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Willsfan | Monday, January 07, 2002 - 01:47 pm     Hot Date uses the rosebud cheat. (thank goodness!) That's the only one I use. It's pretty easy to talk to the "Townies" and buy them food, give gifts but I haven't taken one home yet. Actually, I haven't really tried. It takes so much energy just to hang out downtown that if I did get one home my sim would fall asleep. haha But, hey I'm still new to this game so it takes a while to learn the ropes. As for trying to work, date and build up skills that IS a workout. So far I'm only taking those that are unemployed but have maxed out skilled levels downtown. BTW I have 320mb and I'm wishing for more. These expansion paks really slow down loading time. |
Angelnikki | Tuesday, January 08, 2002 - 04:59 pm     MsS, i had my sims "play in bed" and i only have livin large but they played in bed one too many times and there wasnt even an option if they wanted to adopt or have a baby, one just APPEARED!!! there was this magical sound and flowers floating, then a baby in a baby carriage came and would not shut up. this baby was crying and crying and my sim was so busy trying to keep the baby quiet, she wet herself and then passed out., LOL when i finally got her up the baby was still crying and something popped up on the screen that i neglected the baby and social services were coming. i was glad because the baby was too much work. oh man something happened yesterday with my sim sisters Michelle and Danielle. well, i have there place all decked out and i got them a genie bottle or whatever that thing is and i had michelle clean it; well, the genie popped out and said something about what do you want to improve, work or leisure and i clicked leisure, then all the sudden the genie said "oh, im sorry, i didnt mean to HEAT things up so fast", then what happens next, a big big fire in michelle bedroom that she ran right into and dyed. i had danielle try to put out the fire but it kept spreading. luckily when the fire was out michelle wasnt in an ern, she was lying on the floor and the grem reaper came and danielle pleaded for michelles life and she won (SORTA), the reaper made michelle a zombie and now she is bright green. its so hard to keep her levels up but she can still do everything she use to do before this accident happened i dont know what to do now. oh also i wanted to ask, when i went to thesims.com i saw some houses that people had downloaded and they had million dollar houses and lots of cars. how in the heck to you get that far? does anyone know the answer? |
Soeur | Tuesday, January 08, 2002 - 09:08 pm     um, angel, there is a cheat code that will get you lots of money and you can build an GINORMOUS house!! shift + ctl + c and then enter rosebud!;!;!;! and 'enter' and see what happens... |
Angelnikki | Tuesday, January 08, 2002 - 09:13 pm     i use that cheat code soeur. that doesnt get me in the millions!!!! just multi thousands. i want the millions and some darn cars. |
Soeur | Tuesday, January 08, 2002 - 09:25 pm     I am in the millions (my son sat and entered the cheat until he wore out) lol. btw I really spewed on my keyboard reading about your sims. very very funny. |
Willsfan | Wednesday, January 09, 2002 - 01:50 am     LOL Angelnikki - That poor little momma sim was overworked. Your LL sounds like it would fun, but no way could my computer handle an additional expansion pak. haha Well, it could but it would be sooo slow. About the cars- I don't know where or how you can earn them in the game. I think people must design the cars like they do furniture & houses then other people download them to their site. I had a visit from a dorky looking bear. It came skipping up the sidewalk with a red party hat on and went through the trash can. After slinging garbage all over the front yard it left - still hungry. I don't know what triggered it. It was stupid. Not as cool as having monsters, zombies and ghosts running around. haha |
Judy | Wednesday, January 09, 2002 - 04:48 am     Hi all Having fun reading this thread. Just to clarify about the Love Bed- It is NOT in House Party I did some research and found that I could download a love bed from some fan sites, but unless you have LL or HD- your Sims will not have theoption to "play". Oh well no big deal, I don't know nuthin bout birthin no babies anyway;). MsSil, I tried the Super Sim technique that you wrote about. I made 2 Sims (twin sisters)with no personality bars and got their skill levels maxed out. But they are not 'super' just BORING LOL! I went to Sims board and learned that the Super thing only works in the Tutorial with the Newbie family. I may try it with them. Boy- I had the hardest time marrying off those twins! When they are talking to someone they only have 2 options 'talk' or 'insult'. LOL what is also funny is when someone playful is around them (like my Sim hubby) they seem to think that these Stepford Twins want to be tickled! My Sim hubby got the crap smacked out of him along with a bunch of other playful Sims. I also made 2 more girls (I have a lot of single guys in the hood) and made a promise to myself that I would not cheat in any way. I highly reccommend giving that a try. There is a lot of satisfaction when you are able to buy stuff on your own. Just like real life! These 2 girls can't afford a maid or gardener - so only one of them is working while the other takes care of house and makes friends. I don't know which is more exhausted! |
Biloxibelle | Wednesday, January 09, 2002 - 06:12 am     Hi all, boy it's good to be back to this thread. We've been battling the flu here. It took me 2 days to read and catch up on the all messages here and was laughing so hard I think my family thought I was having a reaction to meds or something. I got the dog at Simfreaks.com you can find Max the dog under freebies then objects. I went there a couple of months ago and d/l a ton of stuff but since then if you want it all there is I belive it's a 5 dollar charge per month to belong or something like that. But Max the dog among other things are still available under freebies. Beware though when you download Max you will also d/l a "yuck puddle" and they do mean yuck that dog can make a mess. I found a cheat that is kind of fun to make the perfect Sim. When you make a Sim give them no personalty points at all. Then buy the chemistry set have them make a potion when they make the yellow potion it will reverse their personalty and you will have full personalty points. However I made alot of potions before I made the yellow one. I had chemistry sets blowup, invisible sims, married neighbors show up totally in love with my sims, Frankinstein sims, sims so freaked out and in the red zone that their head diamond was pink but at last I had the perfect Sim. I have 3 female roommates and the one made the yellow alsmost right away. It took the second one about a day but the thrid one totally maxed out her logic points before she got the yellow one. Almost to the point I considered building a small pool putting her in it and removing the ladder. I haven't tried that yet but I read somewhere that if you do that the Sim will drown and a tombstone will appear. |
Mssilhouette | Wednesday, January 09, 2002 - 09:00 am     Judy - Yeah the super sims cheat ONLY works with NEWBIES (which I thought I wrote but with the long posts it could have been missed) Angel, LOL That genie means well but he can mess you up when he misses but you can get stuff for free from him when everything is going right. Hi Biloxi, for your cheat do you mean PERSONALITY POINTS (like neat, active, outgoing) or SKILL POINTS (logic, charisma, cooking)? Just to clarify for the money cheat: HIT CTRL + SHIFT + C (small widow will pop up in upper left corner of screen) type ROSEBUD hit ENTER open cheat window again and type in !;!; until you cannot type anymore. I type !; once then move my mouse to the window and highlight everything then CTRL C (for copy) then I CTRL + V (for paste) until its maxed down the line. After that I COPY the line (which is equal to about $30,000) and keep pasteing until I get to the millions. It doesn't take that long And finally someone wanted to know how to post their webpages (not transport them on sims.com) In the game at the neighborhood screen there is a button on the upper RIGHT HAND corner that says VIEW WEB PAGES The game will tell you that it needs to update the photo albums of everyone in the neighborhood and it will take a few minutes. (Which it will) Afterwards it will automatically start your default web browser and show your Sims familes photo albums. The defaut file location for the Sims is PROGRAM FILES\MAXIS\THE SIMS The location of the web pages for each of your family is: PROGRAM FILES\MAXIS\THE SIMS\USERDATA\WEB PAGES In the web pages file you will see the names of your familes. (ex: SILHOUETTE_3_SIMS_LANE) You'll want to upload everything in that folder (the one with your family's name) onto your web space. Then tell us where the website is Now if you wanted to know how to take the pictures that's another matter but not that difficult either. |
Biloxibelle | Wednesday, January 09, 2002 - 01:56 pm     Hi Ms it's the personality points neat, outgoing, nice and so on when you first make your Simfolk give them none at all then when you make and drink the yellow potion it will reverse their personality. Since they had no points to begin with it gives them total points in all areas. Also while searching around I found a page with a male maid ...but the page to d/l it is down you can find it here and bookmark it and keep checking to see if it's back. Got some other cool things on that page so it is worth a look. http://www.cheapfrills.org/ |
Misslibra | Thursday, January 10, 2002 - 05:58 am     AngelNikki, that was funny, I wish you could of heard me over hear laughing.  And I didn't know that the genie could start a fire like that. I know the genie has deducted skill points from my Sims. I see that Genie is a tricky devil to watch out for. And it does make you sad when they die. Two of mine have died from getting burned up cooking. The first time I forgot to put a fire alarm up, and the second time I put up a alarm but it was up backwards, I kept wondering why the thing hadn't gone off so the fire dept could come and put the fire out, and the dern thing was up backwards. LOL Anyway I use the trick I think Willsfan told me about, and I didn't save the game, and that saved my Sims. Biloxibelle, thanks for that link, I think i have it already but just haven't visit the site yet. I did a search for Sims webrings, and have been finding alot of goodies from those webrings. And yes Simsfreaks has started charging for their stuff, but I found there is to many free sites for the Sims, to be paying for things. Heck, I paid enough for the game. And some things offered at Simsfreaks I have found on other sites for free, and I'm not talking about the free stuff Simsfreaks offer. One of the couples I had before had a baby, and I have to agree that baby cried alot, and yes welfare came and got the baby, and not a minute to soon. But I didn't know they can have babies without that message box popping up asking if you want them to have a baby. I have a family with two kids. Steve met Michelle who had two girl's already. Steve brought his first home, and suddenly Michelle and her two girls needed a place to stay. Steve let them move in, but Michelle and the girls aren't taking care of the house... in a word their slobs. Steve's plan is to put michelle and the girls out ASAP, but michelle got a job and is currently bringing more money into the household then Steve is, so he had to re-think his plans for now. But he has his eyes on the blond roomie. He wants to hook up with her, but Michelle is like his shadow, and every time he visits the roomies and is flirting with Chris here comes Michelle and the girls. Anyway I finally got the play in bed opition, and they did their thing... twice. LOL After they finished the first time Michelle got out of the bed got dress and threw up... LOL Then they did it again and then Steve got out of the bed and threw up. Now I know very well what this means in real life, but does this mean the same thng in the Sims world. Is this a sign I'll be seeing little flowers appear and then a bundle of joy will appear?? Because I really don't want them to have anymore kids right now. But I cracked up laughing when they finished and then got out of bed and vomit. I was like, what the heck... but I didn't say heck... hehehe I don't recall any of you saying this would happen after they play in bed. Whats up with the throwing up?? And I went and got Houseparty... hayyyyyy!! I want hot date so bad, I started to get it instead until I read the system requirements. Hotdate will have to wait until I get a update. |
Mssilhouette | Thursday, January 10, 2002 - 09:02 am     Wow MissL you've what a juicey story!! You'll love HouseParty. And as for the vomit...ROFLMAO I've never had that happen but I have had the woman go over and slap the man afterwards or cry. It's too funny. But vomit, WOW that's something!!! I think if they're vomiting that might mean it was really bad and they were disgusted. LMAO Now with HouseParty you get to have those sims BOOGIE! |
Willsfan | Thursday, January 10, 2002 - 07:52 pm     I am aggravated! I have a household of seven single sims and six work and the seventh one hangs out at the mall all day long dating the ladies to keep the family friend total at 13 to 14. So, everything is going good lots of friends, all their skills are maxed, everyone's mood is in the green and I'm thinking this is great they will reach the top of their career ladders. And what happens? grrr!!! The General in the military has to retire and is now a leader of a SWAT team. Lower pay...almost at the bottom again. The Chief of Staff resigned to start a new career in Science as inventor but was immediately made a Top Secret Scholar. I had two Captain Heroes. (that's starting off as a security guard and working their way up) And one of them is now a TV star. The count is three out of six have changed. I still have one caped crusader. In purple tights with green cape and boots. A Judge (political career). And an International Spy (started out as extreme sports) I am wondering if I will ever get to the very top or if I did and that's why they changed. The guage on their control panel was almost all green. This sucks! I wanted all six to be maxed out. Now I'm almost afraid for them to come home from work at night cause I don't know what will happen next. I have some female sims that needed cooking skills and I bought them the canning unit. So they are in the kitchen chopping, boiling and filling fruit jars with preserves and when a box is full (6) they sell it. This is much, much better than reading a cookbook. And there's a column in the building supplies that when you use two of them they automatically make an arch. Now exactly what I'll use them for I don't know but they are cool. They are to use downtown I suppose, but I have no interest whatsoever yet about building stores or anything. That will come later. I might just buy stuff and put in the already built areas or use the vacant spots to experiment until I learn more about how things operate. I really enjoy reading this thread! And if anyone knows of a sims bb or forum let me know where it is because that would be fun. |
Judy | Friday, January 11, 2002 - 08:55 am     I downloaded the love bed--even though it is not a part of House Party. My Sim's will play in bed- except there is a bubble over their heads that says "missing dramatazation" and they arent hidden under the covers but instead are standing through the bed and bouncing around. They don't even touch! But make lots of funny purring growling noises..it's pretty funny- I will have to take a screen shot of that for yall! And guess what Miss L??!! My Sim puked after doing the deed too!! So I made them do it again then instead of puking he cupped his hands around his mouth and shouted BOOO!! It was humiliating for my poor Judy Sim LOL I am wondering if the Sims have this reaction if they are more in love with another Sim (other than who they are playing with) at the time of the act?? That would make sense. BIG NEWS! My house that I sent to the Sim's Resource Web Site is up!! Here is where you can download it Judy House Let me know if you use it!!! |
Judy | Friday, January 11, 2002 - 09:03 am     Oh Will- there is a good forum at The Sims Official Site. I mainly use it for searching for tips and info- since you have to register at the site before you can post. Which I don't mind doing--but when you register you have to enter your Sim's Serial Number from your game and every time I try it says that my Serial number is invalid!! I searched about that on the forum and evidently it happens alot!! I think I have to call Maxis to straghten it out and just haven't bothered with it yet. So I just read the posts there...LOL. Here is the link..THE SIMS |
Willsfan | Friday, January 11, 2002 - 10:03 am     Thanks Judy - I forgot about that, I registered at the official site when I installed the game. It always says hello under my login name but I've never tried the forum. I'll check it out this week-end. It's possible the vibration of the love bed makes the sims throw up instead of it being an emotion issue where they are repulsed by each other. wow I would rather think that instead of thinking my little sims were that grossed out. ick ick ick And watch out for those magic babies. LOL With 17 family friends my sims have really started to change career status. Maybe in a few days I'll be done with that and can do some major parties. BTW I've noticed with the birthday cake or the turkey the neighbors come and ring the bell but no one wants to answer the door. The little selfish pigs. LOL |
Mssilhouette | Friday, January 11, 2002 - 03:09 pm     Say ya'll wouldn't be trying to make the sims play in bed if they're hygiene meter is kinda a bit pass the green would ya? Or if they havta go to the bathroom...I mean that maybe why they're puking. LMAO I'm gonna havta see if my little sims will do the same thing. I've been a bit busy with work this week so I've been exhausted when I get home. So no Sims playing, even though twice I turned on the computer to prepare to play and wound up falling asleep. LOL I've gotten the ahhh "mysterious business" beginning to make their establishment. I just gotta find that neon sign to put out front Willsfan you also might try to check out alt.games.the-sims newsgroup. They have plenty of posts about stuff and it's viewable from google.com Just do a seach for "The Sims" then click on the tab called GROUPS. It'll find it really easily. |
Mssilhouette | Friday, January 11, 2002 - 03:41 pm     Oh almost forgot, I finally got back my Priums Guide for the Sims Living Large. This book covers more things than my one for House Party. Prima's Official Strategy Guide - The Sims Living Large http://www.primagames.com Some of these tips carry over into HouseParty, in fact most of them do. Stuff like: Decay Rate For Relationships The decay rate for ALL relationship scores is 2 points per day. And the thing everyone seems to have problems with!.... Babies In Living Large (and I'm gonna say the same holds true for House Party) there are three ways to produce a baby. #1 - Vibromatic Bed aka Love Bed (1 in 8 chance) #2 - Two household members of the opposite sex kiss with passion they trigger a 1 in 5 chance to get the baby offer. #3 - Two adults in love and living together get a random chance of a phone offer to adopt a baby. The baby's gender is randomly assigned, and it's personality is based on the parent's personality. After THREE days the baby morphs into a full grown kid. You can move cribs, but you CANNOT delte them. Sims don't autonomously care for (FEED or SING TO) a baby. BUT they will choose to play with it. Both family members and visitors can interact with the baby with just two motives - Hunger and Engery. As these motives decrease, the baby cries. Crying babies wake up sleeping adults BUT not kids in the same room. The Baby Ratings Each of the baby motives - Hunger and Enegery- has a rating from 0 to 2. Each motive decreass by 1 every two hours, except when the baby is sleeping. Playing with or singing to a baby raises its Enegery score, feeding raises its Hunger Score (of course) Interacting with Babies If a baby cries, you can't be sure if Hunger or Energy is low. Best Bet: FEED THE BABY FIRST If Hunger reaches 0 while you playfully bounce the baby like an idiot, you risk losing the baby to Child Protective Services. If the baby continues to cry during the interaction you've chosen, your choice isn't raising the baby's low motive. REMEMBER babies only have TWO needs. (HUNGER and ENERGY) Singing puts the baby to sleep for SIX hours, which raises the Energy to 2. (Choosing PLAY also raies Energy to 2 but it keeps the baby awake, which means its motives drop again in just TWO HOURS. Your Primary Baby Care Goal: GET THE BABY TO SLEEP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I hope this little bit of tips helps those amorous sims who need to do the wild thang too often. LOL I'll be posting more about the genie and what those crazy potions do to your innocent sims. |
Misslibra | Saturday, January 12, 2002 - 11:04 am     Judy I wanted to see more of your house. And you made it from scratch yourself? GREAT JOB!! I would of downloaded it but I'm afraid to because I have such bad luck with houses already furnished with families. See ya'll thought I was crazy when I said my Sims puked after playing in the bed. Judy wasn't that the funniest thing? LOL Yes my Sims was a little on the tried side when I made them play. But to bad I made them play anyway. I got the dog and cat the dog peed all over the house. It wasn't there a good two minutes and I said he had to go so I made the Sims sell him for forty dollars. I just couldn't take that peeing all over the house. And for that reason I have not even tried the cat yet. While gazing through the telescope one of my Sims was abducted by aliens. His wife was crying and then one of their neighbors came over and he was crying. Will the Aliens bring him back? And I didn't actually see a Alien. But when it happen I knew he must of spotted a UFO and they zapped him and took him away. I wasn't expecting to lose another Sims. I'm also finding it hard to throw any parties because my Sims are always working and when they come home they eat and by that time they are tired. The roomies did throw a party, even though they were not in the mood I made them anyway. Hired the caterer and everything. And then their toilet gets clogged right in the middle of the party. I thought about you Mssilhouette and all those bathrooms. So I made them some extra bathrooms. I thought now I see why you set up extra bathrooms for them. The Mime showed up and I tried to get his butt out of there but he was hard to click on, because I was going to tell the girls to asked him to leave but I couldn't click on him he was moving so fast. Biloxibelle, the site for the male maid is down for renovations but if you email the site and tell them what expansion pack you have they will email the male maid to you. I emailed them and they are suppose to be send me the male maid, they just needed to know what expansion pack I had. I forgot to tell them in my first email. Speaking of maids. The maids I hire for my sims don't do a good job cleaning. She will clean up some of the plates sitting on the table but not all Why is that. And they will have flies flying around them and everything. My Sims have to come home from work cleaning up stuff the maid didn't. I want to fire her so bad, but they don't have another one to take her place. And I'm not sure if the male maid will be any better. Willsfan where did you get the canning unit from ? Hotdate?? That would be better then them just reading how to cook. |
Judy | Saturday, January 12, 2002 - 12:35 pm     MissL--I know- the puking is a hoot! Today I had one of my male couples play in bed and after they jumped out and got dressed...one went over and slapped the other one. Then the other guy smacked him right back!!LOL Wonder if that was part of their playing??!!;) Yes , I built that house myself, I hope you will download it!! It is furnished with furniture, not a family None of the walls or furniture are custom made--but are all in the original SIms game, so it shouldn't mess up your game I know what you mean about the maid...SHE SUCKS! She often leaves with plates laying around and water on the floor. Also since she gets paid by the hour- it really makes me mad when she goes upstairs , cleans a toilet , then goes downstairs for a task, then back upstairs , etc. She sure knows how to ride that clock! I downloaded the male butler (looks like a chippendale) but I haven't installed it. All the warnings in the read me file scared me off! I downloaded it because from the description I got the impression that you could have the maid AND the butler. I was thinking that maybe the house could get clean then. If anyone wants it - I have it and would be happy to email it to ya. |
Judy | Saturday, January 12, 2002 - 12:49 pm     What am I thinking?? I put the butler and my house on my FTP...you can find it in the Sims Stuff Folder. The House is called 'house10'. If you already have a house on lot 10 in your neighborhood. Then just rename the house to whatever lot you'd like after you download it. For example if you want it on lot 4 - you would rename it it house04. The butler file is a zip file that has the instructions for installing it and all the files you need to do it Let me know if it works!! |
Willsfan | Saturday, January 12, 2002 - 05:33 pm     Judy - Your house rocks! I tried to vote for it but it didn't let me. I'll try again sometime. Misslibra - The canning unit is on Hot Date. Mssilhouette - Thanks for all the tips! Keep them coming. I put extra bathrooms downtown in the mall for my poor little sims. And moved some things on the beach closer together so they can have a picnic, have a drink and use the bathroom with it wasting up all their energy so quickly. They sure get tired fast! Now... if only I could make a beachfront hotel. That would be a blast and my sim would never have to go home. *evil grin* Now all my sims have changed careers except one. (this requires at least 18 family friends) Once they reach the top of one profession then they start another so I'm thinking I'll see what develops the next days and try to get them all fired so we can just party. I am curious to see what my Criminal Mastermind's next career will be. Hmmm perhaps politics... |
Biloxibelle | Saturday, January 12, 2002 - 10:04 pm     Still making potions here. I have paid so many 500 dollar fines for toxic fumes I've lost count. Thanks for the info MissL about the male maid I will e-mail tomorrow. I have been using the robot because I can make him cook but the male maid sure is easier on the eyes. I found a love bed on one of the sites today it was much nicer then that red & pink heart bed. But when I went to d/l it they asked for a password and ID# the info said it was free to join and d/l files under 75K but I will research it more before I post it. I just can't bring myself to pay for objects. I found that when I first make a Sim and then make a potion the first try is often times red. If you drink that one someone will fall in love with you. If you have Hot Date more times then not it is a townie. The first townie that fell in love with my new guy I didn't care for so I deleted that chemistry set and bought another one and drank the red potion and a different townie fell in love with him so he married her. That instantly gave him 19 friends which was wonderful because it is really hard to make friends in HD. When friends start dropping off I just send her back downtown and the friends go back up again. I just love reading these posts but I have learned I am way to conservative with my Sims I have to get more daring. I think I will make some unlikable Sims maybe name them Lex & Nicole then try taking the ladder out of the pool and see if I get instant cemetery. Plus I have to get House Party maybe I will go get it tomorrow. We need to start a Sims wish list maybe Maxis will hear us for the next version. For starters I would like to see them only have to go to work 5 days a week with weekends off the have neighbors over, or work on skills, sleep late and party all night anything except work 7 days a week. |
Willsfan | Sunday, January 13, 2002 - 03:15 am     My maid quit and I had to hire another one after I accidently walled her up in a bedroom with two of my male sims that I was trying to make stay home from work. LOL I barely missed her she was so lazy. I swear my sims will go to work with their energy level almost completely red. I get to feeling sorry for them cause they have already been through several careers and they work seven friggin' days a week. And it's time for them to retire! Their next mission is to marry as many females as possible. Let us know more about the male maid download if you guys all get him. Like which paks will it work with and does it automatically go into the correct folder. Oh, that stupid bear came right up to my couple that were laying on the beach blanket and ate sandwiches out of the picnic basket. I almost fell over when it reached down between my two sims and grabbed food. They didn't even notice. They are pretty stupid. Mine even sleep right through the burglar alarm. Wierd. |
Judy | Sunday, January 13, 2002 - 08:09 am     Biloxi- there is a decent looking love bed on my FTP that I got for free from Sims Resource. They are going to keep their files free- but are starting a subscription service too that will offer a better, searchable site. I don't mind going through the trouble to find stuff myself- as long as it's free The butler that I have (also on my FTP) has a .sif file and a .far file. The text file says to put the .far file into the downloads folder but it doesn't say where to put the .sif...anyone know? They have already announced what the latest expansion pack will be...It's Sims Vacation. Here is the write-up I found on it: ~~~~~~ It’s official! The next expansion pack is announced! Reported by: Steve Bonham Source: SimsPlus SimsPlus have posted the details of the next expansion pack , The Sims: Vacation! With all the magic and parties and dating Sims have been up to recently, many of them need a break...and what better way to take a break than going on Vacation! Send your Sims and their families to a Vacation island filled with sun and snow fun! Show the kids a great time while taking a spin on a seaside carnival ride, playing sand volleyball, building snowmen, and riding on the snow slide. Bring home memories like jewels found on a treasure hunt or a wacky souvenir. But watch your kids because if you can't keep them from kicking over sandcastles and hurling snowballs, you'll have a short stay on Vacation Island. Vacation Island: Like The Hot Date downtown, Vacation Island will have up to ten new lots that players can build vacation resorts on. Some lots are winter themed, some are beach themed, and some are forest themed. Kids are people too: The Sims Vacation allows all-new social interactions for adults and their children and interactions children can have with each other. Unlike Hot Date, Vacation allows the entire family to go to a new location. But watch out, if you don't take care of the kids, they may cause enough mayhem to end the vacation early. Souvenirs and prizes: Hot Date brought new gift opportunities to the Sims. Vacation will even have a greater variety of gifts, but Sims can also win prizes in carnivals, buy souvenirs at gift shops, or even find valuables on a treasure hunt. Perhaps if their skills are high enough, they will even win a trophy. Sims can then take the trophy back home and show it to their friends. New group objects: If you thought the hot tub was fun, wait until you play an 8-Sim game of volleyball or get involved in a 2-way snowball fight. Vacations are about fun! Take the kids fishing on the new fishing pier! Who knows, you might catch the big one, or you might just catch good old junk. Welcome to Hotel Sims: Just check in and let the friendly, attentive staff sees to your every need. Food buffet, luxurious beds and state of the art bathrooms are all included. Will you be staying just a couple of days, or all week? There are packages for every budget. Just make sure to lock your doors...you never know who might want to pick your pocket.... New Objects: Snowman, Fort, Slide, Half pipe, Tent, Skating rink, Treasure hunt, Volleyball, Archery, Fishing, Whack-a-Will, Shoot a Clown, Horse ride, Chicken Toss, Miniature golf, Mechanical Claw game, Carousel, Hotel controller, Prize booth, Souvenir cabinet. No word on a release date yet, but it’s certainly something to look forward to for the summer of 2002! |
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