How do you play your Sims 2? I always create a new family comprising of one man with a cat. (pets is my only expansion) Then I proceed to get a job and work all the way to the top of the career then teach my pet all the tricks for him to get to the top of his career too. Sometimes I get one or two more pets. Next I flirt a few chicks and and start making love and get married finally with one. The guy skills up what he needs for his career, the woman skills up her cooking. Then I let them have a baby and by then they're already almost turning into old folks. And the baby basically grows up to an adult and the same !@#$ goes through. Because I've repeated this so many times, I've already tried all 5 of the aspirations, romance knowledge money etc. Maybe that's why I'm getting so bored of the game. Am I playing Sims 2 "wrongly"? >_< I hate myself for not being able to stick to one family because my family trees never grew more then 2 rows really. I really love Sims 2 and I would love to get more of the expansions but i'm not too sure if i'll get bored of it after awhile. I'm still schooling and money is precious to me = /
No wrong way to play! Ruzz, there's really no wrong way to play. I think you need to mix things up a bit.Expansion packs to me are worth it, just so I can have different objects and so I can download more stuff. I don't know if you are into the downloads but I have so many, some are my absolute favs and won't play without them. If I didn't the games would be very boring to me. Some days i play then other days i shop, what i call looking for cool downloads, it makes the game fresh for me everytime. I usually start with the family aspiration and my families are all sizes, most of the time a start with a married couple, some families I have them reach the goal of 10 kids, then 20 grandkids,then I try to marry them off, or send them to college. I have families that go back generations. I get a kick out of making the babies. Some of the most beautiful Sims create some really strange looking kids. They always seem to grow out of it though. One family my nephew created was so strange looking, really buggy big eyes that I tried to see how many generations it would take to breed it out of the family. i create challenges for myself some families i cheat, others i won't let myself cheat, the only perks they get are the ones they earn. you really don't have to stick with one family unless you want to. I stick with one family for awhile then create new ones to marry into the big family.Other times i get bored and create new families just so I can try out new downloads or cuz I'm bored. I'm not saying you should rush out and get expandion packs or download stuff, but doing so makes my game more enjoyable.
I go through phases, when I first got the game and when I get new EP I use motherlode to test out all the new things. Once that get's boring I start playing lucifer lol, sadistic I know but it's quite funny ruining your sims lives I also make weird families, made one a black family (mum, dad, brother and sister) who adopted a white boy, he's now the slave and has to do everything providing food, cleaning etc, goes without sleep etc. Just mix it up abit, you don't always have to have a happy ever after
Yes, Ruzz...You need to "mix it up" a bit. When their little Sim Lives are going too well, it does get boring! Try having seeing if you can get a Sim to survive without actually getting a job...They can only make money by selling their paintings, or writing novels, or (especially if they are a romance sim) by selling the gifts they get from having "Dream Dates." Or try moving a "disruptive force" into one of your perfect households - such as a romance sim who flirts with everyone, or a sim with absolutely no nice points who constantly picks fights. Or you might try one of the "challenges" that have been documented elswhere - such as the Legacy Challenge, or the Asylum Challenge. Finally, some of the expansion packs really do add a lot of interest to the gameplay. Open For Business adds that whole trying to start and grow a business, while Seasons add the ability to grow and sell produce (which could be another revenue stream for your "jobless" sim challenge!)
How I play There really isn't a wrong way to play, but everyone seems to do things differently. My favorite thing to do is make huge Sim families going back generation after generation. Once I have two such families, I use a sword mod that allows Sims to fight, and start a war. (Yes, I am evil.) They always seem to have hilarious endings. In one, only a single sim survived a war involving some 20+ people over around 7 lots. The next day, he got sick and died! And another, during the fight, a fire broke out, and the two families joined together to put it out! Even with the help of 3 firemen, it took 3 Sim days to put out the fire. I used maxmotives a LOT on that one.
I build perfect sims, give them perfect jobs, perfect homes, perfect spouses, perfect children, and perfect pets. Then I get bored and destroy the entire neighborhood and start the process all over again! It's my fantasy world. Sometimes I try to come up with story lines, but I get sidetracked easily and it never comes to fruition.
because I haven't had ts2 all that long, I havent explored all of the aspirations fully yet, but I almost always start out with just one woman in a little house on her own and she will try to get platinum aspiration. Either that or I create a couple, or mother-child combo. I over-use the 'family' aspiration though, I think, I give it to most of my sims. The thing is, in TS1, I usually started out with a single woman and tried to get her to climb to the top of the career ladder AND fall in love AND have a family. All of these are possible with any aspiration, but I think I need a 'general all-rounder' aspiration, maybe (perhaps with a catchier name though.....)
I got it on Mod The Sims 2. Some people can't get it to work, but mine worked just fine. (Until my game glitched and I had to remove all my mods, but the sword mod didn't cause it. )
I don't know that I have a set way of playing. Except that I usually have a plan before I start. For example...I've created sims whose sole purpose is to breed a new breed of dog or cat "naturally" in the game. I've also created "bogan" families (bogan is an Australian slang word that means 'trailer trash') to see how well they survive on one crappy pay cheque despite having heaps of children. Sometimes I create rich single (and sad) men and women who adopt children and take in the more hostile townies to try and rehabilitate them (it never works though LMAO ). What ever I do, I have a lot of fun and it's different for me every time. I don't stick to one family all the time I sometimes won't play one or two neighbourhoods for a month or so, but when I get back to them I enjoy the mess I created for myself. Cass.
I always create a single character or couple with the intention of creating a family history and a few generations, but I usually get bored with them before theres time for more than about 2 and I make a new one...
My tip: don't be afraid of trying something new! Like people have said: "mix things up a bit." I go through phrases as well. Some days I make the perfect family: perfect parents, perfect kids, perfect house, perfect pets, perfect lives. It's lots of fun making those kinds of familys! But it does get a bit boring after a while. Some days I want to make a poor family with hardly any money and they have to work like hell just to pay the bills, but they have a perfect family. Or some ritch couple have everything but someone accidentally starts cheating on the other or whatever and it gets really dramatic, like the dad leaving the mum for some slag he met at a caf when the mum's just about to have a baby! Another thing that's really fun (and frustraiting for the sims hehehee ) is if the parents die somehow and a teenager is left to take care of itself and its siblings on its own! As soon as the kid gets home from school it's off to work. Grades slip, sims whine, people *cough* die... It's really fun but it's nothing I recomend to play with in the long term. It's just good if you get bored, or if you're in a bad mood and feel like ruining your sims lives. And about expansion packs: I recomend Seasons. From the start I wanted weather for my sims because you have to admit: summer all year around kinda gets boring. Snow, rain, leaves falling off trees so that you can rake them (!), hail... whatever. It's all great ! Hope this helps and that your sims game gets funner! Let me know if you wonna get help with your game and I'll try to help!
I never have leaves to rake. :( But speaking of how to play, i want my sims nice and organized, but they refuse to co-operate.... i decide my simmie should marry one person, she runs off after Goopy....
It doesn't work with the new harvestable Trees..but the old ones like the birch sappling or the bay shade tree? work quite well. The secret is, to have enough room around the trees for the leaves to appear. Try to put each tree in the center of a 3x3 unoccupied field (does that make any sense to you?..like totallt blank spots)...that worked for me and up to 6 or so trees you only need 1 compost barrel. -le
I hardly ever get my sims developed properly... be cause my computer time is limited. Right now my bad girl has a music goal but she's such a tramp that she'll sleep with any single male around... only because I won't let let her become a home wrecker. I give her a kaching for her time and one of these days I'm sure she's going to have an accident. I don't see how she can avoid it. It helps to be able to turn off lot jealousy and instant relations on .
I'm a cheater. I'm an insanely impatient person, so I just don't have the patience to go through with a whole career before having a nice house. Most of my family's don't even make it past the first generation... or even the first playing. Most of my sim's resemble me and my friends and enemies. Some of them are twisted versions (sometimes by the game's own doing. ) My neighborhoods are all themed, which is what keeps me playing. One is a desert, one is eternally winter, another is set in the past. I have an imagination when I want to.
