Residential Demand Cap Help

[Eagle]

Need a bit of coaching on demand caps for residential.  My cities hit the residential caps around 1.5 to 2.0 million population.  Other than building hundreds of parks & plazas, is there a way to get significant cap relief w/o cheating?  Obviously, I am not running CAM. 

[RippleJet]

Those in-game rewards which provide the biggest residential CAP relieves are:

	R§	R§§	R§§§
Major League Stadium	300,000	200,000
Minor League Stadium	200,000	200,000
Zoo	150,000	75,000	150,000
Tourist Trap	100,000
Farmer's Market	20,000	150,000

[Eagle]

Thanks.  I don't usually qualify for the farmer's market.  So, even with the rest of these rewards, the caps limit the city to ~2.0 MM population.  Maybe I should make the major league stadium, really major by quading the caps for it.  That would give another ~1.5 MM of headroom.

[Eagle]

Another related question.  My cities don't usually end up using all of the R$ cap, but have no issue using up most of the caps for R$$ & R$$$.  For example, one of my cities is ~1.4 MM population with a percent breakdown of R$ 35%, R$$ 52%, & R$$$ 13%.  The cap status for these are R$ 60%, R$$ 88%, & R$$$ 85%.  How do you get R$ to grow up to ~90% of its cap?  These Sims are educated as I have never had much success packing them in high density when they are uneducated.

[RippleJet]

The residential CAPs should be thought about as recreational capacity.
The more facilities for recreation that your city has, the more people can move in.

Obviously rich people require more recreational facilities (parks and stadiums) than poor people.
Thus, Maxis made it easier for us to raise the CAPs for R§ than for R§§§.

[Eagle]

Thanks Ripple.  I had never thought of caps in this way.  Need to rethink my strategy.