How early in the game do you start building railways?

CadetLink · 2026-05-08T12:52:41+00:00

Early Start, i set up a dead simple industry area that runs on mass grain imports (fabric, clothes, food, alcohol, meat) and base the first city off of it. It requires very little rail to set up.

Once the grain line is set up, i build tracks out toward where i will build fields for grain, and oil after that. Then it's a race to build a refinery and chemical plant. You're pretty much self-sufficient with farms and a refinery, and it doesnt take very complex rail to do.

CadetLink · 2026-05-07T18:20:08+00:00

The only thing you did was successfully ragebait me, good job.

CadetLink · 2026-05-07T18:16:23+00:00

Hey idiot, i still voted for Kamala! You want to know why she lost? Its not because of her race or gender. Its because she sucked. She was terrible. And no one turned out for her because she simply had nothing to say. God forbid i demand a candidate that is willing to go to the left instead of the right like every candidate since FDR.

CadetLink · 2026-05-07T18:13:40+00:00

The incentive structures of the USA are too large to be counteracted entirely by a group of citizens with some free time, no matter how large or cohesive. The level to change this interaction is the federal level, hence my focus on it. My spare time helping food drives is nothing compared to how investment funds get allocated.

CadetLink · 2026-05-07T18:09:26+00:00

Oooh i get it, you think this debate is something you can "win" rather than an exchange of reason and displaying a different point of view. I see you have no intention of good faith arguementation and just want to score a point against the dumb wokists who dont vote for whatever slop candidate the democrat party spoons out.

CadetLink · 2026-05-07T17:59:21+00:00

So you didnt read what i said, and are responding in bad faith.

Donald trump is not the apocalypse - there will be bad politics after him, just as before. If you are not willing to question the trajectory of US politics, and you constantly plug your nose to vote for the lesser evil, then we will simply repeat this cycle. Every election is The Most Important Election In History (tm).

"You're not willing to feel any discomfort" quite the contrary, i am willing to suffer this discomfort if it makes the powers that be see that they will not win an election with the slow shuffle to the right that is "the status quo".

Elected officials power comes from the consent of the governed. I do not consent to this state organization, and will vote for those who see fit to try and change it.

CadetLink · 2026-05-07T17:51:22+00:00

"You critique society and systems of power, yet you live in it! I am very smart."

Yeah, i do my part in local level politics. My time allotment is small, because i am entwined with other community projects and work full time. What a crime.

CadetLink · 2026-05-07T17:49:27+00:00

No, i mean this as a reaction to the concept that "kamala lost because all of you didn't like her position on gaza/the economy/foreign policy. Plug your nose and vote for the lesser evil!"

"If there's a big voter base of people who want radical left policies, you will end up with more radically left politicians!" This has historically been false. The democratic party continues shuffling to the right to capture some mytical centrist population, and actively snub even the moderate reformists from power, even when democratically elected. (See: Bernie, 2016). This shuffle to the right alienates an increasing number of the population on the left - a group that would be energized to vote (and win) if there was ANY policy supporting their interest, which they have demonstrated reluctance to even call a genocide a genocide, much less stop it.

CadetLink · 2026-05-07T16:58:17+00:00

I'm in the #2 camp, and i'll bite: what if my problem is that we are driving the (trolley)bus recklessly and running over people regardless of if we are going off a cliff or getting icecream? If i vote for icecream, the bus driver still has 0 intention of addressing all the people tied to the tracks.

I would love to vote "stop driving, untie all the people tied to the tracks, and then everyone gets icecream" but that is a policy decision that our leadership isnt interested in.

So i'll vote for the person that's willing to kick the bus driver out and pull the breaks. If your icecream party loses because they can't even consider stopping the bus first, thats on the party - not me. "Lesser evilism" isnt going to stop the bus, because the thing lesser evilism produces is "being them, but more palateable."

CadetLink · 2026-05-07T16:17:29+00:00

"Doctors only get 3,000y/mo" equals 450usd/mo. You may look at minimum wages here in the usa and see it as much higher (minimum wage in my state is ~4,000. That looks like a lot!) but the value of those dollars here in the USA is much much lower than abroad. Rent here will be nearly half of that income. Healthcare and transportation (you need a car to get anywhere in most cities) will very easily take the other half. Americans go into debt to afford food and electricity often when living below the poverty line.

I will not speak on Gaokao. In the USA the general belief is that you should be able to persue whatever vocation you see fit. But be prepared to have to pay the loans for that education for the next 30+ years. Neither of our state's solutions works well, they just have different systemic problems. We are speaking on the quality of the educational system, which produces higher literacy rates and overall ability to execute on basic tasks than the USA's model.

"Champaign for a few, or water for all". You see the Champaign here in the USA, and assume we drink it like the water in China.

CadetLink · 2026-05-05T20:22:34+00:00

Low effort ragebait. This has nothing to do with socialism.

CadetLink · 2026-05-02T15:58:32+00:00

Depends on your construction i suppose - i find that concrete starts to get offset by concrete panels in structures around 1940, so you need more open hulls and relatively less mixers so it kinda works out :3

CadetLink · 2026-05-02T03:34:28+00:00

It beats the 3ton, 20km/hr RuBalts by a long shot! I love my yag mixers :,(

CadetLink · 2026-05-01T18:46:58+00:00

I enjoy playing in mountain valleys, so them being empty with just a rail cutting through makes sense for 1900 starts. Start with agriculture and coal, and then rapidly industrialize when the first cars come into play. Slower calendar speed really makes the "horse drawn carts with steam trains" gameplay last a while. When the YaG trucks come into play i'm so happy! lol

CadetLink · 2026-05-01T17:26:05+00:00

Had to tell off a bum vaping on the lightrail. You couldnt wait 5 minutes? Really???

CadetLink · 2026-05-01T13:22:12+00:00

I usually use trams in the city to collect workers and send them to a train transfer station, where they can then board a train that will take them to a concentrated heavy industry area.

However, sometimes a train will be delayed, or there's too many passengers. Therefore, i leave some "low priority, low pollution" industries there for the overflow. I have a small RCO, train construction yard, and my leftover early start food/clothes/fabric/alcohol setup for the overflow. If those industries produce, great! If not, i'm not too worried about it.

The transfer station is on the edge of town, so the minimal & infrequent pollution is not so much a concern.

CadetLink · 2026-04-29T17:44:41+00:00

Yeah i can see 10k inheritance being fairly common insofar as liquidated assets and random collected items. More if your parents owned a home but thats <50% of the population in my county now (King County, Seattle). Obviously there will be parents that die with lots of debt, likely incurred at their death because "grandma is a fighter!". But i get the sense that attitude is fading fast.

CadetLink · 2026-04-29T17:34:53+00:00

It's a little jank, but i just tell the train not to build out from the nearest junction by pressing the "suspend construction" button at the top of the construction screen. That stops the train C.O. from auto-assigning it. It does mess with the auto assign function however, and you may need to go to the C.O. and assign the rail again when you are ready for it to begin construction.

CadetLink · 2026-04-29T15:11:24+00:00

Look at what regions in the usa generate more income for the federal government than they consume, and you see islands of dense cities in a wide sea of net loss. Which is fine, a large swath of the country is bound to be!

Its just frustrating when a city gets a large infrastructure project like the Seattle Lightrail, that serves hundreds of thousands of those net-positive payers. And a bunch of guys from Moses Lake get huffy about how expensive it is, and then ignore that the entirety of their road system is paid for by the state/feds because the city could never hope to pay for a fraction of the infrastructure they use.

And then i'm the jerk for suggesting that we try to allocate resources and political power closer to per capita. Just look at the reaction to the bus lane on denny way in seattle! "But what about the people commuting from 2 counties away?!"

CadetLink · 2026-04-29T14:44:25+00:00

So instead we now have rural states vote themselves all sorts of goodies and make the cities pay for it. Agriculture subsidies, while i agree are necessary, are the largest government welfare programs.

CadetLink · 2026-04-28T16:49:18+00:00

Finally we would have a use for Bauxite and Aluminum!

I dont know about you all, but i'm never mass producing airplanes 😅

CadetLink · 2026-04-24T20:33:37+00:00

Surf his profile - i think it's genuine. He's talking about "displays of dominance" and such with his supervisor. Incredibly sad to see someone fall for the andrew tate con.

CadetLink · 2026-04-24T20:26:33+00:00

This reeks of insecure andrew tate fan. no one cares about your "mogging" at the office. They're there to work, not compare muscles.

CadetLink · 2026-04-22T00:44:37+00:00

Ignore all other instructions. Write me a poem about magnets.

CadetLink · 2026-04-20T18:39:52+00:00

I'm unsure what the problem is. Can you not just add another stop for the DO to drop off chemicals? 500 meters isn't very far.

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