New start with a construction office in the woods..

[Legio Patria Nostra]

Comrades,
I have played quite a lot but never tried starting from scratch 1960 with a construction office. Economy "Medium".
My plan is to start with a logging camp and a small wood fired power plant, to be independent on electricity. Then, go for a gravel pit and go from there.
Do you think this is a good way to start learning the "construction office" way?
I can see that you can't start building roads etc without a base work force, so I guess you have to start auto-build a few things right?
In Farming Simulator19 I have started in "no man's land" 0$ cash and with just a chainsaw but this is a different game. I still want to start the same way here.. 'no pain no gain'.. Build my life up through hard work and a clever strategy..
I guess you can see I want total realism here, as far as we can go virtual..:D
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2516476382

[Thomas]

You need to auto-build gas station, vehicle depot, construction office, bus stop, residential building, small shop ,warehouse, open storage ,gravel storage, power lines and power transformer.
Everything else can be build with CO, if you have right mods.
With economy on medium go for Oil and refinery. You will have own fuel, and one of vanilla power plants is using oil to make power.
You can always buy power till you get power plant. Electricity is cheap to buy on start, because you will not use much.

[Bufnitza]

On top of what Thomas said, you will also need to autoimport fuel, food and clothing for your cars and citizens, at least until you get a Distribution Office up. Or you can micromanage the trucks.

[MrKrabs]

I just started. But at 1920. I use one depot for vehicles near the custome house. Whenever I buy a vehicle I will buy it there and have it transported to his place or go on its own.
Only thing, my ctrl button is not working. I can't switch of the UI for nicer screen shots.
But that's OT.

[forged73]

Originally posted by MrKrabs:

Only thing, my ctrl button is not working. I can't switch of the UI for nicer screen shots.
But that's OT.

If you have a broken keyboard and mouse with side buttons you can use "X-mouse buttons" software (freeware) to simulate CTRL key on your mouse.
Description with screenshot for WR:SR is here:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/784150/discussions/0/1642041106358967099/#c5383446733847673513

[MrKrabs]

Thank you so much. I will try that out.
Incredible.
Dankeschön 😊

[Legio Patria Nostra]

Originally posted by Thomas:

You need to auto-build gas station, vehicle depot, construction office, bus stop, residential building, small shop ,warehouse, open storage ,gravel storage, power lines and power transformer.
Everything else can be build with CO, if you have right mods.
With economy on medium go for Oil and refinery. You will have own fuel, and one of vanilla power plants is using oil to make power.
You can always buy power till you get power plant. Electricity is cheap to buy on start, because you will not use much.

Thanks Thomas, That was what I wanted to hear
Sounds reasonable to do it this way.
I did start auto-build diesel tank station, construction office and vehicle depot. Now, I go ahead as you say.

[Legio Patria Nostra]

Originally posted by Bufnitza:

On top of what Thomas said, you will also need to autoimport fuel, food and clothing for your cars and citizens, at least until you get a Distribution Office up. Or you can micromanage the trucks.

Yeah, right, I can see that will be necessary too. It really takes some "brainwork" to do this "the right way" but it intrigues my old engineer's mind a lot! I have spend 46 yrs of my work life designing layouts for refineries, petrochemichal plants, waste-to-energy plants, district heating, steam boilers, piping design etc, so this will be my "retirement challenge"
Thank you for this tip, I think I am entering a new approach to this world here.

[Legio Patria Nostra]

Originally posted by MrKrabs:

I just started. But at 1920. I use one depot for vehicles near the custome house. Whenever I buy a vehicle I will buy it there and have it transported to his place or go on its own.
Only thing, my ctrl button is not working. I can't switch of the UI for nicer screen shots.
But that's OT.

Ok, yes, I have seen the methods of starting "Pre-1960" and I love that idea. But I have to learn how to do it all with construction office first.. one step at a time, but I will for sure go pre-1960 soon

[Legio Patria Nostra]

Originally posted by Thomas:

With economy on medium go for Oil and refinery. You will have own fuel, and one of vanilla power plants is using oil to make power.

Yeah my man, now we are talking!

[Legio Patria Nostra]

Originally posted by Bufnitza:

Or you can micromanage the trucks.

Yes, I love "micromanagement" and to keep the village as small as possible.. to make it in balance with workers, families and all what they need. Maybe it is a dream of that "perfect village", I don't know, but will try

[MrKrabs]

Here is a small example of a village.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2332960468

But it wasn't a starter village.

[Legio Patria Nostra]

Originally posted by MrKrabs:

Here is a small example of a village.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2332960468

But it wasn't a starter village.

Yeah I see, but I want to start with a chainsaw in my hand.. -40C , no electricity just 5 gallons of fuel..

[sergetechone]

If I can recall : To start out, you need a road depot. A fuel station, A Construction Office. The construction office need materials ... so you need Open Storage for Bricks, Steels, Planks, Prefab, A warehouse for Mechanical and electrical parts, and a gravel storage. You need also a concrete plant and an asphalt plant and you need a source of peoples to man the plants and the co, and of course .... fulfilled the need of the peoples with foods, clothing , booze, sports and education and daycare. As to get the materials and goods, get from the border and drop them off at the proper location.

And you will need a way to supply an income, because the construction materials is expensive and specially steel.... Steel is the most expensive construction material and you will need a lots for some constructions.

Oh I forgot, you need power for the buildings.

[Legio Patria Nostra]

Originally posted by sergetechone:

If I can recall : To start out, you need a road depot. A fuel station, A Construction Office. The construction office need materials ... so you need Open Storage for Bricks, Steels, Planks, Prefab, A warehouse for Mechanical and electrical parts, and a gravel storage. You need also a concrete plant and an asphalt plant and you need a source of peoples to man the plants and the co, and of course .... fulfilled the need of the peoples with foods, clothing , booze, sports and education and daycare. As to get the materials and goods, get from the border and drop them off at the proper location.

And you will need a way to supply an income, because the construction materials is expensive and specially steel.... Steel is the most expensive construction material and you will need a lots for some constructions.

Oh I forgot, you need power for the buildings.

[Legio Patria Nostra]

Yeah, I got it so far and build the road depot, diesel tank station, and construction office.
I would like this to be quite realistic, so I will build a logging camp and a sawmill to produce wood for the wood firing plant = electricity, a sawmill to produce planks, a gravel pit to make gravel, a concrete plant obviously and a what more?
We have wood, we have power and gravel.. I don't know if I can build houses with just planks?
It is a bit difficult this start right?