Is there a difference between zones?
When buying and zoning you have 3 options. Residential (Green), Business (Blue) and Service (some shade of Yellow). Is there a difference between them or could I just go all Residential?
Best Answer
The game expects you to provide a balanced city, with an even split of the three options. If you have too much or too little of one, it will effect the "demand" for that type.
For instance, you'll find that as you add more and more Residential, the demand for Residential will go down, starting with "Low Demand" and progressing downward. "Low Demand" and lower will penalize the income you get from those lots (the less demand, the bigger the penalty.
It goes the other way as well; if you have an option that's less covered, there will be "High Demand" and so on, and you get a bonus for those lots. However, from what I can tell, the bonus isn't really worth it compared to just having the lots built. It seems much better to keep things relatively balanced, if only because it's hard to have one type be "High Demand" and not eventually get one of the others to be "Low Demand". I've not done the math, though, for what it's worth.
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