SimSafari man.qxd 11/23/98 1:34 PM Page 1 TM Manual Contents So You’re a Beginner—SimSafari Basics . . . . . . . . . . .3 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 A Quick Look Around . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 The Main Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Moving Around . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SimSafari man.qxd 11/23/98 1:34 PM Page 2 Hints and Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 Attracting Happy Campers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 Pleasing the Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Making Your Wildlife Park Howl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 Troubleshooting for the Troubled Ranger . . . . .24 My Warthogs are Dying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SimSafari man.qxd 11/23/98 1:34 PM Page 3 So You’re a Beginner— SimSafari Basics Roger, Ranger. Welcome to Africa. We’ve got a few things to tell you, then you’re on your own. Well, that’s not totally true. The advisors in SimSafari are eager to help you. But as the Safari Ranger, the people and wildlife of the savanna are depending on you! So fill up your water bottle, stock up on sunscreen and put on your hat— it’s time for your walk in the wild! G ETTING S TARTED 1.
SimSafari man.qxd 11/23/98 1:34 PM 3. Turn the tutorial on or off by clicking the tutorial lantern. It’s a good idea to use the tutorial the first few times you play SimSafari. Don’t worry. You can turn it off mid-game if you want. 4. Pick a game type: Start a new park, Play a saved park, or Play a mission. A mission is a challenge like reviving an endangered species or bringing back a burned safari camp. If you choose to Play a saved park or Play a mission, skip to A Quick Look Around on page 6. 5.
SimSafari man.qxd 11/23/98 1:34 PM Page 5 6. Choose a difficulty level: Easy or Hard. Easy gives you more money to start with, so you’ll have more room to make mistakes. Managing a safari is never THAT easy, so picking Easy is a pretty smart move, especially when you’re just getting started. 7. Decide whether you want to start your park with or without plants and animals. Starting with some plants and animals is a little truer to life, and it gives you a head start.
SimSafari man.qxd 11/23/98 1:34 PM Page 6 A Q UICK L OOK A ROUND Three Main Areas: the Park, the Camp, and the Village As Safari Ranger, you’ll be building, maintaining, and watching over a wildlife park, a tourist camp, and a local African village. They’re not in the same place, so click one of these buttons to go to whichever you’d like to visit. The park. Manage your plant and animals species. Discover what animals eat and who eats them. The camp.
SimSafari man.qxd 11/23/98 1:34 PM Page 7 The Main Screen You’ll spend most of your time in the main screens of your park, camp and village. They have similar controls, so once you get the hang of the park screen, you’ll probably be able to get around the camp and the village pretty well. Click one of these icons in the park view or camp view to get a row of picture “cards” at the bottom of your screen. Click it again to hide the row of cards.
SimSafari man.qxd 11/23/98 1:34 PM Page 8 Having trouble placing something? Are you putting it in its natural habitat? (Some species can only live in the water.) Do you have enough cash? Is the land clear of other things? M OVING A ROUND Scrolling When you move the cursor to any edge of your screen, it will become an arrow with a zebra pattern. Click to scroll in that direction. Or click and hold to keep scrolling. You can move up, down, sideways, and diagonally.
SimSafari man.qxd 11/23/98 1:35 PM Page 9 Binoculars Even on a real safari, it’s a good idea to keep your distance from the animals. Try the safer and less intrusive approach: click the binoculars and then click the species you’d like to see up close. Click to repeat an animal’s action. Close the window. Refresh your memory of the field guide text by clicking on Species Information.
SimSafari man.qxd 11/23/98 1:35 PM Page 10 Safari Select to minimize the game in Windows 95. Start a new game. Open an existing game. Select Save… to name your SimSafari file and save it where you want. Select Page Setup… to select a printer and adjust its settings. Select Print… to get the Print dialog box. From here you can print some or all of your park, village or camp. Select Exit to leave SimSafari, or select Quit on your Macintosh. WHEN TWO ELEPHANTS FIGHT, IT IS THE GRASS THAT SUFFERS.
SimSafari man.qxd 11/23/98 1:35 PM Page 11 Print Dialog Box Click here if you want your printed park, with all pages assembled, to be roughly 8.5 x 4.5 feet (you could almost wallpaper your room with that!). Be prepared: printing your entire park will tie up your printer for a while. Click here to print your park approximately onethird to one-half the size of the “larger” size, depending on your printer. Click here to select all the pages to print. Pages with diagonal lines through them will not print.
SimSafari man.qxd 11/23/98 1:35 PM Page 12 Disasters In SimSafari, disasters happen when you least expect them. If you want a disaster and you want it now, unleash the disaster of your choice by selecting it. If you don’t want any uninvited disasters, select No Disasters. Options Select Pause Simulation to stop the simulation. (You’ll still be able to build, but the park won’t grow, and you won’t earn any money.) Select Sound Off if you’d rather build your park without animal or people sounds.
SimSafari man.qxd 11/23/98 1:35 PM Page 13 The Advisors Repeat ten times: “Listening to advisors is the smart thing to do.” Really, one of the best ways to improve your gameplay is to get lots of advice. And, hey, it’s free. There’s an advisor in each of the three areas: an ecologist in the park, a business manager in the camp, and an elder (a wise person) in the village. T HE E COLOGIST Consult the ecologist by clicking the advisor button in the park view. Click to close.
SimSafari man.qxd 11/23/98 1:35 PM Page 14 Field Guide Go to the field guide to learn about your favorite plants and animals. Find out how they got their names. Listen to animal sounds.
SimSafari man.qxd 11/23/98 1:35 PM Page 15 Park Census Visit the park census to see how many of each species there are in your park. Select a species and click the food web button to see which species it eats and which species eat it.
SimSafari man.qxd 11/23/98 1:35 PM Page 16 Population Graph Back to ecologist. Click to select species to graph. You can graph up to five species at once. Print. Click on the number that shows the number of years you want to graph. Graphing can be particularly helpful if you want to see how different species affect each other. Pick a species to investigate and then plot it along with its food sources and predators to see how they interact.
SimSafari man.qxd 11/23/98 1:35 PM Page 17 Safari Smarts Need something to do while you’re waiting for your camp to make money? Safari Smarts is a good place to hang out while you test your knowledge of African species. Back to ecologist. Try to get the high score. Play a game of 20 questions. Race the clock. Time remaining or question number. Back to start. Score. Click here for a hint, but you’ll give up one point. Pick an answer. Get it right and you’ll get two points. No points if you’re wrong.
SimSafari man.qxd 11/23/98 1:35 PM Page 18 T HE B USINESS M ANAGER You find the business manager by clicking the advisor button in the camp view. Exit to the camp. Your advisor will give you whatever advice she thinks is most critical, but if you’re wondering about something specific, click the Detailed Business Advice button. Click the accounting button to find out how much money you’ve burned through this year. Detailed Business Advice Back to the business manager.
SimSafari man.qxd 11/23/98 1:35 PM Page 19 Accounting Back to the business manager. Click here to get more or less detail. O NE SHOULD NEVER RUB BOTTOMS WITH A PORCUPINE.
SimSafari man.qxd 11/23/98 1:35 PM T HE V ILLAGE E LDER You consult with the village elder by clicking the advisor button in the village view. Hire or Lay Off Staff Click to hire or lay off staff for your camp. Exit to the village. Back to elder. Shows how many cooks you have working for you now. Tells you how many more cooks you need to hire to run your current camp facilities. Type in the number of cooks you’d like to hire. Type in the number of cooks you’d like to lay off.
SimSafari man.qxd 11/23/98 1:35 PM Page 21 Hints and Tips Your overall star rating is based on how well you’re doing in all three of the safari areas: the park, the village, and the camp. ATTRACTING H APPY C AMPERS • Some accommodations require staff to run them. Hire staff in the village. • You need to take care of all of people’s basic needs before they’ll come. (This includes eating, sleeping, bathroom, and transportation.
SimSafari man.qxd 11/23/98 1:35 PM P LEASING THE Page 22 V ILLAGE • You can get a good idea of how your village is doing by looking at it. If the village has been able to build things like schools and wells, it’s probably doing pretty well. • If you have a thriving camp, the village will make money from land rent and profit sharing that will allow them to expand. • If villagers lose their jobs too many times (because you run out of money or lay them off), they won’t want to work for you any more.
SimSafari man.qxd 11/23/98 1:35 PM Page 23 M AKING YOUR W ILDLIFE PARK H OWL • Species will appear in your park even if you didn’t place them there. That’s because you have placed something that attracted them. • Consult the food web to find out who eats what. When you place an animal, make sure there’s food for it. • Watch your populations closely. If a species is spreading too quickly, you may have to place more of its predators. • There are two main seasons in Africa: rainy season and dry season.
SimSafari man.qxd 11/23/98 1:35 PM Page 24 Troubleshooting for the Troubled Ranger MY WARTHOGS ARE D YING So you’re having trouble keeping a species alive? (Let’s say it’s the warthogs.) Reach in to your bag of tricks to figure out the problem. 1. Maybe it’s a finicky eater. Go to the food web to find out what it eats. Select your species in the census, and click the food web button to see more. (Warthogs think that grass is scrumptious.) 2.
SimSafari man.qxd 11/23/98 1:35 PM Page 25 6. Watch a while to see how your changes affect the wildlife balance of your park. Get the play-by-play update in the census or the graph. 7. Hey! She took my food! If your warthogs still aren’t doing well, it’s possible that they’re competing for food with another species that eats the same thing. This is where the detective work gets a little trickier. Go to the census and try to discover which species might be hogging all the food.
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SimSafari man.qxd 12/21/98 2:11 PM Page 27 Becoming a Five-Star Ranger So you've created a park that's bursting with hippos and can't figure out why you only have one star? Read on to find out what matters in the star rating. If you'd like to try to figure out how to get five stars yourself, skip it. Or if you want to do your own thing and ignore the stars completely, more power to you.
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SimSafari man.qxd 11/23/98 1:35 PM Page 30 SimSafari on the Web HTTP://WWW.MAXIS.COM/GAMES/SIMSAFARI/ Activities Games Off computer activities More ways to find out about the African savanna PARENTS AND T EACHERS ! Download the Teacher’s Guide for more activities to try with your kids. THE FAMILY IS LIKE THE FOREST: IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE IT IS DENSE, IF YOU ARE INSIDE YOU SEE THAT EACH TREE HAS ITS OWN POSITION.
SimSafari man.qxd 12/9/98 6:39 PM Page 31 LIMITED WARRANTY Maxis warrants to the original purchaser of the computer software product, for a period of ninety (90) days from the date of original purchase (the “Warranty Period”), that under normal use, the media and the user documentation are free from defects in materials and workmanship. WARRANTY CLAIMS To make a warranty claim under this limited warranty, please return the product to the point of purchase, accompanied by proof of purchase (i.e.
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