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I'm probally going to have to overpopulate my schools for a while in order to get in the green. It dropped again when I placed my schools... Maybe my budget will stabilize soon and I'll stop having to worry about this stuff...

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I always wondered what that said...But then again, the last SimCity version I have is 2. Maybe it's clearer in 4.

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My region has about 4 million sims...
My strategy for building a city is to build a "core": a large block (8x8 or larger) that has all the main utilities (not power), place a power plant and dump far far away, and zone away. I go in the red for a few months to a year, but when building takes off, I'm close enough to even that one or two NIMBYs takes care of the rest. As the city grows, I can torch the NIMBYs (much more fun that bulldozing) and keep building. Destroying NIMBYs helps a lot, as the overall happiness goes up.
A very useful tip is to tweak all the budgets all the way down so you don't pay for extra capacity. This can bite you in the *** if you don't remember to adjust each budget as time goes.
Also, I play a stock game, with no mods, just official downloads. I'm thinking of getting transportation mod, though, because the transit times in the game are just a bit unrealistic. I've never cheated, and the hardest setting is almost always a breeze to win at.

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I always use a money generating tile. I don't play to "play the game" but to build a nice looking city. However, due to some silly computer issues and time constraints due to SE:IV commitments - don't load it up very often. :-(

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The 100 dollar a month from gambling thingie? That's kinda boring...

Why bulldoze, when you can launch a precision targeted meteor at it? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif I like to use the lightning tool. It can be used to cut lines through your city. Just keep clicking really fast, and eventually, whatever it's on will vaporize.

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Or there's nothing more frustrating than looking at a thread, remembering you've got a copy of SimCity 4 giving it a quick play then looking up and realising you've wasted an entire day which you really should of spent doing some work. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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Hehe...

My city broke 30,000 pop! I think I may finnally have the budget stabilized. My city finnally has those high-rise buildings that can hold about 200 high-wealth citizens. Commercial enterprises are on the up-swing, as more and more people flock to my city. Commercial is catching up to industrial now. I got full coverage of elementary schools and libraries. Only amendity that my city doesn't yet have is hospitals, and that'll sooon be fixed!

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Woohoo! I now have healthcare!!! *cheers*

Soon, Metro City shall expand even more, and require even more amendities... Wish me luck...

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Yay!!! Skyscrapers!!! And an international airport! Soon, I'm going to run out of room http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Ever Drive the TANK? Ohhhhhh that is much much fun. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif