Archive through January 17, 2002
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Judy | Sunday, January 13, 2002 - 08:22 am     Thanks for the House praise Will!! Did you downoad it and use it?? If anyone here has a Sims house or file that they want to share - just email it to me (info in profile) and I will put it on my FTP. I would love to try out some of your houses! Especially yours MsSil--whatcha got 99 bathrooms??!! |
Biloxibelle | Sunday, January 13, 2002 - 01:13 pm     Judy thanks for the FTP site I got the bed and it is great. I really like the look of it much better. I got the nude patch also this is the second one I tried and I just can't make it work there is nothing wrong with the file and it extracted just fine. I have it in my skins file so I think I am doing something wrong or I just have really modest Sims who knows. Going to also try your house. Thanks again for taking the time to put these up. |
Soeur | Sunday, January 13, 2002 - 03:22 pm     my nude patch worked just fine  |
Crazydog | Monday, January 14, 2002 - 09:13 am     Hey everyone.... I love reading about everyone's Sim lives. At last I finally got a new computer and spent all day yesterday playing the Sims. I was a little frustrated, and thought I might ask some of my basic questions and hope to get minor problems solved. Please bear with me as I am a Sims novice! I guess I should just start by saying what I did. I made just one character since I figured I'd have a hard enough time keeping track of one let alone two. What is the best combination of personality points? I wanted to make an athlete so I gave him high points in playful, active and outgoing, less so for nice and neat. Then I moved him into the smallest house available since I thought it was a nice starter house. There was some furniture in there already but I added new stuff. I quickly found I was running out of room and remembered the rosebud cheat but couldn't figure out how to have him move houses and take all his belongings. The newspaper arrived and I got him a job as an athlete. I bought him the workout bench and he bumped up his body skill and got promoted. Other questions. My sim is constantly hungry - his hunger bar is always half full, even if I have him eat two breakfasts or two dinners. I bought the microwave and found that when I click "have quick dinner" he microwaves the food and actually sits down at the table to eat it. Then he takes the plate to the sink and washes it. If I just click "have dinner" he eats standing up and half the time leaves a soda can on the floor (I suppose cause he's not too neat... he never flushes unless I tell him to either). Why is he so hungry??? I was going to hire a maid to clean up after him but in reading above it seems she's terrible. Also I bought a dresser but for some reason can't get him to change clothes. When I click on "change" he makes these confused "there's nothing there" motions with his hands. He only changes into pajamas to go to sleep. I bought a hot tub and put it outside on the patio, and the fact that it is outside doesn't seem to prevent him from going naked into it. Also, am I correct in saying that certain items will be of less use to my playful active Sim? I bought him a pinball machine and he seemed to like it. But he hated the painting I bought and had no use for the outdoor fountain. I got him a fish tank - how often do you need to feed them? My biggest frustration is that he doesn't seem to have time to do anything. By the time he gets home from work, recycles the newspaper, eats (twice), waters the plants, feeds the fish and sits down to watch TV it seems like it's time for bed. He seems to have gotten along well with one of the neighbors (I think it's Bob), they get very animated when talking to each other. But Bob's wife felt ignored, and when he went over to talk to her, they told jokes, but then he tried to compliment her and she slapped him and walked away. I thought compliment was along the lines of "you look nice" and not "you look nice but you'd look even nicer in my bed". Guess I was wrong. Now Bob comes over on his own without his wife. I think what I will probably do is start over in a bigger house. It was frustrating trying to buy things because there was no room for them, and they kept getting in the way of things. For example, he wouldn't look at the painting because there was a couch along the adjacent wall that he thought blocked his view. Any tips would be appreciated! Thanks |
Mssilhouette | Monday, January 14, 2002 - 11:35 am     Okay Crazydoy, you have been busy. What, if any expansion pack(s) do you have? I'll just go ahead and answer some of your questions, just the same. First, GET THE MAID. She'll be fine for the one little Sim you have. The maid can miss things in a BIG household but not a small one. Second, up your Sims cooking skills AND get a better Fridge. The better the fridge the higher the hunger points. In fact you might as well get the best one. When you're in BUY mode click on the stoves and fridges and see how much they boost the Hunger points up. Make sure your Sims has at least a Level 3 cooking skills so he doesn't start a fire. The reson why he is hungry all the time is because he is an athlete and his energy and hunger will drop the fastest. If you don't want to have him cook, try ordering out for pizza. (It only costs 40 Simolians) Third, if you run out of room remember you can always add a second floor. That way you can still keep the original look of the house and put in stairs and some walls. If you move you CANNOT keep all your stuff. BUT you will keep the cash you used to buy the stuff. Fourth, your Jock Sim doesn't have any NICE personality points so he'll interact with some people and be rude to the rest. BOB newbie is basically a slob and doesn't mind the bragging and whatnot. With mean people he'll get along great with nice people they'll get upset at him. Fifth - Time: Have him SKIP work. Sims can skip work EVERY OTHER DAY. but NOT 2 DAYS IN A ROW. So he can make friends and work on his body on his day off. Sixth - Yes you are correct in assuming that certain items will be of less interst to certain sims. An active Sim likes to do active things. Try buying the basketball hoop (in LIVING LARGE)or have him watch an ACTION tv show. Seventh - I don't know why you can't get him to change clothes. Try buying another dresser and see if that will work. Also make sure he can get to the dresser. If he doesn't have a clear way to it then he will shake his head and shurg his shoulders. Whew I think that's everything... I'll be posting something in a second with a lot more tips on it. |
Mssilhouette | Monday, January 14, 2002 - 12:02 pm     Hey Judy I will upload my house but I have a lot of custom stuff so it can be a large file. I will put it on my temp site at geocities. Because that Sims transporter thingy takes too long. I'm gonna go ahead and update my site to show the whole neighborhood. So that's my task for today. MORE TIPS: Taken from: Prima's Official Strategy Guide - The Sims Living Large http://www.primagames.com Neighbor Visit Schedule Welcome Wagon IF neighbors exist on Sim lane, one or two will drop by at 9:30 a.m. on the first day. Drop-Ins If there are neighbors you haven’t met. The game will sort through the each day at NOON and 6 PM and decide whether to send one to visit you in “drop-in” fashion. Drop-ins come unannounced to your door. The more full hoses in the neighborhood the more likely the game will find someone to drop in on you. Once you greet neighbors, however, they can no longer be selected to drop in. You must call neighbors you’ve met already to arrange visits. Daily Walk-by Neighbors take daily walks round Sim Lane block At 10 am, 2pm, 4pm and 8pm the game selects a random neighbor to stroll the sidewalk past your house. These strollers walk directly off the lot unless one of your family members greets them first. Family members never greet strolling neighbors autonomously. Party Balloons The Living Large expansion pack gives you a slick way to attract neighbors and induce them to stay longer. When you place the Party Balloons anywhere on your lot, Party Balloons have a 50% chance of generating a visitor EVERY HALF HOUR until either all balloons have popped or five visitors have appeared One balloon pops every hour and 20 minutes Party Balloons SLOW the decay rate of everyone’s Comfort, Hygiene, Bladder and Hunger motives. They also SPEED UP the decay rate of the Social motive, which spurs every Sim on the premises to look for more social interaction. Calling Neighbors Neighbors are more likely to respond positively to a phone invitation if they like the sim who invites them (it’s irrelevant how the caller feels). A neighbor who accepts an invitation has a 25% chance of asking permission to bring friends. (The neighbor has to actually have friends of course) If you say yes, the neighbor may bring along as many as three more Sims. If you call a neighbors between 1 and 6 am, the won’t come over. In fact they get real ornery and your relationship with them decreases. If you call any sim with whom your relationship is under –50 they’ll hang up on you. Finally, all Sim kids wisely refuse invitations after 7:30 pm, no matter what. Chemistry Lab – “The Concatenation Station” Builds logic skills. The first use offers the interaction “Make Potion” the sim using the chemistry set brews one of EIGHT random potions. The next use offers the interaction “Drink Potion” – that is you cannot make another potion until an adult sims drinks the potion last made. All potions have an equal chance of being made EXCEPT for The BLUE potion, which always has a FOUR TIMES greater chance of being made, and the WHITE potion, a cure for the Guinea Pig Disease is available only if the Sims who makes the potion is sick. Blue: MOTIVE ENHANCER This potion maxes out ALL motives – Hunger, Energy, Comfort, Hygiene, Fun, Bladder, Social, and Room. However, there is a 1 in 3 chance that a sims drinking this potion during the day (before 6 pm) will get busted by the police and fined $500 for “creating mysterious substances” Chartreuse: MOTIVE SUBTRACTOR This potion produces the opposite effect of the BLUE potion. When imbibed, chartreuse potions make the Sim fell absolutely terrible, dropping all the motive scores to extremely low levels. Brown: INVISIBILITY Any adult Sim who drinks this potion turns invisible for ONE HOUR. Of course you see the Sim as semitransparent vapor and you can still direct their actions. BUT you can spy on other Sims taking baths, showers and so fort. However other sims can’t initiate social interactions with invisible Sims. Red: LOVE This potion causes the Sim drinker and his or her WORST enemy (lowest relationship score) of the opposite gender to fall in love with each other. In fact, the game teleports the new lover directly to the Sims drinker’s side for a quick romantic interlude. Green: EVIL CLONE Any Sim who drinks this potion gets the message: “It’s a parthenogenesis party! [Your Sims’s Name] has created an evil clone!” Sim and clone have opposite personality traits. (skills remain the same) Clones hang out and slap, insult and annoy you and other sims for SIX Sim hours, which in turn lowers your relationships with your established friends. Yellow: PERSONALITY INVERSION When your Sim drinks a yellow potion you get the message: “Holy inverse proportionality! Your personality has been permanently reversed!” Yes all SIX personality traits get flipped to their opposite value – for example, a NEAT rating of 10 becomes 0, 9 becomes 1, 8 becomes 2, 7 becomes 3 and so on. Pink: MONSTER Yes, drinking the PINK potion turns a Sim into a clumsy sort of Frankenstein’s monster for two Sim hours. During this time, the monster ignores your commands and lumbers about the house, breaking everything that’s breakable – appliances, plumbing, electronics, whatever it can get its grubby green hands on. White: Cure (Diseased Sims ONLY) If a Sim who has contracted the dreaded guinea pig disease uses the chemistry lab, the game adds the white potion as an optional brew. Drinking this concoction immediately wipes out the disease. It’s a 1 in 11 long shot to produce, though so your best bet is to buy The Forgotten Guinea Pig” painting. This cures your Sims within 16 Sim hours. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Next Tips...That pesky Genie in the lamp and what can happen. Good and Bad. |
Willsfan | Monday, January 14, 2002 - 01:42 pm     LOL Crazydog watch out or you'll get hooked. Glad to see you have joined us! The other posters have already given you the advise you needed but I'll just throw in my two cents worth anyway. If there are any dirty dishes on the table more often than not they will stand to eat. If the table is cleared they should sit down to eat everytime except when they eat snacks. The "serve meal" means they will make enough for six or seven people, have "quick dinner" means they only make a single serving. I have found the virtual reality visors to boost their fun level quickly. I have no TV's or stereos in any of my sim homes. (I put a jukebox or stero in the home for parties then remove them afterwards) |
Mssilhouette | Monday, January 14, 2002 - 02:19 pm     Here's what I do when that maid misses some dirty dishes. I go into BUY mode the grab the dirty dishes and line them up on the FLOOR one right behind the other. Then I enter LIVE mode and direct my Sim to "Clean Up" one of the dishes at the beginning of the line. And because they're all in a nice neat row the Sim will stack up all those dishes in one swoop. It frees up your tables and at least makes your house look a little neater. You can move dirty dishes but you can't delete them, unfortunately. |
Mssilhouette | Monday, January 14, 2002 - 05:01 pm     Okay whew! I've finished uploading my Sims neighborhood webpages. AND the zip file contanining the Houses .iff files. You want to unzip the .iff file into the default location of: \Program Files\Maxis\The Sims\UserData\Houses Now if you have any of the expansion packs you know that you have more than one neighborhood. The USERDATA folders are numbered according to the neighborhoods. The first neighborhood doesn't have a number at the end. Ex: UserData3, UserData4 etc. Well if you have questions or problems just let me know. Sorry for the tripod popup dealies but their integrated banner was making a mess of the webpage. ::Drumroll::: Ms. Silhouette's Simsville! http://mssilhouette.tripod.com/addressbook.html You waited for it and now the moment has arrived!! Take a peek at the infamous Black Widow's Photo Album (it's still a work in progress BUT it does tell about her ahhh companions) See what Ms. Silhouette and her sister, Evelyn's home lookes like now! Heck Download into your own game. Check out those hunky 8 Brothers and their Tiki paradise home. Take a gander at the 8 lovely Sisters and their separately designed eight-plex. ~~~~~~~ As always...Enjoy and let me know what you think! |
Mssilhouette | Monday, January 14, 2002 - 05:14 pm     Ummm after looking at the Widow photoalbum I seem to have forgotten that I snapped a kind risque picture of MsSilhouette as she visited the Lady B Widow. I forgot that I had installed my nude patch by then soooo when Ms Silhouett-The Sim and Lady B Widow jumped into the hot tub...well let's say I capatured the moment and someone is stark naked. On the other hand if you want to know what it a nude Sim looks like (pretty darn harmless really) you can take a peek. I just thought I'd post a warning...so there aren't any surprises.  |
Judy | Monday, January 14, 2002 - 05:43 pm     OBOYOBOYOBOYO! I can't wait to download your houses MsSil I will let you know how they do for me. LOL about the 'nude Sim'- with the blur off they all look like Ken & Barbie dolls. Pretty harmless. I have discovered a site that has more , er, how you say? Realistic nude skins Oh and BTW you can delete dishes, old newspapers floods, etc. if you use the 'move_objects on' cheat code. It comes in handy after partys or when a hot tub breaks Now I am off to play with MsSil's houses!! |
Misslibra | Tuesday, January 15, 2002 - 07:06 am     I made my very first house YAY!! Well actually it more of a Mansion. The one thing that always bugged me is that they never seem to have enough room for things. I guess I'll upload my house and snapshots to my geocites site. But how do you upload the house, so that people can download it? Just upload it with my FTP just like I did making Frank's site? I didn't want to turn it into a web site right now but just have it to put files on so you can see my house and upload it if you like. So I'm not quite sure how to do it. I think I know but wanted to check with Judy and Mssil. My Roomies virtual reality visors have been missing ever since they gave a party... I didn't know that Sims will steal from one another ?? The Aliens brought back the Husband. I was so glad to see him. I thought I would never see him again. And the ghost at the Goth families house, I see you can't click on them. Lately the ghost come out a lot more then usual. And the Goth family nor their visitors seem to even notice them. I wonder why?? Crazydog WOO HOO!!!! your up and running with your Sims. Crazydog make sure your dresser for the sims you want to change clothes is facing in the correct directions. That may be the reason he wont change clothes. When your sims don't follow your command and they throw there hands in the air as if asking you how do you expect me to change clothes when the dresser isn't even facing in the right direction, or if you have put something blocking my way of the dresser. Even though some things look like they aren't blocking the Sims way, to us it would seem they could squeeze through those sometime tight spaces but most of the time they can't so try puttting the dresser out in the open away from anything and see if he will change his clothes if he does then that was the problem, and if he don't well then maybe he is trying to tell you there is no clothes and he needs some new ones. Biloxibelle, my Male Maid turned out excellent! I was able to use him and the Female Maid. They got stuck in one of the doorways together while they were cleaning the house. He wanted her to move first, and she wanted him to move out the way first... he won. The Female made got pissed and quit. Some colors of rings appeared around her and she disappeared into thin air. She was not doing a good job anyway so I didn't care. The site Mr Maid came from is up and running now if anyone wanted to get him. Mr Maid. Ummmmm Judy, now I know you didn't think I was going to let you just throw that out there about the "Realistic nude skins" without asking for the sites addy did you???   That brings to mind the interesting devilish toy I found for my Sims. And when I take pictures of the inside of the house I think I better have my Sims put that away. I would not want any embarrassing picture to appear. That would be SCANDELOUS!! LOL  |
Misslibra | Tuesday, January 15, 2002 - 07:18 am     Mssil, I love your houses. And you take good pictures. How did you take pictures like that of each house on your block. Your able to see the total shots of everything on the lot. The pictures I took were to close up and you can't see the whole lot. Is it because I used to large of snaphot? I used the largest thinking that would take shots of the whole lot. Do you use the smallest snapshots when you take pictures? I see right now I'm going to have to do my pictures over again. |
Crazydog | Tuesday, January 15, 2002 - 08:52 am     Good morning everyone, thanks for all the advice! Willsfan, TOO LATE! Last night I told myself I wouldn't play, but I thought maybe for just an hour. I was up until 2:30 AM and as a result am VERY TIRED here at work now! MissLibra, thanks for the tips about the dresser - you were right, apparently he thought it was blocked. MsS, love your site... is there any way to zoom in on the pictures to make them bigger? And how did you get your Sims naked in the hot tub? My sim has full playful points and always puts on a swimsuit. Speaking of the swimsuit, I hate it. It's this tiny hot pink speedo, not exactly my Sim's style. I know you can download different default outfits, but how do you get them to use them? When I go into the Maxis\Sims\Game Downloads\Skins folder, I thought there was supposed to be all these files that I could replace... I don't see any in there. Oh, Misslibra, I found some "anatomically correct" nudes, I will try and remember where I found them and post the link. I put these files in the Skins folder. I tried editing one by double clicking on it and using the photo editor, resaved it as a bitmap, and when one of the sims got naked instead of being naked she was wearing a full length white body suit, probably because it recognized some kind of error. In any event, here's what happened in my Sim's life. (BTW right now I just have original Sims, I will probably add Hot Date as soon as I get a little more comfortable with playing.) My Sim's name is Evan, he is a wanna-be hockey player. He is very playful and active and fairly outgoing. Unfortunately he's not very neat or nice. By some stroke of luck he inherited A LOT of money from Grandpa Rosebud. He really tried to make it on his own but he found that newfound wealth made things a little less frustrating. He moved into the fairly large two story red house near the river (not the mansion, but I think the next biggest). Then he went on a spending spree! He built a pool, a basketball court, and bought himself the latest in electronics. He is a complete slob so he hired the maid and the gardener. With no job, he spent his free time on the bench press and trying to improve his cooking skills. Then he met the neighbors, the Goths. I think Bella dropped by on her own the first time, she was lukewarm to him. But the next day he thought he'd give her another chance, and she came over but this time brought her husband Mortimer and their child. Mortimer took an instant liking to him - they had very animated conversations about a variety of topics. But when he tried to talk to Bella she got offended. She especially hated his juggling act. The next day he tried calling Mortimer but unfortunately Mortimer was at work, poor guy. Mortimer came over later and stayed until 1 AM or so. This might have happened once or twice and eventually Evan and Mortimer became best friends and their relationship score was at 100. Then Evan decided to improve his relationship with Bella. He called her over, and this time they hit it off very well. They seemed to have the same interest in conversation topics and she laughed at his jokes. Just for kicks I thought it would be itneresting to see what happened if Evan flirted with her. One thing led to another, and soon they were kissing. (BTW, the kissing music is absolutely hilarious!) To think that Bella was cheating on her husband with his best friend, a currently unemployed rich young man. Scandalous. Evan proposed. The first time she turned him down, saying she didn't know him well enough. The second time she said they never had any fun together. So they went swimming. He also had the hot tub repaired and they got in. After they got out of the hot tub, he proposed again and they did a swirl and lo and behold, THEY'RE MARRIED! Isn't she already married to Mortimer? And isn't Mortimer his best friend? His relationship points with Morty didn't seem to suffer any. So what's going on? Bella is living with Evan, while husband #1 and their child continue to blissfully live alone in their own house? They are both unemployed and Bella apparently has ZERO skills. At least Evan is trying to improve his body and mind! I think it's about time for Evan to get a job as an athlete. Bella can stay home for the time being and watch over the house. Besides, she's a lot neater than he is... she'll actually wash her hands after using the toilet (at least it's self flushing) and picks up the dirty dishes. She'll definitely have to learn how to cook and maybe she'll take up painting. OK, all together now, "I will only play for two hours tonight, I will only play for two hours tonight, I will only play...." Good thing I can't load this thing at work or I would never get anything done. |
Mssilhouette | Tuesday, January 15, 2002 - 09:46 am     MissL congrats on making your FIRST house!! Isn't it exciting...heck sometimes I forget to even play the game part. LOL As for the photos on my webpage of the houses...I could take credit BUT the game actually does that. I only take the photos that are in each family's photoalbum. The smaller shots of the houses on the neighborhood and the large shots of each individual house is done by the game alone. What you need to do to make the game make the pages is on the neighborhood screen of the game click on the icon to the FAR RIGHT of the screen it looks like a little button with a clip on it. (it supposed to be mouse) this is the VIEW WEB PAGES button. This will publish the pages and photos for all the families in the neighborhood. If you've never done it and your comp is slow it'll take a minute or two. The next time you play the game go into the options screen (Shortcut key: F5) then Play Options (the image of gears) and make sure EXPORT HTML box is checked. This will automatically export your photos and text every time you save. After the game updates all the familes pages it will automatically start your default browser and you'll see the same addressbook.html page that I have on my site. Those webpages and photos are located (if you used the game's default file locations) \Program Files\Maxis\The Sims\UserData\Web Pages After you check inside the Web Pages folder you'll see other folders with the names of your sims and the lot number. Ex: Silhouette_3_Sim_Lane That folder will have your families photos and html pages. To find the photos that the game took of your house in THREE layers go into the folder named FamilyGFX and look for the three .jpg named house-exterior.jpg house-floor1.jpg house-floor2.jpg The smaller photo is named: house-thumb.jpg Crazy asked about zooming in. The only photos you can zoom in on are the ones in each family's photo album. Just click on the House icon for any family then when the house page is displayed CLICK on each level of the BLUE split house icon to the right of the photo. This will show you each floor of the house. That's about as good as it gets I can always take indivdual photos of every room and put them in the family album. Now as for uploading your house file...I just zipped up a file located in Program Files\Maxis\The Sims\UserData\Houses You'll see files named House01.iff this is your house the number corresponds to the lot number your house is on. MsSilhouette's is on lot 3 so I zipped up the House03.iff Remember that the game makes UserData folders for EACH neighborhood so you have to check in the right numbered folder for YOUR house. If you only play in neighborhood 1 then it will be in the UserData folder...if your in Neighborhood 2 then your family files will be located in UserData2 and so on. CrazyDog...I suggest you get LIVING LARGE or HOUSE PARTY as your first expansion. HOT DATE is different from the layout of the original game so you might get thrown a bit since the sims go outside their house. The two older expansion packs shouldn't cost too much since the Hot Date came out. Plus they give you so much neat stuff and otions. Living Large gives you several blank neighborhoods to play with and more skins, careers, objects etc. To make your own skins you're going to have read up on how to do it..It was far too much for me to even bother with, so I leave it to the experts Try http://www.thesimsresource.com for information. |
Judy | Tuesday, January 15, 2002 - 10:07 am     MissL- I emailed the link to you. Sent it to the addy from your web site. Uh, is there anyway you can make some skins from some of the guys on your site??!! Niiiice I didn't want to post the link here because the site has some adult type banners on it- and I know that someone mentioned their son is reading this thread for tips on his Sim's game (sorry Charlie ) MsSil- I am using Lady B's House right now for a new family. Actually it's just a woman and her 2 hunks. What is that mysterious lil 2 story building for??!! It came out empty in my download (missing objects). Just curious. I was thinking with that big ole fan in the wall that it might be some kinda 'cooler' for Lady B's victims? |
Judy | Tuesday, January 15, 2002 - 10:15 am     MissL- That email addy from your site didn't work...got returned. I will check my add book and see if I have another one on ya, other wise send me an email (it' s in my profile) and I will forward the link to ya |
Angelnikki | Tuesday, January 15, 2002 - 01:58 pm     ok first of all i would like to say that i LOVE hearing about all of your sims and seeing your houses and everything, you guys are awesome i would like to tell you about my single man sim (Charles Manson) LOL he lives in a very large house considering hes single. He already has 5 friends and a job. i have alot of his skills up but with his job he needs to work on body skills. however, with all the girlfriends he has, he has trouble doing anything . he has the LOVE BED and each night he invites a different girlfriend over to do the "nasty" with. he is a total ladies man. since he lives alone and doesnt have a wife, none of these girls ever get pregnant i told my boyfriend what im doing to Charles and he didnt seem to beleive me till i showed him. Charles is "the man" and BTW, hes an older man. I guess the ladies really love him. I found that he has to call the girl then when she accepts, he serves dinner so to get her "in the mood" she must have a full stomach and use the rest room. then after all this has taken place, i have Charles go into his room,turn on the vibrating bed and he gets nekkid and climbs in. the woman at the time, then walks over to the other side of the bed and they "play in bed". I'm tellin ya, Charles has never been slapped or insulted afterward, usually the lady says "yee hah" and then does some gesture with her hands. SHE ENJOYS HERSELF. this game is so fun. im finding myself making alot of single girls houses around Charles so he can have more girlfriends. Maybe i will have a female player also with alot of boyfriends anyway, just wanted to let you know what i have been up to.
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Willsfan | Tuesday, January 15, 2002 - 02:27 pm     HELP! When I tried to Teleport my families I got this message. ERROR validating user name. But, Maxis sent me an email (I still have it) that in order to activiate my account I had to respond. I did. Now when I go to the SIMS site it welcomes me by name. I have an old Tripod web site which has photos and graphics I've uploaded in the past. I wouldn't mind using that if I can. But I don't have the slightest clue as to how to get that sims neighborhood webpage ( userdata) folder uploaded or make a zip file. Would appreciate some advise on how this is done. |
Angelnikki | Tuesday, January 15, 2002 - 07:35 pm     ok i made a new house with 2 sisters and they both have been with charles. but they are so jealous of each other now because of it. when he was talking to Rachelle, Shantel walked by and that funny music came on and she had a minus sign above her and she walked right up and slapped her sister Rachelle. oh well, charles still had fun. |
Mssilhouette | Tuesday, January 15, 2002 - 11:25 pm     Judy - LOL You guessed right about that little side house of Lady B's. LOL It should have some furniture in it. Sorry you couldn't see it in all its splendor but I'll take some photos of up for Lady B's little special house. I think she's going to tire of a one of her companions real soon. Willsfan - To upload everything for my Sims neighborhood was about 7 MB, not really a lot considering Tripod gives you 20MB. As far as the USERDATA folder you need to go into the WEB PAGES folder. That is the one you will upload. BUT you have to make sure you get ONLY folders for the Sims you have...Sometimes the folder will carry old sims that you may have deleted. Once you look in USDERDATA\WEB PAGES you'll see the .html and .jpg files. as well as your sims family folder. Now to upload a house is something different. Which I if you'll check my last post has instructions on how to upload your house. Angel - LOL Playing the Playa role. Go on girl. Can Charlie help if the ladies love him? LOL |
Willsfan | Wednesday, January 16, 2002 - 04:31 pm     Thanks Mssilhouette - When I looked in the file (webpage folder) it looked like an overwhelming task. But, if I get time I might try. |
Biloxibelle | Thursday, January 17, 2002 - 07:15 am     Oh Happy Day! I am now the proud owner of House Party . Going to install it now. I just wanted to pop in and share the news. Will be back with the update of my first party soon. And in the famous words of CrazyDog I will only play 2 hours....I will only play 2 hours.....I will only.....walks away and removes all clocks from the house. |
Mssilhouette | Thursday, January 17, 2002 - 10:19 am     LOL Congratulations Biloxi!!! You're gonna LOVE the new features! Willsfan, its not that overwhelming if you only upload ONE family. If you want to do them all like I did...yes it'll take some time if you have a slow connection. The photo and html pages are really small in size its mostly the pictures taken for the family photo album that can get a little larger. But overall just uploading ONE family's pictures isn't that big of a deal. The main reason I don't use TheSims.com's teleport feature is because they upload EVERYTHING, which can take a while but in the longrun you do have a game WITH the actual SIMS. When I'm done creating photo album drama I'll max out some of my characters then I'll upload them to the teleporter but that won't be for a LOOOONNNGG time. For now, you can download a few of the houses I've made. http://mssilhouette.tripod.com/addressbook.html There's only 4 houses that are available: Silhouette (thats' me! LOL) Brothers Sisters Widow It should also be noted that I have the Living Large & House Party expansions. So if you have only one of the two you might not get all the items I've used in the house. But you will get great big huge houses that you can alter to your needs. |
Misslibra | Thursday, January 17, 2002 - 11:54 am     Judy, no that email addy no longer works. I still have my yahoo one though. But I found the patches I think you were talking about, and all I can say is WOO WEE !! The patches I found the Men are... let's just say livin large... LOL AngelNikki, you are to funny with your male stud over there. LOL Mssil, thank you for the info. I'll try and upload my houses to my geocities, because the sims site is just to slow for me. I tried to go in there just to look at some of the houses and the page takes forever and a day to load. I can only imagine how long it would take if I try and teleport my houses to the site. I don't have the patients for that. Now that I have learned how to build houses I'm a building mam ma jama over here. I build a player's club/house with five single Men yesterday. And late last night I totally re-did the Goth's home, but left the graveyard there. I moved the Goth family out, and move in four single Women in. I guess you all know what I have in mind for them. I also did a whole new make over on the newbies house and move in the Bachelor, who has already hit on Michelle, who is married with two kids. He asked for her hand in marriage but she turn him down. He is still working on her though. Something weird is happening in my game and I want to know if anyone else have had this happen to them. In two of my houses I have something weird growing on the floor. It's a small green mound of grass is what it looks like?? Now I have downloading somethings from a site that had this magic cooky thing. And I didn't take the time to read what exactly this magic cookie was.(I know I should of) And I can't remember the site. I thought maybe this is the magic cooky but I'm not sure if that small grass mound I see on the floor is at all related to the magic cooky. Have any of you had a green grassy mound appear on one of your houses floors before? My first neighborhood is full of homes, so I'll be working on my second neighborhood next. Mssil and Judy, I'll be using one of your homes in that neighborhood and hopefully I wont have any problems with them. Willsfan do you still have your Sims stuck downtown trying to get their freak on? LOL And Crazydog how is everything going with yours? Have you installed that other expansion pack yet? Biloxi, did you ever try out the male maid yet? And Souer, have you taken over the game from your Son yet? LOL I bet he has to ask Mom can I please have my game back now? LOL I tell you what, since I have been playing this game I have lost weight. Don't know how much. I put on a pair of jeans that use to be tight, but not anymore. It very hard to limit the time you spend in the Sims world. Yesterday I spent about 7 hours maybe more playing this game. MSsil I have you to thank for my new addiction... yeah thats right I said it, it's all your fault. LOL  |
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