Tonight I left off from last night. My city has grown leaps, and bounds. Surprisingly, it has not self destructed. I will share with you some of the things I learned tonight that has made my city successful.
One of the first things is I stopped listening to all the pop up tips. It makes you build stuff, or add services you don't need.
Right now I only have a grade school, and a community college. No real expansions except initially on the grade school. I still don't have a high school, or a University. You need a University later on in the game to get Hazmat, and stuff but I can live without it.
My biggest mistake tonight was building a pro stadium. First it costs about 250k to build, and than another 300k to host an event. Both events I tried were total flops. I ended up losing about 400k between the two events. A huge waste of money. Once I build another city in my region I may reopen it, and try it again. Otherwise I may just end up tearing it down with my bulldozer.
The next waste of money was building a Casino. It just loses money left, and right. No matter what I did it never turned a profit. I closed it for a while, and eventually tore them down when I ran out of space.
I built a ferry, and an airport. I still have mixed feelings on these. It seems like they are working so for now they are staying in my city.
I got tired of my Industrial constantly going out of business with abandoned buildings. It was real annoying. I decided to purely do away with it. My whole city is residential, and commercial only and is flourishing.
I have no streetcars even though it keeps telling me to add them. I just don't see the need to do it.
I have almost 200k population, and I am running with just one hospital with no expansions, a large firestation, and police station. In previous cities I went overboard. No matter how many you have they all fight the same fires, and crimes so it is just a waste to have more than one.
My city is pretty stagnant though right now. It isn't really gaining population, or losing it. My city is making about 10k an hour, and about 500k in the bank. I need one million to build my great works. I just hope it doesn't cause my city to implode.
I think that is it for now. I gotta see if I can get the great works before heading to bed tonight. Here are some screenshots to see some of the progression of my city from where I left off last night to where my city is currently.
One of the first things is I stopped listening to all the pop up tips. It makes you build stuff, or add services you don't need.
Right now I only have a grade school, and a community college. No real expansions except initially on the grade school. I still don't have a high school, or a University. You need a University later on in the game to get Hazmat, and stuff but I can live without it.
My biggest mistake tonight was building a pro stadium. First it costs about 250k to build, and than another 300k to host an event. Both events I tried were total flops. I ended up losing about 400k between the two events. A huge waste of money. Once I build another city in my region I may reopen it, and try it again. Otherwise I may just end up tearing it down with my bulldozer.
The next waste of money was building a Casino. It just loses money left, and right. No matter what I did it never turned a profit. I closed it for a while, and eventually tore them down when I ran out of space.
I built a ferry, and an airport. I still have mixed feelings on these. It seems like they are working so for now they are staying in my city.
I got tired of my Industrial constantly going out of business with abandoned buildings. It was real annoying. I decided to purely do away with it. My whole city is residential, and commercial only and is flourishing.
I have no streetcars even though it keeps telling me to add them. I just don't see the need to do it.
I have almost 200k population, and I am running with just one hospital with no expansions, a large firestation, and police station. In previous cities I went overboard. No matter how many you have they all fight the same fires, and crimes so it is just a waste to have more than one.
My city is pretty stagnant though right now. It isn't really gaining population, or losing it. My city is making about 10k an hour, and about 500k in the bank. I need one million to build my great works. I just hope it doesn't cause my city to implode.
I think that is it for now. I gotta see if I can get the great works before heading to bed tonight. Here are some screenshots to see some of the progression of my city from where I left off last night to where my city is currently.
