Too few services!

[seck]

My industry has all of a sudden completely died because of "Too few services". How do I increase the services?

[Randox]

This one is puzzling me too. As far as I can tell so far, this includes things like busses. I added in some routes in the areas that were complaining and that seems to have solved it. But yeah, services seems to include things like busses or subways, not just stuff like power and water or police and fire.

If anyone has a better answer though, I'd love to hear it too.

[Sweid]

ive been trying to figure this out, since i need more "services" to upgrade.

So what i think i finally figured out was that its talking about land value, and not services (which actually do increase land value).

Try increasing the land value (by placing services, or parks, etc) and see what happens.

Im struggling with this.

[sdarkpaladin]

Fire station coverage affects it too. So far i've seen that land value does nothing to industry.

[RED]

Actually, any kind of additional high quality level of a service is accepted. The same applies to residential areas as well.
Recreational areas, transportation, civic services - all are valid means for a building upgrade. Aim for those cyan-levels of quality, which are expensive, and you will be just fine.

[FatAdvice]

Originally posted by RED:

Aim for those cyan-levels of quality

This. Effecacy is important.

[Randox]

Found the manual.

Services are:
-Electricity
-Water and Sewage
-Garbage
-Healthcare
-Fire
-Police
-Public Transportation
-Decoration and Unique Buildings

At least, this is my interpretation. I just took the list of things on the services panel and cut out stuff like roads or education which are a)obvious or b)covered elsewhere. It would seem that public transportation and probably some decoration are important to services.

There is also some wording in the manual that would suggest commercial zones are also considered to be a service to industrial (they do sell goods industry produces, so I guess that makes sense), so that might be included in the meaning as well (I did start getting the warnings with a medium demand for commercial).

Also, residential zones level up based on education level and land value. Industrial and commercial zones level up based on education level and services.

Lastly, it would seem that offices are considered to be industrial. They produce no pollution, but also produce very few goods. Why offices are light blue is a mystery to me (was making me think they were commercial).

[The doctor is in]

in addition to water, sewage, electricity and garbage pickup, i added medical, fire, police to the areas where the businesses were, but i'm still getting it and my business are going out of business in droves cause of it.

[Ryashon]

Public transportation helps a ton! Place a bunch of bus stops and you'll here the upgrade ding go off like crazy.

[Ryu_Sheng]

also don't forget the important stuff, for industry and commercial cargo and passenger stations give a HUGE boost. As does ports and airports. Even if they don't get used much

[Excrucian]

I never quite understood why my industries at the other side of the map needed schools around them to upgrade.......

[Silvus Sol]

Originally posted by Excrucian:

I never quite understood why my industries at the other side of the map needed schools around them to upgrade.......

Child labor.

[Yakky!]

Increasing money spendings for these services also do some magic!

[tomhoq]

Well i know the answer. Its quite simple actually. Just like it says "too few services" you need to make sure you have the green roads of water, trash, fire... close to every industry. That was my case, i putted a school and those signs disapeared