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Old 2012-10-04, 04:17   Link #942
Ithekro
Gamilas Falls
 
 
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
Age: 46
I seem to recall in Simcity 2000, you'd pretty much run out of fund early on while the infrustrucre was incomplete. You'd have a fuctional city, but not truely a good one. A typical tactic was to raise the taxes really high for two years. A lot of people would leave, but the debt would go away and you could finish the infrustucture. After that you would lower the tax rates to minimum to break even and the people and businesses would flood back in. After they settled a little you would raise taxes a few precent until you notice people leaving again, then lower it by a percent or two and maintain that income for most of the rest of the game, as you would gain enough income to expand the city every year, ot replace things that needed replacing without too much of a wait...even it disasters (usually...unless whatever it was wiped out a huge area of your city, that you would have a multiyear problem. Especially with electrical coverage and replacing the vital services (police, fire, and medical) and whatever roadways were lost.

While the country probably wouldn't survive that, since there really isn't someplace we can move to, more income either while stopping spending, or increased income while using that income to rebuild the crumbling parts of the infrustructure, might work out. If the debt can be paid that the taxes lowered again so people can function...then raise taxes back up to provide a reserve for other incidents, or expansion when needed...rather that "oh lets use this extra money to fund this potentially useless program that will score us money but not really do anything for the country."
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