Transport Fever 2 - Ep 7 - Growing Pains

[@b0bsaget007]

The best tip I can give about this game relates to knowing how many vehicles you need for a line. If you look at the line overview (? forgot exact name, the one that shows all the lines and their profits), there's a column that you seem to overlook, the 'Rate' column. That column tells you the average cargo flow in units per year, which is the same exact units that show when you click on an industry. You can use this to plan out your vehicles such that the rate of the vehicles is slightly above the production rates of your industries, that way you can guarantee that you're moving 100% of the cargo that the industry produces.

[@CamposGaspar]

That is great. Very good tip, thank you!

[@112Haribo]

This is the comment I was looking for. None of the other numbers are important: only look at rate! Also, it is completely fine if there is cargo going to waste on your platforms as long as you're maxed out on demand. For example, look at Loughton and Mablethorpe. Add their fuel demand together and boom. You now know exactly how much oil you need to ship. Multiply that same amount by 2 and you know how much crude you need to ship.

[@CarlMarx]

I went and read through all the video's comments to find tips like this! I am loving TF2, I played TF for many many hours and must say I do enjoy the new game as well.

[@kyleme9697]

At 2:21 of the video. Thanks Daniel.

[@Snehpleh]

How do you use this statistic when you are combining different industries/types of goods throughout your lines? I don’t understand the rate number when the line consists of e.g. trip 1 with 2x crude, trip 2 with 1x oil + 1x machines, return trip with 1x fuel + 1x food.

[@theproginge]

Literally just been sat here at the computer bored AF wondering when Squirrel would upload the next episode and BAM! here it is! Keep up the good work, can't wait to have some spare money to be able to try out the game myself!

[@Hamza-fr1gj]

Same 😂

[@mcgoo721]

Same here ha. I let a couple episodes build up and as soon as I finished them, this one was posted! Perfect timing.

[@gg.youlubeatube6249]

there will be discount before Crismass, this time about 60-70% down. Start saving :D

[@Mrcoltonclarkson]

Dude. Same.

[@Xycmos]

I'll be completely honest, your voice is very satisfying to listen to.

[@BoomerKeith1]

Do you watch City Planner Plays? He focuses almost exclusively on Cities Skylines, but he also had a very calming voice.

[@rochmel1409]

I agree. I first came across Squirrel in when he did what I consider to be the best tutorial series for the new Microsoft Flight Sim.

[@aventurileluipetre]

why would you be lying about it?

[@MrDKOz]

Bought the game, just to play along with this series and learn the ropes. Really enjoying the content, thank you.

[@zombee0036]

some tips: station, signal, rate for station layouts: (more clean, efficient drive through station layout) (c - Cargo platform, P - passenger platform, T - track) what i like to to do is putting down a 1 track station, then have the layout be C - T - T - T - T - C, tracks connecting cleanly to the middle 2 tracks for drivethrough and everything else has to move off the tracks, right before that a diamond. signaling is tricky with it but it works really really good with a space efficient layout using all platforms. basically a one way signal on both ends of the drivethrough on their respected tracks and NON-1-way on the platform entrances both sides right before the merges so trains can start rolling sooner, important for big stations. it also works great if you want a passenger-cargo mixed station, just make it a C - T - T - T - T - C - P - T - T - P, or even a third cargo track between C - P (CTTTTCTPTTP) and make the merges max curvature straight in (41kph), diamond being right before the outer merge(60 - 80 kph), no diamond between outer and inner merge. i do have to say in advance that platform 3 to 5 have to be merged in 2 motions. there is no simple drag and merge. first the curve out the station towards the other tracks, then the one onto the tracks. platform 1 and 2 can be merged with a s merge in 1 motion since it is basically parallel tracks I find it to be a really clean and efficient design easy to handle you also dont have to free up trains with signals, all these "free up signals" tend to do is blocking merges if tracks get really busy. if a train drove through a merge with its full length, the track behind it abd with that the merge is cleared up automatically without any signals to free it up. other one regarding rate, didnt read other comments first tho so it has already been mentioned you dont need to watch trains move goods. in the line overview bottom right corner youll find a column with how much throughput the vehicles on the line have per station per year. the amount of resources produced and shipped also display per year. at the moment of watching the line it is probably around 1000 and the pumps produce 1200. so with this you can do near perfect calculations on how many trains with how many wagons you have to run on a line. Also very helpful for matching city demand with your trucks so you dont put too many vehicles on there. another passive benefit of that is youll have less emissions because less vehicles edit: it's called rate and i see my estimate 1k was hella accurate

[@michaelclark7787]

Bought the game because of you and yeah signals are the bane of my existence lol. Thank you for these episodes because I am learning whilst this is going on.

[@lamegaming9835]

they are better then the origonalsl

[@mathisurien4031]

looking at "romsey crude 1", i think there's a way of making it more efficient and removing the need for truck entirely. the crude line goes through the fuel station in both directions but you are not stopping, even on the way back. this means the tanker trains are only making money on the run with crude and then making a loss on the return as they come back empty. if you set it to stop on the way back it will bring the oil to the central station on the way back allowing you to make money in both directions and allowing you to completely do away with the trucks entirely and saving you money on upkeep. a bit like what you did further north with the trains going out completely full with crude and coming back half full with fuel.

[@josephdurnal]

This is what I was thinking, instead of running an empty train all the way back to the crude well, run a half full train of oil that way and stop at the fuel refinery. I haven't done the math but that should be more profitable than trucks at 50% capacity for the round trip.

[@BoomerKeith1]

I suspect that's where he's heading, but wanted to establish the train line first. He basically built it with that in mind.

[@tomshackell]

Yeah spotted the same. It's a mistake IMO, there is literally no need for that truck service to move the oil: you could just use the trains which are currently travelling back empty and burning cash.

[@EddyVegas]

I was stuck in the hospital for 15 days when ep. 1 came out, and eps. 1-4 literally helped me get through that boring, yet painful, time. i promised myself i would reward myself with TF2 when I got out. well whaddya know, 1 day before getting out it was 50% off. game is perfect for someone convalescing. so you sold a game, and thanks for helping me get through that hospital stay.

[@st1g910]

When checking whether you have enough trucks/trains you can check the "Rate" Of the line. This should be the same as the supply/demand as this is the amount you transport in a certain period. Love the lets play though!

[@LuckyLuke2307]

This. Realizing that all the numbers are annual Rates made the game so much better for me. Just less guesswork.

[@mrmacc1312]

Loving your series and tips, the reason your third train came out the depot was because it was the last depot you clicked on. You have to click on the nearest depot for any vehicles to make sure they come out of the right one. You have made me really enjoy this game again, thank you. I think the design of this game with the views and follow along is amazing

[@pvs1681]

Squirrel & Colonel Failure should have a friendly face-off stream:) first to get billion in transport fever stream!!

[@michaelwood9176]

this is my current favourite series. thanks for having long episodes! petition to make them 45 minutes-1 hr long? :P

[@pecky7989]

please keep with the fast uploads i wanna keep binging these theyre sooooo good man

[@travistharp4215]

You should create a playlist of short videos on tips and tricks. It can draw more people in looking for certain things and then they will find your series and watch you cause you showed them how to do things

[@GeorgeSupremu]

This is the only series of Transport fever 2 that I watch

[@taoheron282]

Keep on going after 1 billion I’m loving this too much

[@Jim.Hummel]

I've always enjoyed watching these gameplay series...the tips 'n' tricks you're sharing are just making it even more enjoyable. Your analysis of the situation is logical but you still keep esthetics in mind which adds another level of enjoyment. Thank you Squirrel !!!!

[@Mor2Idan]

You make hard mode look so easy!! Thank you for great tips and great content! I would like to comment about the signals on the train tracks - the train will stop before the signal if the "block" is occupied so in the way you set it if there is suddenly a queue of trains (or like two close trains) then a train can stop behind a signal and block an intersection for other trains too Oh and you can choose the tank color before adding and buying :)

[@nuclearhominoidea]

Hey man just wanted to tell you thanks for making these videos. Your voice and the game's chill soundFX really helps me calm down and get sleepy at night.

[@bjorngadd8647]

I love these videos they are so relaxing in a way and it is fun to see you build up a world with infrastructure.

[@BoomerKeith1]

I didn't realize how much you need to continue to manage existing lines. I really like that about this game. As always, these videos are SUPER informative and so well done.

[@petermiddo]

Please, please, please keep this series coming! I'm loving it.

[@Clurdish]

Enjoying the series! I've had this game in my library for quite some time, but was never quite motivated to play it until I came across these videos.

[@GothyCakesofficial]

Nice trains you got there im sure Dr. Beeching would have something to do about it. 🤣🤣

[@travistharp4215]

You can put more than one engine on the train to wich helps alot

[@kingturd8284]

Would it be possible to get longer episodes? I cant get enough of this series!

[@michaellove4782]

I love how frequently you upload these.... Amazing...

[@coopermeshew4298]

I’m absolutely loving this series

[@bengtceder7826]

Very nice with lots of good tips and ideas. Keep them coming. The game is so much funnier now with your help

[@klapiny]

,,There" is more like ,,thaere" if you know what I mean . Love this series

[@burnoutking0712]

gosh darn i love this series. keem em comin squirrel!

[@martiaseques]

The KZbin series that has me hooked up! More, more, MORE!

[@wyatt007]

Bought the game and downloaded all your mods! Really loving this series and playing also. Thanks for another great upload

[@LordBlaze79]

Why the hell is this so entertaining! I started and now im invested!

[@juamont]

man I found you from this series, Im loving it, yesterday I binged all the episodes so far

[@wellst412]

As someone new to this game but really interested the tips you've been giving has been super helpful. Thanks for the video!

[@afraz-khan]

here you go, thanks to be resolute and uploading regularly. series is going brilliant, loving it

[@ja37d-34]

Looks fun watching from the engine, yeah!

[@ides0745]

Daily or every other day please, this series is great

[@aklaimed]

I don’t have this game nor have I ever played any of them, but I have enjoyed following this play through. I’m not easily entertained and it’s hard to keep my attention, but the detail that you provide about what you’re doing and why you’re doing it is amazing! Great job man. Please keep up the great work! I’m curious to see how you link up all of the cities!

[@Dr.Geeves]

I think the reason the Oil train came out of the far away depot has to do with signals. You don't have one on the near depot, and another train was passing at the point of purchase.

[@HAZ2B]

Honestly a great series

[@kieranviner9496]

Loving this mate! 😁

[@Kbloko]

im loving this series, continue with this good energy

[@wollinger]

That truck station, south of the oil field, could be closer to the train station since it only transports fuel, that would save traveling tim,love it north from the train station.

[@bullseyes1983]

Oh man, don't zoom out and leave the zone when the factories are about to pop. I like to see them change as they level up.

[@JayeTheSlayer]

I love watching these series. Keep uploading the video's. So many tips and tricks for my gameplay. Thank you so much......

[@RobbieBarclay]

Loving the series 👍

[@oneoldcurmudgeon403]

"Because we made brilliant decisions". Brilliant use of the royal "We". Must be because we are brilliant. 🙂

[@davey9605]

Such an addictive series, as always from Squirrel.

[@josephdurnal]

I've been watching squirrel since before he went full time. I'm trying to remember when I first found this channel. Did he ever play Battlefield 3? I found a lot of good content creators when they did a KZbinrs tournament on that game. Anyway, this series is the first lets play from any creator that I've decided to play along with. I'm glad the seed, settings, and mods were all posted.

[@marcdc6809]

I play the vanilla game now, I did struggle with the principle on how a coalmine distributes its production amongst the steelworks it can reach... but now I made a road from each steelworks to two iron mines and two coal mines... and then a zig-zag connection from one steelworks to the other, and to the next... every coalmine wants to distribute to every steelworks roughly evenly, so you end up with the largest part of the coal making multiple trips across these zig-zag connectors... and the beauty of it all... these trains are balanced in two directions, so you run the strongest longest trains at record profits. On top of that I also don't hesitate to make a train deliver coal to one far away steelworks and then iron back to the steelworks closer by... it doesn't work with coal both ways, then some coal stays in the train, and I'm not sure the pay then is worth it...

[@rodwhitney8236]

Absolutely loving this series Squirrel! So much so, I'm downloading it as I type this comment! Love it! Thank you so much for the in-depth gameplay; enjoy everything you do! :)

[@jasperverduyckt3051]

Love the Transport Fever 2 series keep it up!

[@gg.youlubeatube6249]

Tip one : Tractive effort has close to zero effect. You can happily ignore that number. Look only at engine power and top speed. Surprisingly, the monthly price maintenance is (almost) solely driven by the power. Second tip: You are paid for transportation per km, not efficient delivery. e.g. make sure your vehicles are fully loaded even route migh look wierd. Example : add new train line from Oil rig to Fuel production. Then remove road vehicle line from Oil refinery to Fuel production. Then move the Fuel road cargo station from FuelProduction fab next to train station by the Oil rig. Yes, your customer delivery line for Romsey fuel starts at Oil rig. As result both train lines will be transporting liquids back and forth and print money like no tomorrow.

[@yellowduckmarc18]

Really enjoying this series. I'm definitely going to buy this game soon. Keep them up dude. Thank you 😊

[@ryanvoll7088]

You can always put two engines on the same train, if you need a longer train, without losing speed.

[@rochmel1409]

Good tip, thanks

[@radoslavradoslavov1964]

you've got a lovely series going dude keep it up its great.

[@1885dr]

loving the series, please keep it up

[@jeremymeats2105]

New here and love this series! Can't wait to get the game and follow along with ya!

[@Kisamaism]

If your production is 100, and you need 2 unites to produce 1 product, you need 200 units of input per game cycle. To match this, bring up your Line Statistics tab, and look at the line's "Rate". Match the Rate to the required input (in the case provided earlier, that would be 200). Much easier to manage the moving target this way. Add or remove cars to get closer to that ideal "Rate".

[@BlackersMTV99]

Thanx a bunch for your videos. I learned a lot.

[@lkslokinhow]

Instead of multiple trains I usually do really big trains with multiple engines. This way there is no traffic problem, sometimes I can even get away with a single track. At your oil line, I would just add another locomotive to both trains and make them longer, just two trains needed.

[@kenbarney3843]

For cargo lines you want to match the line rate (viewable in the line manager) to the production rate. For example, if your crude oil well hs a max production rate of 400 you want your line to have a rate of 400 or o bit above.

[@kilo363]

Enjoying the series. I don't understand your thinking with the Romsey Oil line though. surely the oil train should be bringing back fuel to the middle station (so earning on 2 of 3 legs) and then truck the fuel from the refinery to the town? You seem to have an extra unnecessary step in the chain

[@Onyxx98]

cant wait for the next episode, great work!

[@tomtomkowski7653]

But you don't need this Track route at Romsey - you have an empty Train over there. Just pick the fuel and drop it in the middle, and you can remove the track route.

[@Norcent00]

Vehicles wear out over time too and there running cost continues to increase. I know I would have to update fleets when conditions got poor or bad to continue to make money

[@joshuaguenin9507]

You have two train depots on the oil/fuel line when you only need one, would cut maintenance cost overall from having too many buildings, Just make one go both ways on the line.

[@CamposGaspar]

Yes, i love these!

[@Potatas]

24:11 Look at the time!! That’s the day when Singapore, a very important military base of the British, surrendered to Japan. It was also the most costly British surrender in British history.

[@kaspariito]

yeah, just downloading it. thanks to you :D

[@MirrorHall_Clay]

The reason the extra crude oil train came out of the other depot is because, as you clicked the button to clone, there was a train blocking the path to the nearest signal on the route from that depot, so it used the other one since it could get to the station from it without the path to the first signal on the way blocked

[@ryanhenry9826]

Best series ever 👏

[@dubaut]

The cloned trains usually come out of the depot which is closest to the cloned train.

[@thekiha1970]

1:35 - these numbers doesn't quite mean what you think they mean unless you have some mods regulating it [dont think so], it's just percentage factor of city growth provided by: public/private transport, in my city it's for example 50/90%

[@Fosuya]

Love the series, keep it up 😁

[@oiller05]

Unless Squirrel did it in off camera, a large problem in the in city's is not getting full fuel coverage he only placed 1 drop-off in the city's and it will have grown way beyond that one unless he got very lucky at this point should be 2 or more points.

[@rambobannana]

So squirrel. In the 1800’s I was transporting hundreds of people between 2 cities in trolleys, making lots of money. I decided to build a passenger train and nobody went to it so I abandoned the project. When I unlocked planes I build a flight path to each city and it was super popular, for like 3 years, then my trolley line died. Then after 3 years the planes died off and people went back to the trolleys. Is there like a “new technology” buff where when a technology is new, like airplanes, people choose those over the old transportation to a brief period?

[@scottmwilhelms2437]

Considering you're somehow feeding people with alchohol keeping them off the roads is probably wise. 😏 Don't Drink and Drive... Take a bus or a train. 🚌🚂

[@checker3389]

love this stuff

[@lucioxp2359]

love the gameplay

[@William_Hispania_Racing_Team]

Keep going when hit a billion go hight like $100 TRILLION

[@econ1240]

Great game! Can you also do some landlords super? i really want to see you put the tenant in the house.

[@bananaketchup1363]

Enjoying this series never plan to buy the game though

[@xiii-Dex]

So this is a bit far back, but the BR 75.4 is actually the better value than the A3/5 for hilly terrain. Costs and running costs are based on top speed and power, basically ignoring tractive effort. So some of the costs of the A3/5 are going to the extra top speed, which isn't being used on a hill (and not at all in this situation due to the wagon speed). And the BR 75.4 gets far more tractive effort for the money. If you double-head BR 75.4s, you wind up with more power and significantly more tractive effort, for only slightly more running costs.

[@tazinas4309]

I recenty started playing this game because of your series. I have one question though. When I drop off goods in a city, say fuel, what do I do when the city "outgrows" the influence radius of my dropoff station? Add a 2nd line of fuel from the other side?

[@travistharp4215]

Could we cheat and have a train so long it touch’s both points? Lol that would be awesome

[@llywyllngryffyn8053]

In my experience, when you Clone a Vehicle it always comes out of the same Depot the original came from.

[@TuDeDaTe]

You dont really need to seperate crude lines and oil/fuel lines when you are using trains id say. You design it so that your rate is equal to the crude production and your crude trains can go back half full to the fuel refinery, they will be profiting full on the way from crude to oil and will profit half to the midpoint where your fuel refinery is, that will make you profit 1.25 instead of 1 on the crude trains. Yes, it will be slower since it stops midway (so might profit slightly less than 1.25, but will still be more than 1), but still will be fast enough id say to catch the production rate of a single crude, and once you hook up the other crude which is in southwest of the oil refinery, your 1.25profit line will profit 1.5 since your oil refinery will be able to fill your trains. After that you can shuttle your fuel to east in a seperate line with a faster train building and using a 3rd rail (presumably after you unlock faster liquid tanks and trains so that you can start with fast tracks and with a train design to capitilize on that.) between fuel refinery and crude. Edit: wrote this like a minute ago and seeing you midway station I think you already planned something like this xd so nvm

[@carl8790]

Again, I'm quite surprised there isn't a pipeline option to transport liquids in this game.

[@BobuHamsti]

amazing video

[@T34theAmericanheavy]

New video! Hell yeah!

[@danielledavies7682]

you can add more than one engine to your train more pulling power

[@animalm4st3r]

the [T] for trains and trucks is kinda confusing :P

[@Orffen]

Isn’t he using [R] for Rail?

[@Smiffy_88]

Can’t help but notice he just copy pasta’d Romsey Crude 1 in and didn’t replace the [T] with an [R] when upgrading to a train

[@thetravellingbadger6567]

You are in 1939, if you need to haul heavy trains up a hill you don't want the A3/5, you want something electric.

[@zcaalock]

you should use mod for real capacity for buses and trains

[@lordsanityfree]

Wouldn't it be easier to lift the road over the railroad?

[@eduardnemec7983]

In my opinion the train came out from nonsense train depot because there was train in way 😁 I am almost 100% sure that was the issue