geographic

@colonelfailure 3 жыл бұрын

Well, thank you.

@mrhipbone 5 жыл бұрын

How to succeed: 1) Git Gud

@Twizted86 5 жыл бұрын

Once you've established how to get good and invested time and money to make a profit you then should invest in a dictionary and become literate. If not for yourself, for the other people that have to try to decipher your broken English haha!

@mrhipbone 5 жыл бұрын

@@Twizted86 😂 I do believe that the reference was lost on you, but no matter I will take your well intentioned advice and make sure any comments posted in the future are spell checked, and have no references at all to any pop culture humour.