10 Video Game Exploits For Getting Rich FAST

7. Insider Trading - Citites: Skylines

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Cities: Skylines requires immense amounts of cash to fund all the projects and megabuildings you want to add to your city. It usually takes just an equally large amount of time to gather said cash, but there is one neat little exploit that can make you rich in a matter of seconds—insider trading.

Unlike its real-life counterpart, the art of influencing the free market is a perfectly legal and easy thing to do in Cities: Skylines. All you need is a stock exchange building and an adequately developed industry district in your city that you can purchase stocks in.

After you put down all the buildings you need, getting an infinite supply of instant cash is as simple as cutting all funding to your industry, waiting for its stocks to drop in value, and then raising the industry's funding to a maximum so that your dirt-cheap stocks suddenly become worth ten-fold of their original value.

This method can rake in millions of dollars in a matter of seconds, and there's virtually no downside to using it in your city, so feel free to abuse it to your heart's content.

Just remember not to use what you've learned from the game in real life.

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