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From: dave@cprmtn.UUCP (Dave Heinen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re:  Sim City "cheats"
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Date: 31 Mar 91 16:39:13 GMT
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In article <00946617.87B76080@aclcb.purdue.edu>, rransom@aclcb.purdue.edu (Father Barleywine) writes:
>To get more extra money than you really need and to keep the Sims 
>happy while extorting large quantities of cashola, do the following tax 
>time "cheat" (if only the IRS was so easy to fool):
>	---set the tax rate to 0% in January
>	---watch the Sims build like crazy through the year
>	---with the Game Speed set to slow wait until the last part of
>		December (watch it carefully, because if you wait too
>		long you'll actually be stuck with 0% taxes for the year)
>	---set the tax rate to 20%
>	---watch the horrified Sims begin to get angry
>	---when the budget window comes up in January set the tax rate back
>		to 0%
>	---laugh gaily as the dough rolls in, and evilly as the foolish
>		Sims go about business as if you didn't take advantage of
>		the poor little buggers
>	---repeat as necessary

	In the newest versions, 1.1 and up, this "banzai taxation" has
been eliminated.  The tax rate used is the average over the year.


	--Jeff
	(son of the below)

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