HELP on Avg. Income

[tinunawalkha1]

Can any one help me my largest city has a population of 320K but just recently the residential average income fell from 60k to 12k but in game the number of high wealth residents are ever increasing. now my city has a negative demand for any group of residents, but sill the I-M and I-H and the commercial demand is sky rocketing. My city is neighbor by 3 small cities.

What should i do to increase the residential average income

Ashish

[jmyers2043]

Can any one help me my largest city has a population of 320K but just recently the residential average income fell from 60k to 12k but in game the number of high wealth residents are ever increasing. now my city has a negative demand for any group of residents, but sill the I-M and I-H and the commercial demand is sky rocketing. My city is neighbor by 3 small cities.

What should i do to increase the residential average income

Ashish

To increase income? Make sure you're education is well funded and that you have good coverage. The game rewards the player for educating the Sims by raising the SIM's out of R$ to R$$ or R$$$ status. This will increase the income.

[cogeo]

This is obviously a bug or statistical glitch. During the early stages of the city's growth (when there are only R$ residents in the city), the avg. income is some 16-17K (as far as I can tell from the graph), and remains constant until R$$ or R$$$ residents come in. So 12K looks like an "out of bounds" value. Don't know, maybe wait and this might be fixed by itself. If you have I-HT install the fix from the STEX, otherwise R$$$ workers can't work there (a bug). Beware though, this can cause another statistical anomaly, ie some regional stats are double-count. To install it correctly you need to merge it with simcity_1.dat (backup the original), and this can only be done by using the SC4 Dat Packer.

[HappyDays]

Much like with commute times, SimCity 4 has a bug that doesn't allow average income to be calculated correctly.

It is safe to ignore, as it does not and cannot represent the "reality" of the simulation.