HINTS & TIPS (FOR DOS!!! VERSION 1.0) ===================================== TIPS FROM MAXIS --------------- -Placing water pumps next to fresh water will produce about 3 times more output than if placed inland. -To avoid pollution problems: don't create mountainous surroundings (yes, you can simulate the Denver Smog Bowl effect) or limit yourself to the least-polluting kinds of power, time and circumstances will allow, and keep industrial zoning to Light Industrial. -While police and fire sations cover only the specific areas around them, hospitals, schools, and libraries serve the entire city. Put them anywhere that's convenient or looks good, or simply bunch them all in a corner somewhere. -Hydroelectric and wind power plants work great in remote places where you don't want to run ugly power lines. -To get rich quick, save your game and then let it run overnight. Just make sure you've deployed the police and the fire departments and turned off the disaster function. -Avoid diagonal roads and rail lines. -Start by building residential zones around the high-value waterfront areas. -Important tips for terrain editing: flat terrain allows you to pack Sims in like sardines and thirsty Sims need LOTS of water. -Sims won't build more than 3 squares from a road. A 13-by-6 tile layout with interlocking roads is efficient. CODES ----- CASS gives you $250 ! VERS tells you what version of Sim City 2000 you have TEST shows some weird numbers and letters MEMY memory check PORN you hear a programmer saying "I can't get enough" HECK some stupid note !! HELL same as HECK !! DARN same as HECK and HELL !! DAMN same as HECK, HELL, and DARN !! FUND issues a bond at 25% interest rate !!! ! if you do this code too many times you will get a firestorm !! don't do this code because it will turn all your residental area into churches. (If this happens look at CHURCH PROBLEM) 3!!! goto MEGACHEAT MEGACHEATS ---------- MEGACHEAT #1A 1. Wait 1 year. 2. When the budget window comes up click DONE and slect "autobudget". 3. Type FUND and issue a bond. 4. Select "no disasters". 5. Type CASS 6. Issue another bond by typing FUND. 7. Type CASS again. 8. Go to the budget window. 9. Go to the book for bond payments. 10. Click "issue bond". 11. It will ask if you want to issue a bond at .%, -%, or ?% 12. Click OK. 13. It will give you around 1.4 million a year MEGACHEAT #1B 1. Issue 2 bonds by typing FUND. 2. Go to the budget window 3. Go to the bond payment book. 4. Issue a bond. It should be at .% 5. Wait until end of year budget screen. 6. Pay off first two bonds. 7. It should give you about $14,542,680 a year. 8. Start playing. MEGACHEAT #2 1. Pause the game. 2. Press CTRL-F3. 3. Click the Rotate Counter-Clockwise button. 4. Click on the resize button. 5. Click on the weather icon on the status bar. 6. Click on the Population Icon. 7. Click anywhere in the city. 8. Go to the Disaster Menu and click on the line between the Riots and the No Disaster Button. 9. The people cheer. 10. You get $500,000 and all the rewards become available except the military base. Church Problem -------------- If you typed HELL,DARN,DAMN, OR HECK you will have a problem with your residential areas turning into churches. This is probably the only way to get rid of them. 1. Type FUND 4 times to issue 4 bonds. 2. Repay bonds in Budget Window. 3. Issue 1 bond in Bond Payment Window. 4. Wait one year and repay bond. EASTER EGGS ----------- 1. If you click on the helicopter with the centering tool the helicopter will crash. 2. If you bulldoze enough trees you can, if you want, listen to the Bull Moose roar. 3. If you chooses the Tree tool hold down the mouse button and then press down the SHIFT Key while holding the mouse button down you can have a Magic Eraser if you keep holding down both buttons at the same time you can magically erase thing not wanted. 4. If the Water Shortage message keeps appearing dezone a 3x3 grid and place a water pump in the middle of the dezoned area conneting it to nothing but power and the message will go away. Make sure all other water producing plants are bulldozed first. BIG MONEY TRICKS ---------------- P.S. - Make sure you have a BACKUP of your city before doing these cheats below. 1. You need a disk editing utility like Norton Diskedit. Open your file. If this is a NEW CITY look for the line with the hexadecimal numbers 00 02 4E 20. It should be in the first 5 lines. Change the 00 to an 7F. You should have around $2,000,000. 2. If you don't have a disk editing utility do this cheat. Go into your SimCity 2000 directory. Probably C:\SC2000. Type: C:\>"debug .sc2" -"E 127 7F" Hit Enter -"W" Hit Enter -"Q" Hit Enter You are done. You should have around $2 billion. P.S. - Don't type in the qoutation marks. 3. Download the SC2000 HEX-EDIT UTILITY. Make sure you have an unzip utility. 4. Download the CASH2000 UTILITY. TIPS ---- 1. Do not make zones too far from roads and parlance. 2. Water is not necessary, but if you want a dense population it is essential. 3. Do not use solar, hydroelectric, or wind power plants as your main source of energy. 4. When your population gets over 50,000 make highways. 5. A highway is useless without an onramp. 6. Always make connections to your neighbors. 7. Arcologies bring in a lot of population and crime. 8. You only need a few fire stations if you put it on no disasters. 9. Build lots of schools near residential areas to help keep crime down. 10. Use some form of public transit like busses, subways, or railroads to keep pollution down. 11. Once you have enough money lower taxes to help the population grow. 12. Promotional ordinances help bring people to town. 13. Once you have enough money by a fusion power plant if they are invented. 14. Your zoning should consist of 1\2 residential, 1\4 industrial and 1/4 commercial. 15. Read the newspapers regularly. 16. In areas with high crime build lots of parks. 17. Whenever one of the gifts become available build it, it's free and it helps the city. 18. Build an airport to make even more sims move in your city. 19. When zoning, use dense for more population but more pollution or light for less of both. 20. To avoid airplane crashes do not put tall buildings near the airport. 21. Put access points to your public transportation in different types of zones or else no one will ride the system. 22. Build your city in 6x6 squares for maximum density. 23. Always start your city in 2050. It becomes really annoying waiting for things to be invented. 24. If you want the Sims to like you as a mayor, what you need to build is lots and lots of small parks. 25. Keep Taxes Low To Encourage Growth 26. Put Many Hospitals, Police, And Fire Stations. 27. 1/2 City Residential 28. 1/4 City Commercial 29. 1/4 City Industrial 30. Watch Demand Graph 31. Keep Many Schools Near Residential 32. Don't put Many Roads To Keep Costs Down 33. Coal Power Plants Give Off A Lot Of Pollution 34. Buy A Fusion When Invented 35. Buy A Prison When Crime Is High 36. Small Seaport And Airport 37. Water Costs A Lot So Don't Buy A Lot 38. If you need money raise taxes to 20% for a year. The next year put taxes back to 6% or at a balanced budget. BY THE AUTHOR ------------- Feel free to distribute this file to anyone. If you have any questions e-mail me at 103163,2760. My name is Raymond Shum. My e-mail name is Chuck D. Shum.