Archive through January 04, 2002

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Spygirl

Wednesday, January 02, 2002 - 04:50 pm Click here to edit this post
Okay, I'm really afraid to ask this question because the last thing in the world I need is something more to do, but.....how do I get this game? Do I buy it? Download it? Get a pirated copy ? Or what? This whole thing sounds very fascinating......

Kep421

Wednesday, January 02, 2002 - 04:57 pm Click here to edit this post
Buy it...get one of the expansion paks...you will have a blast!!!!!

BTW, Hi Spy!!!!

Kep421

Wednesday, January 02, 2002 - 04:59 pm Click here to edit this post
I want to play this game very much, but I'm very fragile emotionally at the moment...

I'm afraid that my Sims will end up so dysfunctional that they will all move to trailer parks and end up on Jerry Springer....

I'm not able to handle that kind of failure right now...maybe later when my confidence returns.

Wink

Wednesday, January 02, 2002 - 05:05 pm Click here to edit this post
LOL Kep. Maybe you could divert them from Springer by having them join TVCH.

Judy

Wednesday, January 02, 2002 - 06:15 pm Click here to edit this post
Hey Spy...
Try the Sims Stuff Folder on my FTP.

Spygirl

Wednesday, January 02, 2002 - 06:50 pm Click here to edit this post
Thanks Judy!!! I hope I'm doing this right....it is currently opening party.exe -- expected download time is over 5 hours...is that right? I even have a cable connection....Just checking!

Thanks again!

Schoolmarm

Wednesday, January 02, 2002 - 08:37 pm Click here to edit this post
Uh...Spy??? Dissertation police here!!!

Why don't you get the Sims as a reward for finishing? That's what I'm going to do! And I hope that I'm playing the Sims very soon.

<marm goes bleary eyed back to writing appendices and bibliography>

Angelnikki

Wednesday, January 02, 2002 - 10:04 pm Click here to edit this post
hey guys :) I am having such a great time with my SIMS. This thread helps alot believe it or not. MsS, you are a big help but i have one question:
what is autonomy 100?? because i leave my SIMS on free will when i exit the game but i click the save button. should i NOT click save? My SIMS are pretty darn happy and i have built a really nice house and downloaded a few things :) i cant get my soda machine to work for some reason, it takes a dollar from them and wont give them a soda.:( i have my people with alot of cooking skills because ive had one to many fires, luckily noone has died (thank god), i freak out though, i keep clicking the extinguish button over and over. LOL

Spygirl, you will love this game, im tellin ya, i am addicted, i cant stop playing. its so much fun to decorate and make you SIMS and pick names for them, they have their own little personalities. its cool.

i have a husband and wife and the wife(genevive simpleton :)) has a friend (woman) who comes over every now and then, well the other day they were talking and the husband (frankie simpleton) came home from work and i had him talk to the woman and get very friendly, well, genevive comes right over, stands in front of the woman and slaps the s**t out of her LOL that was funny. the woman walked away pissed. then i had the husband and wife "play in bed". i have to watch out though cause i had them play in bed about three times in one day and they had a baby. genevive had to use the restroom so bad she neglected the crying baby and social services came and took little amber leigh :(, oh well, they couldnt get any sleep cause the baby cryed all the damn time. so thats whats happening in my SIM world :)
have fun guys

Willsfan

Thursday, January 03, 2002 - 02:43 am Click here to edit this post
I have a house with 7 single guys and six are working and getting promotions. The seventh one will never work, he stays home calls the repair guy, goes to the mail box, helps the maid clean house and tries to keep up friendships with the neighbor ladies. Most of my sims have to have at least 2 family friends for promotions and once you make a friend you have to keep seeing them frequently or you loose them.

When this household first started they had a filthy house-even with a maid. They needed two maids! I swear all these guys would do is eat and throw trash on the floor. I had made a female sim to resemble me and personality (scorpio) and when she came to visit them she walked through the house shaking her head and making phew noises. haha

Anyway, she stayed until a couple of them went to sleep. (it was late and she said goodbye very politely) One went to sleep standing in front of the toilet and one fell asleep in the front yard by the rosebush. When their energy level goes red all the way they just fall asleep wherever and at any activity they are doing which is very amusing. The sound this game makes when this happens is all together too funny then it plays a lullaby so you know immediately that one of your sims has burnt the midnight candle too far. I have to admit that sometimes I make them do this just to see them nod their head and fall over backwards in a deep sleep.

Their household bills every three days are about thousand dollars but they can afford it. The only problem with this is the bills sometimes turn yellow before I can find them to have one of them pay it. When there is so much action going on one of the sims goes to the mailbox and hides it and I never see which one has done it. He sometimes drops it in the yard on on the floor instead of on top of the table, or desk or the trash compactor, where they are supposed to put them. So I have to look all through the house and keep a sharp eye out for anything out of place. It's a wonder the bills haven't red and the furniture repo'ed.

Having too many bathrooms never happens in a sims game and having two dishwashers and two refrigerators make that house run more smoothly and I designate two to prepare the meals. Getting all these guys off to work is a chore but the alarm clocks help. Each one has theirs set to an hour before they leave for home but most of the time they are awake before it goes off.

This is curious. I have seven beds and seven sims but once in a while I have one or two extra guys in bed. Doubling up. I don't know where they came from I do a head check every night. It's easy to see if there are two in bed...some nights I have nine sims.

Resortgirl

Thursday, January 03, 2002 - 05:18 am Click here to edit this post
Hi Mss! Thanks for the cheats! My son was so excited when I showed him how to get more money (his family has been living on a tight budget and had a cockroach problem) He also is hoping that he can now keep his family safe from fire. He's lost a couple and thought the only way to keep them safe was NOT to have a microwave...LOL!

Judy

Thursday, January 03, 2002 - 07:22 am Click here to edit this post
I have been concentrating on my Judy Sim family a lot lately.
I was determined to get my skill levels maxed out. My hubby's too.
WOW what an undertaking. It takes like three hours (in Sim time) to get one freakin' mechanical point!
I managed to do it with the help of a very useful cheat.
Instead of taking the time to get my Sim's bladder, hunger energy and fun levels up in between learning each task...here is what I do instead.
1. SAVE the game
2. Click the chair to go into 'buy' mode.
3. press ctrl+shift+c to pull up the cheat window
4. type "move_objects on" into window WITHOUT the quotes.
5. Press enter.
6. While still in buy mode - you can now pick up your Sim like a piece of furniture. So pick him up:)
7. Drag him to the bottom of the screen where it says click here to delelte. And *GULP* delete him!
8. Now go out of buy mode and back to live mode.
9. In the face shots of your Sim family, the one you just deleted is there, with a little red crosshair in the corner of his pic. CLick him and he is standing back in the house as fresh as a daisy. All his mood levels are completely green.

It's kinda scary the first time you do this LOL. Always make sure you save it first, because deleting a Sim will wipe out all the skills he has learned since you last saved.

Using this method- I was able to get my Sim to learn 2-3 skills; save it; delete him; and keep learning.

This cheat is also great to delete things that you are normally not allowed to. Like water on the floor, trash, newspapers, used plates, etc.

Oh- I submitted the house I built for my Judy family to the Sim's Resource. It should be up in about a week- maybe one of you will download it for your Sims!!!

Willsfan

Thursday, January 03, 2002 - 09:05 am Click here to edit this post
Judy - that is scary. haha

I might try that cheat, although not for skill level. One of my guys is constantly depressed, he cannot ever get enough social interaction. I try to get everyone to talk to him but they only talk a little bit and then they want to do other stuff including building skill levels anything except talk to him. His crying is starting to get on my last nerve. (this house only has 4 people and none of them are working yet)

I tried the move object cheat before and nothing happened but I wasn't in the buy mode. Maybe that's why.

This game has many hidden pitfalls, etc. One of my sims was shot (a patrolman) and they deducted 2 body levels and added 1 charisma (sp?).

And I noticed I have a cuckoo clock and a moose head among other strange objects that might do stuff. Like the clown painting someone mentioned here. I know about the guinea pig. Guess that's part of the fun of the game- the unexpected happens.

Judy

Thursday, January 03, 2002 - 11:29 am Click here to edit this post
Uh oh, my Sim son has the Guinea Pig...what's gonna happen to it??

Mssilhouette

Thursday, January 03, 2002 - 01:00 pm Click here to edit this post
Uh oh Judy...well do you have the picture OR the actual pet?

I think the actual pet if not taken care of can get a Sims sick. Then you'll havta stare at the Guniea Pig picture for a while.

Angel - The "autonomy" cheat goes beyond the free will...or its supposed to. That gives them Super Autonomy so they should do the stuff normally you have to direct them to do.

When I just want to WATCH my sims I'll put in the code and watch them for a while. After I'm done if things get too bad I just exit without saving that way everything will be back to normal.

Otherwise I'll just save the game as I usually do.

Now I'm wondering why is it that I only hear burping when I have a bunch of male sims?...LOL

Willsfan

Thursday, January 03, 2002 - 03:46 pm Click here to edit this post
Judy - I also heard the pig makes sims sick if the cage is dirty. If it gets too dirty and the pig bites someone they can die. There is an interesting article on the web about this.

Mssilhouette - LOL you are so funny. After you mentioned you had a house full of male sims I made one too. Boy, at first they are such a handful but then it gets easier and now I'm finding my houses with only two people are kind of dull.

Mssilhouette

Thursday, January 03, 2002 - 05:29 pm Click here to edit this post
Willsfan, it is fun controlling 8 men at once isn't it? LMAO!

Yeah I know after you run around doing everything for 8 guys or women or children it sure gets dull with just 1 or 2 people.

Hmmm 8 kids in one house, no job and no parents! LOL Villa Villa Coola anyone. LMAO somewhere there hasta be a Pipi Longstocking skin :)

Angelnikki

Thursday, January 03, 2002 - 11:12 pm Click here to edit this post
what the hell is wrong with my pepsi machine???LOL
why doesnt it work??

Resortgirl

Friday, January 04, 2002 - 05:30 am Click here to edit this post
Oh Oh, I was helping my son figure out the cheats and accidently got HOOKED! I played for almost 4 hours yesterday. I don't NEED another addiction!

Mssilhouette

Friday, January 04, 2002 - 11:04 am Click here to edit this post
Oh sure resortgirl...You SAY you were "helping" your son....but really it was all just a plot to get a little taste of the game. You know you've wanted to try it...I mean all your friends are doing it. C'mon Resort...BE ONE OF US!!!

Grooch

Friday, January 04, 2002 - 11:05 am Click here to edit this post
MsS, What is going on with your Sim and her sister Evelyn? I'm dying to know.

Resortgirl

Friday, January 04, 2002 - 01:28 pm Click here to edit this post
Yup, I'm hooked! I have built and bulldozed 3 houses in the last two days and trying to keep up with that family of three is EXHAUSTING! They are more needy then my own family. I have hired a maid and gardener because the cockroaches and dead plants are more then I can handle. Now I need to know how to make friends. They don't do to well with socializing. Sleep, Eat and Poop is about all they seem to have time for...and what about S-E-X? Will they, CAN they? Oh well, off to my vacation soon, I really need a break from those rascals!

Grooch

Friday, January 04, 2002 - 01:31 pm Click here to edit this post
Cockroaches? I didn't know they had that in the game.

Yuck!

Mssilhouette

Friday, January 04, 2002 - 01:56 pm Click here to edit this post
Grooch if you leave dishes out files will buzz over them and if trash is left on the floor too long then cockroaches will come and crawl around. LOL THen your sims can either Stomp the roaches or SPRAY them. The only way to kill them is to Spray them.

Now about the drama. Well it seems that my neighborhood is all a flurry! There have be 3 new familes that have moved into town.

An 8 brother family, an 8 sister family and 6 sexy singles.

Now the brothers had a bit of bad luck and they lost 5 of their family members to a fire. But by the magic of Not saving the game. The household was restored to it's full state.

These brothers have a thing for bamboo and island type funishings. They also don't seem to get along that well and are extremely messy.

They live way beyond their means but luckily they inherited about 1 million dollars when sadly their adopted parents died. Now they are living high on the hog and partying into the late night hours. Neighbors have been complaining about the noises.

The 8 sisters have extreme personalites and have decided to make their little aparments different themes. They seem to be getting along so far but none of them have jobs or skills. They also inherited a bit of cash but that is slowly running out.

Now about Ms.Silhouette and her sister, with these new neighbors these two will soon get into some trouble, no doubt.

I have a feeling a few more men will be moving into this party town but the Goths may be leaving for good. I don't think Mrs Goth can take having too many more women flirt with her husband.

I think a soap opera is brewing... SimRow Place maybe? Sim Hills 90210? PasaSIMA? Sims Landing?
One Sims To Live?

More pictures of the new neighborhood should be coming this weekend.

I have realized that playing with the brothers and furnishing has absorbed hours upon hours. MsSilhouette's house looks empty in comparison.

The Brothers family has 32 bathrooms and 2 bedrooms LOL Technically there are really only 4 bathrooms but when you put up a privacy wall the game thinks its a separate room. :) So I have about 32 showers & toliets. LOL

No wonder the montly bill was about 9K. Those Brothers sure live well!

I've also notice that when I do use the AUTONOMY 100 cheat that the sims keep their mood level pretty high on their own.

Wink

Friday, January 04, 2002 - 02:08 pm Click here to edit this post
32 bathrooms!!!!! With 8 guys in the house who cleans those stinkpots???

Mssilhouette

Friday, January 04, 2002 - 02:15 pm Click here to edit this post
Oops almost forgot....

The gossip around the Sims Real Estate office is that the six new singles are more workaholics than anything else. They haven't had any time to hire a contractor to build their houses so they sleep outside and spend all day building up their skills so that they can make a ton of cash.

Their thirst for wealth won't help their socializing but maybe some of those party brothers and sisters will help them relax. What's amazing is that these seem to have singles have NO personalities. One day they might be nice and the other day nasty. They seem to have odd mood swings.

They probably won't want to do anything until they've reached their career goals. However long that may take.

There's a rumor going around that an woman who was charged with murdering her husband is moving into the neighborhood. It seems this lady was acquitted as no conclusive evidence was found. She wants to stay very low key and just live a quiet life with her 5 male "friends". The papers called her a Black Widow, it remains to be seen if that title will hold true.