Archive through January 07, 2002
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Archive through January 07, 2002
Mssilhouette | Friday, January 04, 2002 - 02:17 pm     Wink - The maid and the robot |
Willi | Friday, January 04, 2002 - 03:58 pm     Ohhhhh Sims World is so good! Now if only I could hire a male maid.
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Mssilhouette | Friday, January 04, 2002 - 04:20 pm     Sorry Willi the maid is a woman BUT you can (with the House Party expansion pack) throw a party and pay for Male Entertainment. In the Sims world that means a male exotic dancer will pop out a cake! I always buy 2 cakes and have both male and female pop out. LOL They also plant some sexy kisses on the guests and keep the moods up. |
Mssilhouette | Friday, January 04, 2002 - 04:20 pm     Of course you can always just get one of the male Sims to change clothes (provided there's a maid skin) and dust around the house. Woohoo OR you can get a nude patch and have a naked Sim cleaning! LOL woohoo! |
Kep421 | Friday, January 04, 2002 - 04:27 pm     That's it...This has got to be the most addictive game ever. I'm addicted, and I don't even play it!!! No way am I buying this game until someone comes up with a 12 step recovery plan!!! |
Mssilhouette | Friday, January 04, 2002 - 06:03 pm     Aww Kep c'mon here's your steps just in case.. 12 Step to SIMS RECOVERY Step 1 - Remove the game from your computer. Step 2 - Promise to stop looking at furniture in stores and thinking "Hey that would look good in my Sims house" Step 3 - Do not read this thread Step 4 - Understand that you control the Sims but they do not control you Step 5 - Realize that your friends and family has gone for weeks without hearing a word from you. Except for the occasional screams of "NOOOOO NOT ANOTHER FIRE!!" Step 6 - Knowing that speaking in Sim-speak is not an acceptable form of communication nor will it ever be. "Eh ya goda warn in" (see who can understand that) Step 7 - Engage in a close an honest examination of your need play God to a group of harmless Sims. Realize that you need help. Step 8 - DO NOT think that it would be fun to build imaginary houses and create people. This is wrong and you will be punished. Step 9 - Promise your SO that their Sims counterpart would not be sarcificed in order to bring in more cash or a nice tombstone. Step 10 - Stop trying to find creative ways to capture the Sims Pizza Boy Step 11 - Understand that you are powerless agains THE SIMS and require restraining until the game has faded into history Step 12 - Give up completely and realize that THE SIMS is greater than your willpower and purchase the game at http://www.thesims.com When you can't beat 'em join 'em!  |
Willi | Friday, January 04, 2002 - 06:48 pm     I will go with Step #12. (and thank you for all the tips MsS!) Now...If only all my expansion packs would work together. Sigh. I have to uninstall one for another to work. |
Soeur | Saturday, January 05, 2002 - 06:12 am     Hi Guys. We did the autonomy 100 last night. I was very impressed with my family (at first). They did all of their chores and even cleared their plates after eating. Also, they stacked the plates and took them all in one trip to the dishwasher which they never do when I give them that job! Things were going so smoothly in terms of their keeping their moods up and working on the house & their relationships that I curled up under a quilt and watched from a nearby comfy chair. Then stuff, bit by bit, started to go wrong. The younger daughter went to play in the gym instead of going to school and received a warning about her grades (if she didn't shape up she would be sent to MILIARY SCHOOL). She did not improve and then *poof!* she was G-O-N-E. The dad (Roderick Sr.) who now had an excellent relationship with Janet (his wife) began working on gaining points with his adult daughter Rose and began sleeping in her bed. Roderick Sr. was really on a career track with the police dept. and he lost his job. I started to doze off and could hear my older teenage son braying with laughter when things started to fall apart. I vaguely remember being woken up and staggering off. I'll have to find out when he wakes up what happened to my family (which think are now down two people). I also really, really hope he did not SAVE the game before closing it down. It would have been smart to save it after the first 30 minutes as they really got a lot done and were really on track...  |
Judy | Saturday, January 05, 2002 - 07:29 am     Love hearing about Ms Sil's neighborhood The biggest family I ever made was the Hearty's (3 boys, 3 girls) Then I made the Smith's. I had originally jplanned on making 8 boys and 8 girls in that family- but alas you can only have 8 people in any family you create so there are 8 guys in that house. It's like watching a urinating/ belching ant farm! I have found that if you build them a pool they will get their butts off the couch and turn of the TV every once in a while. So now I am working on some mates for these guys. I made a couple of girls - they're twins. (Flopsie & Mopsie) and I am going to try the "Super Sim" technique that Ms Sil mentioned with them. Then I am gonna toss them in that house with those Smith guys and put Autonmy on 100 and see who can win the ladies fair!! Now I have a question ...I got my Judy Sim & her hubby's skill points maxed out ---10's in everything. THen my hubby took the sports career track and after like 6 days he was a Hall of Famer getting picked up in a limo everymorning and bringing home 1300 bucks a day. Great right??!! WRONG! After a few days of this he comes home one day and says he is gonaa switch careers and is now at the bottom rung of the Extreme career! Is this going to happen with every Sim that hits his carer high?? |
Mssilhouette | Sunday, January 06, 2002 - 10:08 am     Wow Judy, that's interesting. I've never seen a sim switch a career after getting to the max level. But not to worry in a few days with him being maxed out he'll get to the top again in no time. Unless you don't have enough friends to help him move along. The sims I had that was maxed out was a Computer Overlord and he seemed happy with that job without any problems but that is an interesting development. |
Willsfan | Sunday, January 06, 2002 - 11:47 am     Mssilhouette- Everyone is talking about the "love bed" but I don't have it. (not on HD)I have the love seat but HP must be the pak that has the love bed. So tell us about it - I know you must have it. Please.. The rest of this post is just about (somewhat dull) experiences in Hot Date. I just reinstalled HD and many features are different. In HD if you tell one of the sims to Greet the pizza boy and they remain in a chair or bathtub the pizza boy will come in the house to that character. If you trap him he will leave at midnight. I had him plus a maid and a vistor in a bathroom and they got 2 blue rings around them (like hula hoops) and they quickly left the house at or around midnight sims time. So, you cannot kill them. haha I had my sims purchase some gifts at the mall - teddy bears, The Sims game, red & yellow roses, candy, chocolates etc. This is a cute feature because then when the gift is opened you can see that it is a bear or whatever. I had to tell my sims to buy stuff - except for one, and he started buying stuff on his own. (a glitch? maybe.) They bought some new clothes too. The girls got new PJs and the original (bluish white) ones are gone. Pjs they bought: a red teddy, black teddy, green plaid pajamas and red pajamas. haha Thing is if you buy new clothes or swimwear then it replaces the original. It's not placed in inventory like the gifts, where you can choose. |
Angelnikki | Sunday, January 06, 2002 - 12:29 pm     willsfan, the "love bed" i believe that you are referring to is that red and pink bed with the heart, i only have LL and i have the love bed. my couples "play in bed" quite often. |
Willsfan | Sunday, January 06, 2002 - 01:04 pm     Thanks Angelnikki- Someone said their sims "played in bed" three times and got a baby. LOL I don't want a baby - if I got one I would let Social Services come and get it. They told me my hot tub shaped like a heart did the same thing but I haven't tried it yet. |
Soeur | Sunday, January 06, 2002 - 09:12 pm     My son and I are both playing with SIMS (I have to keep reminding myself that it is HIS game that he bought with his own birthday money ). Anyway, yesterday my Rose from MY family went over to his family (The Simmers) and started kissing and racking up social points with his Sim Simmer and the next think ya know they have married (with no minister and the maid as witness). Rose spun around and was in a wedding dress, they kissed, the maid clapped and then went back to work and Rose now lives there. When I opened up the game later and checked on my house & family, Rose was no longer a memeber Also, when my son was playing Janet (from my family - the Evanoviches) walked by on the path in front of the Simmers' house, suddenly got tired, went to sleep on the sidewalk, woke up, peed on the sidewalk and walked on! What's with THAT?? So I now know that when my son is playing with his sims in their house MY sims could be running amok. |
Willi | Monday, January 07, 2002 - 07:27 am     LOL Soeur! (I am sorry about your Sim being gone...Happened to me too!) |
Mssilhouette | Monday, January 07, 2002 - 11:41 am     Willsfan you mean they got rid of the gaudy Love Bed from Living Large and House Party? Say it can't be so. Maybe that's because the option to "Play In Bed" in Hot Date doesn't exactly require a special bed. Since the entire expansion pack is dedicated to love and romance. The love bed is red and pink and the backboard is shaped like a heart. It looks like a it is created from a quilted vinyl material. There is a coin slot on the side where your sims can make the bed vibrate. You see the bed is also a group activity LOL. I kid you not it is...really You can have a party around that bed but only people who are "in love" (read: 50+ relationship pts above) will "Play In Bed" It is true that if you play in bed 3 times one of the Sims will ask their partner if they want to have a baby. You do have the option of saying no the same way you can say "No" when you get the phone call for adoption. Aww Soeur you're little Sim grew up and got herself married. It happens to be the best of us. Congratulations! I was trying to get a new family photo album up today. I wanted to do the whole neighborhood but wow that's a big file to upload and not ALL my Sim families have photo albums. I'm still working on Lady B. aka "Black Widow"'s photo album but I do have an update.... Today on As the Sims Turns - The rumor is true the infamous BLACK WIDOW has moved into Simsville! She was spotted directing a group of 5 men into the house next to the family of 8 brothers. Well it would seem that an investigative reporter has been invited to spend a week with the group. Lady B Widow has granted this access because she wants the residents of Simsville to understand that she only wants a quiet place to live out her days. Mr. Tab Lloyd of the Simsville Star will be giving an in-depth report next week. Tab has said that the week was something he will never forget! Well Simsville is sad to see one of its oldest residents leave town. The Goth Family will be leaving and has said they won't return any time soon. Mrs Goth said in a brief phone call "When Simsville begins to put some criteria on whom they let in then maybe we will come back…but its highly unlikely! I hate to leave, my husband's family has been here from the beginning but I wiill not put up the unsavory lot seem to be infiltrating the town. I have a child to raise and I won't have her in this kind of environment!" Sources say that Mrs. Goth convinced her husband to leave town after she allegedly caught him with another woman. Over in the Silhouette household, Ms. and Evelyn are busy decorating their minor expansion. Some shouting was heard at the Silhouette household after Ms. Silhouette came home extremely late. Word is, she visited a certain neighbor and did not come home until the next morning. Evelyn, her sister was so worried she called the police but Ms. Silhouette walked through the door ten minutes later, without much explanation, except for a smile. Sources say that Ms Silhouette was seen leaving the Widow household at 6 am morning. The Widow household is located directly across the street from what was The Goth Estate. Ms. Silhouette did not return home until 11 am. Where she was spending that time, no one knows nor ever will. With the Goths leaving town the makeup of SimsVille has become a singles haven. So far there is: 1 Married Couple - "Newbies" 16 Single Men 14 Single Women 31 Sims and plenty of room for drama. This just in….Sources say that a business has inquired about the Goth property. The inquiry wanted information on houses with large yards and plenty of bedrooms. This business owner needed plenty of bedrooms for employees. This begs the question, what kind of business will be moving to Simsville….One can only wonder. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Well that's the latest update. I'll be working hard on getting out the photo albums for those crazy sims inhabitants. Oh shoot, someone asked how to post their webpages. I didn't forget...well sorta But I'll be sure to type the instructions tonight. Basically it begins at the neighborhood screen and the icon at the top...The one on the FAR RIGHT that looks like a...well its supposed to look like a mouse but it doesn't. It's used to view the neighborhood photo albums and to transport the family to thesims.com Anyhoo there's a thing about knowing where to find your family and what to upload to your webspace but I wanted to get the file locations right. But I promise it is easy because the game does all the work. |
Misslibra | Monday, January 07, 2002 - 12:04 pm     I see I have alot of reading to catch up on in here. I can't do it right now, I have to go and make a few runs. I'll be back later. But I have downloaded so many goodies for my Sims I still have not installed it all. But I have not seen a heart shape tub, do tell where I can get it from ? And I'm so very tempted to go and get house party, since I have not gotten it yet. I'm also going to have to get more RAMS for my computer the Sims is sucking the life out of it.  |
Misslibra | Monday, January 07, 2002 - 12:12 pm     Hey, my Sims don't play in the love bed, even with a 100 relationship points. They will get naked and vibrate but that is it. Is it because I don't have house party? And isn't it nice that you can put your own MP3's in the game so that when they play their radio or stereo they are playing your music. I like that alot. |
Mssilhouette | Monday, January 07, 2002 - 12:15 pm     LOL MissL its bed with a heart as a backboard...its the Love Bed. Not a tub If you have Living Large expansion then you have the bed. I wonder if they dropped the price on House Party since Hot Date is out. The ablity to make a dance floor/club for your sims is worth the price alone. It's a scream to see them dance in a cage and raise their hands in the air, and wave em like they just don't care. With the dj/turntable you can select what kind of music they dance to. |
Mssilhouette | Monday, January 07, 2002 - 12:19 pm     I need to do that...I'm sure getting tired of hearing the standard music. What's up with your sims MissL...it should work if you have Living Large or House Party. Of course if your Sims have other needs like they're depressed they won't play together. Try having them hug and kiss a lot before getting into the bed. One Sims has to get into bed first vibrate it then click on the other and the option for play in bed should be there. |
Misslibra | Monday, January 07, 2002 - 12:22 pm     I have the bed but Willsfan was talking about a heartshape hot tub. I don't have that. |
Misslibra | Monday, January 07, 2002 - 12:40 pm     Oh ok so that is the little magic I need to make them play. Usually when my Sims go to bed they are to tired to do anything but sleep. Well I downloaded a house and family from The Sims, and it mess up my game. At the time I didn't realize all I had to do was go inside the folder itself and take the house out, because everytime I tried to bulldoze the house the game would kick me out on to my desktop. It would not let me go anywhere near that house to do anything. So I got pissed off and uninstall the whole game, so that I could reinstall it and get rid of the corrupt files. Also at the time I didn't have file cop to check my Sims files for any corrupt data, but I do now. So needless to say I had to start over from the begining with my families. I didn't back any of them up. I only backed up my objects, floors, skins, and wall files. Of course now I know better and have already back up all of my files for the game just in case I have to uninstall it again for some reason. Also since I have been downloading everything I see for my Sims since it's all free, it's taking more resorces to run my game. I had to go into my MSCONFIG and uncheck alot of stuff in order for my game to run correctly. And that is where more RAMS will have to come into the picture. I told you I'm not good at making houses, but have ran into a few sites that have vacant house to download. I don't have a problem with the unfurnished houses, but when I download house furnished with families I always run into problems. So I won't be doing that anymore. |
Mssilhouette | Monday, January 07, 2002 - 12:57 pm     Ooooohhhhh. I missed that. Willsfan has Hot Date the latest expansion pack. With Hot date you can create a whole downtown area for your sims to travel around. They finally get ot leave the house! Woohoo! What I want to try to do is create objects (What an undertaking) Since I'll be job hunting soon, I take the time while I'm between interviewing and resume submitting to create things while I wait for the phone to ring. LOL! I've also downloaded a lot of stuff and uploaded it to my webspace. There are a bunch of objects, skins, walls and floors. I know what you mean about needing more ram!! My boyfriend is supposed to be sending me some soon. Woohoo I should be at my max and maybe it won't take my game FOREVER to load. LOL one of the guys at work (who plays) told me he couldn't read the words that go by on the main screen because his comp is so fast. I told him that I not only can read the words but they take a long pit stop before moving on. LMAO. Now if i get my ram to its max 300+MB then I might see some speed! Woohoo |
Willsfan | Monday, January 07, 2002 - 01:11 pm     Misslibra - Hot Date has the the heart shaped hot tub and it has the options to play, cuddle, kiss, etc. Mssilhouette - The infamous love bed with vibrator is not included in HD. *darn* It sounds like fun. The "love" tub is only large enough for two and when they play they both go under water for a few seconds. When they kiss and cuddle it's somewhat awkward as they seem to have to change positions (from left to right). When they are just relaxing in the tub they hang their legs out. This is kind of cute. Making friends is much more difficult on HD! Before installing it making friends was easy but now even plying them food, gifts, compliments and a dip in the love tub doesn't rack up points quickly. But...I think certain gifts given one right after the other might boost the points. There has to be some quick ways to make friends. haha One of my female sims starting talking to a male sim when I had her downtown shopping yesterday, she had met him before at his home. I didn't tell her to, so it was a pleasant surprise to see her so animated and having a nice time. I sometimes take them shopping alone, but when they dine out I take two so they can talk. Very expensive to eat out. The gutbuster salad is $300 for 2 and doesn't fill them up but I top it off with a $10 ice cream cone and that keeps them happy till the excursion is over. |
Mssilhouette | Monday, January 07, 2002 - 01:19 pm     A 300 dollar salad?! What the heck! I hope that money cheat is still the same in Hot Date as it is for all the other expansions. Sheesh. Going out cost a whole lotta dough. Seems better to stay at home and make that $20 meal. But probably since its Hot Date ya gotta wine and dine these strangers until they come home with you and they you can fill them up with $40 pizza and nasty burgers. LOL SInce it's harder to make friends in the latest expansion does it make work any easier and how do you go about trying to get to town to find someone to date AND keep your job skills up. WHew sounds like Hot Date is a workout for the Sims. |
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