click to buy this terrific game SIM CITY 2000

We at themathlab.com have used this software for many years with all ages of students. It never fails to captivate, entertain, and ultimately educate.

We highly recommend it as an introductory activity to our famous Architecture Project. You will never look at a city again with the same eyes after playing this game. The importance of roads, electricity, and the three zones, industrial, residential, and commercial will become part of your everyday understanding.

Read below for a quick tour of the software, then find it or buy it and give it a try. You'll be glad you did.

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1 It all starts here. The introduction looks like this and you want to pick "Start New City".
2 Pick easy and the year 2050.

Once in, you get to decide what year and whether you want an easy, medium or hard game. We recommend the year 2050 and an easy game to begin.

This is also where you get to name your city. Give it a cool name because that name will be displayed on the daily newspaper throughout the game.

3 Powerful toolbar This is your toolbar. It has tons of stuff available to you. You can zone land, build roads, power plants, electric lines, schools, fire halls, libraries, police stations, and tons more. You can even bulldoze over what you build. But, you must always remember that EVERY action COSTS MONEY. You must be careful not to bankrupt your city with overbuilding.
4 You've got to get all 3 zones and roads to connect them. Yellow squares are zoned for industry to give your people, also known as sims, places to work.
Blue squares are zoned commercial to give your sims places to shop.
Green squares are zoned residential to give your sims nice areas to live.

Roads must connect all three zones.
5 Put the juice to your zones. Your zones must be conneted with power lines before anyone will come to live. Hold down the red lightning bolt on the toolbar and select power plant from the drop down menu. Place your power plant close to the industrial zone. Then use the red lightning bolt menu to plant power lines. Don't forget to connect all three zones with power lines.
6 zones, roads, and electricity and THEY WILL COME Now that they have places to live, work ,and shop, and roads to get around on, and electricity to live by, the people, known as sims, will start to automatically build establishment in your city. You can zoom in and actually see them drive their cars and build their buildings. It is really cool. The program does it for you as soon as you set the city up for growth.
7 make them come faster If you want to build without the sims growing, set the "speed" menu to PAUSE. If you want faster growth set it to Llama or Cheetah. Be careful of African Swallow on a fast computer.
It grows so fast we could not get to the stop controls to turn it off easily.

Now go give it a try. Have fun!

 

click to buy this terrific game SIM CITY 2000

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