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From: cncole@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Noah Cole)
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Subject: Re: Sim City "cheats"
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Date: 31 Mar 91 18:02:40 GMT
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rransom@aclcb.purdue.edu (Father Barleywine) writes:

>This isn't a built in cheat like FUND, but it works if you don't care about 
>things like extortion and feeling like a scumdog.
>	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

This does not work on the Macintosh Versions above 1.2
I prefere FUNDS anyhow
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