Learn to use the Tree Tool and Water Tool in SimCity 2000 to shape your city's environment. Discover costs, limitations, and landscaping tips for creating forests and water features.
Mother Nature has provided man with landscapes so beautiful, words cannot describe their appearance, or their emotional impact. But when even her work is insufficient, there's always landscaping! In SC2K, this consists mostly of planting lots of trees and digging ponds.
Tree Tool
This will place a tree on a single tile with one click. Repeated clicking on a particular tile will result in more and more trees being placed (up to 6) until there is a patch of forest on that tile. Be careful with the clicking, however. Repeated clicking on a tile already filled with trees will be ineffective, but you'll still be charged for it. This tool will allow you to blow all your money on a single tile. Way to go, slick.
Cost: $3 per click.
Water Tool
Use this to cover a tile with water. You can cover any unoccupied, dry title with water and clicking on sloped tiles of any sort will create waterfalls. It's also a nice way to create scenic water-scapes within the city.
If you use the water tool to create channels of water intended for shipping, you will find that ships will not sail on them, nor will seaports develop along the shores of such bodies of water. This is because water you place is essentially a bunch of ponds, which have little depth and cannot support shipping.
Cost: $100 per tile.
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