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Frequently Asked Questions and Unofficial Strategy Guide
Introduction
Last revision 10/05/96
Changes since the last revision are that `Tales from the Jungle' to their
own page, which will be revised seperately(eventually) and I am especially
asking for submissions for this part. The `TFJ' will when time allows
include walk throughs for some scenarios.
The full analysis of the breakdonw of costs for quality cars is now done,
the rest of the manufacturing/hi-tech costs will follow soon (hopefully this
weekend)
The format of this faq/strategy guide is at the moment very flexible. The
layout currently use is to divide it into sections, covering
background and general points,
bugs noted and workarounds,
Cheats and editors,
overall strategies and the
industries in detail.
Finally there will be a section covering
tables and analysis of costs and profits.
Acknowledgements
Major thanks must go to Simon Parkinson (aka Bob Moon), for the provision of
inside information.
Thanks to those people who have sent in comments or followed up my early
posts on the usenet.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Background and General
Simisle is a CDROM game produced by Intelligent Games and Maxis, my own is
the PC - DOS version though there will be a Mac version , and a Win 95
version ,and it is assumed that the mechanics of all are the same
I have heard that the Win95 version is now out and it includes some changes,
such as extra tutorial scenarios
A full review (by myself) of the DOS version is available from the Games
Domain Review
All copyrights and intelluctual rights of the authors are acknowledged.
Save game files are approx 2-300Kb
The files are sisleX.si
X being 0-7
There are 8 save game slots each of which is numbered and it is possible to
swap these files. Person A's save game 3 transferred to person B's computer
will go to slot 3 unless renamed.
As yet there is no site known to me for the uploading and downloading of
savegame files, if anyone knows better then pass on the information.
Additionally there is an insurance slot sislse99.si which is updated once
per month and is used in cases of a crash to offer the restore game option.
This file is deleted in a clean shutdown
Disasters/events can occur randomly within the game, some can be remedied
fairly easily, others much less so. A full list of the disasters/events are
:-
* Coal mine exploding.
* Air crash.
* Ferry crash.
* Oil tanker spill.
* Refinery leak.
* Leper tanker.
* Earthqauke
* Drug villages.
* An agent being killed in a drug village.
* Ferry crash.
* Shark attack.
* Tiger attack.
* Host a UN Malarky.
* A Large (>220 population) Village Splitting of its own accord.
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Bugs Noted and Workarounds
The game, as a whole, seems to be fairly robust. Minor bugs noted are
1) When reloading a saved game when the music was 'off' it will still play
the fix is to open up the options menu and switch the music on and then off
again.
2) 'Net reports of no visitors at all going to tourist attractions, further
information of the exact circumstances this occurs would be appreciated.
3) Very occasional hanging for no obvious reason.
4) Music 'sticking' and continually replaying the same note. Seems to occur
occasionally when the disc access is heavy.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cheats and Editors
There is a program to edit the funds called islehex available from :-
WWW http://www.vcnet.com/jmoore/simstuff.htm
The page is mainatined by Jerry Moore and it is my understanding that he
wrote the program.
Whilst not a cheat per se, merely an exploitable feature, it is possible to
send an explorer into the jungle and send a construction agent to them by
selecting move and then clicking on the explorers face. Then it is possible
to open up the location of the construction site and build any small
buildings eg. sawmill or logging camp.
Cheat codes - these should be entered at the save game dialogue box and then
the game saved :-
Code marksanchovypizza (agents work for free) ragschocolatestash (+5000
food) deesextrapixel (+1000 building materials) iaintestedico (+10000 EMU)
simonschickenkb (+100 heavy machinery, +10 unskilled labor) 3527490 (+10
skilled labor) soggybiscuit cheatingnotme I'll leave it to your conscience
as to weither to use these or not
Overall Strategies
This is a tricky section to deal with as what is right on one island may not
necessarily be so on another, furthermore within each island scenario there
is a degree of randomness about the numbers, types and placement of
discoveries.
One of the first strategies therefore must be to explore thoroughly the
island and let the discoveries mould your general ideas.
Specific "Tales from the Jungle" have been moved to their own page and
currently hsow how scenario 2 can be won in totally differnet ways depending
upon the discoveries present on the island.
Good sources of income early in the game that are easy to set up are:-
1) Ore mine to steel mill which is set to export. With doubled mining
remember to have a 2:1 ratio of unskilled labour in the steel mill as are
mining.
2) Oil Rigs to a chemical plant that is set to export, this however is
unsustainable. Even the Arabs will run out of oil someday, and your little
islands don't have that much oil.
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Specific Industries
1. General Points
2. Population
3. Exploration
4. Tourism
5. Forestry
6. Oil
7. Coal and Power
8. Ore/Steel
9. Heavy Industry
10. Manufacturing/Hi-tech
11. Tables
General Points
Labour costs are unskilled 1EMU/worker/day
skilled 2EMU/worker/day
Labour that is not being used does not cost in wages
Money earnt from exporting produce is dependant upon the level of world
opinion. All export revenues quoted later are from a very popular island
that was used as a test bed. Detailed information about the way that the
prices vary will hopefully be included in a future revision.
Industries will search for up to 25 grid squares (including diagonal) for
materials that are needed, except for oil and minerals (ore) where the
distance is 100 grid squares.
Warehouses look a much longer distance (100 ??) for both accepting and
distributing all items. It can therefore be very useful to have a ware house
as an intermediate between the production site and the useage site ie stick
all the heavily polluting industries one one side of the island and have the
cities which are demanding the goods the other.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Population
Within villages the mechanics of the batch train are that the vilage is run
through five succesive train cycles, but if the efficency of the village is
higher than the skill of the ecologist then only one point is added. Ergo it
is beneficial to have as high a skill level as possible for the ecologist.
When a town converts to a city, 4 skilled workers are automatically created.
Additional skilled workers will continue to be created automatically if the
happiness and education levels are high enough.
A city that is sufficently happy provides a good tax return, but a large
unhappy city has to be remedied quickly or else the drain on the coffers
will wreck your plans.
A fishing village produces three times as much food as a farming village of
equal size and efficency.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Exploration
Whilst not being an industry per se this seems to be the best section for it
to fit into. The 'range' of an explorer starts off at 5 squares from the
point he/she is sent to, each train then adds a single square to this range.
Fully trained up explorers therefore search a large area each stop.
No exploration is carried out en-route, it is the destination square only
that determines the area to be searched.
Discoveries and Effects
Pot of Cash_____________________Money :-)
Hidden Village__________________A new village
Rare Animal_____________________Game Park can be built
Burial Cave_____________________Tourist Attraction
Ancient City____________________Tourist Attraction
Ancient Temple__________________Tourist Attraction
Ancient Fort____________________Earn double for exported wood
Crashed UFO_____________________Earn Double for all exported cars
Golf Course_____________________Village Happiness + Food Production -
UFO - Doctor Turnip_____________City Happiness + Food Production -
Captain Sprout__________________Secret Agent (99 for everything)
........................Also eliminates effects of Dr.Turnip
Hidden pit with_________________Tourism increased )
Healing Properties................................) These may increase
..................................................) -- tourist happiness
Pile of:-.........................................) to 100%
Oldcastle Brown_________________Tourism increased )
Ale Bottles
Pixels :-_______________________Tourist happiness 100% :-))
SimIsle 2
There is a large degree of randomness to the discoveries available within
each scenario, however the very last item in each game is 'converted' to
being Captain Sprout. If you have not found him then the island is not
completely explored.
Back to Industries List
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tourist Industry
Tourism is a very useful industry to build up in many scenarios, as it uses
no labour (except the game park) and it has only minimal pollution (that
from the vehicles).
Tourists search 25 squares from the point of entry for a hotel room and then
20 squares from the hotel for attractions, they do tend to prefer to go to
nearer attrcations, though a particularly high excitement will draw them
further afield.
What is the downside then, and in a nutshell it is cost.
Tourists are demanding souls requiring places to stay and excitment, the way
that the industry starts from scratch is an initial pulse of tourists whom
you MUST have the space to accomodate, then a fall off and if they are happy
enough a subsequent climb.
Small caravan parks are the best way to deal with the inital pulse, as when
the fall off occurs hopefully they will still draw in enough people to
remain open. A large hotel even with a 20 rating can close down in this
second stage as I have found often to my cost. :-(
However there still is a need ,if the third stage of climbing is to occur
,for the tourists to be happy. The necessary investment in the industry,
Frequently Asked Questions and Unofficial Strategy Guide
Introduction
Last revision 10/05/96
Changes since the last revision are that `Tales from the Jungle' to their
own page, which will be revised seperately(eventually) and I am especially
asking for submissions for this part. The `TFJ' will when time allows
include walk throughs for some scenarios.
The full analysis of the breakdonw of costs for quality cars is now done,
the rest of the manufacturing/hi-tech costs will follow soon (hopefully this
weekend)
The format of this faq/strategy guide is at the moment very flexible. The
layout currently use is to divide it into sections, covering
background and general points,
bugs noted and workarounds,
Cheats and editors,
overall strategies and the
industries in detail.
Finally there will be a section covering
tables and analysis of costs and profits.
Acknowledgements
Major thanks must go to Simon Parkinson (aka Bob Moon), for the provision of
inside information.
Thanks to those people who have sent in comments or followed up my early
posts on the usenet.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Background and General
Simisle is a CDROM game produced by Intelligent Games and Maxis, my own is
the PC - DOS version though there will be a Mac version , and a Win 95
version ,and it is assumed that the mechanics of all are the same
I have heard that the Win95 version is now out and it includes some changes,
such as extra tutorial scenarios
A full review (by myself) of the DOS version is available from the Games
Domain Review
All copyrights and intelluctual rights of the authors are acknowledged.
Save game files are approx 2-300Kb
The files are sisleX.si
X being 0-7
There are 8 save game slots each of which is numbered and it is possible to
swap these files. Person A's save game 3 transferred to person B's computer
will go to slot 3 unless renamed.
As yet there is no site known to me for the uploading and downloading of
savegame files, if anyone knows better then pass on the information.
Additionally there is an insurance slot sislse99.si which is updated once
per month and is used in cases of a crash to offer the restore game option.
This file is deleted in a clean shutdown
Disasters/events can occur randomly within the game, some can be remedied
fairly easily, others much less so. A full list of the disasters/events are
:-
* Coal mine exploding.
* Air crash.
* Ferry crash.
* Oil tanker spill.
* Refinery leak.
* Leper tanker.
* Earthqauke
* Drug villages.
* An agent being killed in a drug village.
* Ferry crash.
* Shark attack.
* Tiger attack.
* Host a UN Malarky.
* A Large (>220 population) Village Splitting of its own accord.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bugs Noted and Workarounds
The game, as a whole, seems to be fairly robust. Minor bugs noted are
1) When reloading a saved game when the music was 'off' it will still play
the fix is to open up the options menu and switch the music on and then off
again.
2) 'Net reports of no visitors at all going to tourist attractions, further
information of the exact circumstances this occurs would be appreciated.
3) Very occasional hanging for no obvious reason.
4) Music 'sticking' and continually replaying the same note. Seems to occur
occasionally when the disc access is heavy.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cheats and Editors
There is a program to edit the funds called islehex available from :-
WWW http://www.vcnet.com/jmoore/simstuff.htm
The page is mainatined by Jerry Moore and it is my understanding that he
wrote the program.
Whilst not a cheat per se, merely an exploitable feature, it is possible to
send an explorer into the jungle and send a construction agent to them by
selecting move and then clicking on the explorers face. Then it is possible
to open up the location of the construction site and build any small
buildings eg. sawmill or logging camp.
Cheat codes - these should be entered at the save game dialogue box and then
the game saved :-
Code marksanchovypizza (agents work for free) ragschocolatestash (+5000
food) deesextrapixel (+1000 building materials) iaintestedico (+10000 EMU)
simonschickenkb (+100 heavy machinery, +10 unskilled labor) 3527490 (+10
skilled labor) soggybiscuit cheatingnotme I'll leave it to your conscience
as to weither to use these or not
Overall Strategies
This is a tricky section to deal with as what is right on one island may not
necessarily be so on another, furthermore within each island scenario there
is a degree of randomness about the numbers, types and placement of
discoveries.
One of the first strategies therefore must be to explore thoroughly the
island and let the discoveries mould your general ideas.
Specific "Tales from the Jungle" have been moved to their own page and
currently hsow how scenario 2 can be won in totally differnet ways depending
upon the discoveries present on the island.
Good sources of income early in the game that are easy to set up are:-
1) Ore mine to steel mill which is set to export. With doubled mining
remember to have a 2:1 ratio of unskilled labour in the steel mill as are
mining.
2) Oil Rigs to a chemical plant that is set to export, this however is
unsustainable. Even the Arabs will run out of oil someday, and your little
islands don't have that much oil.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Specific Industries
1. General Points
2. Population
3. Exploration
4. Tourism
5. Forestry
6. Oil
7. Coal and Power
8. Ore/Steel
9. Heavy Industry
10. Manufacturing/Hi-tech
11. Tables
General Points
Labour costs are unskilled 1EMU/worker/day
skilled 2EMU/worker/day
Labour that is not being used does not cost in wages
Money earnt from exporting produce is dependant upon the level of world
opinion. All export revenues quoted later are from a very popular island
that was used as a test bed. Detailed information about the way that the
prices vary will hopefully be included in a future revision.
Industries will search for up to 25 grid squares (including diagonal) for
materials that are needed, except for oil and minerals (ore) where the
distance is 100 grid squares.
Warehouses look a much longer distance (100 ??) for both accepting and
distributing all items. It can therefore be very useful to have a ware house
as an intermediate between the production site and the useage site ie stick
all the heavily polluting industries one one side of the island and have the
cities which are demanding the goods the other.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Population
Within villages the mechanics of the batch train are that the vilage is run
through five succesive train cycles, but if the efficency of the village is
higher than the skill of the ecologist then only one point is added. Ergo it
is beneficial to have as high a skill level as possible for the ecologist.
When a town converts to a city, 4 skilled workers are automatically created.
Additional skilled workers will continue to be created automatically if the
happiness and education levels are high enough.
A city that is sufficently happy provides a good tax return, but a large
unhappy city has to be remedied quickly or else the drain on the coffers
will wreck your plans.
A fishing village produces three times as much food as a farming village of
equal size and efficency.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Exploration
Whilst not being an industry per se this seems to be the best section for it
to fit into. The 'range' of an explorer starts off at 5 squares from the
point he/she is sent to, each train then adds a single square to this range.
Fully trained up explorers therefore search a large area each stop.
No exploration is carried out en-route, it is the destination square only
that determines the area to be searched.
Discoveries and Effects
Pot of Cash_____________________Money :-)
Hidden Village__________________A new village
Rare Animal_____________________Game Park can be built
Burial Cave_____________________Tourist Attraction
Ancient City____________________Tourist Attraction
Ancient Temple__________________Tourist Attraction
Ancient Fort____________________Earn double for exported wood
Crashed UFO_____________________Earn Double for all exported cars
Golf Course_____________________Village Happiness + Food Production -
UFO - Doctor Turnip_____________City Happiness + Food Production -
Captain Sprout__________________Secret Agent (99 for everything)
........................Also eliminates effects of Dr.Turnip
Hidden pit with_________________Tourism increased )
Healing Properties................................) These may increase
..................................................) -- tourist happiness
Pile of:-.........................................) to 100%
Oldcastle Brown_________________Tourism increased )
Ale Bottles
Pixels :-_______________________Tourist happiness 100% :-))
SimIsle 2
There is a large degree of randomness to the discoveries available within
each scenario, however the very last item in each game is 'converted' to
being Captain Sprout. If you have not found him then the island is not
completely explored.
Back to Industries List
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tourist Industry
Tourism is a very useful industry to build up in many scenarios, as it uses
no labour (except the game park) and it has only minimal pollution (that
from the vehicles).
Tourists search 25 squares from the point of entry for a hotel room and then
20 squares from the hotel for attractions, they do tend to prefer to go to
nearer attrcations, though a particularly high excitement will draw them
further afield.
What is the downside then, and in a nutshell it is cost.
Tourists are demanding souls requiring places to stay and excitment, the way
that the industry starts from scratch is an initial pulse of tourists whom
you MUST have the space to accomodate, then a fall off and if they are happy
enough a subsequent climb.
Small caravan parks are the best way to deal with the inital pulse, as when
the fall off occurs hopefully they will still draw in enough people to
remain open. A large hotel even with a 20 rating can close down in this
second stage as I have found often to my cost. :-(
However there still is a need ,if the third stage of climbing is to occur
,for the tourists to be happy. The necessary investment in the industry,
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