Realism - How to make concrete

[Целитель]

Who knows, please tell me. The game has a realistic construction mode where you can't build for money, and here's the question of how to build at least something if I can't buy concrete but only cement, maybe I don't understand something, tell me what to do.

[melkij]

The construction office can purchase all construction materials at customs. Just specify the customs building as the source of the material.

[Elessar_warrior]

Buy it in the border or build the concrete plant and make it yourself.

[Jasmin]

You can buy concrete but you can't stock it. You have to send it directly to your constructions from the border by using a construction office with concrete mixers.

[failsafe]

Whatever is your idea: dont make concrete in early game. As mentioned before: make sure your concrete demand is covered by direct imports from border crossing. Production of concrete is bit problematic, you need to have things already working before you start doing this.

[Целитель]

Originally posted by melkij:

The construction office can purchase all construction materials at customs. Just specify the customs building as the source of the material.

Thanks

[Strategic Sage]

Obligatory recommendation to not play on Realistic until you understand the game's mechanics. You're asking for pain otherwhise.

[Titule]

Originally posted by Strategic Sage:

Obligatory recommendation to not play on Realistic until you understand the game's mechanics. You're asking for pain otherwhise.

I did that, right after the first tutorial. I had no pain I couldn't stand.
I guess I wouldn't play the game anymore if I hadn't started in "realistic" mode

[Dr. Fao Xi, DO/MD [31 CHN]]

Even though melkij answered your question, I'll still add some two cents in case anyone else is new to the game and needs some tips.

All construction materials can be purchased from the customs house by construction vehicles if the construction yard is set to collect them from the customs house. Also, all construction materials except for Asphalt and Concrete can be stored in different storage buildings; Asphalt and Concrete need to be made fresh from a production building. Once you have a small town established and have workers available you can build an Asphalt and Concrete plant and supply them with Bitumen, Gravel, Cement and water (if using water rules) from connected storage. Concrete can take really dirty water to make it so you can pump it straight out of a river without the need for treating it.

Hope this helps anyone with playing under realistic mode. It can be really challenging at first, but after a while it grows on you and you find yourself wanting to play this way all the time.

[Strategic Sage]

Originally posted by Titule:

I guess I wouldn't play the game anymore if I hadn't started in "realistic" mode

Why? I'm extremely confident that for the great majority of players it would make their learning process much smoother to build up to it.

I tried it initally and realized what a dumb idea it was after a few multi-hour restarts of doing the same thing again to get to another point of a fatal mistake I could't possibly see coming because I didn't know the mechanics well enough yet. When 95% of the time is spent doing what you already know to get back to where you've already been, it's just frustration and spinning your wheels. And unnecessarily I might add.

[Titule]

I would've been bored out.
My guess is we two are different type of players. So play as you like.

[failsafe]

Originally posted by Titule:

Originally posted by Strategic Sage:

Obligatory recommendation to not play on Realistic until you understand the game's mechanics. You're asking for pain otherwhise.

I did that, right after the first tutorial. I had no pain I couldn't stand.
I guess I wouldn't play the game anymore if I hadn't started in "realistic" mode

Me2 ;-)

[failsafe]

Originally posted by Titule:

I would've been bored out.
My guess is we two are different type of players. So play as you like.

Yeah, I had this discussion several times. I started playing realistic even without tutorial. Doable and fun. I dont understand why people claim that this is impossible or too much pain. I guess it depends on the tempo, if one plays slow, realistic is great.

[Strategic Sage]

Originally posted by failsafe:

I dont understand why people claim that this is impossible or too much pain.

Because spending almost all your time restarting and doing things you've already done to get to the next failure point is the exact opposite of how games that teach people well work, and tedious/frustrating/etc. Aka the opposite of fun for most people who play games.

[Titule]

I number my saves after restarts. I am now at number 9. Mostly because a safe was corrupted or it was recommended to start a new game.
So I did not spent almost all my time with restarting. I can't understand your problems and objections. You seem to draw too many conclusions about others from the way you play.

[IAM`PSYKO]

after ten hours of tutorials and videos etc i switched to realistic mode and iam addicted now ;D