Demand Caps for SimCity 4

[Boggy1 45]

A couple of guys in chat asked for this, so I'm quickly putting it here so I can link to them. I don't know if its the right section or not, but it should be useful to a few people.

This is the demand caps for the ORIGINAL Sim City 4 from the Official Prima Guide Book, copied out by hand, by me, a few months ago.

A demand cap is a cap or limit on the ammount of demand - and therefore development - on certain aspects of your city. This cap or limit can be increased by building several buildings and utilities.

It's a screenshot of the original Publisher file. This forum software totally mucks up the format when I try and copy and paste, but I hope this image will suffice.

Remember, this is only for the original Sim City 4. Rush Hour adds a few more buildings here and there, and possibly a few minor corrections, but it should be pretty accurate.

[Hahayoudied 3]

Can you add the Rush Hour Demand Caps?

[SC4BOY 21]

The CAPS don't change for RushHour/Delus.. There may be one or two added.. if you have a specific item you want to know, ask

[Drizzit 0]

how about avenue C cap relieve?

[TitanSteel 0]

If I understand it correctly, the chart means that Small Flower Garden and Small Plaza are the best one-tile items?

Flower is more cost efficient, but plaza is more space efficient. Or do people count it differently?

[SC4BOY 21]

Any custom lots, you'll have to read the doc's supplied by the creator.. WRT "which it better" you'll have to figure that for yourself.. I'm not into that kind of stuff.. It has been debated before and gets interminable.. I'd say just do what you want perhaps using the "desirablity map" as a guide. Wrt to city connections, they are not covered as they are not "reward lots" If you'd like to post those, feel free to do so..

[Drizzit 0]

I have been looking all over but I really cant find how much Commercial demand cap relief a town connection with the Rush Hour Avenues add so if anyone knows I'd be grateful

[Drizzit 0]

I'm sorry to bump this but.... noone knows how much Avenues add?

[MattShizzle 11]

The prima guide doesn't say. I just spent about 10 minutes looking through it to see.

[PlyPlay665 0]

Well darn. My bet is that it is probably in the Subway Area-Range thing.

[SC4BOY 21]

Put the census repository mod report in.. look at the % cap on the city.. add like 10 avenue connections and look at the decrease in the % CAP.. from that you can calculate the change and divide by 10 to get the value..