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I just figured it out. I checked my expenses and like I said I'm new to the game. I wasn't aware that you could scroll down. (my question was more along the lines of why the numbers weren't adding up properly) Real bad mistake on my part. The funding in the water department was super high, because I got the highest tier pump available. (up from two regular water pumps) I took a few ECON courses these past two years in college, and I have to say that this game has a lot of interesting things going for it, relative to the other Simcities where the RCI Demand projections were pretty useless. (I can actually apply stuff I learned in class to a game!) The most aggravating thing about this game is that growth occurs in insane bursts. Are there any mods that help regulate the lack of spikes in growth? For some reason, even though I zoned over the ridiculous number of low density wealthy residential with medium-density res., they arbitrarily (like 5-10 years after zoning-over) chose to become large apartment complexes overnight. I hadn't set up any new infrastructure, and C/I medium-density were in place long before.

Hi -- I'm pretty new to SimCity 4 (friend sold me his copy) -- and I've been having some budget problems. I'm not new to the series, and I was heavily in the green ($3000 surpluses per month on a super tiny city) for a while. My population is around 25,000 -- and the city itself is on a mid-size terrain slot. I've used up about 1/3 the map. (Education is above 180, Life Expectancy is at around 90, Avg. Income is at around 75k, and Fire/Police coverage is good, Traffic is green everywhere, and commute times are under 30 minutes) I don't see any glaring issues. I've tried to micro-manage where I can, limiting all schools, hospitals to meet demand. I was just about to try to expand my city to a larger size when I noticed I was in the red -- pretty heavily in the red, running at a $2,500 deficit. I don't want to take out a loan, since I still have some cash left over, but I'm not sure what I should do to recoup those losses. Should I just continue to grow and expand so that the revenue eventually beats out expenses? I haven't spent cash on anything silly, and I have connections to neighbors (no real neighbors yet -- just started this city) -- but does anyone have any suggestions? PS -- Don't wanna use cheat codes!