Constantly excessive residential demand

[durbancic 9]

Please see the attached picture for Ginghamsburg. In all the cities in my region I have this excessive R demand (over 70K) and there is nothing that I can do to lower it. I-A demand is also the same.

I have CAM 3.0.0 and CAM core 3.5.1 installed through sc4pac. 

I am also having an error where I cannot get this area of my city of Portsmouth to have any people commuting to the commercial area for jobs. There is buildings that have developed, however they show 0 workers or very little. The only workers that come in are from bus from a neighboring city. As you can see by the other picture I have a bridge and a railway going over the water. Plus, there is plenty of traffic that could divert over the water to work. I am running NAM.

[Ulisse Wolf 4,399]

37 minutes ago, durbancic said:

Please see the attached picture for Ginghamsburg. In all the cities in my region I have this excessive R demand (over 70K) and there is nothing that I can do to lower it. I-A demand is also the same.

I have CAM 3.0.0 and CAM core 3.5.1 installed through sc4pac. 

I am also having an error where I cannot get this area of my city of Portsmouth to have any people commuting to the commercial area for jobs. There is buildings that have developed, however they show 0 workers or very little. The only workers that come in are from bus from a neighboring city. As you can see by the other picture I have a bridge and a railway going over the water. Plus, there is plenty of traffic that could divert over the water to work. I am running NAM.

From what I can see, you have high agricultural demand because you are not investing in industries, so agriculture is acting as an industry. You also have commercial demand CS-$

So you need to develop commercial demand and you need to provide education, healthcare, and security (police and fire department) in addition to essential goods such as garbage collection, energy, and electricity. At the same time, don't use low density, but start using medium and high density.

Ensure you construct educational buildings if you want to maintain a high level of education (libraries, museums, elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, and colleges).

 

[Propfam 2,286]

9 hours ago, durbancic said:

I haven't installed the new CAM. But, why the graph looks like Maxis but scaled up, unlike in CAM 2.0 where it's just filling the graph?

[durbancic 9]

9 hours ago, Ulisse Wolf said:

From what I can see, you have high agricultural demand because you are not investing in industries, so agriculture is acting as an industry. You also have commercial demand CS-$

So you need to develop commercial demand and you need to provide education, healthcare, and security (police and fire department) in addition to essential goods such as garbage collection, energy, and electricity. At the same time, don't use low density, but start using medium and high density.

Ensure you construct educational buildings if you want to maintain a high level of education (libraries, museums, elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, and colleges).

 

Thank you for the reply. I chose a bad example to give you. Here are 2 more cities with higher populations and all of the civics built. All cities in my region have the same demand graph. 

I do remember at some point while setting up SimCity 4 w/ CAM, NAM, etc that I had demand graphs that were even more crazy and wild than these. Like the demand was all the way to the top of the scale. Here is the link to that below.     It is almost like this is "ghost demand". Sometime I will plop zones for R and it will take awhile for it to build. I may have to plant trees on the zones to encourage it along. Now, maybe it is just the simulation trying to catch up, but I definitely think the scale and graph looks weird and the demand numbers are artificially high.

[Null 45 3,019]

This mod will show the actual demand numbers. Also, @CorinaMarie documented that the default Maxis demand graph can show inflated values.

[Ulisse Wolf 4,399]

2 hours ago, durbancic said:

Thank you for the reply. I chose a bad example to give you. Here are 2 more cities with higher populations and all of the civics built. All cities in my region have the same demand graph. 

I do remember at some point while setting up SimCity 4 w/ CAM, NAM, etc that I had demand graphs that were even more crazy and wild than these. Like the demand was all the way to the top of the scale. Here is the link to that below.     It is almost like this is "ghost demand". Sometime I will plop zones for R and it will take awhile for it to build. I may have to plant trees on the zones to encourage it along. Now, maybe it is just the simulation trying to catch up, but I definitely think the scale and graph looks weird and the demand numbers are artificially high.

Did you install CAM in a region where there was already a developed city before installing CAM?

If so, this explains the problem you are experiencing because you have broken the RCI simulation by creating phantom demand.  This happens because you have to recalibrate all cities and regional demand, making it almost impossible. 

 

2 hours ago, Propfam said:

I haven't installed the new CAM. But, why the graph looks like Maxis but scaled up, unlike in CAM 2.0 where it's just filling the graph?

It is a bug fix to accurately reflect the RCI demand with CAM.

[Lab Rat 12]

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