Increase RCI demand
In Cities: Skylines, how do I increase RCI demand? What factors affect it?
In one of my cities, I've got a population of 100,000. It essentially consists of one giant grid-city in one area. Traffic gridlock is commonplace there. Yet RCI demand exists at about 10%, allowing the city to grow at a moderate pace.
But in another city that I have, the population is around 50,000. Traffic runs smoothly. But RCI demand is almost non-existent.
In both cases, I have all services at full coverage for all buildings. I heard that traffic and service problems can affect RCI demand, but in all my subsequent cities, my traffic and service coverage is undoubtedly better, yet there are still problems.
In addition, I am aware that the game has a bug with commercial demand, where the existence of parks will lower it. I have installed a mod from the Steam Workshop to compensate for that.
Yet despite all I've done, RCI demand seems to be quite fickle. What I normally do to test this is place one of each type of zone: Residential, Commercial, and Office—I avoid Industrial due to its pollution, and since Office seems to be a nice substitute for it, as long as there are enough goods coming in to the city via Ship or Train. Then I see which zones have any buildings growing in them; the zones which have none after about five minutes of speed-3, I consider to be growing at 0%.
Best Answer
One thing I noticed is that if you have enough density, full services coverage on the map doesn't necessarily guarantee that you have enough services.
In many of the info views, you have:
- Green shading overlay on roads to show range
- Green/red tinting of each individual building to show satisfaction with service
- A slider graphic in the pop-up that shows how much of that service is demanded city-wide, versus how much of that service is being provided
I ran into a demand crunch once because I was only paying attention to the first indicator - I had placed enough elementary schools that all roads in the city were green. But by the second indicator, there were still some buildings that were not being served adequately. Then I noticed the third indicator said that I had capacity for 1500 students, but demand from 3000 students. Placing some extra schools in dense areas fixed the capacity gap and opened up extra residential demand.
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How do you fix RCI demand in cities skylines?
In most cases this is caused by the players themselves as they have zoned too much commercial, industrial or offices and whacked the mentioned in game system out of balance.Why is there no demand for anything in cities skylines?
Demand are building requests from citizens for three types of buildings: Residential, commercial, and industrial buildings. An oversimplified explanation is that residential demand indicates that the citizens need more residential buildings, which include low density residential and high density residential.How does demand work in cities skylines?
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