Pet races and extra careers Hi !!! Where do we find that extra careers add-on ? Are there any different pet races as well to expand the species ? Are these things for english UK only ? Byes !!!
LOL Jill. You mean "breeds" not races. The only "breed" known as a race is the human race. All other races are to see who comes first. English is right pain in the neck, ain't it? Not usre what you mean by careers add-on. The new careers in Seasons are available from newspapers/computer find a job.
Sorry, but in portuguese we use "raa" for anything, like "raa humana" (human race), or "Rotweiller uma raa de cachorro." (Rotweiller is a canine "breed"). And "race" in portuguese, such as a car race, is "corrida", so I was not thinking about that, hehehe... I'll pay more attention when watching a scene on TV where people are talking about animals and listen closely to see if the word race is not pronounced . About english being a pain in the neck sometimes, I don't worry about it, I love it. Everybody makes mistakes, even some presidents... hey, don't blame me, blame reader's digest . Well, in some posts of this forum there are people saying they have a custom content career package, which adds more career types to TS2. So I'm looking for it, and also requesting info about something similar to pet breeds (if it even exists, something that adds more breed types to dogs and cats in the game, like the Huskie for example, which the game does not have).
You can create your own pet breeds in the 'create a family' section of the game. Just print off some photos of your favourite breeds or grab a dog book and have a go. That's the easiest way to get new breeds into your game. Or you can download breeds created by other users (like me ) on either the official Sims2.com exchange or from personal Sims 2 user websites. Cass.
Thanks . I did not know that the Huskie was in the game, I learned only recently that some breeds show up for the size of the dog you choose in the game, I assumed that the breeds would be for any size, thinking like "small = puppy", so I thought that the Huskie was absent, but I am (finally) playing TS2 now after weeks and weeks of messing with the save folder with SimPE, and I bought a Huskie as a "large size" Dog, so, I'm happy, hehehe. I already took a look at the section you mentioned about in the official website, and it is very interesting. Thanks !!! Truth is I think TS2 is worth playing now, since it already have many Expansions. I was sticking with TS1. After TS2 was released, I felt like playing TS1 without EPs, meaning "boring", so, I don't really know a lot about TS2 yet. But I'm loving it now, with all the EPs and SPs . But I still can't help feeling that TS1 still has a lot more objects (from Maxis, not custom content) than TS2. One example is the piano. So I mean, how many pianos TS1 has and how many TS2 has ? I'm loving TS2 now but I still feel it is a "less" game (objects and textures amount, not the dynamic of the game, which is way deeper than TS1).
Hi, Jill. I just saw your query about custom careers. My feeling is generally against them. I have not found any that I regard as flawless enough to work in the game without (serious) bug issues. Many custom careers, no matter how well described (or highly rated by users), are poorly documented with badly written, or no, chance cards -- which can be buggy in outcome. Also work costumes are not often well chosen and the career rewards, when offered, are horribly mangled clones containing rotten hacks that blow up games. OK I have suffered for my art ... what? How could you tell? MTS2 has a number of fairly good custom careers. But if I were to decide again to try custom careers I would search MATY for the subject and then open a new thread asking if anyone had recommendations for custom careers that won't "bork" your game. (I doubt you'll get advice much different than mine )
Thanks Mirelly. And as I said before, I do not have custom content for TS2 anyway, not even for TS1, so, your advice just encourages me to stick with the original content . I'm just sad that TS2 is a lesser game in therms of objects and textures (walls, floors), but I surely agree it is much more fun than TS1 thanfully for the wants & fears, which deepens the game experience and appeal. But I always feel screwed when looking at the objects to buy, and the construction objects too, because TS1 has a lot more objects, specially in the buy mode. Not only the quantity, but the beauty too. TS2 graphics are better, of course, but, for example, the balconies for the kitchen, I like the paintings of the ones in TS1 much more (the medium and expensive priced ones), they are prettier. In TS2 you have to make horrible combinations of pink with white or light green with burned yellow, heheh, for the cheaper ones, and the pricier ones don't get much better. YEW. The piano, as an example I mentioned before, is a perfect proof of this lack of objects in the game. There are four pianos in TS1, and only one in TS2, so, in a game with "wants & fears" like the latest, it would be easier on the gamer who plays with a Sim who wants to be wealthy, if this Sim could fulfill his desires by acquiring the most expensive piano in the game. There's no way to do that with most objects, and all the houses look somewhat the same in the game for me :(. There's no real distinction between a house where a family or a single Sim is beggining his life/career, and a house where a family is highly wealthy, because the walls, floors, objects, some of them will always match in each of the houses. About the pets, I think even Unleashed wins over Pets here, because there are no pet contests in TS2. I also love those jacuzzis of the superstar EP, where you could take a "bath" with milk, mud and other liquid I don't recall the name, so, TS1 really have a lot of objects. Plus, Seasons is waaaaaaaaaaay better than vacation, because vacation has an island that winter, spring and summer are fixed weathers depending of the place you choose. But why there's no "vacation" in TS2 ? No hotel to go, to sleep in a rented room. TS1 is not a deep game experience compared to TS2, but sometimes it feels funnier. And it is a shame that the pets have so little objects to interact in TS2. They do not even drink water, unless it's from a mess they did in the house or on the street, and this will surely always be a dirty water. I love TS2, specially now with SEASONS EP, but it makes me feel screwed sometimes, and that's why I haven't paid much attention to the game before Seasons, even owning all the EPs already before the release of Seasons. I don't know what Wright got in his head, but if a product was my creation, I would want it to be more in every aspect, not just the ones that he is polishing, but he is lefting the objects amount behind, in comparison with TS1. I guess he and his team are becoming lazzy, and in this way, I don't expect much in object quantity for TS3 either. At least for non-custom content users like me, this is a very important weak spot in TS2. Again, love it, but maybe not so much. Despite the deeper gaming experience of TS2 (wants & fears, aging, seasons, college, etc...), I still think TS1 is better.
Ooh no. I wasn't saying that all custom content is bad. I was only saying that custom careers are too-often bad because they involve heavy duty hacking, which, done clumsily, is the proverbial Very Bad Thing! I have thousands of items, clothing, genetics, furniture and walls and floors. Take a look at the Our Favorite Download Sites thread (I linked to end of it, cos it's an old-established thread and some of the earlier recommendations may be defunct or, at least, out of date). Speaking of loads of downloads ... see this thread where some of us actually boast about it www.modthesims2.com is an huge free resource of custom content. And don't forget www.worldsims.org where there are also a lot of free, good quality downloads. Don't forget that almost all objects (as opposed to clothing, genetics and make-up) will need a small additional "hack" known as the CEP (color enabler package). It is 100% safe. Get it here Finally, regarding "hacks" there are a number of talented geeks churning out game mods that improve the way the game plays. From camera controls and lighting mods, to hacks that stop sims doing some of the sillier things they do. If you are cautious, but curious, check out MATY where eveything available for download is 100% free and "officially" more awesome than anything else.
hehehe, don't worry Mirelly, I understood what you said, really. And I'm sure there's a lot of custom content out there, but I already have my preference for racing games and flightsim, and I mod these. TS2 is 8GB in the installation folder and 1.93GB on the save folder, imagine plus the MODS. I was criticising Maxis when I spoke about the lack of objects quantity within TS2, comparing to TS1. I was also criticising Maxis about pets not having the contest anymore and having far fewer objects to interact when compared to "unleashed", and about the lack of old resources, like hotel hospedation like in "vacation" and the "superstar" jacuzzi (here again an example of fewer objects in TS2) where you could take 3 different types of bath, so just to mention a few things/resources that are lost (even though TS2 is a new game, it's still a sequel, so... TS1 is still winning in some ways and Maxis do not care enough, my point of view) and the huge lack of objects. But all of these criticism about lack of resources/objects are about the default game content, not about custom content. I mean no harm for the work of people who make the custom contents for the game, but exclusively to Maxis lack of content, or should I say "lazzy Maxis", or "$$$EA$$$ - the rest without the $$$ we don't care", because they know the game will sell anyway, huge content or not. And if you read my last post carefully, I still point out that TS2 is great in a deeper way than TS1, not saying it is bad, but the lack of default content is annoying, and the lack of resources I pointed out specially for pets and the fact that the pets also lack of objects to interact compared to "unleashed", etc... you know the rest from my previous post . The pets don't even have a trainer in the pet shop available to give info about the animals for your Sim, like unleashed had. So you have the garden club buddies to speak to, but you don't have the pet buddies ? Shame !!! . Just the employees that sell the pets, and they don't even give any info about anything pet related. See ya !!!
I agree that TS2ets really needs to have pet shows. I was bitterly disappointed when I got my Pets EP and discovered there were no pet shows for me to enter my pets in. I think Maxis missed the mark there. But, having said that. The pets in TS2 are far better than in TS1 (IMO), I hated in the original game how a Chihuahua was the same size as a Rottweiler (and all the cats) and how there were no puppies or kittens. Cass.
I actually think the pets shows in Unleashed were a bit naff. Once you'd won a few trophies you ended up with a houseful of trophy shelves and no room to move, and winning trophies wasn't very difficult anyway. TS2 Pets has a lot more than TS1. Different sizes, ages, genetics (breeds ... or raa if your doggies have cojones ) and, of course, there are those wonderful pet careers. No more idle pooches and moggies wandering around the house all day getting too tired to be awake when their sims come home from school/work ... hey! now they come home from work too tired, too stinky and too hungry and uncomfortable to do anything with their sim masters. When you get to be old and cynical like me you will understand that this is called progress. My local downtown centre is getting a by-bass. This is also called progress. To improve the commercial development prospects for the area well into the 21st century a half mile long new road is being built in a semi-circle to by-pass the grid-locked High Street. Of course, in this crowded nation, land is at a premium, so the planners in their wisdom, decided to route the new road across the town's main car park. But drivers need not panic. The new road has an access for the extension of the area's light railway (tram) ... oh no! I just remembered ... the tram extension was cancelled due to lack of funding (and due to lack of passengers ... well the bit that is built doesn't actually go anywhere ... this is called Urban Planning and is not supposed to make sense ... it is merely a means of keeping otherise useless people out of the dole statistics.)
Yes Cassiepeia, TS2 pets and TS2 as a whole are waaaaaaaaay better than TS1, specially, again, in a deeper sense and feeling of the game. Of course sizes, ages, DNA, etc... of the pets are way ahead of TS1. But TS1 is still, for me, specially better when it comes to object quantity. I also agree to you Mirelly, hehehe. But in the special edition DVD, the guys say "you are making a game, a new game, but you can't forget you're also doing a sequel". Guess what, they forgot. Pet contests, objects (they can be different from TS1, but there has to be objects that do the same thing as before. They did the karaoke again, since it is also present in "superstar", but it is a new version, at least the look is different. Why not other objects ?). Imagine if Microsoft makes a new Flight Simulator game where the planes do not have ATC radios. So, yes, I luv TS2, and I don't mean I want the same EPs from the first in the second game, but the lack of some resources as the pet contest and specially the default quantity of objects is a flaw of this title. Still, I'm playing it these last days like crazy . Ressurecting a subject of my first thread, here's a little hint for people who want the default houses fully furnished w/out the default families in (or want the houses back for some reason, 'cause after doing this, you can save the lot via sims2pack Go into SimPE and convert all these lots into DORMS, load the game and take all the families out, but do not exit the game yet, because if you do reconvert the lots to residential in SimPE after exiting the game, the furnishings will all be gone anyway. Instead, keep the game running after moving the families out, and enter each lot in "build mode", then leave and say "yes" to save the game IN EACH LOT. Now you can exit the game, convert the houses from DORMS to RESIDENTIAL again, and voil. I don't know how I never thought about this before . Only annoying thing is that SimPE will always say that these homes are "version = business" not "original" anymore... Oh well .
