# Sims2 is Here! \[unboxed Spoilers!\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 15, 2004, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims2-is-here-unboxed-spoilers/264551 "2004-09-15T14:57:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Stainz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Stainz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stainz)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims2-is-here-unboxed-spoilers/264551/101 "2004-09-21T22:19:39Z")
Help? My cheat box isn’t working … isn’t it Control-Shift-S …? I get this line of text like the stock market. Help!!! ---
**Author:** ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims2-is-here-unboxed-spoilers/264551/102 "2004-09-21T23:25:13Z")
> [@Stainz](#): > > Help? My cheat box isn’t working … isn’t it Control-Shift-S …? I get this line of text like the stock market. Help!!! Control-Shift-C, **Stainz**. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims2-is-here-unboxed-spoilers/264551/103 "2004-09-21T23:30:08Z")
It’s Control+Shift+C. 8,000 points for a family aspiration? Dang, I need to change my Sims around. Sam’s making the money as a Fortune aspiration, so to keep him happy I buy him stuff, but it generally isn’t much, between 500 and the value of the item. He does have some milestone goals (earn 10,000, earn 2,0000, so on). Edna’s a Knowledge base and her goals are trickier, mostly to beef her skills and make out with Circe. Once in a while she’ll have a “see a ghost” or “be saved from Death,” but there’s no opportunity to do that yet. Unless I bring in a nameless hobo and kill him in the intrest of science… ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims2-is-here-unboxed-spoilers/264551/104 "2004-09-22T01:24:22Z")
> [@BraheSilver](#): > > It’s Control+Shift+C. > > 8,000 points for a family aspiration? Dang, I need to change my Sims around. Sam’s making the money as a Fortune aspiration, so to keep him happy I buy him stuff, but it generally isn’t much, between 500 and the value of the item. He does have some milestone goals (earn 10,000, earn 2,0000, so on). Edna’s a Knowledge base and her goals are trickier, mostly to beef her skills and make out with Circe. Once in a while she’ll have a “see a ghost” or “be saved from Death,” but there’s no opportunity to do that yet. Unless I bring in a nameless hobo and kill him in the intrest of science… Actually my SimDad has the fortune aspiration too; as soon as I saw the private school was worth 8K, I locked it in. ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims2-is-here-unboxed-spoilers/264551/105 "2004-09-22T16:58:23Z")
> [@Slacker](#): > > Whoops - in the clarity of the morning I just realized I typed that wrong. You don’t use the “F” keys - just the normal number keys across the top of the keyboard. So for example to set a camera angle press CTRL-4, and to flip back to it press 4. So you access them with CTRL-# but how do you set them? ---
**Author:** ![KellyM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KellyM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KellyM)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims2-is-here-unboxed-spoilers/264551/106 "2004-09-22T17:36:28Z")
> [@BurnMeUp](#): > > So you access them with CTRL-# but how do you set them? You set with Ctrl-digit and flip to them by pressing just the digit. ---
**Author:** ![Stainz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Stainz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stainz)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims2-is-here-unboxed-spoilers/264551/107 "2004-09-22T20:13:47Z")
Oh Lord … I was stoned on dentist medicine yesterday … thank you to **BraheSilver** and\*\* Jellyblue\*\* (what does the Control-Shift-S bring up - a stock market tickery tape type thing?). After playing for two hours, I accidentally turned off my computer (I was resting one foot on my case) … GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. Nothing was saved. I’m such a :wally Now can someone help me use the eydropper properly? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims2-is-here-unboxed-spoilers/264551/108 "2004-09-22T20:17:34Z")
Eyedropper - select the eyedropper tool (in design or buy mode), and click on the item you want to clone. The object will duplicate in the cursor hand, as if you had just selected it from the menu through the long way; if you eyedrop a wallpaper, you’ll get the paintbrush icon, if you cloned a chair, you’ll get the clutching hand icon, etc. ---
**Author:** ![BonoVox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@BonoVox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BonoVox)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims2-is-here-unboxed-spoilers/264551/109 "2004-09-22T20:29:17Z")
After two watercoolers of the exlir of life, I have a pretty nice house. Does anyone know if the NPCs age? I hope not! ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims2-is-here-unboxed-spoilers/264551/110 "2004-09-22T20:32:56Z")
> [@BonoVox](#): > > After two watercoolers of the exlir of life, I have a pretty nice house. Does anyone know if the NPCs age? I hope not! The NPCs don’t age, at least not while they’re still NPCs. I’m pretty sure they age if you move them in, thereby rendering them non-NPCs anyway 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims2-is-here-unboxed-spoilers/264551/111 "2004-09-23T10:55:49Z")
I’ll probably be getting this game when I return to the States, in the same sense that Courtney Love will probably be filling a prescription soon. One thing I’m curious about is whether there’s any backwards compatibility with the original Sims. Can any of my old characters, skins, wallpaper, or objects be imported into the new game, or will I have to start from scratch? Is it possible to create new stuff for Sims 2 like with the old one? ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims2-is-here-unboxed-spoilers/264551/112 "2004-09-23T11:06:51Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > I’ll probably be getting this game when I return to the States, in the same sense that Courtney Love will probably be filling a prescription soon. > > One thing I’m curious about is whether there’s any backwards compatibility with the original Sims. Can any of my old characters, skins, wallpaper, or objects be imported into the new game, or will I have to start from scratch? Is it possible to create new stuff for Sims 2 like with the old one? There is zero compatibility between the two; Sims 2 is built on a completely different engine (and looks a million times better) than the original. But it is possible to do custom skins in Body Shop and clothing can be altered but I haven’t tried that. As for custom items, not yet - that I know of, but I don’t imagine it will be much longer. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims2-is-here-unboxed-spoilers/264551/113 "2004-09-23T11:07:54Z")
Meant to add that an interview with one of the designers on the DVD version says that they absolutely ADORE the contingent that designs their own stuff for the game, so I am feeling pretty confident that they’ll be catering to them, and quite nicely. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims2-is-here-unboxed-spoilers/264551/114 "2004-09-23T12:40:57Z")
[http://www.sims2.thesimsresource.com/](http://www.sims2.thesimsresource.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims2-is-here-unboxed-spoilers/264551/115 "2004-09-23T12:50:02Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > There is zero compatibility between the two; Sims 2 is built on a completely different engine (and looks a million times better) than the original. But it is possible to do custom skins in Body Shop and clothing can be altered but I haven’t tried that. As for custom items, not yet - that I know of, but I don’t imagine it will be much longer. I hope not. I want a Kerry/Edwards sign out front of my Sims house. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims2-is-here-unboxed-spoilers/264551/116 "2004-09-23T14:12:24Z")
I now have a silvery, shimmery, curvy line that appears floating in the middle of the screen from some angles. Mostly from the front view of the house. Also, when it goes into the video scenes for scenarios (like a baby being born) I get blacked out squares and lines running through it. Any clues? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims2-is-here-unboxed-spoilers/264551/117 "2004-09-23T14:14:00Z")
> [@harmless](#): > > I now have a silvery, shimmery, curvy line that appears floating in the middle of the screen from some angles. Come to think of it, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen something like that before on GTA3 on my PS2. 😕 Maybe something to do with it being 3D? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims2-is-here-unboxed-spoilers/264551/118 "2004-09-23T14:56:07Z")
**harmless** , when’s the last time you updated your video driver? ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims2-is-here-unboxed-spoilers/264551/119 "2004-09-23T15:12:56Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > **harmless** , when’s the last time you updated your video driver? Day before yesterday when we installed the new card. You think it may have went wonky? ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims2-is-here-unboxed-spoilers/264551/120 "2004-09-23T15:15:12Z")
> [@Slacker](#): > > I hope not. I want a Kerry/Edwards sign out front of my Sims house. 😃 😛 (Actually, because I just opened a pit thread about political potshots in threads, I just kinda wanted to indicate here that this isn’t one that I was referring to. Didn’t want anyone to get the wrong idea 🙂 ) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims2-is-here-unboxed-spoilers/264551.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims2-is-here-unboxed-spoilers/264551.md?page=7)