High Commercial Demand

[danny34]

Hi, following on from my other post I now seem to be encountering a different problem. I have 20,000 residents and the demand for commercial shops and offices is constantly high (all levels). I keep building medium and high density commercial zones to try an reduce demand but they just fill up with small offices or shops and the demand doesn't really go down. I have built small parks and plazas near the zones but that doesn't help either. Is there anyway to get larger buildings instead of the smaller ones as at this rate my whole city will be commercial zones.

[c.p.]

Maybe check the water system, or fire station coverage, in case it is a demand cap issue.

[danny34]

Maybe check the water system, or fire station coverage, in case it is a demand cap issue.

Hi C.P, I have water and fire coverage but still nothing. I can't seem to get any large commercial offices at the moment. Does it have to be high density or is medium density sufficient?

[vortext]

Any neighbor connections yet? Those provide cap relief as well.

That said, Commercial Offices are the hardest to grow and you'll need a large workforce of well educated, R$$ sims before you'll see decent size buildings. And even if these conditions are met I doubt 20k population will suffice since the workforce is a only fraction of total population.

Also note Commercial Services (not Shops, though it actually makes more sense ) are all uncapped, meaning you have try quite hard to diminish demand for them. And this goes for demand in general: the goal is not to decrease demand to zero, the goal actually is to sustain demand as that'll keep the city going (insofar there're any real goals in SC4 of course).

In that regard I wouldn't worry too much about high demand, it's a good sign! Focus on growing the population and larger buildings will follow suit.