can somebody explain why my economy is slowly, slowly deteriorating?

[Bumberbog]

Here's what I do: (I'm so clever!)

When I start a new city, I spend about 20 minutes building it up, making small neighborhoods, until I'm getting a profit about about 15-17,000.

Then I leave the game running for several days (real time). When I come back, I have millions of dollars. Then I can plow the city over and start again without having to worry about funds.

That's the theory, anyway.

But I've noticed something curious. When I first leave the game, I'm getting, as I say, 15-17,000 weekly.

24 hours later I peek in and see that's gone down to about 8-9,000 weekly.

24 hours later and it's down to only about 1-,2000 weekly.

24 hours later and my economy is right about at $0: sometimes negative, sometimes positive.

If I leave it for another day, my economy would be deeply negative.

This whole dynamic plays out over about 4-5 days, real time.

Does anybody have any idea what's going on? What could be causing the economy to deteriorate slowly?

Note: I have the mod enabled where one has unexhaustible ore and oil, but really nothing else that might explain this.

 

[PrinnyG]

I desperately need a picture of your expenses page. I can think of a few things that would cause this but all of it is speculation without seeing the budget of the city.

 

[Elydion]

What kind of city do you build? industrial based or commercial based? if you have sufficient schools, your industry will eventually die out, because there are to much educated workers and your industry is still at the lowest level. Also, dead people. is that an issue or is your death care sufficient?

 

[Person012345]

I almost hope this is a legitimate feature to stop people doing this.

There's a default unlimited money mod. Use it.