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I cant seem to get rid of the high rent tags on my residential and industrial sectors. For residential Ive tried adding low cost housing but i dont know what to try with industrial.

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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you raised taxes? How is your demand for those sectors? I have found if you have high demand and aren’t building, it pushes up the rent for them instead - more demand = increased rent. Low cost equivalent won’t make a difference if the demand is for say low density instead.

If I recall correctly this is also the “trick” to get demand increasing for medium and high density. If low remains high rent / in huge demand, eventually it prices a lot out and they start demanding medium or high instead

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I did fiddle with the taxes but im not really sure how I should allocate. I cant tax by density, only by education.

[–] quindraco@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've never played this game, but I am both amused and horrified by the notion of tax rate depending on education level.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 8 points 1 year ago

I suspect it might be meant as a proxy for tax brackets based on income, I don't think (could be wrong), that the game keeps track of each citizen's salary, but they want to represent the phenomenon of better paying jobs generally requiring more education, and it does track education level

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I play this game and was horrified when I saw that. Seems like a mistake. It's really taxing them by income level, as education is what determines income level.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The biggest challenge I face is getting people to go to elementary school. I think 15% of the population is uneducated and 60% is well educated.

[–] quindraco@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't you make it illegal not to, like in the USA?

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 year ago

I think the problem is that they try and drive to school but they get stuck in traffic for a week. Traffic flow in the city is really bad. I'm working on public transport networks now.

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I meant just taxes generally for residential etc. You have lowered them, which should alleviate some amount of it.

Rent goes up due to demand and how “nice” the area is, access to healthcare etc. You should be able to drop rent simply by building more of that density residential. The same with just building more industrial

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait a second, they take how nice the area is into account for rent? Does this mean I could also try to deal with too high rents in a given part of my city by like, removing the local park?

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

A few references exist but heres one https://www.radiotimes.com/technology/gaming/cities-skylines-2-high-rent/

Remove services, thereby lowering land values in the area - if you get rid of nearby conveniences, a property will lose value. Simple!

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Another poster said you could pollute the area, too.