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Anonymous
11 years ago
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Receiving taxes and earning money

I'm currently playing the sim city built it game on iPad and at first I though it was fun, interesting and fascinating. But until I reached a sudden level like 19-20. Many things will pop out and it r...
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11 years ago
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I double checked with all my services and I can confirm that ALL services (education, gambling etc..) have direct influence on city population and tax rates. Tax rates ARE higher in areas of high land value. A combination of well developed residential buildings and good service coverage from all services and parks is what leads to high land value.

I have 100% coverage for most services across my whole city except gambling and landmarks is a bit spotty. But if I was to lose them overnight I would lose over half my tax revenue!

I'm not sure how much of your revenue is from taxes but it couldn't be that much if you claim taxes are useless. At least half my revenue is from taxes and I'd rather collect taxes at high rates from a high paying city than grind away on the global markets for hours every day.

Note: i shouldnt say tax rates but rather tax revenue as the rate is set at 20%

Higher taxes indicates healthier city..taxes couldn't be more important
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Elenoe
11 years ago

then you may be happy. Because from my average land value and 90k people I got around 170k high value land just by "not required services" (transportation/education). And having 20% in both cases, tax revenue rised from like 11.6k to 13.3k. That's not what I call "crutial" or "important". It's negligible. Especially when one considers the price of services.

If every sim generated certain amount of money it would be worth investing into expensive buildings.

But so far you actually get most value on low levels. As tasks are simple there and production capacities can easily fulfill them. As you level up you only get more expenses while you are still limited by the very same single hardware shop and your taxes won't rise to make it worth 🙂

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    Anonymous
    11 years ago
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    @Elenoe- Well I suppose it all boils down to which growth model you want to use. I agree you can make a lot more money by expanding residential zones at lower levels with only essential service coverage. But this leads to a suburban style sprawl in which case taxes do indeed become negligible due to low property value and population boosts. I've heard many players say they have to eventually bulldoze residential zones to recover from this because growth stagnates and upgrades no longer become available for houses. This growth model only works for a while before crashing.

    The most stable growth model is slow and steady with no expenses spared on services and specializations and only build a few residential zones at a time until they're maxed out skyscrapers. Before building any residential, ensure you have coverage from all essential services and at least one specialization (education etc..)

    I've only been playing regularly for about a month now and my city already covers about half the map, virtually all my land value is high dark blue, the wealth forecast is all dark orange luxurious and every residential zone in the city is upgraded to the modern high level skyscrapers (the highfalutin, the One Percent etc..) except for the few zones I'm working on. I'll never have to worry about these areas again as they cant be further improved (apart from adding more specialization). So basically I'm providing as many services/specializations as needed to maximize tax revenue from my city..which in turn leads to a healthier, better looking city...isnt that the point of this game?

    So under this model taxes ARE crucial as my tax revenue is higher and accounts for half my income! I cant afford to lose half my income! And like you say it may not be a huge chunk of cash but I'm making 16k per day on taxes without lifting a finger. The other 16-20k i earn on the market IF I have time to play the markets. And it can be a lot of work making that much in the market under present conditions.

    So I prefer the slow, steady and stable growth model..relying on a high value, high yield tax base to do the work for me.

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