Getting out of the Crime & Food Death Spiral | Workers and Resources Soviet Republic | S8E38

[@dazkaz15]

Nice recovery! Glad you noticed the alcohol as a quick fix for the happiness. Don't forget to turn it down again when you get back on your feet. Do uneducated workers, who are obviously unemployed also, create more crime? If so that might have been the root of your problem? That heat exchanger burning down so fast might have been a maintenance issue, rather than a road one, might be worth checking. Those buses, although being repaired, are over 20 years old, you should scrap them and buy some modern ones, especially as they are the key players for the heating. When they are that old they don't repair to 100%, so need repairing more often. Also costing you more money. 41:25 You have a severe heating problem in Rostock if you have heating problems at only -9 deg. 57:21 You still have another four slots for patrol cars to help extend the coverage. This one kept me on the edge of my seat for an hour, gj :)

[@bballjo]

Nice! The booze was already on... The issues and cars...yeah, I hope soon. Police car slots....it's very important that you DONT USE THOSE during a crisis. The biggest issue is that cases don't get resolved, and then pile up, and once you're past a critical mass you effectively have no progress on the investigations. This is especially important if you have less than ideal numbers of university educated citizens, and more importantly, less productivity due to low happiness, due to high crime. This is the crime death spiral. If you succumb to the urge of adding more police cars, all you will do is add more cases more quickly to the police station, which would then mean you are solving even less cases, so the right reaction is to reduce cars, so less cases come in, with the same agent count, which can hopefully solve the cases faster. You will still have a lot of crime, which means you will need more police stations, which is precisely how I attacked this problem. Now, the next issue is that the more cases your police solves, the more cases go to court, which has a similar issue and will get overrun, and they also need university educated judges. So, at the crux of all this is the low number of university educated people, who solve less crime, which decreases happiness, which decreases productivity and loyalty, which reduces capacity of public buildings (like stores) which may cause missed demands, which will decrease happiness and productivity more, which will decrease police effectiveness, which will continue until your dead...I love how interconnected all of this is, but I also get that a lot of players run into issues, especially because it's so interconnected...

[@RicoX1910]

​@@bballjowait how ?

[@bballjo]

How?

[@RicoX1910]

@@bballjo the comment is like 2 week ago

[@blinde_q7871]

I love the end when you said merrily 61 % 🤣 Finally you also figured out to build asphalt roads. You really should consider to do that more. Especially on your main roads in the cities as well. I noticed it in my republic that gravel roads are slowing you down....a lot! Otherwise keep goign. I´m interessted if you can make it out of your money problems with the nuclear setup :) Love the series and the insights I get for my republic ❤

[@oldgalah7425]

I enjoy your gameplay and the knowledge you share, I know this is a realistic mode play through but I find the generated maps with vast expanses of flat land and plentiful resources tend to make the building of cities and large industrial areas look repetitive and unrealistic, it would be nice to see a game using an imported height map with a proper river system at some stage. Cheers 🙂

[@bballjo]

I've done 1 or 2 seasons with those maps...they are fine, but eventually you still run into the same things :/

[@RevanOrion]

1:06:18 you probably already figured it out but your rail co storages are filled. Steel is maxed so demo is stopped. Waste transfer is useful but it wont hold steel.

[@Fly321]

I love this series 😊

[@megamonkey56]

same

[@EVILIAN32]

You can make research for power connection to USSR/NATO border and build it anywhere at border

[@FirestormMk3]

Designating those extra hazardous waste and bio containers near your nuclear fuel will help trucks be less empty - I'd assign more. Also, I think so long as it is in a container and not overflowing hazardous waste doesn't generate pollution or at least way, way less. It's only if it overflows or it's in a dump that it heavily toxifies the area. Apparently your People's Soviet waste containers never leak.

[@Earonix]

People are also happier because they can find a job. Unemployment dropped from 23 % to 10 %. Its also connected with decrease of your population.

[@bballjo]

The vast majority of the unemployment was due to uneducated workers...

[@matyastoth8603]

Use normal flatbeds for NF, long haulers only load two containers :)

[@hchapar]

In railroad deconstruction, you need to make room for the building materials that are taken from the tracks, your warehouse is full.

[@bballjo]

Indeed. Didn't know that at this point, and I'll explain later why I don't like it 🤣

[@Yookusagra]

Would it make sense to set up a refinery with a smaller workforce at the small oil field, just to relieve your fuel imports? Doesn't help the growing electronics imports but it would give the budget a little breathing room.

[@bballjo]

It's an option for sure...but I'm going a different route for now.

[@megamonkey56]

In the big city, both the police and fire station only have access to the inner circle via footpaths, due to the tunnel they're out of road range. Is that okay? it might explain why the heat exchanger burnt down. @57:06 and 57:27 shows the road range not making it to the center circle.

[@bballjo]

Good eye! It took me way too long to realize this...it's going to be fixed soon, but it was a big miscalculation on my part.

[@siriusczech]

Hi, BB, there is another bomb ticking. You have assigned A LOT of houses directly to ONE building and nothing else. This seriously hampers your production. I do not know if it is fixed already, but can you, please, consider doing the "0% trick" more often? Aka if you absolutely need educated workers to go only to school/court/police first and nothing else, just set it there to 100%, but add a 0% to the central bus stop. This way any overflowing workers WILL produce something (clothing, chemicals, ...) and not stay at home due to no reasons :)

[@bballjo]

Yeah... should have done that

[@TheF0rseti]

Hmm, nobody mentioned it yet. Have close look at your loans. At least two of your loans are almost paid back. Just bite the bullet and repay them to fix your balance goddamit. You talked about this but didn't take second to look for your numbers. One of your problems could be fixed already. Sry for the rant, but this triggers me right now.😅 Nothing but love.❤

[@bengigi8680]

For garbage i prefer to incinerate first then sort through what comes out of the incenerator that way the ash can connect right to a dump after seperation.

[@bballjo]

Yeah...but we already have that setup ☺️

[@TreQuitine]

Are you able to make like some type of college town...like a lot of dorms...with access to and from the cities...is that at all possible to do...or even a good idea

[@bballjo]

Students don't work... But yes, you can plop a few dorms. You can also plop dorms in a normal city and transport the students to a university.

[@arthurrussell1642]

Hello I love your content and my question is do I need sewage and water for each city and how do I sell power to make money

[@bballjo]

Do you need sewage and water? If you have the settings turned on then yes.... without it they will get angry and sick, and industries without water have production reduced by 50%, and they don't work at all with a full sewage tank. Export power: connect your power line to a border power of your choice, click on the transformer and increase the MW to your desired number.

[@HanakoSeishin]

I've never got to nuclear power myself, or anything involving containers, really, so I didn't quite catch what was your problem with them and the open storage, but can't one-way factory connections help with that?

[@bballjo]

Containers aren't shared, they have to overflow once the internal storage of the factory is full... which is fine, but would have taken a long time...now I maybe able to disable the truck route...

[@hansibeda7136]

What a save! :D

[@breakcoregivesmewo0od611]

didn't you up the required loyalty lvl a few episodes ago to get LESS educated people?

[@teria0025]

Would adding more police cars help??

[@bballjo]

It would actually make it worse, as more cases would come in, and the problem isn't the cases that come in, it's the cases I can solve.

[@joshuapettit7220]

i would consider adding another grocery store in your other city so u dont run into the same problems

[@bballjo]

In the second city?

[@joshuapettit7220]

@@bballjo ur population is goin 2 be so much bigger

[@benjamincorey6259]

About the lack of educated in you first city: Since you have residential space and an abundance of educated workers in your second, would moving non-educated workers from the first city to the second, to free space, and moving educated ones to the first city be a solution.. I realize there is an unhappiness effect from moving, but would the recovery be faster than waiting for the universities to increase the number of educated?

[@bballjo]

It would come with a 30% happiness penalty for a lot of people, and that can have bigger impacts, in the first city, because it's already near capacity...so in small numbers its fine, but on a larger scale it needs to be fixed more drastically.

[@gregorschlag8586]

What a thriller! 🙂

[@bballjo]

Hey! This guy gets it :)

[@gregorschlag8586]

And he got it well! :-) Intersting that many Workers series that I follow had these problems recently. Astralsilber, Cayamaya, you, myself. And I would not be surprised if Steinwallen runs into similar problems soon. 😏

[@XxHelios77xX]

Hi ! Pretty new to this game, but I'm wondering why you don't take care of the spirituality needs of your population ? Wouldn't that be pretty much free happiness ?

[@bballjo]

You can't build churches in the vanilla game, as that is as designed, plus if you offer attractions, people will replace religious needs with those attractions.

[@bengigi8680]

No religon under soviet rule

[@robertfurman6324]

Why do you stop at bauxite?

[@bballjo]

I don't stop there?

[@TobiasFischerTF]

I have the feeling there is an issue with the audio, sounds like something is autoleveling your voice?! Understandability changes as it is getting relative quiet some times?!

[@bballjo]

Yea...this was still during my figuring it out phase...it should get better

[@gadonfire]

You should build more shops don't think that you will be fine with one shop even if it is big. Try building more like a 5-6 residentials maybe more like 8 too and plot a shop near to cover them same as white schools and kindergarten that way you will cover the needs of them. i will give you an example make a square 1 and separate it to 4 small square and in every square build a medium shop and a kindergarten 2 squares will have schools and that will give you some cover. Random events you don't have control so this is not perfect i think that there is no perfect planing. Don't count on one shop you should always build more shops,hospital i'm sorry that i'm not explaining too well because ENGLISH is not my 1st language

[@bballjo]

Making grids? Nah. And the shop is fine, plus I did build a second shop as a temporary solution if you didn't see that? But it won't be needed once productivity goes back to normal

[@KarlKeesel]

well i think that the city is quite badly designed and that is the main problem

[@bballjo]

Ah yes, very badly...how do I make it goodly?

[@megamonkey56]

@KarlKeesel which part is bad? what needs fixing and how?

[@KarlKeesel]

@@bballjo well i didn't want to be disrespectful but if you see real cities they are carefully planned and well organised and with good roads, i think that this city is a little bit messy

[@KarlKeesel]

@@megamonkey56 the city layout its messy i have made cities like this and always turn out to be a pain in the ass, since then i always try to make good road connections and leaving enough space for further expansion when the traffic becomes to heavy

[@KarlKeesel]

@bballjo well in my experience i make a good and wide central road (always dobule and with space for further expansion) and in its surroundings i put all the main buildings (market, hospitals, education, etc) and then i put the residencies, so the people can walk to the centre of the city and avoiding the use of cars and buses that collapse the traffic so the main central road is for buses who take passengers to the industrial area and for delivery trucks only, i expand the city in a rectangular shape so when a end becomes to far from the central area y build a new one and i repeat the same formula i used to do cities with intricate single roads and then the traffic collapsed making huge traffic jams.