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From: perley@caesar (Donald P Perley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Best Amiga Game (Sim City)
Message-ID: <13020@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Date: 23 Oct 90 21:18:44 GMT
References: <33569@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <TOPE.90Oct17093101@imdpy1.im.se> <david.11770@starsoft.UUCP>
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In-reply-to: david@starsoft.UUCP (Dave Lowrey)

In article <david.11770@starsoft.UUCP>, david@starsoft (Dave Lowrey) writes:
>>In article <TOPE.90Oct17093101@imdpy1.im.se> tope@imdpy1.im.se (Torbj|rn Pettersson IMD) writes:

>>
>>Are you serious?
>>Have you tried a tax-rate of 0 all the year round exept for December?
>>Everyone is happy, and you get lots of money.
>>I've heard that this "feature" also appears in Dragonbreath,
>>but I've never played that game.

>Sure, you can do that. However, some folks like to see how well they
>can do without cheating.

Actually, that just adds to the realism.  In real life the 
tax-raise-in-december syndrome is called a "lame duck session"
It is done for much the same reason.


-don perley

perley@trub.crd.ge.com