help

[carmichael 0]

hello all,

my nice city with 200K people was going along quite nicely. I'd just spent a lot of time planting trees and reducing the commute time (now at about 55) when suddenly the demand for HT industry, residential$$$, and $$$ commercial have just dived to a massive negative!

What happened - any ideas?

(also has any on invented a better way of placing trees that the annoying planting individually method?)

[zane900 1]

Sometimes when a city gets too big it flourishes, sometimes when a city gets too big it does not do so, infact it does the opposite. Sometimes sims find your city not desirable after a period of time, but I am inclined to think that your problem might not be caused by either of those problems. I think either you did SOMETHING that really upset them. I can't tell you what until you tell me what you had done recently, but that might be it. The other possibility is a bug. Maybe N_O_Body will get here in time to answer that question.

[joeynymets 19]

You might have hit the demand caps build some building that might increase the demand caps

[Bones1 96]

Okay, first of all "help" is a rather useless subject line. You'd be far better off to name your subject something descriptive, like "falling high-wealth demand". This is all in the beginner FAQ, which you should definitely read.

That said, your problem might be a result of not providing enough education. High education levels drive demand for good jobs, like high-tech and CO$$$. And, high-wealth jobs drive demand for high-wealth residents. So, if you let your education levels drop, you'll find that you lose demand for high wealth everything.

[carmichael 0]

well thanks so far...off to read the beginner faq...

I think it happened because employment was too high - I zoned more residential and everything came back to life....is this a possible explaination?

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Yes, that is very likely.