Residential Demand

[Arvendragon 1]

Okay, for about 20 in-game years, my city has been stuck at 150000 population and negative income. I had 300000 pop a few years ago, but then it dropped suddenly and I could find no way to increase demand. I got a demand multiplier, but still nothing except 100% demand for commercial and industrial.

I checked everything (Health, Education, etc.) and they were all fine, but no people.

Is 10% tax too high?

[Faded Glory 13]

For a city that full of people, yes. I would recommend a 8.5% tax to encourage growth (9.0% if money is definatly an issue). Once you get the money situation under control, I would lower the taxes to 8.0 or even 7.5%.

[Jamonbread 222]

If you look at average residential income you will always see a major crash no matter what city you're in. The city sometimes just crashes. It is odd that it crashed at 300,000. It is very common for populations to crash at 500,000, which has happened to me many times. How large is your region? If your city is unproprtionally large this kind of thing can happen because regionally, the demand is just not there. It could also be a industrial oriented economy. If industry is unproprtional to commercial in a large city such as yours, the game will crash your demand however it is odd the other indicators did not crash as well. And, if the multiplier is not working then it very well could be a bug.

[Al Ridya 1]

Increase health and education, lower crime, fire hazards, and pollution. Also most imoprtantly reduece traffic and commute times and provide more jobs.