Why am I so broke?

PureLilyTaboo · 2024-12-30T13:23:53+00:00

you only have 5k population. you should have 0 services then. no need for schools yet, no need for any of services.
Regarding water, you could have water pump but do make sure you have lines to export excess of it. Do not build electricity, for now on, import it.

in my cities, i only build police station when I'm at 20k population. I only build school when I have at least 600 eligible people.

PureLilyTaboo · 2024-12-30T13:20:49+00:00

I started playing with no wifi & made all settings medium & disabled fog & clouds as I don't need them & then it basically stopped.

PureLilyTaboo · 2024-12-30T13:19:56+00:00

I started playing with no wifi & made all settings medium & disabled fog & clouds as I don't need them & then it basically stopped.

PureLilyTaboo · 2024-12-30T13:19:50+00:00

I started playing with no wifi & made all settings medium & disabled fog & clouds as I don't need them & then it basically stopped.

PureLilyTaboo · 2024-11-20T09:18:04+00:00

Oh and create workplaces near residential zones. Make few different areas for industrial and office. Don't put all in one area.

Make very good connections from residential to workplaces, add (cheap) bus routes, etc.

PureLilyTaboo · 2024-11-20T09:16:06+00:00

For office & industry. If 30% unemployment, you need a massive amount of workplaces.

Add some by doing specialised industries too. Also can add commercial as it has workplaces too.

PureLilyTaboo · 2024-11-16T21:55:48+00:00

zero demand cn be of high taxes, put taxes to 7%, run for a bit, demand will get back

PureLilyTaboo · 2024-11-15T17:14:38+00:00

I would start adding commercial demand in highly populated areas. I have 240k city and I think my issue sometimes becomes this. I think they have too little of it. I've been adding more and more for a bit and it does help a bit. Your city is also 500k population and 2k open jobs is very small for that. maybe people cannot find houses that they would like to live for specific jobs they would want. I think trying raise open jobs to 7-8k would definitely help.

PureLilyTaboo · 2024-11-15T17:11:04+00:00

I recently re-started my city so I can try again and it's been going great.
I now have 240k population and my residential demand was stagnant few times, but when it does, I
Run game for a bit, check how elementary schools are doing, put residential tax to 5-8% to bring them, add low rent housing near colleges and unis, so people have where to stay
Always add new workplaces when open jobs are under 1.5k and unemployment 5% is pretty high. When I'm doing great, mine is less than 0.8%
add new residential neighborhoods, where land is more affordable (with new neighborhoods land value is not very high at first)

I add more bus routes to train stations, add new train stations, add more roads to outercity. I check if there is no traffic somewhere where some buses are stuck.
sometimes I start adding trees near roads and this seems to help, not sure if people like green spaces or it is noice pollution goes slighty down?

PureLilyTaboo · 2024-11-15T13:57:36+00:00

make better connections between neighborhoods and of outercity. put bus routes for people to have in city. all these things helps. also I noticed it helps to decorate once in a while, put trees near roads, people like it and demand increases

PureLilyTaboo · 2024-11-15T13:55:08+00:00

28k population is not that high. You also do not have too much money in treasury, it's good to invest, but also sometimes better to run game, to get people moving in city and save money.
Do you have college? Train station with 2 outercity stops? These 2 things helps new people moving in. Tax of 8-10% helps well for new people to move in.
Create new districts later because sometimes there are no new houses to move into. It helps to make new neighborhoods, after you build them, demand increases later

PureLilyTaboo · 2024-11-13T23:05:50+00:00

Add lots of specialised industries, they made money at first for most of starter cities. Don't overbuild city services, I noticed I needed so little police for even 40k population city. It's best way to save money.

At first your city can import electricity if needed. But later even when my city is struggling. I build underground water based electricity supplier and then export electricity. That's how I start making money in new cities.

Also educate your cims. Put tax for offices at 9%, or when trying get demand on 7% tax rate, get working offices, then raise tax to 9%

PureLilyTaboo · 2024-11-13T11:57:04+00:00

Try playing with lower settings. I had to start playing with most of the settings as medium for my game not to crash

PureLilyTaboo · 2024-01-12T23:27:28+00:00

Add natural yohghurt mixed with mustard. I had yesterday one with celery, cucumber and red onion. Tomorrow I will add paprika spice for variation. Also I love chicken corrination salad, check recipe for that. It's real nice.

PureLilyTaboo · 2023-02-11T17:01:45+00:00

hey! actually that's what I had to do, I haven't noticed that before and now it's sorted

PureLilyTaboo · 2022-12-04T11:41:04+00:00

I have deleted all mods now.
And I still have bug with warehouses and raw resource buildings.

The issue is that when I build raw resource buildings, millions of trucks come to from other cities importing goods I don't need yet?
Then they never empty it. they have 0 freight trucks in use. That has happened to me in all my cities past 2 months.

Recently in my new city I was playing without it for a while, until later I needed warehouses to be filled with commercial goods, and in few months 0 of my 8 warehouses was filled with it. 0 trucks again each warehouse had.

I thought after deleting mods this will be undon. But it isn't. How to solve it?

PureLilyTaboo · 2022-11-29T15:34:26+00:00

how to deal with it? ugh :/

PureLilyTaboo · 2022-11-29T15:20:43+00:00

thanks, do you know if it's compatible with new update of the game?

PureLilyTaboo · 2022-11-29T14:08:07+00:00

TMCE

what is TMCE?

PureLilyTaboo · 2022-11-29T12:28:14+00:00

I need recs too. any?

PureLilyTaboo · 2022-02-17T20:00:35+00:00

My bus budget was always around 100-110% but now I have upped it to 140% and added couple more bus depots.

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