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100 Residential Lots
Reward       : Cemetery
Mission      : Ice Cream Delivery
Car          : Ice Cream Truck
Requirements : >2 Elementary Schools
Reward       : State Fair
Mission      : Pure Evil Ice Cream (Evil)
Car          : Ice Cream Truck
Requirements : >2 Elementary Schools
Reward       : Part of Area 5.1
Mission      : Run Some Errands
Car          : § MySim Vehicle
Requirements : >50 Commercial Services § Lots, § MySim
Reward       : None
Mission      : Knock Over [Target] (Evil)
Car          : § MySim Vehicle
Requirements : Police Station, >1 Residential Lot, >2 Commercial Services §
Lots, § MySim
Reward       : §§§
Mission      : [MySim] Goes Shopping
Car          : §§ MySim Vehicle
Requirements : >100 Residential Lots, >2 Commercial Services §§ Lots,
§§ MySim
Reward       : None
Mission      : White Collar Crime (Evil)
Car          : §§ MySim Vehicle
Requirements : >1 Residential Lots, >0 Commercial Services §§ Lots,
§§ MySim
Reward       : §§§
Mission      : Take a Break at the Casino
Car          : §§§ MySim Vehicle
Requirements : Casino, >1 Residential Lot, §§§ MySim
Reward       : None
Mission      : [MySim] Goes Gift Shopping (Evil)
Car          : §§§ MySim Vehicle
Requirements : >500 Residential Lots, >2 Commercial Services §§§
Lots,
§§§ MySim
Reward       : None
Mission      : Take the Casino For a Bundle
Car          : §§§ MySim Vehicle
Requirements : Casino, >1 Residential Lot, §§§ MySim
Reward       : None
Mission      : [MySim] Wants to See [Landmark]
Car          : Any MySim Vehicle
Requirements : >1 Residential Lot, Landmark, MySim
Reward       : None
TRAIN MISSIONS
Mission      : Whistle Stop Tour
Train        : Passenger Train
Requirements : >3 Passenger Train Stations, >20 Rail Tiles
Reward       : Tourist Trap
Mission      : Hijack the Train (Evil)
Train        : Passenger Train
Requirements : Passenger Train Station, Deluxe Police Station, >20 Rail Tiles
Reward       : §§§
Mission      : Train Ride for Rocket Formula
Train        : Steam Train
Requirements : Freight Train Station, >20 Rail Tiles
Reward       : Part of Space Port
Mission      : Sell Secret Rocket Formula
Train        : Steam Train
Requirements : Freight Train Station, Deluxe Police STation, >20 Rail Tiles
Reward       : Part of Area 5.1
Mission      : Super Seatbelt Fabric for Space Ships!
Train        : Freight Train
Requirements : >1 Freight Train Station, >20 Rail Tiles
Reward       : Part of Space Port
Mission      : Train Station Tour
Train        : Passenger Train
Requirements : >3 Passenger Train Stations, >20 Rail Tiles
Reward       : Grand Railroad Station
Mission      : Monorail Ride
Train        : Monorail
Requirements : >2 Monorail Stations, >20 Monorail Tiles
Reward       : Solar Power Plant
AIR VEHICLE MISSIONS
Mission      : Give Jenny a Hand, and a Heart
Plane        : Medical Helicopter
Requirements : Hospital, >50 Residential Lots
Reward       : None
Mission      : Organs for Profit (Evil)
Plane        : Medical Helicopter
Requirements : Hospital, >50 Industrial Lots
Reward       : University
Mission      : Cripple [City Name] Industrial Complex (Evil)
Plane        : Attack Jet
Requirements : Area 5.1, >100 Industrial Lots, Power Plant
Reward       : Hydrogen Power Plant
Mission      : Take Out Dr. Vu's "Secret" Lair
Plane        : Attack Helicopter
Requirements : Army Base, >100 Industrial Lots
Reward       : Advanced Research Centre
Mission      : Raid on [City Name] (Evil)
Plane        : Attack Helicopter
Requirements : Army Base, Train Staion, Water Source, Mayor's House
Reward       : §§§
Mission      : Cover the Hostage Crisis
Plane        : News Helicopter
Requirements : >50 Residential Lots, >50 Commercial Lots, TV Station
Reward       : Radio Station
Mission      : Get the Perp's Story (Evil)
Plane        : News Helicopter
Requirements : TV Station, >50 Commercial Lots
Reward       : §§§
Mission      : Catch the Crook From the Air
Plane        : Police Helicopter
Requirements : >50 Commercial Lots, Deluxe Police Station
Reward       : TV Studio
Mission      : Disturbing the Peace (Evil)
Plane        : Police Helicopter
Requirements : >100 Low Density Residential Tiles, Deluxe Police Station
Reward       : §§§
Mission      : Water Drop for Fire
Plane        : Fire Plane
Requirements : Fire Department Landing Strip, Fire
Reward       : City Zoo
Mission      : Let It Burn! (Evil)
Plane        : Fire Plane
Requirements : Fire Department Landing Strip, Fire
Reward       : §§§
Mission      : Who Loves You, Baby?
Plane        : Sky Writing Plane
Requirements : Small Landing Strip
Reward       : Major League Stadium
Mission      : Secret Sky Code (Evil)
Plane        : Sky Writing Plane
Requirements : Small Landing Strip
Reward       : §§§
Mission      : Farmer's Get Vermin
Plane        : Crop Duster
Requirements : Small Landing Strip, >50 Farm Tiles
Reward       : Farmers Market
Mission      : Spread Zombie Dust (Evil)
Plane        : Crop Duster
Requirements : Small Landing Strip, Cemetery
Reward       : Part of Area 5.1
Mission      : Infiltrate Vu's Secret Meeting
Plane        : Sky Diving Plane
Requirements : Small Landing Strip, >50 Industrial Lots
Reward       : None
Mission      : Skydiving Show at [Target]
Plane        : Sky Diving Plane
Requirements : Small Landing Strip, Landmark
Reward       : None
WATER VEHICLE MISSIONS
Mission      : Whale Watching Tour
Boat         : Ferry Boat
Requirements : Car Ferry
Reward       : Marina
Mission      : Ferry of Evil (Evil)
Boat         : Ferry Boat
Requirements : Car Ferry
Reward       : §§§
Mission      : Rx Pick-Up and Delivery
Boat         : Speed Boat
Requirements : Marina, Seaport
Reward       : Resort Hotel
Mission      : Water-Proof Mind Control Device (Evil)
Boat         : Speed Boat
Requirements : Marina, Seaport
Reward       : Cruise Ship Building
Mission      : Here Fishy, Fishy, Fishy
Boat         : Fishing Boat
Requirements : Marina
Reward       : Lighthouse
Mission      : Mmm ... Endangered Dinner (Evil)
Boat         : Fishing Boat
Requirements : Marina
Reward       : Stock Exchange
Mission      : Water Escape
Boat         : Motor Boat
Requirements : Deluxe Police Station, Marina
Reward       : None
Mission      : Jet Ski Fiesta
Boat         : Cigar Boat
Requirements : Marina
Reward       : None
Mission      : SOS
Boat         : Tug Boat
Requirements : Marina
Reward       : Major Art Museum
Mission      : Rare Fish Viewing
Boat         : Yacht
Requirements : Marina
Reward       : Country Club
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[5.03] MySims Transport
You can now organise the transport of your MySim as they drive around the
city as well as drive their vehicles. This is accessed from the MySim panel
with the little car symbol. There are several tools that you can use to get
a closer feel of your city.
You can first Dispatch your Sim to a location. This is useful as feedback, as
they point out what they like and don't like. They can point out healthcare,
pollution, and most important, the traffic. This will give you a down to
earth analysis of the problems of your cirt. After all, just because your
facilities aren't on strike, doesn't mean the job done is a good one.
Second is the ability to commandeer their vehicle, or hijack their parked car,
a la Grand Theft Auto. This will also allow you to do some missions, mentioned
above, if the conditions are right. And of course, you can wreck their cars.
You can also choose the car that they drive. When you are only § Wealth, their
will be only § Wealth cars available to you. As you progress to the
§§ Wealth
Level, more cars will be unlocked, same goes for the §§§ Level. As
well as the
car that they drive, you can also control the way they walk as a pedestrian.
Whether they walk punk style, or on a bike, it is up to you.
The final two tools involve a shake up of the Sims life. The first is that
you can change the residence of the Sim, provided that it is on the same
Wealth level that they are currently at. The second is changing their job. Of
course, their wealth level will have a say on their job. A worker with the §
Wealth Level may work as a clerk at a hospital while a §§§ Worker
will be the
CEO of the hospital, or whatever industry they work at. Quite fun really, to
mess around with their lives.
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[6.01] Signs and Labels
If you really want maps, you can now place signs and labels on your streets
and tourist attractions. These are found in the God Mode tools by the way.
Anyway, signs can be posted anywhere just to remind you of something, like
Bob lived here or Santa visited here. Labels are what you apply, generally
speaking, on roads, calling a road 1st Avenue, Wall Street, whatever, it
doesn't really matter much.
With Labels, you can drag the label, stretching the words a bit. Imprint your
Ego all over the place. Anyway, you can bulldoze the signs and labels when
you get tired of seeing your name all over the place. Or you could just remove
them from view. I personally don't bother with them, they are a waste of time.
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[6.02] Building Style Control
With Rush Hour, there are 4 building styles that you can force your buildings
to adopt. This really doesn't have an impact on the game, it is there to make
it look good. However, some buildings are dependent on some styles, so beware.
As Mayor, you can set the city to rotate building styles every X number of
years, so really, it is to make your city look good. You can also have
several of them so you don't miss out. Really, a pointless addition.
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[6.03] Disasters
With Rush Hour, there are several new disasters that you can befall on your
unsuspecting citizens. These are the Autosaurus Wreck, which is a bunch of
cars welded together to crush down the buildings in your city.
The second is the UFO mothership. Basically, a massive UFO using plasma storms
to destroy your city. And it doesn't even do a good job. You suck UFO.
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[6.04] Transportation Map
Another semi pointless map. This basically, on region view, allows you to see
the transportation side of the region. It shows where the regions seaports
and airports are, the Highway systems, the roads, the avenues, everything that
has something to do with transport. This can be switched with your normal
map from the Region Options button.
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[7.01] Route Query
An extremely useful tool that comes along with Rush Hour. Given the whole
transportation theme, guess what Route Query does. There are several uses for
the Route Query.
1. The first use is clicking on a residential building. As long as there are
people living in the building, you can use the route query, and by clicking
on it, you can see all the working Sims in that building and how they get
to work. There is a legend showing how each Sim gets to work.
2. The second use is by clicking on any building that provides work for your
citizens. It shows how the Sims working there get to work and shows the
routes undertaken to get to their workplace. The opposite of the
residential query, as one is to, the other is from.
3. By holding the query over a residential building, it shows the amount of
Sims working and holding an job from that building.
4. By holding the query over a commercial, industrial or government building,
it shows the amount of Sims who are employed and their methods of travel.
5. By holding it over a piece of transport infrastructure, such as a road,
street, piece of a subway network, monorail, etc, it should the amount
of users on that specific tile.
6. By clicking a piece of transport infrastructure, is will show the routes
of the Sims to get to that certain tile, their destination and where they
are based from.
Again, there is a colour coded legend for the routes as well as queries for
the morning commute as well as the evening commute. Important as it will
effect the use of your one-way roads.
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[8.01] Movement
With the NAM, it makes it easier for the Sims to do some pathfinding. The
problem without the pathfinding is that Sims are too stupid to use the public
transport next to them and use the car, which means a lot of conjestion, which
in turn leads to higher commute time, and that will force residents away.
With the Avenues, it will replace a dual road and makes it more appealing.
After the Avenue is the Highway, which is even higher capacity. However, bear
in mind that the car does do a lot of pollution, and given that you may have
3000+ cars on a road PER COMMUTE, that does means that there is going to be a
lot of pollution.
The only solution to fix this is public transport. The problem with that
solution is that it costs money, and depending on your transport, it might
cost a lot.
Buses are okay because they can carry decent amounts of population and they
only need to be placed next to the places where passengers will get on, not
at their destinations. Subways are more expensive initially, but can carry
far more people than the buses can.
Head to Simtropolis.com and download a mod that will allow you to place
transit stations on the roads, streets and avenues. These stations will allow
you to place bus and/or subway stations on the roads. This is a significant
mod because that will reduce the space taking by the transit system as well
as reducing building maintenance. You might think that 5 Simoleons to be
small change, but in my cities, my building maintenance is greater than 4000
Simoleons.
Although the transport costs may be high, a subway/bus system is a very
quick way to get around. Ensuring that there is a stop near every workplace
will make sure that people have a means of getting around other than the
car. An extensive subway and roads network will ensure that the subway
trains and the buses have plenty of room to move around.
This may seem like a lot of work just for transport, but there are benefits
for this. Transport, first of all, are one of the biggest factors for
development for high-rise buildings. A short to medium commute time is one
of the biggest desirability factors for high rise.
Also, a long commute for high-rise tenants, which will be medium to high
wealth residents, will force them to look for closer jobs, and when they
are all taken, that means they have no jobs, and you will have people
abandoning the area like a plague will.
Remember that the graph of commute time is JUST AN AVERAGE. It doesn't show
that some areas might have a high commute and some might have a low commute
and that may skew the results somewhat. For example, my cities have a commute
time of 50 minutes, not bad, but some areas have LONG commutes and they leave
so be sure that transport is a priority.
When you plan your city, make sure that your residential areas have roads but
have room to upgrade to avenues, and for larger areas, you need room for the
highways when the time comes. Elevated highways are pretty good if you want
some roads underneath, but ground highways have overpasses.
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[8.02] Region Play
Region play is going to be a big factor in playing this game. Unlike the
previous SimCity installments, indeed future installments, region play will
make a big difference. With regions, you can do several things.
First of all, demand is shared between connected neighbours. That means that
the RCI demand that you will see in one city will be the same with the RCI
demand on the other connected city. This makes demand busting much easier.
You can bust demand and that will boost damand in the other.
Regional play is important in unlocking several rewards. Rewards such as the
Tourist Trap need connected cities in order to be unlocked. Neighbour deals,
where you can sell off water, electricity and garbage to your neighbours
is quite useful. If you find that it is more cost efficient for a large water
pump, but can't use all the water, sell it off. If you can't afford to pay
for a water pump, buy the water.
Region play also ensures that you have certain cities for certain purposes.
For example, you don't want your residential cities having massive areas of
dirty and manufacturing industries which pollute like crazy. Therefore, you
can have an entire city devoted to pollution, whilst you have a clean city
with high tech manufacturing.
Jobs in one city can be used to employ citizens of another city. This makes
it worthwile to have a manufacturing city to employ the dumber citizens
but you need to bear in mind that the commute time will instantly be classed
as long.
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[8.03] Utilities
There are utilities that you need to provide for your people. You need to
provide electricity to power the city, water to make sure people don't
shrivel up like a prune, and relieve garbage to make sure people don't
live in their own filth.
Electricity is one of the more important factors. There are two ways that you
can power your city, the dirty, but cheap way, or the clean, yet more
expensive way.
There are 8 ways to power your city. The dirty was is the Coal, Natural Gas,
Oil and Waste of Energy power plants. They are more efficient, but they
pollute, and that isn't really good for your town, while the Nuclear, Wind,
Solar and Hydrogen plants are cleaner, but less efficient. If you have a
start up city, a coal fired or a natural gas plant is going to be a wise
choice, but when your city expands and pollution is less tolerable, you are
going to choose Nuclear or Hydrogen plants.
The water is going to be required after energy. You see, you need electricity
to start a city, but not water. Water is required to bring in the high
wealth residents and the richer commercial tenants into town. You will want
to start low, using water towers to start off, and after 5 water towers,
you are going to move up to Water Pumps, and then, Large Water Pumps.
The final thing is garbage. You need to take care of the garbage. You need
to build landfills, with some road access, to make sure that the trash will
be taken care of. Denying road access will stop the trash entering the
landfill. This is useful when the landfill is full. When it is full, it will
degrade at the rate of 7% or 15 tons a month. Also, the Recycling plant will
help remove up to 20% of your city's trash, which from a big city, is quite
a lot. The Waste to Energy plant is a