How To Make Money Fast In Cities Skylines 2
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- How To Make Money Fast In Cities Skylines 2
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Today we're looking at how to make money fast in Cities Skylines 2.
With this guide you'll be able to produce a healthy balance from level 3 Large village onwards.
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What's your best tips to make money early on in Cities Skylines 2?
Oh also, don't reduce the budget to your power, the initial surge of money is soon negated by government subsidies again.
Watch this video
Played 11 hours and the main issue I have noticed is when my cities get big enough they lose profit fast
@@haewymetal That's not what anybody means by "making money" though, if you're using more money than you're making then it means you're losing money lol doesn't matter if the game feeds you money, you'll still lose it in the long run if you don't invest
Which map is this?
kis you bro
if you put a small playground next to the power plant (the cheapest, smallest park), you can increase efficiency by 15% via happiness which almost cancels out the skills issue (assuming you didn’t start with 3/24 workers like i did…)
also, building the power station in a remote location selected specifically for having water deposits such that you can fully power 3~4 stations, then building a bunch of apartments around it (with a sprinkling of mixed use) pretty much solves the employees problem, esp paired with subsidizing well educated workers
Extra little tip I stumbled on last night!
You are limited to 1 geothermal facility, however you can buy a solar facility (same price per KW monthly) to increase your power production.
Once doing so you will realize the high voltage power lines LIMIT YOU TO 400kw of power transmission. This means that in early game the most power you can sell is 400kw since there is only 1 outside power connection.
By then limiting the budget to around 90% you can score a whopping 300k profit! The trick is to adjust up and down until the solar facility is as 100% USAGE (not efficiency) as this means that all of the sunlight hitting your panels is being used/sold.
Good video! Thanks for diving into this!
I'm able to use 2 geothermal plants but I total forgot about the 400Mw limit - you just doubled my cities income! Thanks :D
hey @passedyouby - Can you please clarify for me, are you adding a Solar Power Plant as well as a Geothermal Plant or just importing power until you can unlock the solar?
@@MJ.Haggis I ran with 2 windmills until I made it far enough to unlock those. Alternatively 2 geothermal would work, but I didn’t have much groundwater available early game and needed to solar.
@passedyouby Cheers for letting me know 👍🏻
Wait, so that means the more power you want to see, the more outgoing Power lines from different power plants you need?
Very helpful, thanks a lot. I'm quite a bit further in but struggling money wise so hopefully doing a few changes like this will sort me out!
Wow, that's an incredibly useful video, thanks a lot! Would be nice to see more videos about zoning and grid sizes.
This video is the one thing I've been searching for. Kudos to you for making it
Thank you for the in game example of what to do for Well Educated. My best tip for making money is to zone different sizes - it also makes for a more interesting looking city. So I start with a 2x2 neighborhood and my next area I step it up to 3 etc.
Literally came out the exact time I was looking for a video like this
im only on 10 hours into the game and had written off making a positive cash flow early into the game. didnt think it was possible. thanks for showing me otherwise
You say your new but loved this mate, easy to follow and understand. Loved the strategic house placing!! Keep up the nice videos this will help me later when i play for the 2nd time :)
Thanks for this video - we need examples like this which take us away from simply following people drawing stuff and much more toward game mechanics.
not in this community in the past so I was surprised at how much ignores mechanics
Just wanted to say, I tried this after the stream in my own city and it worked wonders. I know that theoretically, just the bonuses for rank ups are enough to keep us going but it just feels kinda stressful, having the budget in the negatives. :D
In Cities Skylines 1, it took a while but I found a rhythm to things to keep things profitable but here I kept struggling and was getting really frustrated. So thanks!
yup it just doesnt feel right, i want to see it positive like in cities skylines 1 and keep it positive while im building lol tho indeed the level up cash bonuses is usually enough but like i said, it doesnt feel right.
Thank you for making this video. I'm going to see if I'm able to do better with a fresh start. I was in the green but not at 11K. That was amazing to watch.
thanks for the vid ❤ I was looking for something like that a few hours ago, before you published 😂
I learnt a lot from this ,thanks for the very informative video .I was wondering why I couldn't make money ,didn't realise plot size was so crucial.
Neither did I at first, but it certainly helps! Glad you found the video helpful!
Utterly ridiculous that if you play the game normally, eg. you aren't premanipulating house shapes and manipulating your populace into specific fields and industries the game just floods you with Low dense demand and industry demand.
Running into this 13 hours into a city. Trying to build a downtown and some high rises, but no one wants to live in them, just half of my build able area is low density suburbs and an industry area. Really don't want to start all over especially with the complicated infrastructure I laid out and am quite proud off, but with how long term some of these effects are and how broke I am, I might have to :/
@@Valleyraven007 There's probably a couple reasons why you are failing. First start over a couple of times built and makes errors. And you will come to notice C:S2 is way more centered around first low and spam it once you fill it up and educate your citizens they want different homes and you can just destroy old neighbourhoods for new ones with bigger houses. We are way more guided in this game and I am not in favor of it but hey, mods soon and we be cheating this game to death 🤣
I didn’t have this experience, but I also have 2000 hours in CS1 and lots of “city planning experience.” From that game. It’s likely something about your city’s layout and what it offers/services are causing this issue.
On a simulation level, this game is actually working very well.
@@Valleyraven007how’s your education?
My education was ample up to university level and they still just wanna shack up in a low dense house and work in a factory.
Although I have a new complaint today. Topology does not affect wind. Buildings sure, that reduces it but theres no way to increase wind as it stands now. Also putting wind turbines in the ocean does not boost generation like previous versions.
Big thanks to you!! That was the only point why i stop playing the game. Now i try your method.
literally just had my first city go under and was searching for how to avoid this, and an hour ago this was uploaded, incredible
ngl tho, I never managed to make a profit in skylines 1 either
ETA - for the first time in skylines I actually have a profitable city. I was a tad zealous building rail and and shipping quite quickly at around tiers 9-11 tho, and the game is chugging a bit with 40k pops, but hopefully I can bring it back into the green by making sure the public transport is there to move people around a bit more
Great video! I've been trying to experiment with stuff on this game but i couldn't find a quick and efficient way to make a profit. This definitely helped a ton! Thank you!
it helped me a lot since im a newbie at this game so thanks a lot bro nice content
This is exactly what i needed! Nice video
These are great tips and my city is already better than my previous attemps. I did use the 3x6 houses, but almost every house has high rent. How do you deal with that?
My annoyances at the moment are citizens complaining about Healthcare and Noise.
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Or commercial not having any customers despite having huge profit margins!
@@TotalXclipsejust like.. real life?
YEP 🤣@@staricee
Same . Healthcare doesnt make sense . It only uses a few cars but citizens crying they are too slow …..
thanks for the video. I understand a much more know in terms of what is realy necessary. Kinda hard to start if its the first city builder.
Well planned and very good explanation. Thanks.
TLDR for my run: import services rather than have capacity sit idle. Build a garbage incinerator as soon as you have a decent garbage stockpile, export power for profit, then go nuclear.
As soon as I was leveled up enough to build all the way to the edge of the map, I built a pipeline to a neighbor so I could import water and export sewage. I found that more cost-effective than my own water pumps and sewage disposal when I didn't have many residents. As I grew I eventually set up a water pump, then later started dumping sewage.
For power I went all-in on wind, expanding as needed. While yes, at 3000/MW it's more expensive than the 2500/MW for a gas plant, being able to closely match supply with demand was very helpful, and with the advanced rotor design upgrade the cost per MW drops to 2666/MW which is basically the same. I stuck with those until I got the incineration plant, which I wasn't even trying to use for power generation, just waste disposal. But at 840/MW while getting rid of trash as well, it was so cheap that not only did I close my wind plants, I started actually turning a significant profit from selling the surplus. You can export for ~2500/MW so the profit you can turn from a single incinerator plant is about 415k/month. That by itself pays for running an Elementary School, High School, College and University (which also bring in tuition money) so for the cost of a bit of pollution you can take care of trash, electricity, and education while turning a profit.
I got my game to a stable point and more or less let it idle for a few hours until I had enough development points to buy my way up to a nuclear power plant. At 1333/MW it's the most profitable scalable power source, and I'm now making 2m/month exporting power from it (minus 1.225m for maintaining the plant, water and sewage requirements). That really turned things around for me. Technically when you factor in the water/sewage requirements it's 1633/MW for nuclear vs 1554/MW for solar (1536 after you build the tracking upgrade) but that's pretty damn close and the need to not worry about batteries, seasons, weather etc. makes the simplicity of nuclear quite attractive overall. Good way to make money :D
Very helpful, thanks!
Question; is the Solar Plant viable with this strategy?
On your last cities skylines 2, thanks for your help with money, you help me out so much.
Thanks for this video. Im currently on my 3rd city attempt. Its the first I've gotten through to the fall season and around milestone 6 or 7. Money is an issue a bit, but weirdly it seems to be doing okay. But theres a lot i fould fix and do differently.
Going to see if i can use some of these tips to improve new areas and redo old that arent already high building levels.
Ita only now that my earnings bar is getting much closer to my expenses. And I'm finding i am earning money sometimes which is nice.
I think a decent bit of money started coming after i could charge for on street parking to force people to park in car parks that i priced cheaper.
My whole city is such a big mix of nice areas with then lots of random rubbish lol. But i think thata part of the charm. Excited to start my next one keeping all your tips in mind from the get -go! Hope youre enjoyong the game.
Im gunna chuck you a sub
Tip for taxes .
1. increse vehicle tax full
2. Increase petrochemical tax full
3. Put district parking fee on road to 50 and in parking 🅿️ put it to 30-40
4. Increase educated and well educated tax 2% more than the others
5.increse media tax a little bit high ( in office)
When your vehicle tax is high people will use public transport so make sure u have pub lines and put their cost to max 50 .
in this way you will get plus revenue from transport ( decrease the transport services to 50% it will still run 12-13 buses which are more than enough)
people still going to use cars and buy cars so in this way you get enough money.
This def helps, im starting my 4th new city because every time i learned something new. When would you start creating other profitable services like farming , mining or logging?
Great! Thanks for sharing this.
Thank you for the video my city is now making money, at what point, do you switch the game to normal speed?
Smart!!!! Thanks for the video
Garbage incinerator is probably bugged at this point, if you build the base building you get like 3mw out of it which is almost nothing. But if you build the second furnace it rockets up to 70MW+. As soon as your city is large enough for one of these you build it, and you can run free electricity for +20% efficiency on all buildings, plus you're running surplus on electricity spending because you have no power plants, and you're selling excess electricity.
Mine is only producing 1mw plz helpp
@@skurvy6356 you have to build the second furnace upgrade
@@chengong388 it only went up to 18 mw
Maybe I'm still doing it wrong??
Do u mean lowering the cost for electricity when u say free electricity
very educational and usefull, thank you so much.
What are you using as your gaming computer? I would like to know what type of hardware is working good for you and most since I am on the market for a new gaming computer.
what determens the sales price? My geo plant is exporting 56 MW, but I'm only making 140K, putting my electricity tab 98,000 in the red.
Complicated, I did the same thing though you got 10k and I had only 5k.
So building a police station, fire department, school was taking me into the negative.
The game is not really teaching you on how to actually make money. It lets you build things, give you money each milestone.
It shows you what zones are preferred by the citizen.
Those services are really expensive. It just feels awkward to let it run, keep going on without them. Ahh ppl die but who cares, more money right?
Kinda feels like they should've made the base building cheaper in services costs but less effective.
And have some more in depth information on how money flows other than just "here have a window and see what happens with your money"
I still enjoy the game, it's just complicated to actually get the money flowing
Nice learnt a lot 👍 thanks
Will plots always retain their shape once their built and then level up?
Thank you. I'm normally quite good at micromanaging these sorts of simulations but this game's economy is so messed up right now. I can never stay in the positive for long. It sucks we have to cheese the system so much to make it work, hope they fix this soon.
Very userful video - thanks, man! Will you do a video about how to optimize education in a city?
I'll certainly consider it!
Hey just wondering how do u get acess to that map??
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TY! learned so much from this one vid, including how terrible i am at this game :)
10/10 thanks for your content
Interesting, so I need to start playing with efficiencies.
Higher level education facilities can also produce a profit, so it will be interesting to see what can be done there as well.
There is a power export cap at 1 million dollars, i hit one million revenue with 4 geothermal power plant unless there are multiple other city connection,
I found that the (my) game is capped at 400MW of power export or 1 million credits. I achieve this by building 2 geothermal plants, give them both one upgrade and then lower their budget until the export cap of 400MW is reached, balancing the total output to my city's need ofcourse.
pleas continue this series, your brain is much better then min :)
As long as you get government subsidies it seems that lowering the budget will lower your export, but you get more subsidies in return.
Total you are a lifesaver. see you soon on Twitch.
2:35 how to highlight three row low density housing help please? is there a key for it?
very cool thank you!
You know what this reminds me off, micromanaging Sincity at launch. And now we all know that game was just broken and couldnt be fixed.
I never build power in the beginning. That cuts down costs a lot, because I'm not spending money on power production that isn't getting used. Instead, I import energy until my monthly import cost exceeds the cost of producing more power myself. At that point, I build my first power plant, and I increase the delivery cost to 110%
I'll def try these later cus my city is in crippling debt lol
Hey your geothermal power plant worked a trick for me too thanks! However in my most recent city the power plant runs at low efficiency due to water level being too low... how do I increase the water level?
Place it where there's more ground water?
The economy of the game has become many times simpler than in the first part, making a profit has become incredibly easy, and there are a lot of ways, but the economy itself has not yet been debugged, it will still change 100 times
I tried following this guide but my city will not import any higher education people in order for this to work. I find that after each upgrade I have to keep adding services or my city wont grow, and the more services I add the more in debt I go. I cant figure this out.
I cannot ever get my zones to match up when I add roads. It cuts the original road zones and then adds with encroachment from the new road
Making money is relative simple. Keep the services away for as long as possible. Don't produce too much power to try to get export benefits. And if people start to complain about high rent, and low residential is your only demand at that moment, you need to look carefully at the shape of the zoned block. They want cheap houses, so to give them the cheapest house you need to zone blocks of 2x2, make it look like a chess board. All the "too high rent" will disappear". Also another thing, if you rank up, don't immediately start buying tiles. Keep the one you are working in as long as possible, because you have to pay for all the road/train track services within the tiles you own.
The best trick I've found for early game is actually to reduce electricity and water fees to zero. This raises productivity and profitability of your industry and commercial districts, which you can tax much heavier.
You give up about 50k income but companies get a 40% boost. It's ridiculous.
There is a hard cap at 1M $ for selling electicity. No matter how many powerplants you use. It's a good way to earn money early on, but don't base you economy only on that.
I don't think there's a hard cap - I'll do a video on it when I return from holiday
After doing some test, I stand corrected. You have 1M cap by border you're linked with. I just opened a new powerline to another border from the inital one and have been able to go up to 2M. I go down to 1M once I cut that line.
I wonder if it's capped only to prevent making a city full of wind turbine with no citizen, making money through selling power?@@TotalXclipse
there isn't a hard cap really.... its just power lines cant transport more than a certain amount... but there are ways around that..
It's not a hard cap, it's just the power lines going to neighbouring cities can only carry so much.
You dont have to connect roads to your sewage and water pumps. You can just use the pipes instead.
Start with the geothermal power plant and sell exess energy, then once you can afford it build all the universitys and colleges, this makes me almost 300 thousand an hour
Can u do this with water also?
The absolute best way to make money fast is sell preorders for a game you know won’t be finished for at least 1yr after its released date.
Why did you make 3x6 then 3x6 space then 3x6 etc., and all of a sudden, without showing that you filled in, houses were being built all all areas? did you expand the residentials into the 3x6 space?
Yep I expanded, but the point was the plot size equates to higher taxes
Thank you, I must have missed that bit. I'm assuming just for the early stages of the game.@@TotalXclipse
The exporting electricity is a little weird. I'm exporting 400mw only making about 800g-900g but if you go to the city statistics, it shows you're making over 60 million
This feels like cheesing the game a bit, but I literally haven’t seen anyone post a different method.
I hope they add the move tool into the base game!
you can move things!
Normal zones can only be replaced but special buildings can be moved when selecting the building.
Does this work on other maps bc I do t have the deluxe edition
There's no reason why it shouldn't work
what is the map in the beginning
i'm kinda sad because i think tha radio reaaaly came out worse them CS1. But i love the City Public Reports in the radio.
There's just not enough variation and I wish turning off ads, turned off the radio presenter in game
You don't sell electricity for as much as it costs to make it because you can only sell a specific amount of it. 25mw if memory serves.
So, if you making 150 mw of power, you're selling 25mw of power, that means you're producing 125mw of power that is just being wasted. Reducing the budget means you're only producing about 75 mw of power, you're selling 1/3 of it and that is leaving 50mw of power for your city to run on.
Also, you don't need ambulances and trash pickup as soon as you unlock them. They are pricey, and they will show up from off map. You can actually operate off imported services for a long time.
This game wants you to consider population. If you don't have enough need, don't build it. You should be able to nearly pay for most basic services, so if you're seeing numbers that say otherwise, you built something you didn't have enough need for.
I have a city of 3k people that has no landfill. Trash trucks arrive from off map and I have had zero issues with them keeping up. I have a place ready for the eventual build of that landfill, but until the outside city services start having difficulty keeping up, I'm not building it.
Cheers.
You can sell as much electricity as you produce, you're only soft capped by power line throughput, good to know about garbage trucks though!
College is the one for well educated, struggled to get well educated workers in the geothermal plant. Placed a college people started to become well educated and i made money off of it
I have got a question, how do u get the sqauere so perfect with no holes, i find it quite difficult
And a thinj because of that my scares are nit completely filling
Level the terrain first
Thank you very much
I can't figure out what I've done wrong. This worked for a couple of minutes, I was earning about 26k for a couple of minutes, then very suddenly the income drops to -3k and keeps falling. Does this not work anymore or have I done something wrong? The only difference I can think of is my population is larger, 3k.
Does anyone know the max export for electricity? I built a second geothermal with plans in selling the electricity but it was maxed out 400.
1 million dollars, i hit the cap with 800 being sold
I think early power lines only transport 400kW at Max. So additional power Plants need another connection to the outside world.
I get the gap to the roads, but why leaving a 3 tile gap between the houses? Wouldn't one tile be enough, to force larger properties?
Ah, you ad another "layer" of houses after the first rows are built. Genius!
The level of complexity in CS2 is unlike CS1.
How can you see how much tax each house pays? I've been using small houses, mostly because I prefer the looks of it, but this could explain why I had such a hard time turning a profit.
You can't, but I tested houses of various density for tax in a different save and the smaller houses earned considerably less
@@TotalXclipse Thanks for the answer. I've used your power-tactic to generate a surplus, so I can leave my low-density housing as is :)!
I’ve just always played with infinite demand mod and now I just cba
I just played normally. Didnt try making money. For some reason I never had money issues. Been capped at 2 million for quite some time. I think it was exporting electricity.
The geo trick %100 helps, still can't get my head around wtf is going on with commercial though complaining about customers etc. also noticed on their heat maps the amount of times it gives a green area that area is under houses so you can't even put shops there..
As for the money per hour ticker in the bottom left, apparently I was in negative 5k for a good 30 minutes yet I was MAKING money. Honestly don't get it, got rid of a bunch of stores too and all of a sudden I get housing demand...why? I got rid of jobs and now there's demand for housing all of a sudden?
Baffled.
Yeh I think they're both known bugs. I've mentioned it to the Devs once or twice
My suspicion is that the companies complaining about customers is tied to them leveling up and needing better educated customers, but that’s just a theory and not proven at all.
The only problem that I have is that I can't sell the excess. My export doesn't seem to work.
The game balancing is so far of. All services cost so damn much and rent can never be high enough to keep up. The more I play cs2 the more I love cs1
12:24 how you delete it permenantly please help?
Would building two or three power plants once you have enough educated citizens to just sell all the excess electricity to neighbours? Or is that not profitable?
Certainly can be profitable
I did the exactly same thing, but every house is showing "high rent" message
So it is the geothermal powerplant with well educated people! I wonder if there is a more general tip or rule than this? since I'm struggling in general with profitability... even with lots of populations
At 5-10k pop you should be able to self sustain your city through tax, but early game it'll be down to optimizing and selling off extra energy production
So, basically, unless you follow these steps, with demolishing buildings, and upgrade one specific kind of power plant, fiddle around with percentages, you'll lose money early game?
Seems like such a convoluted game design, based too much on realism, and no so much on fun. I wouldn't have a problem with this, but the issue is that the game tells you to do the exact opposite: Expand, expand, expand. Meet demands, meet demands, meet demands. The game screams this at you, and you're just suppose to ignore it all, in the beginning? What?
Is money a problem in early game? you get soo much when leveling up that i never run into money problems.
It hasn't been for me, hence wanting more custom options, but everyone plays differently
Tested some of these fixes on current 15k city and I managed to go in the positive for the first time! I still dont get why my city never went bankrupt though. Even when I was spending more then was coming in, I would see the amount go up. And yes, I know I get money when the city levels up, but I mean other then that. I suspect the industry thingy, but I dont know. Anyone else see this?
I've had this issue, I think it's a bug the team know about
if your city is failing you get bailouts from the government basically.... government subsidies to keep your city going.
Ah! Good to know! Thank you^_^ my city is now fully off any subsidies. I wanna play more but I have to let my CPU cool for a bit...@@arcanumelite4853
I have the same issue. It shows I'm losing money but yet the money keeps going up. I cannot wrap my head around the economy of this game.
Does this still work?
stumbles on how to break the game then is like yeah this will get youtube views lol. then ends the video.
How is it breaking the game?
The point is showing how to make money from the get go.
The bit at the end doesn't work as I mentioned in the comments, because the government subsidies reset.
Lol it's quite ridiculous I have a nice city, all services, and I keep running out of zoning space which leads me to be in negative income, even though the city keeps growing it's never enough to be in the green... Ridiculous balancing of the economy in this game tbh. I'm not against challenge but it feels like no matter what I do, it ain't enough.
Well done, think you may have found a little bit of an exploit there 😁
You roll the R in Tampere