Correct. It is a test which industries are best to start with. There are regularly questions in forums, how to start to make enough money, and not go bankrupt - Simply, what the best industry is to begin with. The nuclear version is the third I tried out in this series. Two others are already tested (and recorded). I think two more are possible to make enough money to have a stable foundation. After this I think I'll start a new series.

Absolutely. You'll become the expert of the experts. No one can stop you with this secret knowledge you can get here 🤣

Sometimes I get this impression too 🤣

This is only usefull if the vehicles are faster than 60 km/h (max speed on gravel roads). And the save of fuel consumtion is not that high. But sure in some other test scenarios I did more asphalting of roads ;)

Yes. With this test I simply want to figure out how long (and if possible at all) to make enough money with different first industries and have a stable first town with high enough loyality. And I am curious of the money potential each industry will deliver (are there problems with import/export prices and so on).

@wrsr-illyria That is unfortunate. I was very curious about the progress of the old settlement... and now it is all lost.

@@giuseppecare75 I think after the tests, I'll do a new series. I'd like to play on the tundra map. Or maybe something else will come up?

@@wrsr-illyria Fantastic! This is a great news! And the new map of tundra/desert is a very good idea.

Why should I? The indoor pool will cover the sports requirements even in winter. More carousels are useless because they belong to the same type of attraction I already have. In next episode I build a museum just as alternative. But its not that important to reduce the complains to zero ;-)

@wrsr-illyria Maybe they are useful to increase happiness and and the aesthetics of the town. Furthermore, I advise you to buy another one or two cars for police forces. Anyway, congratulations for your management skills.

@@giuseppecare75 Yes, I agree, It is more for the aesthetics to not build the same over and over again. Happiness if its a different type of attraction, but this is only a minor effect, if all the main needs are fulfilled. I'm often doing things like that, if the final size of a town is reached or there are other reasons (like tourism). About the police cars: no need for more. The limiting factor are the number of cases handled in parallel. Sure reducing the cars does not make it better, because the cases chance to solve starts with the moment the crime happen and not when its collected by a police car. But when your police station is overrun you simply need more officers or more police stations. Full police cars always results in police car is staying in the police station most of the time. And one officer can handle only one case at a time. 50% police cars based on available slots is for me the number that worked all the time so far. But maybe you have some more insights?

@@wrsr-illyria Got it, I understand. I am waiting for the completion to asphalt roads and foothpaths. I understand that with no energy production street illumination is quite impossibile but i hope in the future this issue will be solved. Lastly, try to implement road signs such as speed limits, one ways, etc. and maybe upgrade secret police service: the republic needs extremely loyal citizens. Thank you for your time.

Yeah, not that many possible locations for NATO and Soviet border nearby ;-)

I think trains are something for after the first industry, because as you said it is expensive. Then I guess I have to start preparing the next video ;-)

Just regular realistic difficulty, because most of the industries I plan to test would break the rules of the husak challenge. And already at this point with the easy map, waste export and not limited import of prefabs the rules are already broken.

Yes, I think I find this problem in a future episode.

I wanted to test the start with different industries. How fast you can have a stable republic to expand. A lot of material is already recorded - but making a youtube video out of it need some time. So I hope you'll get some new videos over the next weeks ;-)

hm, in prison ;-)

Sry for this late answer. Could not even see your comment with wrong sorting selected ... Yes, thats the way to work with orphanages, if you really "want" this in your republic ;-) And sure money is normally not a really issue after a certain point of development in your republic.

I don't think that there are thinks to change. And I had a lot of fun. But this was now the second challenge with "rasputin" kind of export goals I did. It is stretching the duration until completed due to the export goals - thats enough for me ;-) At least even with new export products (fertilizers, explosives) and the new waste and maintenance management in the rasputin challenge, I was nearly 4 years faster!

@@wrsr-illyria nice. Thanks for leeting me know :)

Yeah! I'm curious if there are more in the future. This challenge especially with the export goals take a lot of time to do.

@@wrsr-illyria there are some on the way and close to finish, so no worry :)

I don't know, experience, planning?

Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic

I don't like if only a corner of a map is used. Sure it would probably speed up the progress to do so, but in this way it is less synthetic. conurbation-state - maybe not yet, but we're getting closer 😀

Yes after all the planning you have some time relaxing (kind of) seeing if everything works out as planned.

Thx, and I hope you'll have some fun with the final episodes. And no, I'm not on Reddit.

Middle Earth: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2716888897 Also linked in the challenge description: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3017546017

@@wrsr-illyria Thanks!

Then I hope you'll have as much fun as I did.

As long as I have enough time and material I'll try to make four episodes a week.

I'm optimistic to get three episodes a week again. Let's see.

This is "Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic" from 3Division, a PC game you can get it on steam: store.steampowered.com/app/784150/Workers__Resources_Soviet_Republic/

Thx for you feedback. It was expected that not everyone likes this format. I'd suggest you try out the play through of www.youtube.com/@comradeSirius (also the creator of this challenge). He is speaking in his videos ;-)

I'm not sure what you mean exactly. I invited last episode 290 workers total. The rest are children comming with the invited workers. In total 432 now.

hmm I understand, but I was referring to this, if workers count as inhabitants of your city

@@悲しい男たちYes, they are inhabitants of the city (I do not import foreign workers anymore). They are working for 8h and after that they have leisure and fullfill their needs (food, meat, electronic, entertainment,...) and then everything starts all over again.

hmm interesting, it's a really interesting mechanic

It depends, sometimes I play a bit around with possible layouts, before I start recording. Or try something out, I want to do. Or simply look into statistics of the republic, if there are any problems. On record I want to idle around as little as possible ;-) Additionally a lot of things I figure out while editing and commenting the videos later on and then I'll fix it in the next episode I record.

@@wrsr-illyria hmmm interesting, this is a good way to delve deeper into the game, even if it's not intentional right

I'll hope you'll have some fun watching it

There is one monument right infront of the school (Taras shevchenko monument from the DLC) you can see around 11:57 of this video. It was at that time placed (EP03 03:33) the only monument without research available with a large range (400m + 2%). This changed, now it is a monument of +3% and only 300m.

Not really, this is for normal train track.

@@wrsr-illyriamaybe a pity. How do you perceive metro, btw? Useful or just too edge case?

@@comradeSirius I am not a huge fan. Lot of limits (e.g. not crossing of streets, no signals causing collisions - but this I also happen here with trains). But the above ground versions are looking good and it gives some variety in transportation. In my large republic @bballjo reviewed, I had a metro below a mountain to one of my electronic industries. It was worse than the insane heating pipe to build - deep down in the mountain. It took ages. So maybe this traumatized me ;-) But I am sure I'll build a metro here in this republic later on, just because I can!

If I was asked to add an outro, I could also make a thumbnail template (and not only use the YT autogenerated thumbnails). HC is short for Husak Challenge, but HardCore was a nice coincidence. 🙂