Industrial Demand Always High

[K-V]

So my city is at around 20k pop and I've zoned offices, done IT Cluster etc. However the only demand I get is industrual demand. For e.g this.

My industry demand gets high so I zone offices. It goes up again and I zone more offices. Then it goes up again so I proceed to zone more offices. Then I run into a problem where my offices are producing too much goods so the buildings eventually become abandoned. To prevent this I know I should have more active commercial districts to buy those goods but I can't build any commercial buildings because the only demand I'm getting is for industry. Even when there's too much goods, the industry demand jusy skyrockets. Anyone know a way to end the cycle?

[Prometheus]

Industrial demand is tied to unemployment, not goods produced. Fresh zoning reserves a bit of demand while the building goes up but its a temporary hold. If the new building doesn't produce enough jobs the demand comes right back.

Also regular offices do not produce goods. They are just high skill jobs you can use to expand. IT cluster does produce goods and there is some kind of limit on how much they can export so don't make too much of it.

If you are clever you should have had the thought while reading this "wait, does that mean non-industrial jobs also reduce industry demand?" The answer is yes. If you are making too many goods then zone some commercial. It will also bring the industry demand down.

As for the cause of your long high demand streak. You probably recently had a spurt of heavy residential upgrade. Your balance was working fine then you laid down some service (probably mass transit, put in metro or buses I bet) and a bunch of residential upgraded. People moved in and you didn't have enough jobs. Just keep generating jobs. Eventually you'll hit equilibrium again.

[K-V]

Originally posted by Promethian:

Industrial demand is tied to unemployment, not goods produced. Fresh zoning reserves a bit of demand while the building goes up but its a temporary hold. If the new building doesn't produce enough jobs the demand comes right back.

Also regular offices do not produce goods. They are just high skill jobs you can use to expand. IT cluster does produce goods and there is some kind of limit on how much they can export so don't make too much of it.

If you are clever you should have had the thought while reading this "wait, does that mean non-industrial jobs also reduce industry demand?" The answer is yes. If you are making too many goods then zone some commercial. It will also bring the industry demand down.

As for the cause of your long high demand streak. You probably recently had a spurt of heavy residential upgrade. Your balance was working fine then you laid down some service (probably mass transit, put in metro or buses I bet) and a bunch of residential upgraded. People moved in and you didn't have enough jobs. Just keep generating jobs. Eventually you'll hit equilibrium again.

I'll come back and let you know if I have problems etc

[K-V]

Originally posted by Promethian:

Industrial demand is tied to unemployment, not goods produced. Fresh zoning reserves a bit of demand while the building goes up but its a temporary hold. If the new building doesn't produce enough jobs the demand comes right back.

Also regular offices do not produce goods. They are just high skill jobs you can use to expand. IT cluster does produce goods and there is some kind of limit on how much they can export so don't make too much of it.

If you are clever you should have had the thought while reading this "wait, does that mean non-industrial jobs also reduce industry demand?" The answer is yes. If you are making too many goods then zone some commercial. It will also bring the industry demand down.

As for the cause of your long high demand streak. You probably recently had a spurt of heavy residential upgrade. Your balance was working fine then you laid down some service (probably mass transit, put in metro or buses I bet) and a bunch of residential upgraded. People moved in and you didn't have enough jobs. Just keep generating jobs. Eventually you'll hit equilibrium again.

Ok so, I reduced the amount of offices I had and also reduced the amount of IT cluster I had. I also built yellow industry again. The industry demand was low for a while but it picked up again pretty fast and my yellow industry was saying "Not enough workers" but the demand for industry was still going up. I tried zoning comercial to reduce industry demand but there's simply no commercial demand what so ever or residential.

[MarkJohnson]

You seem to be looking at this all wrong. First thing is know there is no need for commerce/industry in this game. You can build residential/offices only if you want.

Industry/commerce demand is for mostly jobs only.

If you only needs jobs only, then build vanilla offices.

If you need jobs and freight, then build IT offices.

If you want to add commerce, then add office IT for freight and jobs.

Commerce will always be high. Ignore it completely. It is not needed at all. Just build what you want and no more. Then you can ignore office IT completely.

If you use office IT, then you don't need industry at all. and you can build commerce/ and Office IT only. with vanilla offices for job sinks.

I recommend ignoring the demand bars completely, and use unemployment to provide jobs/workers. Unemployment wants abound 5%, but try for 10% to keep from dropping below 5%. which can cause lack of workers.

but ignore the demand bars or you get stuck in a vicious loop of building freight.

Pick office IT or industry. If you mix them up, freight becomes an issue and usually industry abandons as office IT get priority on freight.

[davaocarino]

If I ignore demand don’t you start losing tons of money, when I have high demand my residents get mad and my income starts going down at rapid speeds… so what should I do?

[MarkJohnson]

Originally posted by davaocarino:

If I ignore demand don’t you start losing tons of money, when I have high demand my residents get mad and my income starts going down at rapid speeds… so what should I do?

Residential demand is the only demand bar that actually works as it should. The rest of the bar are just guides.

All you need is workers and jobs. You need two (workers) residential to one job.

So if you place one long road you should be able to zone 4 clocks of residential, to one block of industry and commerce. (offices have their own ratio of 1.5:1)

DLC ploppables are just job sinks, you will need to monitor your unemployment rates (and education level ratio) with around 50% max education of the highest education level only. That will feed anyone that needs jobs, no matter the job level requirements.