New to the game, why won't these people work?

[Canyew]

http://steamcommunity.com/id/canyew/screenshot/445115829668574040

I cannot figure out why won't these people find jobs when there is plenty of open jobs on the island for them?

I figured it was a housing issues so I bought the housing thing that reduce houses cost by 50% and put up a lot of apartments, and most of them are sitting empty. I even have the editsc for social security and morgage subidises to help people move into them

What exacly am I doing worng here?

[Aidinthel]

Could be that the housing isn't close enough to the jobs. People really don't like to travel in this game. Or maybe the job quality isn't high enough for them.

[HipposinaHurricane]

You can click on that word too to get more detail, half of them may be illiterate and can't fill high school + jobs (like if the army is set to require high school in the constitution) and the other half could be in school and can't work or infants and children (if you have Obstentrics set in your hospitols the population grows very fast (up to 50% too high if 5 hospitols have it).

[Lцсᶖаᶇ º¹]

Tropicans are work-shy.

[Canyew]

Im off that mission now or I'd take new screenshots. For travel distance I do have parking garages everywhere to make things easier, and I have metro statons. There was a lot of open jobs for all the different education classes. It might of been the Obstentics. Since I had 3 hospitals and 2 clinics with it checked on.

[Canyew]

The other issue was that I had all these apartments, but no one wanted to move into them. Most of them rather live in shacks, even though they could afford the apartments due to all the edtics I signed in.

[ram4ix]

From my experience sometimes it's education that's inadaquite and sometimes it's the job quality that's too low. Raising pay, raises job quality. But sometimes the game is just messing with you :D atleast that's the conclusion I've come to. I've seen rich people live in shacks there... :D

From your screenshot, those over 400 that are not in labour force. Those are usually children and elderly - people who by law do not need to work. Seeing how you have only 7 retired tropicans I'd say that the rest are children.
Constitution regulates this.

You have 54 unemployed tropicans, with yur population size that's 3.56% unemployment. I haven't checked this in this game, but usually unemployment rate of about 4 or 5 percent is recomended. Mybe it's not possible to have 100% employment - just a thought, wil have to check it.

You have a lot of open jobs, that's not good. It means that buildings you invested in are not working or are working at a low efficiency. Not enough tropicans to fill all those jobs. Unless you expect a sudden rise in labour force, I'd suggest to lower the open job count.

i understand that you've moved on in your game, but still I hope that some information will come in handy to you.

[The_Pastmaster]

Originally posted by Ḷцсᶖаᶇ º¹:

Tropicans are work-shy.

WORK-SHY?! Not on my island! D:< Los generales!

[Canyew]

Originally posted by ram4ix:

i understand that you've moved on in your game, but still I hope that some information will come in handy to you.

I ended up finding out the problem later on while playing another island in the campainge. I was running into the same issue and all the people not working we're kids.

Only way to really fix that is piss everyone off and ameened the consitution so that kids are supposed to work... Which isn't my bag. So I just need to learn how to scale back.

[ram4ix]

Originally posted by Mz Canyew:

Originally posted by ram4ix:

i understand that you've moved on in your game, but still I hope that some information will come in handy to you.

I ended up finding out the problem later on while playing another island in the campainge. I was running into the same issue and all the people not working we're kids.

Only way to really fix that is piss everyone off and ameened the consitution so that kids are supposed to work... Which isn't my bag. So I just need to learn how to scale back.

Yes, If you make children work, job quality will drop. Happy workers = productive workers.

Essentially you would need to use constitutin options and edicts that allow you to control population. When ever something is let "open" issues arise.

[Canyew]

Here is my next problem. Filling homes. http://imgur.com/a/kq16c

Don't mind the graphics settings, I am playing at work, and the work computer is a toaster.

[ram4ix]

Originally posted by Mz Canyew:

Here is my next problem. Filling homes. http://imgur.com/a/kq16c

Don't mind the graphics settings, I am playing at work, and the work computer is a toaster.

Yeah, I had the same phenomenon. I came to a conclusion that it's about location. They wan't to live close to work, they wan't it to be bautifful and have good housing quality, but not necessarily the best, since it's only for the rich. I started the game with the assumtion that I would make one residental area like in other games, but this one works differently and I had to make several residental areas to match job availibility.

My advice - check where there are a lot of shacks close to each other and build some housing there, you might even try to see how rich (or poor) are those tropicans living in those shacks and offer them different housing levels to match. When you press on a shack it shows who lives there and from there you can chech their well being.

P.S. I'm no expert so I might be wrong as well :D

[Miquel Sanchez]

Make the jobs, then place the houses... it's backwards but it's how the logic works.

[Centurion]

Originally posted by Mz Canyew:

The other issue was that I had all these apartments, but no one wanted to move into them. Most of them rather live in shacks, even though they could afford the apartments due to all the edtics I signed in.

remove those shacks by force and lower down those apartment rental rate. Slowlly increase the rental on luxury apartments.

[Kunovega]

Originally posted by Mz Canyew:

http://steamcommunity.com/id/canyew/screenshot/445115829668574040

I cannot figure out why won't these people find jobs when there is plenty of open jobs on the island for them?

I figured it was a housing issues so I bought the housing thing that reduce houses cost by 50% and put up a lot of apartments, and most of them are sitting empty. I even have the editsc for social security and morgage subidises to help people move into them

What exacly am I doing worng here?

See where it says illiterate at the bottom?

Now click on open jobs and see how many of those jobs require highschool educations. Most of the unemployed probably don't qualify for the jobs you have open

Not everyone can pass highschool even if they try, and even if they can it takes time

PS the better you pay your teachers, the higher the quality of education, the more people pass (you can see pass/fail on each highschool)

[Jet City Gambler]

You can also click in the shacks and see what the housing quality is, sometimes just because of location they'll be higher than country houses and poor people can't afford apartments.

Try building some tenements with electricity in those locations, they have relatively high quality. Also enact Social Security so the elderly and students can afford housing.