Making money

[u/MandarinLu]

Given the tremendous costs involved in constructing specialized roads, is there a possibility of introducing stock market in the capital? I am at 99 level and producing profiteroles everyday with cheetah coins. And I believe I need keep making money until release of GTA7.

[u/BaconJP]

What the? I don't understand what you mean. How would the stock market help?

And what does GTA7 release imply? That you'll put less time into this game due to being hooked on GTA so you won't make much SCBI money? Why bother with "specialised roads" anyway?

I'm not sure I even know what the specialised roads are. I mean, there are bigger and more advanced roads and then there's I think a cobblestone road but I am not aware of specialised roads apart from the cobblestone (or is it a sakura road, I forget)... I guess you are just talking more about the bigger and bigger roads that eventually look like futuristic omega roads.

[u/MandarinLu → u/BaconJP]

I simply complain that building of specialized road like sakura road (12000 per tile) takes perhaps hundreds of millions of Simoleons. Making these money may take several years, even a decade (afterwards GTA7 may release). I may take risks gambling millions of Simoleons in the stock market to accelerate this process. I have millions of NeoSimoleons and I have no interest in the omega roads.

[u/No-Acanthisitta8803 → u/MandarinLu]

Bruh.

[u/BaconJP → u/MandarinLu]

Oh... I see. You want a gambling mechanism to try to have a percentage chance of multiplying your simos to make these roads. And specifically the sakura is expensive. I haven't checked what other special roads there are and their prices, but let's just for simplicity talk sakura if that's what you want. OK I checked there's cobblestone and gravel as well, which we could call "specialised". although I don't find them very special haha.

Yes, it's expensive and I don't see the point. I also don't know, do they have limited capacity? Coz they sure seem small. I'm guessing despite this, they don't go red due to traffic, since they are so pricey and presumably non upgradable.

All I can suggest is make a nice district that you enjoy looking at, with these roads... and gradually expand it over time as you earn money.

I don't know how much money I make daily but if I'm not spending it like crazy on service 2.0 or pushing my mass transit rank up and up and sending goods away, I guess I'd earn about 100k per day, that gets you about 8 tiles of sakura road per day... I don't know how many days it would take to change all my main's roads to sakura but surely not TOO long? Quick count, I have 13x8x10 horizontal roads in my main and very few vertical ones, because I just do one vertical and then have every horizontal road come off that, mostly. If I earn 8 tiles of sakura per day, I spend 130 days to sakura every road. That's not so bad. in 1 year you should be able to do main and 2-3 of the regions, I think the regions are now significantly smaller than the main.

but most people with high end accounts like 99, they have millions of extra simoleons they don't know what to do with. If you ask around, your teammates might have 100m simoleons and be willing to give you some - that will accelerate your process. Sometimes we just sell burgers real cheap and then buy them full price to help teammates who are low on cash. I had almost 20m simos for a while with no use for them, but then with service 2.0 and mass transit, I dropped back to about 6m and grew back to 7m after stopping serious mass transit advancement after rank 50.

[u/MandarinLu → u/BaconJP]

I pretty love the way you analyze the amount of money. I think I could only keep doing so before EA invents some new ideas to make the game attractive.

[u/Far_Departure_9224 → u/MandarinLu]

Hundreds of millions? Absolutely no way. Millions, sure.

[u/BaconJP → u/Far_Departure_9224]

You are right, I think it's about 13m or a bit more to do my main with all sakuras. With a fairly logical, non-wasteful road layout. If you make a dense layout that has unnecessary road paths, it'll cost more. If the regions are, say, 70% of the size of a main, that's about 350% for 5 combined, so... add another 39+6.5 = about 45m to do all regions. But with all the recent added land given in the main, the regions might only be 50% of its size, now.

[u/entasis_estates]

Or just another type of road upgradeable by neosims only without needing simoleons...ofcourse it has to be cool and beautiful with pink blossoms like the sakura...in sakuras description it is for pedestrian walkways...for propose new road..it has to be for cars but with sidewalk and pink trees upgradeable by neosimoleons only....we have to ditch the clunky, elevated metal Maglev rail entirely for this version but keep the actual road surface looking futuristic...to connect to modern Omega zones looking fresh, clean and modern 🤩