No one is moving in

[Granini]

Hi all.

I am new in the Sim City series. I have played the Tutorial and all was fine.

I startet my own region and began to place Living space, industrial zones etc. But no peeps are moving in my city. It has power, water, eveything but is say 0 sim living in my city.

Why do they not build there houses on the residental zones i placed? they are conectet with streets and all.

[Cahos Rahne Veloza]

What density zones did you place first?

In the very beginning you should start with Agricultural Industry, then lay in low residential followed by low commercial.

Here's a great vanilla let's player video for you to watch...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMzz2LPYYsY

[WhatWillTheNextDowndateBring?]

You can completely skip agricultural...

[Cahos Rahne Veloza]

Publicado originalmente por richnathaniel9419:

You can completely skip agricultural...

So says a wannabe expert who wants to hack his school's library computer so he can play videogames on them. Go eff off somewhere else kid :P

Also you clearly do not understand how to play the game well. At the very beginning Agriculture is going to be the first Industry type that will be highly desired as it is the game's equivalent to "low density" RES and COM.

[WhatWillTheNextDowndateBring?]

No hacking, no schools involved at all, total fail on your end.

Yes, agricultrial starts with high demand at the very beginning, so what? So does dirty industry, a.k.a., my point, that you can skip agricultrial and go straight into actual industrial factories. Fail 2.

Fail 3 is you claiming people should zone agricultrial if they zone low density res and com simply because the agriculture zone type is also low density, that's totally meaningless! I don't know where you got that idea from, I think I heard the Cities series does something like that? But here in SC4, it's based on education, land values and maybe health. Agriculture and dirty industry is attracted to uneducated workforces, they don't want educated ones for they'd be overqualified, attracting clean industries instead. Then commerical office once landvalues are high enough, police coverage etc. You can have high density ind zoning to imploy low density res with med com density between and all it will mean is you may need to zone a larger area with the res due to it being low density, duh. The different density types is for simply telling the game how tall you want buildings there to be.

[Cahos Rahne Veloza]

I'd rather listen to someone whom I'm absolutely certain they know what they're talking about than some w@nker seeking attention and trolling in these forums. So yeah screw off jerk wad :P

[WhatWillTheNextDowndateBring?]

So just because you have a raging hate boner against me, you're gonna remain willfully ignorant of the facts and therefore probably continue smearing this forum with your misinformation, lovely... Well, hopefully, if you wont listen to me, you'll listen to someone like MGB who I can confirm knows what he's talking about unlike you or NetPCDoc, otherwise, you're a lost cause. Especially since all you'd have to do to see I'm right about fresh cities starting with high demand for both agriculture & dirty industry is load up the game, load up a fresh region, start a city and look at that RCI graph! Sadly, MGB hasn't been active here for awhile, hopefully that changes.

[WhatWillTheNextDowndateBring?]

Granini, I don't know why your city wont grow, especially since you haven't provided screenshots. Personnally I feel it must be something simple like you haven't built powerlines between industrial and residential zones as there really shouldn't be any reason otherwise based on what you said. That Cahos Rahne Veloza guy is a clown and should be ignored and the tutorial he gave is also pretty bad... water pump when, based on what he zoned in the first part anyway, (I haven't watched any other parts yet, nor do I plan to.) a water tower would do just fine? Fail. And he built it next to his agriculturial zones which are the most water polluting zones in the game, meaning that pump is just gonna get shut down! Absolutely terrible guide, road layout sucked too, roads along edges?!

Here's a much better guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIuNrw4pWyc Be warned that it is a bit advanced and personally, I'm not the biggest fan of it either, he way over spent on hospitals and police etc during the three parts in my view. But ultimately, it doesn't matter, after 17 ingame years and 3 parts, he had a surplus budget and therefore archived in making a profitable large city just as he set out to do, making his videos a fine example of just how fast you can build a city even while taking huge risks. I'm sure there's better video tutorials out there for ya, though I just can't be bothered trying to find one right now, maybe in a couple of days I will.

Here's parts two and three of that same guide Iinked earlier above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ges2FXFEbr0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWz0B0PPLBc

[Red]

good lord, kids are now infesting this forum.

thank god for Simtropolis.

[WhatWillTheNextDowndateBring?]

Hey, uh, Redhunt, do you mind schooling Cahos? He wont listen to me out of hatred, but maybe... he will listen to you. Unless of course, you think I'm who was wrong, I'm open to be proven wrong, key word being proven.

[Black Sheep Inc]

The simplest way I've found to quickly grow cities in a new region is to start two cities at once and make sure they're connected then deveope them in tandem with each other. Interconnected cities will develope much faster than isolated ones. Not exactly sure if this will help with zones not developing at all, but it shouldn't hurt either.

[WhatWillTheNextDowndateBring?]

Wouldn't help with his zones not developing at all, would indeed help grow faster once he fixes whatever is preventing initial development.

[Guardian1996]

Just remember not to zone residential near the edges and you'll be fine.
OP: Might be a bug (SC 4 is buggy at times tbh), if you haven't changed taxes...

[WhatWillTheNextDowndateBring?]

Why not zone residenital near the edges? But tax rates is a very good possiblity as to why he's not seeing any growth, thanks for bringing it up!

[TJoker]

you probably dont have a solid connection with your power plant.. that is the number 1 cause

[staznak]

FIrst: Make sure its not on pause and that time is passing. Second: the only other reason zero people live there is that there is no power. Othe than that I can't think of why.