In Cities: Skylines I find that sometimes I miss something when initially setting up a new city, be it connecting power, finalizing a water / sewage supply or whatever. This typically results in having to restart the game and watching it load again.
Is there anyway to speed up population growth, other than cheats or mods, that would allow a city to not loose money so that the loans feature can be enabled sooner? Or is there some other way of bringing in money rapidly to pay for essential items before people abandon their homes?
Best Answer
You need constant growth without growth spurts. Your problem is likely related to growing to rapidly and, thereby, your population demanding services that become available with milestones without having the necessary funds to buy and support them.
Grow your city slowly, adding only a few residential zones at a time and focus first on breaking even and then generating a small profit. As long as your cims are employed they will remain in the city and generate some revenue.
At that point speed up your game time and accumulate some funds before expanding past the next milestone. Rinse and repeat until you have unlocked all basic categories relating to garbage disposal, crime, health, and education (fires don't seem to matter much).