How To Make Money In Cities Skylines 2

[@KingDavidCreates]

I think this was the number 1 hardest lesson to learn for me coming from CS1 is just to ignore the demand bars and pay attention to other deeper statistics. Took me 4 failed cities to fully figure out.

[@Czardus]

I was ignoring demand bars in CS1 actually. :-)

[@designedbyjoe]

Can't remember who said it, but the best way it was described that I found is the bars in CS2 are wants, where the bars in CS1 were needs. If you stick with demand bars in CS2 you'll end up with never-ending suburban sprawl. You need to give more time for homes and businesses to level up as well as there are much more complicated factors involved to change building level. It's not as "simple" as CS1 where if you just provide every service, every building will hit tier 5 eventually. The economy plays a much larger role. Investing in education early is also a great strategy, and creating education districts can also help immensely when balancing the workforce.

[@The_Flying_Comrade]

took me 2

[@The_Flying_Comrade]

How I do it: Step 1: Start with a city of around 5,000 residents. Step 2: Pay close attention to the happiness of your citizens and address their needs before your finances take a hit. Step 3: Ensure that your city can run somewhat sustainably without constant player intervention. Step 4: Go broke, set all taxes to -10% (this will stimulate growth in the industry and commercial sectors) and reduce service fees to 0%. Step 5: Be patient and allow time for your industries and commercial areas to develop. Step 6: Once your city is in a good place, wait for a milestone to provide a substantial cash injection (usually around a million dollars). This can help alleviate your debt. If this doesn't work, consider taking a loan, but only if you can manage it. Step 6.5: Try maintaining residential taxes at -10%. This keeps your citizens happy and encourages more people to move to your city. Step 7: Gradually increase taxes as needed, following this order: 15% on industry and commercial, 10% on residential, 100% service fees, and consider significant cutbacks on upkeep, but only in extreme cases. Step 8: Watch your city become profitable.

[@The_Flying_Comrade]

On my second playthrough, I accidentally achieved this in my first city. I wanted to restart for a smoother transition. I thought, 'Why keep struggling with debt, making people unhappy, and burdening them with high taxes when I can instead embrace some debt to create a thriving and prosperous city while gradually increasing taxes later?'

[@Czardus]

That can work but I’m not a fan of doing unrealistic tricks with the taxes.

[@The_Flying_Comrade]

its not necessarily unrealistic the governmnet does it all the time(USA) with all its debt soooooooooo in a way its kinda realistic? you could also just take a big loan out instead of being in debt and still follow the plan

[@The_Flying_Comrade]

and too be fair you get like millions of dollar per mile stone which is unrealistic by itself most cities would fail without it making bad income

[@lokeshsharma2076]

one of the worst suggestions...

[@reivelt3715]

Damn. Cs2 feels more like managing a nation than your typical city builder

[@ThePhantomrunner]

Lol the polluted river 😂😂😂

[@foamslinger2787]

Thanks for the short and concise tip! Unfortunately most "tip" videos on this game so far seem to be hour long play sessions which is not what the people are looking for!

[@Czardus]

Glad it was helpful!

[@noxyoshi]

Mad props to you. I was wondering how to improve my economy. Thank you so much. Question. Do you use trains? If so do they export anything out of the city? I think my train system is broken or something and I can't export a thing.

[@Czardus]

Exports are currently experiencing a known bug. They are working on a fix.

[@grayone9sargent257]

I'm gonna try this CZ, hopefully it's the answer needed. Thx

[@molybdane7240]

Something to consider then. I just wanted to get my unemployment down asap so I went for industry. If you're unsure if you have enough highly educated people, offices could still be an option. Just build smaller low density zones (2 x 2, 2 x 3) These employ no highly educated people. Now the question then becomes what the consequences of having 6 2 x 2 offices over one 4 x 6 office is with regards to profitability and employment; I haven't figured that one out yet.

[@esumiwa5583]

Thanks! tHis was really helpful!

[@timothypricesr5953]

Kind of hard when the ceo of company even admitted economy’s broken

[@Czardus]

The game still works great for me and is very enjoyable in its current state. It’s only getting better with each update they make.

[@Waliant8349]

This is sooo helpful. Tq

[@pett3rson79]

What about missing employees? I have 3000 employee less than it's needed and can not fill them. Maybe I have to run the game until this number lowering and not creating more districts...or only with Residentals...

[@Czardus]

If you don’t have enough employees then it sounds like you need to add more residential. What is your unemployment rate?

[@pett3rson79]

I checked and 9,4%. Where can I check household numbers?@@Czardus

[@TiGGowich]

I've been playing for hours and hours now and I cannot get out of the negatives...

[@Infrastructure-Nerd]

Great tips 👍

[@Czardus]

Glad you think so!

[@TrainspottingSEQ]

What city map is this on

[@Czardus]

Barrier Island from the base game.

[@shlapdeshre]

Dude what happened to your voice

[@beercavetech]

?

[@Czardus]

haha, I've got a cold or something.

[@bikinibro]

Do make sure to take care of yourself!