I love The Sims. It’s a weird concept, though - real people creating fake people and watching THEIR lives while complaining that they don’t have a life of their own.
“Terramar! Oh, mcmohnahay…”
I’m eagerly awaiting the day Simsville arrives in stores…
Zette, Yardstick,
Thanks for the comments folks. 
I played the Sims for a little while, then got tired of it… I’d rather play SimCity 3000.
Mostly I burn them to death after sending my children off to military school. The really sick part of me enjoys turning off the free will and making them piss all over themselves. They get embarrassed when that happens. (Awww…) And then I don’t let them shower. Ever. Hehe. I’m sick, I know. Family feuds between the neighbors are always fun, especially when a jealous wife comes over and kicks the crap out of you. And then the cops come.
I don’t have my game anymore. 
Thank you, thank you, thank you for the money cheat!!!
I’m a romance novelist, so I really enjoy making my sims fall in love with each other. I was so pissed that the bachelor refused to get along with my Piper, so I made her fall in love with the slovenly Bob and fight with Bob’s bitchy wife.
Piper is my very own favorite. I’m trying very hard to advance her through her medical career without cheating. It really helped when she and Bob hooked up. (That Bob. He won’t clean, he won’t work but boy will he party!}
Does anybody else purposefully create gay/lesbian relationships in their Sims game? Right now, I have these two men living in a house together who are maxed out on their relationship points, but I cannot for the life of me get them to fool around in the heart-shaped bed. They will kiss and hug and give each other back rubs, but they will not “do the deed”, so to speak. They will happily sleep in the same bed together, they just won’t engage in sex. I haven’t tried this out with two women yet, but I’m assuming the same thing will probably happen too.
I also have a family of eight adults, five men and three women. I created an office environment for them with computers and desks and a rather shabby looking lunchroom. However, there are no beds anywhere. They just walk around the building, playing on the computers, eating all the food, and bitch nonstop about how tired and uncomfortable they are until they finally collapse on the floor.
Gotta love that Bob Newbie. First on your doorstep, always willing to eat your food, stained T-shirt, belching and dancing and leaving messes everywhere. Gotta love him!
I’ve known Bob Newbie for years, just didn’t realize he was an icon! <lol>
Here’s a few interesting things I’ve learned.
If you built a moat, the sims ARE smart enough to change into their swimsuit, get in, and get out on the other side when you tell them to go somewhere on the other side. They won’t change out of their swimsuit, though.
Easiest and quickest method of eliminating unwanted sims is removing the pool ladder after they get in. Most fun is burning them. Most difficult is electrocution.
If a sim has an outgoing score of 8 or better, they will get in the hot tub naked, and anyone who gets in after them will do the same.
Don’t let depressed or angry people around your field of gnomes. Sell them before they build up just to be safe.
To advance to the high levels of almost any career, you cannot live alone. You need someone to stay at home to maintain relations with all your family friends. It helps if she is a slut.
Oh, and if you want same-sex couples to have sex, kiss, etc., you need to prompt them to flirt until the heart icons show up over their heads, once their relationship is good enough. The first time they won’t make that jump on their own, you have to force them. After you have made one gay couple, however, everybody in your neighborhood becomes potentially bisexual.
BTW, has anyone heard about the massively multiplayer version of The Sims that is being worked on? This sounds awesome - you build a house and a family, and interact with other player’s families instead of ones you created. I imagine inviting people over will be a lot more exciting when they are controlled by a live (and possibly malevolent) person.
Actually, it’s an outgoing score of 7.
This is Simsville, I think. Which AFAIK, still has no release date. Myself, I can’t wait for the House Party add-on pack…more and better ways to get your Sims to throw a party.
I don’t create them they just sort of happen. The first person I created was modeled on myself and they turned gay (I wonder if my PC knows something I don’t?!).
Right now I’ve got these two guys in a house who won’t make friends with other people. They don’t talk to women, and they don’t like it when the women talk to them. They are both bitchy to other men, when male neighbors visit it basically degrades into a cat fight.
I wonder if I didn’t accidentally get the “Alternative Lifestyle” version by accident.
I have to admit, I had a great deal of fun with some of the information provided here, between the pyromania displays, the swimming pool of death, etc. this game is even more fun than it was before.
I am definitely going to have to get the Living Large Expansion pack for the Gnomes alone.
I think I’m going to do some experimentation with Dysfuntional Families and Trailer Trash.
You know I love you people more and more everyday!
Well, as few of you know I have been without my Sims for a while since I had to borrow a monitor that was pretty old and wouldn’t support the program.
Income tax is a beautiful thing! Got me a big monitor now and lived playing Sims for a week. (that is where I have been lately)
I have lost the money cheat, but now I thank you.
How do I get the nude patch? I had it, but had to dump my burned game and go out and get the cd. So of course I am a little late as usual, but I am livin large.
How long does it take for the dead peoples to turn into ghosts?
And, BTW that crystal ball sucks! I lost a neatness point because it said my house was dirty. There was one dish out and it wasn’t even buzzing yet.
I will check out your site Blackclaw on Tuesday since that is my next day off, and I can sit and really be awake. (See the time? I just got off work and am heading to bed)
I’m with BigGirl, I really like screwing around with the interpersonal relationships. Have my swingin’ bachelor invite over the female half of a married couple, make nice with her, and then invite over the male half the next night. After I’ve gotten a heart with the female, I invite them over together, and watch the sparks fly.
As soon as I have a minute, I’m gonna attempt the money cheat. I’m on a Mac, you see. But I’ve had my eye on that bigass mansion for a long time now.
I forgot how, so I put one in your mailbox.
::running to check mail::
I promise I won’t show those to anyone. 
Thank you, now I won’t have to look at them all fuzzy when they take showers and such. It effects everything around them when they fuzz it out.
Damn, you too, huh? I think it looks damned funky.
I remember my very rich family, the Voyants. (Claire and Sabrina. Lovers. :p) They were very upwardly mobile, with tons of cash. Out the wazoo- still, they lived in the teeny tiny tutorial house. I deleted them though, when I got Livin’ Large, because I wanted to start anew. (Big mistake. They could have bought Servo!)
Oh well. once i start playing again, mansion here I come!
I still can’t get my gay men couple to fool around in the heart-shaped bed. However, I managed to get my lesbian couple to fool around in the bed several times. I consider this grossly unfair, although I’m sure the men around here would disagree with me.
I used to have the nude patch, but I got rid of it. When you use the nude patch, you can see everything, but the people have no genitalia at all. I have found skins where people have drawn in pubic hair, but the men are definitely lacking their penises in this game. I suppose you could find skins where people have drawn in male genitalia, but I have yet to find any. However, I have found skins of women with absolutely enormous breasticles.
Well, I started migrating my non-cheating families to new houses in their designated neighborhood (#4) now that most have a net worth > 30,000. The Lowenbrau family had a new curvy one-bedroom with a cool yard built, and the Schlitz family moved into their old house. The Eidelweiss, Pabst, and Corona families are next on the to-move list. Ol’ Jack Pabst should be able to afford a nice house, he’s the first one I got into gnome making.
“I used to have the nude patch, but I got rid of it. When you use the nude patch, you can see everything, but the people have no genitalia at all. I have found skins where people have drawn in pubic hair, but the men are definitely lacking their penises in this game. I suppose you could find skins where people have drawn in male genitalia, but I have yet to find any. However, I have found skins of women with absolutely enormous breasticles.”
Nude patch? What is it, and where did you get it?
Burrvatik.
Last time I played, I had an Army guy named Howie Howitzer who was getting it on with all the teenage girls and housewives in the neighborhood. No one ever confronted him, maybe they were afraid?