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1061. Nightlife Article

Written on Wednesday 9 March 2005 at 23:10 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

GameSpot has posted a small article about the Sims 2 Nightlife, the second expansion pack announced in the box of the first one, University. The main news from the article is that EA still has nothing to say about it, and won't acknowledge the expansion pack's existence. Of course we'll keep you updated, but for now here's the jewel case insert again - this time of somewhat higher quality than the one we were forced to remove earlier.

1062. University Avatars on UK Forum

Written on Tuesday 8 March 2005 at 16:07 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The official UK site has updated the forums with a bunch of new avatars. These new ones are of young adults, the new life stage that comes in the Sims 2 University. To use one of the new icons, go to the official forum and go to edit your profile. There you'll find the option to change the avatar as well. All 20 new ones are in the "University" category.

1063. New Extra - the "testingCheatsEnabled" Cheat

Written on Tuesday 8 March 2005 at 01:03 by Neil - 0 comments.

Fans of the "move_objects on" cheat will love this. There is another cheat in the Sims 2 game which makes move_objects look useless by comparision. It's the "testingCheatsEnabled" cheat, which unlocks dozens of new menus, many new choices and allows one to manipulate the actual sims like never before. So I wrote an extra about it.

With this cheat you can kill anybody in any way you like (kids can die from old age for example), you can give a sim a bladder problem by fiddling with the appropriate need to keep it down, or give everybody a boost with one mouse-click. Alternatively have papers delivered in the evening, or summon a burglar on demand.

Click here to read all about it: -> Read The Extra.

1064. BetaVille Full City

Written on Tuesday 8 March 2005 at 00:23 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

In The Sims Online a new test city called BetaVille opened about two months ago. In that city, Free Will is enabled, and Sims can play the game in a style that's closer to the original Sims game. If the city proves to be popular, the Free Will feature will be developed further and might head to the other cities as well. If it's not, Betaville will remain open, but it won't be worked on anymore and focus will stay on the traditional TSO gameplay. The city will not be wiped or closed before it becomes a real city, but through a version update other features of the normal game will be added to Betaville. See the newspost at Stratics for more info.

1065. Wright's Own Home

Written on Tuesday 8 March 2005 at 00:14 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

After building many virtual ones, Sims fans can now see how the creator of the Sims, Will Wright, lives. SnootySims found a somewhat old movie of November 2004, in which Wright gives a tour through his place. If you want to see the 4 minute movie, head over to its movie page. Note that this linked page checks that you are using Internet Explorer, so using an alternative browser might not work without digging into your settings.

1066. Huge Spring Update

Written on Monday 7 March 2005 at 18:26 by Sumit - 0 comments.

If you got the clue right...there are now paintings!
First off, these paintings are recolors of paintings, so just like other recolor objects you will find this under their base paintings. Just click through the paintings and you should find these on the color options.

Next off, we have brand new fabrics for the Love Seats that come with University. You will need University to enjoy these Love Seats.

Find everything here!

1067. My first Neighborhood and a very nice Outfit

Written on Saturday 5 March 2005 at 22:48 by Starrats - 0 comments.

This time I give you all my first neighborhood (like I promised in february). Place the neighborhood file in C:\Documents and Settings\My documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\SC4Terrains. There are 4 pictures included in the download (2 pictures with the lush neighborhood, and 2 with the desert neigborhood on it.)

I also give you an outfit that I am very proud of. Enjoy!

1068. University Guide Preview [Update]

Written on Saturday 5 March 2005 at 20:58 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Prima has recently published the official Sims 2 University Strategy Guide (available in our shop). If you're not sure whether to buy it yet, a preview might help. On their website, Prima has posted two pages of chapter 5 of the book as preview. See the "Look Inside" for some first-hand information from Prima.

[Update 7 March, 23:05] Besides on the main Prima site itself, another preview has been posted on the eStore site. This Look Inside shows one page of a number of chapters, as well as the index of the book. You can take a look at by clicking the Look Inside image on the eGuide details page. Thanks to XPDude for submitting this link.

1069. TS2U Reviews and Installation Problems

Written on Saturday 5 March 2005 at 16:38 by ChEeTaH - 1 comment.

Several new reviews of the first expansion pack of the Sims 2 have appeared the past few days. While we've already covered a few, there are three new ones we haven't told you about yet. In these reviews, the most criticizing notes are that going to college is really hard work - there are no vacations whatsoever - and that the game takes a long time to load. But all in all, the reviewers are positive about the product as an expansion pack, and think it's worth it. Click the links for the reviews.

• GamePro (4.0/5)
• Yahoo! GamesDomain (8.0/10)
• 1Up (85%)

Meanwhile there are several reports of the expansion not installing properly. This seems to happen only if the first patch is installed, but not the second one (which includes the first). Having no patch, or the second one installed seems to be alright, but otherwise you might have trouble installing the game. In that case, download the second patch from http://thesims2.ea.com/update/ and install it. That way you should be able to properly install the Sims 2 University. Thanks to SimsZone for the info.

1070. Chat Transcript

Written on Saturday 5 March 2005 at 16:17 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

As announced earlier this week, Maxis held a chat about the Sims 2 University last Thursday. The expansion pack has shipped and so almost all information that was given during the chat is old. The new information is that Sims can move to another college in town, as they're put in the Student bin when you move them out. This bin is shared between the colleges, so you can move them in anywhere else and continue their education. There's also the cheat to increase the number of allowed floors:

setHighestAllowedLevel [X] where X is a number that sets the maximum number of floors you can have.

To get to know the rest - if you don't already - read the transcript for the info.