high tech profits

[rismisner 0]

I have 3 cities going which I started after the end of the PO recently.

In every city, every high tech building is showing 65% profitability.  This is never 64, never 66... it doesn't fluctuate based on any factors that I can find... it is consistently always at 65% exactly.

All of the other factors in the display show good results...

I have all the workers I need.  I have all the resources I need.  high tech is easy to sell.  Manufacturing, waste, and office services are easy to buy.  air pollution is low (the display shows 100% or 99% as if I'm not being effected by air pollution).  Taxes are good at 100% too (I left it set at the default 25%)  Freight is good at 100%.  My freight map is bright green all over.  I can look at a high tech building that's on the edge of the map next to a road connection where freight should be the strongest and I'm still at only 65%...

When I click on a high tech building, EVERY item shown in this window is in the 90-100% range and green, except for profitability which is at 65% and orange... so there's nothing to explain why it's not profiting at 100%

Comparing to other kinds of buildings... an office building in the same city might be paying 600 in taxes, and reporting 100% profitability... meanwhile my high tech are paying more, close to 750, but they're only at 65%.

Man... if that's only 65%, then at 100% it must pay some even better money!  I would love to get there!

Given the consistency that it always shows 65%, in different cities, but pays more in taxes than other buildings (750 vs. 600) I think it's a display bug where the simulation is really doing 100% profitability on this building, and something like 765 is really the max, but the UI is only showing me 65% because it has a display error.

HOWEVER, given that my cash flow is always such a challenging problem, I can IMAGINE if only I could get that extra profit out of all my high tech buildings, I would have A LOT more cash flow...

Can someone confirm or deny whether this is a bug?  Is there a work-around that can fix it?  Exiting and restarting the game doesn't seem to fix it.

Better yet is there a way to increase the profits?  If this is not a bug and it's really only at 65% but it won't tell me why... what's the secret?

[morriswalters 16]

The only way to raise that is to increase demand by making high tech scarce.  To state it another way, the more high tech you have the less it makes.