Cap Relief

[Kitsune]

so what do I use to create something that will give me mega-cap relief? My farm cap is sitting at 100% and I still have 160 sq km to grow.

[Lowkee33]

I still have 160 sq km to grow.

Thats not enough farms. 

RippleJet's Census Repository gives 20,000 (?) Cap Relief.  This amount is set in the building exemplar, and by all means, could be much larger for a plop that you make.

Making neighbor connections also gives cap relief, though each additional connection creates less.  My memory of the strategy guide (which was awesome pre-deluxe days) has me thinking that each different city that is connected to starts the the diminishing returns again:

A road connection from city A to city B provides 10,000 relief.  The next connection provides, say 5,000 and the next 2,500.  However, at this point if you were to connect city A to city C, this would provide 10,000 cap relief.  SimNation is always the same city, so it's best to become mayor of all of the surrounding cities too.

(man I wish I had that guide, ordered it on Amazon for $5, but it never came.  Everything in there is pretty obsolete, but still... That guide was with me though some rough mid teens to mid 20s)

[Kitsune]

I started fiddling around with Ilives reader (hello hex... long time no see)... modified the cap hit in the census repository (that took some digging and the tutorial really helped), and I think it worked? One tile is saying the cap hit is 100%, but this tile has mixed res/com/industrial... while another tile loaded with farms is stating 0%. So... I guess now I have to run a tile to see if it worked.

[Lowkee33]

I thought cap was a per tile thing.

[Kitsune]

it is - I tried another tile and viola... cap issue gone. I upped it to about 3.2m with the census repository...    Only thing is I forgot to set affinity to 1 core and I got a CTD when attempting to overview all my new farms  And yes... I've done ample testing and I'm 99.9% sure thats the issue.

[RippleJet]

RippleJet's Census Repository gives 20,000 (?) Cap Relief.

The Census Repository Vault gives an IR CAP relief of 30,000.

modified the cap hit in the census repository (that took some digging and the tutorial really helped), and I think it worked?

Just for the record, I assume this is the tutorial you're referring to?

[Kitsune]

Just for the record, I assume this is the tutorial you're referring to?

Yep thats the one - it helped considerably once I figured out ilives again (I hadnt used it in about 3-4 years... heh, its changed a bit)