I know what you mean…I’ve just started getting into it, just as I did with the previous one…but it was a long weekend. How am I going to play the Sims and juggle my schoolwork? Ahhh. I could always combine the two…(i almost made a sim game based on Ethan Frome, but decided it was too depressing.)
I could always make a Jay Gatsby sim guy, and have him advance from rags to riches…
The website http://www.thesims.com has a number of downloads for the game (as long as you register the game). One of them is a “Clown Catcher”. If you get the tragic clown and it just won’t leave, you can call up the “Clown Catcher” on the phone. A rather menacing looking man shows up at your house and tells you that for $500, he can get rid of the clown. He then pulls out this ray gun and zaps the clown. The trick, of course, is as the guy is zapping the clown, you click the buy mode and delete the clown picture. That way, the clown goes away and doesn’t come back.
I have also found out that if you turn on the game and then walk away and let the Sims fend for themselves for a couple of hours, they don’t do very well on their own. I had turned on the game and was playing this family when my husband called me upstairs to ask me a question. Needless to say, I forgot the game was on and went about cleaning the house. I came downstairs a couple of hours later and the family was in complete disarray. The daughter was almost dying from starvation because nobody had fed her in at least a couple of days. There were multiple puddles on the floor in various locations, leaving me to believe that some of the characters had been forgetting to use the bathrooms and had ended up wetting themselves. There were dishes laying around everywhere and roaches crawling around in four different rooms. The fish were dead in the tank and the hamster was dead in his tank too. The flowers and plants were all dead, including the cactus. The computer in the daughter’s room was broken, and there were five old newspapers sitting in the front yard. the whole family was walking around, complaining about being lonely (social skills were way down), about being stinky (nobody had apparently bathed in some time either), they were hungry, they were tired, and nobody was having any fun. Luckily, this particular house didn’t contain the clown picture, so at least he wasn’t there to screw with everybody.
God, I love this game 
Muhahaha, they’re such morons.
Right about now I need a shoulder to cry on!
Our monitor went out so we borrowed one from a friend. The only problem is that it isn’t super vga. I can’t play and haven’t been able to for about a month now! And it gets worse friends. We won’t be able to get a new one until income tax!
I spent the first week downloading and saving different skins and houses from different sites. Now I just sit and blankly stare at the short cut on my desktop.
I used to play right after I sent the kids off to school until I went to work and then again right after work and then again right after dinner until 2am or so. I went from a hardcore addiction cold turkey!
I WANT MY SIMS BACK!!!
Please share your stories with me so that I might get thru this. PLEASE!
Oh my god.
How awful.
I can start a surrogate family/house here for you if you want. What do you like?
Are you sure about that? I had some pretty stange people.
Two men and one woman,trying to live in one house and all REALLY liking each other.
They could have been swingers if my woman wouldn’t have slapped the one guys boyfriend and he ran away crying. Disappointing but kinda funny.
So, if you don’t mind playing with freaky people then let me know how it goes. Otherwise I will be happy hearing stories of how others play gods and goddesses to their little worlds.
Does anybody else get a rush of power like that? I think my husband is glad that I can’t play for a while. That way he doesn’t have to sit and listen to me yell at them for not doing what I want them to, or moving to slowly.
I’ve been debating on getting a threesome together, but so far unsuccessful. They pair off so nicely…
I’ll play for a bit later and send you stories. I feel your pain…
Ahh. I do that too, only its usually 2 girls and a guy, instead of t’other way round…since the girls have better faces/outfits.
Or one guy and one girl for the smaller less expensive houses. I bought the potion set…Are weird things supposed to happen w/ it, b/c nothing did w/ mine, except logic increased.
Get your people to drink potions.
Ah but how? You couldn’t drink anything; just “make potions.” Or do you have to work at that little potion making station for a really long time to make one?