Industry need not increasing, can't get offices to build.

[TraxSeos]

Please point me in the right direction if this was already discussed.

I started my downtown business center after having created an oil and agriculture industry from the DLC's. I want high tech office buildings to accompany the special skyscrapers in the skyline. But ever since I got both of the industries to the top level, my orange Industry Demand meter has never gone up, thus; no offices are being built.

Maybe its just a noob oversight of mine, but how could I get the Industry Demand to increase despite having 2 top level industries already.

[MarkJohnson]

If you zone too much at once, it will still grow, but at a very slow rate. Dezone all of the empty zones to get the demand back.

If that doesn't help, zone more workers (residential), until it rises.

[numbat]

I have played a number of cities where the industry demand never increases. It took me a long time to figure that this was because I had zoned and created far more industry than required.

Firstly, don't trust the RCI meters. I use the "more city statistics" mod and use that to graph the RCI demands. That will give you a good indication of what is happening with the demand.

Secondly, check the number of jobs available against the population. At one stage in my current city, I had twice as many jobs available as there was population, and all my RCI demand was very low. It took quite a bit of time before the game started to demand first residential, then slowly the others started to build as well. At the moment, I'm regularly zoning small sections of industry, and the demand is still 60% from a low of 11%.

(Yes, I know jobs aren't a direct comparison to industry demand, but they are linked).

From what you have said above, I suspect that your oil and ag industries has provided a large capacity, so there really is no demand for it. You will need to avoid the temptation to zone any more for quite some time, while you build out different sections of your map and wait for the demand to start to build again. When it does, only zone (or build) small sections at a time and wait to see the effect on your demand before building more.

Lastly, I have read any number of times on these forums to keep unemployment around 5% to 10%. I never really gave that much credence, but on my current city I am paying attention to unemployment and it does seem to be helping.

Cheers,
Chris.

[TraxSeos]

Diposting pertama kali oleh numbat:

From what you have said above, I suspect that your oil and ag industries has provided a large capacity, so there really is no demand for it. You will need to avoid the temptation to zone any more for quite some time, while you build out different sections of your map and wait for the demand to start to build again. When it does, only zone (or build) small sections at a time and wait to see the effect on your demand before building more.

This was it, thank you.

I had some leftover standard industrial zones from the start of the city. I dezoned them and allowed a significant amount of residential to be built until I started to see a few high tech office buildings popping up in my skyline.

Much appreciated!