Summary
Cities: Skylines 2had to remove landlords from the game after they began charging too much rent - the game is about realistic city building, but fair enough.
In a blog post announcing the update, developer Colossal Order says that it has “removed the virtual landlord so a building’s upkeep is now paid equally by all renters”. I wonder if that’d work in real life.
It looks likeyou can be a landlord yourself in Fable 4, which fans areecstaticabout. Time to squeeze every penny out of Albion by buying up all the property.
Rent will now be based on a household’s income so that if they don’t have money, they won’t complain and will instead spend less on resources. You won’t see the “High Rent” warning unless their income is too low, which will prompt them to find cheaper housing or leave the city entirely.
If Business' Can’t Pay Rent, The Building Will Eventually Collapse
The new update doesn’t just address the growingly high rent prices of your everyday Joe in Cities: Skylines 2, but the big corporations as well.
“Besides rent, households and companies need to pay for the building’s upkeep, which in turn affects the level of the building,” Colossal Order writes. “When they pay the full upkeep fee, the building condition increases by a constant amount until the building levels up and the tenants start paying towards the next level.
If they cannot pay it, the building condition decreases by the same amount until it’s in such poor condition it collapses.
“Similarly, if they cannot pay it, the building condition decreases by the same amount until it’s in such poor condition it collapses.”
So, the big punishments for failing to pay rent are either A) moving out of the city, i.e. being exiled, or B) your building collapses. You might wanna make sure you’ve got some cash put aside just in case then, eh?
Cities: Skylines 2
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Cities: Skylines 2 builds on its predecessor, adding to the simulation through extensive management of transport, economy, population and climate.
