I wasn't even sponsored for this video but just a FYI this game is on sale until June 27th for only $26: store.steampowered.com/app/784150/Workers__Resources_Soviet_Republic/

The majority of loan takers give up just before reaching an economic boom

>nuclear energy fails >immediately go for coal literally just germany simulator

"I neglected to build a hospital because I was too busy trying to make money." AND WE SEE THE CORRUPTION OF CAPITALISM! EVEN IN SMALL AMOUNTS, THE PROFIT MOTIVE CORRUPTS THE YOUNG WORKER'S MIND!

>infinite loans from a mysterious international organisation >economic inefficiency >tries to thrive on tourism >regional inequality >trades with both east and west congrats, you've created yugoslavia

“Quantity (of housing) has a quality all its own.” - Comrade General Secretary Kolledzh.

College can't even micro the side of a city...

mountain general music moment

I have been putting playing this game off so much because on my first game I accidently bought 1000 polish buses, wasted all my money and didn't actually get a public transportation network done because I had no idea how to do it.

Once he built the tourist center, I realized he was just speedrunning North Korean history.

As someone living in a Siberian city, I'm sure your build was suboptimal, but I'm glad you tried Though realistically you'd be thrown into prison within the first six months for wasting state resources or something

99% of Commisars For New City Development stop taking out new loans right before they fix their cities

Oh I can't wait to see what my favourite war criminal youtuber gets up to with city sims

The most important thing about train signals is that the regular signal (the arrow) is dumb and the chain signal (the double arrow) is smart. You use the smarty pants chain signal in front of intersections and put the dumb one behind the instersections. This way the chain signal is able the scan the track and let trains drive through even if one path is blocked. Also you place the regluar signal in regular intervals on your track to divide it in multiple sections, so multiple trains can drive on the same track in the same direction. The mixed signal is extremely useful for example for border post or other buildings that have mulitple train slots, since with them you can create an intersection that works correctly in both directions and therefore feed multiple trains into the structure at the same time.

When it comes to trains, the key is chian signals, since they don't sent train if the next signal is red. But i still recoment to do tutorial on trains.

This is legit one of, if not THE BEST City Builder on the market right now.

I mean, isn’t every city building game technically a simulator for state planning?

I'm so glad that you picked up this game! It's definitely one of my favorite city builder and I hope you give this game couple more tries. This game definitely has a steep learning curve so trial and error is the best method of learning but here are some tips I thought of while watching the video. 1. Oil refineries ate one of the easier early game money maker. Even if you import crude oil it will most likely make money. Steel mills are generally less lucrative than oil. 2. Pollution is very deadly! People living in houses inside polluted area dies much faster. This leads to worker shortage which leads to having to constantly invite new workers. You can check pollution with pollution monitoring station. 3. Learning how train signal system works properly helps a lot since other games in this genre, like Factorio, also use them to. There are many tutorial videos out there but in short, put chain semaphores on both side of an intersection and use regular semaphore on rest of the lines.

Something tells me that fire was someone trying to get warm by any means necessary, in true Soviet style. Or commit sudoku. Or probably both.

I added this game on wishlist like a half an hour ago and you post this

The man who infamously "can't micro the side of a barn" attempts to play a game with a strong emphasis on micromanagement... this is going to be interesting... 😂

"This game is leaving Early Access" tripped me and pushed me into a locker.

Having played for 20 or so hours, here's some of the tips that I can give. It's a good idea to establish food production early on, since it's a thing you will be spending a lot of money on. Attaching warehouses to your grocery plants also gives them more space, so you can better handle demand, especially in larger cities. There's a planning mode, where you can put down ghost building before you actually build them. Super helpful for construction. I've always felt that moving stuff like coal, ore, and things like that on vehicles is a waste. It's much more efficient to build janky lines. But then again, I play with you having to fuel your vehicles. Trains are defenitly your friend for bulk moving. Someone can probably explain it better, but rail signals basically split your rails into blocks. A block can only hold one train at a time. If a train sees that the block ahead of it has a train, it will stop moving. It is therefore a good idea to use one way signals to divide the rail into an outgoing, and ingoing flow. You also need to set up blocks that are large enough to hold the trains, but small enough so they donøt hold up all the traffic. The good thing about learning train signals is that once you understand them in this game, pretty much every other game with them works the same, like factorio and Open TTD.

tbh accidentally building inputs and outputs of buildings on opposite ends sounds exactly like something that would happen in a soviet country.

Another piece of advice that no one has provided is that when you’re building apartments, it can be very effective to plan walkable cities. Build a rectangle of apartment buildings, then put things like pubs, stores, parks, and schools inside that rectangle. Connect everything up with walking paths and add a bus stop, and now you’ve got a dense unit that cares for all of your citizens’ needs, and which can easily be hooked into a public transit system to get your workers to industrial sites. There might be a guide on the workshop about how to design this kind of block, but they’re incredibly efficient and your people will be happier than if you try to build everything piecemeal. There are other ways to do things, but this method has been more effective than others for me personally. I also haven’t played in a while, but a decent early game moneymaker when I played was to hook your starting power plant up to an export point and use all of your excess capacity to help with funds. Not sure if the math on that still works, but it at least used to. Overall though, this is a decent first shot. I don’t think anyone does well on their first run of Workers and Resources. It’s arguably the most realistic city builder on the market, and the realism is matched in equal measure by the jank and the finicky systems. 10/10 though, amazing game.

2:50 it doesn’t connect because of the bus station. The bus station asset does not allow for connections like the normal road, so you should just move it a bit more to the right. The connection system is based on a node system which isn’t as advanced as the one in cities skylines for example.

whats funny is that this is surprisingly accurate to how a majority of soviet towns and cities functioned.

Historically accurate Soviet Experience

Here's a piece of advice for winter as i didn't notice you using the road snowplow truck things using them keeps the roads clear of snow which slows vehicles if not cleared

1:30 this is probably my most controversial take but i genuinely think people would be happier if housing was smaller and much denser with public space like parks for outdoors activities rather than yards. The fact that modern society makes it so hard fo meet people and gives no incentive to do so causes a ton of misery.

Makes me wish swimmy still streamed

I am happy you covered this game :) Its great and deserves more love

Fun vid! would love to see more of this! Great stuff as always

I remember watching your hoi4 vids. I have been activly playing this game since 2020,very cool to see someone else give it a try I recommend reading some of the steam guides or youtube guides about how trains work, they are actually pretty easy to set up

Most economically stable soviet city in the 80s

Comrade this pleased the central government. Congrats

16:38 I love the reference of the movie Bro ur my fav KZfaqr now, quality video as always ❤

Put two train tracks next to eachother, the one connecting to the mainline has to be as long as your train or longer. Then use one way signals at the end for each track to go in the opposti direction. If the rail ahead is blocked, the train will stop and the other one will pass by the paralel line the opposite way. If you have more than two trains either make this way longer or just build two tracks with connection with each going different way and having connections at the ends with lights. I had no idea how to use these as well, learned this from some steam tutorial online. Still don’t get how half the signals work but i got my trains running

One thing I've learned about the game is that if you want to actually build up a road network, you want to first establish small villages centered around a single task (coal mining, iron mining, steel production for example), build up enough of an economy to have a large amount of flex, and then find a spot to start building from scratch. Makes it easier to move things one piece at a time while your money trickles along in the background.

Glad to see you playing this game. I've spent more than 1800 hours in it and still loving it. To improve those railway connections you need to understand how semaphores work. Basically are indicators that signal if there's a train in the section straight in front of the semaphore. For most normal sections, you use the regular semaphore (one head arrow), but for the crossings, you want to use the chain (double headed arrow) semaphore. And use it only for the rail lines going INTO the intersection. From what I understand in the railway colors: Blue means uni directional, orange means intersection, purple means there's a mixture (not necessarily a good thing), and no idea what green means. If you're interested, I could share more bits of what I know of the game. I've recently figured out how to run a Steel Mill at max capacity with the Waste feature enabled. Oh also, please enable crime, so you can send prisoners to work at the quarries and mines (as they deserve) :v

Comment for the algorithm, love your work brother!!!

Very underrated game made by awesome indie devs! Cool to see you play it

I get ads for this all the time on Reddit. I legit was curious what it was like.

Seldomly updooted a video so fast Trains only function when their signalling is properly done. Your main problem seems to have come from bridges (janky) and (border) rail crosses. The latter can be solved by using chain signals before the cross: the chain signal checks if there's an unblocked node further up ahead after another signal and then directs the train there. One two-way regular signal at the border side of the cross, one chain signal at the entering rail and one regular signal at the exiting rail. Starting with a nuclear reactor is... An interesting choice. In a way, research enabled makes the start easier: it shows you which industries you really can't do without. Thus you'll start producing the stuff you'll need all game, saving in imports and (importantly) the transport costs to move those imports from the border (frequently more expensive than the products themselves with bulk goods). Farming takes up a lot of space but is relatively cheap and doesn't require manpower, the crops get processed into food (essential) and alcohol (good export product). Coal gets refined and becomes heat (local, essential unless you use pre-built pre-heated housing) and power (grid, essential, surplus gets exported). Stone gets turned into gravel, a vital but cheap (and thus inefficient to import) construction good which in turn is fundamental for asphalt and concrete. Bauxite makes a quick buck while not requiring any manpower, and eventually is essential for producing aircraft after a long refining process. Or, y'know, start mass producing licensed VW Beetles, load six of them on a truck and sell them to the USSR, that works fine.

Amazing content!!!

Interesting historical video.

This video needs to get 5000 likes

I want to see more of this game ! it's really fun

The roads are definitely highly buggy in this game, but once you understand their quirks, it's manageable. The most important concept is that every pathed item in the game (roads, pipes, railroads, paths, etc) has a minimum distance where you have to "drag" the path at least that far for it to snap to another piece. Another tip is that roads will often display as yellow over a long distance hill, but if you build smaller sections you can often build the whole road without doing any terrain leveling.

Хорошая работа, товарищ!

Even though you had absolutely no strategy, it still looks like your average soviet town.

Will you ever do a World Ablaze plauthrough?

Is College related to the Electoral College?

Problem with most recruit-level comrades like you is they think this game works as Cities Skylines, where you plop things and they just work somehow. Veteran comrades know your citizens are so extremely loyal and obedient so they don't do anything unless told, as they afraid of being shot for trying for themselves and proving the supreme leader (you) was wrong or incompetent as some point. You also should start much more modest, not with a steel mill and nuclear power plant. Starting with oil, coal or burning it and exporting electricity. Keep in mind number of workers. You need 3 times the number of workers to keep factory running non-stop, and city services like heating, stores, pubs, schools, ect easily eats up a third of the city population. So, when you build with smaller towns, like in your case, use just one or two factories. Coal mine, processing plants, coal powerplant and perhaps a brick factory (all eats coal) is enough. Export the excess, until you have some other use for it. Also, start close to borders.

this video was awesome you should really play it again so i can model my knowledge off of what you do and destroy civilization as we know it

This is way too accurate to not being intentional.

Life Hack: You never have to pay workers if they die before the end of the work week.

God the accuracy this simulator.

Life expectancy increased by 20 years in Maos China

Please make more videos on this game!

Train tip- add fins every spot you can

Truly a soviet experience

A solid attempt at a Tito playthrough.

I swear this game has given me headaches by how much micro managing you need to do

On the topic of city building games please play Manorlord next!

Its not just about cold. If you build factories or buildings that produce pollution near ur civilians they will get sick. That is why I play heat turned off. You can’t build the heating plant near civs cuz they will all get sick and die but if u build it far, its really expensive and hard to transport heat

when lethal company video though?

Bro built the “congratulation youve successfully hit metal 46 times” city

College has brought frostpunk to cities skyline

ive been playing this game for a half a year, i recommend it. I also recommend selling alot of oil. (to make cash from the capitalist pigs and the socialist comrades) Oh and what are the background songs youve used?

Without joking, it's a good city builder, has a good customizable difficulty, too

You litteraly get big oil industry and oil powerplant near river, buy ships to transport them and u auto rich. Oil refinery has 500 job space so it all works out

Mebep is back!!

Ngl considering it is Siberia, I'd live there

Ha! and that's in easy mode. The trains signals are simple once you know this trick: Imagine you are a train going thru the rail: - Before entering an rail intersection place a "single arrow" (regular signal). - On exiting an intersection place a "double arrow" (chain) signal. That's all. On long sections without any intersection, place normal (single arrow) signals regularly at least at the lenght of your longest train.

Good thing you never needed to worry about supplying the non-existent food

You say that everyone dying and endlessly losing money is a failure but I think you made a perfect Soviet town!

I started to play this game a very, VEEERYY long time ago, still the same experience more or less. 😅

Wayy, i love this game getting more attention. shame the DLC was kinda low amounts of content.

Now try, 1 Million rubles, starting from 1960, with everything on Max

Instead of Building Mega Buildings, most of them have smaller versions, use them, they save up money. Of they don't, just don't build them, it's not worth it (e.g. Entertainment buildings)

Hello its fedora, swimmy's #1 train layout and signaling backseater, just stream W&R and i will magically show up to scream at your rail setup xdd

Play in the desert next

College you should ask Fedora for help. He's the train pro.

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Praise to Comrad College o7

This guy is a True Soviet Engineer.

1.0 ots out of early access after my entire school career. Roads still don't work.

I played this game for 14hrs and still dont know how it works

People are dying rapidly during winter, what do you do? a) find the cause and fix it, so your citizens can live. b) just buy more citizens.

me when I saw his next loan will be consumed by interest and previous loans withing 3 months: 😂😂😂

Once your citizens are taken care of. Except for religion, (just ignore the opiate of the masses for now). A good idea is to focus on a single commodity and scale it for export. Don't rely on imports to fuel your industry if you can help it. The more you do on your own, the more you are freed from the shackles of capitalism. Try focusing on oil. Not even chemicals, just focus on extraction and export. It's a good starter industry.

Oh man, I am a newbie ti\o this game, but uf I ever sar saw a trainwreck to disaster, that would be this video

i now wonder how one would make a city planning game that is supposte represent free market vs command economy. i remember watching some paradox game fan explain how most games the player has absolute control over everything, every unit, every job, every diplomatic action, every building etc. but some games you have different intrests you must satesfy and who you cant control, like rebels or intrest groups or market rates to achieve your plans. Imagine city skylines but you cant build anything, you can only hire people, and its AI made solutions but more skilled/expensive plans need more money! or imagine you can't build a army, you can only hire mercinaries and you can only nudge mercinaries in the right direction but what they do or what tactics hey use is up to them and based also on skill/how expensive they are. I really hope with the new AI we are getting, video games will get better AI too, so things like AI making solutions that are bad/normal/good will be feasable.

You killed 20,000 people trying to survive the winter lol

“New lists!”

it takes, like a least 20 houers to get a little control on how the games works, but more like 100 houers, to get more in control, over the game. The map you picked, is hard . next time start where there in no vinter.

the largest mistake you could have made in this game was probably turning traffic simulation to simple, this game has huge difficulty when it comes to traffic, like city skylines 1 they always take the fastest route even if its busy, i have had traffic jams that spanned well over a kilometer when constructing something big like a brand new bloc in my city of over 10 buildings i am also weirded out about how only now this game is somehow popular even though i have been playing it for 2 years already, it just seems like when the biomes dlc released everyone bought it and youtubers started reviewing it

I love you.

Bro just built a gulag💀💀