Sims2 is Here! [unboxed Spoilers!]

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I’m missing my weekend catch up sleep with this dumb game. Who knew that watching characters eat, sleep and go to the bathroom would be so entertaining.

I’ve got a bug in mine though. I’ve been playing mostly in Strangetown and have a problem with the Lone Gunmen-like Curious Family. I had one of them call for a taxi the other day, then decided not to leave the house. The taxi stayed parked in front of their place. The next day, when the carpool arrived to take one of the guys to work, I couldn’t get him to get in the car. The task kept disappearing. Then that car remained parked in front, along with the taxi. Last night, the car disappeared for awhile, leaving the driver suspended in mid air. Decided to try calling for a taxi again and when it arrived, the carpool car turned into a taxi. Couldn’t get the guy in the car, again the task kept disappearing. So now I’ve got two taxis stuck in front of the house.

Can’t get any of them to go to work, one guy’s used up all his vacation days and the others have a few to go. Though I wish I could just reset that family, it’s just a minor annoyance. I think I’ll use the money cheat and give them a bunch of Simolias so they don’t have to work.

Only other complaint is that since I don’t have an AGP slot, I have to use onboard video. I made sure to check requirements, and I have a 2.4GHz processor, so that meets requirements. But when it turns night, everything slows down. Only have 256 Mb or RAM though. Hoping to upgrade that in a few weeks, after I return from vacation in October.

Cool game though. I can waste as much time at the body shop as I can in the game itself. I wish I had a cheat code for my life so I could bank a bunch of Simolias too and not have to worry about work. :smiley:

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You’re probably being slowed down by the lamps. Try changing the settings.

If all else fails, you should be able to force Night back into Day.

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God, I’m having fun with this game.

I’m working with two families. The first is the Tudor family, Henry Tudor and Anne Boleyn. As you can imagine, they aspire for family, but it took so long for me to get Anne to fall in love with Henry, I still haven’t gotten a baby. They;ve WooHooed twice now, and they’re both at 100, but I still haven’t gotten the Try for a Baby option. I don’t know what the problem is.

My second family consists of Mary Stuart and her husband Lord Bothwell. Her Majesty was not happy with her peasant-like surroundings, but lacking funds, she convinced wealthy friends from around the neighborhood to move in, and then promptly sold the doors to their bedrooms. (This was before I discovered the “Get Own Place” option in the newspaper.) Mary surprised me with her cruelty: she went upstairs of her own accord to laugh at the poor woman walled up in her room, and then smashed the urn of ashes left after the poor woman gave up the ghost.

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If Anne is less than 3 days away from her Elder birthday (meaning that the baby would be born when she was an Elder) the option to Try for Baby will disappear.

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Also, Henry has to be in love with Anne as well; and just in case you didn’t realize (because I didn’t at first) there’s two levels - Crush and Love. Crush is represented by a pink heart on the Daily line of the relationship score; Love is represented by a bright red heart on the Lifetime line.

Oh and I wanted to ask; does Mary really go upstairs to laugh at her victims? If so, that rocks! I’ve been playing the game fairly straight, trying to get a good strong first generation going for the neighborhood. Somewhere along the second generation I’ll start really whacking things out. I had one death occur (note to self, do NOT use the mood-raising contraption (the one that is held together by baling wire and duct tape, it appears) when the Sim is not in gold aspiration!!) but I just didn’t save the game.

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Well, I played all weekend. On Sunday afternoon (oh, around 2 p.m. or so) my in-laws stopped by. After church and running errands. I was still in my pajama’s and the house was a mess.

I felt like a defective sim…you know, one who wasn’t brought up right and has abnormally low activity and neatness. I wondered if I had wavy green smelly lines coming off of me. :smiley:

Anyway, back to the game.

I think I goofed it up. I played the neighborhood in the order suggested in the guide. I was onto the Goth’s.

Cassandra had a beautiful wedding. I got wonderful pictures of her and Don being toasted and exchanging vows with beloved friends cheering them on.

Unfortunately, the next morning, that money loving (and Don loving) Dina walked by. I sent Don out to say ‘Hello’ and then sat back and let him do his own thing. Now, I knew he was a no good cheater, but I wasn’t going to make him, oh no, I was going to let him try to be an honorable man now that he was married - even with the tempting Dina about.

They didn’t make it past the living room before they decided (on their own) that making out right in front of Mortimer and Cassandra was a GREAT idea. :smack:

I got a good picture of the double slap. :smiley:

This didn’t deter them, in fact they had no problems getting all slutty in front of young Alexander. He started to cry softly because of the family rupture. I started to feel horrible because at this point Mortimer was spending most of his ‘happy’ etirement years crying in the kitchen.

There is nothing sadder than a lonely, depressed old man and his sobbing son. (Cas was busy throwing up for some reason) :smiley: So, I stopped letting these Sims decide their fates and used my god like powers and in one click forced Cassandra to send Don packing.

But now Mortimer mopes and cries a lot and I’m wondering if I made a mistake by letting him see Dina’s real side? I don’t want him to die alone and what of his money, it needs love too! :slight_smile: I wonder if I should let Dina win him over again? (seriously, he’s at negative 100 with her because of her cheating ways) Or should I pick someome more worthy of his final years? :wink:

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I just came in here to say: I have no kids, and never will. But when my Sim’s baby started crying in the crib* because no one came to pick him up, I felt really really bad and yelled at my Sim.

*He had just come home from work. He was the only one free. I told him to go do it, but he didn’t. When I went to look at him, he was sound asleep in the middle of the road, snoring away. :wink:

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Updated the driver and no more funky thing in the sky!
Yay! :smiley:

Also my harmless sim is nocked up by Sim Doggy Dogg. :dubious:

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Wait-what happened to Bella?

(Can one have both versions of the game on the computer at the same time? Hmmmm…)

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I’ve been meaning to check Strangetown to see if she’s waiting to be moved in.

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Bella has mysteriously gone missing. (But not really, she’s pretty easy to find)

And yes, you can have both version on at the same time, but Sims 2 has completely eradicated my (original) Sims Lust.

And replaced it with an addiction 10 times worse.

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Rumor has it she’s running around over in Strangetown. Mortimer’s memories may also give you something of a hint as to what happened to her (or may not)…

Yes, you can.

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I’ve been having fun with this game too.

I set up one family as sort of a trashy, hick family. Father was missing, old-before-her-time unemployed mother, punk teen-aged son, bratty kid daughter, and twin babies boy and girl).

They lived in a house smaller than a typical motel room, with an outhouse in the back yard (that they refused to use). Sorry, no chickens out back. The most amusing scene was when the mother called to get the kid into private school. So while the headmaster was there, these things happened: There’s like two strangers wandering around the yard. The kid is bouncing on the bed and making prank phone calls in the same room as the headmaster. the police showed up for something. The babies are crawling around unattended out on the street. One of them comes into the house (opening the front door!) and starts playing with the toilet, making a wet mess. The mother ignores the baby. She gives the headmaster a tour (just one room) and he is decidedly unimpressed. Needless to say, the kid did not get into the private school.

The other setup was similar to that TV phenomenon, “Survivor”. I got 8 castaways (max I could have) to a small plot. I paused the game and made a moat all around the property, with a land bridge to the island (haven’t figured out real bridges yet.) I then put up one dry wall with a phone, and had one of the castaways call as many service people as possible (police, firefighter, pizza delivery, nanny, repairman, etc.). Once everyone was situated on the island, I put up a barrier to prevent anyone from leaving. There was no house, vegetation, or anything. I even threw down brown bark over the default green grass. In a moment of weakness, I put a toilet up against a single standing wall (no privacy). Most of them, except the granny in the group refused to use it though.

Things progressed from bad to worse. Most of the castaways ignored the pizza that was provided to them. However, granny and “old top-hat guy” ate it, even after it began to rot and was abuzz with flies. So, eventually the grim repear appeared and scythed them down one by one. Granny wasn’t interested in him or her dying companions and instead preferred to play with the remote car I put on the island or else use the toilet. Eventually it was just her and the old man…that pizza had saved them! However, I finished them off anyways , so the plot looks like a cemetary now…ghosts abound! :smiley:

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I can’t make Willie Nelson!
I need man braids!
Waaa! :frowning:

I thought it might be like in the old games; the file name tells it where to go.
So an outfit named b300AFlgt_suit.bmp would go on an Adult Female.
I went to the Sims body shop and created genetics and cloned the brown female braids to alter.
I then opened the folder and saw they were named kind of like in the old game.
A letter representing age followed by either an M or F.
So I changed all the F’s to M’s.
What I got was soooo horrific I wish I had screen shots.
I had a bald baby, a toddler with crazy spiked out hair, a child with the same, a teenager with an exaggerated bouffant of the same, and the adult and elder?
BUNNY HEADS!??!!
I guess it was the social bunny’s head. It was missing a button eye!
Freaky! :eek:

I think I’ll look at the sims resource and try to download one instead. :smiley:

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hehe just curious…

can you do things like have two s be into each other? and i thought i saw something on a commercial about making a domminatricx… that would be an interesting combination…
…makes me wonder why they never made a pron video game

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I think that she may be too old. I never thought of that! I’ll have to check. Damn!

Yes, she did. I was pretty surprised by it, to tell you the truth. She only did it once-- and it was a woman she’d caught Bothwell kissing. I imagine there was some bad blood there.

I was telling Bothwell what to do, and had lost track of Mary for a moment. When I looked for her, I found her outside the room. Wondering what she was doing, I hovered my mouse over the action button in the upper right corner and it said “Laugh at”. The Grim Reaper was on his cell. After he’d carried the poor victim away, I let Mary into the room, whereupon she grabbed the urn and smashed it to the floor with a feral yell.

I didn’t think she had it in her!

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Mr. International Playboy is proud to announce the engagement of his first born Sim, Joanie Pantybutt,* to Miss Erin Single. Miss Pantybutt is employed as a Junior Executive while Miss Single is currently pursuing home study courses in Mechanics and Cooking. Wedding date is to be announced. :smiley:

They both want to WooHoo with three different Sims. My question now is if I encourage this, will it hurt this relationship that I’ve worked so hard to build?

*Joanie is actually a lesbian trapped in a man’s body. Her self image and inner beauty is so strong though she has the outward appearance to herself and others as a hot brunette. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Here’s my problem of the day. When I send Stephen Smartypants (an adult) down to the community lot to buy different outfits for his children, upon his return home the option to “plan outfit” only shows up in the wardrobe for one of his two children. (And I’m careful to purchase both boy and girl outfits.) I managed to change the little girl’s outfit, but not the other. I sent Stephen to the store a few times to try different combinations of clothing, but the little boy never gets the “plan outfit” and Stephen is simply throwing his money away on stuff that never appears in the wardrobe at home.

It seems to work better if the parents purchase clothing before the infant grows up, but taking care of a baby is hard work! It’s not so easy for Mr. and Mrs. Smartypants to jaunt off to the boutique. The Sims need some internet catalog shopping, IMHO.

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It won’t hurt any relationship, in the sims out of sight is out of mind. Send one to work while the other gets busy. I had five women in love with my sim, and he loved them. The maid, his police partner, Demi something, and some other sims. The maid didn’t mind as long as she was on duty, and the others never seemed to care when he was talking to anyone else.

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Thanks for the tip BonoVox. I figure some three way (or more) action is beyond the scope of the game.

I was wondering how to add clothing to a Sim already in play. I chose several of outfits for the Sim I designed but for some reason, she only ended up with one in the game. Now that Erin has moved in, my Sim can choose from her outfits too.

One cool thing I tried is that I scanned several diferent textile prints and textures and used bodyshop to make clothing with them. I was hoping to give them to Sims that were already in play but couldn’t figure out how.

I created an old crone with bodyshop the other day but am waiting for a good reason to put her into play. As I was playing around last night and designing Redheaded Stepchild, I got the idea to make Hansel and Gretel and have them live with Old Crone. I wonder if I can make a gingerbread house. Haven’t tried to build structures yet.