No demand for commercial zones

[Quadat 0]

An old bug has been corrected about this with parks. But i have last version (after dark). I have no demands for commercial zones. RCI is high for industries, normal (average) for residential but nothing for commercial zones. Even more, i have not enough customer message and when i destroy the building, it doesnt rebuild. So i have big holes in my sole commercial zone. I could have 3 time more industries than commerces. If i create more industrial zones, my export skyrockets and i may have missing raw material message.

I have 20k inhabitants, 4 residential zones, 2 industrial zones and 1/3 commercial zone. All zones are equal size. I have truck connection but no train yet. What may boost or increase commercial demand ?

Thank you.

 

[ethansprang 41]

Do what it says: build more industry or residential.  Especially residential - ANY residential demand means you should build more.

You shouldn't get a "raw materials" message just by building more industry as long as you have good connnections to the highway because your factories will just import the materials.  Check your traffic if that is a problem.

Beyond that, it's got to do with what level the buildings are, what your education level is, and how they are laid out.  Is your commerce located along roads between R and I so the cims have to drive past it while commuting?

 

[BlakeMW 84]

I observed something interesting today that it's possible to induce a state of low commercial demand. If you set it up such that commercial can't access customers, the city will grow, industrial demand will skyrocket, but commercial demand wont increase until the existing commercial starts to turn a profit (so to speak), I got to the high density city size with about 4 grid "blocks" of commercial (i.e. about the amount which will grow at the start of the game) and zero commercial demand. So it seems there is definitely some kind of feedback at work, if the existing commercial isn't working properly, new commercial demand wont appear.

  Edited October 13, 2015 by Grater  

[Quadat 0]

There is my city. Any comments that would help me ?

 

Thank you

 

[BlakeMW 84]

I usually sandwich my commercial between industrial and residential, this is because commercial requires both vans from industrial, and customers from residential, and placing commercial in the middle of the sandwich provides optimal access to both. Also commercial is more or less immune to pollution.

In your city I'd be a bit concerned that cims might have trouble getting from the large eastern residential block to the commercial block (and cims particularly like to mass transit/walk to the shops, so make sure there are walking paths across the highway), but I would also point out that when you have empty zoning, or buildings which are upgrading (and thus increasing the number of cims which can be employed), you wont see any demand at all, this is because the demand is used up the moment it appears.  This is quite different to Simcity 4, where you often could have a city with both demand and unused zoning because in SC4 it would take a while for buildings to move in (also in SC4 you could get permanent maxed out demand), while in Skylines buildings move in pretty much the very instant there is demand and thus immediately eliminate the demand (and after moving in, they then look for workers).

In Skylines, when there is demand, that is telling you to either zone more of the relevant zoning, and/or improve the services to existing zoning allowing the buildings to upgrade, in other words, in Skylines from the player's perspective, demand is not demand for more commercial buildings, it is demand for more commercial zoning or improved services to existing zones. As upgraded buildings fullfill more demand than lvl1 buildings, this can also put the city into "negative" demand for a long time, if you zone enough to use up all the demand at lvl1, it will use up 3x that much demand at lvl3 which might result in many months of zero demand.

So in brief there is probably nothing wrong with your city, there is no commercial demand simply because the state of zero demand on the demand-o-meter (usually) indicates that sector is currently satisfied.

[ethansprang 41]

What happens if you zone a border of low density commerical around those residential zones?  If it'll grow anywhere, that's a good spot.