

Neighborhood Deals When you have neighboring cities, you can strike Neighborhood Deals. Raise them, and you'll make yourself unpopular. Lower taxes to improve your Mayor Rating on every property of the changed wealth level. The degree of change you make affects Mayor Rating. The tax rate has some side effects of which you must be aware. Commercial Office and Commercial Service are set collectively as "Commercial." This wealth type breakdown lets you use your tax rates with fine precision to attract or deter the kind of developer you want. Tax Rate The tax rate is set by you for each of the twelve developer types. There are several ways to obtain money, and we're going to get into those, as well as ways to manage your money. Any Advisors who have important messages flash and appear animated with colored backgrounds to show what kind of news they have.īudgeting Any mayor knows that you need to keep a good, solid budget to keep the city up and running. You can consult your Advisors by clicking on the Advisors Panel at any time. Environment (Camille Meadows): Pollution, radiation, and parks.Transportation (Jamil Herd): Transportation - All Modes.Health and Education (Bettina Dean): EQ and HQ.Public Safety (Sam Armstrong): Police and fire.Utilities Advisor (Jonas Sparks): Water, power, and garbage.Finance Advisor (Monique Diamond): Budget, Business Deals.City Planner (Neil Fairbanks): General game strategy and mechanics, Mayor Rating, Rewards.It's their job to watch their respective departments and call problems and accomplishments to your attention. Not only do you have charts and graphs, but advisors to help you out. You also have charts and graphs to show you information about your city. There are many, many other visual signs of problems (crowds, piles of trash not in the landfills, traffic congestion, etc), but it would take too long to list every one of these problems and go into what may be the reason for it. Try to fix the problem - these buildings are often hotspots for fires and arsonists. The most common reason for this is the desirability for the area has caused the people to move out of there. This means it's been abandoned for one reason or another. One of the easiest things to spot is a black building.
