Rush of development after Industry Quadrupler...

[Dakota XS 0]

After installing and trying out the Industry Quadrupler, my neighbouring resedential district immediately rose in population from 22,000 to 102,000, with a surge of small skyscrapers! Why is this, and is it normal?

[Skyfire2275 23]

Welcome to Simtropokis Dakota XS!

Yes this is totally normal. It is a sign that the mod is working! The Industrial Quadrupler does what it says, so there are all of a sudden 4 times as many jobs as before... To fill these jobs, your city needs for times as many sims. This is wh ythe building spreee occurs... more sims need to move in, so more buildings are built.

[Frankie_Grove 33]

exaclty skyfire! With increased jobs comes a sudden need for workers! And the more Indusrtial biuldings the higher population you will get! Good Luck! and welcome to Simtropolis!

[RushHourFreak 1]

That  is normal, the jobs for industry are qudrupled!!! and the people would like to live in your town!

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[villagemayor 0]

The industry quadrupler is a must. How many chemical factories employ less than 100 people?? Count the janitors, cafeteria staff, human resources, and the factory workers, will amount to several hundred at least.

[DOXXP29 5]

Yup! I find that the industry quadrupler used in conjunction with the anti-abandonment mod keeps the game much more realistic as far as jobs and demand balance. I use Bones1 's abandonment mod, but there are a few out there you can check on to see which one meets your needs. And Welcome to Simtropolis! Great place!

[Dakota XS 0]

Thanks guys for a very warm welcome! I'll have a look around and check the anti-abandoment mods.

Thanks again!

[danurve 1]

I have resisted using this mod, but perhaps some of you'all can clear this up. 

4x, .. seems a little to unrealistic. I think it would crash my existing mass transit system. For example lets say your frieght heavily depends on rail for transport. That and what kind of urban renewal can you expect when you don't depend upon highways for mass transit?

[dusten 0]

4 times seems a lot. But if you don't have the mod each building is around 75 workers. After the mod each building holds around 200 workers...

In my industry most of it is still streets. I didn't need to update any of my streets to roads.. The rails lines can handle the extra surge in frieght.

4X seemed like a lot to me too, but once all in place. You will notice it is not that much........ and if it is. There is always an option to delete some industry and put up more housing to handle the extra surge.

For mass transit i usaully put bus stops, and perhape a few train stations. It is really up to you.. If your lines aren't in orange to red. Then i wouldn't worry about it........ Just try it out.. You can always take it off. I think

[Barbarossa 51]

I, too, have steered clear of this mod. Although I am not a complete purist, I prefer to add mods, etc that ENHANCE the game, as opposed to REMOVING challenges. But this is just personal preference (and I am nmot making judgements!) However, after reading this and other posts, I will likely download it, because it really doesn't make sense for some of these industrial centers to have so few employees.

On the same line, I would also like to see a mod that adjust SOME of the commercial employee numbers (perhaps based on building Stage), since it is obvious that a skyscraper can have more than a few thousand people working in it. A sad example is the WTC. I believe I read somewhere after 9/11 that each building would hold 10,000 people. One can safely assume these people were working. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Barbarossa

[danurve 1]

Well I took the plunge and tried this mod. Currently only in one 32k city.

I didn't see the 'spluge' of r growth but the demand sure kicked in, mostly r$/r$$. Rail freight seemed to handle the increase well, had to make some minor adjustments to road traffic via seaport. Btw; seaport use went up, more then doubled. I use the upgradeable ports & seaport-rail station. The industrial income in the budget saw quite a jump as well. (14.5/19 - 16/26) Expanded some low density res and the city is now at about 37.5k.

I guess I'm saying the mod didn't turn out to be as radical as I thought it would be. I also think there is room to work with as far as the new budget goes. For example a stock start up rate for Industry might be 7%, now it could be 6% and toss in some ordinances, jazz like that.

I also think the slower pace of growth I saw is partly because of the pc I have the game on. It's an older 1700 Athlon and a board from '03. Fsb is only 200mgz max I belive, ok I'm due for an upgrade down the road. Anyhow I plan on farting around a bit more with this, maybe see what it does to a 10ish k city etc.

[dusten 0]

I also just got huge  little demand, and little growth. I think how the first poster got a huge spike in population is that he/she had under developed medium andf high zones, that was just houses... would explain alot.. He was only at 22k so the meduim would barly be developped fully.. Thus when he turned on the mod. it caused a huge population boom to all his underdevelopped squares.