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Old 02-20-2003, 04:26 PM  
SpaceAce
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Magrathea
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I play and turning a profit is a bitch. Build a LOT of low-density residential to start along with a little bit of low-density commercial. Leave some open space for building high density residential later. Build a power plant and your schools and everything and be sure to _turn down their funding_. They won't need all that money when your city is first starting. Build a bunch of medium-density industrial way off to the side of your residential and a bunch of agricultural off in another direction.

Don't let the game auto-build roads for your residential, either. Lay out 4x4 blocks and fill them in manually.

Also, I think your cities trade with each other so it might be a good idea to build several cities around each other and build them up together.

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