Comparison with W&R: Soviet Republic

[AVKrus77]

Greetings. I am a fan of Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic. Is it the same genre or are they different? Judging by the videos, it seems to me that everything is much more simplified in CoI, right? And after W&R with their thorough simulation of everything, playing CoI will not be very interesting, at least not yet? Or I'm wrong?

[Prometheus]

A simplified version of WnR is an accurate way of putting it. You don't have to micromanage people in this game. They get to work automagically and all their housing is super centralized with no distance consideration other than you have to ship your amenities to them.

It is a bit more complicated with more fail states than the average game of this type though. WnR is exceptional in its complexity.

[Promerops]

I enjoy playing both.

[CaPY]

This is closer to factorio and Anno than WR but I play all of those games.

[Plasmon]

COI has a long tech tree, realistic mining operation/terraforming, maintenance requirement and a wide variety of products and food types. No, they are very much different.

[CaPY]

If WR had maintenance, terraforming and tech tree like that, it would be the king of sandbox games period.

[Gorlin]

Originally posted by CaPY:

If WR had maintenance, terraforming and tech tree like that, it would be the king of sandbox games period.

It now has :)

[CaPY]

Originally posted by Gorlin:

Originally posted by CaPY:

If WR had maintenance, terraforming and tech tree like that, it would be the king of sandbox games period.

It now has :)

It still has magical terraforming so no. That still applies since you can magically create and destroy soil. No trucks needed to haul dirt/stone when terraforming.
Yeah maintenance is great. Only took 2 years maybe in 2 more years we will have terraforming in realistic style of CoI.

[Joman]

I play both. They don't have much in common. Even the genre they come from is different.

Captain of industry is together with factorio one of the best factory building games!
W&R is the best city building game!

[hazxan]

Subtle differences. As has been said, CoI is a factory builder/automation game. W&R a city builder.

I definitely would not say CoI is less compleex. Once you get into the rations required for oil processing, nuclear processing and so on, I think CoI is significantly more complex. Put it this way - you'll almost certainly be needing a calculator of some sort to get the CoI processes working properly. Though with W&R, sometimes processes are tricky, but I've never needed a calculator. For a city builder, W&R is far less casual than say, City Skylines or Sim City. But from my time playing them both, still more casual than CoI.

[Kaery]

Originally posted by hazxan:

Put it this way - you'll almost certainly be needing a calculator of some sort to get the CoI processes working properly.

Not exactly on topic, but many people still don't realize:

The calculator is built into COI. If you use the search bar for it, it'll output the answers where your build menu usually is.