SimTower Big Lobby: ---------- Submitted by: DJ Simo Before you place anything hold down SHIFT-CTRL-ALT and place a lobby. A 3 story lobby should appear. If not, then you may have to drag upward. To start off with double the money: ----------------------------------- Submitted by: DJ Simo Simply build one section of lobby at the bottom left corner. You will get $4,000,000, instead of $2,000,000. Hint: ----- Submitted by: Logan If your Condo is for sale, to make them bye it again, go down to the lowest price then go back to the highest price again and they will bye it again! GameTip: -------- Submitted by: Cheko Before building anything. Select the "Lobby" button and click and the far left bottom of the screen. This will give you 2 times as much money to build with. Hint: ----- To get a three story lobby and double you starting funds - Before you build anything, hold ctrl+shift and click the lobby tool in the far lower left corner of the screen and then build a lobby while your still holding the keys. At the moment you start a new tower, you can DOUBLE your starting money by placing a section of lobby at the lower left corner of the building ground. Build a new tower, and click the bottom left corner. This will give you a lot of money! -------- Cheat 2: -------- This only works for the win95 version. Exit windows and go into your C: prompt Go into your simtower directory. At your simtower prompt type: Debug [name of saved tower].tdt -e 102 5 -e 106 ff -w -q Return to windows, load the tower you just modified, and now you have over $16 Billions and five stars. Build three-story lobby and get $4 million: ------------------------------------------- Hold [Ctrl] + [Shift] and click on "Lobby". Attempt to build it on the bottom left corner of the screen under ground, then keep holding [Ctrl] + [Shift] and build a lobby at any location. Automatic removal: ------------------ Hold [Shift] when placing a new unit over an existing item. Extra money: ------------ Use the magnifying glass to click on the condo that is marked "For Sale". A message similar to "The conditions are terrible" will appear.. Click on the current price, and lower it to $4,000. The comments will disappear, but do not exit. Immediately after the price has been lowered, increase it to $20,000. Note: This trick can also be used with other rooms, such as offices, hotel rooms, and the small retail shops. More money: ----------- If you have an office building, place a restaurant on the second basement floor. It will be a guaranteed source of income, and will earn more as your building gets bigger. Note: Only place one restaurant at that location. More people: ------------ When you get three stars, place a lot of hotel rooms. Do not place suites. Place a good security system and a good housecleaning system. Minimize the game, but do not pause it. Mute the sound, and turn off your monitor and allow the game to run overnight. The game will automatically look for bombs call the fire rescue crew. When bombs are searched for, hotel sims do not check out, so they are added as permanent population. Nothing bad will happen if you planned it correctly. You may place a suite when you have the desired population. Santa Claus: ------------ Set the system date to December 25. Begin the game and Santa Claus and his sled will eventually fly over. Witch: ------ Set the system date to October 31. Begin the game and a witch on a broom will eventually fly over. Restore terrible condos: ------------------------ When people leave condos because of terrible conditions, get the magnifying glass, click on the condo, take the price down to $40,000. The terrible conditions comment should disappear, and you can raise and re-sell it at a normal price. Never have people leave: ------------------------ Lower the condo prices to $40,000 and the people will never leave. Determining elevator use: ------------------------- Use the following trick to tell if Sims are waiting to go up or down on an elevator. Remember the mnemonic "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. Note: This only works if you have elevators positioned so that Sims can go on either side of the elevator. If you have elevators on the edges of your tower, you will only see them on one side. Sim stress levels: ------------------ If you have a lot of offices and not enough elevators, you may see Sims that are waiting for an elevator turn pink after a few seconds, then red. This is their stress level and it also affects the population of your tower. Make sure to put in a lot of elevators for a big building, and try to put in a couple of stairs. Tower tips: ----------- Try the following strategies. * 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 will find that stores, theaters 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 theaters, etc. in the basement levels. * How can you tell if SimCitizens are waiting to go up or down an elevator? Remember the mnemonic 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. * To key having a good tower is to not place any condos. Only put offices you get the second star. After that, put in hotels and offices. If desired, you can now put in a fast food place and make money until you get a third star. Then, put in a recycling center and a large parking lot. You are now ready to put in a movie theater, stores, and a party hall. When you run out of room do not think you can go any higher, put in an elevator on the 15th floor, then the 30th floor. By doing this, you can have an 104 story tower. Good money: ----------- Submitted by: k6ka * when starting your tower, go all the way to the bottom-left corner of the map, select the Lobby and attempt to build it at the very far bottom-left corner. this will double your starting funds. * Build a lobby, an elevator, and some offices. wait until they pay the rent and increase your tower's height by building more offices on upper floors. you may want to build a few condos if you like, but the profit is only one-time. * When you get two stars, build a security office in the basement level (As well as a fast food place), then go up and build new floors with ONLY hotel rooms and housekeeping stations. if you are building hotel rooms on more than one floor, build a service elevator for your housekeepers. build lots of hotel rooms (But watch your cash!) and let them run. they will give you profit in the morning when the sims check out. be sure to build more housekeeping offices when you get more hotel rooms; if they stay dirty too long the cockroaches will pay them a visit and you'll need to destroy the room. * when you get to three stars, build parking spaces and a medical center near the lobby. then build retail stores, a movie theater, and a party hall. they'll make good money if you feed them with happy sims. also, manage your elevator system wisely and build a hotel suite. give the VIP (who will come around soon enough)an enjoyable stay! * Got four stars? build a metro station to get more people into your shops, fast food, restaurants, movie theaters, and party halls!made 5 stars and got the 100-story building? build a Catherdral at the top of your building. make sure it's accessible. then get a population of 15,000 and make it to Tower rating! Extra money: ------------ Build an elevator in the middle of your tower, then stretch it to the B3 floor. Place fast food facilities on both sides of the elevator. This will result in $200,000.
