Apartments not growing

[46377mike 11]

Has anyone else zoned medium density residential and not have any Apartments grow??

 

I have a population of 15k but no Apts on my main Ave.   Could it be a bug from a particular mod maybe??

Any help would be much appreciated

 

[CorinaMarie 29,772]

Ofc, the obvious question is: Did you give them water? And how is your demand graph for low, medium, and high wealth residential?

[46377mike 11]

i have demand for all three and yes the absolutely have water

[46377mike 11]

I played some years back and remember my Apts growing almost immeadiately...   I zoned a bunch low density first but then i started to add medium on my Avenues and nothing is coming up.  Just small homes the same size as the low

[CorinaMarie 29,772]

The other thing might be since it's on your main Ave there could be too much traffic noise and they are adverse to living there. You might try a side street off of the avenue so they are at least 4 cells from the noise and add a bus stop across the street or adjacent to the residential zoning.

[46377mike 11]

1 minute ago, CorinaMarie said:

The other thing might be since it's on your main Ave there could be too much traffic noise and they are adverse to living there. You might try a side street off of the avenue so they are at least 4 cells from the noise and add a bus stop across the street or adjacent to the residential zoning.

I would think a population of 15k would not have a lot of traffic.

i started very small and slow. My traffic is not bad either.

I have not started to build my transportation infrastructure yet so let me try that.

[Psiman 177]

Yeah, traffic air pollution is a big negative for residential. Commercial, on the other hand, likes the high traffic volume of avenues (although also doesn't like air pollution). I wouldn't zone residential along avenues, generally.

[46377mike 11]

2 minutes ago, Psiman said:

Yeah, traffic air pollution is a big negative for residential. Commercial, on the other hand, likes the high traffic volume of avenues (although also doesn't like air pollution). I wouldn't zone residential along avenues, generally.

First off, thanks Psiman.

I dont put much...  I have mainly commercial and city buildings off the Ave. So i occasionally plop a medium density off the Ave to help with residential demand and keep traffic to a minimum in the neighborhoods

 

[46377mike 11]

My air pollution is under control as well. The land value around some parts is high so im not sure why 1 Apt has not showed up. really weird. I dont remember it being like this...lol

[CorinaMarie 29,772]

A trick I use is to plop a few bus stations where I want apartments to grow. Once it does, then bulldoze them. Or all but one if you need it for their transportation.

[Psiman 177]

Post a screenshot of your city! 

[HayleyRenaNemeth 465]

you need to satisfy various caps, try putting in parks and other green spaces. Education and healthcare are important too. also neighbour connections help too. 

[46377mike 11]

2 minutes ago, Psiman said:

Post a screenshot of your city! 

How do i do a screen shot?  I would love to

[HayleyRenaNemeth 465]

Just now, 46377mike said:

How do i do a screen shot?  I would love to

well you can either press the print screen button or Ctrl + Shift + S. 

[46377mike 11]

2 minutes ago, HayleyRenaNemeth said:

you need to satisfy various caps, try putting in parks and other green spaces. Education and healthcare are important too. also neighbour connections help too. 

Thanks HayleyRenaNemeth

 

I have all that! it is confusing the hell out of me..lol

[Psiman 177]

Parks, and other civic buildings, also provide a transient aura effect, which is a massive boost to desirability in surrounding squares, which lasts for a few months, and helps promote growth.

[HayleyRenaNemeth 465]

Just now, 46377mike said:

Thanks HayleyRenaNemeth

 

I have all that! it is confusing the hell out of me..lol

SimCity 4 is a very complex game, its a bit of a double edged sword as that's what makes it so good but at the same time has a steep learning curve. 

[CorinaMarie 29,772]

When using the Print Screen button it puts the image in your clipboard. You then need to open Paint (or some image editing software) and paste it. Then save.

[HayleyRenaNemeth 465]

1 minute ago, CorinaMarie said:

When using the Print Screen button it puts the image in your clipboard. You then need to open Paint (or some image editing software) and paste it. Then save.

you might be able to paste it straight to Imgur, also save it as a PNG and not a bitmap hahhah, bitmaps are so 1990s 

[CorinaMarie 29,772]

1 minute ago, HayleyRenaNemeth said:

you might be able to paste it straight to Imgur, also save it as a PNG and not a bitmap hahhah, bitmaps are so 1990s 

Could be. I'm not familiar with imgur, but newer versions of Paint allow saving in JPG.

[HayleyRenaNemeth 465]

1 minute ago, CorinaMarie said:

Could be. I'm not familiar with imgur, but newer versions of Paint allow saving in JPG.

I think Microsoft discontinued Paint. 

[Psiman 177]

Hmm... if I press Windows key + Print Screen it creates a PNG image in my Pictures folder.  

[CorinaMarie 29,772]

1 minute ago, Psiman said:

Hmm... if I press Windows key + Print Screen it creates a PNG image in my Pictures folder.  

Incrementally named? That'd be handy.

[46377mike 11]

[46377mike 11]

[HayleyRenaNemeth 465]

So the thing is you need to expand horizentally before you can start getting more dense and vertical growth, also do you have the NAM, you know Diagonal Streets is a thing, the STNAM fixes some bugs in the game, make sure you have plenty of Com and Ind. 

[CorinaMarie 29,772]

It appears you have some sort of Demand Mod as those numbers are way above normal.

[HayleyRenaNemeth 465]

Just now, CorinaMarie said:

It appears you have some sort of Demand Mod as those numbers are way above normal.

they seem reasonable to me. I'd have to see the full demand view to know for sure though. 

[46377mike 11]

2 minutes ago, CorinaMarie said:

It appears you have some sort of Demand Mod as those numbers are way above normal.

Lmao

 

I have Commercial and industry job multiplyer.   Could that be an issue?

[HayleyRenaNemeth 465]

Just now, 46377mike said:

Lmao

 

I have Commercial and industry job multiplyer.   Could that be an issue?

well who knows, could have adverse side affects. I consider stuff like this to be cheating.