SimCity 4 > Basics > Measures Of A City
In SimCity 4 the quality of a city is determined by its wealth and mayoral rating.
The unit of currency in SimCity 4 is the simoleon (§). You use simoleons to pay for building your city, to collect taxes from your sims, and to buy and sell from neighboring cities.
You start your city with a given amount of funds. In SimCity 4 proper it is always §100,000. In the Rush Hour pack, you have three levels of starting funds:
Level | Amount |
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Easy | §500,000 |
Medium | §200,000 |
Hard | §100,000 |
If you plan your city well, your total funds will slowly rise as your sims pay out for good services. And as your funds rise, so does your mayoral rating.
This shows how popular you are among your sims. If they like you for all the good stuff you do for them, your rating is positive, more sims will move into your city, and you get rewards. However, if your sims despise you, your rating will be negative, sims leave the city, and those who are left will kick you out of office.
To keep your mayoral rating up, you must make sure that your sims have jobs, health, security, and places to shop, relax, and improve themselves.