Zoning Question - How they work when grouped

[colonyan]

Office zones. Are they considered "can be placed anywhere ultimate job provider as long as cims are educated" type of zone?

As it still is a simulation "game" it is pretty hard to simulate the real world down-town business center effect, placement of
"down town core" is ultimately player's deed, not anything that come from after math of city's growth in Cities:skyline simulation.

So the main question,

- Are there any benefit of grouping the office zones together? Are they happy together of having offices around them?

Offices (companies) do lots of in person meeting and traffic of mail/documents in real world even we have phone and internet as
meeting in person and handing in real paper document(or value holding document(checks and other paper with values)) has its merit.

This question have come to me it was almost natural for me to plan ahead a down town business core in my city and
I never questioned myself until now if it really is necessary altogether. Why not scatter around city so it is easier to reach for
worker?

 

[kopierpapier]

As far as i understand the game mechanics its regardless... if you got industry manpower and commercial offices will grow wherever u place them. BUT they benefit from Parks and a nice environment...

 

[colonyan]

As far as i understand the game mechanics its regardless... if you got industry manpower and commercial offices will grow wherever u place them. BUT they benefit from Parks and a nice environment...

This is exactly what I was thinking and also little worried about.
For design purpose, it is good making various form of cities available BUT, I think as it is city simulation game, it has to hold some minimum level of fidelity to reality.
I think fact that office and residential share benefactor public building is the problem.

Providing groups of public building that only benefit office zone looks little too restrictive for game play wise.
But still at least they could add, justice building, city hall and convention center. And maybe later stock exchange.

Another idea is to spawn special kind of office building: major banks. Being close to bank as a corporation has its own merit.
Make bank spawn and offices to benefit from bank could be a hint to forming down town in natural manner.