u/ReadyLawfulness3649

What percent of commercial jobs should be $CS, $$CS, $$$CS, $$CO, $$$CO for a big city to minimize abandonment?

Also once you get big skyscrapers, do you need $CS anymore?

Thanks!

Hello fellow SimCitians!

I filled my city region with low density residential + commercial and have a 30k population. Any advice to get to 100k while keeping things nice and preventing any abandonment (none so far)? *I have NAM.

I made a grid of 9 blocks residential, 1 block commercial, and 2 blocks industrial. Repeated this pattern around the borders until no more space. Education (elementary/library/colleges) is above 160, no healthcare, have power and water, some manufacturing/high tech, about 50% $ and $$ sims (no $$$), and buses and small parks/plazas every block. Profit margin of 11k (7% taxes). Commute time is 0.1 (10 minutes I think).

I taxed $$$ sims and CO$$$ 15%, cause I always have the problem of rich sims and wealthy commercial office taking over way too fast (and kicking out poor sims and CS$$ and CO$$). Also, when CO$$$ builds it has only half the jobs filled (sometimes leading to abandonment).

Here's some questions:

1. How to make sure new commercial is built near the new medium density residential so commute time doesn't skyrocket? Should I just have a subway network too and not care where commercial pops up? Or centralize the commercial a little at a time?

2. How do I let a small bit of R$$$ and CS$$$/CO$$$ grow at the appropriate time without taking over everything? Should I make every building historic? *I noticed if I put some hospitals, wealthy sims and commercial office start to build at 15% tax and start to really take over. Also if too many R$$$ move in too fast I get no job zlots.

3. What's a good ratio of $/$$/$$$ R in a population and a good ratio of $/$$/$$$ R to $$/$$$ CS/CO jobs? And how do you maintain the ratio when city gets very big? Do you just manipulate taxes and make buildings historic?

Thanks for reading and any help!

1. Simcity 4 rush hour with NAM

2. Population = 7000 (~10% wealthy, 70% middle, 20% poor sims)

3. Commute time short (0.3)

4. City has power, water, roads/avenues, elementary/high school/college, clinic, parks.

5. No new non-residential development - All industrial and commercial demand is near 0, even though tax rate 7%

6. Poor and middle class residential demand super high, yet starting to see no job zlots???

7. Commercial buildings mostly middle/high wealth office, Industrial zones mostly manufacturing and some high tech.

8. Education level about 80

Is the trick to artificially boost industrial/commercial demand, or tax middle class and slow them down?? New to the game.

Any help much appreciated!