⛔Fix for low or no RCI Demand Cities: Skylines residential, commercial, industry tutorial | Guide #7

[@michaelthatcher6706]

One of the most helpful Cities videos on KZbin. Thanks mate!

[@perafilozof]

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[@michaelthatcher6706]

@@perafilozof Thank you! I'm watching more now👍🏙

[@perafilozof]

@@michaelthatcher6706 enjoy!

[@GigaCat589]

Bro what I was gonna say

[@patrickbennett439]

This has been my exact problem always after my city gets big on this game. I just get to a point way late in the game where all my demand just falls off completely ;(

[@perafilozof]

Hello Patrick and welcome to my channel. How many C zones have you built ? Compared to the other zones? What does it say in the statistics (option in the menu screen inside the game)

[@patrickbennett439]

@@perafilozof Ive since made a new city and this time i used TONS of trains between industial and commercial.. Its helped alot,,, like 80% at least,,, ITs just too hard for trucks to get all the way to each location. NOw that im at 200,000 population, i bet itl happen again later but wel see. I built tons of C zones and theres just too many industry things in this game,, like after mods i have.

[@perafilozof]

@@patrickbennett439 Yeah, I understand. Just try to remember that the game has some core limitations which come into play in any new city and the more content from DLCs you bring into a new city the less things can you do and have in it in general because you reach those limits faster.

[@patrickbennett439]

@@perafilozof True,, i have simplified my mods and assets much since the past lol.. It was so rediculous my pc couldnt handle it,, now i have a new pc and less mods and the game is playable even with my kinda big city..not slow really,, its good

[@perafilozof]

@@patrickbennett439 I am happy to hear that Patrick! Feel free to send me some links to pictures or video of your city!

[@nelink250X]

omg and I was playing and thinking, oh, I'm not gonna watch guides, I wanna figure out things by myself and slowly I was starting to lose enjoyment out of playing when I couldn't figure out what is wrong... thank you very much for this guide

[@perafilozof]

Hello nelink250X and welcome to my channel! I am very happy to hear my video helped you out! You can see the entire tutorials and guides playlist here> kzbin.info/aero/PLRYGjguAn0CGGTk5TERLeqYIJbjjvy3pu

[@elixykhielturla8940]

i was having a problem developing my city... thank you for this guide it really helped my city prosper!

[@perafilozof]

Hello Turla and welcome to my channel. Thank you for the feedback. I am happy to hear your city is prospering thanks to my video.

[@Francois424]

Thanks for making this video so much. I played CS in 2017, 2019 and just resumed a few months ago. My newer cities worked fine, but my first thriving city never recovered from me re-organizing polluting industries in a new spot... Which I had replaced by tons of offices in old spot. The result was a deadlocked RSI indicator and the EXACT symptoms your city in this video had. After an hour of deleting large swats of industries and about half my office, the town seems to be picking up again. Not out of deadlock yet, but I can see better trafics, less demands for goods, industries not getting shutdown from "No Buyers for Products"... Feels like recovery to me :) Now you should've made this video back in 2017, but better late than never! Thanks a ton !

[@perafilozof]

Hello Francois and welcome to my channel. I tend to make videos about the issues players come to me with. So for example, currently I am testing out the reasons why commercial zones so often get stick on 70-80% happiness and won't ever go higher than that. It was a request from one of my subscribers. If you have a similar question or problem let me know and I will research it and post a video about it in due time.

[@maloneyf89]

This helped me so much. It’s so simple! Idk why I wasn’t seeing it in my play through. Quality video and excellent explanation!

[@perafilozof]

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[@KrnelPanc]

wow, you saved my city. I'm new and couldn't for the life of me figure this problem out. thanks!

[@perafilozof]

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[@n.zoltan8185]

Thank you for this video, unlike my expectations finally it was useful :) So almost all of my bigger cities ended with this situations and at the end the population began to decline and die as well. I always believed that it is caused by some mods and/or because of low level of traffic low. At my latest game I hade population of 175 000, I had a nice traffic system, traffic flow was continuously above 80% everything was fine. I was thinking over my past failed games and I realized finally that most probably I generated this problem the same way. In earlier stage of games I build zones in small steps, I always added a small quantity of RCI zones. In later stage of the game I began to create huge district zones with well planned road /train network and I was adding huge amount of RCI zones in short time. In my latest game at population of 175 000 I was plan to create a district which will have create potentially additional 75 000 citizen. And I just was coloring everything with RCI zones in the same time. I think that was the key point which caused the change of balance and that started that negative spiral. I was also adding residential zones even if there was no demand because even with this there was population increase and houses were built. Till your video, based on my everyday logic I was not destroying back the already working zones as I believed if I destroy commercial zones, it will create even less demand for industrial zones which will create even less workplace and it will create a negative spiral. Till your video I was not taking care of unemployment rate at all. In my latest game I was checking it because of You and I was shocked when I realized that unemployment rate was 45%. So finally I began to destroy back the commercial zones. I'd say I was destroying approx. 20-30% of existing commercial zones, and about 15-20% of industrial zones which seem to be very dramatic change for me and I was almost sure that it will fill follow by huge population decrease. But finally the population was not decreasing, and after some time the commercial demand began to appear and I could be able to rebuild the destroyed zone. Important to say that this rebuild needed patient, both from time perspective, both from that perspective that I was re-add the commercial zones in very small quantities because if I added too much, the demand quickly fall back to 0 level. After I run game literally hours also industrial demand began to appear, also even at 60% industry demand level still i have some factories with "not enough buyers" tag. And even more hours later finally some R demand also began to appear too. Now I think I'm on half way, the unemployment rate decreased down to 21% (which is still high), still also have some not enough buyers issues but overall my game seems to be working again and despite of my "economic crisis" population increased to 240 000 and now I believe that in few hours my game will be fixed. At the end it seems that I will rebuild the same level of C zones what I destroyed before (with a bit more office and bit less commercial zones), so for me final finding was that I added too much zones in same time and I should avoid that I build huge districts paused the game and rather it should be added in small quantity and waiting that new zone be part of city life more evolutionary. Thanks for advices, sorry for my easy-English, and best regards from Hungary :)

[@perafilozof]

Hello Zoltan, it's nice to read a comment from a neighbor. Also, thank you very much for that detailed description of your cities progress and your dealings with this problem. I am glad to read you used my advice well and fixed your city. I would advise getting more workplaces by zoning for a lot more offices but also all four types of specialized industry. That way you will employe your Cims, produce products for generic industry and reduced the need for C zones as you will have less need to open jobs with more generic industry. Keep C zones at a minimum or you will once again brake the balance. Try to keep it 1/4 or even better 1/5 of R zones. The lower the better as long as industry has enough buyers and citizens have leasure activities elseware the C zones. Good luck in building your city and send me some cool screenshots once you finish it. Btw if you have any other problems you offten face there are more videos on my channel but if you don't find one for your other problems let me known and I will make one in the future. Best of luck to you!

[@jaredrobinette5816]

The unemployment under 8% is the one answer I've been looking for and you had it haha, thanks!!

[@perafilozof]

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[@SP-4-RK]

this is very simple and helpful! you deserve a sub this video is very great

[@perafilozof]

Hello 343- Bunny Spark, and welcome to my channel! I am very happy to hear that, thank you for becoming a subscriber. I like your nick btw, HALO FTW.

[@mariecottam2172]

I'm going to go home and try this immediately!!!! I was close to 7,000 people but decreased quickly to 2,500 and had almost $400,000, but also decreased to $13,000 still dropping!!! Now that I think about it, I think I may have put too many commercial zones down....

[@perafilozof]

Hello Marie and welcome to my channel! I hope you fix your city with this tip. Let me know how it turns out!

[@ehtachii8893]

this actually worked, i just reduced my commercial areas and hit 50% on demand for commercial! thanks for the tip

[@perafilozof]

Hello Bonezyz and welcome to my channel. I am glad to hear this was helpful for you!

[@239_baby6]

Every time I start a city the population doesn’t go up it just stays at zero even though I build residential areas and commercial areas it’s happened 3 times in a row and I’m starting to get pissed off having to just start a new city every 10 minutes how do I fix this

[@perafilozof]

Hello Raul and welcome to my channel. If your population stays at 0 that usually indicates a problem with your roads setup. You should check to see if the incoming traffic from the highway has a clear way of getting to your zones.

[@239_baby6]

@@perafilozof thanks I took care of that problem but now I don’t know why my commercial zones and industrial zones aren’t being built what’s up with that

[@perafilozof]

@@239_baby6 when starting a new city there is only residential demand. Until you get 100+ cims into your cit you won't get any C demand. Later you will get I demand.

[@naminova]

I really wish they would separate demand for industry by good production, raw material production, and offices.

[@perafilozof]

Hello Lane and welcome to my channel! Who wouldn't, but it's seams Developers only take suggestions about new DLCs these last... 7 years. Paradox, their publisher, doesn't let them update the core gameplay.

[@nameholderplaceholder4856]

To think, all I had to do was vaporize half of downtown! Thanks, this really helped

[@perafilozof]

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[@therabbidt]

wow this is actually very goddamn informative. holy crap thanks bro

[@perafilozof]

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[@luizfelipeamato5403]

im from Brazil. in portuguese and english this is the best video with the more high quality information. You aswered crucial points in so many levels. Thanks i hope you are a happy and health person.

[@perafilozof]

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[@luizfelipeamato5403]

@@perafilozof I was exactly watching this lol. Very helpfull playlist and already shared with a friend, thanks a lot man!

[@perafilozof]

@@luizfelipeamato5403 I am glad to hear that. Enjoy!

[@richardadamson0420]

Thank you man, you helped me save my city from stagnation, very short and helpful video

[@perafilozof]

Hi Richard! Thank you for the feedback. Glad I could help. You can find many more helpful videos on this playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLRYGjguAn0CGGTk5TERLeqYIJbjjvy3pu

[@nelink250X]

Can you make a video about just commercial zones, I feel like always struggle the most with it, happiness for other zones is above 80%,while commercial is always the least happy at around 73%, I was so confused about it, either "no goods", "not enough educated workers", "no customers" and I was following the demand bars, so now that you say commercial should stay at around 50% it makes so much sense. but my curious mind is wondering why is it? Can you talk more about it? why the demand with commercial needs to be kept at 50% and how to raise the happiness of this zone?

[@perafilozof]

Hi, sure thing. It's a good idea. There is the problem of C zones leveling up too fast, before cims are educated enough for those higher level jobs. There is also the problem with supply of goods and some backend calculations the game's simulation makes which crate those different popups which confuse the players. And I will go into the 50% rule a bit more. Thank you for the suggestions feel free to add them about any of my other videos you enjoy!

[@atiadjt]

I don't have office demand :( residential is at 100%, commercial at 50%, and industry and office at 0%. I have a university in my city. I also have factories, airports, and cargo trains. Do you know what happened?

[@perafilozof]

What is your unemployment %? How many open jobs do you have and how many jobs are filed?

[@IcurseAtFishForFun]

Best video on KZbin about rci demand

[@perafilozof]

Hi Richard, thank you very much for saying that and welcome to my channel. You can find more helpful videos just like this one on this playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLRYGjguAn0CGGTk5TERLeqYIJbjjvy3pu

[@perafilozof]

How often did you have to abandon a city when your RCI demand hit 0 ? Did you ever manage to get out of this problem and how did you do it?

[@Nomorehats]

Gotta dezone everything that hadn't been filled, then just run the game patiently lol.

[@CoronelOcioso]

Another solution is to just leave the simulation running and do nothing... eventually it rebalances itself... but well is not what the game is about. I destroyed the city of the fix trafic scenario and rebuild it as i liked the map. It stagnated for a while until it kicked off again

[@jaxon-t9983]

I’ve only abandoned two cities with this issue, the first one got to a population of 100,000 but RCI demand completely ran out and I only got it up to 120,000 before getting bored. The second city got a population of 54,000 then got a death wave where I fell down to 30,000 and RCI demand completely ran out.

[@perafilozof]

Hi, sounds like a bad experience in both cases. Did you zone a lot at the same time in the one where you had the big death wave?

[@jaxon-t9983]

@@perafilozof I remember zoning a lot of everything so I could go AFK, Which is probably why I lost more than half of my entire population lol

[@CoronelOcioso]

You deserve more views brother

[@perafilozof]

Hello El Rincon, and welcome to my channel. Thank you very much for saying that. It's been noted by quite a few viewers like yourself lately. In my, subjective, opinion I also think I should get more love from the KZbin's algorithm and search engine. It's been getting better for sure, constant growth but kinda unfair compared to the views a lot of other more popular but lower quality channels get. Do you have any suggestions for me about somehow reaching a bigger audience? Or anything you think I should do better?

[@CoronelOcioso]

@@perafilozof well I will not suggest you resort to clickbait as some big ones do... Watch the spiffing Brit video, since you have more than 1k subscribers you should be able to use the community tab to create polls and get a small boost now that it is public info... I think you are in time to surf that wave. You reply and encourage engagement... That is what KZbin loves the most. To have open conversations in the comments. Maybe make an invite only discord server were you fully interact via voice with a few selected subscribers but that s a double edge sword because you will drive engagement there instead of here that is were it matters. But also will allow subscribers to show and share. That is why I say selected subscribers I mean those who understand that is important to keep interacting with your videos even if they have a more direct means of reaching you.

[@CoronelOcioso]

@@perafilozof you find that 5k is a YT milestone, it will staganate there for a while then 10k and stagnate around 13k... Good content takes time to grow organically but organic grow is solid and long lasting.

[@perafilozof]

What is interesting I have been using my community tab like that for over a year now. Even had comments from people telling me they aren't even my subs but see those posts. Indeed, I do try to communicate with my viewers as much as possible, especially people like you who don't mind having a nice discussion. I would make a discord had I the time, I have a day job, wife, baby boy... But I am trying to find people who want to work with me on the channel and take some of the work off my hands so I could do more things, like discord for example. But it's really hard finding people with the required knowledge, motivation, free time and willingness to work for little to payment as I simply can't afford to have employees or partners at this point. I do hope that will become possible soon.

[@perafilozof]

Well, at this rate of growth we will find out soon how it's going to be like once I hit 5k subs in a month or so. Stick around and see what happens ! Your input and comments are really valuable to me. Thank you very much for taking the time, I know first hand how valuable time is.

[@gamesforgames1727]

I was chilling trying to learn how to get that and then I saw you had 1,000,000 people HOW HE HELL!

[@perafilozof]

Hehe, quite the shock I can imagine :) It took a lot of effect over several years, as well as some patches the developers made to even be able to get there. I made this city during a very long let's play which took several years. There is a short time-lapse and you can watch the whole build here: kzbin.info/aero/PLRYGjguAn0CHQliH0Ahn90KEH7oOvW11g

[@gamesforgames1727]

@@perafilozof Yeah, I can understand that it took that long you didn't even have Infinite money I saw!

[@perafilozof]

@@gamesforgames1727 Indeed, I played it on the hard mode. Every was more expensive and population had higher needs in order to let buildings level up. But the biggest challenge was traffic and AI logic for goods delivery and production.

[@gamesforgames1727]

@@perafilozof Yeah I got the game about a week ago and I finally reached 36,000 people this is when the demand went down too 0

[@perafilozof]

@@gamesforgames1727 Without knowing more about your city, my simple guess would be that you kept trying to use up the C(blue) demand while also building parks and similar buildings which cover the same demand and broke the demand bars totally.

[@gamesgabriel8950]

Thank you! And happy new year :)

[@perafilozof]

Hi Gabriel, and welcome to my channel! A happy new year to you too.

[@Mr.Toakicoaster]

I really thought i would have to restart my city, turns out all i had to do was crash it and restart from my last save, where i was doing good. So happy me

[@perafilozof]

Hi, I am glad I could help!

[@narcis4none]

So the conclusion is don't build excess commercial,industrial and office... always let the bar demand.. build only residential overtime will work and do more zoning while the population increases!

[@perafilozof]

Hello Arcturus and welcome to my channel ! demand for C is the greatest problem and it should be left at 50% minimum. But yes, building too much I or O will brake the balance as well. So keep your unemployment below 8% go keep a healthy R demand.

[@TarsisS777]

Hi, at 4:57 how do you manage to set down the commercial zone? And if you delete the areas, how they don't come back? I feel with a bigger city, the commercial will frequently and slowly increase in percent. My commercial zones now are more than the residential. :(

[@perafilozof]

To remove commercial zones you use the dezone tool. Last option in the zoning tools. Yes, having more C than R is a big No, No in this game. It will brake your balance.

[@vishalkhatri6723]

Man you are good! Can you also make a video about the mods that can make life easier?

[@perafilozof]

Hi Vishal and welcome to my channel. Thank you for the feedback and compliment. I will see what I can do about that idea!

[@Zentrix368]

Thanks, i learned smth new

[@perafilozof]

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[@brolertheaviationmaster3448]

what if my industry zones are complaining a lot about not enough buyers and i dont have residential demand

[@perafilozof]

You are overproducing some goods and you don't have commercial shops to spend them locally or active connections outside to export them. Reduce production or increase sales locally or outside by using policies to increase spending in commerce zones or build transport hunbs to export the extra products/goods.

[@immortalsun]

Fantastic video!

[@perafilozof]

Thank you kindly. You can see the rest of my guides on this game in this playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLRYGjguAn0CGGTk5TERLeqYIJbjjvy3pu

[@cn08_5]

My city is fixed now, and has expanded from 28000 population to 51000. I've not been encountering this problem anymore after keeping my C demand at 50% and using lots of office rather than industry.

[@perafilozof]

Hello CN08 Creator, can you please look at the statistics screen and tell me how much of each zone type do you have in your city? Read it off the charts.

[@cn08_5]

@@perafilozof I have nearly 5000 squares of office zone, 5500 squares of industry, 3000 squares of commercial, and 13000 of residential

[@perafilozof]

Are your offices not having enough workers or is it just the specialized and generic industry? That would mean you have really high education level and no one is left with low education to work there. What is your unemployment % ?

[@cn08_5]

@@perafilozof My unemployment percent is only 3 %

[@cn08_5]

Some of my industry is using the "Industry 4.0" thing. I don't know if that affects it.

[@jkbeach2512]

Thanks 💜💜

[@perafilozof]

You are welcome JK and I am glad you joined my channel!

[@infinitechoices1641]

I removed a lot of commercial so its sitting at 40% now. But the industry and residential are still next to no demand. I have 19k jobs available and 16% unemployed. A pop of 46k and 18k are working. Edit: I also have taxes on 9%, it didn't help.

[@perafilozof]

Hello Infinite Choices and welcome to my channel. at 16% unemployment you wont get new R demand. It has to be below 7-8%. Industry needs to be spread between specialized, generic and offices to employ your Cims. You will need to change the industry zones as well. Once you have a proper mix of industry zones, employ half of those unemployed cims, watch the education % and provide the jobs they require. Then your I and R zone demand will go back to normal.

[@infinitechoices1641]

Fixed it by disabling industrial space planning.

[@perafilozof]

There you go. Great mate!

[@ricks5756]

I have high residential and commercial demand with ZERO industrial demand ... I literally can not grow any industrial buildings .

[@perafilozof]

Hello Rick S and welcome to my channel. First things first: What is your unemployment %? How many zones of each type do you have? (you can see this in the menu>statistics>turn on all types of zones on the graph) Also, do you use any mods or DLCs?

[@heather5936]

Same happened to me. Too many educated people. Delete university and high schools and then watch your industry grow. Don't build university too soon. Worked for me

[@perafilozof]

Hello Heather and welcome to my channel. Thank you for posting your own experience and adding to the discussion.

[@savagekingtexas_3990]

I built a 30,000 population and only realized now that I might need to start from scratch since I built a lot of commercial, very little dirty industry and a lot of offices

[@perafilozof]

No need to start over, just slowly change your zones. Restarting rarely helps learn lesions. Welcome to my channel SavageKingTexas_ you can find more helpful videos on this playlist : kzbin.info/aero/PLRYGjguAn0CGGTk5TERLeqYIJbjjvy3pu

[@anthonyplays2401]

Bc I dont like pollution I said up a forest district and zoned instudustrial (I zoned forest district bc I dont have industries dlc) to reduce pollution and I want to get a farm district once I buy more land

[@perafilozof]

Good plan! Anthony. But your city will always need goods from generic industry as well.

[@lavapool3229]

After a I got big I got rid of all my industrial zones😂

[@perafilozof]

That can work if you can import the goods. If you have enough vehicles to move it after that and distribute.

[@patrickbennett439]

Tons of trains is the answer, i fixed this problem in a city. I had so many good train connections and if you do that enough, thatl work. I had a city doing soo good but i eventually over modded it. I got to the point that i liked too many mods to even make the game function any more lol.

[@perafilozof]

Hi Patrick, what what exactly did the trains do for you? What stats did they change?

[@patrickbennett439]

@@perafilozof You have to start a new city, and train that bitch up! Cargo trains and more cargo trains and an airport or 5 with some cargo trains! I have a city working and demand high, big city finally. My need for mods got the best of me so i dont play now.

[@d_dayomahadev]

the first time I watched this video I barely understood anything. maybe because I was having a hard time concentrating or the way you talked

[@perafilozof]

OK... and the second time?

[@malafunkshun8086]

Good Stuff! 😊🤙🏼

[@perafilozof]

Thank you very much for that praise. Welcome to my channel Malafunkshun808. You can find more similar videos here Tips and guides for Cities: Skylines: kzbin.info/aero/PLRYGjguAn0CGGTk5TERLeqYIJbjjvy3pu

[@SigmaRho2922]

The blue demand bar is for commercial and leisure.

[@perafilozof]

Yes. That is correct, but filling leisure doesn't reduce the indicator so people keep thinking they need more shops.

[@Kansasavation]

This really helps because for some reason half my city disappeared and I really wanted to make my citizens come back because my commercial and industrial buildings were complaining

[@perafilozof]

Hello The MCI avgeek and welcome to my channel. I am glad I could help. When you lose population and want it to come back rebalancing RCI is key. Don't worry about the C and I zones, they will come back when the conditions are right. R zones are much more picky.

[@razielthagreat]

In my cities for some reason my industry never EVER rises.. its the oddest thing.. every single city ive created ends up going this way. im not sure why... I can literally spend months growing a city that never EVER has an up tick in industrial demand. The residential demand always stays high and so does the commercial, but the industrial demand is just never there. But i never seem to have an issue with funds or goods... I have cargo train/plane hubs... outside connections, land and sea, and i also even extract the resources. I usually just go timber and farmland as I personally try to stay away from replicating the use of fossil fuels.. just a personal thing for me. But i establish the production lines for each industry and it goes smoothly, levels up smoothly. but the industrial demand never moves.... Im not sure what im doing wrong.... certain policies??? Any ideas

[@razielthagreat]

Nevermind ... it turns out my entire city is too smart lol i have like less than 2% uneducated in the entire city.. thus they don't go work at those "plebian" industrial sites lol looks like ill have to adjust some policies in certain areas and see if forcing lower educated into the workforce will help.. im just curious to see if i can get the demand to rise ... lol im still confused how ive been able to make cities without the demand for any real industry lol... and i dont use any mods that affect demand or population in any way.

[@perafilozof]

Hello James, and welcome to my channel. When you mention "extract the resources" and " timber and farmland" you do know that specialized industry counts as industry and uses up Industry demand?

[@HeyItsEmilyLove]

Thank you 😊

[@perafilozof]

Hello Emily Love and welcome to my channel. I am glad I could help. You can find more similar videos about Cities: Skylines on this playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLRYGjguAn0CGGTk5TERLeqYIJbjjvy3pu

[@jamesduessman8402]

It didn't work. I think my game is glitched. Idk if I have to delete the world, I hope I don't have to because it's my first, biggest, and pretty city I built

[@perafilozof]

Hello James, you spent all your credits and your tax income didn't go up?

[@jamesduessman8402]

It did end up working but it took a day

[@perafilozof]

I can believe that. I am happy to hear it works for you now.

[@anthonyrodriguez8575]

I have a problem were there's a very high demand for industry and I zone the areas for them but there not building what do I do

[@perafilozof]

Hello Anthony and welcome to my channel. There is a maximum limit on the number of buildings you can have in the game. Use the mod show limits to check that.

[@Wolf-hl8zk]

Wow... thank you

[@perafilozof]

You are quite welcome Wolf. You might find the život rest of my videos just as useful: Tips and guides for Cities: Skylines: kzbin.info/aero/PLRYGjguAn0CGGTk5TERLeqYIJbjjvy3pu

[@alexandertsigaridas5411]

But how is the commercial demand bar supposed to stay at 50%, when in my city it is zero? I need to do something to raise it up there. Unless you mean the chart in the statistics to be half the way?

[@perafilozof]

Hello Alexander Tsigaridas and welcome to my channel. The commercial demand bar goes up the more citizens you have and more industry you have because the first need happiness from shopping and the second need profits from sales. So your C zone demand should go up once you have more citizens and industry. Also, if you have gone overboard with parks, and they satisfy citizen happiness you won't see the C zone demand go up for a long time.

[@alexandertsigaridas5411]

@@perafilozof I made an experiment with my 220k city ($12mn in treasury) and I demolished half of it, moved or temporarily shut down services etc in order to create a less chaotic city. Instantly, the RCI got zero. I lost just over 1/3 of my citizens and treasury from 12mn is down to 7.5mn. Although I am slowly re-building and reorganising, restarting the services, the RCI is still zero and I can only build roads networks, but not new shops, factories or homes. Any suggestions?

[@perafilozof]

​@@alexandertsigaridas5411 First off, are we talking vanilla or modded? Huge remodeling like that in a working city will mess up a lot of stuff, there is no going around that. You need to go back to the basics. No C or I zones, only R zones. R zones will create C and I demand and the cycle will restart. But no promises as the game wasn't designed with such massive demolitions in mind. My suggestion for you is making new single save files and not overwriting your cities save file.

[@ethanmorris7115]

I watched this video and learned some stuff, but this did not ultimately help me in having basically no RCI. the change that did it for me was lowering my taxes. they were set to 12% on all three, so they were low enough so they didnt complain, but high enough i could make money from them. I put all my taxes down to 9% (I didnt test other numbers it was just the first number i tried) and the demand for residential (which then lead to the other two) skyrocketed!

[@perafilozof]

Interesting! Thank you for coming back with that comment EthanMorris! It's always good to hear more experiences with these situations. I must admit changing the tax income is a way to get some more demand, so I think your demand didn't get bugged. So you probably haven't overbuilt C zones or you have a lack of other things which fill that demand without lowering the C zone demand.

[@ethanmorris7115]

@@perafilozof i did go through and gut my city and looked through my unemployment statistics, but my issue must of been a rare case. Overall you are very knowledgeable on the game and more people should know about what you do :)

[@perafilozof]

@@ethanmorris7115 Thank you for that compliment. I wish you well in making great cities you will enjoy playing in. If you have any more trouble with gameplay I made a lot of different guides on my subjects found on this playlist: studio.kzbin.info/door/wKtlhYJz_OM1J7vQ5hSfqAplaylists

[@ibutterp0pi220]

So even after trying to balance my rci demand my industrial demand still refuses to increase. What should I do?

[@perafilozof]

How much RCI do you have compared to each other? What are the percentages?

[@ibutterp0pi220]

@@perafilozof I believe it was around 10% res. 30% com. and 0& ind.

[@perafilozof]

@@ibutterp0pi220 yeah, that is horrible. You need 1 C zone for every 15 R zones. You broke the RCI demand with so much commercial.

[@ozgedumanatilla]

Idk if you guys knows this but if you have access to mods than realistic populatoin mod will make it a bit better than vanilla game

[@perafilozof]

Hello ozge and welcome to my channel. Indeed that mod improves many of the less developed aspects of the game.

[@ozgedumanatilla]

@@perafilozof acctually i only subsribed the mod just because i got more population count. But it was good video for those who can't access mods

[@perafilozof]

Ah I see. I have yet to find the time to use that mod on my 1 million population city. It will be interesting to see how high will the population be with that mod.

[@thekingofthezombies4059]

Thanks I was so confused

[@perafilozof]

Hello King, and welcome to my channel. Glad to hear this was helpful! If you need any other problems solved or need extra tips check out this playlist of mine about Cities: Skylines: kzbin.info/aero/PLRYGjguAn0CGGTk5TERLeqYIJbjjvy3pu

[@rodrigomendes3327]

That's why RICO buildings destroy de RCI demands. That's exactly what I was suspecting, video only confirms it. Now I have no idea how I will fix it in my city. I will try to make RICO not available for jobs or people living in it. Maybe it fixes my city.

[@perafilozof]

Hello rodrigomendes and welcome to my channel. It deepens on how far your balance is off. What is the % breakdown of each zoning type in your city? You can see that if you go into the statistics menu in the main menu, when you press ESC in game.

[@rodrigomendes3327]

@@perafilozof Wow, thanks for trying to help me! Let me know if this is what you need: i.imgur.com/VTLo5OF.png I'm trying to reduce jobs by delete some buildings, but i'm don't know if i'm doing the right thing.

[@perafilozof]

Hi yes, that was exactly it. Sorry for the delay in answering any comments with links get locked by Google/KZbin into the REVIEW pile. I don't check it every day. So what you have there is most definitely TOO much industry zoning. You should never have almost the same industry zones as residential. And you have already made good progress by reducing that industry zoning. It should be around what you have commercial right now, and don't let commercial go up any more or it will brake especially if you have lots of parks. If you need more open jobs in the future place office zones.

[@mlvmalvinn]

i struggled with this so hard, turns out my tax were too high lmao

[@perafilozof]

12% is about the max a happy population can stand. 13% is risky, above that is just going to force people and businesses out.

[@mlvmalvinn]

@@perafilozof yeah mine was at 12% and as soon as i dropped it to 11% the RCI immediately rised

[@perafilozof]

@@mlvmalvinn That is part of it, yes.

[@snowstorm83]

Hi! I need extra help... cause i erased a lot of commercial and office zones but RCI demand is the same as before, almost zero!! Total lack of R demand! Unemployment went from 17% to 23%... How can i do?! My population is 87.000 and i want the city to arrive to 100.000...

[@perafilozof]

Hello Snowstorm83 and welcome to my channel. Is the demand totally 0 on R,C and I ? R demand can't go up as long as unemployment is above 7%. Why did you tare down office zones? There are only two ways to get back into balance: 1. Get rid of Cims until you have lower then 7% unemployment. 2. Or add unique factories and other buildings which can employ Cims or bring back specialized industry, generic industry or offices depending on the education level of your Cims.

[@snowstorm83]

@@perafilozof i thought that was enough to erase a lot of commercial zone to start RCI demand again...

[@perafilozof]

@@snowstorm83 it would if the unemployment mechanic wasn't tied into the R demand.

[@gamy9000]

4:14 1 million population!!!

[@perafilozof]

Indeed! You can see how it was built here. kzbin.info/aero/PLRYGjguAn0CHQliH0Ahn90KEH7oOvW11g

[@williamblueshirts4947]

Yeah, I got to around 55k population until RCI got out of balance. With the 1x max time acceleration CPU limit, my city virtually stops growing.

[@perafilozof]

Hello William and welcome to my channel. What does your RCI demand show right now?

[@williamblueshirts4947]

I deleted the savegame now, but it was very hard to see a line in all three. Decreasing tax was my only way of getting demand back, but not even 1 quarter.

[@perafilozof]

@@williamblueshirts4947 Yeah, that means it totally crashed. Try to use up only 50% of commercial demand in your next one.

[@williamblueshirts4947]

The town was called Watertown. It used Shady Strands. I used version 1.1.1c just to even play because I don't want to wait for an insane amount of time, which meant it had no DLC. It was my very second town that I have interest in this game, the first one was 1 year ago (I think it reached around 30k? or something? I don't remember)

[@perafilozof]

I see. Try following the milestones in the normal mode to keep a balanced and slow city development. The other, mode, if that is the one you where playing, tricks you thinking it's easier with everything unlocked and infinite money but then before you realize you made a city totally out of balance with the game rules and mechanics.

[@Menolifee]

its very annoying that the game keeps telling you you need commercial but in actuality it just ends up ruining your balance and halting your growth. now i find myself bulldozing hunderds of commercial zones i built earlier to see if that fixes it. at least its fun to watch the thousands of cims walking home

[@perafilozof]

Hello Meno and welcome to my channel. I know, but the Devs have forgotten, and than decided to ignore, the fact that parks and a number of other buildings fill the Cims need for C zones. So the RCI demand still shows you the full need for C zones, not reduced for the Cims who had their C zone need filled by parks and other buildings. But the Devs somehow found time for 10+ DLCs over the last 7 years. Honestly, unforgivable.

[@mothermatriarch]

@@perafilozof Hi there! I've watched the video and then saw this comment, and now I think I'd like to give Cities Skylines another try. The biggest issue I've been having with my cities is no RCI demand. My cities always stop growing at around 3,000 or 4,000 population size. Now that I'm seeing this comment about parks and other buildings filling the C demand, I'm thinking that might be part of my problem. I have been placing parks quite often because I enjoy the idea of my Cims having fun activities to do. This brings me to my questions I'd like to ask: 1.) When should I be placing parks? My Cims always have high happiness and I will place parks anyway because it's fun for me. Should I be placing parks only as a remedy for Cims that are complaining about low happiness and low entertainment? 2.) Which other buildings are you aware of that fill the C demand? Thanks so much!

[@perafilozof]

@@mothermatriarch hello and welcome to my channel. Parks are fine, you just need to keep in mind that the more of them you add the fewer C zones will you need. As for other buildings, anything that Cims can go into that isn't work or home. So most of the expansion stuff like those custom amusement or natural parks. Monuments if local Cims go in. There might be more but as I don't play with all the DLCs I am not familiar with them.

[@mothermatriarch]

@@perafilozof I don't use any DLC as my wallet won't allow that lol!! Thank you for the tip. I will have to keep that in consideration when I give the game another try :)

[@perafilozof]

@@mothermatriarch keep an eye on Humble bundle. They often have huge discounts on CS DLCs. And some go free for a day on Steam on some occasions.

[@knightentertainment1531]

So if I delete some of my over built residential zone the unimployment will go down so more people move in so they want jobs then commercial and so on and so forth?

[@perafilozof]

Hi, the first part was correct, but the second part is not. I am not sure did you mean overbuilt commercial?

[@Nico-gt3mg]

I do understand that right, that i have to balance that blue bar for shop zones at 50% all time?

[@perafilozof]

Prity much. Using it up more than 50% while also building parks and other services for citizens to enjoy themselves is balance breaking

[@thomasyip1925]

So if the growth rate increase to the max then the citizens rate declines?

[@perafilozof]

Hello Tomas and welcome to my channel. No, the rate of new Cims depends only on the residential demand and available zones in your city. The more demand you have and the more new zones you place at one time the higher but shorter will be the growth rate of your population. But that all doesn't mater if you have no demand which can flatline if you create a disbalance which is usually the result of too many C zones.

[@quick8607]

Thanks! I was stuck at 70k😓

[@perafilozof]

You are welcome My_Piggy and welcome to my channel! Good luck with the future build of the city. Let me know how far you get.

[@Gregsanti53]

I find it difficult to build the way the video shows i usually creat entire zones and make district policies instead of mixing all zones in a district

[@perafilozof]

I do understand that. But you have to remember that the developers who made this game live in Europe and their mindset is with mixed zones. That is how the game works best, because that is how they understand cities.

[@o0b.a.d.fluppy0o39]

thx!

[@perafilozof]

You are welcome Fluppy, and welcome to my channel! You can find more tips and guides for Cities: Skylines in this playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLRYGjguAn0CGGTk5TERLeqYIJbjjvy3pu

[@liooalvaro4874]

hi I have a problem...why my industrial demand is not increasing? and only commercial demand and residential

[@perafilozof]

Hi, did you build a lot of offices or unique industry buildings from DLCs?

[@liooalvaro4874]

@@perafilozof no I don't have all the dlc/mods...I only use the temperate base theme, but when I try to use the European base theme..it's very easy to get the industrial demand going up

[@perafilozof]

@@liooalvaro4874 the theme shouldn't matter. What is your unemployment %?

[@liooalvaro4874]

@@perafilozof 69% :/ sorry because I just started the city

[@perafilozof]

@@liooalvaro4874 ok, and has your commercial sector started working? Do you have open shops?

[@TAiiNE]

I still can't figure this out. My current city I thought was doing well. I built up very slow, I zoned little by little. The bars stayed at a nice balanced rate as other guides have said to try and keep them at. I grew and almost had 20k pop. Than a fire started spreading like crazy though trees and stuff and as I didn't yet have the helicopter's it kept going from building to building before whipping out nearly all of my industry area plus one of my shopping centers. Than my demands across the board TANKED, RCI are all zero. I waited it out as the city was booming, maybe give it time.... NOPE. The bars have not budged in hours of playing... Zero demand, zero rebuild.... My little shopping center that survived the fire now said not enough goods, but demand to build anything to make goods was gone along with everything else... so they started going under. Now I have far more residential than apparently needed according to that chart, so I cut back on that. Now what remained of my CI says not enough workers and there goes them becoming abandoned! My unemployment is 2%! i.imgur.com/Zi5z9Jg.jpeg i.imgur.com/hYCo79P.jpeg That's all that is left! It use to be all zoned in.. built up nice with homes around the lake, three little shopping centers, my farming plus a small little industrial zone that handled the job demands... demand for more residential was booming so I worked on adding that little area on the other side of the freeway and hook up a train line... But after that fire took out so much? Now I have two buildings left of my shopping centers, one says not enough workers, the other not enough goods. My industrial zone all became abandoned. The only thing still going is my farm. But my demand across the board is still zero! What do I do next? Demo my farm? Pretty soon the only thing to exist will be my residential. WHAT FIX'S THIS?! I hoped this video would give me answers. I understand the balance, but so far the only answer has been to 'cut back on what you have too much of'. But all that appeared to do was create a not enough worker issue that just damaged things even further, and with demand still as freaking zero nothing recovers and its a non stop downhill spiral. One bloody fire and my city is dead. Three weeks of playing down the drain with no sign of recovery.

[@perafilozof]

Hello Taiine and welcome to my channel. That is quite the predicament. What was your unemployment after the fire?

[@TAiiNE]

@@perafilozof unemployment before fire started at around 5%, after fire it shot up to 13% at the highest that I noticed once the fire was done taking out nearly half of my city. It's now 'balanced' off at between 2-4%. i.imgur.com/A1nrxPE.jpg That was a quick grab I did as the fire started and just went nuts. Needless to say, fire spread OFF from now on. Sadly even my backup save is made after this as I assumed my city would just recover back to what it was once buildings rebuilt and the farm became less charred. But so far it never did. (I save to two files, alternating what file I save to so if a plan don't work out I exit game and reload the other file) I went back to the save before I started trying to 'fix' the issue, turned on inf money, set my pc to not go into sleep mode, and just let the game run though the night on fast speed when I went to bed and part of the morning... Any 'balancing out' I had hoped it would do on its own has not happened like said in the video. I still have zero demand for RCI, unemployment is bouncing between 2 and 4% so I still see a + of peolle at 20 to 40, than a negative of around the same, staying around 7k pop atm. While a few buildings have re-popped, nothing is really happening. Another save and I again try and cut back on residential as its the bar that is still sky high on statistics, and that seems to upset whatever balance the game has found and what remains start crying not enough workers/buyers and starts knocking out what CI I have left.

[@AlexandreLollini]

I tried de-zoning some commercial, but the population fell down to almost zero. I'll do another try by swapping commercial to offices ?

[@perafilozof]

What was your unemployment once you dezoned those commercial buildings? Did you not have industry for your population to work in? And welcome to my channel Alexandre!

[@perafilozof]

Hi, can you post your last comment again, because I can see it but when I try to read it it doesn't open.

[@AlexandreLollini]

@@perafilozof it vanished ! well... the unemployment went up and up and up the more I de-zoned commercial. then population felll faster and faster. I started a new city to test again.

[@perafilozof]

That was expecting. That is why I wrote to you to open new jobs in office zones or specialized industry.

[@AlexandreLollini]

@@perafilozof Yes, but I watched how many jobs were available, and at the beginning there was 1,2x more jobs available than unemplyed people, so those jobs were probably not matching the education level or required type to make the goods, so following the dezoning of commercial the population collapsed. I'll try again differently.

[@thomasconway2657]

Can you help I never got industry demand I only got shops

[@perafilozof]

Hi, please describe the situation a bit more. Is this when you start a new city? After you have placed R zones and people have moved in? And after you have placed C zones and those have been developed and started working?

[@thomasconway2657]

When I start a new city I always have the problem of I get r and c but not I

[@perafilozof]

Demand for I goes up when you have unemployment and your shops create need for goods.

[@thomasconway2657]

​​@@perafilozof aaa thanks and how do you all was respond

[@perafilozof]

@@thomasconway2657 Sorry, I didn't understand that.

[@dannyfriedman3302]

Hi. Thanks for this. My city hit 200K plus and then for no obvious reason started to drop sharply - now down to 179K. All the indicators are good, traffic is around 80%. My RCI bars are showing demand for R (high) and I (medium). Following your suggestions I've dezoned large chunks on C. Should I also dezone some I and O (even thought the bar says there is demand? ) Thanks for any suggections

[@perafilozof]

Hello Danny and welcome to my channel. I am glad I could help. What is your (un)employment %? Are you people leaving the city because they don't have a job? If so add specialized industry, plopable industry if you have and DLCs and offices.

[@dannyfriedman3302]

@@perafilozof HI - thanks for getting back so fast. Population is 177K, 57% are in work, there are 64K jobs available, and unemployment is only 3%. My population flow is a bit wild - after the influx had been rising gradually and stadily, it suddenly leaped up, then down, then up again, and now, you are right, its going down. I think some of the madness might have coincided with me subscribing to the Realistic Population and Real Time mods. I've quite a lot of specialised industry / offices (eg IT) and the full set of DLC industries inc. fishing. But I can add more to counter the falling population if you think that's a good idea. RCI bars currently showing medium (but low medium) demand for everything. Thanks, Danny

[@perafilozof]

Oh, Realistic Population mod! Did you read it's description? It messes with the whole RCI zones balance. You should really only use that mod when starting a new city. Using it on a city already build is just asking for trouble.

[@dannyfriedman3302]

@@perafilozof Ooops - obviously didn't read the label. Would it help if I unsubscribed or will that only make things worse?

[@perafilozof]

Things should return to normal mechanics. But the city might have problems for a long time. Try it, see how it goes.

[@zloungeact]

I have plenty of R, C and I zones that are unoccupied but I'm still not gaining in population. Not sure this video addresses my issue at all :(

[@perafilozof]

It deepens on what is wrong with your city. If no one is moving in, it is usually due to unemployment being above 7%. There could be other factors too. Polluting homes and water. Not having any residential demand due to bugged RCI demand from overbuilding C zones. And other similar issues.

[@pusmeow989]

this includes mod Realistic Population? because there is absolutely no industrial demand after building several factories or after factories being eliminated all

[@perafilozof]

Hello Pus Meow and welcome to my channel. No, this video doesn't cover the changes made by the Realistic Population mod. It's has its own set of rules you have to read on the mods steam workshop page before you use it.

[@pusmeow989]

@@perafilozof MOD Realistic Population Revisit recommended your video in its mod description to learn how Demand works. but the MOD makes me unable to build more Industry after several factories have been built or even after all the factories are gone for "Realistic" reasons he says this is what is on Google maps he says, few factories, but I have Industry DLC I want building farms and other industries watching your videos by having a MOD Realistic population makes me confused, thanks for the information.

[@perafilozof]

@@pusmeow989 hmm, that is a lot to take in. Could you have someone help you with writing in English. These things are complicated and without a clear question I can't give you a good answer. I understand English is not your first language.

[@pusmeow989]

@@perafilozof I'm not asking, I've got what I want, Unsubscribe to Realistic Population Revisit to restore the Demand Industry, the mod deliberately reduces the Demand Industry from what I read in its description to make it look like in the real world or what can be seen on google maps

[@pusmeow989]

@@perafilozof You're right I used google translate and when I reread my previous statement it was really messy 😅

[@esskayesss69]

I have only 3% unemployment but still all demands have fallen to 0 at around 23k residents

[@perafilozof]

Hello Saurabh Kumar Sharma and welcome to my channel. Unemployment is just one element of this problem. Overbuilding commercial zones is another major one. How many zones of each type have you built up? (you can see that information in the options/statistics screen using the graphs )

[@esskayesss69]

@@perafilozof reducing taxes from 12 to 9% worked for me. Thanks to someone on reddit. And thanks for your playlist. The videos are really resourceful. I'm your new subscriber!

[@perafilozof]

Hey, that is great to hear. It's interesting that taxes at 12% where stoping your growth. I keep my own taxes between 9% and 12% in developed cities. Thank you for that feedback and support. I really appreciate it!

[@ahmadsyafiejalaluddin8110]

I have problem with traffic and not enough workers/raw materials.. so idk how to overcome that.. did u build all the roads before zoning them or u do it steps by step? Like build a section first.. after the section begin to develop successfully, u start another section?

[@perafilozof]

Indeed that is the best way. But you can build larger sections of roads but fill them in little by little. The peoblem comes for the fact that buildings level up and change their size, numbers and stars. This changes the balance and so you must change your RCI zoning balance, by taking away one type and adding more of the other at that point. Education also changes the workplace, jobs and workers balance.

[@ahmadsyafiejalaluddin8110]

@@perafilozof i once change my policies to "prioritize education" and use "only public transport".. yeah.. i overcome congestion but got new problem.. too many highly educated workers, thus they dont want to work at the factories.. hahaha omg so hard to satisfy them.. ughh

[@perafilozof]

@@ahmadsyafiejalaluddin8110 They can work in the factories but you have to help the factories level up to level 3, if you have generic industry. If you have specialized industry than zone some offices.

[@ahmadsyafiejalaluddin8110]

@@perafilozof how to level up the factories?

[@perafilozof]

@@ahmadsyafiejalaluddin8110 i have covered that in this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5S6ZmSnirCYqJY but in short cover their zones with services they need. Fire, police, bus stops ect.

[@MargaridaCruz20]

i tried to delete r,c and i separately and nothing worked and i waited a lot, tried in multiple ways and strategies

[@perafilozof]

Hi, what are the stats of your city? Unemployment, open jobs, % of RCI &O, population, tax levels...

[@robertsimpson9010]

I'm having an issue with constant industrial and medium commercial and residential will not go up at all. I've built a lot of office and different types of industrial but it just goes back to 0-R 50%-C and 100%-I. How do I fix that specific issue?

[@perafilozof]

Hi Robert, what is the city population? Have you reached the building limit? Check using the show all limits mod. What is your unemployment % ? What is the breakdown of your zones? Use the statistics window. (when you press escape there is an option for it)

[@robertsimpson9010]

@@perafilozof Thanks for a quick response! My population is at 36k. I've built much bigger than what it currently is (city is about a week old, if that) so I'm positive building limits have not been met. My unemployment is 16% but it refuses to change no matter how much office/industrial I zone. Res 17,712 Com 4,064 Off 4,740 Indust 3,083

[@perafilozof]

Hi, so first of all yes, you definitely have too many C zones, especially if you have build parks. Like 30% at least too many. Secondly does the education level of your citizens match the open jobs in industry? And how many open job do you have?

[@SonnyBoiP]

I was up to 40,000, now my City looks like Detroit... this game is so frustrating

[@perafilozof]

Why, what is the current problem you are experiencing?

[@SonnyBoiP]

@@perafilozof hey there…. My RCI is virtually at 0… and my population is down by 10k…. I provide schools, parks, pd, fd, trash… don’t know what I’m doing wrong!

[@perafilozof]

Ok, can you tell me by going in the main menu and the statistics screen how much of each zoning your have? Also what is your current unemployment % ?

[@SonnyBoiP]

@@perafilozof Hi thanks for helping! My Industrial is about 40%, Residential 40%, and Commercial is about 20%. Also my unemployment is currently at 4%

[@perafilozof]

Ok, so with the unemployment at just 4% you won't be getting any more demand for industry. Depending on do you have many or few open jobs you will have more or less residential demand. You need to keep C zones at that % level. But you need more R zones meaning balancing job and workplace education levels so that Cims in the city take up the open jobs.

[@paulwilliams4862]

How do you say ле? Is it like le or lye

[@perafilozof]

Hello Paulenstein and welcome to my channel. I am not sure what you are asking. Do you mean how do I pronounce the letter л (L) in my native language? It's just л to me. My language is : what you say you write, what you see you read. All single sounds. 30 letters.

[@gaminggodxxlx5991]

My city refuses to create industrial zones. How do I fix this?

[@perafilozof]

Hello GamingGodXXLX5 and welcome to my channel. Do you have some built already? Did you build unique factories? Fishing? What is your unemployment % ?

[@gaminggodxxlx5991]

Hi, I only use forestry and farming industrial zones but it looks like it only starts building when I'm over 10k population and have high education but it refuses to start building when I don't have industries 4.0 enabled. I'm on ps4 and first lay down roads, airports and things like that before I start placing residential zones. I really don't know why it does that. At the start my employment rate was over 20% but I couldn't get it lower until later in the game

[@perafilozof]

Wait, you mean the unemployment % was above 20%? What game mode are you playing in? Industry demand is directly connected to unemployment %, the higher it is the more industry demand you get. Also, the more commercial zones you have they also increase the need for industry. You have to balance industry specializations and generic industry as there isn't a infinite demand for it.

[@gaminggodxxlx5991]

I don't understand what you mean by game mode. I don't have any downloadable content installed. I just have the base ps4 game. I don't know but I think it's the airport and train station and harbor that created the unemployment. As for the commercial zones I didn't have a lot of them

[@perafilozof]

Game mode as in: Are you playing a scenario or the regular sandbox game? The airport and train station and harbor don't change jobs or employment. What is your unemployment % right now?

[@239_baby6]

My population is stays stuck at zero it’s happened 3 times in a row and I’m tired of loading a new city to hope the population goes up when it never does what is my issue here?

[@perafilozof]

Hello Raul and welcome to my channel. If your population stays at 0 that usually indicates a problem with your roads setup. You should check to see if the incoming traffic from the highway has a clear way of getting to your zones.

[@ashgib6337]

I have low unemployment and little to know schools in my city, why is it every game I start has no industry or office demand?

[@perafilozof]

What % is your unemployment? There can't be industry / office game in the start of the game. It doesn't work like that. You have R demand and you have to have Cims living in the city to get I demand. BTW welcome to my channel Gib!

[@ashgib6337]

@@perafilozof 5% unemployment, population 4,628

[@perafilozof]

All right, feel free to add new R zones up to 30% unemployment because at that low population you will need only a few Industry zones to employ all of them.

[@ashgib6337]

@@perafilozof it seems that the problem is having unlimited money on, as soon as I started a world with no unlimited money industry demand was there. Any solution?

[@perafilozof]

@@ashgib6337 Hi Ash, no that doesn't make sense because the two are not connected. Which mods are you using?

[@santi0507]

Hi, I have a problem because I have a lot of demand for residencial and comercial but zero demand for industrial and my city is pretty developed so it seem weird to me that is doesn’t have industrial demand.

[@perafilozof]

Hi, have you built lots of offices or custom industry from DLCs? And what is your unemployment %?

[@santi0507]

@@perafilozof I haven’t used any DLCs and my unemployment is at 4%

[@perafilozof]

Right, so you need about 8% for industry to be needed again.

[@mattsmith8160]

My Cities Skylines seems to disagree. My unemployment is low 7%, Residential demand is just a thin little line, my commercial demand is right around 50% and my Industrial demand is doing something really weird. I'll have high industrial demand so I'll zone a bunch of industrial and then the industrial demand will drop as expected but only for a few seconds before shooting right back up as if it were spring loaded. How do you explain that mr. smartypants? Edit: Just as a test, since you can't see my replies I'm going to try pasting my first reply into this edit and maybe you'll be able to see it that way. Well what's imported is pretty much all the natural resources as I haven't set up any specialized industry yet, it's all generic and it says total import: 2,574. As for the exports that's pretty much all goods and total export is 7,122 and this is with a current population of 37k.

[@perafilozof]

Hello Matt and welcome to my channel. It's great that you have kept C zone demand at 50%. Don't let it drop all the way. You can add a few C zones into new R zones, but don't use up it's demand. Unemployment of 7% is about stable. Above 7% will lead to more industry demand and less R demand, below 7% will help open R demand but lower I demand. As for your industry Demand, I would need more info, like how many products and goods do you produce, import, export? What does the pie chart for that look like?

[@mattsmith8160]

@@perafilozof Well what's imported is pretty much all the natural resources as I haven't set up any specialized industry yet, it's all generic and it says total import: 2,574. As for the exports that's pretty much all goods and total export is 7,122 and this is with a current population of 37k.

[@perafilozof]

Did you delete your new comment or KZbin ? I can see the notification for it but it's not here.

[@mattsmith8160]

@@perafilozof Nope. Didn't delete it. It's still there.

[@perafilozof]

Nop. Newest comment again deleted. I see the notification for it but it's deleted. Give me a sec to to set your profile to always be allowed on my channel. It must be another YT problem. I have see this with several of my viewers before

[@Spicygo4tCh33se]

Are commercial zones not considered "Jobs" in the game like they are in reality?

[@perafilozof]

Hi, yes they are, but they don't offer many jobs and industry/offices are much more preferable.

[@ariolagranola2196]

Me at 41% unemployment

[@perafilozof]

Oh wow! Even I wouldn't move into a city like that, unless you have universal income? Do you? DO YOU? Because I am packing if you do! BTW, welcome to my channel Kai Ju.

[@ariolagranola2196]

@@perafilozof I’ve raised the taxes, added more jobs... these people just dislike me :[

[@perafilozof]

You got to get the unemployment below 6-8%

[@Yo3j2442]

How do we actually strike a balance with import export? Is it needed?

[@CoronelOcioso]

The less you are importing and exporting the less cars at in the highway. Unless you have the industries DLC only exporting goods brings tax benefit to your city, exporting raw generic industry materials is not very profitable so you should avoid it. Your main source of income is residential and commercial tax any activity that does not directly impact them should be discouraged to avoid ressource dilution . Wait why KZbin is notifying me of comments here?

[@perafilozof]

Hello JOEY, and welcome to my channel. El Rincon just explained the second question you asked, and quite well. As for your first question of how... First, you have to keep an eye on the outside connection overplay, both tabs, and the pie charts there. Whenever you see that you are exporting goods that means a) build more C zones b) don't make more generic industry. (use specialized or offices to spend industry demand and open new jobs) Second, when you see how much you are importing of each product (forestry, oil, ore, agriculture) you know that you need that much specialized industry in your city to produce those products locally. The important thing is to spend goods locally, don't export or import, and try not to import products but make them locally in specialized industry. There is a third kind of product, which isn't shown in the games interface. Raw products. That is when your specialized industry isn't built on resources and the buildings constructed are refineries, furniture makers, food makers etc. This import you can't prevent but can lower it by making specialized industry as much as possible on the specific natural resources. Build industry, specialized and generic (goods producing) as well as shops a bit at a time and in turn. Try these tips out and get back to me.

[@perafilozof]

Haha, it would seem KZbin made you my PR. :)

[@CoronelOcioso]

@@perafilozof hahaha sorry about that, I got the notification and we'll just replied, then I realized it was in your video... Balancing industry is a nightmare because of how slow the changes are until it arrives to a steady state. I think the simulation uses PID type of control to elongate the action reaction times and create a kinda ripple effect so it makes you think you didn't do enough or you did too much... Patience and let things stabilize is key to achieve the import export balance. Industries DLC just makes that much worse. But you get the warehouses for zoned generic raw products that are money for the city if exported... They act as a proportional band in control systems and also monetize the excess production of the especialized industry (that is the only good thing I can say about warehouses) as support to the DLC industry they just add traffic

[@perafilozof]

No need to apologies. It's one of the jobs I hope one day to employ more people on my channel for. And you provided great feedback and a good answer. So win win!

[@Iser4482]

How do i fix a 26% unemployment rate

[@perafilozof]

Hello Jonesy and welcome to my channel. Zoning more C,I and O helps. You can also help buildings in zones like those level up, because that opens up more workplaces. Plopable industry buildings also soak up workers. And if non of that helps you can always remove some R zones which have the lowest levels.

[@Iser4482]

@@perafilozof ok thanks 🙏

[@lennyghoul]

My unemployment is a 3% and I have zero RCI for any thing, and zero growth despite how many area I build to attract new citizens. I have 19k jobs available with a pop of only 27k.

[@perafilozof]

Hi, you definitely overbuilt something. Can you write me the stats for RCI from the statistics screen. You have it when you press escape and click on statistics/RCI

[@lennyghoul]

@@perafilozof Sure. It's probably wonky at the moment because I'm messing with this stuff trying to fix things (I just dumped my commercial to bring demand back to 50% like your video says). But the current stats are R: 26235, C:4294, I: 0 . I have a few unique industries I guess they don't count?

[@perafilozof]

Unique industry crates problems. You should only add it much later, not early in the build. It messes up the demand in more than one way. This is still a bit high C, but if you don't have too many parks it might be ok. Give it some time and see what happens. Also disabled the unique industry and later add some normal industry to get thigs into proper order.

[@ThisWorldisCorrupt00]

My unemployment is 13% but still no residential demand?

[@perafilozof]

That isn't the only metric. How many empty workplaces do you have (open jobs)? What is the breakdown of your zone? (find the data in the statistics screen when you press Escape).

[@happiestmistake1504]

I’m having an issue where no one is moving into the city, demand is met, water power everything yet no one is moving in. My roads are good as well

[@perafilozof]

Hi, at what population count is this happening? How high is the demand for R? What is your % of unemployed? How many open jobs do you have?

[@happiestmistake1504]

@@perafilozof o Population, I’ve met the demand for R but it rises then I plan more but no one gives into the city.

[@perafilozof]

@@happiestmistake1504 You have no population at all? Sounds like you turned the road into the city the wrong way.

[@happiestmistake1504]

@@perafilozof I tripled checked my roads tho😭

[@perafilozof]

Do you have mods installed?

[@superphantomwr7776]

I tried but it didn’t work help

[@perafilozof]

Did you go back and delete a lot of your extra C zones? How many do you have now compared to the other two zones?

[@mothermatriarch]

Hi yes I'm still having lots of trouble with RCI demand. :( I have an unemployment rate of 3% Population 4,409 People Employed 2,580 Jobs Available 2,747 I have the mod Demand Master by Kagami and it says Residential Demand: -2 Commercial Demand: -1 Industrial Demand: 16 Import/Export Total Import 953 Total Export 1,009 Traffic Flow 92% Industrial buildings complaining of not enough workers Empty residential zoning areas And I have very few commercial areas: I can count 14 commerical buildings total

[@perafilozof]

Hi, those stats do sound off, because you have too much demand for more zones which provide jobs will 50% of the current jobs are not filled. How much time has passed since you zoned the industry?

[@mothermatriarch]

@@perafilozof I've waited approximately 3 or more months of in-game time to see if the demand would grow again, and they haven't moved very much at all. Residential will jump between 2 and -2, Commercial doesn't move at all, and Industrial hasn't moved either. In those 3 months waiting I've lost a fair amount of residents. It's very strange lol!!

[@perafilozof]

Yes, especially since the game's start is quite automated. High R demand as you start a fresh map, which drops as first residents move in, C goes up next, than I. Once you run out of C and I, more R shows up. No way to messing that up. Is this the first time this is happening? And what other mods you have which might be messing the RCI demand up?

[@mothermatriarch]

@@perafilozof This has been happening in the last 3 cities I've started to build. As for mods, I've got things such as Cubemaps (custom sky boxes) Cash on Demand Move It Toggle It! Undo It! Picker Start Money $400K Some custom parks Fine Road Tool Speed Slider UI Resolution Loading Screen Mod Better Road Toolbar Extra Landscaping Tools This RCI stuff is making me wonder if my game is bugged maybe haha

[@perafilozof]

Hmm, you may want to try a game with all mods off to exclude them as the cause. Also do you zone A LOT? or little by little?

[@dudevsdantdmvaultboy]

is there a mod that is a population slider like increase or decrease the population?

[@perafilozof]

Hello, and welcome to my channel. No, there isn't anything as drastic and fast like that. At best you can use a mod to force demand of all RCI but it also has limits and it's slow.

[@kibin1423]

Do you know why fire fighters dont put out fires in buildings??

[@perafilozof]

Hi, they do but the trucks you see drive past homes on fire simply have other target locations. If they never put out any fires than you might have a problem with roads, and access.

[@kibin1423]

@@perafilozof i mean not a single firetruck goes out of the fire station even though its operating normally...have any idea to fix this kind of problem??

[@kibin1423]

@@perafilozof all i can do is use the fire helicopter depot but the upkeep is too high also its to slow for them to put out fires like the building is already burned down before they can put out the fire or not put out the fire at all.

[@perafilozof]

I see. Do you use any mods which change vehicles in any way? Because I have played this game for over 1,000 hours and never saw a similar problem.

[@kibin1423]

@@perafilozof i only have a few mods but not any mod that can change road rules the vehicles or something...i dont really know what cause it

[@DeanMills141]

This helps a lot but when I put down commercial/industrial zones nobody works in them, how to fix?

[@perafilozof]

Hello Jinx, what is your unemployment %?

[@DeanMills141]

@@perafilozof 43%

[@perafilozof]

@@DeanMills141 So you have half of your population unemployed but your new C and I zones don't get workers in them? Are they connected by road?

[@DeanMills141]

@@perafilozof yes

[@perafilozof]

@@DeanMills141 Are you using any mods which change gameplay mechanics? Like population, education, demand and so on?

[@bruh5637]

great video but im having a problem...im brand new to the game and for some reason the bottom bar is nowhere near as detailed as everyone else's on youtube such as yours...do i have to change any settings or download a mod or something?

[@perafilozof]

Are you planning on console or PC?

[@bruh5637]

@@perafilozof PC

[@perafilozof]

@@bruh5637 Strange, the UI should be the same. Can you upload a screenshots and send it to my email?

[@bruh5637]

@@perafilozof it looks just like the console ui but the game clearly says "windows 10 edition" ...i got it through xbox gamepass so maybe thats the issue but im not sure

[@perafilozof]

@@bruh5637 ah well now that explains it. You are playing the xbox verion on windows.

[@LightningYtpl]

I just waited around 10 minutes for pepole to again awnt to move in

[@perafilozof]

Hi Lightning, what specific situation are we talking about? Start of the game? Fresh city?

[@dudevsdantdmvaultboy]

im back is there a mod for population increase? man sorry

[@perafilozof]

There are a few but it depends what exactly do you want to achieve. There is fill all houses which forces homes to maximum capacity. There is Realistic population which makes houses have fewer citizen's and apartment buildings have many more. There is the demand mod which forces more Cims to come into the city regardless of the unemployment.

[@dudevsdantdmvaultboy]

@@perafilozof thanks man sorry for bothering

[@perafilozof]

@@dudevsdantdmvaultboy no problem I am here to help.

[@Nomorehats]

Makes sense

[@perafilozof]

Hello Gio, and welcome to my channel! Have you had any other problems with this game you think I should I cover in a video?

[@mad500]

Dam I did all 3 problems

[@perafilozof]

Haha, it is ok. Now you know.

[@spectralspectra2282]

Wait you're supposed to have high demand? I thought you were supposed to keep those as low as possible all the time lmao

[@perafilozof]

Hello spectra spectra and welcome to my channel. The RCI demand bars are suggestions by the game what your city can support more off in the future. What you should zone and build. So your are not forced to follow it exactly. But! The the C zone demand doesn't take into account many other ways your population can fill their needs which are also filled by going into shops( c zones) so the more population you have the more C zone demand you see, but the actual Cims have found other ways. The developers didn't fix this in the last 6 years so players think the city needs more C zones, but it actually doesn't.