Will We Survive This Economic Disaster? | Cities Skylines 2

[@alexhentschel1080]

one possible reason youre overproducing electricity but still importing is because your high voltage lines arent spread out efficiently so the power your generating in the city isnt reaching all the areas of your city, forcing some areas to import power, even though your generators are overproducing

[@nicholasingold8977]

Exactly, more high voltage lines needed to tie all the areas of the city together.

[@SeshaTheGamer22]

Bixton has seen many ups and downs but yeah the city looks damn amazing, if this is built in real-life then I would definitely move there coz the scenery and city structure is amazing and no crime city is what everyone expect to stay at.

[@uja2183]

Luckily this city is located in reallife in Finland.

[@romanomeijer]

See at 4:52. You have ~42% unemployment rate. Unemployed still use the city services but do not pay taxes, putting massive stress on profitability. I'm not sure how this rate is calculated in-game but the children, teens and seniors total ~47,5% of your population so they are likely at most partially included - if at all - suggesting something might be wrong with your adult unemployment. Might be worth to check the job availability overlay and homelessness info to verify what is going on. Edit to add: also noticed that you have more jobs available than there are people employed (84k vs 69k) which seems counterintuitive with the above but again, availability might be in the wrong category. Still worth to check in my opinion.

[@davidchester1612]

Has the city been checked for the old office bug? It's where old office businesses over time would slowly reduce the number of employees and essentially become placeholders (and generate little tax). Paradox fixed the problem but only for new office businesses, the old ones had to be manually removed (demolished and allow to rebuild) or Paradox suggested driving the tax rate to max, making all office business quit the city and then bring the tax back to normal.

[@rynezuzinec688]

This doesn’t include the newest update launched today

[@harshkejriwal2485]

And the electricity import is due to some area where it is not connected to whole city but it is connected to outside connection hence it is importing to run the place. So you will need to find where is it

[@FeddeVandenberg]

Hi, I think that the elec import is because a certain area is not connected or a power line is at its capacity

[@davidchester1612]

If tile upkeep was turned off then it looks like the city would be in a sustainable position. With the number of water (unproductive) tiles that were bought (and can't be sold back or got rid of) before it was known that there would be a huge cost (each tile unlocked has a 5% to 25% increase in upkeep cost over the ones preceding it), it would be more than reasonable to go into the settings under gameplay and turn it off or use the 529 Tiles mod to set it at a more reasonable %.

[@ItsJustBIaze]

Honestly tile upkeep shouldn't even exist, or at least account for bodies of water and decrease the price according to the amount of space they take up.

[@rynezuzinec688]

@@ItsJustBIazeagreed. And it sounds like it was a last minute change. And what sucks is that custom map costs are outrageous!

[@avi609]

Taxes and deficits: pay attention to whether you're changing tax on commercial or industrial businesses trading certain goods. More commercial furniture businesses will increase your furniture deficit, because these stores need to purchase furniture from local producers or import it. So if you have a huge furniture deficit, you want to decrease taxes on furniture industry (to incentivize production) and increase taxes on furniture commercial (to disincentivize businesses that purchase furniture to sell to customers).

[@jaxallnight]

Hello! Love the videos, I'll always keep up to date with Bixton!

[@theorixlux]

23:58 why decrease commercial convenience food tax? Wouldnt that induce demand by encouraging more convience food stores?

[@rubidio2788]

Hi, I recently subscribed to your channel Your content is pretty good, I like how you talk and express. It's really comforting. Also your city looks amazing, I wish I could have one like that in C:S and even see it in real life

[@Komirowsky]

From what i see the water and power coming through path of lower resistance so if you have outside connection closer than your source it will take it from the closer source. So i suggest fixing a bit the outside connections, so they going out from power sources. Also info form CPP stream's about taxes: if you set up tax above 12 % you get less money than you should.

[@harshkejriwal2485]

I think the reason for the deficit in money is that your unemployment level is 42%. People don't have jobs to work and hence they are not paying. Add jobs so people have somewhere to work

[@nicholasingold8977]

Probably related to the office bug. All offices decline to 5/5 workers. Today’s patch fixed it.

[@jaybhanushali2497]

for the electricity trade problem you could try adding more high tension connections to the outside world as there is a maximum output/input a single connection can carry. Might help with the issue

[@shiksheka]

For the tile upkeep issue, I have seen city planner plays and other skyliners make some changes in the setting(not sure what it was lol. Perhaps you can check their vids. But after locking all the tiles they unlock the tiles only required for the city area. So I guess it might help you to lower the tile upkeep taxes. Hope this helps. Cheers

[@quilmes99]

I came here from the bridge on the thumbnail. Glad I stayed!

[@AdamZugone]

You can easily fix the problem of having too many tiles unlocked by getting the 529 tiles mod. It has a setting to lock all tiles, then you can buy back only the ones you need. After that you can remove the mod if you wish

[@robboekel]

Regarding import/export electricity look at the capacity of your connections. High voltage cables are limited to 400MW

[@kosmic_debris]

I think a choice needs to be made. And considering the amount of time you out into the city I think you should down off/down the tile upkeep. The city was built without that in mind and I think it might be impossible to fix without doing so.

[@rynezuzinec688]

Decreasing your energy production actually can increase costs if you’re exporting. CPP shows this in one of his videos

[@mrgooglethegreat]

If youre importing electricity while having a surplus of power ....it means your city isnt entirely connected to your grid. It took me hours to figure that out but ive had a service surplus ever since. I ended up raising taxes for a while then lowered them back after replenishing the services rendered. I also removed the tile fee. Good luck!!

[@vietimports]

its funny seeing this guy be $12 million in deficit but trying to min-max his taxes instead of just blanket increasing them across the board and then adjusting accordingly lmao

[@jeanneg6004]

You can criticize or make suggestions much nicer. No need to be so arrogant

[@VinceP1974]

@@jeanneg6004 You dont need to be so rude

[@MomoALTA]

@@jeanneg6004 its not even that bad

[@kylebagley8968]

My one suggestion is taxing everyone the same or highly educated more you can raise it to 12% without major consequences that would help with the deficit and the new update has cheaper new schools that hold more students could help with the education cost. There are a lot more cheaper service buildings in the new patch that you should check out and would help your city a lot!

[@ermeslombardi8388]

To gain more land to build without expending you could build artificial islands. What do you think?

[@JeffreyLathrop]

for your electricity your exported is capped at 400MW which is the rating of the high voltage lines, you need to add move lines outbound that separate so each can export 400MW, you 300MW that is going nowhere.

[@harshkejriwal2485]

And the deficits in the material goods is not something you can change a lot about. And the taxes also you can do even across the boards to all 12%

[@zentrino336]

The tile upkeep getting progressively larger seems dumb, and they should exempt water tiles that are only connecting the city. I like the production line idea very factorio like which is a great game of course. I don't like the lowering taxes abd going those businesses get built. They should show you to create zones where you mark industry to build petro chemicals and plastic (or whatever). Then also allow lowering taxes as incentive too. Seems like a pain to micromanage the taxes with the hope that it gets built some where... only to redevelop an area and destroy what you wanted to have built or have to check every building to see if it producing what you needed. I do like the changes they've made and it's made me play it again. It's getting less beta and closer to a real game. Mods make it playable.

[@coopersharp147]

When you have the time you should change the cloverleaf interchange to some sort of a stack interchange into auburn

[@VinceP1974]

Homeboy's been playing since last year and doesn't understand electricity.

[@TommiPuuska]

Your unemployment is through the roof. You need to build more industry to produce all of the material you're importing now. That's how you fix the economy. More industry. Like 5x more!

[@gavin-721]

The devs seriously need to make the school buildings smaller or make there be less need for them because we can’t have both of these happening 😭

[@gavin-721]

Cs1 elementary school? Good. Nice size. Cs2? Horrible. Has the footprint of 4+ Cs1 schools.

[@rynezuzinec688]

The new update adds new schools!

[@nickbellomo3362]

Here is my suggestion to fix these problems. Start by making a central hub for the movement of raw materials on cargo rails. Build the must needed industry around that hub and this should knock down a lot of demand and needs of the city and more balance to your tax income.

[@xavierharrison8363]

Your powerlines are causing the issues as to why you can't export more power. Each powerline only transfers 400 MW. In order to exceed exporting 400MW, you need to have multiple powerlines leading to the outside connections. Once you do that, you can export more power. Hope it helps and love your content.

[@cosmincrisan2060]

You need more points from wich energy can enters to the city, the city is too big so u need to dispersive the entering points!

[@Hubbubb22-citiesskylines]

@13:00 you can download the 529 tiles mod and RELOCK all tiles. Then you buy back the tiles on which you have developed your build. Then (if you’re not into using mods), you can un-subscribe the mod and your build will be easier to afford).

[@Hubbubb22-citiesskylines]

@20:00 FYI- SCROOGE! ummm what you have set up is a REGRESSIVE not a progressive tax system. Sucks to be uneducated in your city. ouch! A progressive tax system would charge higher income earners more than lower income earners. Since income generally correlates with educational attainment, a truly progressive system would charge uneducated cims at a LOWER percentage than WELL and HIGHLY educated.

[@Hubbubb22-citiesskylines]

following-up -- it looks like your strategy is to zone as much specialized industry at the moment. One challenge here is that resource/commodity extraction has lower net profit margins than regular industry or more developed firms (software, media... aka offices) ... They'll also more likely need lower educated workers -- on whom you've levied the highest residential tax rates. So you're disincentivizing the very labor you need to staff all those farms. You'll certainly see a revenue bump ... not sure it will be enough to sustain your upkeep costs. I'll be curious to see what your staffing levels look like on these new enterprises. Efficiency may be affected. p.s. @41:10 coal will have higher demands for uneducated workers than will ore.

[@renzwwww]

My fav cities skylines yt’er❤

[@Yoghurtmale8]

Honestly I think just embrace the economic collapse and make the city like Detroit…

[@harshkejriwal2485]

You'll go into surplus as soon as that unemployment of 42% comes down

[@juvinchukura7108]

What about building an international airport.❤

[@Aymen-tj5hf]

Rockport ..

[@vastrashastra]

You are charging your residents way less a city like this in europe would have a tax rate of 30%+ 😅😂

[@rynezuzinec688]

Can you bring mods back?

[@rynezuzinec688]

Does this include the new update launched today?

[@Timeister]

This was recorded before the new Detailing patch

[@MamaduJalloh-q9l]

Build a port Please

[@HT-773]

Hi hope you have a good day

[@vastrashastra]

I think you should do something about the population this game is not designed for 300k people you can use a realistic population mod or something that will help with schools, transportation, garbage management, electricity, water etc. and also help with running the game smooth and fast.

[@seathomplay4167]

Your unemployment is near 50%? You need lots of jobs and ways to reach those jobs. No more people.