There comes a time in every students life
Under the current system of progress, the culmination of debt is inevitable.
This phenomenon can really only be addressed in two ways; pay it off or let them grow old and die in debt.
No one student is promised a career of rewards or even a good life in dcity.
It is up to you to decide how to move forward and provide the best optimization of each citizen type.
There are many citizen professions/types that students can evolve into including but not limited to: Scientist, Worker, Policeman, Hacker and even Homeless.
The possibility for students to become homeless is rather disturbing but there are still solutions to improve their quality of life in a twisted kind of way.
Experimental Investigation
You can actually run super crazy experiments on your citizens in dCity.
Citizen Experiments were introduced a few years ago and offered a way to access Tax Refund stat for fairly low cost.
This game feature changes citizen types for a fee of 200 SIM!
Experiments can be used in one of two ways that are beneficial to Mayors.
- Experiments on undesired citizens that need better optimization as Sick Citizens.
- Experiments on extra stock to roll the dice for Super Citizens.
WHEN & WHY TO EXPERIMENT (also how and who)
When you are sitting around with some citizens who aren't really contributing to society in the way of working towards daily dividends it can raise some questions.
You may ask yourself:
Why aren't these blasted citizens doing anything to make me money?
There are quite a few citizens who don't have the Tax Refund stat which means they aren't adding immediate positive daily dividends of passive income.
This is WHEN you may be considering the WHY Experiment.
Citizens like Worker and Scientist are able to be used in recipes for some powerful combines that provide Tax Refund and other benefits.
The most useless citizens basically only provide a positive population stat.
At this time the only citizens that I would advise to be experimented on would be Homeless and Criminal.
How to Handle Homelessness in dCITY
I have one Homeless available for Experiments at this time so let's run it and see what we get!
How to access Experiments is through the City - Dashboard - Experiments tab.
You will have to select the citizen type and designate the amount of them to load into the cart and then submit your payment to the card cart to finalize.
Once your payment is processed check your notifications for your newly minted change in citizen type.
In this case I was able to successfully mint a Sick Citizen which has some deadly negative stats but also provides the valuable Tax Refund stat!
Turning a Homeless citizen into a Sick Citizen is the most effective way to handle Homeless and still maintain ownership.
There is another option by using the Marketplace to sell Homeless which is actually more valuable than the Sick Citizen at this moment.
Experiments aren't going away but Sick Citizens are seen as undesirable by those who cannot afford to hold their negative stats.
Purchase of Sick Citizens for their Tax Refund stat is a viable strategy for climbing the leaderboard.
New players can access Citizen Farming with cheap access to the Tax Refund stat on Sick Citizens.
The volume on Homeless is low and they only seem to be going down in value but the lowest Ask is about twice the price of the lowest Sick Citizen so it may be worth it to list and sit on the market for that potential.
Do you have any Homeless in your city?
Let us know in the comments how you deal with these citizens!