Mssilhouette | Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 08:10 am     Okay it's time for me to get back into the game again! With the new expansion packs it is time again to enter the world of the simulated people! I will be getting Sims Online soon, sooo what about anyone else? Discuss your sims here! By the way the "redux" is because we had this thread before I think in the summer then it faded. But with 2003 it's time to start those sims engines again!! Woohooo!!!! Expansion Packs I own: Livin Large, House Party & Hot Date Expansion Packs I shall own soon: Vacation, Unleashed & Sims Online |
Zachsmom | Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 08:28 am     YEAH!!!! Perhaps someone can help me not kill my Sims!!! I have Hot Date & House Party.. still haven't figured out how to play..all my guests leave mad and there are constant funerals & mornings they are always getting fired..lol..it's so sad and pathetic!! I'll have to install the game again..woohooo!! |
Crazydog | Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 08:40 am     Hey, I was just thinking about this game and this thread the other day! Thanks MsS for re-starting it! Fired up my Sims - I have all of the "old" expansion packs (LL, HP and HD) and had a devil enough of a time figuring those out, so I don't think I'll be getting the new ones just yet. I was getting reacquainted with my Sims and my biggest problem is that I've made far too many characters. One house has a married couple - I made a guy and he stole away Bella Goth. One house has four brothers who have varying degrees of dislike for each other. And the other house has five sisters. Everyone gets really jealous whenever someone talks to someone else. The other problem is that I have forgotten all of the "cheat" codes. Particularly, how you get free money and how you can move objects because the maids are so poor at cleaning up trash. I remember there was something to type to make a box show up and then you type "moveobjects_on" or something like that. I think it's fun to play the brothers since they don't really get along. I only have one bathroom upstairs I put multiple showers and toilets in it. But they won't seem to use it at the same time unless they like each other. And I still haven't figured out how to edit the clothing choices. I'd love to get them swimsuits other than those pink speedos. LOL. |
Mssilhouette | Wednesday, January 01, 2003 - 03:52 am     LOL Zachs aint them sims a moody bunch?! The key to keeping your sims alive is making sure they eat and sleep, go potty. Also sims can't miss more than 2 days of work in a row without losing their job. BUT they can miss every OTHER day without getting fired. (don't know if that changed when SimsVacation and the rest came out but as of Hot Date it was still the same) Okay I just remembered that I put up a website of my old sims stuff AND I made zip files so you could add the house. http://mssilhouette.tripod.com/addressbook.html Wow I'll havta find my disketts of extra sims furniture and stuff. I know one of the sites I got free furniture and goodies was as 7deadlysims.com Cheat codes I remember (cause I have a book)it's early here so I'll havta post those later. #1 thing i havta do is clear out comp room for the game. The Sims with 3 expansions packs eats up plenty of HD space  |
Kaili | Wednesday, January 01, 2003 - 03:05 pm     it's control-alt-delete and type rosebud once you have the expansion packs. It's some other weird word that I can't remember with just the main game to get money. They you do the ctrl-alt-del again and type !;!; to get more- the exclamation repeats whatever you did last. To change the clock it is the same then type set_hour and the time you want it to be. That one is handy to give them time to sleep before work or whatever. There are tons of cheat codes out there on the internet though. i like sevendeadlysims.com myself. I have hot date and livin large. |
Misslibra | Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 03:47 am     I have added the Sims unleashed. It's pretty cool you get to take animals home from the pet stores. The dogs have to be house broken, and the cats uses the kitty liter. They are cute and act just like a real pets would. They also have lizards, Parrots, and turtles and different pets like that. And in this one you can grow your own veggies and harvest them. I was going to get vacation but got unleashed instead. |
Vixeninvegas | Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 09:37 am     Okay finally somewhere I can get some info. I bought a Sims game last year & it was kool but when I figured out that they wouldn't speak "english" I thought it was dumb & sent it back. To be honest I couldn't understand what they wanted & they kept melting onto the floor screaming & crying they died LOL I got so frustrated I sent it back to the manufacturer & they refunded my money. I really want to get the new Sims Online game - I think it would be more fun for me to be able to interact with others on the internet & be able to "speak". Once I buy the 49.95 game & then join the $10.00 per month thing will there be any other costs? What I mean is should I have any other of the "Sims" games prior to buying the online one? Or will it all be accessable in their "online world"? I hope I'm asking the question correctly LOL As you can obviously tell I really am confussed about life in a Sims World Thanks in advance for the assistance on here  |
Mssilhouette | Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 07:02 pm     Wow Vixen. I can't tell you much more about Sims Online, but you might try going to the sims offical website www.thesims.com and checking out the message board. From what I read I don't think their are any other fees except for the price of the game and the monthly fee. You are able to actually "talk" to someone. I'm sorry you didn't like it that the sims spoke simsese. Usually you can understand what they mean by the picture bubbles over their heads. It usually flashes red and shows you either a sofa or chair for sleep/rest, food for hunger, faces for social interaction. I know with the regular game it helps to turn on the auto function so that sims will go to the bathroom and eat without being told to all the time. |
Biloxibelle | Monday, January 06, 2003 - 01:56 pm     Oh I am so happy to see the Sims Thread back up. I think I still have the old one zipped up somewhere on my computer. I've added Unleashed and am having a blast with it. I love the pets and all the extra lots you get. I hardly ever go downtown or on vacation anymore. But you can take your pets on vacation with you. Just be sure you add on to the vacation lots first with pet items (beds, food dishes, litter boxes). The one item I have found I can't live without is called a "rejuvenater" I got it at The Sims Resource. It comes under electronics. It looks like a black shower but when you get in it maxs out all your needs. The thing I lost and miss and can't find is the nude patch so I'm back to the blur. I have kicked around the idea of joining the on line game I missed my chance to get the software for 5.00. Let me know if anyone joins. MsS going to check out your Sims now I clicked on them earlier and they looked great. I really enjoyed your "As the Sims Turned" stories the first time around. Have you ever decided if one of the Silhouette twins is evil or not? |
Zachsmom | Monday, January 06, 2003 - 02:30 pm     The thing I lost and miss and can't find is the nude patch so I'm back to the blur. WHAT!! You can see the Sims nude?? ROTFLMBO!!! I am going to reinstall Sims on my machine..since the thread is up, I'll have others to talk about the Sims with.. |
Crazydog | Monday, January 06, 2003 - 02:53 pm     Zachsmom, yes you can get a patch to remove the blur so you can see your Sims nude when they take a shower. The only thing is, your Sims will look like Barbie and Ken unless you also get skins that are anatomically correct. Biloxibelle, I remember when I last stopped playing I had just added Hot Date and the patch didn't work with it. But I did a yahoo search and re-installed the nude patch and it works. I will look for the rejuvenator, sounds just like what I need. Especially with my band of slob brothers. |
Sia | Monday, January 06, 2003 - 03:53 pm     I know I've said this before on this message-board, but I'll say it again: I love you people. You're absolutely crazy, you know that? You're my kind of people.  |
Kaili | Monday, January 06, 2003 - 06:55 pm     nude patch Above is the link to the nude patch. The rejuvinator is something I desperatly need too. I've made most of my sims the same astral sign because they seem to get along better that way, but mine always seem to have social/fun issues anyway... I like to make them drink a lot of coffee or cappachino until they pee on themselves. I'm a mean Sim God. |
Mssilhouette | Monday, January 06, 2003 - 08:33 pm     Biloxibelle - I'm glad you enjoyed my little soap opera. I never updated my page but I had the night club moving in and whole lotta stuff was going on. Now I gotta start all over again...well at least I can load my house again so I don't have to build it over. I never had the rejunvinator, I had to do that trick the old way. Go into build mode, enter the code that will allow you to move all objects (including dirty dishes) then click on your sims move him off the screen. When you go back into live mode the'll be a red x by the sims name just click on their face and presto they reappear like magic but everything is maxed. By the way it sounds more involved than it really is. I also used the move object to get rid of those piles of dishes. |
Mssilhouette | Wednesday, January 29, 2003 - 10:50 pm     bump! where's the sims folks? |
Fabnsab | Thursday, January 30, 2003 - 02:50 am     I just found the world of Sims recently. My husband is much better with them than I am. They took my baby away because he wouldn't stop crying. Then my second shot at parenthood, I actually got the kid to grow up but they sent him to military school because of his grades. I have been wanting to do Sims online too but was worried that it would be too clique-y. Wouldn't it be great if we all got sims online and had our own neighborhood?? I am completely game if anyone else is. |
Riviere | Thursday, January 30, 2003 - 12:32 pm     I played Sims since it came out in 1999 and I now find it boring, except to make it harder and more interesting to myself when I go into combining houses and building mansions. Sims online has too many bugs. I rarely play anymore but my fave thing is keeping the local romeo with 28 lovers from getting caught by his ever working clueless wife.. |
Neko | Thursday, January 30, 2003 - 12:46 pm     I got The Sims from my friend and was playing it. I had one of my guys loving Bella Goth, and 3 of my other girls. It was quite funny.. Now, I was wondering, they can't get married unless you have an expansion pack for it right?? And I have another question, why aren't they correct in the times, I don't know, I think it's just odd to only have heterosexual peoples. Cause if you want a neighbourhood as real as you can get it, there would be some sort of difference... Oh well, I'll just stick with The SIms. Doubt I'd waste my money on Expansion packs because I don't have time for it... |
Crossfire | Thursday, January 30, 2003 - 12:53 pm     Marriage is possible without the expansion, and the game does not only have heterosexual couples. You can mix and match any sex you want. Keep working it. |
Crazydog | Thursday, January 30, 2003 - 12:55 pm     Neko, you don't need expansion packs to get married. You just need to get your relationship points with that person really high, and they will give you the option to get married. My guy stole Bella away from her husband. And you can create homosexual couples. You do it the same way, just get your relationship points up high enough. They won't get married but they will behave like they are, i.e. they'll use the shower in front of each other, kiss, get jealous, like any other couple. I haven't been playing that much because I don't have a lot of free time, but I'd like to get back into it. |
Neko | Thursday, January 30, 2003 - 01:49 pm     Really?? I've tried cause I was trying to make a neighbourhood with all the people I know and I could get two of my real homosexual friends, to get together. And I had the personality thingies close to perfect too... Well, spanks(thanks) for the help. One more thing, they'll have a kid when they're in love living together. But they won't get married cause since they were made together as a "family".. So they're already married?? |
Kaili | Thursday, January 30, 2003 - 01:59 pm     No- they aren't married when they are made together. Notice when you start a new family they are at a lower friendship level... You still have to build it up. They start as roomates then you have to build them up and then later they marry. To get Sims to have a kid quickly, once they love each other "that way" (meaning it is a red heart above them when they hug or kiss- not pink) you make them kiss a bunch of times in a row and soon you will be asked if they want to adopt or have a baby. Problems come when one loves the other with a red heart (love) and the other with a pink heart (friends). They they get mad about advances cause they don't love them that way. They have to both love in red. Then you get slapping and the relationship points go way down. |
Neko | Thursday, January 30, 2003 - 02:04 pm     Thanks Kaili! *Runs off to play the Sims* |
Kaili | Thursday, January 30, 2003 - 02:09 pm     Good luck! |
Crossfire | Thursday, January 30, 2003 - 02:29 pm     Sims are mostly sociopaths that would be locked up-key tossed in the real world. |