SimTower How To 4

This page contains instructions on how to build a tower similar to the PM_Grand. It is a happy, no-cheat tower.

Part 4 - Metro Station & Basement

Population Info

The population of your tower should be well over 10,000 so that you should go to 5-Stars right after you put your Metro Station in.

Stable Pop

9068

 

Varying Pop##

2850-4105

 

Hotel Pop**

916

Offices

6720

 

Fast Foods

2270-3174

 

Single

248

Condos

1848

 

Restaurants

190-366

 

Double

520

Party Halls

500

 

Condo

390-565

 

Suites

148


##Population of the FastFoods (10 AM), Shops (10 AM) and Restaurants (5 PM) varies from day to day depending on the number of customers on the previous day. This change occurs when the place opens (at the indicated time). The high & lo populations shown above were based on a 1 year trial on this tower.

** Hotel Population normally fluctuates starting at 0 between noon & 5 PM. At 5PM until Midnight at the latest, guests check in & the pop rises to the max. At 7 AM, the guests start checking out & by noon the hotel pop should be zero. I think that whenever you have a bomb scare or a fire, any hotel guests that are in the tower forget to check out in their "panic" to leave the building. This leaves you with a "permanent" hotel population (that doesn't use any rooms.) My pop total includes 262 "permanent" guests. [Occasionally in this tower, the maids could leave 1 dirty hotel room on a floor; therefore the room would not rent that night.]

Onward toward 5 Stars

  1. Put in 3 escalators on the Main floor down to B-3, just to the left of Elevator 1 Left or Elevator B. Put in only 2 escalators just to the right of 1 Right or Elevator Q down to B-2.
  2. Between 45 Express Right or Elevator O and 1 Right or Elevator Q put in an Express Elevator on the main floor. Call this Basement Express or Elevator P. Drag it down to B-9. Have 4 cars on the Main Floor & 4 cars on B-9. Turn off B-1, B-2, B-3, B-4 & B-5. (If you had a tower with Offices or Hotels between 1 and 15, you would have to leave B-4 & B-5 turned on. The Offices and Hotel Suites need access to Parking & the Offices also need access to the Medical Center in the Basement.)
  3. On B-1, on the right side of the Parking Ramps, put in 2 Restaurants, have the 1 restaurant beside the Parking Ramps and the other at the edge of the tower. Add 2 Fast Foods and 6 Shops. Repeat this on the left side of the Parking Ramps.
  4. On B-2, repeat instruction # 3.
  5. On B-3, repeat instruction #3 on the left side of the Ramps only. On the right side of the ramps, put in all Parking Spaces. Turn on B-3 in both parking elevators.
  6. Add 2 Recycling Centers beside the first 10. Total now 12.
    On B-7 (& B-6), put in a hall beside the top right Recycling Center. (Leave a gap of 2 "pixels" between the Recycling Center & the Hall.) Add 10 shops beside the Hall on B-6 and another 10 on B-7. Add another Hall on B-7 (& B-6).
  7. On B-8 and on B-9, right next to the Recycling center (no space), put in 1 restaurant, 1 Fast Food & 3 Shops on each floor. Now put in the Metro Station next to the Shops. The Metro will go on B-8, B-9 & B10. There must be nothing at all on B-10 because that turns into the Subway Tunnel. On B-8 and on B-9, beside the Metro, put in 2 more Shops, 1 Fast Food and 1 Restaurant on each floor.
  8. Everything that you just put in on B-8 (except the Metro) can also be put in on B-9
  9. You should go to 5 Stars right away.

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Download - a copy of the tower that I build while writing these instructions. (It is not exact, but it is close.)
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Last real update 2004-08-19; minor changes 2007-10-18