Too much cash?

[simpants 0]

I try to keep my cities with a positive budget so that I am always making money. So, my monthly revenue always exceeds my expenses. The problem is, I end up with a huge surplus of cash that I really don't need. I can't seem to find anything to spend the money on that doesn't require a monthly expense. Even upgrading infrastructure or adding landmarks, although reduces my monthly revenue, doesn't seem to have much of an effect. Now granted, I haven't really made any massive cities yet (500k pop is biggest so far), but I just feel like I should be spending this money on the city and there is nothing to spend it on. By the way not using any mods for money or anything. I am just curious if there is anything to spend money on that won't net me a loss in monthly revenue. Any suggestions?

[ryan820 3]

Have you cut taxes? Max out social services?

[sqiddster 1]

I have this problem too- one of the best things to do is to download ploppables (parks, landmarks, etc.) from the STEX or LEX-many of these have no monthly cost

[simpants 0]

Ryan--I've tried cutting taxes and increasing funding for everything, but that just results in less revenue or a loss. I guess I could just rock back and forth between revenue gain and loss to lower my cash. I have been looking at the STEX and have downloaded some stuff from the EA site, but basically it is just so overwhelming. I will get to it.

[earwax_man 18]

I've never had this problem, it's always the other way round!

[De Ja Vu 117]

I usually enter this cheat : moolah 0 (if you want to reduce your budget to 0

[canis39 2]

Slightly off topic to the original post...but relevant to De Ja Vu's post...if you need lots of money there is a park you can plop that gives you some ridiculous amount of money (like $4 million or $4 billion, I can't remember).

[Dizastrow 4]

If you have room, you should do some Landscaping, that is very expensive when doing it in Mayor Mode.  

Can anyone provide the link to that extra cheat plugin???

[fjzavala 0]

I used to have that problem. I'd have my taxes down to Like 4-5% and still be making $10,000 a month surplus. What causes this extra cash problem is downloads for for power or water production and garbage disposal that have an unrealistically low monthly price. Also schools, libraries, hospitals, police and fire stations that cover a great range and more sim capacity at a too low of a monthly cost. So now I use the default buildings. I have to place more of them to have coverage in all areas of the city therefore the cost goes up. I use the default power, water, and garbage too so that costs more. I still have a surplus but it's with my taxes set between 8-9%.

Terraforming in mayor mode or downloading more landmarks will get "rid" of some of the cash you have available right now, but once your done with all that, you'll be right back where you are now. Best solution is to use the default buildings to make yourself place them to cover your city's zones.

[simpants 0]

I didn't think about the downloaded buildings, but that is a good point. I only use a few of those like higher capacity hospitals, but that is to avoid having hospitals all over the place. It is not too big a deal, having more money is certainly not a bad thing. I was just curious if there were some big money projects that I wasn't aware of. Thanks to everyone for the replies!

[Dizastrow 4]

Can someone please provide the link for the extra cheat plugin?

[Patricius Maximus 236]

Too much cash? In my experience, there is no such thing as having too much money saved up.

Use the extra cash on what you want to do. Remember: with a lot of money you will be able to build (to use a cliche) the city of your dreams.

[De Ja Vu 117]

Originally posted by: Dizastrow Can someone please provide the link for the extra cheat plugin?quote>

Here

[Dizastrow 4]

Thank You DeJaVu, but now can you redirect me or show me a complete list of the the extra cheats I can use with this download? 

Sorry to be a pain.  Thanks

[Dizastrow 4]

Could someone please provide me with a list of the cheats included with the Extra Cheats plugin.  Im desperate here.  

Thanks

[Livin in Sim 83]

Hi, Dizastrow,

Well...only if you're desperate... here is a pretty comprehensive list that I snatched from the All You Can Modify In SC4 Topic, thanks to Cougar2004.

Cheat Codes (Press [Ctrl] + X during game play to display the console window.) - The ONLY Complete List of Cheats

[Note: Extra Cheats DLL (Download: SC4 Extra Cheats DLL) - A mod to install giving an in game cheat sheet, unlocking all of these below.]

barstuck - Stop news bar movement.

buildingplop - Plop any building

dollyllama - Turns all your advisors into llamas. Enter code again to turn them back to normal.

drawpaths - Draws Colored Transportation Paths

effect - Unknown Effect.

fightthepower - Allows you to operate your city without any electricity requirements.

flora - Improve the environment.

flora off - Removes all trees from empty terrain. This process is not reversible.

fps [rate] - Sets the game's frame rate per second (it will get as close as it can)

gol - Begins the Game Of Life. Try clicking around on the green objects that cover your city map.

hellomynameis <name> - Resets the name of the mayor to the given value.

hidepaths - Hides the Colored Transportation Paths

howdryiam - Allows you to operate your city without any water requirements.

lotplop - Plop any lot

lovemoney - Gives unlimited cash. (I couldn't make this work, but others claim it works.)

moolah <amount> - Changes your city bank account to the exact amount you enter. Max = 9223372036854775807.

recorder - Opens up the Animation Recorder Menu. 

renderprop - Propellers will not rotate but still work.

riskymoney - Gives $10,000 but puts city at risk of random earthquake!

rp - Unknown Effect (might be same as renderprop above.)

showtime - Shows Real Computer Time (within Game)

simdate xx xx xxxx - Sets the game's date, xx's are in this format [mo da year].

sizeof <zoom> - Changes the game magnification to the given value. (0-64) 0 the smallest.

snow - puts snow on mountains for day (if your computer's date is dec 25th)

stopwatch - Pauses the 24 hour clock cycle. Enter the code again to resume the timer.

tastyzots - Toggle Cell Warnings, such as a lack of power or access to transportation.

terrainquery [on/off] - Display terrain values when query button is on (x,y).

watchmemove - More pedestrians run when you look at them.

weaknesspays - Increases your funds by §1000.

whattimeizit <1-24> - Sets the game's time of day (in military time). 

whererufrom <name> - Resets the name of your city to the given value.

you don't deserve it - Unlock All Rewards in game.

zoneria - Hides the coloring of undeveloped zoned tiles. (repeat to undo)

Cheat Codes - Untested - (No one knows what these do yet - if you know, TELL US!~)

adv

casper

controllers

createexception

forceidle

gp

heapcheck

nocsi

plopallbuildings  (Warning: could cause crash)

plopalllots  (Warning: could cause crash)

tutorial

csitrigger

toll

udriveit

I do know that PlopAllBuildings and ...Lots will plop every building and lot in the game, so will usually crash the game or at least freeze it for quite some time.  Createexception is a forced crash.  S'all I know.

Enjoy the game.

--Liv

[Dizastrow 4]

Thanks Livin

I tried it last night and it worked.  Thank you! 

[Jezus53 18]

Originally posted by: simpants I try to keep my cities with a positive budget so that I am always making money. So, my monthly revenue always exceeds my expenses. The problem is, I end up with a huge surplus of cash that I really don't need. I can't seem to find anything to spend the money on that doesn't require a monthly expense. Even upgrading infrastructure or adding landmarks, although reduces my monthly revenue, doesn't seem to have much of an effect. Now granted, I haven't really made any massive cities yet (500k pop is biggest so far), but I just feel like I should be spending this money on the city and there is nothing to spend it on. By the way not using any mods for money or anything. I am just curious if there is anything to spend money on that won't net me a loss in monthly revenue. Any suggestions?quote>

Would you mind giving me loan?