So it’s not so easy to make a cheap crappy city, after all. So I end up with a town that makes not so much cash (+500 per month at most, while Leffe does something like +5000 easily), with a way smaller population (as expected considering the avaiable space) but nonetheless with almost as many commercial jobs than in Leffe. So as result, I get some commercial area with high land value and less industry than what I was going for initially, I was not entirely free to do whatever the frak I wanted. Oddly enough, maybe due to the proximity of Leffe, that is mainly residential and industry, I had a lot of demand for commercial zoning. Obviously, since and change the road layout and started using NAM as the same time, it’s not clear whether this layout is really superior the one in Leffe, though. The traffic works fine, without obvious bottleneck. I also started to produce energy to sell but that does not seem really worth it (not expensive enough):

While seeing a 2×2 km plot for a fist time might bring up the painful memories about the latest SimCity, things are much better here. I did not invested much in public services, focusing on making one more polluted easy cash city. Fortunately, Cities: Skylines manages to do it right and challenges you to build your own large city inhabited with actual citizens. Anyway, this map is small, so it’s looks like this. I have unlimited cash and everything unlocked, the only other mod is the one that lets you change the direction of one way roads.

If the city was bigger, I’d have considered using avenues inside zones and using highway/freeway as access from zone to zone. I just started a new city to try out a few things, I have a reasonable population and a small commercial population, but zero demand for industry. The NAM provides round-about for avenues, so I decided not only to put avenues like in Leffe as obligatory access way from zone to zone but to put them in the middle of zones.

IH missing $$$ jobs fix (due to a presumable rounding/arithmetic error, almost every IH lot in the game didn’t offer any high wealth $$$ jobs so far, while still creating demand for $$$ residents though).

Farm Desirability Mod (removes traffic as a factor in farm desirability and allows realistic rural commuter sheds to be built).

Less Abandonment (prevent high-wealth buildings from growing in areas that will likely cause them to abandon in the near future).Network Addon Mod (NAM: improves road, traffic pathfinding, etc).The point of this city will be to make one more cheap town but using mods recommended on various websites. I started, built roads, provided services, etc. The second city, Kriek, will be added next to it, on a basic smaller spot (no hills, no water). Ive only played this game for a few hours and this is the first strategy game Ive ever played, so go easy on me. In part I I create the city of Leffe, cheap, polluted with good cash flow. So I’m following on a my replay of this old Simcity 4.

Cities skylines cash on demand