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Advice is simple: apply patience. You don't want to build and upgrade too quickly in the beginning, but do it balanced. Before you even start building/upgrade, make sure that everything you need is there (electricity, water, wastemanagement, sewer, etc.). Sames goes for fire dept., police and health. When you have those, you can build/upgrade. Parks, entertainment etc. are nice, but not essential, but they will enhance satisfaction and population growth. Don't spend all your money at once, keep some savings for unexpected situations (like roads that need to be upgraded).
Patience is virtue if you want to build without spending actual money. It can be done. Eventually you will get to a stage where you produce more than you need and then you start selling superfluous items and earn money, but it takes time.
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Yep, I'm at level 24 and have a 100% happiness rating (and have had for a long time). The trick in the early stages of the game is not to level up until you have the simoleons to pay for whatever new thing the next level unlocks, which means being patient and selling stuff until your balance is high enough.
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The others have said it right: it's all about patience. I'm at level 31, 450,000+ population, constant 99% happiness rating. I haven't spent any money.
Don't upgrade beyond your means, that's the key. Check the coverage of your area services (fire, police, medical) and the capacity of your other services (power, water, waste, sewage) frequently and don't create new residential zones until you're sure you have appropriate coverage already in place. If you build a residential zone before it's fully covered, you'll end up dropping your happiness rating and losing tax revenue while you scramble to get the funds together to buy the necessary services.
Even if it's going to take a day or two or three to get the necessary services in place, be patient and let it happen. Try not to buy items to upgrade RZ's -- craft them instead, even though it will take longer. That will keep 100% of your income going toward building services so you'll complete them faster.
Hope that helps a little. mileyhappy:
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Yes it's possible. When I first played the game, I had only 20% happiness on level 8, had 200 simeleons, gladly deleted it. After a while, I wanted to start again Second time round is so much better, way better.
This isn't a game where you build a city and finish it on the day. This is the kind of game where you play a little bit, check out, check back in an hour, come back tomorrow.
Build one house slowly at a time. This is very important. You need to save a lot of money at first and this will require just doing a lot of production and selling items. This will take a lot of patience. Don't buy another store like "garden store" if you can't afford it. It is tempting but there is no rush.
When you buy a fire or police station, pay attention to the coverage area- the red and green shades. This is a huge thing I didn't get at first. I bought 6 fire stations and couldn't understand why they were still complaining over lack of fire service. The same thing applies to parks-watch the blue bars inside the houses.
If Sims complain in blue, then it's alright, it doesn't affect happiness or population. If it's in red then you need to attend to it.
Always keep in mind to save and keep building up money. This is the only way you have control of the game before it has any chance to defeat you. I see people complain about how it costs 6 grand for a road upgrade- that's not the way to play the game.
If you're struggling at first, it's most likely you don't have enough of the vital stuff like power and water and sewage etc So you can't rush with building new houses.
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