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Anghild
11 years ago

Re: Wealth Forecast - Luxurious

Edit: Since posting this I've tested it and the info below is incorrect. Building types are purely dependant on land value. Dark blue giving the tallest buildings. To get to dark blue, you need a total of 9 services, so after level 16, you need all 7 basics (Power, Water, Sewage, Waste, Fire, Police and Health) + any two specializations. I was at level 15 when posting this, hence + 3 specializations. 

The type of upgrade is dependant on how many specializtions you provide.

None/One - Standard Homes

Two - Premium Homes

Three - Luxurios Homes

The wealth forecast shows that a home can still be upgraded to a higher level if it gets another service before the next upgrade. Once a building has become a tower it is locked at that specific level. 

Note that the specialization can be in any combination. For example, to get premium homes you can either give them access to Parks + Education, or Parks + Transportation, or Transportation + Gambling etc.. 

Ultimately the zones affect what your buildings will look like.

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago
    Nice anghild 🙂 I wasnt sure on specifics good info 🙂

    Also note, regarding towers locked at certain levels. You can demolish towers, increase land value with services then rebuild for more modern towers as well. This also increases tax revenue
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    Thanks!  What I was missing were the 2 specializations.  I actually don't have 2 specializations overlapping anywhere so I think it's a bug that it was showing Luxurious through the second upgrade.

    When I overlapped transportation and educatution I was able to turn the zone into luxurious.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    Hi - I am on lvl 11. I got parks, education and transportation, however ony premium houses are builded in the area. Maybe luxury housing also needs a higher level? 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago
    I'm 99% positive that level has nothing to with it. Its been awhile but I'm pretty sure I was spawning luxurious buildings by level ten. I still have more testing to do but I have a suspicion that its not only based on those three specializations but also the amount of population boost percentage wise. I would recommend adding a two square park with a higher pop boost. The peaceful park gives a nice boost for relatively cheap. In fact I would suggest one never uses the single square parks as they give very little boost and they dont use space as efficiently as the two square parks.

    And remember its common for the wealth forecast to fluctuate back and forth. Just be sure its luxurious by the time of your last upgrade.

    Hope that works for you!

    CJ
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    Thank you for reply! In my case - the tile is covered by modern ark park 2x peacefull park, department of education, public library, department of transportation. My population is 56K. Maybe the departments does not give enough percentage to account as "coverage". 

    Your suggestion concerning 2 square parks is helpful. 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago
    I think I know the problem, chris made a point earlier in this thread about how we cant combine buildings from the same spec for an increased boost. You mentioned that you have the department of education and a public library in the same coverage area. Theres apparently no benefit to having this double coverage. Maybe try moving out the dept. of edu. and replace with another spec, maybe gambling.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    Well - I got no gambling on lvl 11. I was lvl 15 before and I got luxury buildings - but older safe from g+ overwrite my game and I had to start from lvl 8 again. I will try bus station to boost my transport rates and I will see. 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    So in the end - not bus station but police made it luxurious. So it seem to me - no luxurious buildings prior to lvl 12. 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago
    I used the beach access and parks to create a luxury area to build sky scrapers in. It was cheaper to create and buy using the beach I didn't have any extra buildings taking up room where I needed to build. Also my population in the highfalutin sky scraper is 2,570 when fully upgraded. However if I move it out of the luxury zone it drops in population to 1,927. I also have noticed that if you have the mayors mansion, the donut shop, and city hall in the luxury area that it boosts land value to dark blue and increases population in your sky scrapers, especially if the scrapers are right next to them. But you have to keep an eye on your roads as three of these in a row with over 2 k population in each will cause the red traffic jams. So prepare the roads in the luxury area also or the sims move out. Hope this helps 🙂

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