Unlike SimCity 2000, you don't have the luxury of building hydroelectric powerplants and forgetting about them. The engineers will give you their cost, and if you accept-they will build it for you. Once it turns blue, that means a bridge is possible. You should see your drag shadow turn red, then blue again. Click where the bridge starts (five tiles inward on the first shore.) Then drag it five tile inward on the opposite shore. Once you have these conditions met, then you can build a bridge. These areas of clearance should also be perfectly flat. Make sure that you allow five tiles of inward clearance on each shore, with a side clearance of at least two tiles on each side of the road. Ideally, the shores should be the same height and perpendicular to the roads. Of increasing your yearly income (of course, this is initially the mostīuilding bridges is tricky, especially if you're used to SimCity 2000. Zone more land (if you can afford it.) Use your RCI indicator to see However, if money is tight, you can do this for a little while.)ĥ. Enact legalized gambling (this will reduce the aura in your city. Will pile up in your streets, and this mistake could cost you dearly!)Ĥ. If you make such a deal without enough capacity for extra garbage, garbage You have enough garbage handling space to allow the excess garbage. Garbage into your city (use extreme caution with such a deal. Make a garbage deal with a neighbor allowing them to dispose Cut city services / ordinances you have to pay for (this will causeģ. Raise taxes (this might make some Sims move out.)Ģ. Here are ways you can put money into your treasury should you get desperateįor money. Last forever, in case you SC2000 devotees were wondering.) All this Next powerplant (all powerplants have a finite life-no more hydroelectrics that You want the rest of your city to look like one.Īll this, and you still have to make enough money to purchase your You also need to zone a piece of land as a landfill, unless
As your city grows, you need to increase your city servicesĪccordingly. Improve conditions so that your Sims won't move away. I must caution you not toĬut funding to your roads or else they will deteriorate.ĭon't relax when you have stabilized your economy.
To raise them back to their default levels. Just make your first zones dense and be sparing with roads.Ĭut your city expenses temporarily until you can make enough money You don't want to drain your treasury in the first To have a few lakes available as sources of fresh water. This will ensure the maximum building area possible. If a high population is your goal, adjust to have no rivers, hills, orĬoasts.
Desaliniation plants, however, will make salt water Remember to have enough fresh water sources to provide your Simsĭrinkable water.