Like most people, I've been having an absolute blast playing Cities: Skylines. Overall, it really is the game that SimCity 2013 should have been and fans of the city building genre truly deserved. That having been said, though, like others, my city growth has stagnated. I'd gotten to a point where I had 70,000 CIMs, 3% unemployment, no more dirty industry - strictly business, tons of education and other services, and no traffic issues throughout my city. RCI had bottomed out, the number of CIMs dying and the number of CIMs being born was functionally identical, and there really just didn't seem to be anything I could do to kick-start growth.
I let the simulation run for a few hours, as some posters have said that it sorts itself out over time. No dice. Then I placed more parks and services in the business and commercial districts to level them up and maybe create more demand for highly educated workers. No dice. I then demolished a ton of education to put my availability/need ratio in the yellow rather than green. This FINALLY had an effect on my city. There was still no RCI change, but the high density residential I had zoned earlier slowly, but surely, started to build up. I slowly grew this zone, not adding any services or education, and eventually, I started to see some need for industrial. I let the growth continue until the unemployment rate started to climb to about 7% then zoned some more industrial (in this case forestry). I was able to keep this up until I finally hit the 90,000 CIM mark and unlocked the final area of my potential city.
Now I'm back where I was, though, in terms of growth. I've been running for a few hours, no major problems, bottomed out RCI, but my unemployment is at 10%. I'm just so frustrated with the lack of information about growth that I'm losing the motivation to continue with this city. I really want to grow it up closer and closer to the million mark, but the game just gives me no feedback at all about what I need to do. The fact that you can't control an area of town to be uneducated doesn't help, either. I have 52% highly educated CIMs in spite of having one university in one corner of the city with my university need far into the red.
Anyone have any ideas?
I let the simulation run for a few hours, as some posters have said that it sorts itself out over time. No dice. Then I placed more parks and services in the business and commercial districts to level them up and maybe create more demand for highly educated workers. No dice. I then demolished a ton of education to put my availability/need ratio in the yellow rather than green. This FINALLY had an effect on my city. There was still no RCI change, but the high density residential I had zoned earlier slowly, but surely, started to build up. I slowly grew this zone, not adding any services or education, and eventually, I started to see some need for industrial. I let the growth continue until the unemployment rate started to climb to about 7% then zoned some more industrial (in this case forestry). I was able to keep this up until I finally hit the 90,000 CIM mark and unlocked the final area of my potential city.
Now I'm back where I was, though, in terms of growth. I've been running for a few hours, no major problems, bottomed out RCI, but my unemployment is at 10%. I'm just so frustrated with the lack of information about growth that I'm losing the motivation to continue with this city. I really want to grow it up closer and closer to the million mark, but the game just gives me no feedback at all about what I need to do. The fact that you can't control an area of town to be uneducated doesn't help, either. I have 52% highly educated CIMs in spite of having one university in one corner of the city with my university need far into the red.
Anyone have any ideas?