During the day-to-day grind of life you need to help your residents get to their destinations in the sky while keeping their stress levels in check. Apparently in the simplified fantasy world of SimTower people gets stressed out only from a long wait for the elevator or having to climb too many stairs. This is great for buildings that have plenty of elevators and escalators, however your building will never have enough of these.

Remember that you can have a combined total of 24 elevator shafts. Each standard elevator shaft can stretch up to only 30 floors high. Thankfully once you reach three stars you can build express elevators that stop at sky lobbies every 15 floors and at each basement level to connect to the parking garage. People needing to get to a floor higher than the fifteenth will take an express elevator to their desired sky lobby and then take a standard elevator to their floor nearby.

They will switch elevators ONLY ONCE during their path through the building! They go through so much in their daily grind, and usually don't complain, but having to change elevators more than once is inconceivable!

As your building gets taller and taller you will start to see those lines of people waiting for the elevators grow and grow. And you'll see their stress levels go up as their black silhouetted bodies turn pink then red.

You can add connecting stairs (to any floor) and escalators (only to floors with commercial spaces) to help alleviate the strain on your limited elevators. If given the option the residents will exchange one of their elevator rides to take stairs or escalators. They'll only travel up to 4 floors with stairs and 6 floors with escalators, so this is best placed near the lobby. However, taking the stairs does increase a resident's stress level slightly.

Too much stress and your resident moves out. Strangely this is not as dire as one might think. Of course when examining the now vacant office/condo/shop you'll get little more than the generic "conditions are terrible" message, doing little to inform you as to why they really moved out. Sometimes all you can do is lower the price and hope some other sucker moves in.

Eventually you come to a point that you really can't do anything about the terrible stressful time your residents are having, so you stop trying to pamper them and you go back to putting some more floors in your tower.



