A Sims 2 Addict Speaks
Oct. 15th, 2004 10:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thessalianMy friends are fab.
The background: When I started playing Sims, I had trouble with multi-character houses and interactions. I got better at that, and moved on to expansion packs, at which point I was completely lost all over again. Hacked items really helped to solve the problem, and I became quite good at creating thriving Sims families. That lost its appeal and I started in on interior design. Now I have Sims 2, which ironically has put me right back to Square 1. Worse, actually, because there are all these aspirations and crap that I'm trying to get used to. And there aren't enough Sims 2 objects hacked to improve mood or just be cheap, so I'm kind of screwed. There is nothing to make my life easier anymore.
At least there wasn't, until Toos told me about cheat codes the other day. Better still, she sent a list of cheat codes and secrets, mostly involving increasing one's family's starting bank balance. Which is a good thing if you want to build a decent house for more than one person. Now I can stop worrying about how much things cost and just produce the families I want to produce, then let them fend for themselves in a well-furnished home. Then there's![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cholten99, who has so far been downloading me Halloween objects and managed to find a ReadMe file that told me what I've been doing wrong as regards downloads.
So far I have two half-completed custom neighbourhoods -- Altamira and Llandeilo. Altamira needs a lot of work; there are only four families set up there so far. It was fun seeing what kind of toddler Alejandro and Idunn would produce, and of course Alison and Pietro do nothing but shag (I'll have to play them some more to see if they fight as much as the actual characters in 7th Sea...). Llandeilo's not actually much better -- I've been working through the families on it one at a time, taking some serious liberties. Skank and Molly (the Fetish family -- look at it in that stupid just-off-Comic-Sans-MS font and it's just really disconcerting) are actually doing quite well; Molly's about five days off being a teenager and spends half her time bouncing between gold and platinum on her aspiration bar, and Skank never has the time to learn the stuff he wants to, which will probably change when Molly goes into teenager mode. E and Chloe, who I've listed as sisters, seem to spend an inordinate amount of time ignoring each other; Chloe was last seen flirting with Hoshikuro, and E's worked out enough to get her fitness bar up into "butch". Meanwhile, the Blair family (Brenna, Hoshikuro and Dawn) are doing well -- Hoshikuro's trying to teach Dawn to be playful and Brenna's just trying to get a job. I need to house the Chatwin family (Michelle and Richard; siblings) and the Marwood family (Lucius and Susanna; roommates) and there's still Carl, Kuo-Li, Jeremiah, Sarah (barmaid), Finn (apothecary) and the Farrell family to consider.
Oh God, I'm going all addicty. I'd better have worn the new off this by 1 November.
Dr Propper now does clinics on Thursdays. More typing. Yaaaay. Part of the reason I wanted this job was that it wasn't so typing intensive, and now it is. Irony is good for the blood. And in the Good News/Bad News category: good news is that Violet is out today -- bad news is that she's at the hospital. She should be back on Monday, so I assume she's outpatient, but still, poor her.
I've been actually giving some serious thought to the NoMo, and I know how I want it to start, at least. At this rate, it'll be written in my head before I even set fingers to keyboard on it. Then again, knowing me it'll go off at a complete tangent after the first paragraph and then I'll be doing it from scratch all over again. It should be fun, all things considered -- I'm going very "write what you know". No, not torture, mayhem and things blowing up.
Looking very forward to back-to-back Mage Sundays. I brought it up at 7th Sea last night and it turned out that it worked out to everyone's benefit anyway. See, Kat and Mark won't be around that weekend and Andy P wanted to have a little party anyway; the main activities he mentioned were watching cheesy horror movies, eating Scary Spiders (a form of gummy sweet, I profoundly hope) and setting things on fire in the garden. So my Sundays go: Mage on the 17th, Mage on the 24th, Halloween bonfire thingy on 31st, and then Mage again on the 7th. As Calvin says, "The days are just packed".
The background: When I started playing Sims, I had trouble with multi-character houses and interactions. I got better at that, and moved on to expansion packs, at which point I was completely lost all over again. Hacked items really helped to solve the problem, and I became quite good at creating thriving Sims families. That lost its appeal and I started in on interior design. Now I have Sims 2, which ironically has put me right back to Square 1. Worse, actually, because there are all these aspirations and crap that I'm trying to get used to. And there aren't enough Sims 2 objects hacked to improve mood or just be cheap, so I'm kind of screwed. There is nothing to make my life easier anymore.
At least there wasn't, until Toos told me about cheat codes the other day. Better still, she sent a list of cheat codes and secrets, mostly involving increasing one's family's starting bank balance. Which is a good thing if you want to build a decent house for more than one person. Now I can stop worrying about how much things cost and just produce the families I want to produce, then let them fend for themselves in a well-furnished home. Then there's
cholten99, who has so far been downloading me Halloween objects and managed to find a ReadMe file that told me what I've been doing wrong as regards downloads.So far I have two half-completed custom neighbourhoods -- Altamira and Llandeilo. Altamira needs a lot of work; there are only four families set up there so far. It was fun seeing what kind of toddler Alejandro and Idunn would produce, and of course Alison and Pietro do nothing but shag (I'll have to play them some more to see if they fight as much as the actual characters in 7th Sea...). Llandeilo's not actually much better -- I've been working through the families on it one at a time, taking some serious liberties. Skank and Molly (the Fetish family -- look at it in that stupid just-off-Comic-Sans-MS font and it's just really disconcerting) are actually doing quite well; Molly's about five days off being a teenager and spends half her time bouncing between gold and platinum on her aspiration bar, and Skank never has the time to learn the stuff he wants to, which will probably change when Molly goes into teenager mode. E and Chloe, who I've listed as sisters, seem to spend an inordinate amount of time ignoring each other; Chloe was last seen flirting with Hoshikuro, and E's worked out enough to get her fitness bar up into "butch". Meanwhile, the Blair family (Brenna, Hoshikuro and Dawn) are doing well -- Hoshikuro's trying to teach Dawn to be playful and Brenna's just trying to get a job. I need to house the Chatwin family (Michelle and Richard; siblings) and the Marwood family (Lucius and Susanna; roommates) and there's still Carl, Kuo-Li, Jeremiah, Sarah (barmaid), Finn (apothecary) and the Farrell family to consider.
Oh God, I'm going all addicty. I'd better have worn the new off this by 1 November.
Dr Propper now does clinics on Thursdays. More typing. Yaaaay. Part of the reason I wanted this job was that it wasn't so typing intensive, and now it is. Irony is good for the blood. And in the Good News/Bad News category: good news is that Violet is out today -- bad news is that she's at the hospital. She should be back on Monday, so I assume she's outpatient, but still, poor her.
I've been actually giving some serious thought to the NoMo, and I know how I want it to start, at least. At this rate, it'll be written in my head before I even set fingers to keyboard on it. Then again, knowing me it'll go off at a complete tangent after the first paragraph and then I'll be doing it from scratch all over again. It should be fun, all things considered -- I'm going very "write what you know". No, not torture, mayhem and things blowing up.
Looking very forward to back-to-back Mage Sundays. I brought it up at 7th Sea last night and it turned out that it worked out to everyone's benefit anyway. See, Kat and Mark won't be around that weekend and Andy P wanted to have a little party anyway; the main activities he mentioned were watching cheesy horror movies, eating Scary Spiders (a form of gummy sweet, I profoundly hope) and setting things on fire in the garden. So my Sundays go: Mage on the 17th, Mage on the 24th, Halloween bonfire thingy on 31st, and then Mage again on the 7th. As Calvin says, "The days are just packed".