Do Citizens Move on their own?

[chafthegreat]

Quick question just wondering if citizens move to new cities on their own or if I have to manually relocate them?

Example City A has no free housing avalible but City B has housing and jobs avalible will citizens freely relocate to City B

Thanks for any awnsers

[moa]

21+ year olds who look for a new home will prefer the current building. If that is full then a building in the same town (prefers least occupied buildings first). If there is no space in the current town they look elsewhere on the map and prefer a home with the least amount of inhabitants.

You can also allow/disallow people to move into individual buildings by using the checkboxes in a residential building, or use the nameplate of a town to change it for all residentials of that town.
Globally you can also change it for all future placed residentials if you choose one from the building menu but not place it on the map. While you have it on your mouse on the right side of the screen there are further options.

[chafthegreat]

Bless thank you so much that's perfect

Can I confirm a follow up question related?

2 part question

1st ) can I apply the same logic for university educated citizens relocating to a new city if there is jobs avalible

- example I build a new city but don't move anyone in at all and just wait for people to naturally relocate themselves and fill up the city

2nd ) if research is turned off can any university provide the education my republic needs

- example if build 1 university for my republic once the citizens have been educated they will move to cities they are needed on their own

Thank you in advance if can help with those questions

[Vondor]

Push. Especially the second part interests me.
As also, do I need to provide Public Transport from City A to B or do they just take a walk?

[joeball123]

Originally posted by chafthegreat:

1st ) can I apply the same logic for university educated citizens relocating to a new city if there is jobs avalible

The only citizens who will automatically relocate to a new city are adults who do not currently have their own apartment. They do not check if jobs - or services - are available, only if there's housing that they're permitted to move into.

If you have a bunch of university graduates looking for housing and a new city that has available housing, they'll move there on their own. The problem is in sustaining the university-educated work force once available housing runs out, not in getting them to move there in the first place.

Originally posted by chafthegreat:

2nd ) if research is turned off can any university provide the education my republic needs

As far as game mechanics are concerned, all university degrees are equivalent.

Originally posted by Vondor:

Push. Especially the second part interests me.
As also, do I need to provide Public Transport from City A to B or do they just take a walk?

You do not need to provide a public transit service from A to B, or even any kind of footpath, road, or rail connection (though you probably want to have something for logistical purposes); citizens looking for housing will teleport to their new residence when they find it.

[Athex]

Originally posted by chafthegreat:

Quick question just wondering if citizens move to new cities on their own or if I have to manually relocate them?

Example City A has no free housing avalible but City B has housing and jobs avalible will citizens freely relocate to City B

Thanks for any awnsers

I'll tell you what happen to my republic, I built a 1rst town with everything, 3 kind of univ, tech, med and party. I ended with all my residential buildings filled and started to have 21+ living with their parents.

As the industrial part was expanding and needed more workers, I decided to start to build a new town, and after some needed buildings were made, the 1 rst residential opened too and almost instantly get filled with young people. They simply teleport once a residential building opens anywhere.

So take care to have everything needed built before completing the residential in a 2nd / new town.

I tried to create a bus line and also a train line between the 2 towns to transport only "passengers" and "students", all buses and trains are always empty. That's not the right way to move people, even if it's the most logic one.

[Silent_Shadow]

I'll just add that citizens will only move into dorms automatically if they:
• Are turning 21
• Have a basic education
• They can walk to the dorm from their parent's home.

Dorms are also the only way to guarantee an apartment only ever has university educated citizens, as children turning 21 can bypass the requirements to move into a flat if it is in the same building as their parents. The dorm catches them and forces them to go to university.