Expanding, but not too much! | Transport Fever 2 | Ep 2 | EPEC: Very Hard

This Let's Play Season is geared towards New Players, and it will be without mods, so totally Vanilla, with experimental map size enabled.
You can get the current Map here: steamcommunity...
The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!
Provide the world with the transport infrastructure it needs and make a fortune with custom-made transport services. Watch your trains run on rails, your buses and trucks thunder along roads, your ships power through the water, and your planes soar through the skies. Carry people on their way to work or play, and be the reason cities grow and thrive. Deliver raw materials and goods to drive the economy. Experience the greatest logistical challenges from 1850 to the present day, and build a transport empire unrivaled anywhere else on the globe!
Free play offers a huge range of creative possibilities, while campaign mode re-writes transport history across three continents. Transport Fever 2 offers a choice of over 200 vehicles from Europe, America and Asia, modelled in extreme detail; and with the in-game map editor, you can re-create landscapes from three different climate zones. Finally, the realistic transport and economy simulator, along with comprehensive modding support, round off the gameplay experience.
I hope you enjoy this playthrough challenge, and I hope I don't fail you!
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[@muffin950]

Hiya! I just finished watching your "Season 2" of transport fever and now I'm also enjoying this new series, so thanks a lot! But I'd like to point out some gameplay things you might not be aware of and might appreciate knowing: - When placing a building you can hold down shift, hold the left mouse button down, and moving the cursor left or right will rotate the building. I personally prefer that over having to use the keyboard. - Holding shift while taking out or paying off a loan makes it so you move 5 million moneys instead of only 500 thousand. Less clicking! I hope this helps, and thank again for the videos; I enjoy them a lot!

[@bballjo]

Thanks! Didn't know that about the loans!

[@bluetalon704]

Hi, if you are trying to make a station reach two industries remember that the station building is what makes the connection so you can actually do it sideways and put a station building at each end of the platform and will extend your area of coverage significantly

[@saspry]

Re the extra storage of resources at mines, farms. forests etc... it's NOT needed as the resource will continually output product. TBH, it's a waste of money in those situations. Where it IS needed is AFTER stuff has been manufactured... and is waiting for the next delivery. If that stuff "disappears" then it is a waste of future $$$, so storage is need there :) Cheers mate!

[@bballjo]

Never thought about it that way. Thanks!

[@HadleyHope]

I am surprised you used a second train to move the steel, I would have had the wood train drop off at the saw mill and then proceed to the steel mill and pick up whatever was waiting and then stop again at the saw mill and pick up the planks.

[@bballjo]

It's a percentage game...what percentage of time does the train run full? If that number is 50% or less, it's hard to make money. In this case, we have a very large stake train, that would barely pickup a few units of steel at a time, and it would skew the rate for the actual line, which makes it harder to handle the appropriate volume of wood...plus, worst of all, you would get paid less, because you take steel to the factory the long way around, and you would have less room for boards...no real upside using that train to pickup steel from the factory, and I think I explained the profit part in the video already;)

[@ianwhitworth3264]

I played ahead a little and tried to pay down debt, then the machines factory that I knew we were going to head for started to shut down! Had to go back and change settings so that industry doesn't ever shut down. Just a reminder to those playing along.

[@Ganases]

HI, I think you have to release the steel train at least once a time. Otherwise the factory won't recognize that a delivery is going on. In addition you may have to tell the steeltrain to unload it's cargo at the destionation station because there is actually no demand happing gamewise.

[@bballjo]

Incorrect on both...keep watching;) A little more context: The factory turns on once the consumer turns on, which is the machine factory, and in turn that one activates once there is a connection between them. The game doesnt care if its a direct connection or multiple connections, just that there is a connection. The trains capacity is just too big, and it therefore has to wait a long time before it gets to go, which is why I replaced it with 2 trucks after this episode. The steel train, by default, loads and unloads everything at every station, there is no need to tell it otherwise. Additionally, you can totally tell a train to move cargo from A to B, but B would have no use for the item, through extra or direct connections...the factory in that case would never provide any goods for that line, because it has no business taking the cargo. I do have a few older tutorials talking about cargo supply/demand...I may recommend checking them out? Thanks for you support!

[@Ganases]

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[@bennhardtswelt]

I like to see something different than always Workers & Resources.

[@bballjo]

There are a lot of 'other' games on my channel too ;) may I interest you in any of the Captain of Industry Series' ??

[@bennhardtswelt]

I will check it out. Greetings from northern Germany 😊

[@norrlandjr]

Use the wrench (configure) tool in vehicle menu too see how much the trainee would cost to clone. :)

[@bballjo]

Hm...isn't that just the current value?

[@norrlandjr]

@@bballjo yeah, you're right. Thought it was more similar to the cost of a new train.

[@dom4223]

Hello and thank you for your videos. I downloaded your map on the workshop, but when I launch the game, it tells me that 2 mods are missing. How can I solve this problem? Thanks

[@bballjo]

Hm...I'm not using any mods, but it may think the deluxe edition is a mod...I'll see if I can check that

[@dom4223]

@@bballjo Thanks. Indeed, it appears in the mods

[@bballjo]

Updated: Removed Mods When you load the map, it may show an alert that tells your '1 model missing, replaced with placeholder for cougar'...I doubt that will cause big issues. Please let me know if that didnt work.

[@mohalen]

Hi, Are you able to upload the map as well? Thank you

[@bballjo]

The map is uploaded?

[@mohalen]

@@bballjo I see the saved game but I would like the map so I can use my mods. Your saved game crashes when I add my mods. Thank you

[@bballjo]

@mohalen hm...that's the save from the start of the game...no idea why it would crash, or if I can even extract a map from that

[@TheBlazeofSteel]

Hey bballjo, I think you missed a T in the title. *Not

[@bballjo]

Thanks!