SimCity 4 Tips & Tricks

Press CTRL + X to open the cheat window. Then type in weaknesspays, but befroe you press Enter, press and hold Left Shift. Then press Enter but without letting go of Shift, (don't take your hand off Shift until you're satisfied with your savings).

The advantages of private schooling are: it helps with the demand for high money residences, increases the desirability of your surroundings, and reduces the amount you will spend on education.

Private schools take longer to develop than public schools. Therefore before the private schools are running you will need to weigh the effects of delaying your education system. By delaying the education system (while you wait for private schools) you city will be less desirable.

Since Maxis developed the SimCity and The Sims franchises, you can export your characters from The Sims to SimCity 4. These characters will act as advisors, but instead of talking about municipal issues they will talk about their personal lives and how well your city is running. Unfortunately these characters will not retain all their traits from The Sims.

Use the unlock all rewards code, and write down requirements for reward (hold the pointer over the picture.) Place that reward. Now perform the requirements for it. Neil Fairbanks will ask your permission to build the reward a second time in your city.

In the adviser screen, click the query box, then click the X on the bad or good messages.

Transportation in SimCity 4 is more complex than any of the previous versions. In previous versions Sims actions were very simplistic, so mass transportation was an obvious choice, but in SimCity 4 that is not the case. First of all, transportation is not only used by Sims going to and from work. There is transportation to do errands at Commercial-Service zones, to take freight from a factory to the seaport or freight train station, and even tourism plays a role in how clogged your roads can get. Your goal, traffic wise, is to make the easiest way for your Sims to go from point A to point B in all of those different forms of transportation.

Sims won't walk much farther than a block.

If a Sim looks towards the other side of the city, and sees his destination a couple miles away, they will choose to go to a bus, train, or subway station within walking distance. If one isn't within walking distance he or she will decide to use his/her own car and drive.

Sims can drive to a train station. Let's say that about three blocks away, there is one, and the sim knows that the train will take him/her near the destination.