Creating a fully functioning and independent city in Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic can be quite challenging if you don't know what you're doing. Every citizen has various needs and wants, which you need to fulfill to ensure that your citizens thrive and flourish.
Among these parameters that you need to look after, the most fundamental ones are the utilities. These are basic resources that you need to provide so that your city functions properly. To help you understand better, here's what you should know about utilities in Workers and Resources.
What Are Utilities In Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic
Utilities in Workers and Resources include the fundamental necessities required by your buildings and citizens to function properly. Without these, most of your residential buildings will be abandoned, and your factories won't function. Here are all the utilities that you need to be aware of:
- Energy
- Water
- Sewage
- Heating
How To Build And Manage Your Water Supply
Water is the basic yet most important for your citizens and factories. You can get water from lakes, rivers, or underground wells. You should build 'Surface Water Outflows' for lakes and rivers, or 'Water Wells' for underground sources.
Once you start collecting water, you first need to treat it before supplying it to your city. While 'Water Wells' provides relatively clean water, water from Lakes and Rivers is severely unclean most of the time and needs to be treated.
Aim for water quality of at least 97 percent to keep your citizens healthy. Anything lower can make them sick.
After being treated, you can transport water directly from the treatment plant or water source to your city using pipes. Try using underground pipes since they are better for your city's infrastructure. You need to build a 'Water Substation' to supply water to a neighborhood.
You should always check your water pressure. Especially when building pipes uphill, you need pumps to ensure that the water reaches the substation.
How To Build And Manage Your Energy Supply
Setting up a reliable energy supply is essential in Workers And Resources: Soviet Republic. Without electricity, your buildings won't function, and your factories will grind to a halt.
Electricity is generated at power plants, which can be fossil fuel-based (coal, gas, oil), nuclear, or renewable (solar, wind). Each type has its pros and cons:
- Fossil Fuel Power Plants: Generate a lot of power but produce pollution. They require resources like coal, gas, or oil.
- Nuclear Power Plants: Produce a large amount of power with low pollution but need uranium. It is very expensive to build.
- Renewable Power Plants: Solar and wind plants generate power without pollution but produce less electricity and depend on weather conditions.
You can also import electricity from the border using a Foreign Power Connection . This is recommended for the early game.
Once generated, you need to transmit the electricity over long distances to reach populated areas. This is done using high-voltage (HV) cables. These carry large amounts of power over long distances. They're essential for connecting distant power plants to substations.
After transmission, electricity is distributed to residences and factories. This is done by building transformers and substations.
- Transformers: They convert high-voltage electricity to medium voltage, making it possible to distribute it. Helps avoid overloading.
- Substations: Connect these to your MV lines. Each substation can distribute up to 2.5 megawatts of power to buildings within 325 meters.
You should always build transformers to avoid overloading your power grid . If the power grid is overloaded, lights will start flickering. Always make sure your substations and lines can handle the load.
How To Build And Manage Your Heat Supply
Heat supply is a unique parameter required for maintaining the health and happiness of your citizens in Workers and Resources. Without adequate heating, your citizens' health will deteriorate, leading to population decline.
This is especially important to ensure the survival of your citizens when winter arrives in your city. Heat is generated at heating plants, which require coal to function properly. This can then be transported to other buildings using pipes and heat exchangers.
When transporting heat, it can be lost depending on the pipe you use. Above-Ground pipes lose more heat to the environment but are cheaper and quicker to build. While underground pipes retain heat better, they are more expensive and take longer to construct.
How To Build And Manage Sewage
Like every other city-builder, sewage is a part of the utilities that you need to look after. This can be generated from residential buildings as well as recreational and industrial buildings. Without proper sewage management, your citizens' happiness and health will be affected.
You can deal with sewage in one of two ways, depending on how much money and space you're willing to spare. The first method involves treating the sewage, but is more expensive, while the other is to just dump it without treatment.
- If you want to treat sewage, you need to build a 'Sewage Treatment Plant' before connecting it to the 'Sewage Discharge'. building. This doesn't harm your water sources and is environmentally friendly.
- If you directly connect the sewage tank to the 'Sewage Discharge', you can save money by not having to treat it, but it will contaminate the water source, increasing the risk of health problems for your citizens.
