Trade with other cities is a bit more varied. It allows you to quickly increase the amount of available cash inflowing to your budget and you can trade with it even if you have a negative balance. Omnicorp is this kind of vendors that you can sell everything and buy also everything but more expensive than it would normally be sold. Its supplementation in the city is normal so build appropriate buildings such as power stations and oil wells.Īnd what if there are no suitable areas (in this case oil fields)? When commodity becomes difficult to obtain the only way is to buy it in Omnicorp or in one of other cities built earlier. Don't worry about it as long as their availability isn't showed with the yellow marker. Soon there will be shortages of fuel and electric current.

You can sell them in order to make up for the losses in the budget made by the development of the town.Īs the village develops you will start to notice deficiencies manifested as negative number of tokens of a raw material. Your first contact with trade should take place after less than or about one hour when the factories or farms will start to produce excess goods. It may be, for example, a combined group of villages encircled by vast fields and farms if it only can bring a fair income to the municipal coffers. It does not necessarily have to be a giant metropolis with skyscrapers soaring over the entire surface. Each map has a certain predisposition to fulfill a specific role.

Cities xl 2012 guide