JeroenDeDauw

Feel free to invite me: JeroenDeDauw I want some nice flat map, no rivers or mountains, prefferably two road connections and a railway for a nice trade+tech city. The last two cities I created have 10x as much money as the rest of the region combined and have neighbouring cities that are no longer active. This is so ****ing annoying >_>

How long do you guys typically stay in a city? (In city years?) Also, what kind of stuff do you busy yourself with after you covered the map with quality stuff and have a pile of cash to play with? That is still madness - 20 years? I'm trying to figure out what to do after 4... Even at max game speed it will take what - over 100 hours of playing?... >_>

@Shiphted: good idea, will try that out when I build a new city. What is the kind of population you typically top out at? @g5todd: tried that, did not make a lot of difference, on either happiness or my budget situation. Once you got some real trade going, tax no longer matters. One odd thing I did notice is that changing all tax to 20% for a while causes population to increase?! If you keep it to long some buildings get abandoned, though population is still higher then before. That is so odd...

I have a city making 2M profit per month and have 8M banked. That is basically rnough to level the thing and place high quality stuff evertywhere in one go. I'm however not sure what to do next. My city is * Trading and electronics * Population of 100k * In a region with 5 cities (and an Arcology as great work) * 1/3 radioactive. Do not build nukes - one quake and part of your city is fucked forever * Low, media and high wealth each have a third of the population * Most of it is high density * Got a 70% approval rating (and no clue how to impove it - people complaining about healt, while I got 4 hospitals plus all the addons, same for garbadge) I'd like to imrpove on population and approval rating, each of which I'm not sure how to do. Since other people are managing both, I must be missing some tricks ;p Are there any other goals worth pursuing once you have such an income?

Added you; the UX for finding active games and whatnot is so extremely horrible for this game :|