The City Builder That Has You Build True Communism™️

[@guyfromcollege]

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/

[@yeetustothefeetus2852]

free on skidrow xD

[@steveordonez7104]

Average low price game on discount for june

[@ax23mgh8]

​@@yeetustothefeetus2852 tbh it's one of few games worth supporting compared to AAA slop and wokeness festivals

[@Coconut-219]

Just in time for the 1.0 DLC cashgrab.

[@RazorsharpLT]

"We can't put a price on saving the planet from global warming" ....dude, the Soviets were the LAST people to care about the environment.

[@vicm5517]

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

[@ashutoshsethi6150]

Some bubbles are just a tragedy when popped. Let the man enjoy his cluelessness smh.

[@user-bn5df6hl1d]

they were just one more 5mn dollar loan away from profits 35% interest is just a number

[@mixis1931]

Ah yes, the Yugoslavian strategy.

[@blakedake19]

tito, get off the keyword and go to bed

[@nacicomi]

​@@mixis1931 that's more like "99% of dept takers give up before capitalisems collapse"

[@Sol-cf3zw]

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

[@glxyzera7532]

apart from the fact that nuclear didn't fail, the greens just whined about nuclear being bad lol

[@danieldubrovin8813]

​@@glxyzera7532get this man a true

[@Lady_Amelia-Eloise]

@@glxyzera7532it’s extremely ironic coming from the greens

[@rudolfthecat1176]

​@@Lady_Amelia-Eloise the greens in Australia also oppose nuclear power, it's legit one of their policies 😂

[@novelseeker4410]

@@glxyzera7532 the decision to get rid of them came from the CDU lol

[@comradeLucienne]

>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

[@BB-hx4mj]

What’s the mysterious international organisation in this case though?

[@majorian4897]

@@BB-hx4mj Jews

[@imjack4019]

@@BB-hx4mj International Monetary Fund

[@merle3184]

@@BB-hx4mj idk, not familiar with yugo history but my guess would be imf lol

[@BB-hx4mj]

@@merle3184 then it’s not mysterious at all.

[@TaliusValius]

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

[@Markell1991]

God that's good.

[@TaliusValius]

(Kolledzh means College in Russian.)

[@misterfudgyph3906]

North Korean ghost cities: 🗿

[@grubert3535]

A ton of the country was homeless after WW2. We have millions of homeless in America and cannot fix it, refuse to fix it. The block houses were a revolutionary choice to make and lifted millions from poverty.

[@mynamesnotshanekid813]

​@@misterfudgyph3906 Vacant luxury homes in America: 🗿

[@Thewrongolive]

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

[@aca347]

Sounds like snake of 🇩🇰 propaganda tbh 🤨

[@SpookyScarySkeletor]

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.

[@thatguyriverside]

On the bright side, the economy of Poland has never looked this good!

[@comradeLucienne]

how the heck do you buy a thousand buses?

[@SpookyScarySkeletor]

@@comradeLucienne dont know tried to buy tem bought a thousand

[@esequieltrindade9244]

Average latin american public transport moment

[@Leldy]

Have you tried it again?

[@PennTankerGuy]

"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!

[@rywlkr]

COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE SYSTEM!

[@TheREPPIX]

HA! You fool! There's no such thing as Communism as it's impossible! as long as money exists capitalism will! HA HA HA!!! Edit: yes! ARGUE! ARGUE!!! MAH HAHAHA!!! HAAAAA!!!!!

[@jackalenterprisesofohio]

@@TheREPPIX that's why I'm saying we should make sea shells a currency.

[@nacicomi]

​@@TheREPPIX Communism is a post-scarcity society. Why need money if everything is available to everyone?

[@Randomusername998-ti3tn]

@@nacicomi It's really simple, its because economics is all about meeting the practical needs of the most amount of people with limited resources, and indefinately as pyshics determine resources will always be finite, so how can you sustain a post scarcity society where resources are supposedly in so much abundence to the point currency becomes obsolete for example, while not only maintaining the impressive logistics nesscary to maintain this state of affairs, but also meeting the needs of an ever expanding population, without quickly draining these resources.

[@xanthespace5141]

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

[@formorkof7092]

The "Wasting Of State Resources" simply adds a degree of realism to the video. Perhaps they ought to add a bribery system into the game?

[@mightyelf2660]

​@@formorkof7092that'd be really cool

[@AlexAndr-zp6qv]

@@formorkof7092 Then it will be a simulator of any capitalist republic

[@calopsita4465]

How cold is is there?

[@VerdantLight1]

mountain general music moment

[@vicm5517]

What is the name if the first one?

[@JustANervousWreck]

Alternate history hub music

[@felipemoraes1598]

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

[@anfrex3342]

Honestly I think it is the best, its only point of criticism would be the UI to be somewhat difficult to learn and the graphics in general can be somewhat simple but not necessarily bad.

[@valkius4777]

@@anfrex3342 I mean that gives the game a great sliver of the real USSR. Game really feels like a soviet russian developer made it. This games aspects are very reminiscent of the AK-47

[@TheWizardGamez]

It treats a city planner as what they are. A dirty communist

[@aca347]

Public transportation is a real pain in the nether regions however. The only thing holding this game back

[@linusklevebrant6006]

​@@anfrex3342 I think the graphics fits the vibe sooo perfectly! Honestly one of my favourite things with the games. Love the rest of it aswell

[@lyra5366]

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

[@rct3LP]

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

[@jackalenterprisesofohio]

It depends on whether you want to pretend that you are either someone working for the governmnet or a rich guy who bought a whole bunch of land. Take cities skylines for instace, is the city being built by someone like Bill Gates? Or is it just some Governmnet worker in charge?

[@Finnishnat-conservativedot7126]

​@@jackalenterprisesofohioto be fair building a city as a rich guy in any western country is so unrealistic for many reasons, that its merely a fantasy without a single precedent. Basically: -you can't buy municipal functions like police, firefighters and depending on country hospitals -it would take an insane amount of money to buy enough government land for a citywide construction -government would still basically own the city to make sure citizen's voting rights are not infringed upon -State/country/constitution would still apply to these cities You're free to prove me wrong, but as far as I know rich owned cities aren't a thing.

[@rct3LP]

@@jackalenterprisesofohio but at this point, this would be a company town. Since you also control policy, the police with the fire department and the hospital, et cetera. And a company town is effectively the same as a state owned town just that you don’t have as much say in it as a citizen by not being able to vote.

[@comradeLucienne]

not really. cities skylines is more about zone planning and such. there's little in-depth economic management there.

[@Oujouj426]

​@@Finnishnat-conservativedot7126 Individual richies don't own towns, but company towns used to exist and continue to exist in a much more subdued way in some countries.

[@dereinepeterpan5637]

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.

[@annehock]

…how do you know this much about Soviet train systems…?

[@yoloman3607]

This is 1950s technology, the sekrit to Soviet train efficiency in the poor areas of Eurasia is to load as many trains on the track as possible to save money on ridiculously long rail lines. Medium size trains only need medium sized sidings to pass each other on an otherwise cheap single track, whereas you can see the slow collapse of modern American rail where to save money on crews they made mega trains that can't fit on the sidings and cause huge traffic because none can pass each other. If you can find a copy in a very big library, University of Chicago Rail Transportation and the Economic Development of the Soviet Central Asia Department of Geography research paper no. 64 by Robert Taaffe, Chicago Illinois (1960) is quite excellent analysis of the struggles and solutions used to boost Soviet Central Asian productivity by a an order of magnitude with a shoestring budget.

[@fraginatrix]

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.

[@matthiaseriklutge8652]

Sudoku XD

[@SuperNintendawg]

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

[@AlexAndr-zp6qv]

Unfortunately, it is not possible to recreate the history of North Korea in the game, since the mechanics of the first economy in the world, which rapes North Korea with food embargoes and sanctions, are not implemented.

[@SuperNintendawg]

@@AlexAndr-zp6qv yeah alright. Ignore the part where NK has been ruled by a series of evil dictators who enforce a cult of personality and police state upon their starving subjects, all so they can build nukes

[@jaimeleschats5543]

@@AlexAndr-zp6qv It was already shit back when both the soviets and the CCP were bankrolling it.

[@carolederent7638]

​@@AlexAndr-zp6qvThe United States and the rest of its allies are not obligated to trade with North Korea. Nk isn't entitled to Western goods. North Korea can always rely on China or Russia

[@AlexAndr-zp6qv]

@@carolederent7638 Naturally, a free market exists only in American propaganda. In reality, this is a way of putting pressure on small and independent countries. To be honest, I don’t really understand how the United States differs from Nazi Germany. I remember they were even their main trading allies...

[@andrewcol]

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.

[@marlonbrando1631]

What you are describing is a called a Micro-District. It was the standard for Eastern Bloc city planning. All daily needs like Food, Shopping, Schooling were to be satisfied within the micro district and only for occasional needs, like healthcare or culture, should a person have to leave it.

[@Griffithfolkestone]

They build those a la soviet micro-districts to this day in my hometown

[@nicolorosso1872]

When a guy under a youtube video has more wisdom in planning urban districts that any American civil engineer (I hate car centric cities)

[@kkon5ti]

It is also more realistic.

[@lanthanumlanthanium6373]

@@marlonbrando1631 It's also great for keeping citizens locked up and therefore need permission to leave, since everything they "need" will be within those walls, so why else would you want to leave?

[@lordcommissardavid]

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.

[@Randomusername998-ti3tn]

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

[@LaVaZ000]

Give an example

[@choysakanto6792]

@@LaVaZ000 Moscow.

[@luminaaeterna1259]

​@@LaVaZ000Norilsk

[@thespiritofhoxhawell4413]

Real

[@buttercuppancake3342]

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.

[@BaronVonMott]

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... 😂

[@charlesterror-qw7ll]

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

[@blitz8221]

I was looking at the steam page and saw this was released 9 minutes ago

[@bobinscotland]

It's by far the most complex game out there... or you can press the SIMPLE buttons and enjoy it for a bit.

[@Totally_not_alpharius]

Most economically stable soviet city in the 80s

[@mynamesnotshanekid813]

Gorbachev moment.

[@paufernandezboj5517]

More like The most economically stable soviet city on all The soviet union history 😂

[@zubal6121]

@@paufernandezboj5517the USSR was for most of it‘s history the fastest or second fastest growing economy of the world, a lot of shitty market reforms after Stalin caused it‘s slow degeneration

[@ethanduncan1646]

​@@zubal6121Easy to grow an economy when you started in the literal stone age and the commies just finished killing countless millions in their bloody civil war they started. That is glazing a central African country for having high economic growth, no shit they are literally starving. Maybe it's the fact communism doesn't actually work and just leads to economic collapse and misery.

[@JosefZeethuven]

@@zubal6121 This isnt true for most of ussrs history they didnt grow fast

[@theredsoldier26]

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.

[@FairyRat]

Sounds like how signals work in Railway Empire also.

[@Y_WP]

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.

[@kindainformational]

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

[@ConnanTheCivilized]

I mean it is Siberia in the 80s. If everything wasn’t failing we would be calling rigged.

[@paufernandezboj5517]

The most acurate soviet city 👍

[@xboxgamer9194]

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

[@guyfromcollege]

damn didn't know this game was that in depth

[@Tonker_APS]

@@guyfromcollege buddy you dont even know... took me 300 hours just to make a simple farming city on realistic mode

[@chaoticflorius]

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

[@agoose373]

> Sets up near coal deposit > Doesn’t use coal A genius at work, ladies and gentlemen.

[@TheRavenLord1]

Comrade this pleased the central government. Congrats

[@LordFarm]

9:00 Should have stuck to the "Frozen Cannibal Goods" trade 😂

[@AlvorReal]

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.

[@FinDan07]

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

[@leonamvonborowsky7559]

The soviets literally moved historic buildings a few dozen meters so they wouldnt have to be affected by new urban planning, I dont think correctly orientating housing units is an issue

[@kylehankins5988]

@@leonamvonborowsky7559is this smart because it takes a lot of skill to move a monument or idiotic because they couldn’t be bothered to just build around them.

[@alanywalany6460]

@@kylehankins5988 Obviously the former >_> You can't build around everything.

[@Markilgrande]

@@alanywalany6460 hey I hate the soviets as the next guy but moving buildings was done all over the world, happened constantly. Even in the UK and US. Plus how cool is it to see a building on rails/logs come on

[@alanywalany6460]

@@Markilgrande Did you reply to the wrong person? For the record I do not hate the Soviets. Why do you hate them???

[@jibberism9910]

This is one of few games I can only respect. Those guys just set off and made their own game, constantly adding depth and functionality and always maintaining good scaleability from relatively hands off to literally importing and/or producing your republic brick by brick.

[@Tooinsecuretousemyrealname]

A real run of this game has never been tried

[@almostcoolkid1]

City planner plays has one

[@hawkins1384]

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.

[@egoalter1276]

Tje game illustrates quiet well the difficulties imvolved with a centrally plamned economy, indeed.

[@chinua2584]

A solid attempt at a Tito playthrough.

[@giancarlo9731]

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

[@guyfieriismyhero2445]

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

[@manhack1090]

"You win photo of a motocar"

[@ojiiq]

if this happened in the ussr the guy designing this city would be demoted the second he built the nuclear plant

[@andrewgreenwood9068]

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.

[@jampine8268]

Also more sustainable, American suburbs bleed money because they lack the density to make up for their running costs after the initial sales. Not saying everyone needs to live in a cube, but denser cites that you don't need to drive for 20 minutes just to get milk are a benefit to everyone.

[@youtubehasbigcringe]

@@jampine8268live in the pod 🤡

[@No.00000]

I lived like this No you dont want to live like this Jesus telling people that commie blocks are bad is like telling a baby not to put a fork into the outlet

[@alexandertheok5649]

@@No.00000 meh, i also grew up in a post-soviet shitshow, commie blocks are only bad if they're never maintained or rennovated. Which works the exact same with every other old building. The planning though is something we tend to take for granted (having groceries within walking distance, kindergartens and schools nearby, etc.)

[@christianriddler5063]

NO. It's hell on earth to live like that.. I know for sure you never did, otherwise you wouldn't support the idea. I value my own land and my own privacy, I am also introverted and society FORCING me to interact with others would be pure torture, absolute torture to my peace and my sanity. I like my garden, I like the privacy and the peace and the calm of my garden, the fact that no one will go in there to vandalize it or touch it or disturb it. That level of privacy and sacredness brings me peace and happiness. The moment you try to force people like me to live in commie blocks, go to parks and "be social" with people I couldn't care less about is the moment you got a revolution on your hands.

[@briappa6670]

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.

[@ConnanTheCivilized]

2:24 That is the best analogy, and applies to most problems in the Soviet Union. Order people not to do their jobs nor be responsible, then be surprised when nothing functions.

[@heiskanbuscadordelaverdad8709]

This game makes you understand why central planing doesn't work you can't simply keep track of everything

[@grandioso3507]

are you stupid? how do you think cities are planned right now? i mean yeah i guess living in the slums of rio de janeiro are great!

[@XiRevsGD]

ECP argument detected, opinion rejected

[@mr.coffee6242]

Yeah. Planned economies were too complex to work

[@LiftandCoa]

My man has really just recreated the average soviet "major" "Oh man, so much healthy people and money to built a hussling and busslin lil communist city!" - wastes money on prestegious high end objects (nuclear) - waits months to fix the "we have no engineers" issue by planting a coal plant - hammers money the entire time, produces one good, forgets you have to sell it (and bring it to the selling point) - forgets heating for the first year - forgets health care (of any form) for the first year - people die.... fast - takes massive loans just to "revitalize" the city rinse, repeat

[@NemooSK]

Really fun game. I interviewed the creator few years back, when it was just starting. Good times.

[@IshijimaKairo]

Average attempt at communism (It'll work this time for sure)

[@IsaiahRowland-jg7sg]

Buh-but this wasn't TRUE communism 😭😭😭😭

[@dotnask0001]

Roads in the game work on evenly space nodes. The bus stop and the intersection at the beginning of the video took up 2/2 nodes on that section. You can manually build three road sections to get three nodes to fit the path that way.

[@antondees]

Just wait until he finds out you can use resources and not just money to build buildings. crazy I know.

[@HistoryPanda-ng3wc]

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

[@Hurplez]

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

[@justanotherredbeard4439]

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.

[@TravisScotte]

“I have no idea what happened, but it definitely wasn’t something I did, because if I take responsibility then it’s my fault” - the USSR at any point in history

[@jacobgrep4903]

You have no idea how well you portrayed how things went in eastern block during cold war...

[@Mikey-xz4vn]

A Siberian city focused on mining and smelting where the life expectancy is 44 years old. Dude literally built Norilsk

[@OURBENEFACT0RS]

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.

[@egoalter1276]

They arnt bughy at all, they are juat unintuitive. They require a level area, to include the potential slopes at the side needed to level the area to the middle, they are built in sections where they can connect, which have a minumum length, and yes, the shorter a section you puild at once, the steeper the slope and sharper the turn the game is willing to let you place.

[@janno288]

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

[@JM-mg4el]

Makes me wish swimmy still streamed

[@bauefrenchmen3126]

When you make mistakes that affect everyone then youve given everyone the oppertunity to learn from your mistakes. If no one stops you from repeating them its more on them then you glorious leader.

[@Comrade_Cheese]

Start with an oil extraction industry. Oil pumps require no men to work and make an almost consistent amount of oil but require you to import power, which at the beginning of the game is cheap until you can get your own power. Once you have that going either, refine it, which needs more power and people, or sell I raw, then use the money to get a construction industry going, having foreign labor and resources to build your building takes a lot of money and from there you should be well enough to continue to grow. It isn't going to happen on your first try unless you plan everything perfectly but just try have fun, good luck

[@keith7143]

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

[@susangoaway]

You could have been a EU comm- I mean commisioner. 2:00 is exactly what they are trying to do (and are doing).

[@ВладиславВладислав-и4ю]

Asuka

[@susangoaway]

@@ВладиславВладислав-и4ю Rei.

[@aleksanderpieck4799]

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

[@kobi219]

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

[@haraldvmann161]

Even the slightest mistake will instantly kill your city😂😂

[@JeredtheShy]

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

[@VietcongBush-tv3eo]

? Its still a great game

[@DrLynch2009]

This is way too accurate to not being intentional.

[@bongosonbongos6718]

This video needs to get 5000 likes

[@pietropulsinelli1059]

Bro just built a gulag💀💀

[@paufernandezboj5517]

Only worse 💀

[@winowmak3r]

I see the USSR build order research is getting pretty advanced. Jokes aside, I love this game. If you're into city builders you really can't beat this one. Imports: 350k Exports 8k. We'll get there eventually! "Builds a hospital only after he runs out of money trying to get the *literally designed backwards* steel mill working." Heavy industry over the welfare of citizens. Yep. This is definitely a planned economy.

[@TheDaniel366Cobra]

You could turn off seasons (winter maintenance is a b*tch for newbies in this game) or play on a Tropical map (no winter, just a rainy season with some light cold snaps and year-round crop growth).

[@cptshelly]

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

[@int_overflow]

basically the yugoslav economic strategy. need money? IMF loan!

[@SheolAbaddonus666]

Good thing this game takes place in the mid 20th century, as 4 million rubles ain't shit.

[@thesecutor]

Honestly why do “roads” where citizens walk need to connect to anything, they’re just guides to buildings not a path through a minefield. I understand it’s probably coding and design stuff but I don’t think I’d ever be content with citizens just not taking a short jaunt across a patch of grass.

[@HoBoeBpeM9l]

Хорошая работа, товарищ!

[@mechwarrior13]

Just got it, cant wait to command my fellow comrades tomorrow (i was born in China, so i will try to make it an authentic experience for my -slaves- comrades)

[@lebawsski]

Comrade, one does not only build one city. You Build a mine and then you build small city. Then you build mine and build small city. Then you build a Coal mine and a Coalplant, make a small city. Silly comrade.

[@FredThaSlayer]

I guess if there was an ancap city builder, you'd just sit there and not do anything while the market regulates itself lol

[@agenttine7056]

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

[@hydronpowers9014]

"Food is like dark humor. Not everyone gets it" - Joseph Stalin

[@obombomattatetrahondamog1461]

Interesting historical video.

[@AceofSpades511]

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.

[@WillhemKraus]

Do that ^^ also there is a few of videos teaching "basics" about the game

[@mynamesnotshanekid813]

You literally do the socialism in one country

[@blakedake19]

brezhnev moment

[@egoalter1276]

Getting your own steel is also paramount. Importing steel for an otherwise domestic construction industry can cost tens of millions a year.

[@FridoBiggins]

Historically accurate Soviet Experience

[@drgabe2908]

Realistic depiction of the soviet economy

[@ItsGorka]

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

[@nukeacitrus883]

All in all, this was actually a very realistic demonstration on how we ended up with all these Siberia ghost towns 😁

[@sawyerpage2855]

Man, TheFatElectrician would love this game

[@IcedicStar]

Ngl considering it is Siberia, I'd live there

[@LittleBoy08]

This game is for patient smart people. Braindeads are having headache and giving it 1 star on steam. Also, he wasn't playing on realistic mode. Rookie!

[@guyfromcollege]

it was literally my first game lol

[@IHaveNoIdea-929]

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

[@seanhayes6660]

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

[@SpaceCat01]

You need to build an technical office and purchase snowplows Otherwise your vehicles move at a fraction of their capeable speed on the snow covered roads

[@neymarjr_.]

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

[@billyyank5807]

5:59 the messed up conveyer route is just perfect 😂

[@america8706]

Finally, a strategy building game where my incompetence is lore accurate.

[@komisiantikorupsikoruptord6257]

This not Soviet city because this not Microdistrict. Each apartment block must be 60 meters /180 feet apart

[@flopus7]

Babe wake up, college is making another dystopia

[@gatey6766]

College has brought frostpunk to cities skyline

[@mikedahuman]

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