Chapter 139 Hogwarts Gotham Branch!
A level 5 city wants to be upgraded to a level 6 large city within half an hour, which ostensibly means it lacks 4.5 million people.
In fact, there is a lack of large sums of money.
Just to sell land for expansion, you need to buy at least 9 Type II plots of land (Type I plots are the size of a Level 5 city)
Each piece of Type II land requires a full 500,000 gold to unlock.
Here is the actual expenditure of 4.5 million gold.
Moreover, purchasing wasteland is the cheapest method of urban construction.
Road construction, water and electricity, public security maintenance, greening, and school education are the real big expenses.
Therefore, the many problems of upgrading a level 5 city to a level 6 city can be simply condensed into one problem.
Make money.
Make lots of money!
Of course, Gotham City under Xu Mu's command was not promoted through the proper way, and the proper way of urban construction could not have reached the level 5 city in just one hour.
The price of ultra-rapid development has made Gotham City's various shoddy facilities like a pile of shit code on the verge of collapse, and the citizens' happiness levels are only one step away from plummeting.
To put it simply, the city's foundation was not laid firmly in the early stages, resulting in all the seemingly prosperous construction being like it was suspended on a steel wire bridge that was only nanometers thick.
It is almost an impossible task to put more effort and get more money into this crumbling city.
If this city is left to any player to manage now, it will eventually end up in bankruptcy.
Fortunately, Xu Mu, who was a severe game obsessive-compulsive disorder in his previous life, had conducted extremely in-depth research on the game "Skyline" and almost understood all the bugs in it.
A mere sixth-level city is no problem for him!
The first thing to do is to turn the over-speed-developed Level 5 cities around from losses to profits.
This is easy to deal with. Just build a playground.
As a large-scale entertainment facility that can only be unlocked in level 5 cities, the amusement park suitable for all ages has a good money-making effect.
The ticket fee alone can be more than five times that of the park, reaching 100 gold per ticket!
Excluding operation/labor/maintenance costs, as long as 200 citizens come to play that day, an extra 10,000 gold can be earned per day.
Turn losses into profits instantly!
Of course, Mayor Xu, who loves money... and his people like his own children, would definitely not be satisfied with a large amusement park that can only bring in 10,000 gold per day.
But the ticket price has already reached the ceiling. It is not impossible to forcibly change it to 500 gold or even 2,000 gold.
At that time, the only ones who can come are the rich guys from the rich area. With only a few of them coming a day, the income is actually pretty much the same.
The expectations for building an amusement park are different from those for a public park. A park is only to meet the needs of citizens, but Xu Mu wants to make more money from an amusement park.
Since there is no way to adjust the ticket prices, the only thing that can be fine-tuned is the facilities in the amusement park.
Xu Mu spent a huge amount of money, 1,000 gold, to purchase the gate of an amusement park, which was placed above the Butterfly District in the city center, only one expressway away from the Kasamoto Industrial Park.
In this way, the residents of Kasamoto Industrial Park can also be severely exploited.
Then.
Then the watching players were waiting for Xu Mu to continue transforming his amusement park.
Xu Mu had already gone to issue the mayor's announcement.
"Gotham City's large amusement park is now online! Welcome everyone to come and experience it!"
The players were completely blown away, and the screen was filled with crazy messages.
"????"
"No, your amusement park only has one ticket gate for opening, right?"
"God A's operations always successfully refresh my definition of conscience..."
“This is too outrageous!”
"If I were a citizen of Gotham City, I would never go there... Holy shit! Is there really someone coming?"
As soon as Xu Mu’s announcement was made, many citizens quickly responded to the call and drove their cars or walked there one after another.
Since the amusement park is located in the downtown area, there were quite a lot of people coming on the first day of opening, with a total of three to five hundred people!
Also, the amusement park built by Xu Mu only had a gate and no other entertainment facilities.
Therefore, there is no need to spend any maintenance fees, and the ticket money directly turns into pure profit!
I made nearly 50,000 gold on the first day!
Xu Mu explained while counting the money: "The citizens can't have a bird's eye view like us and overlook the entire Gotham City. So before they come in, they don't know what facilities are in the amusement park. They have to buy tickets first. Once the tickets are sold, there is no refund."
Players: “…”
"No, how did he discover this mechanism? It's outrageous!"
"I seriously suspect that he has not only cheated the citizens of Gotham City, but he may have cheated other cities into bankruptcy in this copy. Otherwise, why would he be so skilled at this?"
"The main thing is that Master A's thinking is too tricky. Any strategy he picked out for Skylines is enough to blast away all the Skylines strategy collections on the market... Who would study this?"
“I totally agree…”
"So, the copies of his other SSS evaluations..."
"Shh! This is a slide that you cannot touch! Your remarks are too offensive! You are so stupid!"
"I suggest that the brother in front change the IP address to East Region/Gou Tou/Gou Tou"
After taking a quick glance at the players' discussions, Xu Mu couldn't help but shake his head in his heart.
This is just the beginning! These players really underestimate themselves!
If you only learn this one trick, it will just be an empty shell and there is no way to achieve sustainable development by exhausting all the resources.
The most important thing for a mayor is to listen to the opinions of citizens.
For example.
After the citizens visited Gotham Amusement Park on the first day, they expressed their dissatisfaction on social media platforms.
Some people said that this amusement park is too spacious, and it would be better if there were more exciting attractions such as roller coasters, bungee jumping machines, and pendulums.
Others said that this playground had too few facilities suitable for children, and it would be better if there were some activities such as blowing balloons and catching goldfish.
Good! The next day, we will improve the playground by doing things like hitting balloons and catching goldfish!
You see, it is important to listen to the opinions of the citizens.
How much does it cost to do small activities like inflating balloons and scooping up goldfish?
But if the citizens like it, then build it!
So, the next day, the amusement park had some new and cheap facilities introduced.
Xu Mu continued to issue mayoral announcements to attract traffic.
Compared to the almost zero positive reviews on the first day, the amusement park had improved a bit on the second day.
Gotham Amusement Park has a 14% positive rating!
This shows that this amusement park has been deeply rooted in people's hearts.
Of course, as the mayor of a city, Xu Mu would not be complacent about this achievement.
He continued to listen humbly to public opinion.
70% of the citizens suggested that it would be better to introduce exciting projects such as roller coasters, bungee jumping machines and pendulums into the amusement park.
30% of the citizens also suggested that they would like to have some fun activities such as carousels and bumper cars.
Since everyone likes carousels and bumper cars so much, let’s build them!
On the third day, the store continued to open for business.
At this point, the amusement park had at least something to hold up its appearance, compared to the first day when it had nothing.
The rate of positive reviews has jumped up again.
Xu Mu once again consulted public opinion that night and made improvements.
In this way, after several days passed, Gotham Amusement Park was changed several times.
But players finally discovered the problem.
They found that Xu Mu's way of building amusement parks was always stuck on the limit of citizen satisfaction.
Other people's amusement parks are open for business: 'We have this and that, come and play! '
Gotham Amusement Park is open for business: "Tell me what you guys want to play to satisfy yourself, and we'll make a compromise."
Until the amusement park was fully completed a week later, citizens' acceptance of the park was at the very edge of satisfaction.
The amusement park still does not have facilities such as roller coasters, bungee jumping machines, and pendulums that require a lot of maintenance.
But the benefits are also obvious.
Anyway, the boundary value between satisfaction and dissatisfaction will not have much impact.
But the maintenance funds and equipment costs of the amusement park dropped sharply.
As a result, the amusement park, which originally could only earn around 10,000 gold per day, exceeded its task target and eventually reached an average of 20,000 gold per day!
On the contrary, it will allow Gotham City to take advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune.
Seeing this scene, the players were amazed.
"God A's abacus beads are about to jump onto my face..."
"Don't tell me, it has to be God A! This amusement park will be closed down in a minute if another mayor is in power!"
"I suggest that you don't learn from God A. You don't have his ruthless work, and you can't calculate so carefully. If you save on everything, you will only hurt yourself!"
Although the players complained, they were still convinced in their hearts.
If it weren’t for Xu Mu, they would have no idea that even amusement parks could be manipulated behind the scenes.
Another wave of faith value increase has allowed Xu Mu to harvest nearly 500,000 points of faith!
Of course, these are just side dishes.
The true faith value will grow explosively and reach its peak at the moment the copy ends!
With the establishment of the amusement park, the steel wire of the city's development that is like forcing things to grow has finally been thickened, from the nano level to the millimeter level.
But if you want to quickly increase the population, an amusement park alone is not enough.
Xu Mu opened the city facilities directory.
After a quick glance, my eyes stopped on the two buildings: the museum and the university.
As we all know, we want to drive the population of the city.
The city must have some decent industrial pillar.
To put it bluntly, it is the reason to attract citizens to settle in this city.
Large museums are obviously one.
Although it cannot directly bring population to the city.
But it can bring tourists.
As the number of travelers increases, merchants who want to do business nearby will come and settle down.
The businessmen will in turn drive the local industrial chain.
This is also the reason why in reality many local cities can still thrive despite only relying on tourism for development.
In addition to museums, universities are also a powerful weapon for attracting population!
It can not only improve the overall level of the city's residents, but also raise the level of the industrial zone to a higher level.
It can also attract more young people from other places to settle in Gotham City. After graduation, many people will choose to stay in Gotham City to work hard and continue to contribute to Jidi Pi.
They are young and inexperienced, but have the youngest bodies and the highest work enthusiasm!
When they get older and can no longer compete with the new generation of young people, the housing prices in Gotham City, as a prosperous metropolis, will naturally be prohibitive for them.
By then, they will all pack up and return to their hometowns in the countryside to retire.
Gotham City even saved on pensions!
Let me ask, who could be more suitable than this group of people to keep the city continuing to maintain a high level of youth and high-intensity development?
For such a group, Xu Mu wanted to hang a big banner at the entrance and exit of the city: Gotham City welcomes you!
Of course, at this stage we should build a complete university town.
It is simply a pipe dream to rely solely on the few hundred thousand gold in Xu Mu's pocket.
All that can be done at this stage is to spend 100,000 gold to build a main teaching building for the university.
And named it [Hogwarts Gotham Branch]
In order to attract talents to the university, Xu Mu reduced all the fees of the university to 0.
Whether it is food, clothing, housing, transportation, school expenses, or experimental expenses, extracurricular expansion, and a series of amounts for city exchange students, all will be reimbursed by the Gotham City Finance Department!
Let them come in and develop first, they will be of great use in the future.
Secondly, a large museum was built opposite the newly planned university town area.
Let foreign tourists see that we in Gotham not only have museums, but also the famous Hogwarts University!
This is also a great publicity to attract foreign population to settle in!
This is an advantage.
The disadvantage is -
As soon as the two money-making beasts, the University and the Museum, were built and put into operation, Gotham City's finances became like a charming young woman over 30, simply sucking up the dirt! There was no way to feed them!
Xu Mu's savings of three or four hundred thousand yuan, which he had managed to save from the amusement park, were almost squandered in just a few days.
The speed at which the money was spent made all the spectators stare with wide eyes, and they kept shouting "It's too much!"
Even Xu Mu, who was always good at planning, had to borrow 200,000 gold in city bonds from an angel loan company in another city.
Anyway, this money can be slowly earned back from the people... and from subsequent urban development.
However, Xu Mu did not borrow the 200,000 yuan to further build a museum and a university. When these two are established, a huge amount of money will be spent, but after that, he can just keep it afloat and develop slowly, and then inject funds when he has money.
Hum, Little University, do you want to be filled up with big bills by the mayor? Hmm? And you, Little Museum, must be eager to inhale the mayor's big bills, right?
Of course, not now.
Now the landlord has only a little surplus food.
Xu Mu planned to use the surplus grain of 200,000 to find some quick way to make money.
Get spinach!
Oh no.
It’s about building a football field!
