How do i sitimulate hi-tech

[Xevan 0]

I know that the basics to any metropolis is the hi-tech indutry, but how do i go about getting it?

any pointers for a newbie?

[ewd76 2]

Make people smart and happy. You will get rich people and clean industry.

[Xevan 0]

parks and schools?, where exactly would i put these buildings? near the industries or near the residential areas

[ewd76 2]

Schools would go in residential areas. Parks can go either place.

[ShortStraw 1]

Cater to your rich (R$$$) Sims. Provide all the civic services, a full education system from elementary through to museums, healthcare, full coverage police and fire protection. Use parks and trees liberally to spread your industrial zones out. You don't want them to pack in tight the way dirty industry and manufacturing can. Hi tech needs to spread out to keep traffic pollution to a minimum. Speaking of pollution, tolerate none of it. Do everything you can to keep air and water pollution to a minimum. Mass transit is always good but be sure you have an optimal road network, most of your Hi tech workers will be driving to work. Be careful with ordinances, some of the anti-pollution and conservation ordinances can discourage all industry, including hi tech. Search the Omnibus for more on that. Get the Advanced Research Center as soon as you can. Remember that Hi tech likes freight connections the same as dirty and manufacturing so provide neighbor connections via road and rail and use ports if available.

There's lots of good information on how to attract high wealth in the omnibus, it's worth it to browse around in there. Good Luck.

[earwax_man 18]

Never tried it

[wagner 5]

Keep in mind that it takes a while for a fully qualified workforce generation to become available. Many players don't keep an eye on the social structure of the population, but this is extremely important. HT provides jobs for the qualified part of the population, and your sims will be in their twenties when they leave university, that means that you have to wait for that. And another thing: quite obviously you can attract HT industries by lowering their taxes.

[mayorbk 66]

ShortStraw had some great tips, to add to that I always have a seperate industrial zones far away from the dirty polluting industries. The nice thing about high tech ind is that you can sprinkle small industrial areas thoughout the weathly suburbs (short commutes).  Parks and trees are big attractions to the high tech and $$$ Sims.

[PColumbus73 0]

You can also mix them with commercial zones and create a business plaza (or edge city type area) in high traffic areas. Mixing them near a busy interchange works well, just have a decent amount of parks and a good demand.

[Meg 368]

Education. Sims "inherit" a portion of their parents' educational level so you want to keep the older people from getting stupid. This means have lots of libraries and museums (which don't cost a lot) and the opera house. When you get the mega library and mega museum, don't bulldoze the smaller ones. Just reduce their funding to cover the number of users.

Keep the dirty industry and manufacturing away from the high tech areas. High tech areas don't like pollution. Adjust the tax rates as needed to accomplish this.