SimCity 2000: Power, Politics, and Planning: Revised Edition (Secrets of the Games)

SimCity 2000(tm) is your ultimate challenge as a master city builder. How do you set funding levels for essential city services without over-taxing your population? What's the best mix of commercial and residential zoning? How do you keep your city from perishing during thunderous volcanic explosions? To answer these questions you need SimCity 2000(tm): Power, Politics, and Planning, Revised Edition to acquire the logic, creativity, foresight, and management skills you must have to make your SimCity a booming and lasting metropolis. This book goes far beyond the game manual, revealing the deepest secrets, mechanisms, and game-winning strategies. Now you can: maximize the capabilities if the SimCity Urban Renewal Kit (SKURK); gain vital insight into the intricate SimCity 2000(tm) political systems; utilize previously hidden tricks and tips you won't find any where else?including the $1 million Budget Trick, New Windows Easter Eggs, and how to access the new Maxis Public File Transfer Protocol (FTP) directory and web page on the Internet; and incorporate design and planning strategies for mastering disasters and all other scenarios.