Land value

[Seny Androide]

Bad placement of parks is aproblem. Don't place them too close to each other, and don't place them near the edge or river. Or just live with the low land value in their direct vicinity.

The game not warn of that. Interesting information, thank you, I will consider it.

 

[JerkyJerry]

I don't think this is true. Actually, I have a much easier time to get the value up in low density areas. Most of my high value areas are low density. This is basically my starting area of the city:

Yes I mistype:
The issue with land value is when one tries to place a 4x4 building next to a 3x3 building next to a 2x2 building next to a 4x4 building etc. it affects land value negatively. If however all buildings are of the same 'zoned' size land value will rise.
Thanks for the catch Turjan

 

[Seny Androide]

Yes I mistype:
The issue with land value is when one tries to place a 4x4 building next to a 3x3 building next to a 2x2 building next to a 4x4 building etc. it affects land value negatively. If however all buildings are of the same 'zoned' size land value will rise.
Thanks for the catch Turjan

So that limits me to build the city to my style...

 

[ajac]

The way land values are done in this game are just lazyness. Lots of factors should go into it like location. Beach front property should be worth more then property in the middle of the city. Also more expensive houses should pop up on said properties. I hope they change this one day. One thing simcity got right. (among others but this is a really big one)

 

[JerkyJerry]

So that limits me to build the city to my style...

No not at all
You just have to understand that just like in real life: if you live in a 5 bedroom 4200 sq ft single family home and 3 tiny one bedroom homes are your neighbors and every other house on the street has 2 bedrooms and are 950 sq ft your house will not be as valuable as it would say on a street where all the homes are 4200 sq ft.
Your house will still have value just not as much

You can raise your land value in areas where there are 4x4 & 3x3 & 2x2 homes. However they will struggle to climb to the highest (bright green) levels if lets say you had an area where all the homes are 4x4 then another area where all the homes are 3x3 and so on. In addition it will cost you more in services/parks etc. to get those mixed value homes to the higher (bright green) land value levels.
You can have mixed value homes on the same street/area it is just the land value will struggle to get as high compared to all homes being of the same basic size and value. Just like in real life.

 

[JerkyJerry]

Bad placement of parks is aproblem. Don't place them too close to each other,

This is what I do/did to get my land value to over $80. Maybe it is a correct combination of parks? However I often have park radius's overlapping each other for the specific reason to raise land value sky high.
I will even saturate an area with parks to negate the low land value some buildings bring like bus terminals, train depots, air ports, highways, train tracks etc.
I've never had a single park produce negative land value.
I will have to look at them again

 

[Seny Androide]

No not at all
You just have to understand that just like in real life: if you live in a 5 bedroom 4200 sq ft single family home and 3 tiny one bedroom homes are your neighbors and every other house on the street has 2 bedrooms and are 950 sq ft your house will not be as valuable as it would say on a street where all the homes are 4200 sq ft.
Your house will still have value just not as much

You can raise your land value in areas where there are 4x4 & 3x3 & 2x2 homes. However they will struggle to climb to the highest (bright green) levels if lets say you had an area where all the homes are 4x4 then another area where all the homes are 3x3 and so on. In addition it will cost you more in services/parks etc. to get those mixed value homes to the higher (bright green) land value levels.
You can have mixed value homes on the same street/area it is just the land value will struggle to get as high compared to all homes being of the same basic size and value. Just like in real life.

And how do I avoid disproportionate areas? Avoiding build houses in the river?

 

[JerkyJerry]

And how do I avoid disproportionate areas? Avoiding build houses in the river?

It is all in the zoning my friend

In my current city I only zone 4x4. That is it. Every residential, commercial and industrial only 4x4. 4 squares by 4 squares.
If I can't fit a 4x4 I just simply don't zone it. I leave it open/un-zoned.

 

[Seny Androide]

But you can see in the trailer that type of zones:

 

[Simcity5]

You need another park. Its not 100% influenced thats why its a darker shade of greeny blue

 

[Turjan]

This is what I do/did to get my land value to over $80. Maybe it is a correct combination of parks? However I often have park radius's overlapping each other for the specific reason to raise land value sky high.
I've never had a single park produce negative land value.
I will have to look at them again

I think I did not say that correctly. Of course, parks have a very positive effect within the radius they show upon placement. And yes, you should have those radii overlapping, as this potentiates their effect. It is just that the area of the park itself doesn't have high land value, and this seeps out over the edge, just a few cells. Which basically just means that houses on the park edge seem to sit on slightly lower land value than houses a few cells away, all just assuming the graph is actually correct. (which is not a given). So, if you put a park next to a river and have a house in between, it probably sits in a blue area (see for an example in my image near the river bridge). You can also see the bluish green halos around parks on the top and slightly below that. That's what I refer to. That halo is so narrow, that large 4x4 lots are less influenced than smaller lots.

On the other hand, I have such an overkill of landmarks in that area that this all doesn't matter much.

 

[Seny Androide]

You need another park. Its not 100% influenced thats why its a darker shade of greeny blue

I really need another park? By God, if they have a big one nearby. xD