How does demand work in city skylines?

I'm fairly new to this game. I've built a city that goes like 20k pop and I noticed that my demand bar has lowered to be almost 0% on ALL zones. Then, I started another city and observed the demand to be normal. But, as I developed the second city the demand goes lower and lower till it's almost 0% on ALL zones. And now no one wants to come to the city.

I checked everything the toolbar has to offer - polices, hospitals, landfills, cemeteries, schools, traffics, parks, etc.... I made sure that I avoided the so-called "deathwaves," and lowered the taxes into 4%. Yet still no demand despite the effort. I heard that taxes do not count to demands.

Then, I experimented. Firstly, I hypothesized that removing the road without de-zoning them is the culprit of the low demands. I've carefully built a control city that uses the same building layouts as my previous cities, avoiding accidental de-zones. Then, I removed the roads that are adjacent to residential zones and replaced them quickly. I see a noticeable drop from 10% to 0% of my residential demand. But even with careful building, I still experience demand drop.

Maybe there's something wrong with building with grids and not building naturally. In Sim City, we don't have the problem of having 0 demands on all zones. All demands adds up to 100%. That was good. Why CS didn't have the all-demands-adds-up-to-100% feature?

No, Installing mod that locks demand at 100% will not help, since I'm playing on vanilla. I've seen other people hitting 80k without mods. If anyone wants to help, I can give screenshots and even the savegame itself.

How does demand work in city skylines?

Demand for workers = build more residence
Demand for more goods = build more industry
Demand for more residence = build more residence
Demand for Commercial = build more commercial
Demand for Industry = build more Industry or Officies if you have alot of high educated people.

If you do nothing, the spots will not get filled and your city wont advance...

How does demand work in city skylines?

Taddl

How does demand work in city skylines?
13 Mar, 2015 @ 7:16pm 

Demand for workers = build more residence
Demand for more goods = build more industry
Demand for more residence = build more residence
Demand for Commercial = build more commercial
Demand for Industry = build more Industry or Officies if you have alot of high educated people.

If you do nothing, the spots will not get filled and your city wont advance...

Any idea what to do when there is no demand for anything?

How does demand work in city skylines?

Originally posted by Taddl:

Demand for workers = build more residence
Demand for more goods = build more industry
Demand for more residence = build more residence
Demand for Commercial = build more commercial
Demand for Industry = build more Industry or Officies if you have alot of high educated people.

If you do nothing, the spots will not get filled and your city wont advance...


Any idea what to do when there is no demand for anything?

Speed up time. There always comes a demand for something.

Also build some schools.

How does demand work in city skylines?

Originally posted by Taddl:

Demand for workers = build more residence
Demand for more goods = build more industry
Demand for more residence = build more residence
Demand for Commercial = build more commercial
Demand for Industry = build more Industry or Officies if you have alot of high educated people.

If you do nothing, the spots will not get filled and your city wont advance...


Any idea what to do when there is no demand for anything?

No demands for anything means your city is well balanced for everything.....when you hit this issue its a great time to overlook your highway and intersection for any trafic problems, or any other facility problems like garbage, sick people, Police, etc etc..and when you start to put these downs or refine the highway, a Demand will always raise

Also great is to invest time into policies and different Industry specializations

Last edited by Burlokk; 13 Mar, 2015 @ 7:22pm

How does demand work in city skylines?

There will always be some amount of demand - Can't get a perfect balance since your population goes through the cycle of life. Children are born and grow to go to school - Then they want jobs. And then they finally die, causing gaps in the employment sector.

How does demand work in city skylines?

Taddl

How does demand work in city skylines?
13 Mar, 2015 @ 7:21pm 

Originally posted by Taddl:


Any idea what to do when there is no demand for anything?

Speed up time. There always comes a demand for something.

Also build some schools.

90% of my people are highly educated and I didnt have any demand for 5 years.

How does demand work in city skylines?

I'd also like a primer on how RCI work in this game. I'm a bit stumped.

Rather than ask such an open ended question, I'll be more specific. My city is 20k. No traffic problems. Multiple highway and one (freight) connection. Thriving forestry industry with a little commercial (not a lot of demand). Decent (light blue and a bit of green) land values in my center city. Population education ranges from elementary to high school - I haven't bothered with a college yet (this may be the problem, not sure). Taxes at 7%. Plenty of power, water and a huge number of parks (even in industrial areas). Crime, health, garbage and fire are not issues. The city is mostly low density, but a couple of areas that are high denisty.

RCI is flat. Even opening new areas it's flat - no one really moves in. I'm not sure why. No one moves into the industrial, residential or commercial areas that are just sitting empty in my new section of town (served by two different highway connections). I'm not sure how to fix it. Chipper keeps tweeting how nice the city is, but I'm sitting on $300k ($8k/week) and I can't spend it because no one wants to move in.

Does anyone have any idea why or how to fix it? Did I overeducate my populace? Under-educate them? Do I need to build the special tourist buildings? Loving the game, but I seem stalled at this stage.

Last edited by Blackadar; 13 Mar, 2015 @ 7:28pm

How does demand work in city skylines?

Originally posted by Mansen:

There will always be some amount of demand - Can't get a perfect balance since your population goes through the cycle of life. Children are born and grow to go to school - Then they want jobs. And then they finally die, causing gaps in the employment sector.

Actually there is a perfect balance..if xx number of people is born and xx people dies every week is the same, its balanced.

Its a common issue.

How does demand work in city skylines?

Yeah... no - You'll never reach that level of perfect balance. You may claim to - But it won't happen.

How does demand work in city skylines?

How does demand work in city skylines?

What are your current age group demographics? How many jobs, current employees, and current unemployment?

How does demand work in city skylines?

WiNiZ

How does demand work in city skylines?
14 Mar, 2015 @ 5:36am 

When my RCI balance out I take the time to rebuild some of the road system, adding service buildings and fix districts and policies. If the RCI still is "too balanced" I cut some industry taxes and build a new industry district to make the city attractive for business. It usually trigger some changes to the RCI. But some times the changes take quite awhile depending on shortage of workes due to worker age group being to low.

How does demand work in city skylines?

What are your current age group demographics? How many jobs, current employees, and current unemployment?

9,000 working
11,500 jobs total
4% unemployment (yeah, the numbers don't seem to work but that's what it says)

7% children
16% teens
20% young adults
30% adults
27% seniors

How does demand work in city skylines?

Ok, it's your high number of seniors I'm looking at. I'm assuming you have a lot of high density residential. Rezone a large portion of it to low density residential. It gives a better ratio for kids and will bring down your percentage of seniors once they die off. Now, you can throw down a university in order to take your young adults out of the work force which will drive up residential demand for workers, or wait for the residential changes and seniors to die off which will result in a larger workforce and drive up industrial demand.

How does demand work in city skylines?

I'd also like a primer on how RCI work in this game. I'm a bit stumped.

Rather than ask such an open ended question, I'll be more specific. My city is 20k. No traffic problems. Multiple highway and one (freight) connection. Thriving forestry industry with a little commercial (not a lot of demand). Decent (light blue and a bit of green) land values in my center city. Population education ranges from elementary to high school - I haven't bothered with a college yet (this may be the problem, not sure). Taxes at 7%. Plenty of power, water and a huge number of parks (even in industrial areas). Crime, health, garbage and fire are not issues. The city is mostly low density, but a couple of areas that are high denisty.

RCI is flat. Even opening new areas it's flat - no one really moves in. I'm not sure why. No one moves into the industrial, residential or commercial areas that are just sitting empty in my new section of town (served by two different highway connections). I'm not sure how to fix it. Chipper keeps tweeting how nice the city is, but I'm sitting on $300k ($8k/week) and I can't spend it because no one wants to move in.

Does anyone have any idea why or how to fix it? Did I overeducate my populace? Under-educate them? Do I need to build the special tourist buildings? Loving the game, but I seem stalled at this stage.

Stick a college in, that will get the ball rolling. It will educate the people, and you'll build demand for office spaces. It'll budge.

How do you drive in demand in Cities Skylines?

If you build a lot of industrial zones, then they will want workers and demand for residential increases. Just pick one and build a lot of it (preferably residential) and then your demand should rise.

How do you get infinite demand in Cities Skylines?

Open the options, navigate to the "Infinite Demand Mod" settings page and click the checkbox. Please keep in mind that the simulation has to adjust the demand after you've disabled it, causing it to stay high for a bit.

Why is there no demand in Cities Skylines?

Cims don't enter all shops as there are too many, and each they enter doesn't actually have enough goods most of the time. This leads directly to low or even no demand for C zones.

How can the demand for residential zone be increased?

Build low residential zones (LRZ) over high residential zones (HRZ), LRZ attracts families that will procreate, increasing population (increasing residential, commercial and industrial demand over time) where as HRZ attract younger people who are less likely to procreate, so population count will increase slower and so ...