It won’t be long now until you can build your new metropolis from the ground up. On 24 October 2023, the construction game Cities: Skylines 2 will be released. To sweeten the wait for fans, the Colossal Order development team is publishing a (new post every week on the official blog).
This week it’s all about the new or expanded economic functions. Compared to its predecessor, Cities: Skylines 2 gives you a lot more options to make the ruble roll – which can also end very badly for your inhabitants.
The economy is booming
Supply and demand also determine your everyday life in the Städtebausim. You have to make sure that your metropolis is doing well economically. This includes not only the import and export of goods, but also manually created trade routes, taxation rates on goods and services and much more.
If you’re smart, your city will be doing exceptionally well financially and there will be plenty of jobs. Then you can make further investments in infrastructure, pay back loans or do something good for your residents, for example by relieving the burden on the health system or subsidising education.
In Cities: Skylines 2, you can also build dedicated industrial zones to further increase the productivity of the businesses located there:
- Farms: There are a total of four different types for animals, vegetables, grain or cotton.
- Forestry: Depending on the age of the forest, the yield is different.
- Mining: Ore, stone and coal can be extracted from underground facilities.
This all sounds terribly complicated to you? Don’t worry: The team behind Cities: Skylines 2 has, according to their own statement, made sure that you can take on all this micromanagement yourself, but you don’t have to. So if you’d rather take care of expanding your city without having to constantly keep an eye on the economy, you should be happy too.
Unemployment is not even the worst thing
The other side of the capitalist coin is that when you do badly, it brings a rat’s tail of ever-increasing problems. And your inhabitants are also massively affected by this. They can not only lose their jobs, but even become homeless!
The homeless will then spread themselves in parks and elsewhere in the cityscape, which will not help the reputation of your city and will also have a negative impact.
Numerous windows with all kinds of controls, switches and statistics are supposed to help you keep track of everything. Whether this really works so well, you will find out in a few weeks when Cities: Skylines 2 is released.
Do you like the presented economic functions in Cities: Skylines 2 or are you afraid that the whole system will be too complex for you? Would you like to see a kind of beginner’s mode so that you don’t have to worry about such matters at all, but can simply concentrate on building cities? Feel free to write us your opinion in the comments!
