How to Delete a City in Simcity 2013

[calm_blue_sea 3]

OK, so you’ve started a city, got yourself horribly into debt building roads and other infrastructure, taken out three bonds, and you have no income. Yes, you’ve done a dumb thing! The game pauses and tells you there is no way to proceed until you fix the situation. The problem, however, is that you cannot fix it because of the interest on the bonds! Raising taxes won’t help and shutting off buildings simply won’t do it. You can abandon the city, but when you reclaim it the situation is unchanged. You can gift money to it from other cities, but because the simulation is paused the money never arrives.

 

There is a solution! Gift money from another city and then initiate a disaster in your problem city. The disaster allows time to advance and the money will arrive (eventually). You may need to enact a few disasters to allow enough time to pass for this to occur. Of course you will need to progress your other cities to the point where you have money to send and have activated at least one disaster. Initiating an earthquake in an undeveloped portion of the map is likely your best option.

 

Please note that this is not my idea - I found this solution after an extensive Google search and have not been able to find the original post again. It saved my region though and I thought it was worth sharing. Kind stranger, whoever you are, please step forward and claim your recognition.

 

Of course, if the game saved the files on MY computer I could have just deleted the appropriate city file. And, if the game was a little better, I might actually be interested in continuing the region.

[tnobles 38]

Only way I know is to abandon all cities on the region.

[5uper_Mania 6]

Nubs like me still need to unlock achievements, to start a disaster.