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Walkthrough/FAQ for SimTower
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------------------[1]Table of Contents----------------------
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Section 1 Table of Contents
Section 1a Updates
Section 2 Controls
Section 3 Diclaimer
Section 4 How to Start
Section 5 Tranportation Systems
Section 6 What you can build(and where)
Section 7 Some are good, some are bad(or events)
Section 8 How to get those Stars.
Section 9 Cheats(one that is)
Section 10 Lil tidbits O' Info
Section 11 FAQ
Section 12 Creds
Section 13 Contact Info
Section 14 Copyrights
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--------------------[1a]Updates----------------------------
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Version 1.0June 12 06: started FAQ.
This should be a short FAQ to write.
Mid June 06: Just about finished it. This is only about 50
characters or so wide, gets Wider in section 7.. Donno why.
August 9: Edited a lot of stuff because it wasn't right or
at least didn't actually fit what I had done because I
guessed(D'oh)
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---------------------[2]Controls---------------------------
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Easy section... One control.. the mouse!! thats it no arrow
buttons not even the right mouse... the LMB..
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---------------------[3]Disclaimer-------------------------
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This FAQ is meant for PRIVATE USE ONLY This FAQ may not be
redistributed for profit by anyone!!!
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-------------------[4]How to Start-------------------------
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Start up Simtower. Load new/old tower. In the new tower
you start with a completely blank screen it has a dirt brown
color in the bottom and a darkish color for the
top of the window. It starts out at 5:00 in the morning on
wd1/1q/year one the only importantance of this
is wd1/2 and we which means weekday 1/2 or weekend some things
happen only on wd1 or we. There are 3
days a week and 4 qtrs a year so that means a year is only
12 days long... before you do any building though with a new
tower click the Lobby button and have a full lobby section
in other words have a whole square down in the very lowest left
hand corner and you get double your money(the cats outta the
bag, this is the only "Official" cheat...)
Or load an already started tower.
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----------------[5]Transportation Systems------------------
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Escalators
This method is the first method of transportation searhed
for by the sims. These can be used for up to 6 floors
Only 64 can be placed
Express Elevators
This is the next method of transport. Has many limitations
I usually put one in the middle.42 sims per car 8 cars max
24 shafts per tower. Goes every lobby and all 10 basement
floors
Elevators
Sims use this most often but get very very mad when they are
not picked up right away. They go every floor, can only
reach 30 floors on one shaft 21 sims per car 8 cars per shaft
24 shafts combined with express and service elevators
Stairs
Will be used but the very last system to be used hold 21 sims
per stair well 4 sets of stairs will be used by one sim per
trip
Service Elevators
Only used by Housekeeping counted toward shaft max with the
other shafts
Emergency Stairs
The outsid stairs used by the Security people and possibly
by people in emergencies.. not sure.
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----[6]What you can build(and where and the prices)--------
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* means the building is needed for next star
1 Star
all of the building rooms that can be built at level 1
Lobby 5,000 dollars per section(four sections
placed if possible) Only above ground and only every 15
floors, 1 through 90
Empty Floor 500 per section I usually dont do this
unless the floor will be not all the way finished... only
available above ground all 100 floors.
Stairs 5,000 each avaliable above or below ground
Standard Elevators 200,000 per shaft /80,000 per car. available
above/below... only goes 30 floors including b1 to b10 which
is basement 1 to 10.
Offices 40,000 each only above ground 6 people per
office
Fast Food Places 100,000 each (5 different types)above or
below ground... usually the best spots are below or above the
lobbies.
Condos 80,000 each available above only... 3
people per
2 Stars
Service Elevator 100,000 each... above needed only and only
for hotels
Single Hotel Rooms 20,000 per.. above needs to be cleaned
every night by HouseKeeping income from them when they leave
1 person per night
Security * 100,000 each... needed for next star they
check for bombs, and combat fires(Ive had a bomb that I checked
for so I dont know what happens if you dont find it)
HouseKeeping 50,000 each Needed for hotels to clean,
use Service elevator only.
3 Stars
Escalator 20,000 each above or below better then
stairs and can be used in blank spots of building and then
used by offices and all else
Express Elevator 400,000 each goes every lobby and
all B floors only
Restaurant 200,000 each above or below like the
fast food but more expensive and more income
Retail Shop 100,000 each above or below like the
fast food and restaurant but are sold to renters then you
get rent money and patronage money..
Movie Theater 500,000 each above or below only good when
they have good movie sales
Party Hall 100,000 each used for weddings and
every other day parties or so
Twin Hotel Room 50,000 each a bit better then the singles and
hold two people
Hotel Suite* 100,000 each for the business people who pay
people to haul luggage and is needed for star 4
Medical Center* 500,000 each used for offices mostly
Recycling Center* 500,000 each all stuff from
resturants/and retail go here
Parking Spot 3,000 each for offices or hotel suites
Parking Ramp/Gate 50,000 each below the tower only
needed for cars to park in spots
4 Stars
Metro station* 1,000,000 People who come on this only shop
underground. You only get one and you can't destroy it and
nothing gets put under it so build it on the
bottom floor, B10
5 Stars
Cathedral* 3,000,000 Only needed when you have he 15,000
people because you need a wedding in it and it will happen on a WE
day, Not Destroyable. Can only be put on the top of a 100 story
building.
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--------------[7]Some are good, some are bad(Or events)------------
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The good, Santa!! He comes every year in the fourth quarter. No he
doesnt give you anything though.. I hoped(rather thought)he gave
money but he happens to come at 9 when the fast food places
close... :P
The bad, Fires and Terrorists. Both can be fought against with
security teams but apparently not very well the bomb of the
terrorist is usually found. I had my first fire a few days ago
in the game and I dont think my security ever even got to it..
so I had to pay the 500,000 for the Sim Copter to spray...
(I have that game too!!);) Terrorists as long as its not too big of
a tower yet usually the bomb can be found.. Ive never had it not
found. Also I dont know how long that goes on.. usually after I
get past the third star nothing much happens(just about every
freakin person leaving the building because I used to suck at
the elevator system....)
The secret... Hold Crtl down before you build the ground lobby and
you will get a two story lobby(if you do the lobby tool cheat you
have to do this with the cursor at the very left side of the
screen, it can be done, according to another FAQ for this game I
found/have it says you cant.. Ha I did it in the last game I started)
Or hold Crtl & shift for a three story lobby... fyi more expensive
but kinda neat lookin.
V.I.Ps Very Important to get...You thought I was gonna type
person.. Ha Ha(Nelson Muntz of the Simpsons..)VIPs only stay in
Hotel Suites, and if you dont get a favorable stay message from
them(which you need to get to star four) you will get more chances
Underground Event!! Somewhere under your tower will be a 500,000
simolean treasure!! Randomly placed I think.. Even though most of
the time I find it its on the left
Rain! Very sucky random event, usually slows down business at the
food places and has made some of my retail shops become unrented
because of bad sales... :(
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------------------[8]How to get those Stars.-----------------------
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Star 1 is easy... You start with it... ;)
but to get to star 2 is not
If new tower, do the old cheat of course... then start building lobby
area for a bit at least a few offices length, I used a lot of offices
so far in my last game as a matter of fact I have not used a single
Condo I have used hotels and other things because you almost have to,
then use stairs for the first two floors or so because they don't
have an expense but elevators do. For now, go for a while... I did
about half the screen so I did scroll a bit. should be for enough for
about 20 something offices or so. A nice bit of population.
Build that all the way across though so you should be able to get
about 41 or 42.. I think I have 41. Do offices from floor 1 to
floor 13 then put food places on the floor below
(or above the lobby...) then the lobby put lobbies on every lobby
floor.. if you dont the Sims will get confused...with the tower I
did this with... I got about 492ish or so people just in offices..
not to mention the food and others. So by the 13th you should
definitly have Star 2. Actually you should be on your way to
star 3...
Star 3... before the first Lobby!! I think I had it by then with
the way above then.
Lobby 15 to 30. Im up to 6031 people, but thats not including
the half dozen or more (lot more) of offices that are having
"Terrible Conditions"** FYI Im up to Star 4.. From here up you will
probably start having a lot of TC problems. Here's a help for you
when they say TC as soon as they do click the eval button and info
click one of them you will see the TC problem and the red bar. You
simply lower the price of the building then put it right back to where
it was and poof no more TC problems. I usually have way too many of
these, but when you click the room I think the price changer is default.
If you have this condition in Condos get ready for a big hit of a loss
of money though, because condoes are bought out right not rented thats
why they have no income. You get it when it is bought the first time
and you lose the amount it was bought for because you buy it back from
the tenants. Yet another reason offices are better. Yeah I basically
will tell you that just build a crap load of offices and here's the
key!! When building Elevators build them four across the building
trying to space them evenly and the really important part.. I know
the elevator shaft window is confusing but all you gotta do is, or
at least what I did was make the them wait 30 seconds and put the
floor button(what ever the top number is)to 7 and only put them
up 15 floors and spaced the elevators every other floor and of
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