Hipodrome

@rsc204 I think you were totally right about the imbalance between workers and industry, particular R$ and R$$$. Undeterred, I tried to fix it by starting a new city where I set taxes to prevent any R$$$ and R$$ sims. I've since lifted some of the prohibition on R$$ and it seems to be ok. Slowly but surely, I brought down the imbalance: I still have abysmal CS$ and CS$$, I suspect for the same reason. But that doesn't seem to be as game breaking as the R$ and R$$$ imbalance. I might try and solve it in the same way. Is managing $ and $$$ through different cities with different tactics a legitimate strategy? or is this still the result of my unwise tinkering during the game? By the way, is there any mod that increases the desirability requirements for $$$? It seems like for all groups the standard is "it's ok unless it's not ok". It's "not ok" for $$$ more readily than $ or $$, but the basic logic holds I think? Whereas I would have thought that $$$ should work the other - it's only ok if certain good conditions are met. Thanks so much for your help!

I see! I will take a look at this guide. If I understand you correctly I need to make an area not nice for R$ to show up? That seems odd haha. But ok. Regarding the high CO - I am not using and demand mod I think. I am using NAM, IRM Base pack and industry quadrupler. Could it be because I've primarily zoned the middle and highest density commercial? or maybe because I have big blocks with commercial?

Thank you very much everyone! This is very helpful. I downloaded the census building as per @rsc204 's suggestion expecting to find I was lacking in jobs. But unless I am reading this incorrectly, that's not the case. It seems I actually have 123,700 vacant jobs. I would have thought the issue is (as was discussed in the linked discussion) that because I have too many jobs sims won't come. But actually I don't have any issue getting new buildings. It's just that often these buildings won't find jobs, despite their apparent abundance... @Lucario Boricua thank you so much for your comment. I am using NAM 46 and will look to upgrade it to 47 this weekend. I replaced those res buildings with commercial and it worked. I also plotted a bunch of reward buildings I avoided (wasn't sure where I wanted them) and that seemed to have improved demand for CO, but the census would suggest that isn't the issue? I have installed the HT fix, and my education is about 145 atm. Any other thoughts, or maybe corrections for how I'm reading the census page, would be incredibly welcome. I've learned a ton from this tread already!

I've recently come back to SimCity after a decade+ break. Downloaded some key mods, including the bug fixes and NAM. I am otherwise using the Steam version. I have built my first 'successful' city, but have recently noticed more and more issues, or inconsistencies which can be a bug, but can also be my ignorance. 1. The key one relates to commute times. I often see neighboring buildings where one building will have a "long" commute, and the other will have a short one. I wouldn't care so much, except it often ends up that one of the buildings get abandoned due to commute time. I recently zoned a little suburban area (all in the same city) and half the buildings are abandoned. I demolish, the get built back up, and half of those, and some of the existing ones become abandoned. I've verified my road network is functional - because of the sims do indeed use it as planned.... Here you can see half the buildings either having no job, or being abandoned. After this screen shot I had to demolish half the (abandoned) buildings. Here's another example of a few buildings all colluding to 'lose work' at the same time 2. Some buildings just seem to not have their road connection applied to them. I've had this with residential and commercial. Streets, roads, and pedestrian roads (from NAM.) My suspicion is that this is due to an overly-complex network system. I have, on top of the Maxis stuff, RHW, wide roads, GLR, GLR in avenue, GLR in road, subway, and a train... This has definitely been happening more now that the city is large and complex. Any help would be super appreciated. Cheers!