So is Agriculture still broken? (And other annoyances)

[usagicassidy]

Came back to this game tonight after a month and a half of not playing it.

Played for an hour and agriculture still does not support itself. I have Industrial demand through the roof, yet all my farming buildings become abandoned or say "not enough workers." I have way more residents than I need, just packing in people in the hopes that it'll fill it. I'm not overdoing it on education either.

Still, nothing I do seems to fix this and I don't want all of my industry to be "generic" or polluting.

Of course, it was all for not because after an hour of playing the game it crashed on me. Looks like the crashing issues have STILL not been resolved. I'm playing on a 2013 27" iMac with 8GB RAM and an Nvidia GTX660.

 

[Mayor#1]

I haven't used farms all that much, mostly because they aren't realistic to me. When I think of a farm, I think of huge swaths of cropland. When I do use them however, they do seem to be under-productive.

 

[Maxxpain]

I have a population just under 400k in one of my cities and a large agricultural sector (34 ha) that is always at full employment with very little messages with looking for workers. I always keep my unemployment at 8-10% and this keeps the demand for industry and commercial high. I also have forestry regions that are always in use with a population of 63% highly educated. Try that if you want to have forestry and agriculture. The majority of my farming building have 16/16 and 12/12 highly educated workers.

 

[Rysouke]

Yes i used the same method as mention by maxxpain to have industrial in my city and i always keep between 15% to 8% and i zone very slowly so that i wont overzone either for industrial and commercal.

 

[Vimes]

On my newly started, post patch, map my aspiring city has recently had an area defined for agricultural after showing a great demand for more industry. I ensured that the agriculturally marked industrial area created was on the most fertile land, had good access for the outside connections and had all the services that it needed. The result is that my generic industry, other side of the map, gets full employment and yet the small defined farming zone is really struggling to attract workers to remain in business. Some have no workers and others one or two of 16 are working there.
They seem to prefer to travel to the other side to work in a smelly, noisy generic industry type factory then shovel cow shit all day, not that I blame them really...!

I have often had issues with specialised industry over that of offices or generic. Educate them or ensure that they are brain dead makes little difference.