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Section 7.2: Maintaining Your City MTN
SimCity 2000

Section 7.2: Maintaining Your City MTN

Learn how to maintain your SimCity 2000 city with this guide. Discover tools for terrain, infrastructure, services, and more to keep your Sims happy and your city thriving.

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Learn how to maintain your SimCity 2000 city with this guide. Discover tools for terrain, infrastructure, services, and more to keep your Sims happy and your city thriving.

This section covers the essential tools and functions for maintaining your city in SimCity 2000. Keeping your city in good shape involves managing various aspects, from infrastructure to services and even aesthetics.

Tools for City Maintenance:

  1. Bulldozer: Used for altering terrain. Be cautious as these tools can be expensive and destructive if misused.
  2. Landscape Tool: Allows you to improve or beautify the natural landscape by adding elements like trees and ponds.
  3. Emergency: Dispatch emergency units during disasters.
  4. Power System: Access all power-related tools, including placing power lines and power plants.
  5. Water System: Manage water systems by placing water pipes and related structures.
  6. Rewards: Select special reward buildings granted for your hard work (most are free, except arcologies).
  7. Roads: Build the foundation of your transportation network, including roads and highways.
  8. Rails: Construct a functional rail and subway system.
  9. Ports: Zone land for airports and seaports.
  10. Residential, Commercial, and Industrial Zones: Zone land for different uses with two density levels available for each.
  11. Education: Build educational facilities like schools, colleges, libraries, and museums.
  12. City Services: Construct essential buildings for Sim safety and health, such as police stations, fire stations, hospitals, and prisons.
  13. Recreation: Provide happiness and recreational opportunities by building parks, marinas, stadiums, and zoos.
  14. Signs: Place custom signs in your city. You can also edit or delete existing signs. Special characters can be added using Alt combinations on Windows. (Note: Signs cannot be placed in the PlayStation version).
  15. Query Tool: A crucial tool to inspect buildings and tiles. You can also rename buildings (except in the PlayStation version).
  16. Rotate Clockwise/Counter-Clockwise: Rotate your city view. Hotkeys: Delete (counter-clockwise), Page Down (clockwise).
  17. Zoom In/Out: Adjust your city's zoom level. Hotkeys: Home (zoom in), End (zoom out). (Note: PlayStation version has only two zoom levels).
  18. Center: Center the map on a specific spot. Right-click and select

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