How to get money?

[Mahan 1]

how to get money without cheats ? I buy homes, then i buy buildings with jobs, and then i make the time go fast, and i dont get even $1

[daniel01 0]

Hi Mahan, ok i've had the same problem, i never used to understand the monay part of Simcity so i would plop down anything i liked.

Do you plob down Government Building (schools, police, fire, etc...). also plobing down too many power plants, will raise the the monthly expenses. What i am trying to say is that plob these buildings until you have a small town well under way, with about 900 - 1000 sims living in it. then you should start adding these buildings.

Hope it helps

daniel01

[kaploosh 0]

Alright. The main thing about SC4 is that you make a profit while building cities. There are a few points you need to look out for.

~Don't plop more power plants than your city needs. I recommend starting out with a windmill. It's small and doesn't pollute. When development occurs, your city advisor will start pestering you about imminent power plant failures and that's when you upgrade your windmill.

~Don't supply water until you reach 1100 people in your city. Only medium and high density development need water. Since you never get medium or high ddenstiy development before your city reaches 1100 people, there's no point supplying water.

~Build schools at the start of your city. trust me, your city will grow better with more educated sims. However, decrease funding to meet the current requirement.

~Do not build police stations and fire stations in the beginning. They do not help alot. Build one only when it is really necessary.

Basically, you should be making a profit if you regularly attend to your resident's needs.

Just for info, I actually mak 200K a month while using this technique.

[manu-fan 0]

And my advice is to start with Industrial and let it stew for a while.

Build a Coal Plant. Set the funding very low. Start zoning lots of medium Idustry zones and let them grow.

Anly when you're making a good profit off them, start branching out and placing light/medium commercial and residential.

Don't listen to advisors and only build fire station when you get a fire. Start with water for your commercial and residential after a while, and then move on to education and healthcare for your residential.

Constantly manage the funding of your power/water/education/healthcare so that it is just above requirements. Water/Power about 80%. Education/Healthcare 90-95%.

Cheers.

[RandomInsanity 0]

place a power plant, then zone some industrial, some commercial and some residential. Connect them with roads and tur the game on. You can make millions this way.

[the olive 0]

If you want money there are some buildings in the STEX that give you money every mounth, but for a catch, either it is expensive to plop or there is a lot of pollution, I ddon't to many of theses buildings but I know their there.  there is an off shore oil rig that I use, but I don't what its called. 

[Drederick_Tatum 0]

Build farms first! They require almost no services -- basically, only power and roads -- and they pay taxes. One small village with an elementary school, a water tower and a few shops will support enough residential for a large number of farms. Then, once you have a little profit coming in, you can use it encroach on the farms with more development.

As a bonus, it feels realistic too!