SimCity 2000: Strategies and Secrets
By: Daniel A. Tauber and Brenda Kienan.
Contributors: Kienan, Brenda.
Series: Strategies and Secrets
Publisher: Sybex
Published: 1994
Place of publication: San Francisco, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: SimCity (Computer file); City planning -- Computer simulation; City planning -- Simulation games; Computer games
Notes: Includes index.
"Covers SimCity 2000 for both PCs and Macs"--Cover.
Table of contents: label: Introduction
title: xxi; label: Part I: The Big Picture
title: 1; label: One. Getting to Know Your Virtual World
title: 2; label: What Is SimCity 2000?
title: 3; label: Starting SimCity 2000
title: 4; label: On a PC
title: 4; label: On a Mac
title: 4; label: Start a New Game by Starting a New City
title: 5; label: The Opening Menu
title: 6; label: Name the City
title: 6; label: Select a Level of Difficulty
title: 7; label: Select the Year
title: 8; label: What's the News?
title: 9; label: Looking at the Land Surface
title: 9; label: Finding a Location
title: 10; label: Zoning and Building Your City
title: 11; label: Building a Power Plant
title: 11; label: Minding the Money
title: 13; label: Looking into Your Power Plant
title: 17; label: A Word on Disasters
title: 18; label: Zoning Industrial and Residential Areas
title: 18; label: Laying Down a Road
title: 21; label: Placing a Power Line
title: 21; label: Saving Your City for the Future
title: 22; label: Moving Along
title: 23; label: Two. You're the Mayor
title: 24; label: What You're Responsible for
title: 25; label: Planning
title: 25; label: City Infrastructure
title: 26; label: City Services
title: 26; label: The Health, Happiness, and Prosperity of Your People
title: 27; label: Your City's Basic Needs
title: 27; label: Zoning
title: 28; label: Power
title: 28; label: Transportation
title: 29; label: Pollution
title: 29; label: Industry, Commerce, and Employment
title: 29; label: Crime
title: 30; label: Land Values
title: 30; label: Winning SimCity 2000
title: 31; label: Three. Getting Around in SimCity 2000's Menus and Windows
title: 32; label: The Menus
title: 33; label: File
title: 35; label: Speed
title: 36; label: Options
title: 36; label: Disaster
title: 37; label: Newspapers
title: 38; label: Windows
title: 40; label: The Info Window
title: 53; label: Four. The City Toolbar
title: 53; label: Using the City Toolbar
title: 54; label: Tools for Building and Zoning
title: 55; label: Tools for Quickly Seeing Information Windows
title: 72; label: Tools for Seeing Selectively and Getting Help
title: 74; label: Part II: Techniques And Strategies For Building A City
title: 77; label: Five. Providing Power
title: 78; label: Choosing a Power Plant
title: 79; label: Practical and Philosophical Considerations
title: 79; label: Coal
title: 82; label: Hydro Electric
title: 83; label: Oil
title: 84; label: Gas
title: 85; label: Nuclear
title: 85; label: Wind Power
title: 87; label: Solar Power
title: 88; label: Microwave
title: 89; label: Fusion
title: 90; label: Selecting a Location for Your Power Plant
title: 91; label: Juicing Up the Place with Power Lines
title: 91; label: Managing Your Power System
title: 93; label: Dealing with Brownouts
title: 95; label: Six. Zoning
title: 96; label: Basic Zoning Guidelines
title: 97; label: Types of Zones
title: 97; label: Principles to Zone By
title: 99; label: Looking into Your City (Aboveground)
title: 100; label: Looking at Zoned Areas
title: 100; label: Looking at Individual Structures
title: 101; label: Using the Demand Indicator
title: 103; label: Zoning Strategies
title: 105; label: Zoning Light or Dense Areas
title: 106; label: Zoning Industrial Areas
title: 106; label: Zoning Residential Areas
title: 107; label: Zoning Commercial Areas
title: 109; label: Zoning Patterns
title: 111; label: Maximizing Population
title: 120; label: Getting the Right Mix
title: 123; label: Seven. The City Budget and Ordinances
title: 124; label: Looking into the Budget Window
title: 126; label: What's in the Budget Window
title: 126; label: Establishing Tax Rates: Income for Your City
title: 129; label: Raising Income through Property Taxes
title: 130; label: Get Those Land Values Up and Keep Them There
title: 130; label: Setting General Property Tax Rates
title: 131; label: Setting Tax Rates for Specific Types of Property
title: 132; label: Industry Taxes
title: 133; label: Borrowing Income through Issuing Bonds
title: 135; label: Issuing Bonds
title: 136; label: Budgeting Your City's Expenses
title: 140; label: Police
title: 140; label: Fire
title: 141; label: Health & Welfare
title: 141; label: Education
title: 142; label: Transit Authority
title: 143; label: Establishing Ordinances: Laws for Your City
title: 144; label: Eight. Transportation
title: 151; label: A Transportation Overview
title: 152; label: Considerations in Locating Transit
title: 153; label: Considerations in Using Private Transit
title: 154; label: Considerations in Using Public Transit
title: 155; label: Keeping an Eye on the Transit Authority Budget
title: 155; label: Types of Transportation
title: 156; label: Roads
title: 156; label: Rails
title: 160; label: Subways
title: 162; label: Buses
title: 165; label: Highways
title: 168; label: Connecting to Your Neighbors
title: 170; label: Nine. Your City's Waterworks
title: 172; label: Water Basics
title: 173; label: Pumping Water to Your City
title: 174; label: About Water Pumps
title: 174; label: Choosing Locations for Your Pumps
title: 174; label: Placing Pumps
title: 175; label: Piping Water to Your City
title: 176; label: Placing Pipelines
title: 176; label: Desalinization: Making Salt Water Usable
title: 178; label: Choosing a Location for Your Desalinization Plant
title: 178; label: Placing a Desalinization Plant
title: 178; label: Water Treatment
title: 178; label: Placing a Water Treatment Plant
title: 179; label: Investigating the Output of Parts of Your Water System
title: 179; label: Handling Water Shortages
title: 179; label: What Causes Water Shortages
title: 180; label: Storing Water in Towers to Deal with Water Shortages
title: 181; label: Ten. Ports: On the Water and in the Air
title: 182; label: Why You Want Ports in Your City
title: 183; label: Seaports
title: 184; label: Selecting a Location for Your Seaport
title: 184; label: Building a Seaport
title: 185; label: Airports
title: 185; label: Selecting a Location for Your Airport
title: 186; label: Building an Airport
title: 187; label: Eleven. Protecting Your Sims with City Services
title: 189; label: Police Protection
title: 190; label: Reviewing Your City's Crime Rate
title: 190; label: Building a Police Station
title: 194; label: Fire Protection
title: 195; label: Looking at Your Current Fire-Fighting Status
title: 195; label: Building a Fire Station
title: 196; label: Prisons
title: 198; label: Building a Prison
title: 199; label: Hospitals
title: 199; label: Building a Hospital
title: 200; label: Investigating City Services
title: 201; label: Twelve. Education and Its Place in a SimCity
title: 202; label: What's Important about the EQ
title: 203; label: What Affects the EQ
title: 203; label: Viewing and Interpreting the EQ
title: 204; label: Education Level and Ages
title: 205; label: Building Schools, Colleges, Libraries, and Museums
title: 205; label: Where to Build Educational Facilities
title: 206; label: How to Build Educational Facilities
title: 207; label: Checking Up on Your Educational System
title: 208; label: Thirteen. What Sims Do on the Weekends: Parks and Recreation
title: 209; label: Open Spaces and Parks
title: 210; label: Creating Open Spaces
title: 211; label: Creating Parks
title: 211; label: Recreational Facilities
title: 212; label: Creating a Zoo
title: 213; label: Creating a Stadium
title: 214; label: Creating a Marina
title: 215; label: Fourteen. The Perks of Power: Reaping Your Rewards
title: 217; label: Rewards That Acknowledge Your Stature in the City
title: 218; label: Rewards That Acknowledge Your City's Stature in SimNation
title: 220; label: Rewards That Acknowledge Your City's Progress
title: 220; label: The Inside Scoop on Arcos
title: 220; label: The Types of Arcologies
title: 221; label: Building an Arco
title: 223; label: Fifteen. When Disaster Strikes
title: 224; label: Avoiding Disasters
title: 225; label: Causing Disasters
title: 225; label: Who You Gonna Call?
title: 226; label: Seeing Disaster as It Happens
title: 226; label: Dispatching Help
title: 227; label: Fighting and Preventing Specific Disasters
title: 228; label: Plane Crash
title: 228; label: Fire
title: 229; label: Meltdown
title: 231; label: Microwave Oops
title: 233; label: Pollution
title: 233; label: Monster
title: 235; label: Riot
title: 236; label: Flood
title: 238; label: Toxic Spill
title: 239; label: Hurricane
title: 239; label: Volcano
title: 240; label: An Ounce of Prevention...
title: 240; label: Part III: Winning the Model Scenarios
title: 243; label: Starting the Scenarios
title: 244; label: Hurricane in Charleston
title: 247; label: Developing Dullsville
title: 251; label: Economic Failure in Flint
title: 257; label: Monster Attacks Hollywood
title: 259; label: Oakland Hills Fire Storm
title: 261; label: Appendices; label: A. Installing SimCity 2000
title: 264; label: Installing on a Mac
title: 265; label: What You Need
title: 265; label: Installing the Software
title: 265; label: Starting SimCity 2000 for the Mac
title: 267; label: Installing on a PC
title: 267; label: Installing the Software
title: 267; label: What You Need
title: 267; label: Installing the Program
title: 268; label: Starting SimCity 2000
title: 271; label: Starting SimCity 2000 with a Vesa Driver
title: 271; label: Running SimCity 2000 on a 4MB Machine
title: 272; label: B. The Terrain Toolbar
title: 274; label: Using the Terrain Toolbar
title: 275; label: Creating Land with the Tools in the Terrain Toolbar
title: 275; label: Modifying Land with the Tools in the Terrain Toolbar
title: 277; label: Click Done to Move Along
title: 279; label: Index
title: 280