fund- Gives you 10,000 dollars and issues a bond at 25%.
noah- starts a major flood.
joke- a joke
cass- Gives you $250. Every time you use this the chances of a firestorm increases.
imacheat- Gives you $500,000 dollars and makes all buildings available, including rewards.
gilmartin- Gives you a military base at no cost.
Tips:
Do not make zones too far from roads and powerlines.
Water is not nescessary, but if you want a
dense population it is essential.
Do not use solar or wind power plants as your
main source of energy.
When your population gets over 50,000 make
highways.
A highway is useless without an onramp.
Always make connections to your neighbors.
Arcologies bring in a lot of crime, and pollution.
You only need a few fire stations if you put
it on no disasters.
Build lots of schools near residential areas
to help keep crime down.
Use some form of public transit like busses,
subways, or railroads to keep pollution down.
Once you have enough money lower taxes to
help the population grow.
Promotional ordinances help bring people to
town.
Once you have enough money buy a fusion power
plant if they are invented.
Your zoning should consist of 1/2 residential,
1/4 industrial and commercial.
Read the newspapers regularly.
In areas with high crime build lots of parks.
Whenever one of the gifts become available
build it, it's free and it helps the city.
Build an airport to make even more sims move
in your city.
When zoning, use dense for more population
but more pollution or light for less of both.
To avoid airplane crashes do not put tall
buildings near the airport.
The best arco is the Darco.
Phantom Water Pump
The phantom water pump is a cheat that allows you two use just one water pump for your entire city. It doesn't actually water your city but it stops the sims from complaining about water shortages. To get a phantom water pump place one water pump that is:
1.Not next to any buildings. Make sure that no buildings
will be placed next to it by creating a de-zone area 3X3 tiles in size.
Place the pump in the center tile.
2.Not connected to any under ground water-pipes.
3.Powered
The land value of a watered tile
is worth almost twice as much as a tile that isn't watered. So when you
use this cheat the land value in your city will only be
worth half as much as if you hadn't used this cheat. Now you
must ask yourself "does land value really matter?"
Magic Eraser
There is an un-documented hidden
feature in the trees/landscape tool which allows you to erase buildings
but not there effects (like population and
polution).To use the magic eraser:
1.Select the tree-tool
2.Start planting some trees
3.Hold down the shift key while planting trees
4.Erase stuff
Erasing an Arcology will still yield the population of an arcology, but the arcology will be gone along with it's pollution and crime.
Erasing half of a power-plant would cut it's pollution in half, but it would also cut it's power output in half.
SimCity Cheats
FUND- Gives you 10,000 and if used too much a major earthquake occurs.