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Hiring a nanny for one day worked. That allowed the father to go to work and he immediately got promoted. The bug only seems to occur when they have exactly the same job. I fired the nanny immediately after. She was so annoying!
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They do and this is exactly what I intended to do, but they both refuse to leave for work, even though there is another adult there.
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Yes, they go to work at the same time. Perhaps that is what's causing the problem. Ironically, if either one of them actually managed to get to work they'd probably get promoted and be on different hours.
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Just lost my first sim in TS2. He died of old age while using the telephone. Probably the 100th repetition of "Your call is important to us..." was just too much for him. He was 79. He was mourned by his family and friends, with the exception of his youngest son, who decided to mark the occasion with a game of cops and…
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You can play TS2 on pretty much any modern laptop. It'll be easier to get it working on Windows 7 though. The requirements for TS3 were rather steeper, I doubt that will play smoothly on a cheap laptop. Obviously, if you have the CD/DVD version, you'll need a laptop with a DVD drive, or an external USB one. A lot of modern…
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For interior design, like testing out colour combinations and arranging furniture, you could use The Sims, especially if you make CC of the wall coverings and furniture you want to use. For actual building design, I think The Sims is too restrictive to be of any use. Maybe it could be used for just testing out a few basic…
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Another difference I noticed last week - TS1 music is much better, in my opinion than TS2 music. So much so I've actually replaced a lot of it with the TS1 music. I think, in general, the sound was better in TS1. The men in TS2 are very whiny when they complain about something. The TV channels are quite annoying as well.…
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However, the games market has increased enormously since 2000, so with TS1 selling 11 million and TS2 selling 13 million, the later games haven't really done that well, in relative terms. To put that in perspective, TS1 was the best selling PC game of all time in 2002. Neither TS3 or TS4 came anywhere near challenging…
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At the moment I'd have to say Sims 1, although that may change when I get some of the expansions for Sims 2. I'm just playing the base game right now. TS2 is graphically better and I love the community lots. I like the ageing too, but it's not implemented perfectly. There needs to be some mechanism for ageing the townies.…
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Currently I'm playing the base game, patched, but with no expansions; so it may be (hopefully) that some of the bugs I'm experiencing are fixed in the expansions. I've ordered University, Nightlife, and Open for Business, so I'll see in a day or two when they arrive. I haven't played TS3 or 4 so I can't compare it to them.…
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My first Sim (bearing my name) died fighting a raging kitchen fire, in front of his wife and children. I intended to play on, but there was a bug in the game that didn't allow me to move his urn. So, every time anyone went into the kitchen they would burst into tears, and were unable to eat. I was forced to quit without…
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That's what they have. I returned the porch to how it was before the trouble started. I don't know for sure that it was the archway that caused the issue. They never used the front door anyway. Always went round to the back door. It could just be that I phoned them at 3am. Anyway. I'll try moving lots and see what that…
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Trouble is, they don't bring anything to deliver. They just appear, stand motionless for 24 hours, then play chess forever. There is a regular Maxis back door they can use - and they used to use that, but not any more.
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The patch will install and work, even though I don't have that version?
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Ah... seems that requires a later expansion. I only have the base game.
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I've tried that now but no luck. I also tried removing them with moveobjects, and also boolProp testingCheatsEnabled then forcing them to error, which both work - as in, I can then delete them, but they just come back the next day. I've been looking through the lot and neighbourhood files with SimPE, trying to find the…
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Yes, it doesn't seem to be affecting other lots.
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Archive.org has it - https://web.archive.org/web/20080830115058/mikeinside.modthesims2.com/building/basements/index.html Looks like a good guide. Thanks!
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Obviously I can't speak for all the people who go on those kind of shows, but I've met several people who've specifically expressed a desire to be pied, gunged, etc. I'm sure there are many also who, as you say, are in it for the prizes or fame and accept the possibility of humiliation along the way. I've no idea as to…
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Finally did it! I installed a new copy of TS2 on a separate machine. Created a new neighbourhood and copied the Pleasantview terrain to that with Hoodreplace, then copied the temp neighbourhood back to my main machine and transferred the terrain to my original Pleasantview. What a palaver!
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So I tried this process with both the pleasantview.sc4 from my install and also the original pleasantview file from modthesims, and it kind of works, - in that the terrain was swapped - but bizarrely, neither actually matched the terrain from my original Pleasantview. I don't see how that's possible. I've never edited it.…
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Thanks for your help. I've been experimenting for the last few hours and I seem to have got it working. Trouble is, I've now just run into a different issue. I just deleted the lot I was experimenting on and the game completely flattened the terrain where the lot had been. That is really annoying! Is there any simple way…
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Thanks, I'll give that a try.
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I've seen a tutorial on basements, but that puts the whole room in the ground. I was hoping to build a house with the front door on the ground floor, but the back of the house partly covered by the slope, so the back door is on the first floor. Something like this:
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How?
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Thanks, that was what I was looking for. The last point was assuming there was no way to connect buildings on different levels, there didn't seem much point in terrain editing. Is it also possible to embed a building in a slope?
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A ha! Membership achieved. I can now post that picture inline.
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That depends on what's going to happen in the remaining 1999998 years. I'd probably take it though. 30 million years of happiness is a pretty good trade off for anything. Would you want to live forever, given that that means you would eventually be alone forever? (the sun would have faded out, the universe either collapsed…
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Technically, given The Sims grew out of Sim City, my first Sims game was the original Sim City, on the ZX Spectrum, back in 1990. I played the first The Sims in 2000. I haven't played 3 or 4 at all.
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Yes, I suppose so. Sarcastic?
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