Population growing slow as balls

[pitbull14218]

I just don't get it.

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[grapplehoeker]

3% unemployment indicates that you have more jobs than you have workers for. Zone more residential. All of those kids will need somewhere to live when they grow up, so start providing homes for them and grow your population.

[pitbull14218]

Originally posted by grapplehoeker:

3% unemployment indicates that you have more jobs than you have workers for. Zone more residential. All of those kids will need somewhere to live when they grow up, so start providing homes for them and grow your population.

I have no demand for residential?

[AquilaSol]

Add more services. Cims need to be convinced to live in your city, they don't line up outside the gates after the first wave.

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by pitbull14218:

Originally posted by grapplehoeker:

3% unemployment indicates that you have more jobs than you have workers for. Zone more residential. All of those kids will need somewhere to live when they grow up, so start providing homes for them and grow your population.

I have no demand for residential?

Screw the demand!
Just zone some residential. Have faith. If you build it, they will come ;)

[pitbull14218]

Originally posted by grapplehoeker:

Originally posted by pitbull14218:

I have no demand for residential?

Screw the demand!
Just zone some residential. Have faith. If you build it, they will come ;)

I did, and it did help, I gained like 1,500 cims but now its no progress again. I have never seen my deaths higher than my births, but yet population goes down

[pitbull14218]

Originally posted by grapplehoeker:

Originally posted by pitbull14218:

I have no demand for residential?

Screw the demand!
Just zone some residential. Have faith. If you build it, they will come ;)

Like leisure/parks? I have a bunch, all the areas are blue

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by pitbull14218:

Originally posted by grapplehoeker:

Screw the demand!
Just zone some residential. Have faith. If you build it, they will come ;)

Like leisure/parks? I have a bunch, all the areas are blue

No, like residential zoning.

[pitbull14218]

Originally posted by grapplehoeker:

Originally posted by pitbull14218:

Like leisure/parks? I have a bunch, all the areas are blue

No, like residential zoning.

When I did this, it still didn't grow fast, alot of my zoning didn't actually get built in right away and I keep the game on the fastest speed. I actually built more high density commercial and ended up with a large population increase, I just don't get what makes it happen.

[AtlasArchitect]

Originally posted by pitbull14218:

Originally posted by grapplehoeker:

No, like residential zoning.

When I did this, it still didn't grow fast, alot of my zoning didn't actually get built in right away and I keep the game on the fastest speed. I actually built more high density commercial and ended up with a large population increase, I just don't get what makes it happen.

If you find this annoying, there are mods to tweak, or just plain control demand for zone types, otherwise, the population just seems to fluctuate normally, we can't all be Las Vegas, the city will have periods of growth and loss.

There should always be far more residential zones than commercial or office zones, and good public transport to make it easier to get to jobs and leisure, without burying your city in excessive car traffic. If your city pop falls, and not because of a disaster, or sick people, then it's probably an age shift in population, lots of people getting old at the same time, and dying at the same time. The population might also stabilize or slow, when there's a lack of services and housing, or when people are stuck in traffic, and can't access them

[pitbull14218]

So yesterday I kept zoning commercial and offices as the demand bars requested, and I gained like 8k population, I hit 60k total population. I also mass zoned high density and low density residential even though it didn't call for it.

Unemployment at 3%, which isn't going to change since this is the only way my population will grow. I still important like 2,500 good because of the lack of real industry/uneducated workers.


I guess I'll keep doing what's working, so I guess jobs and places to buy good and then homes in that order seems to get me influx.

[Inquis]

this happened to me to residents are still moving in and my birth rate is higher than my death rate but my poulation is still stuck around 45 000

[pitbull14218]

So highest I was able to get my population with around 72k (no mods, I don't play with mods).

The last few hours I wasted my life on this game, my population goes down by 10k people, then up by 10k people, just no constant growth, yet obviously to get to 72k my city was good enough for people to want to come and life in it. Its not like I deleted anything like parks or services, but yet people then decide to leave. I just do not understand what makes people want to live in my city and stay in my city.


Still confused on why my buildings go abandon when people die, because I have plenty of death care, and room in my graveyards, incinerarys, and plenty of hospital care as well.

[azxcvbnm321]

I'm at 120,000 and growing without any problems. I keep my unemployment at around 10% so that industry has workers. The unemployment rate is what I use most to see what I need to zone. My residential demand is always very low, but doesn't keep people from filling my zoned residential.

I think you should look at your traffic and see if that's an issue. If you have bad traffic, it can take forever for someone immigrating into your neighborhood, to reach the empty residential zone or building. Don't know for sure, but I believe the times people pop into residential right away are from people already in the city and looking for a new home, like young adults wanting to move out.