How to Supercharge Industrial Demand in Cities: Skylines
Greetings fellow mayors and city planners! As an avid Cities: Skylines gamer with over 200 hours played, I‘ve mastered the intricacies of optimizing industrial demand. There‘s nothing more satisfying than creating a smooth-running, highly profitable manufacturing sector. So let‘s dive into my top tips and tricks!
Zone Specialized Industry Areas
The most direct approach to increasing jobs and labor demand is zoning additional land specifically for industrial use. I always incorporate dedicated zones for key industries like forestry, farming, oil production, and ore mining. This specialization boosts efficiency and allows you to manage distinct supply chains.
My target is zoning industry across 15-20% of total map tiles to provide enough production capacity for later city growth.
Raise Education for Advanced Industries
An educated workforce allows you to construct advanced industry buildings with higher employee capacity but that require skilled labor. I aim for at least 50% highly educated workers unlocked by building plenty of schools, universities, colleges and libraries.
Education facilities in close proximity to industrial areas are ideal. I also launch policies like School‘s Out that increase education rates. This is essential for stimulating growth of high-tech, robotic manufacturing plants.
Optimized Transportation and Infrastructure
Smooth transportation logistics are the lifeblood for delivering raw materials to factories and shipping finished products to commercial zones.
I spend time master planning cargo train networks, shipping lanes, cargo plane connections and highway access with minimum junctions to maintain swift traffic flowrates of 80-90%. Strong public transport integration via metro and buses also ensures workers can access jobs.
Sufficient water, waste disposal, emergency services and ample power grids with some backup solar/wind plants completes the infrastructure framework to keep industries humming!
Incentivize Growth With Low Taxes
Offering tax reliefs between 9-11% for industrial zones helps attract and stimulate more business investment, especially when combined with my next tip…
Raise Land Value With Decorations
Sprinkling trees, parks, plazas and leisure services like cinemas around industry clusters indirectly boosts their appeal and productivity by increasing surrounding land value.
Higher land value indicates popular, profitable locations that investors compete over by driving up industrial construction and development deals with the city!
Population Increases Labor Pool
There‘s no industries without workers! I accelerate population growth with high-density residential buildings to ensure industries have ample access to potential labor. Beyond 15,000 population unlocks additional employee levels for factories.
As the city size balloons I adapt the public transport network to efficiently move more citizens to their jobs to prevent labor shortages.
So there you have it – master these tips and you‘ll have a thriving industrial center pumping out products! Let me know if this helps explain increasing that crucial industrial demand. What strategies have been working for your cities?
