RCI demand percentage: What have you found?

[BlackViper.com]

I personally like large industries to watch all those little trucks clog up everything and make my traffic backup.
This is my question:
Even if I have a lot of residential, I still have industry complaining about not enough workers (this is unrelated to education).

I liked 50% R, 25% C and 25% I, but that does not seem to work properly and abandoned buildings happen for both C and I.
What ratio do you folks with more experience than I do break them down as?

 

[youngzack]

Always check your unemplyement. You need this higher than 3% to actually notice how many workers you got. I have yet to bother confirm this, but i believe the other buildings, such as police, fire, schools etc etc also need workers, not just C and I. Someone might have to confirm this for me, as this was in Simcity 2013 i think its implemented here to.

 

[youngzack]

I will say focus on the employement and unemployement tab though. It needs to stay on 4% ++ because it will always never go lower than that, the 3% stands for primary kids and elderly. so it will never actually show you how many emplyers you need. But rather how many unemployed you have. Once you start popping schools etc, u need to keep a more focus on both this and education tab. The higher lvl your building becomes the more educated lvl they need, and this can be a pain if u havent been developing education and CI at the same speed. Dont always follow the RCI demand, it may lead you to a trapp where u end up with either to many R, C or I. I always check my info tab first before building.

This is what i have noticed hopefully its not a bug because for me it make sense:

Residential demand can be from high to low even though my city have unemployement. So sometimes i check my industry closer and find out they actually may need more educated people, so with commercial and offices, Hence the demand.
So i expand education, then the Residential demand can actually lower itself.
And also sometimes it is better to upgrade RCI zones rather than overbuild. This can become an issue when you have a wide area zoned and everything grows up at once, then u may end up in the same trapp, having to check all the infos over and over again.

 

[AmpsterMan]

I try to build in such a way that i always have moderate demand for each of the RCI. This usually means zoning very little at a time and tight control over land values and services provided.

 

[youngzack]

http://imgur.com/eZy0hXf

Unless link is broken, the picture above is illustrating what i ment about "Residential demand can be from high to low even though my city have unemployement". In my experience, it has been both residential demand, and as of education demand. If u get what i mean.

 

[BlackViper.com]

Here is a snapshot of my test city to figure this out:
I built it in checkerboard pattern for ease of examination.
Here you see still a lot of R demand. Notice the ratio between what I zoned with R/C/I? This means not enough residents is wayyy not enough...

 

[BlackViper.com]

Currently, expanding and filling in the holes in the above image, it is 80% R, 10% C and 10% I.
Anyone else get to these figures?

 

[TornPr1nc3]

The only thing about that experiment Viper that doesn't fit, is if I remember hearing right, that demand changes over time. It won't be the same later on in the game as it is at the start. Offices and high density commercial also have different demands, I think. Might need another to confirm that, but I think that's correct. Either way, not too crazy about 80 / 10 / 10

 

[BlackViper.com]

Well, previously, in big cities (100k+) Industry demand would be high, I would great a big block and all would abandon due to not enough workers, that is why I did this test.

 

[BlackViper.com]

Already, I am getting "not enough workers" with this many R:

 

[BlackViper.com]

Those are all Low Density Residential so mainly family's, the bulk of the work force are young adults who tend to live in High Density Residential.

As time moves on and buildings level up their capacity will often increase, both in terms of workers needed and Citizens housed.

You have 80 Single Family homes, 20 Industrial buildings and 20 Commercial buildings. This will give you approximately 640 jobs, and only about 320 Citizens to fill them as each house will be a mixture of age ranges.

Gotcha! Thanks!

 

[youngzack]

Heh

Already, I am getting "not enough workers" with this many R:
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That is right as it is low residential. Gotta keep in mind, that from lvl 1, there is a 3 housholds availabillity, but this doesnt mean tthat a whole house will actually be full of people as they die etc and babies must also be born. (there is a mod that helps filling up residentials on steam).
The whole thing is random, meaning your workers whom are teens, young adults, and adults will be from high to low on your houses, leaving room for elder and children.
So u can have a house full of children or old folks or the "workers".You also gotta take in count that buildings will lvl up (grow), making the ratio even harder to follow.
Basically ratio in this game is useless, i rather follow on demands and follow the info tab.

 

[TornPr1nc3]

I wish the education levels were also random for those who "qualify". It makes zero sense to have every citizen who moves in be uneducated.

 

[AmpsterMan]

Err are we sure teens work? I thought Children went to elementary, teens to high school, and it was only Young Adults that could choose between Uni or work (oherwise, what's the goal of the education policy?)

 

[youngzack]

Err are we sure teens work? I thought Children went to elementary, teens to high school, and it was only Young Adults that could choose between Uni or work (oherwise, what's the goal of the education policy?)

Yeah check this http://community.simtropolis.com/topic/66450-high-unemployment/

 

[BlackViper.com]

Here is what I ended up with. 36k, no mods, still first tile: