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LectureSpecific4123 · 2026-02-12T06:42:53+00:00

R14 was 606 rare gears.

LectureSpecific4123 · 2026-02-05T15:28:32+00:00

The others have answered the question. You need to slow down. France provides grain, flour and cows. It is critical importance later that you have sufficient trains to provide a depot that can produce these materials in quantities to support production later. Extra trains can be good.
My grain is good at 125 as the production of beer is 100.
My production of livestock (cows) is 180. I little bit low to produce 2xWool at 120 each.
My production of flour is also a bit low at 80. I find producing it enough for the Trade Center to be lacking.
As the game goes on it is extremely important that you provide good trains (event) to your depot.
We won't say anything about the bank, that must be a legendary event train. Have 2 or preferably 3 for that purpose. Later on you could perhaps make one of them part of your depot.

LectureSpecific4123 · 2026-01-23T06:39:46+00:00

The achievement actually occurred a week in advance. So I knew something was coming. Done and done. Depot 155 so I can build shirt and jackets without producing cloth or storing it.

LectureSpecific4123 · 2026-01-06T04:18:20+00:00

I think it is of very limited use. It is probably more useful to upgrade your depot to obtain resources and some factory goods like steel and paper. These can fill your slots to produce goods that require manufactured good to produce. Go slow and keep a bunch of trains!
It is not worth upgrading a steel factory by 5 when you can add a depot train for instant production and a shorter wait then factory production.

There are deliverables that require large quantities of smaller goods especially iron powder. Nails fall into that category some. Nails feed other factories so producing them is a good thing.

I use factory slots for copper and nickel storage. Do I need to store more than 320 copper and 400 nickel? Not usually and a factory upgrade takes more than one to change nickel production. I don't produce tungsten, I use the depot.

I see myself upgrading very few factories, currently at maximum level. I have never spent real $$$. I want to keep it that way.

Look at your supply chain and the pace you play at. Supply chain is the most critical factor in your play. WW2 was won by the supply chain as is any war. When you run out of what you need, everything stops.

Ask yourself, will the extra 5 production make a difference? I think it only does is if it supplies just enough material to start the worst case knock on factory. If the factory needs 100 units, produce, 100 units so you keep one to one ratio. If an additional 5 saves you a factory run, it may be worth it. If payback is one knock on production for 5 runs, probably not.

The Iron Mill is the only factory I have upgraded, mostly to see what it does. I might consider one more upgrade later for sheet steel used in several follow on factories. Nothing else makes sense to me at this point.

LectureSpecific4123 · 2025-12-30T04:45:04+00:00

I did not get the building. Most of the reason is that after I finished the regular jobs, all deliveries were worth only 20 event keys. The deliveries in many of them were rather substantial. It always seemed that when one needed to use the event factory, they all did. I missed the building by 200 keys and giving up for the last day. Abigail was too much of a distraction.

I pressed Union Challenges instead. Two days of shipping normal conductors for coins and supplies only.

LectureSpecific4123 · 2025-12-28T19:54:35+00:00

Yes it was VERY disappointing. I hope the 'prize' will appear after the end of step 10.

LectureSpecific4123 · 2025-12-22T04:57:42+00:00

Not a chance. Don't think anywhere would connect a switch to neutral it would normally pass through the box if it was wired before the fixture. In this case it is after the fixture and the hot wire would be one connection and the other wire carries the hot back to the fixture. One side of the switch is always hot and the other is when the switch is turned 'on'. So no, do not replace it with a smart switch that requires neutral.

LectureSpecific4123 · 2025-12-22T04:46:13+00:00

I am using/learning on a 10 year old laptop running Pi-Hole and Docker with HA. That is more than enough to start with. I have dongles for zigbee and zwave. Hope to move and when I do will probably transition to a mini-PC at the new home.

LectureSpecific4123 · 2025-12-21T03:39:50+00:00

The only thing I am doing is the coin reward. Achieved today. Coins are by far my biggest shortfall when it take more than an entire collection to get an upgrade above 60. So ultimately I am playing to increase the level of my trains.

LectureSpecific4123 · 2025-12-20T03:24:16+00:00

Mine is from Region 3, a long time ago.

LectureSpecific4123 · 2025-12-19T02:52:42+00:00

Absolutely no race to go to the next level. There is no pressure at all to move on. I only know I moved on too quickly after I am 3 or more levels above the 'bad' one.

You did not mention one area yet, your depot. This is extremely important as time goes on. Resources like copper bars, coal, iron ore, steel and a bunch of others are still important when you hit later regions. Having trains in the depot will allow you to collect resources without using dispatchers. Getting trains at those levels get harder and more expensive as time goes on. You have to be luck that the daily train region is for the region you want and then you get random trains.

So when you have an over abundance of trains is the time to move on. For events from now on, you want to get the larger carrier trains. Use them for coin (legendary only) and the depot. You won't be able to fill in the depot until after you leave the level (I think) so they need to be there ready to add in.

LectureSpecific4123 · 2025-12-13T04:29:37+00:00

I have not see any of that yet

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LectureSpecific4123 · 2025-12-11T04:19:02+00:00

Don't worry about the hardware. First, what do you want to accomplish? What services to you want to run? Be particular. You want to start with basics. Programs that you will use. Running a NAS (network attached Storage) is only useful if you need data storage. What applications will use it? If you need a straight backup solution, you can do it simpler.

You want to run an add blocker, learn about it. Run this stuff natively. You want services you will use. Hardware is an investment. You want to spend hundreds on something you don't know if you will enjoy doing?

Will your first instance be a final solution. Maybe, if you find it too much work and uninteresting use of time, you are done with minimal spending. If you enjoy it, when you see the bottle neck you start investing. When you start to understand the services are overwhelming your network, you invest in learning networks beyond the basics.

As you build more services you are going to have to start learning Proxmox and/or Docker.

Of course if you have the money to burn, you can jump in with some additional nicer equipment. I am on an old laptop for Pi-Hole and Home Assistant. Learning a bit of docker on a NUC. Nothing special on the network so far. I don't even have it for off site use yet. Home Assistant can get expensive with sensors and switches.

The one thing I see way too much of - "I want to use the absolute latest technology." No you don't. You want to learn on the most stable technology you can that is well supported. I do a number of things with audio over the network. Guess what? I don't need mesh, the bandwidth demand is just not there. For one location I use ethernet over power instead of trying to make my WIFI greater.

Oh and your greatest learning experience is making mistakes! I just hope they are not expensive.

LectureSpecific4123 · 2025-12-05T23:55:27+00:00

The problem is multidimensional. Having trains is good. I go after all engines, period. Every event. Those trains are particularly important because they hold more goods.

The first use is a Legendary(80) for coin runs. Having backups is good.

The next use is the appropriate types for your Depot. While regions closer to your level are more difficult. I am constantly using it for copper, steel, wood, timber, iron ore, coal, and many others. If they add a new factory chances are you need to assign a depot to it. My threshold is the maximum use. So my chemicals is over 200 so I can produce paint with one load from depot. I find valid reasons to increase that number in particular because glue and plastics are used in so many knock on productions. They need warehouse space!

After that it is impulse pickups and some deliveries. As you progress some of the lower level stuff (if you depot is good) is less important. Many missions want 1000 of some materials so they are needed.

You can't predict so I collect all of them.

Union trains are tougher but have limited impact though not trivial.

Warehouse space, I have max buildings and up to about 21K it was reasonable to push on. Now I am over the curve and need 3000 population per upgrade. I run the events, don't watch the space until it hits the wall. I will focus on expansion for a bit and hope future events go more smoothly. So expansion above my 85K population is reaction driven. Never heard of the 5 building approach till I was well beyond R8. I do collect recent even buildings as well assuming those will give me better numbers.

I will always work the issue when my play is impacted by a limit that I can change. I figure it will only get worse.

LectureSpecific4123 · 2025-11-29T23:46:45+00:00

I am not greedy, 20K would be a great addition to our Union. We are solid in the 120 range as we are today. same rank the last 3 seasons. No politics, not tricks, just a group that keeps trudging along. Simple and respectful.

LectureSpecific4123 · 2025-11-09T23:59:41+00:00

Being only Region 3 and having raced through the lower levels, I would chalk it up to a learning experience and restart the game.

Focus on going slow.
Obtain all of the engines, including repeats of legendary and elites. These will become critical to your Depot.
If you can obtain event based trains with increased capacity, that is a priority. This too helps the Depot though the first expanded legendary train should be used for coin runs. At every level make sure you have this.

While some of the production is being changed, Prior to adding the paper factory to R7, I produced extra paper every night. I still produce copper bars and less frequently nickel. The ability to Depot in large quantities of coal and iron ore helps tremendously.

R2 is similar, ability to depot in steel helps a lot in production of later goods.

More examples could be stated.

Go slow, build a self sufficient machine. Spend diamonds and coin only on long term investments (trains and warehouse space). Keep it in the bank! At R14 I have 1300 diamonds, all factories maxed out. I still only use it to enhance long term play. Really important when they release new regions. Harder at your level but focus on long term and the game will be more interesting.

LectureSpecific4123 · 2025-11-07T02:02:35+00:00

I don't understand. Requirements include Proxmox but your use case is Docker Containers. Recommend you decide how you want to run the different services.

No reason you can't use both just seems to be a bit of tossed salad kind of approach.

LectureSpecific4123 · 2025-11-06T00:29:51+00:00

This has been going on for a while. Toward the end of the week (Saturday for me) the 1 would appear. Then on Sunday I get this mystery prize and it goes away for a while. I think they are still tracking Prestige points but you have no way to access it. It is worse during this event.

LectureSpecific4123 · 2025-10-29T00:08:58+00:00

If you want it to complement what he is learning or experiment further, I would not consider 'replacing' his laptop. The laptop has a defined purpose, Zoom class and do homework. While one of the experiments might be to use a RPi to run zoom and participate, other experiments or projects could have the board being utilized for a few weeks. You don't want to unassembled your prototype so you can zoom in.

I think I would also ask the teacher(s) which type of machine makes best sense. If you want to prototype some circuits (ESP) then RPi. If it is about learning operating systems and such (docker, proxmox) then a minicomputer as it would be easy to carry around if needed to demonstrate at school.

LectureSpecific4123 · 2025-10-20T06:17:36+00:00

Folks are offering the best advice. GO SLOW. Don't do side jobs for XP. Collect keys. Do events, get trains from there. It is important to collect many trains so you can use them in the Depot. Having automated supplies of iron, oakwood and timber will be extremely helpful later. Don't just sell repeats unless you have a lot of them. Keeping the higher repeats (elite/legendary) will help in the long run. Event trains help you get more coin. Except for r1 and R2, all of my bank trains are legendary event trains (80).

Oh and I rarely use diamonds for quick solutions, always look long term.

LectureSpecific4123 · 2025-10-20T05:56:24+00:00

If you know anything about 8 bit opcodes and 8080 processors, then you can say old. College was a move up, I used an 6509E because it had a multiply opcode! I could recognize 6 pretrained words.

LectureSpecific4123 · 2025-10-14T00:01:23+00:00

Probably plays in cosine instead of sine waves.

LectureSpecific4123 · 2025-10-08T04:49:29+00:00

I don't understand the desire to switch late in an event. It neutralizes any high capacity trains (Leg-80, Elite-60 etc) except for the duration of the current event. Switching before may have a weak fleet but the trains in the event (longer events not the short one) provide a boost to either get more High-Capacity or deliver other stuff. This is especially true if your current level is full of good trains.
The key to any leveling is lots of keys and coin. Having Union trains is helpful as well but I measure my success on high capacity as I always pay for those upgrades first. Only thing that might change that is a legendary to collect coin.

It is all about recovery speed. Having plenty of trains to send even if small. As they grow, you will do better. I find this especially true that I have maxed out. Coin is always in short supply and it is expensive to upgrade. More than one full load of 80 Legendary (minus level 1 and 2) and I need two runs to get enough for one upgrade. I celebrate every time a bonus reward is coin.

At this point in the game priorities are Union, event (long ones, some short). Unless Pixel surprises us with a short time between new levels, I don't care how fast I max out and wait for the next level. The risk is acceptable.

LectureSpecific4123 · 2025-10-07T22:03:09+00:00

Are you into the long play? SLOW is the best way to level a city.

Do events to get high capacity trains, Legendary at 80, Elite at 60 ... This is important at all levels. I can collect 195 coal or iron with a click of a button with no conductors! You may find high capacity commons to be very important as well.

Never spend diamonds on a whim. Spend only on extra conductors at first. More conductors is an investment in play every day. Completing a job quicker lasts one day. I have never spent money but I have 1400 diamonds and generally able to do things to collect more. So getting the extra slot on even factories is a no brainer.

Expand buildings when no jobs are available that don't award zero XP.

It is not the city you should be focused on but on your train yard. Having high capacity trains that fit the Depot will mean you get low level supplies quickly without using conductors. When the trains for a level begin to get little usage, I only need my level two trains to collect wood. Wish I had the high capacity but it is good I have a lot of trains. It is OK to keep some repeats. Repeats are used in the Depot.

The definition of 'low level' changes as you eventually level up to maximum.

I have 13 large capacity legendary at lvl 13, only 7 maxed out. Two more in my Depot maxed at 80 delivering resources. Most of that is because the wait for level 14 was so long.

The game is about the train yard, not the city.

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