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It seems many SimCity players are trying to find a balance between RCI. Unfortunately its NOT so simple to say take 3 parts residential, 2 parts commercial and 1 parts industry for a balanced city.
SimCity 2013's use of street density and wealth levels can make balancing a city difficult. Below are the conclusions I've come to based on experimenting in sandbox mode.
**RCI Gage Explained**
The RCI gauges will rise and fall depending on the information that is present under the Population Panel.
The Residential gauge will increase if there are jobs available for those wealth levels.
The Commercial gauge will increase if there are shoppers of that wealth class that are unsatisfied.
The Industrial gauge will increase if there are unfilled freight orders coming from the commercial zones.
***Be aware that there are certain buildings (Example: Power Plants and Specialization Buildings) that also create freight orders***
A note on the Details Panel found under the population Panel: Many SimCity players have been wondering what the Total Freight Orders and Unfulfilled Freight Orders relate to as its not really explained. Basically, commercial zones are what causes the Total Freight Orders number to rise. The Unfulfilled Freight orders is then the amount of commercial buildings that are not receiving freight.
***These two numbers are what causes the Industrial Demand gauge to rise.***
A final note on RCI Gauges. The amount that each individual bar increases for wealth levels is a bit off. With 6 standard city blocks of dirt road zoned with commercial, I have 290 low wealth jobs, 116 mid wealth jobs and 0 high wealth jobs. Yet when I look at the gauges, they are filled with the exact amount despite the difference of actual demand for low and mid wealth workers.
These seem to be the only factors that affect these gauges. Beyond that, it seems that they can generally be ignored for the duration of any game.
If Residential demand is high, either cut back on commercial/industry to reduce the number of available jobs or provide more residential zones/workers.
If Commercial is high, provide more shops for your residents or remove residential zones.
If Industrial is high, provide more Industry to fulfill the freight orders from present commercial or cut back on commercial.
**The Industrial gauge will generally be full if there are 1000+ unfulfilled freight orders**
~Frenzytoast
It seems many SimCity players are trying to find a balance between RCI. Unfortunately its NOT so simple to say take 3 parts residential, 2 parts commercial and 1 parts industry for a balanced city.
SimCity 2013's use of street density and wealth levels can make balancing a city difficult. Below are the conclusions I've come to based on experimenting in sandbox mode.
**RCI Gage Explained**
The RCI gauges will rise and fall depending on the information that is present under the Population Panel.
The Residential gauge will increase if there are jobs available for those wealth levels.
The Commercial gauge will increase if there are shoppers of that wealth class that are unsatisfied.
The Industrial gauge will increase if there are unfilled freight orders coming from the commercial zones.
***Be aware that there are certain buildings (Example: Power Plants and Specialization Buildings) that also create freight orders***
A note on the Details Panel found under the population Panel: Many SimCity players have been wondering what the Total Freight Orders and Unfulfilled Freight Orders relate to as its not really explained. Basically, commercial zones are what causes the Total Freight Orders number to rise. The Unfulfilled Freight orders is then the amount of commercial buildings that are not receiving freight.
***These two numbers are what causes the Industrial Demand gauge to rise.***
A final note on RCI Gauges. The amount that each individual bar increases for wealth levels is a bit off. With 6 standard city blocks of dirt road zoned with commercial, I have 290 low wealth jobs, 116 mid wealth jobs and 0 high wealth jobs. Yet when I look at the gauges, they are filled with the exact amount despite the difference of actual demand for low and mid wealth workers.
These seem to be the only factors that affect these gauges. Beyond that, it seems that they can generally be ignored for the duration of any game.
If Residential demand is high, either cut back on commercial/industry to reduce the number of available jobs or provide more residential zones/workers.
If Commercial is high, provide more shops for your residents or remove residential zones.
If Industrial is high, provide more Industry to fulfill the freight orders from present commercial or cut back on commercial.
**The Industrial gauge will generally be full if there are 1000+ unfulfilled freight orders**
~Frenzytoast
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