


This kind of playstyle should quickly net you a slum city of the desired size, which is a good starting point to then build whatever you want using the slums as an income source. When high density becomes available, upgrade the center area to it. In general their interest rates are much lower than the profit you can make by building stuff from this money. Take out all of the loans when they become available, and use the money to fund expansion further. Use a cheap road layout like a grid of 2-lane one-way roads. You may need two or more sets one-way roads to handle the traffic. Otherwise, surrounding your coal plant with dirty industry will work okay. If you've got arable land, I suggest you go with farming industry, as it's not as polluting as regular industry so you can mix it with your residential and commercial, which will save on infrastructure cost. The only other services that are important as soon as they unlock are garbage and cemetery. One fire dept and no police/education should be enough for the starting city. Use the cheapest sources for utilities (coal power plant, minimal amount of water, drain pipe sewage), and don't buy any services you don't need. It is a fun city builder with a great difficulty curve and the option to play in sandbox mode. You can create some truly beautiful creations in a game as powerful as Cities: Skylines. Make sure you spend your initial money on as much population as you can. Updated Cities: Skylines is already a fantastic game, but it is made even better with the addition of these mods.

In order to get to a medium-sized city quickly, it's thus important to spend most of your starting money and income on population, e.g. As money comes from taxes which directly correlates with population you get exponential growth. In general the biggest factor that will slow your city's development early on will be money. But that -185 million is so daunting I feel like I'd have to leave the city up for two weeks.Use the general Simcity 4 strategy: Build slums. I have my city just playing on my workstation computer (and that's no problem, because Cities: Skylines is so very fun that I can just leave the city up on the screen like a screensaver and it looks absolutely beautiful). 185 million! MINUS! So the unlimited money cheat only just hides your money and does not do a fundage check. What did frighten me, though, was that the bank balance was. Whew - issue averted and my population of 90K is OK. I was almost bankrupt, so I changed tax rates and such, got things to come around nicely.

So I took my sandbox city, made a copy of it, and opened it up without the Unlimited Money mod active. So in order to unlock a bunch of buildings on one of my mega-maps, I decided to play without mods (I was not able to unlock all the buildings with the one unlock all mod, so I decided to play the game "legit" - best decision I could've made and I parlayed all I learned into a successful city!
