Demand for nothing but commercial???

[Z28Derick]

So I've got a nice city going finally the way I want. Great traffic flow, great coverage of everything. Everything was going perfect until yesterday. And still today :/ I'm getting nothing but demand for commercial. It wasn't a problem till today. I've got businesses and industry complaining about lack of workers but there's no demand for residential. I've zoned residential anyways and nothing will build so I un-zoned it hoping for demand but still nothing. I'll zone an area of commercial and the commercial demand will go down for a few min but then it goes right back up. No residential or industry demand :/ I'm at about 150,000 population. Anyone run into something like this and got any ideas?

[benzoll]

I feel the same. Reorganize areas, remove many of offices, put more industry (trade area complains of not having goods to sell) my growth recovered, but after several days in the game I like: no workers industry and no demand for industry or trade or people.
My city grows forward 10,000 cims and back to 9000 cims.

I've been so from 80,000 cims. It is impossible to grow, not because they never go.

[shadowwolftjc]

From what I've heard, your tax rates influence how much demand there will be for residential, commercial, and industrial zoning.

Also, I wonder if at least some of that demand for commercial zones is due to getting so many tourists into the city.

[h2oQueen]

How high are your taxes?

11% is the highest I want to go for any RCI 9% to 10% is recommended.

The lower taxes the more people will move in, if your taxes are too high you may get stagnant RCI demand.

[Ser Cartoon of House Head]

At times this game feels like it is only half finished. It seems when you get to a certain point everything just stops working or behaves in illogical ways. The game lacks a lof of crucial information like an employment/unemploymant tab where you can see who is employed and where rather than clicking on lots of indicidual building. What type of employment is lacking (industial/clerical/retail).

[Stealthy]

What would that point be? Certainly not under 530k. Higher i don't know as i haven't played that far yet.

Taxes schmaxes. Everything on 12% works just fine, no complaints no issues. People keep flocking in.

[Buck]

You don't HAVE to fullfill zoning demands if you dont' want to. There could be other factors driving the demand that you are not taking into account. for example, lowering taxes can spur commericial demand even if the industry necessary to support it doesn't exist.

One big reason why commericial might be understaffed may because your population is too highly educated. This doesn't mean they won't fill lower skileld jobs, but they will prefer higher skilled jobs first, and will take lower ones only if they can't find others.

One solution to that problem would be to zone more high density commercial/office space which demands educated workers

[Z28Derick]

Most of my taxes are between 11 and 12% No complaining though. I'm still getting nothing but commercial demand. Every now and then industry demand pops up but abruptly goes away. My population keep fluctuating up and down a few thousand. Now I'm beginning to get buildings, commercial and industry, going abandoned because of lack of workers. :/ I've added in more public transportation, all my traffic is flowing great.
Edit: Well things are really going down the drain now. I've lost about 15,000 residents and it just keeps falling. Everything going abandoned, not enough workers. Income is down to about $6,000 Maybe I'm in a recession LOL I'll just try and ride it out