Stop feeding low density request.

[Vander]

As title says, stop creating low density tiles if you don't want to. Invest in education, lower taxes for educated people and eventually mid density request will show up more and more.

[Xelance]

okay bro i hope this works cuz there is 0 demand for higher density for hours now

[Vander]

It did work for me. Keep in mind that being "higher density", the request will be satisfied much faster than low density, so you have to wait a bit anyway to get more of that demand.

[Cantankasaurus]

It doesn't work. I have an insanely good education system. I have had zero demand for medium or high density for hours and hours. At least I get a high density building every now and then but the medium density plots will not build. I have good education, and low taxes. this is incredibly frustrating.

[DaddyJokee]

The best way I found is to lower your Dimwitt taxes to -2%, and have schools. Basically what happens is uneducated folk is like !O.O! Money to move in? Sign me up! And as soon as they move in they go to school, become some level of educated, and bam, 15% taxes. This influx of many people moving in will create demand for ALL the things, if you don't fill the low density.

[CanuckBear]

All my residential buildings are high density, it works if you wait to fill a building before zoning for the next one. 115k atm.

[Cantankasaurus]

I get that there are all these weird hacks but to me the game is just broken. I have schools, I have stupidly low taxes. Sure I get the occasional high residential built but medium absolutely zero after the first few hours. It just stopped. Also by the life of me I don't udnerstand the connection between high education and high residential. "I have a degree and no longer desire a house?"

[CanuckBear]

Originally posted by Cantankasaurus:

I get that there are all these weird hacks but to me the game is just broken. I have schools, I have stupidly low taxes. Sure I get the occasional high residential built but medium absolutely zero after the first few hours. It just stopped. Also by the life of me I don't udnerstand the connection between high education and high residential. "I have a degree and no longer desire a house?"

There's no connection to anything...if your city is normal, people will move in.
I think you have 'UnoccupiedBuildings' for both low and medium density, the newcomers will just move in to those units. I would just unzone some areas, then zone one high density building.

[Cookie]

It does work. I have a 100k city that has 0 zoned low density zones I used to test the hypothesis that the low density demand is infinite.

[zaltocleotl[Banned@Paradox]]

What OP said. It can work. You sometimes have to work to make it work, but it can work. It can also be satisfying.
SAY NO TO SUBURBAN SPRAWL!
Not all the time on all your maps, just sayin'.

[Cantankasaurus]

alright then. thanks for the tips!!! Urban sprawl here I come!

[Cantankasaurus]

so here is the current status. I have 120k citizins. 70,000 open jobs.

- Taxes for residential at minus 3 over the last days.
- kick ass education system covering the entire city. all schools in walking distance
- happiness high throughout the city
- No demand for high or medium residential BUT high residential is being built.
- great public transport (trains connected to subways, connected to buses etc. etc.)
- the entire city is walkable
- low pollution and industrial zones created down wind.
- realtively low traffic except for the occasional spike here and there
- international airport with cross border connections


BUT
- medium residential seems to be completely off the table. Any place I zone for medium will not be built on (and yes it's indicated as green). Actually, eventhough I desperatly need workers, medium is actually beginning to be abandoned even though citizens are happy and the streets are "green" for medium.
- High residential is built but so slowly

I am totally lost as what else to consider.

[Cantankasaurus]

One thing I don't understand is the constant high demand for industry and commercial. Should I just ignore it? Should I start closing the commercial areas?

[Septumplastik]

Without seeing your city and just going by what you said, my guess is that you should just chill and wait a while, because it sounds like you're zoning too fast and aren't giving the city enough time to adjust.
For example, you said high density is being built but there is no demand. That suggests that you have zoned so much high density, a new building goes up immediately as soon as there is even a sliver of demand. A large high density residential building will have a few hundred households and even more people living in it. So maybe the high density going up so quickly is providing so many apartments that there will simply never be demand for medium density, as there is always a surplus of apartments.

I suggest you let the city run for a while, like at least 6 in-game months without zoning anything new, and then see what happens. My theory is that as your available living space gets filled up and jobs are taken, the demand bars will eventually adjust. This game must be given a bit of time!

[Cantankasaurus]

thanks - will give it a try!

[GGreenie]

I have the opposite, i only have density for medium and high density but no low density, can someone tell me how to get low density lol