No demand for commercial zones.
Bryan Schlickbernd
demand for commercial.
The demand for res. and industry is hardly up at all either.
I've got a high aura, high education, and health. What the hell is my
cities problem.
oh, and my sims won't stop complaining about taxes, even though they are at
4%
Prophet
know why, but a pop of between 250,000-300,000 is the point in a city where
growth slows and you have to spend some time getting it kick started again.
If you can, try building rail links to your neighboring cities. If you
haven't gotten those annoying "it's time to look beyond your borders"
messages, you will soon, and doing this seems to be a way out of this lag in
growth...That and concentrating on optimizing your city for hi-tech
industry.
Mel
Bryan Schlickbernd wrote in message <92925368...@news.remarQ.com>...
Mad Mikey
"Bryan Schlickbernd" <schl...@ricochet.net> wrote:
> I've got a pop of about 250,000 and the year is 2015, but their is no
> demand for commercial.
> The demand for res. and industry is hardly up at all either.
> I've got a high aura, high education, and health. What the hell is my
> cities problem.
> oh, and my sims won't stop complaining about taxes, even though they
are at
> 4%
>
>
You might try adding another airport or adding road or subway
connections to your neighbors - they seem to help raise the
commercial/residential "cap". Try to work towards getting a spaceport;
that seems to drastically raise (or remove) the commercial cap. FWIW,
seaports seem to help industry, but not commercial - and once you've got
a spaceport you can start demolishing airports with no (apparent) ill
effect.
OH, and don't forget to place YIMBY's such as parks in commercial zones.
As far as taxes, try running to around July, then jacking-up the taxes
to 22 (all 3) for appx. 3 mos. Watch the population; when it drops
drastically and its RCI "hits the basement" then lower taxes to
something like 7-4-8 (depends on the year & your city)... It should
"shut them up" for awhile and increase demand on all fronts (I know,
sounds crazy, save a copy of your city before you try it - but it's
worked for me in the past)...
You also might try hitting "pause" and 'bulldozing' the buildings
that'll get abandoned, perhaps even de-zoning or replacing some of them
with YIMBY's before lowering taxes.
Hope this helps a little,
Mike
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Stock exchange (by over 300%!)
Airport and subway connections
Road and highway connections (lots of them!)
Place these near your commercial zones and see what happens. Also are your
commercial zones nice and central in the city? That's where they prefer to
be in a large city.
And remember that the space port decreases demand for commercial and
residential in the surrounding area (but you will have no problems with this
yet as your pop is not up to 350K), and increases only industrial.
Hope that's helpful and not just repetition of what you already know. :-)
Tim
Prophet wrote in message <7k0jrg$aa4$1...@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net>...
>This is just about the general lag point it seems for all cities. I don't
>know why, but a pop of between 250,000-300,000 is the point in a city where
>growth slows and you have to spend some time getting it kick started again.
>
>If you can, try building rail links to your neighboring cities. If you
>haven't gotten those annoying "it's time to look beyond your borders"
>messages, you will soon, and doing this seems to be a way out of this lag
in
>growth...That and concentrating on optimizing your city for hi-tech
>industry.
>
>Mel
>
>Bryan Schlickbernd wrote in message <92925368...@news.remarQ.com>...
Rick Braun
my seaport, and searched for traffic jams and fixed them by adjusting the
roads or adding subways.
Rick
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