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From: ta-dw30@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (David Worenklein)
Subject: Re: Sim City "cheats"
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Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1991 21:47:20 GMT

In article <ingemar.670668019@stuart> ingemar@isy.liu.se (Ingemar Ragnemalm) writes:
>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)
>
>Huh? How can you miss it, when the budget pops up by itself?
>
>>	---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%
>
>Oh, the bug is worse that that (but perhaps your Mac is much faster than mine).
>change tax when the budget window appears by itself.
>
>When I found this "hole in the rules", I wondered why I payed money for this
>game... And it isn't the only one.
>

I believe this bug was corrected in later versions (I have the color version
and the newsletter sent by Maxis said "no more cheating.")

Collected taxes are now the _average_ of the budgeted taxes over the year.
Or so they claim...
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