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Arglebargle III
Feb 21, 2006

How do I get workers to work in my coal mine? I set up worker dorms right next door but all they do is take the bus into town to shop and go to school. I keep accidentally building a service economy please help, my heavy industry is dying of neglect.

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Arglebargle III
Feb 21, 2006

I'm such a fool, in the spirit of glorious international cost - savings I imported Maoists to run my coal power plant and they're all taking the bus to the school to attend struggle sessions with the middle school kids.

Arglebargle III
Feb 21, 2006

What are the limits on commuting? I tried another new game today and found a great hilltop coal plant location, hooked up conveyors, bus stop and cable car, and then... workers wouldn't go there. They started trickling in when I ordered them to the cable car station and bus stop but still single digit numbers.

Arglebargle III
Feb 21, 2006

Ah I see, it follows the Principals of Socialist Pachinko as laid down by 3rd International All-Soviet Pachinko Conference. (Not the imperialist running-dog counter-revolutionary 3rd All-Soviet International Conference on Pachinko.)

Arglebargle III
Feb 21, 2006

I built a nice little model soviet mid-rise neighborhood with services in walking distance and a bus platform with seven buses to take people to the agri-farm and food factory about two kilometers down the road. Now I have 90% unemployment and the food factory can barely produce.

Arglebargle III
Feb 21, 2006



Why won't they go to work? :(

Arglebargle III
Feb 21, 2006

Is there a trick or secret to exporting bitumen? I've tried to hook up all the exit pipes but my pumping stations still say no input, yet my refinery says can't export.

Arglebargle III fucked around with this message at 20:27 on May 26, 2020

Arglebargle III
Feb 21, 2006

Yes and yes. I've deconstructed the whole output system and rebuilt it without any luck. I think I'll just load an old save and rebuild the entire industrial complex because I finally understand how pipelines are supposed to work I think.

Any output connection from the refinery should work for oil or bitumen right?

Arglebargle III
Feb 21, 2006

Wait, what? How do you do that?

Arglebargle III
Feb 21, 2006

Woah, hang on. You can send buses directly to factories?

Arglebargle III
Feb 21, 2006

This game reminds me of a submarine game I played once where you were supposed to do everything. You plot the course, turn the knob to make the boat go up or down, you aim the torpedoes, you listen to sonar contacts and plot them on the chart paper...

It didn't so much simulate being a submarine captain as it simulated doing the work of twenty people. It took forever to do anything.

This game is like that.

Arglebargle III
Feb 21, 2006

This game is unintentionally a great stimulator of communist apparatchiks, revolutionaries and thugs trying to operate a command economy with zero training.

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Arglebargle III
Feb 21, 2006

Cars: the downfall of all economic theories

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