r/SimCity

I'm new to game and everything seems out of control, I just don't have enough coins to manage all things and when I upgrade the houses, to get coins, their needs just increase,

Is this normal? And how can I manage this?

St Helier, an Island of 50,000 residents in the Euroean building style. No cheats or modifications, cityscape achieved using the historical buildings function.

I also found Wizardry

Salt River, an unmodified/no cheat city of 250k population. Founded 1900, game year 1999. I use the historical building button to try and shape realistic cityscapes.

I still didn't have a chance to grow my regional play - was tweaking and improving my existing cities - focused on:

1. education.
2. transportation (trains, buses and subway).
3. neighbouring deals (that was tricky for one of my cities, as it grows on four islands and I don't want to run the power lines across the water (the existing ones are temporary) - I would have four different power deals for each island from four neighbouring cities).
4. environment - getting rid of dirty industry (not so easy actually).
5. aesthetics - the road placement, symmetry and organic look.
6. power - got a hydrogen power plant as a reward, but it's too expensive for my cities - will come back to it when high-zoning the residential neighbourhoods.

I am pretty happy with how it unfolds so far. I am usually scraping the whole thing altogether and starting over, but with this one looks good - organic and with very little of a boring grid. Also I decided to place water pipes underneath the roads - got inspired from the real world example, where a road was closed for good three months because of the pipeworks.

Now - highways and more subways - focus on transporation effectiveness - the most fun part.

Wish me luck! :)

Feels a-lot more comfortable to build my cities like this