# In the next expansion for Sims 2: Sims get weather!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-next-expansion-for-sims-2-sims-get-weather/386832>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 5, 2007, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-next-expansion-for-sims-2-sims-get-weather/386832 "2007-01-05T17:02:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-next-expansion-for-sims-2-sims-get-weather/386832/61 "2007-04-04T23:50:16Z")

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[Ta-da.](http://simlogical.com/dinnerbell/index.php?topic=25.0)🙂  
While I do have other stuff by Inge, I may try [this one from Two Jeffs](http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=1199.0) as my main problem is visitors raiding the fridge when I have food prepared for their ungrateful behinds. 😛

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**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-next-expansion-for-sims-2-sims-get-weather/386832/62 "2007-04-05T00:07:58Z")

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Ah, thanks, **harmless**. I look forward to trying it out tonight.

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**Author:** ![Caridwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@Caridwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caridwen)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-next-expansion-for-sims-2-sims-get-weather/386832/63 "2007-04-05T00:58:48Z")

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Wow! Thanks so much. Great idea about renaming the file too.

Do you have the hacked painting? I love that.

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**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-next-expansion-for-sims-2-sims-get-weather/386832/64 "2007-04-05T04:39:28Z")

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Merola’s? No, but I do have the mirror. I just downloaded it for the first time so I could try to control things like the hot tub incident. Plus it makes it a _whoooooole_ lot easier to get your customers to buy things. 😉  
I may have to end up deleting it. 😛

Another hack I love is the Ask Relationship Status (by syberspunk at MATY, I believe).  
I have so many Sims I forget which ones are already going steady with what other. Now I can just ask about relationship status and gender preference. It also has a lot of realism to it as the interaction will usually fail unless the two Sims have a pretty high relationship - basically, if the person asking how they swing isn’t a close friend, the askee will tell them to get bent. 😃

One other useful hack is the Days Left Shrub that tells you how many days are left in all the Sims life cycles on a lot. Mostly useful for telling exactly how many days an Elder has left.  
I’ll never forget when my very first Sim was getting on up there and I got all excited that I was about to see my first Sim death and it turned out she had just dropped a fitness level. :rolleyes:  
The Days Left Shrub hack is at [Simlogical](http://www.simlogical.com/sl/Sims2Pages/Sims2MiscHacks.htm).  
There’s also lots of other hacks people find useful.

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