Economy 2.0 Tip

[ChunkoFunko]

I’m not saying this will work for everyone, but ever since the update, my city has been struggling economically. One day, I decided to take out a massive loan and build some stuff my city needed. Completely by accident, I put down a college, and suddenly my office demand skyrocketed, and my economy got a huge boost (from 400,000 to 1.7m+).

I should have thought of this earlier, but if your city is struggling, try placing higher education buildings to increase office demand. It really worked for me

[fbvarona]

I had a similar case with the offices of my savegame that became empty and for rent after the patch. Because in the savegame I had already placed both college and university, my population already had sufficient highly-educated sims. So instead of building another college, I opted to lower taxes for offices to subsidize them. It was almost immediate that every office building was ocupied by new companies. After a few hours-in-game I increased taxes again and the companies remained in the city operating correctly.

I also had some large office buildings that were working correctly before the subsidies but had only five employees. I decided to bulldoze them and after, rebuilding, the new companies employed up to 30 people instead of just 5.

[dulany67]

Education is very important now.

[Major Kudos™]

Bingo! That is one of the cornerstones of a healthy city.

After 2.0 balanced my city I saw a massive need for more High Schools and Colleges.
I ended up plopping 16 new high schools and 4 colleges all over my city just to even it out.
Prior to Eco 2.0 I had a surplus in all education forms.

Your Cims won't hang around in a dumb city.