Archive through March 10, 2002
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Willsfan | Sunday, February 10, 2002 - 09:10 pm     I downloaded my HD nude patch from Pandoras sims which closed down within the last few days. Don't know when it will be back up. It may be another pay site when it reopens. Other people occassionaly use my computer and I don't want them to think I'm a perv, otherwise I would want the "adult" patch. LOL So...here's another place to download the Ken and Barbie type patch for Hot Date. *crossing my fingers-hoping the link works* Patch |
Willsfan | Sunday, February 10, 2002 - 09:58 pm     In HD to get friends quickly give them a diamond ring, it will raise the relationship bar about 20 points. This is cheating in a way and I only used it for the family that had rotten jobs and I wanted them to get 18 family friends in order to get promoted. The drawback to this is that sometimes, but not always both realtionship bars (daily & lifetime) will be in the 90's and they still aren't your friend, so you have to talk to them a little and give them another ring. The male sims often kiss each other (females too) but this is because their Social level gets low and they are lonely. I've found that one of the best ways to keep that level up is to let them all get in the hot tub or try to get them all to sit down at the table and eat two or three helpings. Social interaction is very important in HD. |
Mssilhouette | Sunday, February 10, 2002 - 11:54 pm     ::sheepish grin:: Okay so after being lazy on Sunday I decided to pull myself away from PBS and that darn captivating show on Brits Royal Family. So I hopped in the shower and started to get dressed checked here and posted the message about getting HD. Yessiree I was all ready to barge out the door. I just went into click off the TV and run out the door...well PBS in their infinte wisdom decided to show more stuff on the Royal weddings and what they do to prepare. (I'm not a royal watcher it was just interesting watching all the glamor) Soooo after another 2 hours went by I decided it was too late to go get the game. (Yea sunday is my lazy day) BUT bright and early tomorrow morning i go out and do all the stuff I was supposed to do today. LOL After hearing some more trouble about HD..I may get it and still wait to install it. I just REALLY want the game in my grubby little palms. If its gonna change how I can share houses then I'll wait to install it. I like making and sharing houses too much to ruin it So for now I'm still in LL and HP land! By the way: I can't burn anything...No burner  |
Angelnikki | Monday, February 11, 2002 - 04:16 pm     i have a burner but my BF tryed to burn LL for a friend and it got to 99% and stayed there for an hour or more and he just said screw it and went to take it out and it was stuck. LOL Who knows, maybe you cant burn those disks. good thing |
Mssilhouette | Monday, February 11, 2002 - 11:40 pm     Okay well I FINALLY got Hot Date. Yessir, that' there's a special expansion pack. I put it in and well checked it out then because Looks nice and interesting. Although I noticed that the energy didn't really go down while I was in downtown. After looking at all the nice improvments and stuff I had to remove it. HT, combined with LL and HP takes up WAY too much space and eats at my RAM. To run all 3 I'd need 128MB of ram which I do not have and a bigger Hardrive, which I also don't have....well I do but its a b*tch to install so I'll leave it be for now. For those with Hot Date I did buy the Primus Guide, so I might have some tips for you. Overall I did notice how much of a PAIN IN THE A** it was to make friends. And what's the hell is with that second bar for lifetime score? What the relationship bar wasn't enough? Sheesh...With Hot Date you can't just talk random nonsense to the sims you gotta get specific and only talk about things the other sim is intersted in. (I think they took the SIms a little too far) LOL Gee now I have to actually listen to them and care about what they care about. It's a cute expansion but I'm gonna wait until I buck up my ram and drive space. Oh by the way, I did backup my house files and stuff. But sadly I'll havta remake the people. But that shouldn't be too difficult. |
Willsfan | Tuesday, February 12, 2002 - 01:24 am     Guess what? Hot Date Game Patch Ver2.0 has arrived. LOL This time I think I'll wait before downloading. Once bitten, twice shy. |
Biloxibelle | Tuesday, February 12, 2002 - 07:22 am     Whoa Hate Date Patch huh? I'll go give it a try and report back. I never had any problems with the other patch so maybe I won't this one. I did get the old grouch after d/l the last one Mrs Crumplebottom she just seemed to walk around with a death grip on her purse but doen't interact with anyone. I'll let you know how it goes Wills. I played yesterday a good bit. Got about 5 house in the neighborhood now. Getting bored with a few families though. And I have one Sim who is making me crazy he lives in the Hancock household. I've got 2 male roommates in there. Keith falls in love with all the ladies and they all fall in love with him but then there is Thor and he is a copycat and also falls in love with the same ones. And he is so darn needy keeping him happy and social are full time jobs. I worked on him all day yesterday and got him and one of the Simapod roommates to fall in love but he still isn't happy all he wants to do is cry and wave when he sees Keith with one of his ladies. He is turning all the parties into a bummer. I am going to try the diamond ring cheat. Then I think I will marry Thor off. But I hate to ship him out to the Simapods and have him ruin the parties the girls throw over there. Might be time to seal him up in a dark doorless room but a part of me feels sorry for the poor needy guy. Oh well I'll let you know what happens. Oh got the networking going so am playing on line again. |
Angelnikki | Tuesday, February 12, 2002 - 04:58 pm     i found some cheats like grow grass and to make water motes or ponds or whatever but when im in the middle it will literally kick me off of the sims game and it ticks me off cause its not like this game doesnt take long enough to load anyway, here it is for anyone who wants to try it water_tool and hit enter and simply use the mouse to make the pond as big as you want edit_grass 150 and hit enter and use the mouse and the grass will cover any brown crap you have on your lot. try at your own risk. |
Misslibra | Wednesday, February 13, 2002 - 10:19 pm     AngelNikki, I read somewhere the cheat code for the water wont work in HotDate. I can't remember if you said you had hotdate or not? I did find a site that has water tiles and fish pond tiles with goldfish, and striped bass, even koi fish tiles. This site also had the corner tiles for the water tiles. If your interested in getting these water tiles I'll post the link to the site. I have read quite a few complaints about HD. Mssil from what you said about it, it sounds like a resource hog. I definitely will need a major upgrade on my computer to play it. I really like your club. When my Sims enter the club, you had the party started already. Music was playing and they started dancing. You even had a welcome party there. You know I'm refering to that ghost. LOL I must say at first I didn't know what the heck it was, it look like a cross between frankenstein and a robotic alien. I was like what the heck has Mssil put in here! LOL I have a question for you about the ghost. How do I make him stop walking around? He constantly walks from the upstairs to the downstairs non-stop. I didn't have any problems either other then some custom stuff didn't load, walls and floors didn't load. And what ever you had them sitting on when they watch TV didn't load. But other then that it worked out fine in my game. Judy, where are you? Having more babies over there? LOL I found a site that has a patch to let your babies grow into teens and then into adults. I got the patch from The Sims Lifecycle. So you know what that mean, Sweetpea can grow up finally. If your interested I'll post the link to the site. I'm having back problems so I haven't been on my puter to much. It hurts to sit in my chair. I started feeling somewhat better early this morning and decided to check on my Sims, with much regret now. Well one of my Sims decided to have a early morning barbecue and he caught the grill on fire. It was a absolute distaster. While trying to put the fire out he caught on fire. His wife came out and she tried to put the fire out, and she caught on fire. I didn't think to put a fire alarm near the grill. It crossed my mind but I never put any up near any of my sims grills. So the fire department never came out. It turned even more horrific when the koi and goldfish pond ( had like a zen garden thing going on in their backyard} it caught on fire as well. The fire destroyed everything in the back yard except the pool. The other couple who lived with them the husband was at work when the fire was happening, and his wife had just left and married another man (a neighbor). So his wife was no longer living in the household. When he arrived home from work the fire was still raging out of control. I guess I was in shock after seeing the fire burn everything in site. I wasn't expecting the fire to spread like it did since it is just a game and not real life. That garden/pond was my pride and joy, I had worked very hard on it trying to get it just right. I say this because I forgot he could call the fire department when he came home. Instead I had him go and try and put out the fire. Very dumb move. The poor guy spent most of the night trying to put out the fire himself until I remembered he could call the fire department, and a bubble came up near his head telling me he wanted to go watch TV. While he was fighting the fire. LOL Anway after the fire the ground had burned up so bad that when I tried to replace everything and put things back like they were, the black fire spots showed through everything. Even the Sims grass was beyond repair. Talk about scorched earth. Thank goodness we have the option to save or not save the game. Guess which one I picked?? LOL |
Mssilhouette | Wednesday, February 13, 2002 - 11:42 pm     Um MissL I don't know anything about a ghost. I can assure you I didn't place one in that house on purpose. Oh wait maybe he's from the tombstones in the backyard. I've never had him roam around before in fact, I never even seen him. So if you want to get rid of him just delete the tombstones in the back of the house. (On the left) LOL Forgot all about those things. It could also just be a gitch. I must have saved the house when the party was still going. That's probably why the stuff was still on. Oh the walls weren't really custom 'cept for a few of those pictures of women. And they were sitting on a 8thdeadlysim.com Strip couch, no biggie. I also use another couch from 7deadlysims.com that probably didn't show up. As well as a their black & purple hot tub and dance floor. The floor in the clubs came from House Party and it's standard. I'm glad you saved your garden. Wow talk about your hot times. (yeah it was a bad one) I've been getting ready for an interview so I haven't had time to reinstall the other 2 expansion packs. Probably friday or sunday. |
Misslibra | Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 09:29 pm     OK I'll removed the tombstones and see if that will stop the ghost. I wouldn't mind if he came out once in a while, but this ghost is like the energizer bunny! Like you said it's probably some kind of glitch. |
Mssilhouette | Friday, February 15, 2002 - 09:25 pm     MissL if you still have problems I'll calm the nightclub house down and make sure everything is quiet maybe do a bit of remodeling (mostly change a few objects) AND THEN I will save the game. That will probably get rid of any glitches, which more than likely came from a saved game with a bunch of crap going on. Since I have had to reinstalling Sims and the two expansions I've had to reamake my families (I kept the house just forgot to save the family files) I've finished making Silhouette as well as the Nightclub family. All that's left are the Brothers, Sisters, Party People, Black Widow, Singles & Married. (Yeah I'm gonna add more folks) Then I should be back taking pictures, uploading houses and the rest. |
Mssilhouette | Monday, February 18, 2002 - 11:34 pm     Well having spent hours remaking my neighborhood characters I've seem to have gone overboard. LOL Here's how the world looks in my Simsville Silhouette - 2 sisters Single(s) - 3 women, 3 men Nightclub - 1 man, 7 women Bachelors - 8 men PartyPeople - 3 men, 3 women Sibs (siblings) - 4 brothers, 4 sisters WedBliss - 3 married couples Widow - 1 woman, 5 men Grand Total - 50 SIMS!!! Let me tell you whenever someone new comes into the neighborhood its a party! LOL What's even more amazing is that I have 2 empty lots remaining. I'm kinda scared to throw a party until I get more RAM. I'd hate to see how many folk would try and stop by. I think I'll make one more family with commited couples as I realize that I didn't have any same sex matches. I like a nice well rounded neighborhood. I'm gonna call them the SigOth (signifigant other). Then I shall let the drama begin....Well actually it already has. The most friendlies people on the block are the women from the Nightclub. Except that one keeps picking fights with the new neighbors...It's very funny to see them insult each other. I'll be creating storylines soon and the drama will continue shortly |
Angelnikki | Sunday, February 24, 2002 - 01:08 pm     is hot date worth getting? circuit city has it on sale 19.99 and im gonna go get it, but i heard someone say that when they installed it, it took away all the items that they had downloaded. I downloaded alot of stuff and i dont want that to happen. but im sick of just LL so im gonna go get HD today. i will let you know what happens. |
Willsfan | Sunday, February 24, 2002 - 02:17 pm     Save the folders with your downloads. Just in case. It will overwrite some objects during installation. With HD you can build your own stores, shopping centers and restaurants. I made a park with some fish ponds, outdoor chessboards, bbq grills and I take my Sims there for an afternoon of fun. They can rent boats and picnic baskets at the booth. I haven't played with my Sims for over a week. But I'm going to in a few minutes. |
Angelnikki | Sunday, February 24, 2002 - 04:55 pm     ok i feel like screaming DUH NICOLE DUH!!!!!!!!!!!i go to circuit city and buy HD, i come home and notice it says NOT supported with windows NT. thats what i have what am i gonna do now. i should have read the freakin requirements before i bought it at the circuit city all the way across town. |
Mssilhouette | Sunday, February 24, 2002 - 11:34 pm     Return it or sell it on Ebay I'd say get House Party but its not supported by NT either....sorry. |
Angelnikki | Monday, February 25, 2002 - 12:41 am     well i installed it and what do you know, HD works on this computer. there seem to be no problems at all, in fact it doesnt seem to load any slower than LL did. HD is awesome. The only thing i dont like is the social thing. man it is really hard to get people to like you on HD. i had a friend that lives next door to one of my single girls and she saw the neighbor in town and they talked and ate together, then they go home and talked some more and got in the hot tub(the heart shaped one) and the options were cuddle, kiss, play, or wash. each time my single girl tryed to do this she got slapped. she keeps crying because she cant get her social up. all she does more than half of the day is sit in the hot tub and thats no lie. she gets nekkid and sits in that thing till shes all wrinkled and prune looking then she goes to bed. what is up with the cry baby?? I named her Sexy Sadie and she is really cute and stylish and you should see this house i decorated for her. shes got everything and she is still bummed out. well, i guess i will have to play HD some more and figure out the skills have fun everyone. |
Crazydog | Monday, February 25, 2002 - 08:48 am     Now that the Olympics are over it's time for me to start getting back into playing the Sims. I agree that with Hot Date it is much harder to make friends but I will try that diamond ring trick mentioned somewhere up above. With my single Sims I have been trying to hook them up but it seems Sims get offended very very easily. So maybe you have to be friends - 50 points or above(?) - to cuddle kiss wash etc. each other in the love tub. (BTW I think that in this manner the game is a little unrealistic.... for some reason I think most men who find themselves nekkid in a hot tub with a frisky female would NOT resist her advances, let alone slap her LOL). I agree about the part about conversations and having to choose topics. I find it hard enough to manage to make them talk to each other, now I have to look to see what my Sim is interested in. And as far as I know there is no way to see what the other Sim is interested in short of playing as them and writing it down. To keep track of what topics each Sim is interested in and make sure they only talk to each other about those is a little too much to ask. Looking forward to getting back to my Sims! |
Willsfan | Monday, March 04, 2002 - 05:28 pm     I haven't played with my sims for days. I've been busy, but not too busy to check out a web site about a Sim named Chad. A couple of the entries are way too funny, even if there's a tad too much bad language used. Chads Sim Diary |
Mssilhouette | Friday, March 08, 2002 - 01:27 pm     Hey Sims people. I haven't posted much because.... 1) I had to install a second HD and some ram that my boyfriend sent me. 2) Along with the comp goodies I was given a copy of Aliens vs Predator. 3) To play Aliens vs Predator I needed a new graphics cards. 4) Having gotten all upgrades to my comp system I am now engulfed in killing Marines playing as an Alien. 5) Tain't no blood splattering in Sims. (darn it) Now I did manage to FINALLY install HotDate. But when I go downtown it seems to run at a crawl which I don't understand because I have about 300+ MB of RAM. I don't really want to uninstall it AGAIN and have to make my sims all over again but from the way its running I might have to. Anyway can someone let me know if the Hot Date patch will fix this problem or if anyone else has had it. Thanks In the meantime I'll be clawing and chest bursting my way through Aliens vs Predator. Damn boyfriend and his need to share things with me. Geez you think he loved me or something. LOL |
Willsfan | Friday, March 08, 2002 - 06:08 pm     Mssilhouette - Hi, long time no see. H.D. doesn't slow down for me downtown. This is apparently a common problem. (I read the posts over at the MGO forum) You have enough memory, but the Sims eats it up faster than any game I have ever played. I don't know if the patch would help your problem, but it wouldn't hurt to try. After downloading the first H.D. patch I didn't go back for the 2nd one. Lately my Real life has had more than enough drama so that I haven't had time to play or download anything. |
Angelnikki | Friday, March 08, 2002 - 11:59 pm     my hotdate is kinda slow but not unbearable. When i go downtown it runs ok. I built a new lot downtown thats pretty cool. |
Mssilhouette | Sunday, March 10, 2002 - 02:27 pm     Hmmm then it's probably just me...I'll give it another try and hope that maybe with the new graphics card and patch it'll work better. Willsfan - I understand completely about Real Life What's amazing is that from the Hot Date installation booklet they recommend that with both LL and HP expansion RAM should be at 128 MB I have WAY over that amount plus I placed the game on my 2nd hard drive so it has plenty of room for the swap file. *Sigh* I'll keep tweaking or I'll just wait for Sims Vacation! |
Willsfan | Sunday, March 10, 2002 - 09:03 pm     The only way I can play this game without it slowing down or dumping me back onto the desktop is to turn off all programs running in the background (virus checker,RealPlay, AIM, etc.) This includes the screensaver! If I have been on the computer for a while I reboot and start turning off all the programs before playing the game. This was a tip I got from another message board and it has helped me a lot. The screensaver has to be turned off on my computer before I can defrag it, otherwise the program keeps starting and stopping and it takes forever to defrag. I am willing to bet that it sometimes messes up computer games too. (I had mine set to come on after 15 minutes idle) |
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