SimCity Mega Guide: Tips, Tutorials, Secrets, and more

SimCity has went through a lot of launch issues with the game refusing to let people play. However, these problems are fixed now and if you have been playing the game, you’ll realise it’s actually fun but also a bit confusing.

For the first time SimCity player, the game can become really challenging because of having to manage so many things and actually trying to run everything without screwing things up.

The economy has to be built and maintained and you also have to make sure that it doesn’t go into the negative. You do need money to build things in this game. No money and your economy collapses.

We also reviewed the game and felt it was pretty decent. You can check it out here.

In this guide we will show you some tips and tricks and also help you if you are new to the game by showing you how to build and maintain a city. There are also beginner’s guides so check them out.

SimCity Beginner’s Guide

If you are new to SimCity, you will find this guide very useful as it teaches you how to play and sustain a small city. As a city grows it becomes difficult to manage so using this guide you can learn the basics of how to play the game.

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Beginners guide to making money

Money is what you need to build stuff in the game. Either you can start with 0 money or with 100,000 but that depends on the type of option you choose.

This video is really good and teaches you how to gain money and the main thing here is by exporting your natural resources.

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SimCity Tips and Tricks

This video shows you basic tips and tricks you can use so that you can do stuff more efficiently in the game.

In this video you will learn how to build roads, buildings and other stuff so that you don’t get stuck later on in the game.

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Guide to build your own Rich Oil City

This is something that is difficult to do because Oil isn’t a natural resource you can find in plenty but you can do that using this video.

The video shows you how to maintain your budget and build a city with huge income.

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How to build your first city

This is a very simple guide that shows you how to build your first city. This is a basic city but you can make it complicated by boosting your population because that brings you money.

The video shows you the basics about roads, zones, water, power, sewer.

How to Traffic

Traffic is one of the biggest things you have to learn to master in this game. When you have a city with a massive population, the routes are going to be difficult to navigate because there will be tons of people.

This is where you need to plan where to place your residential, commercial, and industrial zones. There’s a hack where you can make routes in a zig zag position but the city doesn’t really look good.

Planning everything on your own is amazing and if you want to build a great city, then check out this video.

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100k Population and Traffic control

This video is kind of same as the previous one and shows you how to build a massive city and create a infrastructure that allows proper functioning of your city.

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Dealing with ground pollution and 400k population!

When you have ton of population there will be a lot of ground pollution as well because the waste will be dumped below the ground. You can recycle all the waste but it’s not going to easy and this guide tells you how to do it.

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