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Imagine programming a detailed city sim game, then realizing that the economy breaks if you let landlords extract rent from everyone, and the only way to fix it is to get rid of landlords and set up co-ops. Banner text for Cities: Skylines II. Welcome back to the second dev diary detailing the changes coming in the next patch. Today we are covering a few important changes not directly related to the economy and we'll go over what you can expect when loading up your existing cities. Let's start with Rent. Mostly likely you have run into complaints of "High Rent" in the game, so let's talk about it. To complement the Land Value changes, we have tweaked how Rent works. First of all, we removed the virtual landlord so a building's upkeep is now paid equally by all renters. Second, we changed the way Rent is calculated.