About Sweet Transit #6
City Building
This week I wanted to dive into the city-building. In Sweet Transit train management and city-building is the core of the gameplay. Half of the time you will be managing your workforce and their needs. I will divide city building into two parts to keep it short.
The first building will be a village hall. Everything in the village will have to be connected to it. This and some other features will make the expansion more organic. The village hall also acts as a storage to store and distribute goods. To get to your first city you will have to reach the minimum required inhabitants who are happy and taken care of.
Next we have residences. These are the most basic to house laborers. Laborers will be your first people type. They have small needs, pay some tax and require a little to be happy. To reach the full capacity of the residence and increase tax per person you will have to provide it with goods. Without any goods or services provided people eventually will move out.
This brings us to the service buildings. This is a market. It is required by laborers and other production buildings. All service buildings have a limited road reach. Good road planning is needed to make sure that your spending on the upkeep is at the minimum.
On top of it laborers need work to move in. If they are unhappy they will stop paying taxes and will take their time resting after work. With these mechanics rapid expansion is possible only with good planning. Just one missing train can halt your progress.
For example, a train that has potatoes got stuck somewhere. Without potatoes delivered to the village inhabitants will start to move out one by one. This might still be unnoticeable, but eventually, there might not be enough people to go to work. That will halt other production and again fewer goods will be delivered to where they are needed.
Next time we will look deeper into the city building. I still haven't talked about attractiveness, traveling, commercial buildings, production, decorations, connecting stations. Finally, I will leave you with this information. In Sweet Transit you will be building a colony, which means a lot of villages and cities to support one another.
This week I wanted to dive into the city-building. In Sweet Transit train management and city-building is the core of the gameplay. Half of the time you will be managing your workforce and their needs. I will divide city building into two parts to keep it short.
The first building will be a village hall. Everything in the village will have to be connected to it. This and some other features will make the expansion more organic. The village hall also acts as a storage to store and distribute goods. To get to your first city you will have to reach the minimum required inhabitants who are happy and taken care of.
Next we have residences. These are the most basic to house laborers. Laborers will be your first people type. They have small needs, pay some tax and require a little to be happy. To reach the full capacity of the residence and increase tax per person you will have to provide it with goods. Without any goods or services provided people eventually will move out.
This brings us to the service buildings. This is a market. It is required by laborers and other production buildings. All service buildings have a limited road reach. Good road planning is needed to make sure that your spending on the upkeep is at the minimum.
On top of it laborers need work to move in. If they are unhappy they will stop paying taxes and will take their time resting after work. With these mechanics rapid expansion is possible only with good planning. Just one missing train can halt your progress.
For example, a train that has potatoes got stuck somewhere. Without potatoes delivered to the village inhabitants will start to move out one by one. This might still be unnoticeable, but eventually, there might not be enough people to go to work. That will halt other production and again fewer goods will be delivered to where they are needed.
Next time we will look deeper into the city building. I still haven't talked about attractiveness, traveling, commercial buildings, production, decorations, connecting stations. Finally, I will leave you with this information. In Sweet Transit you will be building a colony, which means a lot of villages and cities to support one another.