City Economic Simulation DLC of Capitalism Lab

Become an entrepreneurial mayor with City Economic Simulation DLC! Put your urban planning skills to work as you build new cities from scratch, form your own political party and shape public policy, while simultaneously growing your business empire!

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The City Economic Simulation DLC expands Capitalism Lab into a dynamic city-builder hybrid, blending corporate management with political and macroeconomic strategy. Here’s a brief overview of its core features:

Dual Roles as Tycoon and Politician: Manage your private corporation while influencing political campaigns to elect a mayor, then switch to government mode to enact policies and build civic infrastructure like hospitals, schools, and parks.

Economic Growth and Job Market: Corporate expansion creates jobs, attracts residents, reduces unemployment, and boosts the city’s overall economy through realistic simulations of GDP components (consumption, investment, government spending, and net exports).

Quality of Life Management: Balance civic investments to improve the Quality of Life index, drawing in more citizens and businesses, while funding operations via taxes—juggling rates to avoid avoid curbing business expansion.

Ultra-Realistic Macroeconomics: Experience booms, busts, inflation, wage fluctuations, and interest rate changes driven by city-wide economic interactions, creating emergent challenges and opportunities.

Political and Business Integration: Form and guide political parties, use influence for business advantages, construct landmarks, pursue city-specific goals, and tackle new scenarios that test strategic depth.

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Taking Economic Simulation to a New Level

The City Economic Simulation DLC features the most realistic simulation of macroeconomics ever implemented in a game, enabling your business decisions to impact the city economy in a meaningful way.

Starting with the simulation of the GDP (Gross Domestic Product), it uses highly sophisticated simulation models to simulate the following components of the GDP.

1st GDP component: Consumption is the total value of goods and services that are bought by the population simulated in the game.

2nd GDP component: Investment is the total investment made by the player and AI corporations in setting up new businesses.

3rd GDP component: Government Expenditure is the total expenditure of the city government, which can be run by a player controlled mayor.

4th GDP component: Net Exports equal to exports minus imports. Imports occur when companies in the game purchase products from suppliers in a different city. Exports occur when companies sell products to business clients in another city.

Together, they contribute to the GDP growth and make a huge impact on the economy, leading to booms and busts in the economic cycle, affecting inflation, employment rates, wage rates, and interest rates.

For example, when your company embarks on a large-scale business expansion in a city, it increases the Investment component of GDP, which in turn contributes to the GDP growth and kicks the economy into the high gear. The newly established companies create jobs for the city, lowering the unemployment rate. Subsequently the tightening labor market will force companies to raise salaries of their employees.

Further along in this chain of effects, a higher wage rate leads to increased consumer spending, setting the stage for inflation to rise. When rising inflation is unchecked and eventually runs rampant, the central bank will have no choice but to put a break on it by hiking the interest rate aggressively, which will inevitably drag the economy into recession.

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City Economic Simulation DLC Tutorial Videos in German

We recommend the following excellent German tutorial videos created by NickFrei zockt.

Click here to open the YouTube playlist showing all the videos in this tutorial series.