Newspaper

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The Newspaper subsystem is mostly flavor text but provides general feedback for "City Issues", replacing "Survey" in Simcity Classic.

Removed Mac OS Debug Menu

Mac OS screenshot of removed menu

In the MacOS Simcity 2000 1.0 release a hidden nonfunctional debug menu of all the possible newspaper story types was left in the release copy. This was later completely removed in 1.2

This and a "Pass-Value" are required for the func.
Number Story-type Pass-value Notes
0 Weather unknown Weather
1 Junk 0 Filler story
2 Founding 0 City Founded
3 Growth wCityProgression City Progress (Mayor's House, City Hall)
4 Invent inventionID Technology invented
5 Innovate inventionID - 7 Technology invented
6 War 0 Filler story
7 Market wNationalEconomyTrend when trends change, a new story is made
8 Sports rand() % 5 Filler story
9 Fed Rate Up wNationalTax Related to Fed rate increased.
10 Fed Rate Down wNationalTax Related to Fed rate decreased.
11 Politics 0 Filler story
12 Diplomacy 0 Filler story
13 Disaster 0 Filler story
14 Medical 0 Filler story
15 Upbeat 0 Filler story
16 High Crime 0
17 High Traffic 0
18 High Pollute 0
19 Poor Educate 0
20 Poor Health 0
21 Poor Employment 0
22 Fire word_4E86B4
23 Flood word_4E86B4
24 Plane Crash word_4E86B4
25 Heli Crash word_4E86B4
26 Tornado word_4E86B4
27 Earthquake word_4E86B4
28 Monster word_4E86B4
29 Meltdown word_4E86B4
30 Microwave word_4E86B4
31 Volcano word_4E86B4
32 Pollution word_4E86B4
33 Chemical Spill word_4E86B4
34 Hurricane word_4E86B4
35 Riot word_4E86B4
36 Old Power Plant unknown
37 Overcrowded Prisons 0
38 Teachers Complain 0
39 Bridge Collapse 0
40 Bulldozer Upset 0
41 Ordinance OrdinanceNumber (0 - 19) whenever the city council randomly passes an ordinance a story is generated
42 Freds Opinion
43 Editor Opinion
44 Survey
45 MisSim
46 Power Demand 0
47 Transit Demand
48 Police Demand
49 Fire Demand
50 Water Demand
51 Hospital Demand
52 School Demand
53 Seaport Demand
54 Airport Demand
55 Zoo Demand
56 Stadium Demand
57 Marina Demand
58 Park Demand
59 Ind Connex Demand
60 Com Connex Demand
61 Low Crime
62 Low Traffic
63 Low Pollute
64 Good Educate
65 Good Health
66 Good Employment