Questions for Cities XL Veterans..

[Tomasu92 10]

Good afternoon forum,

I recently started playing Cities XL 2012 after years of playing SimCity 4.. And I found it quite easy. In the beginning money was pouring in like water and that went on for quite some time. However, I recently hit the 10.000-11.000 inhabitants mark and now my leisure, security, educational and health facilities are raping my city funds. It's dropping drastically. I really have no clue as to what's wrong.

I always keep my taxes on the edge of being 'normally' satisfied and extremely satisfied, meaning I want the icons indicating satisfaction in the top right corner to be fully green at all times. I've tried building more houses, industries and what not but that'll also come with a rising demand of facilities.

I'm stuck. I've always been fairly good at SimCity but I can't seem to get this right. I play in the normal mode btw, where you'll have to unlock buildings.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I don't know whether this is a common problem among Cities XL starters, if not, I'd gladly show a printscreen of my city if that'd help you with helping me - It's not a big city anyway.

Thanks in advance !

Tomasu.

[Ocram's Razr 963]

SimCity 4 has a steep learning curve. Cities XL has a jagged learning curve.

[Tomasu92 10]

I really do not know what you mean by that ? English isn't my native language =O. Or is it a 'gtfo we don't want to answer' type of answer ?

[Ocram's Razr 963]

What I meant that it takes a while to learn how to play SimCity 4 but it is easy to make a small city in Cities XL and very difficult to run a major city in Cities XL. So a jump from successful non-modded medium sized city to large city is easier in SimCity 4 than Cities XL.

[soltangris 42]

You have to aim at developing taxable industries in the city, as opposed to utilities - this is the major mistake of rookies at the start of a city

Don't go ahead and build all 4 Utilities - that, combined with the Services, will rip off your budget. Instead, build 1 - 2 Utilities and try to develop Offices, Agriculture, or any Industry to the point when you can export surplus tokens for cash (that means to Omnicorp).

Also, you might want to develop a second city, which complements the first with the missing resources.