Returning to the Republic!

[DaveOath]

Hello comrade!

Back in 2020, I played a lot of WRSR. I built a prosperous republic with 70,000 citizens; I was near total autonomy. But I decided to put my republic on hiatus at some point because the updates required to start a new game to use the novel game mechanisms. I told myself I would start a new game after the implementation of all the new features.

From what I'm reading, the game seems near completion, so I want to dip back in!

Here are my questions.

1. Is it safe to start a new game now? Is there a new feature on the "roadmap" that will require the creation of a new game to be available?

2. One of the most significant changes I see with the latest version is the implementation of a research tree, locking all the mining industries behind the construction of a technical university. In my first republic, I started by producing a ton of coal to make some money by exporting coal and electricity. Now, this option is not feasible anymore. So, what are the viable starting options? I know about importing stuff and making clothes, but are there other strategies, like starting with farms to export food and alcohol?

Also, if you are unlucky and discover later that your initial town was built on a natural resource deposit, is it viable to demolish the town and relocate it elsewhere to extract the natural resources?

Thanks!

[Delle(DK)]

1). its is safe to start a new game, all the major features / foundation of the game is ready and working in the game. There will be some smaller updates in the future with updated graphics of buildings, and some extra vehicles i asume but they will just be put in your game when they are released and dont require to restart to use them.

2). i recommend to build a city with minimum 1000-1300 people as a start.
Then get 1 fabric factory and 1 or 2 clothing factorys.
Import corn and chemicals to them and sell the clothing.
It is maybe the most easy to get started with and pay a good profit and require 0 research.
Els once you can do research then another extremly good way to earn money is to build the largest hotel ( example from the ukraine DLC that can hold 600 turists ) this will require 100 people but will give an income of about +100.000 pr month in 1970. But it require some resarch but once you did some in the HQ communist building and the techical university then its a good.
You can also sell water a few trucks next to the border will give you like 8000rubler every month in the start.
But i like to recommend.
1 5000t silo for corn - fabric and food connected to it- warehouse - 2 clothing factorys
this setup will give you +100.000 pr month in year 1970 and you can save money since yo ucan feet your own people and give them clothing also.
After that build a big farm ( 24 ) and 10 fields this can produce just enough corn for your industry for about 11 month and thereby you save like 70-80.000 importing corn every year.
I dare to say this is the best start in the game especially on realistic.
I recommend ot build a big silo at the farm so you can build a railroad there to the silo that your fabric and food factory are conneted to, it save allot of truck transport when using trains. ( just build the cheapest rails and a diesel train as a start.

regarding if you build your town on top of natural resources. well that is very unlucky.
A pro tip.. i know you need to research to see resources but you can actually cheat
and example hold the coal min in your hand and move your moue over the terrain and see if it changes colour.. you can do the same with other resources as well ;-)
But honestly it gona be a gigantic work to delete a city if you play on realistic + you need to build recycling buldings to get your materials back and so on..
its not fast to destroy anything.

in general i did try several new games but failed in many since i run out of money or had so much debt that i could not make a profilt.
The best is the above i wrote, OR oil pumps but i think they also need research.
But oil pumps are very simple and require no people just some oil tanks and trucks.
And later in the game you can even research oil pipe connection to the border and pump it all the way.

PS.. remember to build a simple road to the west border... those 600.000 usd can help you get started so why not buy some steel from there vs buying steel for rubler in the start. ect

[Kircus]

there is no methane gas industry in the game...))

[DaveOath]

Thanks for the advices!

[ChalwaBechatex]

Nothing groundbreaking will come. You can safely start new game.