Unlock Observatory

[VaLee]

Unlock Court House

So how does one have a crime rate over 50%? No matter what I do the crime rate never goes up past 24%.
I removed every police station, every school, every industrial zones (less jobs) and waited over 3 years and seems nothing works.
Am i missing something or crime is too underrated in this game?

 

[dauntlessk]

Correct me if I'm wrong, doesn't the observatory require 1000 abandoned buildings?

 

[EvilTom]

I believe crime rate is also linked to happiness, so if you can make your residents unhappy (remove parks, and put them in noise polluted areas etc) you can increase your crime rate.

 

[CNightwing]

You also need to make them all miserable. Build a garbage dump right next to their houses. Don't let them go to school. DESTROY ALL PARKS. You get the idea

 

[VaLee]

Crap, my bad, it's Court House.

And I tried removing everything, but then they just leave and abandon the buildings and the crime rate goes down since the population goes down.

 

[Shadrack]

Crap, my bad, it's Court House.

And I tried removing everything, but then they just leave and abandon the buildings and the crime rate goes down since the population goes down.

Not necessarily true. If you only have one person left but that one person is a criminal you have a crime rate of 100%

 

[VaLee]

Did anyone manage to pull this off? I managed to get over 50% eventually but only for a couple of days, and it requires to be for 5 weeks. It seems impossible since if the crime rate goes up the population goes down, then crime rate goes down and population goes up, then the circle continues, you cannot have a steady high crime rate.
Did the devs test this achievement or the 50% number was chosen randomly?
I removed every service available including power and water, residential happiness is around 6% and yet the crime rate won't go past 11-12%.