Sims 2; Nightlife for Mac....

Yes, yes I know, the game has been out for the PC for a while now, but i finally got around to getting a copy for my Mac, all in all, a fairly decent expansion pack, not as good as I hoped, but due to all the hyping it got, there’s no way it could live up to what I hoped it would be

I mainly got it for the Vampires, and it’s been pretty good so far, already Embraced a few families in Pleasantview (the Pleasants, Mary-Sue has really taken to being a Vampire, Don Lothario suffered the Embrace of one of my user-created Sims, these were done mainly with cheat objects because i wanted to introduce Vamps as quickly as possible

so after i had played around a bit in that town, i created a new one, with the sole purpose of embracing as many Sims as possible, but also doing it correctly, by seducing one of the Grand Vampires

the town is named Carpathia, right now occupied by 3 families

the Dracul family, a single woman, Camilla, was seduced and embraced rather quickly, and has since been putting the bite to the male population of Carpathia quite efficiently

the second family is the Gate$ family, my torture family, billy-boy is a fat, ugly Sim with a bad combover and dorky glasses, on the Criminal carreer track, he has a dislike of Vampires and athletic sims, his wife, Melinda, is a thin, attractive woman, so obviously the first thing I needed to do was to get her embraced, which was done in short order, so billy boy is now married to a fit, sexy attractive Vampire, everything he hates <evil grin>

just when things weren’t strange enough already, billy-boy was rejecting the advances of his now Vampirized wife, when the Count that embraced her ran in, and bit billy-boy, so now billy-boy’s a vampire too…

boy does he hate vampires…

the embrace already pushed him into Aspiration failure, he’s gibbering insanely on the floor now, that is when he’s not stalking around and going “Bleh!”

another family, (well, okay, I admit it, it’s Me) has just recently been embraced, apparently I did something right, as i had the two Contessas FIGHTING over who would be the one to embrace me, Carmen Baena won, Embraced my sim, and he has started embracing the female population, starting with that cute waitress Stefi Johnson at the after-dark nightclub, Andrea Hogan was about to fall to my Sim’s advances, when i encountered a rather unique little situation

the other Contessa, still obviously pissed off that she didn’t get to embrace me, ran up to Andrea as i was seducing her, i was one click away from a succesful “Bite Neck” command, Contessa butted in and embraced Andrea, because she was jealous of Carmen’s succesful embrace of me, or something…

i dunno, Sims are wierd little critters, hard to figure out what’s going on in their virtual heads…

on the ModTheSims2 website, someone created a really cool mesh/skin set I can’t wait to use, the “Cthuluans”, it’s a custom hair/skin/eyes package that gives the Sim the squid-like head tentacles, and an unearthly green skin tone and distinctly evil looking horizontal-slit eyes, and yes, the genetics do carry down to the offspring…

time to release some Great Old Ones into Carpathia, Cthulu F’tagn! :wink:

I’ve been playing Nightlife for the last two days and decided to start my game over fresh, as I was getting too cluttered and disorganized, family-wise, so I decided to start fresh and limit my user-made families to no more than three distinct user-created families per neighborhood, and work with the Maxis supplied families

I started off getting Mary-Sue Pleasant vampirized, after she caught Daniel cheating with the maid, she moved out, changed her name (she goes by the name Mikado Chun now), her Aspiration (Knowledge), and has become obsessed with the “Bite Sim” aspiration, male, female, Townie, DownTownie, NPC, it doesn’t matter, if it’s got a (virtual) pulse, she’ll try to Vampirize it…

give her the Japanese custom hair that came with TS2 (the looped braid with a pair of tiny fans in the bun headdress-thingy), and a dark Kimono and she’s quite the seductive little Vampire Geisha (Band Name!), as Mary-Sue/Mikado appears to carry Maxis’s “Asian” facial structure genetics

Knowledge Sims are obsessed with becoming a Vampire/spreading Vampirism, they also want the Vampires they sire to stay vampires (common Knowledge Vampire Aspirations are “Bite Sim”," <Sim Name> becomes a Vampire", common Fears are “Be Rejected for a Bite”, “Cure Vampirism”)

so, Mikado has built up quite a little coven (group, gaggle, bunch, coven? what do you call a bunch of Vampires anyway? :wink: ) of Vamped Sims, a good mix of NPC waitresses, Townies, and DownTownies, there are now enough VampSims (around a half dozen or so) around that you can pretty much expect to find at least one NPC vampire of some…ahem…“flavour” (pun intended :wink: ) at any Downtown lot you go to, the highly elusive Counts and Contessas show up rarely, but there’s enough NPC vamps now so it doesn’t matter

there are quite a few different types of Downtown community lots, city parks, family restaurants, bowling alleys, fine dining, a '50s diner, a high-class (and proccesor-hogging) art gallery, modern nightclubs, gothic nightclubs, clothing shops, shopping centers and grocery stores, there’s a community lot that most any Sim will enjoy,

guess which lot my NPC vampires love the most?..

no, not the Gothic nightclub, good guess though…

no, not the restaurants (although they do like “dining out”, if you knowhatimean… :wink: )

no, my Sims are obsessed with bowling alleys, in particular SimBowl, if I take a non-vampirized Sim there (or even a vampire Sim) I can pretty much guarantee that there will be at least three other vampirized NPC sims there, the highly elusive Counts and Contessas do eventually show up, but they’re hard to find and generally aloof towards mere Mortal sims…

after Mikado had done her work, swelling the ranks of the Undead, I decided to make a Sim version of myself, and get him Vampirized (hey, other Sims fans, we *all do this, right, create a Sim version of ourselves in the game, right? :wink: )

i send him down to SimBowl, knowing that due to the level of Vampire saturation there, it’s a given that someone will put the fangs to him, he meets one of the Contessas, takes her out on a date, culminating in “Dream Date”, but no luck this time, he’s still mortal at the end of the night

the next evening,the Contessa Stacy leaves him a nice little gift for going on such a wonderful date, the D.J. booth object, and asks him out for another date (no cheat codes used here, there’s genuine Simulated love between Contessa Stacy and my sim)

of course, we go out, this time to the “Midnight Flows” gothic nightclub/bar, as soon as we get out of the car, it looked like Stacy was going to put the bite on him (WOOHOO!!!), but just before Stacy could cast her spell over him, one of the Counts ran up to my Sim and bit him, my Sim had never met the Count, but that Count bit my Sim anyway, oh well, at least my Sim is a Vampire now, I would have rather wished that Stacy did it, but one can’t look a gift set of fangs in the mouth, can one?

(i believe the game sees the Grand Vampires as all one family, so if a sim has any Romance points with a G.V., any other G.V. can bite them, even if they don’t know that Sim)

anyway, we are seated and served dinner by a cute little Vampire waitress (Steffi) that Mikado vampirized, and since my Sim has “Vampirism” and “Fit” as Turn-Ons, he was a little more than interested in her, but he was a gentleman, and stayed faithful to Stacy…

the next evening, my Sim went Downtown to try out his newly acquired powers of Vampirism on some unsuspecting NPC Sims, I sent him to a city park, as it’s the least processor intensive lot and the lack of distracting objects in the game makes the Sims interact with each other more than the distracting objects

my Sim started putting the moves on a rather attractive woman, and by the end of the night, was able to Bite her, fulfilling his “Bite Neck” aspiration

i made the bitten sim selectable, so I could check their Aspirations/Wants/Fears and job…

it turns out, on his first night as a Vampire, my Sim had Vampirized the Mayor of SimCity, who had the Knowledge aspiration and a “Become Vampire” want, and a “Cure Vampirism” fear (and they say politicians aren’t greedy, bloodsucking parasites, eh? ) :smiley: , heh, nothing like going for the gusto on your first try, right, hopefully now that she’s a vampire, the Mayor will introduce some Vampire-Friendly legislation… :wink:

the next night, the next Sim that was bitten was in the Law Enforcement career track as a Patrol Officer, she also had the Knowledge aspiration and a Become Vampire want, and a Cure Vampirism fear

the third night, the next “victim” was also in Law enforcement, but she’s a Detective, and once again, had a “Become Vampire” want and "Cure Vampirism fear

I’m thinking of making these previous two Sims playable and getting them to the top of their career track, staring a “Vampire Cops” department (We put the Bite on Crime!), after all, I did download a Police Car to add to the list of available cars** in the game

the fourth night, I found a rather unique Sim, movie star hair, long flowing velvet dress, very glamorous, seduced and fanged her, turns out she’s the “Diva” one of the ÜberSims, top of her career track (Slacker; Professional Party Guest), Wealth aspiration, and GOBS of money, a very high-maintenance Sim, unfortunately, she has a “Become Vampire” Fear, and “Be Cured of Vampirism” want, oops, sorry Diva, maybe you can buy some Vamprocillin-D from the old Gypsy woman, you can afford it after all…

my latest target?, Brandi Broke, as she has a “Be Saved from Death” Want, and what better way to save her from Death than to make sure she lives *forever, right?..

…better watch out Grim Reaper, MacTech’s Vampire sim is encroaching on your territory…

The Sims 2 Nightlife is a really nice expansion pack, the addition of the Vampires really makes the game more addictive than ever) and have noticed a few cool little vampire mannerisms;

Vampires do not cast a reflection in the mirrors
the Grand Vampires, once invited into your house, can enter and leave freely

(** I also downloaded a few other cars for the game, a Ferrari F-40, Dodge Charger, Ferrari Formula 1 race-car, DeLorean DMC-12 (no, not the BTTF version, sadly, and the designer has no plans to make a BTTF version :frowning: )an '06 Dodge Charger, and K.I.T.T.)

For the life of me I can’t get my Sim bitten by a vampire and I’ve tried all the tips. I might just download one of the vampire hacks.

I haven’t been able to make friends with the werewolf dog in Pets either. I need to start weeding out my downloads. I have over 4.15GB of downloads in my game and probably another 2 GB that I’ve taken out.

No mention of The Sims 2 is complete without a link to this kooky family album prepared by the gang at Something Awful. I have got to buy a new copy of this game. (Warning: strong language, really bizarre situations, and Hitler and his alien baby)

Heh, just playing another town for a change, at the “FM” nightclub, and Contessa Shiela is sitting at the bar with one of my female sims she’s taken a liking to, i just happened to notice that Sheila’s drink is a red liquid in a clear glass, wheras my female Sim’s drink is light blue…

Sheila’s sitting at the bar sipping a glass of blood! heh, love these little details

now…if i can get Sheila to vampirize my female Sim, i can use her to vampirize her husband…

Another little touch of polish in the game…
my Vampire Sim succesfully vampirized The Diva, normally she’ll pull out a little hand mirror and primp with it, now, she pulls out the hand mirror throws her arm up in front of her face and hisses in anger!