Commercial and Industrial Help

[Shadowsonic 0]

Help a $%&^! out, residential is topped out in terms of demand, but my industrial and commercial bars are way below and wont grow what now?!

Usually when i plop something down its 3X3 squares should i be extending more? 3X4 or 6x6?
I just started this game after a long long time of never playing it, i did search the threads but didn't find the full answer to my problem.

I have transportation, neighbor connections , trash and other managment services.

[penguin007 27]

Welcome to simtropolis

the first thing I would do though is build a residential zone as this is the key to creating new jobs. There wont be demmand for industry and comerce if no one wants jobs

Will

[bbfan02 23]

And always, if you want to cheat, you can always download the Super Demand Ordencience. If you dont know what it is, I'll tell you.

It basically raises the rci demand for mostly everything to the highest level. Your city will grow like never before!

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Don't play with ordinances until you know what you want.

If your demands are low or negative, you should check your desirability display for those items.  Industry needs water, as does any commercial above single.

Residential usually goes in after I set up some I-Ag when I start a city.  One of the nice things about farms is that they are self-contained, including farm hands.  But they will hire additional unskilled people if they are there.  Hence, build some 1 x 2 R low density directly on the farm fields next to the street.

If you then build a school, wait for a few grads (8 years for public school) your I-D demand should appear.  Your I-M demand will also appear when you start getting high-school grads.  All very logical.  If course Cs$ and Cs$$ demands start appearing when service businesses are needed, which is pretty quickly.

Run in Rhino mode, enjoy the animation, and remember that nothing is instant here.  To get people even capable of working in Co$$ and Co$$$ or I-HT means university grads and that takes a minimum of 16 years from Grade 1.

Take it easy, and run a few farms for a while.  They make great residential subdivisions later.

[Shadowsonic 0]

I used the ordinance cheat and i restarted a newcity with no cheats. Question is any buildings i should download off the bat?

I downloaded a USS ship, installed it in my plugin folder but its not showing up what gives?

ps -thanks for the welcoming.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

The ship will only show up in the game automatically if it is an RCI type lot.  If it is a civic building, park or landmark it will be in your menus to drop in where you like it.