Tech Level not Increasing

[Hagui8 0]

hi,

I stated playing Simcity 5 a week ago...

I built several cities during this time and I noticed my tech level of industry is not rising... I had full education system with low/high school, collage, university and library. I even put the universities and collages near my industrial area and it just won't rise. my population was highly educated (even at maximum - five level education) but my industry kept staying at low tech... consequently my incomes went down because nobody attended the low wealth jobs and I don't know what to do....

please help me!!

 

hagui8

[CapTon 592]

First thing I would do is wait a bit. It usually takes a bit for the game to upgrade your industry but if this does not work, do/attempt the following:

 

- Make sure the roads that contain your industry are on high-density roads or avenues

- If you have any city specializations, they could be affecting your tech level and whatnot

- Make sure your citizens' happiness is high (this can be grown by plopping parks, landmarks, churches, fire departments, police departments, and health buildings)

- Make sure none of the icons you see at the bottom of your screen when playing SimCity are red. If they are, make sure you solve the problems that are causing the icons to turn red.

 

If these things don't work, then I don't know what to do. I'll be sure to look into it if these things don't work

 

Best of luck to you!

[Cob92 360]

You have a lot of redundancy in your education system. For starters, a university and a college are never needed in the same city; choose one or the other. Universities give you tech level 3, while a College gives you level 2. Eliminate one or the other. Once you do that, you need to check attendance at your higher education buildings. Elementary schools and high schools do not increase tech. If attendance is low, try closing some of your lower schools to push students into the college/university. Tech generation only occurs when colleges and universities have high attendance.

[Sharr 6]

I found the answer elsewhere but you need to add more dormitories to your university.  That also means that any industrial city has to have a university in it, and cannot rely on another city to provide that education.  Sucks, I know.

[Agente Silva 28]

"I found the answer elsewhere but you need to add more dormitories to your university" - yup, you should have your University with a good attendance (at least 2000).

 

" That also means that any industrial city has to have a university in it" - not quite, in my opinion, but a Hightech industrial city is more job class balanced than a Low/Med tech industrial city.

[cah67mix 1]

On 2/28/2014 at 4:18 PM, Cob92 said:

You have a lot of redundancy in your education system. For starters, a university and a college are never needed in the same city; choose one or the other. Universities give you tech level 3, while a College gives you level 2. Eliminate one or the other. Once you do that, you need to check attendance at your higher education buildings. Elementary schools and high schools do not increase tech. If attendance is low, try closing some of your lower schools to push students into the college/university. Tech generation only occurs when colleges and universities have high attendance.

Actually, you need both because the community college will upgrade the industry around it to middle tech and mid $$, whereas the university will upgrade industry and residential to high tech/$$. So while I agree it isn't necessarily an imperative to have equal amounts of high and mid wealth residents, the demand bars encourage you to. 

It is a typical development problem that as people in urban centers become better educated, they demand higher property values--so you end up with mostly mid and high wealth and a dearth of low wealth. I'm kind of OK with that, but it means you have to start another connected city of mostly low wealth and have those Sims commute to work in the unfilled low wealth jobs in your city.