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Free Money

Trigger the SimCity free money glitch by making your cash flow negative, potentially netting over $700,000.

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Trigger the SimCity free money glitch by making your cash flow negative, potentially netting over $700,000.

This glitch can occur in SimCity when your cash flow goes negative. It appears to deposit a large sum, potentially around $777,777, into your city's funds. The glitch is triggered when your city cannot afford its expenses, including loan repayments.

  • Bank Present building
Walkthrough
  1. 1
    Build the Bank Present.
  2. 2
    Take out a loan from the bank.
  3. 3
    Build extensively to spend the loan money.
  4. 4
    Wait for the end of the year.
  5. 5
    When the budget screen appears, set the tax rate to zero.
  6. 6
    Back out of the budget screen and spend all remaining loan money.
  7. 7
    Ensure you cannot afford the upkeep for buildings like roads or police stations at the end of the year.
  8. 8
    You will still owe the $500 payment to the bank for the loan.
  9. 9
    This negative balance should trigger the deposit of over $700,000.
Tips
  • This glitch can be forced by building a new city or possibly in practice mode (this needs to be checked on the NES prototype).
  • The glitch seems to be a safeguard to prevent you from losing the game when your finances go into the negative.

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