Cities Skylines 2: Service Trade
Whether you’re at the nascent stages of your city and are strapped for cash, or your metropolis is flourishing with resources aplenty, engaging in service trade can prove advantageous. Through Outside Connections, your city can both import and export various services. Opting not to construct certain services can economize on expenses, though it’s noteworthy that importing services incurs costs, and there’s an inevitable delay in service vehicle arrival from Outside Connections. Conversely, for bustling and mature cities, exporting surplus services can be a lucrative venture.
Utilities like electricity, water, and sewage are eligible for this trade mechanism. Electricity from Outside Connections flows via power lines, eventually feeding into a Transformer Station or vice versa, and then gets routed to the local network. Power lines crisscross the map, enabling early-stage cities to link up with their neighbors. Clean water can be channeled into your city or dispatched to adjacent cities using pipe Outside Connections. Similarly, sewage management operates via pipes connecting to the city’s edges. To fully harness both water and sewage import/export functions, your city must expand sufficiently to touch the map boundaries, facilitating pipe Outside Connection setups. Surplus utilities are consistently offloaded, provided there’s demand, ensuring your city’s needs are prioritized. Should consumption surge, external sales will proportionally dip.
In the absence of medical infrastructures, residents might seek medical aid from Outside Connections. For those too infirm or wounded to commute, ambulances from Outside Connections shuttle them to the necessary facilities. Post-treatment, they return to the city. Similarly, a dearth of deathcare amenities sees hearses from Outside Connections stepping in to manage the deceased.
Police and fire services can be outsourced, albeit with a caveat – their reactionary times are prolonged due to their commute from Outside Connections. Furthermore, these availed services miss out on the passive effects their native facilities typically confer, which generally mitigate crime and fire risks.
If your city falls short in higher educational institutions, aspiring students may head to Outside Connections for their academic pursuits. Yet, seeking education externally might tempt them to permanently relocate. Hence, it’s pivotal to cater to your residents’ educational aspirations. In contrast, by bolstering your own educational institutions, your city can become an academic hub, luring students from Outside Connections. Such inbound students don’t merely come for education – they often end up integrating into the city’s fabric, making it their new home.
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