Okay I know that there are other people out there who play and I have a few questions.
I have the patch for the money, but I don’t know how to get it to work. It says the patch worked but they still start with 2o,ooo.
Also once your people make enuff money with their net worth and all, can they move into the bigger houses?
I have one family doing well since I have figured things out, and want a better house for them.
Lastly. Does anyone else have a spouse or SO that thinks they are crazy for talking to the screen at your sims? My hubby thinks I’m daft! LOL
“Kricket, they aren’t real, quit bitchin’ at them!”
Dont know about the money patch, but you can go to the neighborhood screen and kick them out of the old home, and then build or buy a new one. If the home you want is occupied by another family, boot them as well.
I read that the creater did one of the more funny twists in the history of gaming: he created a virus that works against his own game. That’s right. When you download a patch that allow you to own hamsters, and use them, you have to keep the hamster’s habitat clean all the time, even for the character for whom cleaning is not a priority. Otherwise, the hamster will die and spread a deadly disease all over your house. Your characters will get ill and die.
Kelli, I am getting a lot of satisfaction from earning the money but the one family can’t seem to hold jobs. I can’t get them out the door fast enuff for the car pool.
Right now I am running three different families and one of them I won’t play with anymore because they are so low with their moods I can’t get them to do anything. I will eventually go back to them and fix that. I haven’t totally given up on them.
Kvallulf you mean if I evict my own family they will keep all the money and stuff that they have and then move them into the house that I want?
I don’t really know anything about a money patch, and I agree that the most enjoyable way to play the game is the honest way.
However, if you really wish to cheat your way to more money (hey, maybe your Sims can win the lottery), I think I can remember the cheat code: Press your “Ctrl,” “Shift,” and “c” keys to enter a cheat code, and then write “rosebud” (without the quotation marks, of course) in the appropriate bar. This will earn you an automatic §1000. The next time, you don’t have to write “rosebud.” All you need to do is type “!” (again without the quotes) as many times as you like (up to 30, I believe) separated by semi-colons.
Example: !;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!
N.B.: This particular code will only work if you have the updated version of the game (i.o.w. all the patches). There is another cheat code for the original version, but I can’t remember it for the life of me.
BTW… Am I the only one who likes to find all sorts of really sick ways to kill my Sims? Does that make me unbalanced? Should I seek help?
I find it funny (and somewhat disturbing) of some of the features available when you talk to people. For example, I’ve noticed that my character (single male house) tends to want to ask other male friends to move in and even the flirt option is available. Also, I could’ve sworn my character was gonna flirt with that little annoying girl from the Goth family.
Do NOT flirt with Bella Goth!! She is as nasty as a viper!
Kricket, evict you sad family from the house, and move them into a new one. SIMS love to move!! They start at maximum levels in a new home.
OR, make sure that the food, sleep,hygene,abd bladder levels are in the green, THEN work on socila, and fun. They like watching tv together, and try to get them to eat meals at the same time, they will talk to each other.
If you have a couple, get them to ticle and dance, and kiss - it make sthem happy. For the kids, get them to call another kid, and select ‘play’ when the kid comes over.
As for interesting ways to kill your sims, my fave is to wall them into a closet and let the starve to death. Its funny as hell, they stand there and complain, peeing themselves and sleeping standing up until eventually they die. Then you get a ghost that comes around and scares people. I only did it once. I felt too guilty about it after.
Talkinsquirrel, it’s a great game. A friend of mine and I have given it a dubious award; the most addictively boring game ever. It’s a game about life. Nothing there explosive or unmundane. You have to go to the washroom, clean the house, make a few friends, pay the bills, get a job, etc… but just TRY to put it down once you have started…
I think the most interesting way to kill them off is to build a pool with a diving board but no exits. It’s like the Sim Roach Motel. They just swim around and complain until they fall asleep and drown. Or did they starve to death? I just put it on fast speed to put them out of their misery quickly.
It’s also fun to build a “holding pen” for visiting sims. Then if the cop comes over because you’re making too much noise, you wall him in too. Give me a ticket, will ya!
The only cheat I regularly use is the “set_hour 4” (4 would be 4:00 a.m. etc.)
Has anyone downloaded the naked patch? You can actually see them naked without the blur. The only problem I found is that the men don’t have penis and no one pulls their pants down when they sit on the toilet. How gross is that?
Word on this game was so good that I bought within a week of its arrival. Haven’t touched it since two days after that.
The most godawful boring game in the world. Not addictively boring, just boring. What is weird is the number of people I know who despised tomagochi, but love this game. It is essentially the same thing!
I’ll agree with kelli. I used the money cheat, became gagillionaire, and stopped playing that family. Also, I bought the guinea pig before I knew about the virus and it killed my husband. That was a sad day! :rolleyes:
If you have kids and make them skip school, they’ll eventually be taken to a military school. I was ecstatic when I discovered that little trick.
On the Goth family: I played them for a while. First, I got Mortimer to fall in love with my homosexual Sim, Marcus. Mortimer left Bella and little Cassandra (is that her name?) and moved in with Marcus. I then made Cassandra skip school and sent her off to military school. Then I got my heterosexual Sim, Martin, to fall in love with Bella. She eventually moved in to Martin’s home and later, tragically, drowned in the pool.
Oh, and Kricket? Turn off the “Free Will” feature. That way, you can get your Sims to work on time.
I have a single girl (Evelyn) living in the really nice house. Well, she has a big pool and hot tub. Two friends came over (a married couple) and they were all hot tubbing. All of a sudden, the gas grill caught the hot tub on fire! The Sims were hollering and wailing, and the lady Sim runs into the fire and dies!
They bury her right in the yard next to the hot tub, and the husband was just wailing and carrying on. Then, about a minute later, he starts making out with Evelyn! He got over that quick enough!
Also, my sims have gotten into the hot tub naked. They have also slapped each other in jealousy. Love them Sims!
Zette
PS- I always scam money, so my Sims don’t work- do you actually ever get to see where they work? Or is your view always limited to their houses? Does anyone know if the expansion pack will allow you to walk off your property?
For some very funny Sims stuff (especially at a boring day at work) go to:
and go to “read a sims family saga”. very funny stuff!
