

Buses don't contribute to congestion at all. High Tech industry is tricky, though, as you can't build it next to the polluting industries, so you have to make a nice, High Tech only sector in a clean part of your city, or in a neighboring zone.Īs for traffic, in the beginning put bus stops every block. Then later, you add a high school, then a collage, as you see you sims' education level by age slowly max out for each given age group.īetter education will raise land values, and prompt them to upgrade to a richer status, then eventually you should see higher wealth commercial and industrial jobs open up. Eventually, you gradually add an elementary school. Poor, stupid sims will be just fine working in dirty industry or low wealth commercial services. Second, you gotta make sure that they can get to work in time.įor the first factor, just satisfying the demand graphs will usually suit you just fine. In the unmodded game, commute time is one of the biggest problems people have, and a lot of people resort to using mods and "cheating", but you can handle it perfectly fine in the default simulation.įirst, you gotta make sure that there are jobs available that fit the sims' wealth level and education level. Everything else is somewhere in the middle. Residential specific items are things like flower gardens.

Otherwise, place stuff like parks to increase overall desirability in a given area. If you check, for example, R$$ desirability, then there is something in that area that makes it unattractive for R$$ sims to live. For industrial, if the freight trucks take too long to get to the edge of the map, or to a freight station or seaport, then that's an issue too.Ĭheck the data panel to see the desirability. Or the crime is too high, school coverage is too low, or the health coverage is too low.įor commercial, it's pretty much the same thing, minus the school and health stuff. Or, the sims who live in it take too long to get to work, or there aren't any jobs available that match their wealth and education level.

If it looks abandoned, then you done fucked up.įor residential buildings, it might have too much air or water pollution around it, or perhaps it's accumulating too much garbage. If it looks dirty, that means there's a problem. There are many factors that contribute to the condition of a building.
