Archive through December 09, 2001

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Mssilhouette

Tuesday, December 04, 2001 - 11:07 am Click here to edit this post
Okay for those of us that play The Sims (http://www.thesims.com) Here's where we can talk about the strange stuff our little people do or do not do.

I have The Sims, Living Large & House Party...I should get Hot Date soon..and I can't wait. There are seveal sites to get clothes, furniture, houses and families.

The place where I get all my furniture and skins is: http://www.7deadlysims.com

I get houses at http://www.thesimsresource.com or the main sims site.

So far I've been playing with the cheats to build a nice house and see all the cool stuff.

Now I've played without the cheat but I did use the Newbie trick... :)

Willsfan

Tuesday, December 04, 2001 - 11:48 am Click here to edit this post
I would like to get Hot Date too.

My question is..when you download objects like juke boxes they appear on the desktop (jukebox.exe) what do you do with them? Do you leave them on there or create a folder or what? I don't want them cluttering up my desktop. Yes, I know it's a dumb question but I need/want to know.

I use only one cheat code. rosebud. My people don't make much money.

Mssilhouette

Tuesday, December 04, 2001 - 12:21 pm Click here to edit this post
Okay Willsfan, what you will need to do is double click on the exe file. That should put the jukebox in the sims folder where it needs to be.

If it doesn't go into the Maxis folder (usally found in the 'Program Files' folder) then into 'The Sims' then, 'Game Data' then, finally 'Objects'. That's where you'll put all the..ahh objects you download.

The 'rosebud' cheat only gives you only 1000 simoleans, but you need the other cheat after that to get the big bucks. Type in rosebud then hit ENTER then type in !;!;!; (exclaimation point and semi-colon)for every !; you put in you'll get 1000 bucks. The max number of !; can put in are about 30 so every time you do it you'll get 30,000. :) I like to copy and paste the code so I don't have to keep typing it.

Willsfan

Tuesday, December 04, 2001 - 02:00 pm Click here to edit this post
Thanks Mssilhouette!!
Now I know how to get the big bucks fast.


Everything I have downloaded is working fine. I spend more time building than developing the characters. Actually, I've spent more time playing with this game than I would care to admit.

Mssilhouette

Tuesday, December 04, 2001 - 03:19 pm Click here to edit this post
You should try looking at the houses at www.thesimsresource.com I've put those in my neighborhood to make my couple have more friends

Heck I've made an 8 adult person family just to make friends with my couple so they could get job promotions.

By the way the Newbie trick is using the tutorital sims Bob & Betty Newbie to max out their work qualities then you'll have a Super Sims

What you do is go to the tutorial house and then ignore the tutorial. When the game is trying to show you how to play. Just ignore it and make Bob Newbie study cooking, mechnical, pratice speech etc. Buy him a workout bench to work out on for body. BUT don't get that until he's maxed out on Logic, Mechanical, Cooking, Speech, Creativity.

What happens is because Newbie is part of the tutorial his needs are frozen. He doesn't get tired of need to eat..etc. If you have him workout on the bench his enegery will start to depleat so I save this until last.

It take a while to get him all maxed out, but its worth it. I don't wait to get Betty into the picture once Bob is at max on those things I leave the hosue and go to my main character.

Bob will walk by my main character's house and I will get them to become very friendly then eventually my Sim will pop the quesiton. Bob will accept (That's how I get to keep my house and name) and then I send Super Bob out to find a job. I like the computer job because it pays the most at the end. MIlitary pays the most on the first few levels and doesn't require any friends until the later job levels


My main Sim usually stays home and makes the friends. I ALWAYS hire a maid & gardener because its worth the expense and I don't have to worry about cleanup!

With Houseparty I make the Housebound Sim throw all the parties. I've had the mystery celeb guest drop by, which was really neat.

Willsfan

Tuesday, December 04, 2001 - 05:14 pm Click here to edit this post
Wow! I'm impressed. I think I'll try using the tutorial Newbie family and see how it goes. It would be nice to have an "overachiever. That's pretty cool.

I visited the simsresource today but only briefly. I bookmarked it so that later this evening I can check it out at my leisure. It looked interesting.

Thanks for the tips and the link!

Ocean_Islands

Wednesday, December 05, 2001 - 07:41 am Click here to edit this post
Help! What are the Sims?

Sunshinemiss

Wednesday, December 05, 2001 - 09:31 am Click here to edit this post
Yah, what's the story, morning glory? Never heard of this, sounds like fun!

<sunshine glumly figures webtv can't probably play it anyway though, sigh>

Mssilhouette

Wednesday, December 05, 2001 - 11:40 am Click here to edit this post
Okay here's an article from USA Today talking about the Sims
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We have met 'the Sims,'
and they are us
By A.S. Berman, USATODAY.com


What a crass, predictable, impulse-driven species we human beings are.

This will be old news to some, but it came as something of a revelation to this reviewer, brought about by a visit to the disturbing, yet strangely compelling world of The Sims.

The latest "simulation" game from the makers of SimCity, The Sims places you squarely in control of the lives, loves, joys and sorrows of a community of virtual human beings.

These digital men and women -- built from the ground up by you -- laugh, cry, tickle, kiss and even dance in place when you've waited too long between bathroom breaks.

Once you've created your family, you need to buy a house to put them in, find them jobs, and buy food, furniture and other items to keep them happy and healthy.

A status panel at the bottom of the screen keeps you apprised of their wants, needs and moods, including the states of their bladders, stomachs, even hygiene. Ignoring these can have tragic consequences. Deprive your Sim of rest for too long, for instance, and its Rest gauge redlines and he or she keels over.

When you want your Sim to interact with others, just click on another character and choose from the options that materialize above its head. Depending on the relationship your Sim enjoys with this one, choices can range from Tease to Propose.

When left to their own resources, these all-too-human characters wander around aimlessly, belching more often than seems healthy.

While the Sims communicate in a scatlike gibberish, speech balloons above their heads often contain icons (e.g. a courthouse, a UFO, etc.) that at least give you the gist of the conversation.

In the Sims' world there's never a question of how you're getting along with people. When one of your Sims interacts with another, relationship icons materialize above their heads containing plus signs (things are going great) or minus signs ("I really should be going"). If things go exceptionally well, you even can choose to have, or adopt, a baby.

Nearly every facet of life rears its head in this game at one stage or another, from petty jealousies between characters to floods, fires, burglars, and yes, even death. After one of your digital people passes on, you even can direct the mourning of your other Sims.

To shake things up a bit, enabling the "free will" option lets them decide whether or not they want to follow your directions.

The Sims, not content merely to be a triumph of gaming artistry, also reveals life to be what it is: a glorified pursuit of food and love, punctuated by frequent trips to the loo.


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Now since the first game was introduced 3 expansions packs have come out.

#1 Living Large
#2 House Party
and the most recently available
Hot Date - This changes the game drastically by making your sims search for Love or a good date.

Mssilhouette

Wednesday, December 05, 2001 - 11:45 am Click here to edit this post
Okay to summarize that long article:

Its a human simulation game....Basically you create a person, dress them, set their moods and their personality.

Then you move them into a house (or build them one) after that you have to get them a job, build their skills and keep their social life full with friends or else your Sim will get sad.

Sims can get married, have children and die.
There's also the potential for making storylines with several sims.

Once you play, you get addicted to it, plus its fun listening to them talk in Simspeak.

Ocean_Islands

Wednesday, December 05, 2001 - 03:08 pm Click here to edit this post
God its hard enough to manage my own life, let alone a bunch of 'Sims'. Ug.

Mssilhouette

Wednesday, December 05, 2001 - 03:55 pm Click here to edit this post
LOL OI that's the beauty of it....its a break from managing your life. You can make evil sims or extremely good ones.

As a profession you can be a theif or a slacker, its up to you.

Crazydog

Wednesday, December 05, 2001 - 04:06 pm Click here to edit this post
I haven't gotten this game... I find I always have too many games and not enough time to play them. I've also heard that people get really frustrated with this game because when the sims are unhappy, they seem to display that by peeing on the floor. LOL

Willsfan

Wednesday, December 05, 2001 - 04:46 pm Click here to edit this post
Crazydog, it can be frustrating but it is a great game. There are no mazes to complete, no enemies to conquer, no violence. It's about family life and decorating.

It is like watching Big Brother except you create your family, choosing the number of members, whether they are male or female, child or adult.

I love building the houses!! And if I don't like the home I bulldoze it. How cool is that. haha And you can put lots of SIMS in a house and watch them get mad. This can be very entertaining when you are in a foul mood.

Ocean_Islands

Thursday, December 06, 2001 - 06:15 am Click here to edit this post
Can you make 'Sims' that take care of themselves?

By the way can this be downloaded at work or do I have to go to a store?

Mssilhouette

Thursday, December 06, 2001 - 10:05 am Click here to edit this post
OI,

You'll have to go to a store. Its a computer game so I don't think they have a demo of it. It's not one of the games that could be crammed into a demo anyway.

Yes you can make Sims take care of themselves there is a box you can check for "free will" in the game but that won't make them get a job nor will they get the skills they need to keep from starting a fire in the house.

There is an autonomy cheat that will have them doing things they don't normally do with the free will option turned on but they still won't get a job.

If you don't find a job before your money runs out the Repo man comes to take your stuff.


Crazy Dog,

If the Sims is unhappy (well into the red) then they might pee on the floor. But that would be only after their bladder meter has dropped well into the red. Trust me the sims will tell you when they have to go to the bathroom if you don't notice. THey'll start to do the pee pee dance. LOL It's haillarious to watch.

But with the free will option on, the Sims will eat, sleep and go to the bathroom..they'll also have fun and go to work.

Ocean_Islands

Thursday, December 06, 2001 - 11:43 am Click here to edit this post
If you don't do anything to get them a job or what-not, do the Sims become bums and play harmonicas on the street corner?

Crazydog

Thursday, December 06, 2001 - 11:58 am Click here to edit this post
MsS, your discussion of the hilarity of watching the Sims doing the "pee pee dance" had me laughing so hard my secretary heard me through my closed door and came in to ask if anything was wrong!

I am not kidding, I am probably going to go buy this game just to watch things like that. I love these simulation games because at a certain point, I love to save the game and then wreak havoc. E.g. on Sim City simultaeneously unleashing a flood, earthquake and meltdown. Or on Civilization, sending out 10 nukes at one time.

This Sims game vaguely reminds me of a game called Populous, where you had to take care of settlers who were building towns. You're in the role of the benevolent deity. I also remember, in my wicked dictator guise, raising and lowering the land to destroy their settlements and raising the water level to watch them drown. Cruel, aren't I?

Grooch

Thursday, December 06, 2001 - 12:02 pm Click here to edit this post
Oh, Crazydog, to bad you missed the discussions in the BB threads at the time. Someone said they like to build rooms with no windows or doors, so the Sims couldn't escape and watch them die.

I'm beginning to think I might ask for this game as a Christmas present. It sounds like a lot of fun.

Mssilhouette

Thursday, December 06, 2001 - 01:07 pm Click here to edit this post
Yeah that's what people normally like to do with the poor sims.

You can burn them to death, get them sick, drown them in their pool or just seal them in a room and make them die. It takes 3 days for the Sim to die and they do whine and cry A LOT before they pass into the great beyond.

After that you get to see the grim reaper come and do a dance around the person then a tombstone appears. Also that person can haunt your house as a ghost. They don't really do anything but wander around.

What I wanted to do was make a house with a Black Widow character and have 7 males around the neighborhood. SHe'd married one get their cash (cause when you marry you get that sims's net worth added to your own...naturally :) then I wanted to have her flirt with another single guy then kill the hubby and marry the new guy to take his cash and so on until she's amased a forture. LOL

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that in The Sims game you can have a wife/husband AND SEVERAL boyfriend/girlfriend! Just havta make sure your wife/hubby doesn't see you flirting or they'll get jealous and that will effect how your partner reacts to your lover.

One more thing, with the sims its not just Male/Female couples...You can pair up with the same or opposite sex and they can adopt children.

I know my current Sims has her Hubby do all the work while she stays home and makes friends...ahh very close friends.

As you can tell I enjoy the game a lot.

Crazydog..I'm glad you had a good laugh on me :)

Ocean_Islands

Thursday, December 06, 2001 - 02:37 pm Click here to edit this post
What is this world coming to.

Willsfan

Thursday, December 06, 2001 - 04:32 pm Click here to edit this post
LOL Mssilhouette, you have a good imagination for some story lines. I like the Black Widow scenario. One of my characters is such a cad...he kisses women and then asks, "Do you want a baby?". This is supposed to happen I guess but when I first saw this I almost fell out of my chair laughing. Because after he said that he burped.

I haven't had the game very long so I am still figuring out how everything works. It's fun to introduce different elements into the game to see how the sims react. There are so many ways to entertain yourself with this game the possibilies are endless.

Angelnikki

Thursday, December 06, 2001 - 07:14 pm Click here to edit this post
This game sounds like so much fun. can you guys tell me more about it because I think that this would be something that i would like and I told my boyfriend that it would be cool to get it for xmas:)

Come on, sell me on it some more, I really want to know why I should have this game!!!

Riviere

Sunday, December 09, 2001 - 07:27 pm Click here to edit this post
Hi, good to find other SIM folks here.. I got the game when it came out and got the LL expansion but I never got HP or HDate because I heard they suck and aren't compatible with my pc.. I worked with the Newbies and they're all max levels 10s, many of my original Sims are maxed and kinda boring if I don't create deliberate angst between them.. I make most of my own walls & floors and prefer the designing of houses to downloading homes created by Maxis.. I have some objects via SimResource and sites they host, and skins from AllStarSims you can't find anymore, a lot of females with hair of all lengths & colors.. It's been 2 years of fun and still is, having babies and getting into the marriage loop, but I don't have much to do now for my Sims but rebuild their homes and make up new soap opera storylines... 305 Sims and 2 years later...