Paving roads

[tpostman67]

Is there a tutorial or a guide on how to get the workers to pave all roads. All of my roads I made are dirt roads. I think it would great to get them to now pave the roads. Any help?

[joeball123]

Drawing a paved road over top of the existing dirt road will create a paving project, which your construction offices will work on if you have the necessary resources and access.

Be aware that roadwork mostly shuts roads down, so if you for example only have one asphalt plant then don't asphalt the road leading into it.

[polcorp]

To complement what has just been said, when you draw the paving of your dirt roads, do it without rubles or dollars (to avoid automatic constructions).
You will need at least one CO. In this CO, at the bottom you can click on the roads to transform that you have predefined.

In this CO, to turn your dirt road into a gravel road, you don't need workers. You need dump trucks, pavers and roller trucks. And gravel, of course :).

To go from gravel to asphalt, you will need workers (add a bus to the CO by designating a bus stop), and an asphalt factory (which you will assign to this CO).

For lighted asphalt roads, you will need to supplement your CO with metal and electronic connectors (open storage and warehouse). But also a road crane and a van type truck.

[Ernst Cornell]

the correct machinery and resources for roads and their order of improvement are:

dirt: none, they're free

gravel: gravel + an excavator or bulldozer, workers optional if machinery available

asphalt: all what a gravel road needs plus asphalt. a dumper, a paver and a roller, workers optional if you have all the machinery

street light with sidewalks and trolley wires: everything before plus more gravel, steel, electro components and a crane (any crane) this phase DOES need workers to advance, cranes just don't work by themselves like excavators

[moron_with_a_gun]

You can also select a "block" of roads to upgrade by choosing road type, holding shift, and drawing a box. Every road inside the box will upgrade to the selected road type. If pay for construction is selected, roads will start upgrading immediately, otherwise construction offices will update them as they get access. Like previously mentioned, the roads will be closed until updated, so be careful about how much you do at a time.

[Holyvision]

YouTube is best place to learn this game.

[polcorp]

Originally posted by Holyvision:

YouTube is best place to learn this game.

Provided you like to watch videos that are sometimes very (too) long.
Each person has their own memorization/comprehension, and the youtube video does not necessarily correspond to the type of memorization of each individual.
Because we are all different and each person has their own way of memorizing:
Some while watching a video (image memory).
Some while reading (textual memory)
Some by doing (gesture memory)
Some by listening (auditory memory).
Some by writing (scriptive memory).
This is why training (vocational and other) calls on all these learning methods.

[Mudkest]

Originally posted by Ernst Cornell:

the correct machinery and resources for roads and their order of improvement are:

dirt: none, they're free

gravel: gravel + an excavator or bulldozer, workers optional if machinery available

asphalt: all what a gravel road needs plus asphalt. a dumper, a paver and a roller, workers optional if you have the machinery
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asphalt with lights, steel, gravel, electric components. workers needed to finish, crane optional to speed it up.

asphalt with trolley tracks(after lights are finished). Steel and electric components, workers needed crane optional.

short sections of road cant fit machinery so workers are needed for those.


if you have any type of road selected you can hold shift and drag a box around roads to upgrade them(same for railways and pathways)

roads upgrade dirt->gravel->asphalt->asphalt with lights->asphalt with trolley. If you upgrade it will do it in steps, so dirt to asphalt will first upgrade to gravel. sometimes it can be usefull to upgrade in those steps depending on the road, so dirt to gravel and wait for it to finish before upgrading to asphalt. that way the road can be used again after gravel is finished before it gets upgraded again if that is needed.


rail upgrades(I know you ask for roads, but figure you'll try rails later on at some points).

Wood rail(boards, steel and gravel) doesnt upgrade, if you have wood rails and upgrade to concrete it will be build all over again.
Concrete(prefab panels, steel and gravel) upgrades to electrified (steel and electric components).


When your building new railway and want electrified, fastest is to build concrete tracks first, let it finish then upgrade to electrified.
Doing it like this, when 1 section of track is finished the construction train will continue on the next section if it still has construction mats.
If you build electric right away, it will finish a section, go back to the CO(even if still loaded), load mats for electric, go back, finish section, go back again to get goods for next bit of concrete section so a lot more traveling back and forth that really increases time it takes to build (and electrifying takes little recourses so theye can upgrade long stretches of concrete to electrified in 1 go)