Cities: Skylines

Cities: Skylines

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Make Them Pay

Make Them Pay

Have both residential tax rates over 5% higher than industry for one year

15 XP

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How to unlock the Make Them Pay achievement in Cities: Skylines - Definitive Guide

The achievement requires you to set the tax rates of both Low-Density and High-Density Residential zones at least 6% higher than the Industrial zone’s for a year. I had the tax rates at 13% and 7% respectively.

The High-Density Residential zone comes available when you hit the 6,500 population milestone.
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22 Apr 2017 18:31

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You unlock the zones at 7.5k, not 6.5k.
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By GrawlNL on 26 Mar 2020 22:42
Unlocked at 5k for me.
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By GR34TD3STR0Y3R on 30 Jan 2022 09:31
the milestones change based on the map mostly to do with buildable area, the one for high density zones is Big Town
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By Sedgendary on 06 Mar 2022 22:50
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If you have any mods enabled, it will disable your ability to get achievements. If you have a city that you started using mods on, then that city is "dead". Your city must never have the taste of mods if you want achievements. I suggest having a separate city for achievements and naming it something so that you know to disable mods when playing on it.

This achievement is pretty easy. But, can be hard to handle if your city is kind of small.

1) Set everything other than residential to 6% tax rates. (Low Density Commercial, High Density Commercial, Industrial, and Office)

2) Set all residential taxes to 11%. (Low Density Residential, High Density Residential)

3) Wait 1 full year.

That's it!

Some things to keep in mind:
- You can change the taxes by clicking on the stack of money on the bar at the bottom and then clicking on the first tab in the new window.
- Depending on what your taxes were at before, you could see quite the hit on your weekly income.
- Feel free to adjust those values as you see fit. But, make sure that none of them are less than 5% from each other at any point during the year period.
- The bar in the bottom left that keeps filling and depleting is your progress bar. Each time it resets, you've gone one full day.
- Take a note of what day-ish you started on. Then check Steam (or here) when it has passed to make sure you can change your taxes back.

Happy hunting!
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