I have played a lot with the Sims 2, it's a great game but I become quite bored by the few choice of clothing and hair styles. I have troubles to find good sites to download new clothes or hair styles for free... Could you help me ? (I know that with Body Shop I should be able to do my own, but I still find this difficult )
[ November 30, 2004, 05:50 AM: Message edited by: Anna ]
Posted by A Rat Named Dog (Member # 699) on :
I saw a couple on Fileplanet the other day that ... er ... you probably don't want. Let's just say they don't really involve clothes.
Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :
I'm still trying to get the blasted game working... period!!
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
Sims 2 is out already? Ah, man, now I have to go spend more money. Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Mine is so lagurchedy right now -_-. I have to get a vid card one day. But, what I really want is a dude with an eyepatch because Margaret's boyfriend will have one.
Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
I finally found this link - enjoy !
Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :
Sims Resource has Sims2 stuff, too. They are a partially-pay site. They rotate stuff into free every three days. (At least, that's how they do the Sims stuff.)
I can't play the Sims2 on my computer and can't afford a new one right now. Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
Geoff means the naked sims downloads, I see these quite offen (the downloads, not the naked sims).
Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
What interest in having skins of sims naked ? I mean, you just have to take the nude patch to see them naked each time they take a shower !
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
So I paid fifty bucks for this game, and it doesn't even work. It's complaining about not being able to find any "DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics adapters". Is that something I can download, or is it something I need to buy and put in there manually?
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
What is your video card? Try updating the drivers for it... Mine still runs slowly and lagurchedy.. -_-
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
quote:What is your video card?
I don't know. Where would I find that out?
quote:Try updating the drivers for it...
I don't know what "drivers" are. Could I just download those?
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
If you dled Direct X there is a way to do it. dxdiag Go to run, type that in. See if it's nvidia or something like that... Then go to the nvidia site and then dl a driver, but I don't know which one... If it's another one, try their site... Hopefully that should help.
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
Thanks for trying to help, but it turns out my problem is much more basic than that. My video card is outdated, even though it's never given me any trouble with anything before. (Admittedly, I'm not much of a gamer; the newest game I have on this thing is Civilization III. So it's not like I'm upgrading all the time to play the hottest new games.) Basically, I can't play this fifty-dollar game until I spend another fifty or a hundred or so on a new video card. Ain't no way Sims 2 is going to be worth all this.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
I too must get a new video card soon. Maybe my dvd player would work better Maybe if I get a second job? hmm ah, well.
Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
I finally found this site : Parsimonious which has the most gorgeous free downloads I ever seen, including beautiful indian clothing.
Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
I'm happy to inform you that I had my first alien abduction, and one of my sim (Paul, a scientist) is the proud father of a cute (and green) baby. When I created his parents, I never guessed they would be grandparents of an alien...
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
I have werewolves and faeries in my game. I'm going to try to make them breed with the humans in it... Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
Are we still talking about the sims 2 ? Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Yeah I made Faeries and Ville Valo because he's just so pretty with those nice eyes. I'm going to make him Marry someone in the game and find Anya a husband so she stops cheating with Emilys partner Amber... And then they'll have babies! Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
Cooooooool. I'm trying to be "moral" with my sims, no one ever cheated on their spouse, except for the alien baby. I was a little sad when I saw in his geneological tree that the spouse of the baby's father wasn't considered as his parent... His other parent is a pollinisator alien.
[ November 30, 2004, 10:05 AM: Message edited by: Anna ]
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
I got to remember who is going to who... I should just move them all to Veronaville which is a nice little town... Let's see. Jenna is going to Eva. Ville is going to Katyusha because she needs a boyfriend... And Leo is going to marry Anya if I could just get them all to meet each other... And the original Moshinsky-Hvorostovskys are just going to get old... I wonder if their son will get Dmitri's prematuring grey hair. That would be so cool!
There has been waaaaaaaaay too much cheating going on in my game. Stupid romance sims. Carlos even cheated with Dmitri. I will go to hell for that, but Carlos WANTED to...
[ November 30, 2004, 10:07 AM: Message edited by: Synesthesia ]
Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
I did ONE romance sim. And I killed him a few days after. Too much cheating, you're right. But even with the other ones... I've been horrified when one of my first sims, old, began to flirt with his son's spouse ! In France the game is sold for 10 years and more, I think it's too liberal since all the cheating involved in it. Not every parent play with a game before giving it to his child. I planned to create a Austin Powers sim, but he would have to be romance, so I think I won't.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
I have never killed any of mine off... But Luke died and he was so cool. He's so cool in my Werewolf story and is majorly old. At least in my werewolf story Amber does NOT cheat with Odin's MOTHER.
Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
I used the classic pool without a way to go out strategy. It's the only sim I really killed. I nearly killed another one, because he had the science aspiration and wanted to be saved from death. So I did put him in a small room with a stove with food in it, and prevented him to take the food. When the Death arrived, I made his spouse beg it, and he's been saved. You can't save a drown sim, that's why I used this strategy.
Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
BTW, if a sim has a lot of aspiration points, you can prevent him to die from old age by buying the long life elixir. I did it once with the parents of an adorable baby that were growing old, and I didn't want the baby to be taken by the social care. So they lived to see him married.
Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
Hey, the patch is here ! I just downloaded it ! i hope it'll work...
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Patch? What patch? I do not want Dmitri and Kelly to die of old age... Plus Kelly may be traumatized if she has a new baby which would be interesting...
Posted by Coccinelle (Member # 5832) on :
I bought Sims 2 in October for my birthday. It's still sitting in the box.
I'm not allowed to open it until the end of the semester.
Only two more weeks to go!
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
What I need is more butchy female clothes. Like flannel and stuff and tuxedos for women but I have no clue how to make that.
Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
It took me 2 ruddy hours to download it and it doesn't work ! Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
Coccinelle, you're one strong person. Having it and not open the box ? I sure am not able to do that !
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
It's doing this weird mailbox thing.
Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :
I just got the Sims2 and am having a hard time with my first family. They had twins right away and it all went downhill from there. In retrospect, I shouldn't have had the dad get a job - especially one where he was going to work at 7 p.m. (security guard) and leaving her alone with the babies. Even calling the nanny wasn't enough. Now the babies are children, they had another baby who is now a toddler and the mom is still depressed. I dl'd something that was supposed to get their needs all green, and would use it to keep their needs filled so I could get them happy again, but I can't find it to buy it for their house. GRRR.
Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
Cay, its best to get one or both adults to at least mid level in their careers before having children. The nicer stuff you have, the easier it is to make your Sims happy, and then you can easily take the 3-5 days off to raise your infants/toddlers. If the mother has a job when she gets preggers, she gets paid maternity leave for a full 5 days, which is great. Then I would advise waiting until your first child is a teenager before having another infant. Or if you get a system going, when its a child. Twins I guess were unavoidable, but I've yet to get them in the game.
I have created about a dozen families, and hundreds of people. My main one though was the first one I waited to have kids in. I had a family modeled after the Starks in the Song of Ice and Fire series, but having six kids at the start was impossible! Then I created an attractive couple, one who desired knowledge and one who desired money, and then had kids when they were both near the top of their careers. Boy were they easy to play after that. The mother would stay home, but still get lots of pay. Reward points I've found were easy to come by as well.
Mainly what I do is make sure that when one sim aspires to kiss, flirt, or backrub another sim, I make sure that I preserve that aspiration (with a right click). Then, when I do the first act, it always leads to something else. Often the desires for both sims will coinside. For instance, my wife sim wants to flirt with my husband sim. When they get together, they flirt, then they want to backrub, then they want to kiss, then make-out, then woo-hoo. After that, both sims have gotten several thousand reward points. In this way my husband sim has 300,000 reward points, the wife has 400,000 reward points, the oldest daughter has 250,000 and the new daughter has about 100,000.
As you can see, this leads to getting whatever aspiration rewards you want. The problem for me is that I can't seem to let my first generation get old. I can easily keep them alive forever by buying Elixers of Life. I've become attached to them, and they are both making so much money and reward points for me, its hard to let them get old.
The problem is that their daughters are of the age to have children, but in order to maintain all those people, I'd have to leave that house, and I've spent a lot of money and time making that house. So we'll see what I decide to do.
I've gotten the game down to a science, so if anyone wants some tips, I can give them. And Synth, I can probably make you some butch female clothes if you want. The body-shop is very easy to use. It just depends on how much free time I get.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
"If the mother has a job when she gets preggers, she gets paid maternity leave for a full 5 days, which is great."
It's nice to think that the Sims have a better child-care system than we Americans.
Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
And don't forget legal lesbian and gay marriage, Tom.
Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
I understood the problem : the nude patch changes the . exe... I reinstalled the game and it worked. Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
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