Can't make profit

[Caz1402]

I'm exporting water, electricity. All my demand is being met. I have raised taxes. Tried everything. Why the hell are the starting goverment building, schools etc so huge and costly. How are we meant to progress???

[Limskj]

I think the key is to have some patience. New residential buildings don't fill up instantly. The population moves in gradually over time. Just focus on meeting the demand and then take time off once in while to let the game run.

Doing this, I broke even by the time I reached milestone 5. When I left the city alone, the population grew from 6000 to 8000 by itself. It is making about $2900 per hour with adequate city services (2 clinics, 1 police, 2 fire houses, 1 elementary school, 1 high school, 1 cemetary, 1 landfill, buying external power for $192K.

[DragonBlue]

personally my entire city focus is making energy to export it so i can frelly build other service, i export almost for 8M worth of energy (arround 3k MW) whiout it my city would be so small

[NinJesus]

export electricity and pump up your education (university). to start

then start building office buildings, and lots of them. I have $7million+ monthly income from office buildings. i now have $200million+ in the bank. just stick with it.

dont go all fancy, just building easy squares and simple roads. then once you get some cash reserves, you can edit and change it up

Ignore services if you can.

build local industries (farms, mines, oil etc) - not sure if this works, it didnt make a difference for me, but it has worked for others they told me anyway...

[NinJesus]

the game economy is broken. Devs know trade doesnt work and other issues as well

[Billy_Bligh]

Originally posted by NinJesus:

the game economy is broken. Devs no trade doesnt work and other issues as well

Some bugs in economy that they are aware of, such as where products/resources are sourced from - and they will be patching - but it's not the entire game economy.

[pkmis007]

what are u talking about ?
130k population with $8.8M/month profit. How can anyone NOT profit ???
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3062699549

[NinJesus]

Originally posted by pkmis007:

what are u talking about ?
130k population with $8.8M/month profit. How can anyone NOT profit ???
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3062699549

what are you making most of your money from?

[pkmis007]

Tax and I rarely put commercial in cause I hate not enough customer.
I put Highden resident and highden office the most
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3062703913

[NinJesus]

Originally posted by pkmis007:

Tax and I rarely put commercial in cause I hate not enough customer.
I put Highden resident and highden office the most
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3062703913

all about those office buildings, pure profit, no services needed, they just print money.

Even know residential tax is higher, it cost more to maintain.

[Th3_Jok3r_BR]

Originally posted by pkmis007:

Tax and I rarely put commercial in cause I hate not enough customer.
I put Highden resident and highden office the most
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3062703913

How your education?} Universities?