[BeetleB]

Reminds me of when I played SimCity 2000 as a teenager. In my first attempt I ran out of money and got kicked out.

So I decided to start again. I noted down the cost of all the necessary items: Residential, city, industrial zones, cost of building roads, power plant, and utility lines, and of course water. I put the game on pause, took out a notebook, and started calculating a somewhat optimal city with the initial budget I was provided.

I built the city very quickly, and this time round I didn't run out of money, and took the game all the way to archologies. I did skimp on fire stations and a disaster destroyed most of the city, but it still survived overall.

I don't think I could have succeeded without that level of planning.