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From: rawdon@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Michael Rawdon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: SimCity help
Message-ID: <4386@rex.cs.tulane.edu>
Date: 1 Oct 90 21:44:09 GMT
References: <2192@nyx.UUCP>
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
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In article <2192@nyx.UUCP> kreme@nyx.UUCP (Harvey Leech) writes:
>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.

There is one sort of "built-in" way of "cheating" which nonetheless is
entirely legal:  Keep your taxes at 0% all year, and then jack them up
to 20% in December.  After you get your budget report, put them back at 0%.
I don't know why it works, but it gets you lots of money.

I actually kind of figure it's a bug of some sort.  Has anyone else noticed
this in their copies?

My cities are usually pretty organic because I end up placing things
wherever the heck I want that does what I want it to do.

-- 
			     Michael Rawdon
		Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
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