Some screenshots of your city can also help.
to bring in the higher-wealth tiers (who not only use less services, but pay more taxes as well).Ĭan you post a screenshot of your expanded budget? It'll be of help so people can give you responses better suited to your city. Once you've built up a decent income flow, then you can start adding schools, parks, fire departments, etc. This is very important: DO NOT BUILD SERVICES! Your city only needs power to grow at first. Build coal-fired plants for industrial areas, and wind/natural gas plants for residential. Congrats! It should be semi-functional at this point.įor a faster-growing city, you can put the industrial in the same city tile as the resi/com, but make sure they are far apart so it won't get too polluted. When commercial demand starts to grow, build some low-density blue zones on the avenue leading to your industrial city (Sims like to shop on their way back from work). Then build medium-density industrial right on the edge of the next city (for faster commute times). Build a cluster of low-density residential homes in the center or near-edge of one city, and connect it to the adjacent city with an avenue. It makes absolutely zero sense, and what's even more incredulous about it is that the paying customers with 1.1.610 copies have confronted Origin Support about it, who usually parrot a line about them "not having access" to the fully-patched version of the game, which is a bold-faced lie.My best advice is to plan out two cities: residential, and industrial. If you didn't, and did the CD key redemption, you have 1.1.641. It all boils down to whether or not you gave Origin money. Strangely enough, all reports are that this version is Version 1.1.641, the same version number as GOG and Steam. The Origin "CD key redemption" version-this is the one that Origin Support gives to users who have redeemed a CD key from an existing disc copy of the game to receive a digital copy. This is the infamous unpatched/unpatchable Version 1.1.610 copy that doesn't support the NAM. The Origin "retail" version-this is the one you get if you buy the game off the Origin Store, or play the game via Origin Access. The confusing thing is that there's technically two Origin versions: