To skip the tutorial.
Click the Getting Started
button on the home screen. The tutorial city will load, and a welcome message popup will show in the lower corner.
You must click the Okay
button to start the tutorial in order to skip it. If you don't start the tutorial, then it won't work.
Once the next popup appears called "CAMERA". Click the options button (...
in the upper right corner, and then click Exit To Main Menu
.
When you return to the main menu the tutorial will have been cancelled. You can now go and create your first city for that server.
In my experience so far, the most important factor in increasing industrial tech is placing a community college or university in your city. You can also accelerate the process of converting your industries to high tech by placing this near your industry. It will immediately boost their happiness (you will see green smiling faces pop up), and they will begin to develop very soon.
For example, let me give you a scenario from my play time last night. I had a decent size city going (50,000 pop), with demand through the roof for residential and industrial zoning. This city is currently the only one in the region, so there were no outside factors influencing my city education level, or any sims coming from other cities for jobs. I had a large industrial sector comprised completely of low tech dirty industry, even with a well funded grade and high school operating.
Having read the tool tip for the community college, I decided to plop it on the edge of where my industrial zones met my medium to low income housing zones, as the tooltip indicated it would help boost industry and be a place for mid income sims to receive college training.
The moment, and I mean literally the moment, that my community college staffed itself and opened its first classes... every factory within 4 blocks began upgrading itself to mid-tech industry. In fact, my income dipped about $4000 while all the factories upgraded at the same time.
So, in conclusion, if you want high-tech jobs, you need not only educated sims, but college educated sims, preferably university educated for the highest tech level.
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The easiest way I have found to level xx profit/day HQs specifically is the following method.