Quick easy question?

[Patches]

What is the way to see which say commercial buildings are needed more. Shops, Large Commercial or Office Buildings.

I see under the exclamation point a Green bar that turns into a Blue bar. Is the Blue meaning it needs more building like these? or?

thanks
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[WhiteKnight77]

The Green, Blue and Yellow bars denote Residential, Commercial and Industry respectively. If you need more residential, the green bar will be high. Same for the others. But, one can still build a successful city with little to no commercial buildings.

[gameblogger]

Look at the orange, green and blue bars at the bottom of the screen.

[Patches]

I got all that, same as the old simcity days.

But when the want houses? Do they want Single story Houses or Multistory Houses?

Same as my Commercial Q above. Do they want Small Shops or do they want Multistory Commercial Buildings or Office Buildings. Without just guessing or what looks pretty?

thanks for the replys,
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[Mytwo Centsworth]

I don't believe you should try to minimize the orange, green, and blue bars, that it's OK to let them ride around 50%. I think what's more important is that they are balanced. Trying to minimize them means you're always building and zoning and spending all of your money, and then you'll get a death wave in the future for growing too fast.

I also feel that, rather than zoning to keep them in balance, you can tweak demand by adjusting taxes. If the bars are high, raise taxes; if low, lower taxes.

[Patches]

Guys, I appreciate the advice and everything. But that's not my question.

If the Blue bar is through the roof and the other 2 are ok in the middle. I want to go to the town hall meeting and find out just what the people want.
1. More shops and hamburger joints.
2. More Multi layer Commercial Buildings or
3. More Office Space.

Or do I just guess? (I'm a good guesser.)

thanks again
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[Mr. Monday]

Originally posted by Patches:

Guys, I appreciate the advice and everything. But that's not my question.

If the Blue bar is through the roof and the other 2 are ok in the middle. I want to go to the town hall meeting and find out just what the people want.
1. More shops and hamburger joints.
2. More Multi layer Commercial Buildings or
3. More Office Space.

Or do I just guess? (I'm a good guesser.)

thanks again
g

It just means they want commercial zoning. Also offices are industry, not commercial.

[WhiteKnight77]

Originally posted by Patches:

I got all that, same as the old simcity days.

But when the want houses? Do they want Single story Houses or Multistory Houses?

Same as my Commercial Q above. Do they want Small Shops or do they want Multistory Commercial Buildings or Office Buildings. Without just guessing or what looks pretty?

thanks for the replys,
g

Until you hit a certain milestone, the only type of residential one can build is low density. From my observations, most people will start building high density residential and even bulldoze/rezone low density residential so they can build high density buildings to make their cities even larger.

How you want to build your city is up to you. If you want to have families, use low density. If you want young adults and adults, build high density.

[Tsubame ⭐]

The height of the bar just means that there is a lot of that particular demand.

How you meet that demand is up to you. You can zone a lot of low density, or fewer high density.

[Tornado_J1]

As time goes one, you can use the demand bars to sculpt the look of your cities. Replace the inner-city areas which were once built in the beginning with high-density housing and high-density commercial while putting low density housing out in the 'burbs when you start building in new areas. Many of us build towns and areas that become part of the big city, and this is how we tend to go about it.

You also want to introduce offices a bit later in the cycle as you gain a more educated workforce. Higher-educated workers will rather work in offices than the factories, although factories need a small number of high-educated works as well (Think management types).

My biggest recommendation is to use real cities as a guide. Take a look at Google Maps and other maps to get ideas on how to lay things out.

[Patches]

Originally posted by Mr. Monday:

Originally posted by Patches:

Guys, I appreciate the advice and everything. But that's not my question.

If the Blue bar is through the roof and the other 2 are ok in the middle. I want to go to the town hall meeting and find out just what the people want.
1. More shops and hamburger joints.
2. More Multi layer Commercial Buildings or
3. More Office Space.

Or do I just guess? (I'm a good guesser.)

thanks again
g

It just means they want commercial zoning. Also offices are industry, not commercial.

Ah, thanks, I had forgot that Offices were Industry. That makes it easier to guess. It's been working though. I've owned a long time, just haven't played in a long time.

I just figured they'd have a place to find out the exact demand. Like: We want more offices or a graft. Some games you can click on the people and they tell you. Maybe I'll try that.

Let's try this one:

On the bottom left there's an exclamation mark. When open you have the different Houses, Commercial, Industry bars going across. Like one of mine is 2 bars Green and then the third Bar is have blue. One, the 3rd Bar is full Blue with the first 2 Green.

I thought maybe these might be saying which area they want when they want. Again like when the Office icon has 1 Green Bar filled in and the 2nd Area of the Bar is full or mostly Blue. They want some Offices?

Probably not though. If not, what does it mean?

thanks
g

(So much for the quick question.)

[WhiteKnight77]

Originally posted by Patches:

Originally posted by Mr. Monday:

It just means they want commercial zoning. Also offices are industry, not commercial.

Ah, thanks, I had forgot that Offices were Industry. That makes it easier to guess. It's been working though. I've owned a long time, just haven't played in a long time.

I just figured they'd have a place to find out the exact demand. Like: We want more offices or a graft. Some games you can click on the people and they tell you. Maybe I'll try that.

Let's try this one:

On the bottom left there's an exclamation mark. When open you have the different Houses, Commercial, Industry bars going across. Like one of mine is 2 bars Green and then the third Bar is have blue. One, the 3rd Bar is full Blue with the first 2 Green.

I thought maybe these might be saying which area they want when they want. Again like when the Office icon has 1 Green Bar filled in and the 2nd Area of the Bar is full or mostly Blue. They want some Offices?

Probably not though. If not, what does it mean?

thanks
g

(So much for the quick question.)

Would you please post a screenshot of that?

[Imhotep]

Originally posted by Patches:

Originally posted by Mr. Monday:

It just means they want commercial zoning. Also offices are industry, not commercial.

Ah, thanks, I had forgot that Offices were Industry. That makes it easier to guess. It's been working though. I've owned a long time, just haven't played in a long time.

I just figured they'd have a place to find out the exact demand. Like: We want more offices or a graft. Some games you can click on the people and they tell you. Maybe I'll try that.

Let's try this one:

On the bottom left there's an exclamation mark. When open you have the different Houses, Commercial, Industry bars going across. Like one of mine is 2 bars Green and then the third Bar is have blue. One, the 3rd Bar is full Blue with the first 2 Green.

I thought maybe these might be saying which area they want when they want. Again like when the Office icon has 1 Green Bar filled in and the 2nd Area of the Bar is full or mostly Blue. They want some Offices?

Probably not though. If not, what does it mean?

thanks
g

(So much for the quick question.)

That's telling you what the average level of your Residential, Commercial, Industrial and Office buildings are. Residential buildings have five levels. Buildings level up when things like service buildings and parks are built nearby.

[Patches]

Originally posted by Imhotep:

Originally posted by Patches:

(So much for the quick question.)

That's telling you what the average level of your Residential, Commercial, Industrial and Office buildings are. Residential buildings have five levels. Buildings level up when things like service buildings and parks are built nearby.

Ok, Yow I remember seeing something about Level on that page.

WhiteKnight, I don't know what you want a screen shot of. The Office Buildings build themselves on the light blue squares. But I was placing them when the Blue Commercial Bar was rising, not the Gold Industry Bar.

I'm iRacing now anyway. Long practice, qualified 6th, got ran into twice on the 1st lap. Got to try again another hour or so.

thank, enjoy
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[WhiteKnight77]

Originally posted by Patches:

Originally posted by Imhotep:

That's telling you what the average level of your Residential, Commercial, Industrial and Office buildings are. Residential buildings have five levels. Buildings level up when things like service buildings and parks are built nearby.

Ok, Yow I remember seeing something about Level on that page.

WhiteKnight, I don't know what you want a screen shot of. The Office Buildings build themselves on the light blue squares. But I was placing them when the Blue Commercial Bar was rising, not the Gold Industry Bar.

I'm iRacing now anyway. Long practice, qualified 6th, got ran into twice on the 1st lap. Got to try again another hour or so.

thank, enjoy
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I was not quite understanding what you were talking about. A screenshot would have shown me such.