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From: kreme@nyx.UUCP (Harvey Leech)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: SimCity help
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Date: 1 Oct 90 10:46:35 GMT
Reply-To: kreme@nyx.UUCP (Harvey Leech)
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I've been playing SimCity off and on for about a month now and I have
discovered something very annoying about the game:

	I'm not getting any better.

	I can usually win in Tokyo and Bern, but I have yet to be able
to build a decent city without cheating.  The farthest I have gotten is
having them demand a stadium, a port, but never an airport.

	I don't understand why sometimes areas grow and sometimes they
don't.  I guess I just haven't develped any sort of "winning" stategy.
I try to isolate residentail areas a little from Industrials by buffering
them with parks and/or commercial areas.  I use a minimum of roads and
lay down lots of rails.  The cities LOOK NICE, but I always running out
of money and the population is always whining about something.  I do manage
to keep my popularity at astonomically inflacted values (85-100%).  Perhaps
I am placing too much weight on the "What are the most serious problems"
area.

	Could anyone who has played this game much give me a few pointers?
Is there any reason to attempt to upgrade from version 1.0 besides Multifinder?
I've heard the latest version is 1.2 with an obnoxious manual based protection
scheme.