I have to manually buy every single vehicle? Why are there so many steps to setting up something as simple as a bus line? What the fuck do railway semaphores even do, and why at no point does the tutorial explain when to use which type? Why don't my airports come with places to park my planes, I have to buy them manually? Oh god there's voltage and wattage and different voltage wires and how do I know when to use which and make sure everything has the right amount of power the tutorial never explained that-
On one hand, I want to get into this game, but on the other, it seems like I'm going to constantly have my economy crash and fail and have to start over because I forgot the one obscure step in dozens to set up even the most basic of industries.
Oh I forgot a really useful one: how to prevent stores from ever running low on realistic mode. Connect the store to a road cargo station. For each commodity sold at the store, but the largest truck you can, and set a manual route from the warehouse to the cargo station. Then, check the "wait until loaded" button. This means the truck will sit there at the store full of bread or whatever until it's whole cargo has been sold, then it will immediately go get more, while the store still has it's entire inner stockpile to keep selling. Distribution centers are wonderful, but they don't scale for grocery stores in bigger cities.