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Hey,

 

just wondering if anybody else is having troubles getting the "Education Nation" - Trophy.

 

All other trophies I'm missing will come along it's way since I'm pretty sure this one will be the toughest.

 

If you have any oppinion or advice for me I would be glad to hear it.

 

 

The facts about my city:

1.)

- currently my city has between 110k and 120k pupulation

- I read that in theory 10% or 15% of the population should be eligible for University

- as result this would be about 10k to 12k students in my city at current

 

- but I only have around 5k split into all 3 different campuses

- I have three campuses, one of each type

- all campuses have level 4 at the moment

- I also have far more elementary and high schools built thoughout the city than I would actually need, just to make sure everybody gets the education they need

 

- city happiness is constantly above 90%

- land value is pretty much maxed out

- fire depts and all other service buildings are covering the entire city - don't think that matters for this problem - but just in case somebody wants to know

 

2.)

- I have a Collider Hadron (or whatever the name is) built

- you can on/off an option in the Hadron that disables the Hadron giving the people a high eduaction level - this option is disabled

- enabling the option at the Hadron results in all the campuses to go empty - I tested it

- this means the Hadron only educates people in low and medium education - which is also good, because I want my people to go to the campuses and not the Hadron for their high education

 

3.)

- I have no other standard University-buildings in my city, only campus sites

- traffic is always a problem but mostly the traffic "flows"

- public transport insn't built to perfection but it transports a big chunk of people - mostly by metro > bus

- my population generally won't go higher than 120k for the moment, don't really get what the problem is, but that's not the major problem at the moment

 

4.)

Policies:

- School's Out-Policy is diabled

- Education Boost is enabled

- Industry 4.0 is enabled

- Campus-Policies are all activeted except from the one that would reduce the campus income to 0

- each campus has a sports arena

 

 

Now the problem:

- student numbers are drasticaly and constantly sinking - I don't know why

- I've tried disabling the Hadron completely - no effect

 

Any oppinions or advice?

I'd be gratefull.
 

 

 

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I got the trophy, and for a long time had similar numbers to you. It was a long road to get to 15k. - i’m not an expert in the game, and can’t be sure all these things make a difference, but some of the things I did that you might try are:

 

Massively increase your residential areas, without adding any jobs. Ignore the bars telling you to build industrial/ commencial. It will fill up slowly regardless, especially if you have high land value. The Eden project will help with this. By the time I got it, my population was around 190000 IIRC.

 

Put your High schools and elementary schools inside the campus areas, so the the residential educated are all populated around them.

 

put good transport links from all over the city into the campusses. Metro especially, I found to  get high use. Each stop inside my campuses was at over 3000 daily passengers.

 

Put high entertainment unique buildings inside the campuses.

 

Improve traffic flow. You want it above 80% ideally. Remember to use roundabouts made of one way highway, and you want the same number of lanes as there are exits.

 

Free public transport.

 

Prefer bikes.

 

Educational Blimps.

 

Improve the Varsity teams. A high win rate attracts people, which attracts students.

 

Turn on free lunches on all campuses.

 

build the medical monument. Better Health = more students.

 

demolish the Hedron collider. (Don’t just switch it off)

 

Build lots of Libraries.

 

Make sure postal coverage is good.

 

demolish ALL dirty industry, and replace it with office. You don’t need any Yellow in your educational utopia. Office jobs only.

 

build leasure stuff. More tourists = more people moving in = more students.

 

Families like parks / playgrounds etc, not casinos / clubs etc.

 

 

Be patient! 

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Thanks for your thoughts mate!

 

The biggest improvement I could achieve in short time was replacing the yellow Industry Zones with the Office Zones.

 

Took only one ingame year to boost my population from 120k up to 135k.

 

It also reduces traffic in those areas since there are no trucks in office zones as it seems.

 

Parts of the other things you've written are already implemented in my city the same way.

 

This will be key to achieving this. Thanks!

 

Question:

- I don't really get it: what is the need for post offices and libraries - how do they improve my city, happiness only?

- (I have a few built throughout my city, but just very rarely)

- there is also a policy for mail delivery - changing mail into emails - the effect is reducing traffic only?

- will Business Zones be needed later on - since there will be no more yellow Industry Zones when I'm finished replacing everything? (no industry - nothing to deliver?)

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28 minutes ago, Calypox said:

Thanks for your thoughts mate!

 

The biggest improvement I could achieve in short time was replacing the yellow Industry Zones with the Office Zones.

 

Took only one ingame year to boost my population from 120k up to 135k.

 

It also reduces traffic in those areas since there are no trucks in office zones as it seems.

 

Parts of the other things you've written are already implemented in my city the same way.

 

This will be key to achieving this. Thanks!

 

Question:

- I don't really get it: what is the need for post offices and libraries - how do they improve my city, happiness only?

- (I have a few built throughout my city, but just very rarely)

- there is also a policy for mail delivery - changing mail into emails - the effect is reducing traffic only?

- will Business Zones be needed later on - since there will be no more yellow Industry Zones when I'm finished replacing everything? (no industry - nothing to deliver?)


no probs mate - on Post offices, it’s mostly about reducing traffic congestion ( which is clutch in a lot of things, especially how far a citizen will travel for thier job / purpose. that’s crucial for campuses, since you are trying to get huge numbers travelling from all over the city to one or two or three specific spots). Also - I can’t be sure it makes any difference, but in my city-mayor-brain, I figured that you need to get letters telling you you’ve been accepted to university, so... ?

 

In terms of industry, I try very quickly to remove all dirty industry from my cities as a matter of course anyways - If i have any yellow, it’s always just a small seperate town for farming industry, and another for forrestry, each with their own cargo hub and a seperate rail network to bring the product to warehouses in the main city areas, where I build the unique factories. (Those can be useful to be located near your trade school).

 

The free wifi thing is minor bonus really - IMO it doesn’t reduce traffic by enough to justify the high cost, especially in a big city. You can achieve more with a good metro system and with proper road layout. Consider an underground highway system with underground roundabouts to access, that way you only need to worry about tunnelled on-ramps in terms pf spacing.

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Hey mate,

 

I've now spent some time increasing the size of my city. Got up to 167k now - and holding it.

Thanks for your advice again!

 

Now the Problem:

- since 120k population the number of eligible students (always at 4300-4500) hasn't increase - it has stayed the same even my pop has grown by over 40k (according to the info tab)

- if I check my universities (I have 3) -  they each have around 2300-2500 students (total: about 7k)

 

Questions:

- I am kinda confused: how can I only have 4300-4500 eligible students but then having 2300 students per university?

- so does that mean eligible students isn't the same as actual students?

- and why could the number not be increasing?

 

Info:

- according to the info tab everbody in my city has at least access to the universities

- eligible for elementary school: 10k

- eligible for high school: 25k

 

Do you have any idea what's going on?

 

I'd be greatful for more feedback on this!

 

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Eligible students don’t generally move in - they grow up in the city. That means that the increased population has to ‘settle’ for a while, and start having children, who will move through the educational system.

 

you’ll probably see the eligible students for elementary school go up first, a few years after your influx of people, followed by highschool, then university, so I’d personally recommend just letting the population settle for a bit and concentrate on improving the city - road layout, new transport etc. for a while, in preparation for the eventual incrwade in uni students.

 

also, If you haven’t already, this is the time to turn on things like youth training for sports, lower ticket price for varsity games, free transport on game days etc, to encorage a lot of foot traffic around the campusses - if nothing else, that will highlight any weaknesses in your access routes and let you fix them before it truly hinders you

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Ok now I understand.

 

You're probably right. It will take time to increase.

 

Improving the road layout and so on will be the best to do while waiting. Good idea!

 

Thanks!

 

Edit:

I've achieved the trophy, finally.

 

Here is the solution that worked for me, maybe this helps whoever is missing the trophy too.

- I had to cheese it a little!

- I had a constant number of 180k (175k - 185k) population

- 10k eligable for elementary school, 25k eligable for high school, 5k eliable for university (with 9-10k already being in university)

- I had 3 University campuses spread all over the city

- possible space for 60k students (I built university buildings as crazy - just to boost the attractivity)

NOW comes the crucial part

- I turned off ALL university buildings

- I let time pass for about 5 ingame years so the city could calm down

- after this time my city contained 50k eliable students for university (still 180k pop)

- I paused the game, and turned on all university buildings again

- the trophy instantly popped

- right after getting the Education Nation Trophy I still was missing the For For-Profit Edication! Trophy (the one with 5k students in a single universty while covering all costs with the tuition fees) - see side-notes for more info

 

Side-Notes

- fast forward doesn't work if your city gets too big

- while disabling all university buidlings make sure you have enough money, because you will lose lots of it. (I had 10 million as I shut down all buildings - by the time I turned all of them back on I had about 3 million left)

- due to the universites being turned off so long, you will have lost all prestige levels

- the prestige levels will shoot up from level 1 to 5 again as soon as the academic year passes (each university campus had about 30-50k costs)

- when the academic year passed the tuition fee income jumped up to over 100k per university campus

- as I switched on all university campus buildings my academic year was about 3/4 finished, so I would guess that you don't have to hold the 5k and income>outcome for the entire academic year since I had only six weeks left

- this trophy popped immidiatly after the academic year had passed (in this time the students where over 5k in each of my 3 universites)

- traffic in my city was around 70% (not good, I know)

- overall happiniess above 90%

- public transport: only metro and bus

 

Important

- if you have the Hedron Collider or whatever the name is -  tear it down!

- turing it off or disabling the unniversity education option in it will not help

- if it's in your city you will have less students in your university campuses

- I tried all three options: only tearing it down really helped!

 

Standard Policies

- Education Boost

- Free Public Transport

 

Campus Policies

- student health increase

- both sports-policies

I literally have no idea if the other campus policies effect the number of students because I tried turned all possible combinations and nothing changed except the expences going through the roof.

 

 

Hope I could help :)

 

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I FINALLY GOT IT.

 

Okay. I'm not sure what did it, but I tested out a bunch of things, including using old and new save files, building one campus versus multiple campuses, and toggling on and off various policies. On most attempts, I peaked at 9k students. My best attempt last night was 13.3k, but I just hit 19.5k, with only a slightly higher population. I'm just going to post exactly what I did that worked, and then I'll list some things that may or may not be useful for getting this trophy to pop.

 

This WORKED:

  1. Start a new city and get a high population (150k+) WITHOUT building a university. I was able to do it with a population of 168k. I failed continuously with a population below that. To do this, I just picked a map that had a lot of land and built my city in a boring grid pattern. Build schools (elementary and high school only), hospitals, and police/fire stations. Use lots of Japanese Gardens to raise land value and promote fast growth.
  2. "Paint" an area in your city for a university and put down the roads, water pipes, and electrical lines. I chose to build ONE university in a corner of my city. I had more success with this than building multiple universities or "painting" the entire town and putting university buildings on every block, etc.
  3. Go to Info Views > Education > University and make sure you have at least 50k people eligible for university. I was NOT able to do this at 30k (or even 40k), like others have reported.
  4. Enable the following policies: Educational Boost, Free Public Transport, Educational Blimps.
  5. Put down an administrative building (I chose the Liberal Arts school), School of Education (or School of Law/Police Academy), and then a bunch of study halls, dorms, and clubs until you reach around 20k capacity. I suggest you leave the game at max speed while you do this. Every attempt I tried where I paused the game, placed my buildings, and then unpaused gave much lower results. I even created a backup save before #4 and tried this multiple times. Pausing the game before building the university gave me on average a 1-2k lower peak in enrollment.

Other tips:

  • Using a current save seems to be a waste of time, If you've already built a generic university (the one included with the base game). Basically, you would have to destroy or turn all those off, and then wait for the graduate population to die off (which might also cause some zoning issues, as offices usually require highly educated workers).
  • Getting 15k+ enrollment with generic universities will NOT pop the trophy.
  • I don't think you need more than one university, it doesn't have to be in the center of town, and the type of university doesn't seem to matter. My zoning was about 70% offices, 20% high density commercial, and 10% industry. You might be better off with more industry, but offices seem to be the fastest growing. Residential was mostly high density. I don't know if proximity to the university matters, but I had better luck building it on the edge of town (away from people) than trying to build it over existing sectors (and destroying the buildings there in the process).
  • I thought maybe destroying offices/industry or raising their taxes would encourage people to enroll in universities. It didn't seem to make much of a difference.
  • I don't know how important postal coverage is. I had five or six post offices in town, but no policies towards them.
  • I don't know how useful Industry 4.0 is. I tried it a few times, but not at all on my successful attempt.

If I had more time, I'd keep playing around with it, but this is a hard game to figure out. I just wanted to post my results for anybody still having trouble.

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I got this trophy yesterday in a city with just 114k people. Same method as other people really.

 

Built up a solid well functioning city. Good fire/police/health coverage. A lot of parks. Decent metro system. Good postal service. Traffic could have been better but it was okay 70-75%. Policies like free transport, education boost, recreation policies, educational blimps all the "positive" ones.

 

I drew out the area for the campus, watered and powered with metro stops but no buildings, slap bang in the middle of my city. Surrounded by high residential districts.

 

The only difference from other methods I've read is my school coverage wasn't great. Deliberately so. I was having real issues getting over the hump of 90k pop. I just wasn't getting new families in without zoning traditional industry and low residential with no schools within them. So overall my school coverage was in the yellow

 

When I made the attempt I had 33k eligible students. I paused the game and dezoned everything other than residential. Built the campus turning on all the policies and giving max funding for stuff and unpaused the game and 5 minutes later I had the trophy

 

I wonder if the low residential zones were what really helped here. I don't know about anybody else but my population had way too many seniors, 24% when it was 60-40 high-low residential. Once I started adding low residential zoning so it was more like 40-60 high-low the senior population was 16%

 

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On 2020-02-16 at 3:38 AM, Cleggworth said:

I got this trophy yesterday in a city with just 114k people. Same method as other people really.

 

Built up a solid well functioning city. Good fire/police/health coverage. A lot of parks. Decent metro system. Good postal service. Traffic could have been better but it was okay 70-75%. Policies like free transport, education boost, recreation policies, educational blimps all the "positive" ones.

 

I drew out the area for the campus, watered and powered with metro stops but no buildings, slap bang in the middle of my city. Surrounded by high residential districts.

 

The only difference from other methods I've read is my school coverage wasn't great. Deliberately so. I was having real issues getting over the hump of 90k pop. I just wasn't getting new families in without zoning traditional industry and low residential with no schools within them. So overall my school coverage was in the yellow

 

When I made the attempt I had 33k eligible students. I paused the game and dezoned everything other than residential. Built the campus turning on all the policies and giving max funding for stuff and unpaused the game and 5 minutes later I had the trophy

 

I wonder if the low residential zones were what really helped here. I don't know about anybody else but my population had way too many seniors, 24% when it was 60-40 high-low residential. Once I started adding low residential zoning so it was more like 40-60 high-low the senior population was 16%

 

 

My strategy was kind of similar as yours. I started with a save of 136k population, delated the harbor and universities I already have, chose the school boost policy and waited I had 25k eligible for university just to make sure. 

 

For the residentiel question, i am not sure if there is a correlation. I had 30% adults and 35% seniors and I reached 18k students, so I guess if you dezone your office zones, a senior well-educated can still go to university? 

 

Oh well

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Education nation:

Man, this was a pain to get. I had a city of 250k people and 50k eligible students by the time I could finally get this.

No industry or commercial anywhere in town. I had a good library coverage (for those struggling with the library users milestone, this really works). The hadron collider was on and uni support was off. My campus had room for 2k people as I grew my town to get the campus to prestige level 5. No idea if that helps, but I just did. After several attempts at 30k, 35k and 40k eligible students and never reaching higher than 12.5k students in the campus I decided to wait longer and build my city larger yet again. Having more libraries made quite a difference though. I ended up building a postal service as well, I never bothered with it otherwise.

 

For profit education:

This one popped before I even tried to check my progress towards it: when I first build my campus I just build enough dormitories for 5k students in an already large town (100k people). And this trophy popped within minutes after building my first campus attempt.

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On 09.12.2020 at 4:02 PM, de_digibeet said:

Education nation:

Man, this was a pain to get. I had a city of 250k people and 50k eligible students by the time I could finally get this.

No industry or commercial anywhere in town. I had a good library coverage (for those struggling with the library users milestone, this really works). The hadron collider was on and uni support was off. My campus had room for 2k people as I grew my town to get the campus to prestige level 5. No idea if that helps, but I just did. After several attempts at 30k, 35k and 40k eligible students and never reaching higher than 12.5k students in the campus I decided to wait longer and build my city larger yet again. Having more libraries made quite a difference though. I ended up building a postal service as well, I never bothered with it otherwise.

 

For profit education:

This one popped before I even tried to check my progress towards it: when I first build my campus I just build enough dormitories for 5k students in an already large town (100k people). And this trophy popped within minutes after building my first campus attempt.

Thank you very much for sharing your way to get an education nation. I'll try your way and share my own results later.

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Hi everybody! 

Anyone else is still struggling with this trophy?

I tried all the tips mentioned in the previous comments but can't get this trophy.

My city is 130k population, with all the 3 universities maxed out. So I erased 2 universities and kept one, adding enough dorms and study halls to get a capacity of 19 000 students.

Then I put all the campus facilities off, and let the game playing for about 5 in game years to get a backlog of potential students.

Stats says that I have more than 32 000 eligible people. But when I activate the university back, students number never reached 11000 (the maximum I got was 10300 students). And in the same time, the eligible people dropped from 30k to less than 10k...

Is there any other trick I could use? I am struggling for a couple of days now, and it's the only trophy I miss from the 100% besides the garbage trophy of the pedestrian areas (minus 2 DLC that I haven't bought yet).

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10 minutes ago, Anibaal_D_Jiraya said:

Hi everybody! 

Anyone else is still struggling with this trophy?

I tried all the tips mentioned in the previous comments but can't get this trophy.

My city is 130k population, with all the 3 universities maxed out. So I erased 2 universities and kept one, adding enough dorms and study halls to get a capacity of 19 000 students.

Then I put all the campus facilities off, and let the game playing for about 5 in game years to get a backlog of potential students.

Stats says that I have more than 32 000 eligible people. But when I activate the university back, students number never reached 11000 (the maximum I got was 10300 students). And in the same time, the eligible people dropped from 30k to less than 10k...

Is there any other trick I could use? I am struggling for a couple of days now, and it's the only trophy I miss from the 100% besides the garbage trophy of the pedestrian areas (minus 2 DLC that I haven't bought yet).

 

It's a bit of a cheese, but...

 

...try raising residential taxes to the point that virtually everyone in the city moves out... then once the population has dwindled to almost nothing (under 10,000) , suddenly lower those same taxes down to almost free.

 

That will replace almost your entire city population (which will currently be a natural spread all the way from young to old) with a completely new crop of newcomers - and newcomers are disproportionally weighted towards the young - young adults looking to start families, and families with early-education children.

 

About 6-8 years after doing this, that re-population boom will mean there will be an absolutely MASSIVE proportion of university/collage-aged citizens.... desperate to take advantage of your waiting facilities.

 

 

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39 minutes ago, DrBloodmoney said:

 

It's a bit of a cheese, but...

 

...try raising residential taxes to the point that virtually everyone in the city moves out... then once the population has dwindled to almost nothing (under 10,000) , suddenly lower those same taxes down to almost free.

 

That will replace almost your entire city population (which will currently be a natural spread all the way from young to old) with a completely new crop of newcomers - and newcomers are disproportionally weighted towards the young - young adults looking to start families, and families with early-education children.

 

About 6-8 years after doing this, that re-population boom will mean there will be an absolutely MASSIVE proportion of university/collage-aged citizens.... desperate to take advantage of your waiting facilities.

 

 

It seems risky, but I'll do it right away and tell you the outcomes. Should I just put my campus on while doing this, or should I wait for the new population boom to reactivate it?

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15 minutes ago, Infernopommes said:

@DrBloodmoney Hey I didn't bother asking earlier, but since you still seem to be active: If I only have offices instead of yellow industrial, my commercial always complains about not having enough products to sell. How did you solve/prevent this?


It will be more difficult to satisfy without Industrial, but you can help it by making sure there are good sized roads and clear, easy routes to the highways, and turning on “boost connections” (under policies I think).

 

Also, obviously, you need to have good traffic flow on those roads too (not too many traffic light/ crazy junctions / toll booths etc), and make sure they are well maintained (and clear of snow if it’s a snowy region.)

 

Also - I don’t often do it, but you might consider a dedicated network of industrial rail depots - on separate tracks to your pedestrian train routes. Only if you have good rail connections to your city area though, as it can be massively expensive and difficult to effectively build around.

 

Also, I think specific industry “goods” factories and warehouses from the “industries” DLC might help?

 

That’s hard to quantify if it affects non-industries specific stuff (they mostly have an effect on their own micro-chains,) but I think the  “end product” factories do affect base commercial stats - and those have much lower pollution than basic industrial zoning.

 

 

7 minutes ago, Anibaal_D_Jiraya said:

It seems risky, but I'll do it right away and tell you the outcomes. Should I just put my campus on while doing this, or should I wait for the new population boom to reactivate it?


I would keep it on, but make it “for profit”. Once you have a massive spike in young adult “eligable students” (you can see the spread in the City Info screens), turn on universal education, free lunches, educational blimps, campus advertising, and all the various enticing stuff to attract them.

 

Also - should go without saying - but ensure you have the elementary and high school capacity ready before you do the “population shuffle” - because that “boom wave” of new kids will need to learn their ABCs before they do their degrees!

 

Also - make sure to demolish any “regular” (base game) generic “universities” or alternatives. You don’t want those students to have other options than your Campus DLC campuses!

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14 hours ago, DrBloodmoney said:

I would keep it on, but make it “for profit”. Once you have a massive spike in young adult “eligable students” (you can see the spread in the City Info screens), turn on universal education, free lunches, educational blimps, campus advertising, and all the various enticing stuff to attract them.

 

Also - should go without saying - but ensure you have the elementary and high school capacity ready before you do the “population shuffle” - because that “boom wave” of new kids will need to learn their ABCs before they do their degrees!

 

Also - make sure to demolish any “regular” (base game) generic “universities” or alternatives. You don’t want those students to have other options than your Campus DLC campuses!

Alright, this method didn't work for me unfortunately. I ruined my economy with the population loss, and went from 10 millions to minus 20 millions. Thus I couldn't just leave the game running by itself since every couple of minutes I had to refuse the bankruptcy money.
Population took hours (more than 5h) to get back to over 100k, and indeed there were a children boom sometime with a rise of eligibility for elementary then high schools. But even with that my campus students didn't rise over 5000-6000 (a lot less than the required 15000 for the trophy). And since my economy didn't recover (and I think it will never do), I cannot let the game run in the background..
I will be shutting the campus off again and hoping for the backlog to cumulate over 30k-40k. And if won't work still, I'll just build a new grid boring city which will never have a campus before reaching around 200k of population... 

This trophy is really troublesome. Even the "what the" popped in just few hour of game play when I wasn't even looking for it ?

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10 minutes ago, Anibaal_D_Jiraya said:

Alright, this method didn't work for me unfortunately. I ruined my economy with the population loss, and went from 10 millions to minus 20 millions. Thus I couldn't just leave the game running by itself since every couple of minutes I had to refuse the bankruptcy money.
Population took hours (more than 5h) to get back to over 100k, and indeed there were a children boom sometime with a rise of eligibility for elementary then high schools. But even with that my campus students didn't rise over 5000-6000 (a lot less than the required 15000 for the trophy). And since my economy didn't recover (and I think it will never do), I cannot let the game run in the background..
I will be shutting the campus off again and hoping for the backlog to cumulate over 30k-40k. And if won't work still, I'll just build a new grid boring city which will never have a campus before reaching around 200k of population... 

This trophy is really troublesome. Even the "what the" popped in just few hour of game play when I wasn't even looking for it 1f613.png

 

Oh, yeah, you want to really have a few hundred million in the bank before you do a population shuffle - and at the same time you raise the residential taxes, you need to reduce your expenditure dramatically - ratchet every funding down to the lowest possible (night time and daytime funding- with the exception of fire dept., as you don't want all those abandoned houses to catch fire!)...

 

and once you get about 25% of the population back, you start slowly increasing taxes again, one % at a time to stop the financial bleeding. It helps to have Financial Districts DLC installed, because you can still be making a huge amount of money playing the stock market, independent of the city income / expenditure.

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Finally, I got this damn trophy!!
 

As my previous tries with a well established city did not work, I started a new grid city with only the basic amenities to keep it going on, but without building any university or campus ever. When I reached a population of 170k, I saved the game, painted all the city as a campus and put a bunch of dormitories and study halls till I had a capacity of around 20k and dezoned all industries, offices and high rise commercials. At that time, my university eligible people were 40k.

Unfortunately, when I unpaused the game, my university students count went slowly up until reaching around 6000 and then started dropping down! And the eligible people went also down from 40k to less than 10k.

 

At this time, I wanted to try one last thing before giving up. So I reloaded my save, built a campus again with 20k capacity and dezoned every thing apart from residential and small commerce. Then I built the Hardon Collider monument (I choose the option not to boost universities for it). I unpaused the game and the trophy popped within 10 seconds!!

For everybody else trying this trophy, if your university students start growing very slowly and took several minutes, most probably they won’t reach 15k and you should try again. You should get this damn trophy within seconds if all conditions are respected!

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On 2.07.2023 at 2:55 AM, Anibaal_D_Jiraya said:

Finally, I got this damn trophy!!
 

As my previous tries with a well established city did not work, I started a new grid city with only the basic amenities to keep it going on, but without building any university or campus ever. When I reached a population of 170k, I saved the game, painted all the city as a campus and put a bunch of dormitories and study halls till I had a capacity of around 20k and dezoned all industries, offices and high rise commercials. At that time, my university eligible people were 40k.

Unfortunately, when I unpaused the game, my university students count went slowly up until reaching around 6000 and then started dropping down! And the eligible people went also down from 40k to less than 10k.

 

At this time, I wanted to try one last thing before giving up. So I reloaded my save, built a campus again with 20k capacity and dezoned every thing apart from residential and small commerce. Then I built the Hardon Collider monument (I choose the option not to boost universities for it). I unpaused the game and the trophy popped within 10 seconds!!

For everybody else trying this trophy, if your university students start growing very slowly and took several minutes, most probably they won’t reach 15k and you should try again. You should get this damn trophy within seconds if all conditions are respected!

Got this trophy with 70k population, I salute you for going 170k, I wouldn't have bothered lol

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