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A great day for solo game players like me. In conclusion of many posts in this forum, it was clear from the beginning that PO has no future. It needed some time till MC has recognized this but in the end, it is the best solution. I hope the solo game will now be treated as it deserves as a rich game.

My city has 1900000 citizens and still growing.

There is no limit but more micro management is needed in order to improve the number of citizens. My trick is to balance the expend according to the city's income. Thus, I only buy what I can pay and don't fulfill the rest of the demands. My city is still growing and will reach soon 2,000,000 citizens. :-)

My SP city has 1,800,000 citizens, but is still tricky to maintain the budget.

Originally posted by: rhenry I got Lo up to over 500,000 inhabitants last night and then the whole thing collapsed. Somehow I p***ed off the Qualified Workers, which is a very bad thing. I could not get them to move in, empty lots everywhere but nothing. I developed a bad rep with them and I don't know why. Once that happened the whole thing went into the toilet. I had a bout 15,000,000 c and within a fewe rounds I went negative. I started dropping by like 50,000 per round. It was insane. quote> I had this serveral times as well. In my case, many companies gone bancrupt due to the lack of qualified employees. I dealt with the situation by reducing cost in terms of trading and some citiy service buildings. In my opinion, my huge traffic problem was the root cause. As soon as I had some monex, I build new roads according to the traffic map with a view to increase the whole road system capacity. On the other hand, you have the opportunity to lend some money with a certain payback time.

It is always the same. Buy never a game at start due to the fact that the price is high and the game has many bugs. After a while, the games are going to be cheaper and the bugs might have been solved. In my opinion, the following points should be taken into account soon 1. Solo Player without authentication or at least a "save password" field. I have complex passwords which I don't like to remember. 2. Highway construction is crap. 3. Add-on for solo player with mass transport 4. Information how the different building affect the situation in the city. e.g. power plants should state how much MW they produce for the price. 5. Autogrid snapping must be improved when setting the zones manually. sometimes the building is misplaced and I have to demolish the zone again with a view to fill the space fully. By the way: MC are going to fail with PO. There will never be a market for this. I don't pay a monthly rate for playing the game occasionally over months/years sorry MC.

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