Too easy. Ways to make it challenging?

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Cool game, but I seem to be rolling in cash with a few traffic snarls being about the biggest challenge. I'm trying again with the self imposed rule of no destroying anything unless I misclick and I still find that once I get to the point of rolling in cash, it is still too easy.

Anyone have other ideas on how to make it more of a challenge, but not in an annoying way?

[nap]

teach me how to roll in cash

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Originally posted by glaze:

teach me how to roll in cash

Are you finding it difficult? I did take one loan out, but paid if off quickly and have essentially endless resources by only about 10k population. People seem happy if they have their basic needs met and valuable land, which isn't hard to create.

[SolidSnake]

Main difficult is population.
Do you reached 300-500k and builded every possible building?
And everyone is happy?
And you have no problems with traffic?

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Originally posted by SolidSnake:

Main difficult is population.
Do you reached 300-500k and builded every possible building?
And everyone is happy?
And you have no problems with traffic?

Ok... I guess I'll hope it gets harder eventuallly ;) I also just noticed that there is a hard mode mod available. Thanks for the tips.

[Los.Injurus.Bob.Blunderton]

Want a challenge? Build a dam just downstream from the town.
Make it as large/wide as you can.

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Originally posted by The Derpentine Golem:

Want a challenge? Build a dam just downstream from the town.

Hehehe... that's why I specifiec "non-annoying". Bascially, the same game, but just not so much money, not so easy to make the folks happy :)

[Davien]

play hard mode.. at settings there.. then come and tell us how it is :D

[nap]

Originally posted by diamondspider:

Originally posted by glaze:

teach me how to roll in cash

Are you finding it difficult? I did take one loan out, but paid if off quickly and have essentially endless resources by only about 10k population. People seem happy if they have their basic needs met and valuable land, which isn't hard to create.

I'm on 4.6k pop and I make 1 - 2k weekly. I've placed parks and enacted the parks and rec. policy but land prices are still dark blue. What do?

[ShottyMonster]

Download latest version of my mod: Real Hard Mode (12/03/2015, 9:43Am). Let me know how that goes :P Feedback appreciated.

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Originally posted by glaze:

Originally posted by diamondspider:

Are you finding it difficult? I did take one loan out, but paid if off quickly and have essentially endless resources by only about 10k population. People seem happy if they have their basic needs met and valuable land, which isn't hard to create.

I'm on 4.6k pop and I make 1 - 2k weekly. I've placed parks and enacted the parks and rec. policy but land prices are still dark blue. What do?

The money issues seem to clear up around 10k or so. I saw a game with Quill18 (think it was his second major effort) where at about 100k he had millions and wasn't even really trying to be careful (he put a metro system in for two large areas in about 60 seconds).

[icedude94]

The difficulty goes up as your city gets larger and the population gets bigger. Planning ahead with transportation is the key. I've seen trucks drive across the city to the furthest commercial zones to unload goods and drive all the way back. I've followed citizens and watched them transfer between different mass transit lines and methods to go from home to a job across town.

With a city at 80k, I had to split up my main metro stations into several stations in close proximity and move their lines because there were so many trains trying to get into one station, they got jammed.

With different industrial areas spread out, I had to make sure they were all connected with cargo rail lines as the raw resources produced in one area will get shipped to another industrial area for processing instead of at a factory next door and then those goods will get shipped to different commercial zones elsewhere.

With trucks and buses and commuters clogging up your roadways and highways, you also have all your ambulances, fire engines, police cars, garbage trucks, etc. contributing to traffic.

The game is not easy when you have a large population. One solution you put in might become a problem later or cause problems elsewhere.