Keys to Successful Farming Communities?

[kernale 0]

I've been kind of frustrated with this, and it just occurred to me, and perhaps I'm answering my own question, but in order to increase a farming population, the idea is not to block off a whole swath of agricultural industry like we do with medium and high density industry, but instead make several smaller squares?  I've setup a medium sized city square that i zoned entirely for agriculture and only about a dozen farms popped up, each with a population of 2.  2x12 = 24 farmers, hardly enough to warrant a farmer's market...<br /><br />As an aside, has anyone done a bat for a vineyard?<br /><br />K<br />

[+Guest]

If you don't mind a dozen or so downloads I say go with BSC & CSX for Farming.Also do a Forum search for Farms.Goodluck

[Sindai 0]

The fields also employ sims, not just the buildings (which is all the query shows). In the gameplay experiments forum there's a thread about farm jobs and I don't think size makes a big difference in the end. Just zone whatever size you think looks best.

But yeah, farms grow differently from any other type of zone. Every continuous one will turn into a farm with a single main building and everything else as fields. To get different farms touching each other you have to zone them with gaps, wait for them to develop, then fill in the spaces with new zones. Once they've grown farms are a fixed size. They won't merge.

[DreTitans23 2]

what are better, agri industrys or farms?

[+Guest]

Farms are a short term fix for jobs unless your aiming for the uneducated moonshine drinking city where everyone is related.Once your folk learn how to read and write it's bye- bye cow dung.

[Cjah 15]

Originally posted by: BlackBeard Farms are a short term fix for jobs unless your aiming for the uneducated moonshine drinking city where everyone is related.Once your folk learn how to read and write it's bye- bye cow dung.quote>

 

LOL trust me...SC4 isn't that simple....I can get all kinds of jobs in my city...

be it farms like below...

or industry

i even have shops and such,but not many...

.....

[AIX 270]

Farms are not a simple aspect of Simcity. I have had them grow in large city tiles with over 50,000 residents in them.

Favorable conditions to create for farms: lower IAG taxes to 0% (they don't pay much, so the loss of funds is minimal), keep city services confined to the city center (if any), and zone large, flat parcels. I once had a single farm zone take up half a small city tile.

[jacqulina 162]

i like farms and villages i think they are very pretty

[rushman5 33]

The key to keep agricultural industry stong, is leat the commerce be in the towns, but keep the industry out.

[kernale 0]

Well, I kinda blew away some of my early attempts at cities before I knew what I was doing, and took a medium block and made it currently a standalone town.  When I get home I'll try and link in some photos.  For now though, it is self-sufficient with empty city squares on every side.  I have a North-South and East-West avenue networking to nearby towns, but there's nothing in them yet.  I'm making a profit, but am experiencing unemployment.<br /><br />I believe at last count I have something like 6k+ population.  In the centre of the town is a small police department, a small fire department, a farmer's market, mayor statue, and a bunch of what started out to be low-density shops that are now medium density, and surrounding the town square are single-square low-density residential lots in the four quadrants around the square.<br /><br />Originally I started with commercial lots (usually 2 x 1) lining the avenue near the town square.  Then built a neighbourhood in the NE quadrant.  Within maybe 2 or 3 years of establishment, I'd grown a second neighbourhood in the NW quadrant around the city square.  Outside the neighbourhoods, it's all farm lots in a line/concession road grid like you generally find in the country.  The idea for the town is really just a small farming community north of a sleep cove to the south on a large city tile.<br /><br />My problem is this...Going into the fourth or fifth year and starting on the third neighbourhood, I found a lot of folks were unemployed.  Even with all the commercial lots.  I also found that the vast majority of the population were quickly becoming middle income, which I assume is bad for farms?  I'm now in the 9th year of the town and have a full four quadrants of homes, and found that I am now hosting many high income folks, so I created a small HT industrial park just outside the town square (hardly realistic, but this is just as much a learning excercise).<br /><br />First question, how do I get high wealth people moving into a small podunk farm town with no schools?  I really wanted it to stay lower-middle class.  Maybe one or two high wealth folks, but nothing a high wealth services building couldn't handle.  I'm at a loss as to how this small community became so affluent in so short a time.<br /><br />One amusing, yet perturbing, occurrence was that I had zoned several 1x1 low-density commercial plots along one of the avenues.  I ended up with 5 or 6 Dottie's Diner's or whatever they're called, one next to the other (!).  Do I need to mix up the size of the lots?  One would hope the game would know better than to put the same establishment next to each other more than once, let alone five times...<br /><br />As it is, because of demand and lack of real estate, I've had to rezone all of the low-density commercial areas to medium density, which relieved unemployment for a while, but it's still a problem.<br /><br />Any thoughts?<br /><br />K<br /><br />PS - How do I post messages without the broken html tags?  I'm not using any HTML but it seems to be adding it to every one of my posts.

[dmrsunz 2]

Is your question how do you get R$$$ or why do you get R$$$ in a rural low EQ situation? If it's why, then some non-RCI buildings, like Power Plants and Clinics, etc. create demand for R$$$.

If you want to keep R$$$ out raise their tax rate. You might want to bulldoze some of the current R$$$ to avoid delapidation.

As to redundant development (Dotties Diner) I don't think the game tries to keep things varied. It's even worse when you get big conspicuous R or C buildings all bunched together. Download some low- and mid-wealth lots from the STEX to give the game more options, if you're not put off by the dependency issues.

BTW: It might be a good idea to be more focused in a particular post (short attention spans and all). Pick one issue and concentrate on that. Create another post for the other issues IF you can't find answers to those issues by searching the forums.

[kernale 0]

The question was why.  I dezoned the HT areas and bumped taxes on anything $$$.  That seems to have done the trick.  The population is holding steady at 6,400+, I'm making a profit, and everyone's employed!<br /><br />Thanks for the suggestion!<br /><br />K