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VARIOUS CHEATS
Free
Cash
When making the first Lobby, push option and the mouse button to make a double
decker. Before clicking anything else, select a lobby and using the scroll bars,
go to the bottom most left side of the screen and click once.
Get
the desired price for condominiums
Using the magnifying glass, click on the condominium that is for sale. (A
message saying that the condominiums are terrible should appear.) Click on the
current price and lower it to $4,000. Then, before exiting, raise it to the
price you are asking for.
Note: This trick works with most rooms and facilities.
Build
a two-story lobby
Select “Build Lobby” icon and find a place for the lobby. Then hold [Shift]
and left click mouse.
Double
your construction funds
Begin a new tower. Then, before placing any other piece, put a section of lobby
underground – below and to the left of level B9.
Construction
workers find buried treasure
Build an underground café and your workers will report that they have found
buried treasure while digging out the area.
Alternately, place three stores on B3.
Remove
old units
Hold Shift when placing a new unit to automatically remove the old one.
Build
a three-story lobby
Select “Build Lobby” icon and find a place for the lobby. Then hold [Shift]
+ [Ctrl] and left click mouse.
Tower
tips
The metro station requires a subway tunnel running the entire length of the
landform on B10. If you build anything on B10 except the Metro Station, you will
not be able to place it. Even if you bulldoze things that were placed on B-10,
the floor section will remain, and even the smallest floor section will block
the Metro tunnel. The only exception to this is the "lots of money"
cheat and the elevator mechanisms that "hang down" from elevators
which terminate on floor B9.
Contrary to the manual, you do
not have to bring all service elevators to the recycling center. It would be
impossible since service elevators can only go 30 floors.
Just like real-life towers in
real cities, you'll find that stores, theatres and other commercial
establishments usually do well in the basement. But they also bring in a lot of
traffic from outside. In order to keep your "permanent" population
upstairs happy, you may need to have elevator service that services only the
basement levels and the floor 1 lobby.
If you build a regular elevator
that passes through a recycling center, you may occasionally see people get on
and off in mid-air on the upper floor of the recycling center.
One successful strategy is to
keep offices and condos totally separated by building entire floors of offices
and entire floors of condos. You might want to mix fast food joints with offices
on the floor just above each lobby and put all your stores, movie theatres, etc.
in the basement levels.
How can you tell if SimCitizens
are waiting to go up or down an elevator? Remember the mneumonic LARD. People
waiting to the -L-eft of the elevator are -A-scending, while those waiting to
the -R-ight of the shaft are -D-escending.
Submitted by: Peter T
