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Avoid placing heavy industry (Steel Mills, Coal Power) right next to residential zones. Pollution lowers lifespan significantly. If your citizens are constantly sick, check the Pollution Monitoring Station —you might be poisoning your workforce. 📈 Best First Industry?
Pro Tip: Keep the Heating Plant away from the city to avoid pollution, but not so far that the water cools down in the pipes.
Never invite residents (immigrants) until you have the "Holy Trinity" of services ready: Food/Meat: A Grocery store or Shopping Center. Electricity: A connection to the border or a power plant. WORKERS AND RESOURCES SOVIET REPUBLIC HELP FOR ...
Modern pipes or technical offices with water trucks.
If you have a source nearby, pumping and exporting raw oil is the fastest way to stabilize your economy. Welcome to the Republic, Comrade. Glory to the plan! Avoid placing heavy industry (Steel Mills, Coal Power)
Don't spend all your Rubles/Dollars on "Auto-build." Place down the free Construction Offices and buy a few basic vehicles (excavators, dumpers, buses). Use them to build your dirt roads and simple buildings. It’s slower, but it saves your starting capital for high-end machinery and resources.
High export value for a relatively simple setup (requires fabric and workers). 📈 Best First Industry
In this game, the winter is your biggest enemy. If you don't have a Heating Plant connected via pipes to Heat Substations near your flats before the first snow falls, your entire population will die in days.