need help

[sellis7 0]

i need advice,

the population in my city (London) is losing its population like mad, every time i play it, it drops several thousand people each time and the odd time i can get a few thousand to come back.

what do i do?

i currently have a population of 912,427 i did have 1.2 million people in my city but that is how much it has dropped,

i have mostly high wealth office comercial jobs, 298,000 comercial jobs but only have 996 industry jobs.

does the industry make a difference? like if i had more would my population come back?

i have 32 million dollars in the bank (i havn't cheated with mods or cheats i play by the rules)

taxes are comercial 2.7% for all residential is Low (9%) Med. (7.5%) High (4.5%)......i'm taking in about 15,thousand income spending i'm spending almost 100,000 dollars a month and taking in 115,000 dollars a month.

my buildings slowly are turning black and mouldy but only a couple have. my whole city is skyscrapers there is no 1 story building in my city my large international airport is almost maxed out.

and i have run out of room to build things i have to tear down large skyscrapers to build schools/hospitals. the average commute time for my residents is medium not long and comercial costumers are high.

if i could get some help it would be greatly apprecaited.

[Jack³ 291]

It is probably abandonment. If you have 1.2 million people, but only about 300,000 commercial jobs then the residential buildings will be abandoned. Have you tried using the query tool to see if it says "abandoned due to commute time"?

[Halen Of Dania 350]

Two things CAM and more industry. Maxis skipped a couple steps on that part of it , not weighiing the industry jobs with commercial one's. Basically the cam can be found here. This mod increases your stages of growth with zoned lots and population as well as increases demands in some aspects not in rci be warned so you don't ask why it boosts demand. You must be also logged in to the lex to download that file. I linked the windows version there is also a mac version I belive but im not certain

hope that helps

[Superbacon 380]

If you only have 300k office jobs in town and less than 1k industry jobs then they will leave. Since you have no room, I'd suggest getting CAM and some skyscraper mods and plugins. Also jobs multipliers wouldn't hurt. If you don't want to do that, then what you should do is build commercial and industrially focused cities surrounding London. They'll live in town, but commute out of it.

[Jack³ 291]

CAM could help, but you said you like to play by the rules. If not, you could get some ploppable landmark lots on the STEX that have many jobs. CAM and NAM would help very much. And just in case you don't have it, the NAM (Network Addon Mod) helps with commute times and adds some more transit pieces to your menus. I really recommend it if you don't have it.

Network Addon Mod

[jacksunny 741]

Also take a look at your population by age graph. If most of the citizens are older, it could mean that your city is "dying." To fix this you will have to zone $-R to attract more Sims.

[sellis7 0]

i do have many cities surrounding my largest city, the region popuation is 4.2 million and jobs are kinda scarce, i have several cities just devoted to industrial jobs they make up around 600,000 jobs all together and nothing else and that is where i get

my power and water from. i try to keep the dirty polution out of my cities. i did check the population by age and its pretty even there is as much odd as young personel

i was playing my 'london' city and the demand for all categories is skyrocketing :S but people are still leaving.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

I am answering this without looking at any of the replies, so if there is duplicate advice, sorry about that.

This sounds like quite an old city. Your population is probably dying off after retirement. Look at your population by age graph, and I predict it is skewed to the right.

Overloading high wealth is unbalanced. If you really play by the rules, you would have a ratio of High:Medium:Low :: 15:30:55 per centum. The game is programmed for general balance.

In any high-wealth building you get few high-wealth Sims at the top and a lot of low wealth Sims at the bottom doing menial office things with some middle wealth Sims doing management jobs.

You can fix some of this by attaching a satellite city to the one that is failing and putting in more industry and some new Sims who have to climb the ladder to success. They won't all make it (you hope). Too many rich Sims is killing your city, as are too many high wealth buildings.

Unfortunately, the hype for this program leads people into this high wealth trap. You'll just have to do a major urban renewal project.