High tech housing question.

[Takt]

Does enacting the "High Tech Housing" actually change the way houses look, or does it only increase the land value?

[Useless Noodle]

change (upgrade) to next lvl if they met the threshold, otherwise only change land value. But using this will not help as much as you think. Instead getting the Eden Project will do more benefit in larger scale.

[Takt]

Ok so I made 4 districts next to each other:
Low Res - Normal
Low Res - High Tech
High Res - Normal
High Res - High Tech

There appears to be no difference between them, so yeah it doesn't change the way they look.

[Useless Noodle]

never said they did, only upgrade if can.

[Jarl Bread Maker]

Originally posted by Grumpy Nita:

change (upgrade) to next lvl if they met the threshold, otherwise only change land value. But using this will not help as much as you think. Instead getting the Eden Project will do more benefit in larger scale.

But Eden Project will take a very long time so, high-tech will help before that.

[Useless Noodle]

IMO using it is bad for economy, because it doesnt affect that much to justify the cost. Usually you dont even get upgrade right away, maybe help to lvl from 3->4, but from 4->5 is very unlikely, unless you spam all kind fo services in that area. But if you spam service then you pratically overkill it, and the policy is now meaningless.

[UAL747]

Originally posted by UselessNoodle:

change (upgrade) to next lvl if they met the threshold, otherwise only change land value. But using this will not help as much as you think. Instead getting the Eden Project will do more benefit in larger scale.

Yeah, but High Tech Housing is great for mid-game.

Originally posted by UselessNoodle:

IMO using it is bad for economy, because it doesnt affect that much to justify the cost. Usually you dont even get upgrade right away, maybe help to lvl from 3->4, but from 4->5 is very unlikely, unless you spam all kind fo services in that area. But if you spam service then you pratically overkill it, and the policy is now meaningless.

High Tech housing greatly boosts your economy. You may loose a lot of money at first, but a year after I enacted the policy my income went from ~10,000 a week to ~60,000 a week.

[CoolantCorrie]

Originally posted by UselessNoodle:

change (upgrade) to next lvl if they met the threshold, otherwise only change land value. But using this will not help as much as you think. Instead getting the Eden Project will do more benefit in larger scale.

I'd advise against building the Eden Project unless you make it your very last goal before saying goodbye to your city.
https://skylines.paradoxwikis.com/Monuments#Trivia "Building Eden Project is a blessing and a curse. The land values underneath all "growable" buildings will be so high (green in info view), nearly every building will reach maximum level in a matter of in-game weeks, increasing tax revenue, tourism, and new citizens. But the negative effect of this is a spike in influx (new citizens moving into city, some of them former tourists). Birth rate, influx and death rate are related to each other. When a spike in influx occur, expect the same spike in birth and death rate at least 2 in-game years later."
Disaster the first time I built the Eden Project. Struggled to regain population after I built it for the second time. I never build it now.

[me22ca]

You just have to plan for it. If you have enough parks that most residential are lvl4 anyway, then it doesn't cause much more of an issue than the normal levelling from 1->4. And if it pushes your offices from 2->3 that'll give a bunch more available jobs for the new cims.

Also, you can soak death waves with the relatively-cheap cemeteries. Just need to empty them in the trough.

[CoolantCorrie]

Originally posted by me22ca:

You just have to plan for it. If you have enough parks that most residential are lvl4 anyway, then it doesn't cause much more of an issue than the normal levelling from 1->4. And if it pushes your offices from 2->3 that'll give a bunch more available jobs for the new cims.

Also, you can soak death waves with the relatively-cheap cemeteries. Just need to empty them in the trough.

Thanks. I did get through it but it felt like a tedious depressing struggle. But now I know now how to deal with death waves, thanks to good people who've provided guides, tutorials, and discussion posts such as yours, I might risk the EP one more time.