Best Way To Make Money In Simcity

The others have covered the key issues (difficulty of specialization, region play, and so on), but I'll add one more piece of advice: Don't rush to make a city bigger just because you can. When your city has 15,000 people it's not hard to maintain a nice steady 4-5k profit, which makes it a good time to do things like upgrade your roads, but ramping that up to 50,000 people means that one school, one clinic, one fire station, etc. aren't enough any more. You start needing more civic buildings AND a mass transit system AND recycling/water purification, just to stay afloat, and you'll want to use the larger civic buildings (like the full police station), which means someone in the region has to have built a Department of Utilities. Also, consider power; a small city can be fed off a single wind farm, but more developed cities need either really expensive plants (like nukes) or really dirty ones (coal/oil), and these add all sorts of issues.

Yes. I think it is better to have 1 city concentrate on taking in the sewage/dump. Using education spec imo is very good for starting your first region because they are less likely to produce criminals that cross the border and harass your neighboring city. With crime at a lower rate, you can save money on Police services.

You can make a decent amount of money through recycling.

Build a Recycling Center with some Alloy Reclimation Lines and make sure you have at least one Trade Depot set to trade Alloy to the Global Market.

Alloy currently makes 48k per 10 tons and one recycling center can easily add 100k simoleons to your monthly profit.

It isn't the best way ever to make a ton of money, but you need recycling to keep your city clean anyway, so why not make some money in the process?

Ahh ok i'll try that out! Thanks!

Anyway i started on another region. This time i focused on education system and it appears to be a good starting point! My current city have over 120k population. Supported by 2 fully upgraded Grade Schools, 1 fully upgraded High School, 1 College with 2 Extension Wing, 2 Libraries and a University. Because of the highly educated sims, the crimes are low, injury and fire accident are kept at minimum so i don't need to build any police precinct or Hospital to meet the high demands. Currently my hourly budget is 12k profits. with 8% tax rate across all RCI. Planning to build one attraction now to earn even more money.

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I just don't get it, I've always been one to be pretty good at playing SimCity games and I understand this game in particular is a whole different monster but I just can't seem to play it well enough. I always specialize in Education which eats away at my budget but helps my city out, my budget is never red (usually I make about $7k an hour) but when it comes to growth it just doesn't happen. My city grows to about 30k and it stops, I can't zone anymore residential, the areas that are built with homes (not skyscrapers) won't go up even though they have high land value, high-density streets, and plenty of parks near them; in fact I spend so much money on parks that its the third largest proponent of my budget. I just want to grow my city to 75k but that just doesn't happen for me, I've been stuck at 30k for days now though my skyline is growing. So how are you growing your city? I always build my industrial zones towards one side of the city, I build two financial zones, and everything else goes to residential.

What type of roads did you build? I always start out with low density road. Then i build medium wealth parks and upgrade to medium wealth. Also, they need spaces to grow.