An edition of SimCity 2000: Strategies and Secrets
(1994)
SimCity 2000: Strategies and Secrets
by Daniel A. Tauber and Brenda Kienan
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This is a strategy, hints, tips, advise, and design guide to the Personal Computer game (PC) game "SimCity 2000", on Macintosh and Windows, MS-DOS format versions. It has detailed information on the options screens, menus, toolbars, and icons, used in the game. There are strategies on all of the various power, zones, laws, transportation, waterworks, public services, rewards that the player can receive, what do to do when disasters occur, and tips on winning the 'Scenarios'. The last two sections tell how to run the games programs on the various systems, and detail how to change the scenery and modify the terrain. There are many gray-scale screenshots. This book was also released in "SimCity 2000: Strategies and Secrets, Special Edition" ISBN: 0782116647.
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Table of Contents
Introduction. xxi
Part I: The Big Picture. 1
One. Getting to Know Your Virtual World. 2
What Is SimCity 2000?. 3
Starting SimCity 2000. 4
On a PC. 4
On a Mac. 4
Start a New Game by Starting a New City. 5
The Opening Menu. 6
Name the City. 6
Select a Level of Difficulty. 7
Select the Year. 8
What's the News?. 9
Looking at the Land Surface. 9
Finding a Location. 10
Zoning and Building Your City. 11
Building a Power Plant. 11
Minding the Money. 13
Looking into Your Power Plant. 17
A Word on Disasters. 18
Zoning Industrial and Residential Areas. 18
Laying Down a Road. 21
Placing a Power Line. 21
Saving Your City for the Future. 22
Moving Along. 23
Two. You're the Mayor. 24
What You're Responsible for. 25
Planning. 25
City Infrastructure. 26
City Services. 26
The Health, Happiness, and Prosperity of Your People. 27
Your City's Basic Needs. 27
Zoning. 28
Power. 28
Transportation. 29
Pollution. 29
Industry, Commerce, and Employment. 29
Crime. 30
Land Values. 30
Winning SimCity 2000. 31
Three. Getting Around in SimCity 2000's Menus and Windows. 32
The Menus. 33
File. 35
Speed. 36
Options. 36
Disaster. 37
Newspapers. 38
Windows. 40
The Info Window. 53
Four. The City Toolbar. 53
Using the City Toolbar. 54
Tools for Building and Zoning. 55
Tools for Quickly Seeing Information Windows. 72
Tools for Seeing Selectively and Getting Help. 74
Part II: Techniques And Strategies For Building A City. 77
Five. Providing Power. 78
Choosing a Power Plant. 79
Practical and Philosophical Considerations. 79
Coal. 82
Hydro Electric. 83
Oil. 84
Gas. 85
Nuclear. 85
Wind Power. 87
Solar Power. 88
Microwave. 89
Fusion. 90
Selecting a Location for Your Power Plant. 91
Juicing Up the Place with Power Lines. 91
Managing Your Power System. 93
Dealing with Brownouts. 95
Six. Zoning. 96
Basic Zoning Guidelines. 97
Types of Zones. 97
Principles to Zone By. 99
Looking into Your City (Aboveground). 100
Looking at Zoned Areas. 100
Looking at Individual Structures. 101
Using the Demand Indicator. 103
Zoning Strategies. 105
Zoning Light or Dense Areas. 106
Zoning Industrial Areas. 106
Zoning Residential Areas. 107
Zoning Commercial Areas. 109
Zoning Patterns. 111
Maximizing Population. 120
Getting the Right Mix. 123
Seven. The City Budget and Ordinances. 124
Looking into the Budget Window. 126
What's in the Budget Window. 126
Establishing Tax Rates: Income for Your City. 129
Raising Income through Property Taxes. 130
Get Those Land Values Up and Keep Them There. 130
Setting General Property Tax Rates. 131
Setting Tax Rates for Specific Types of Property. 132
Industry Taxes. 133
Borrowing Income through Issuing Bonds. 135
Issuing Bonds. 136
Budgeting Your City's Expenses. 140
Police. 140
Fire. 141
Health & Welfare. 141
Education. 142
Transit Authority. 143
Establishing Ordinances: Laws for Your City. 144
Eight. Transportation. 151
A Transportation Overview. 152
Considerations in Locating Transit. 153
Considerations in Using Private Transit. 154
Considerations in Using Public Transit. 155
Keeping an Eye on the Transit Authority Budget. 155
Types of Transportation. 156
Roads. 156
Rails. 160
Subways. 162
Buses. 165
Highways. 168
Connecting to Your Neighbors. 170
Nine. Your City's Waterworks. 172
Water Basics. 173
Pumping Water to Your City. 174
About Water Pumps. 174
Choosing Locations for Your Pumps. 174
Placing Pumps. 175
Piping Water to Your City. 176
Placing Pipelines. 176
Desalinization: Making Salt Water Usable. 178
Choosing a Location for Your Desalinization Plant. 178
Placing a Desalinization Plant. 178
Water Treatment. 178
Placing a Water Treatment Plant. 179
Investigating the Output of Parts of Your Water System. 179
Handling Water Shortages. 179
What Causes Water Shortages. 180
Storing Water in Towers to Deal with Water Shortages. 181
Ten. Ports: On the Water and in the Air. 182
Why You Want Ports in Your City. 183
Seaports. 184
Selecting a Location for Your Seaport. 184
Building a Seaport. 185
Airports. 185
Selecting a Location for Your Airport. 186
Building an Airport. 187
Eleven. Protecting Your Sims with City Services. 189
Police Protection. 190
Reviewing Your City's Crime Rate. 190
Building a Police Station. 194
Fire Protection. 195
Looking at Your Current Fire-Fighting Status. 195
Building a Fire Station. 196
Prisons. 198
Building a Prison. 199
Hospitals. 199
Building a Hospital. 200
Investigating City Services. 201
Twelve. Education and Its Place in a SimCity. 202
What's Important about the EQ. 203
What Affects the EQ. 203
Viewing and Interpreting the EQ. 204
Education Level and Ages. 205
Building Schools, Colleges, Libraries, and Museums. 205
Where to Build Educational Facilities. 206
How to Build Educational Facilities. 207
Checking Up on Your Educational System. 208
Thirteen. What Sims Do on the Weekends: Parks and Recreation. 209
Open Spaces and Parks. 210
Creating Open Spaces. 211
Creating Parks. 211
Recreational Facilities. 212
Creating a Zoo. 213
Creating a Stadium. 214
Creating a Marina. 215
Fourteen. The Perks of Power: Reaping Your Rewards. 217
Rewards That Acknowledge Your Stature in the City. 218
Rewards That Acknowledge Your City's Stature in SimNation. 220
Rewards That Acknowledge Your City's Progress. 220
The Inside Scoop on Arcos. 220
The Types of Arcologies. 221
Building an Arco. 223
Fifteen. When Disaster Strikes. 224
Avoiding Disasters. 225
Causing Disasters. 225
Who You Gonna Call?. 226
Seeing Disaster as It Happens. 226
Dispatching Help. 227
Fighting and Preventing Specific Disasters. 228
Plane Crash. 228
Fire. 229
Meltdown. 231
Microwave Oops. 233
Pollution. 233
Monster. 235
Riot. 236
Flood. 238
Toxic Spill. 239
Hurricane. 239
Volcano. 240
An Ounce of Prevention... 240
Part III: Winning the Model Scenarios. 243
Starting the Scenarios. 244
Hurricane in Charleston. 247
Developing Dullsville. 251
Economic Failure in Flint. 257
Monster Attacks Hollywood. 259
Oakland Hills Fire Storm. 261
Appendices.
A. Installing SimCity 2000. 264
Installing on a Mac. 265
What You Need. 265
Installing the Software. 265
Starting SimCity 2000 for the Mac. 267
Installing on a PC. 267
Installing the Software. 267
What You Need. 267
Installing the Program. 268
Starting SimCity 2000. 271
Starting SimCity 2000 with a Vesa Driver. 271
Running SimCity 2000 on a 4MB Machine. 272
B. The Terrain Toolbar. 274
Using the Terrain Toolbar. 275
Creating Land with the Tools in the Terrain Toolbar. 275
Modifying Land with the Tools in the Terrain Toolbar. 277
Click Done to Move Along. 279
Index. 280
Edition Notes
Includes index.
"Covers SimCity 2000 for both PCs and Macs"--Cover.
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