not enough goods to sell

[inner pine]

every single time i have a city this issue persists. ik this is kind of a common problem but i still can't figure out why. A few saves ago everything was perfectly fine, but then the number of imports suddenly dropped dramatically, and i think that's a large part of why there are now not enough goods anywhere in the city. i have a lot of zoned industry as well, but the issue can't seem to go away. please help

i cannot figure out why the imports are dropping

[proven lagoon]

you have high industry demmand

dont build too much offices

[wraith token]

How is traffic looking?

[calm gazelle]

I get the same issue for some reason

mainly on commercial buildings which I built at the start of building the city

[inner pine]

i do have a ton of offices

[inner pine]

not that bad

[proven lagoon]

then industry

i meam by regular

[polar sorrel]

in my experience the outside connections start to reach caps at about >60-80k pop, depending on the city

if you have Green Cities, the IT Cluster offices are simply overpowered at making goods (software) that can fulfil that need. Plus they're highly desirable educated jobs, unlike regular industry.

Industry 4.0 is a good policy to make industry jobs more educated and increases goods production too, but it does reduce jobs so is worse at fulfiling industry demand

[proven lagoon]

yeah

industries dlc is amazing

and amazingly exploitable

[wraith token]

Maybe your office to industry ratio is to high because the ratio of industry and commercial is too low?

Also what percentage is the traffic exactly?

[inner pine]

traffic hovers bettween 78-81%

[proven lagoon]

thats fine

traffic is not the problem

it just seems theres a lot of industry demmand

though residential demmand is low

[barren drift]

I have also found that reducing the concentration of some comercial areas can help. I had an area of my city with a lot of heart of Korea commercial in it that was struggling for goods so I started to reduce the number of comercial buildings in the area and move the commercial else where which seemed to help with that issue.

[empty ingot]

Dummy traffic nosedives yes (the tries to avoid reaching citizen instances limit, which is used for first spawn of vehicles), but import / export stays the same

[empty ingot]

Do you have easy ways for import to come in ?
Cargo train terminals are a must after reaching a certain size, because your zoned industry only has 2 delivery vehicles and outside road connections can be roller coaster in terms of reliability.

And if you use the traffic routes tool, are there any trucks coming to those stores ?

[inner pine]

i have 2 cargo ports and 3 train terminals

[empty ingot]

Ah. Are they being used ?

[inner pine]

they are

[inner pine]

ok but now i have a completely unrelated issue

my simulation speed is painfully slow

like

extremely slow

even at 3x speed

[delicate glade]

Pc issue most likely use a monitoring software such as msi afterburner (if you have it ) or even task a manger

Usually cpu bottleneck causes this

[delicate glade]

Increase the amount of industry you have it looks like you have a lot of demand

Your cims are unemployed because of the lack of jobs

[delicate glade]

That’s actually very good it’s impossible to get 100% traffic flow cs thinks that traffic waiting at a traffic light is traffic for example

Traffic percentage isn’t accurate instead look at your roads to see if there are backups

[empty ingot]

That policy on districts is high rise ban, right ?

[inner pine]

yeah pretty much every district has that

[empty ingot]

Okay.
If the issue is still there, follow where trucks from your industry and cargo terminals go. Do they go straight to commercial?

[inner pine]

hm

i think ill solve the goods issue later