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1071. New Poll

Written on Thursday 3 March 2005 at 23:52 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

You may already have seen it, or you may not, but we've added a new poll again last night. This time we want to know from you what you think of Nightlife, the rumoured (but almost certainly true) second expansion pack for the Sims 2. You can give us your vote on the right, or on our latest poll page.

Last week we asked about handheld devices, like mobile phones, MP3 players and handheld gaming systems. These are all available in University, so your Sims can now make use of them. Well over 55% of you voted that your Sims will be using all of these three. The Mobile Phones are the most popular of the three, with 22% of all 208 votes. Second are MP3 players (12%) and finally the game devices (8%). The Sims without any of these will be just 2% of the population. See the exact results on the results page in our archive.

1072. SIMposium - Movies

Written on Thursday 3 March 2005 at 23:18 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

I wasn't the only one who attended the SIMposium event. In fact, there were about 20 people visiting Maxis during the event. One of them was baconandeggzie (Eggzie) from Sim Movies. He's written an article about the new Sims 2 movie making features in the future, which has kindly been submitted to this site. In it he also says it's been hinted that new movie making tools for the Sims 2 might be released this month. You can now read the article in our SIMposium Special.

1073. Looking Back at Five Year Sims

Written on Thursday 3 March 2005 at 22:47 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

It's been five years since the first Sims game was released, and became a major success. 7 Expansions, a sequel (with one expansion so far) and 3 console games further, GameSpy looks back on those years with several developers and producers of the games. Character designers, producers, animators, and other Maxis employees tell about their experience developing whatever titles they've worked on. If you want to look back as well, read the article.

1074. Tim LeTourneau on G4

Written on Thursday 3 March 2005 at 00:44 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Today at 4pm PST (7pm EST), which is only minutes away, Tim LeTourneau will appear on the US show The Screen Savers broadcasted on G4. In the show Tim will talk about the Sims 2 University. The episode will be repeated a few times in the next few days, in case you miss(ed) it. See the information page of the show for more details.

1075. New University Cheats & Hacks Info

Written on Thursday 3 March 2005 at 00:41 by ChEeTaH - 1 comment.

Now the Sims 2 University is out, many people are trying things out with the game. The first problems have also arrived, mainly having to do with installed hacks. It is said old versions of the hacks don't work properly anymore after installing the first expansion pack. Some hacks even cause major problems, and it's advised that you uninstall any of those prior to installing the first expansion pack. More information about the problems can be found in this thread at ModTheSims2, which also has a list of hacks that do and do not (yet) work with the expansion pack. Currently all our objects for the Sims 2 that you find on this site are expansion pack ready, and should not cause any problems in your game. If you want to be sure that you got a proper version, it might be wise to redownload and reinstall those objects.

Other news concerns some new cheats. We already gave one cheat to place objects diagonally earlier, but that one is not right (as may have been expected). The other two were known, but now some more details are given:

• changeLotZoning [residential | community | greek | dorm | secretsociety]: Changes the zoning type of the lot. Before rezoning a lot using this cheat, make sure there are no Sims currently living in the lot. To use this cheat, enter the lot that you would like to rezone, and then enter the cheat, choosing one of these zoning options.
• boolProp dormSpecificToolsDisabled [true|false]: Enables build/buy mode tools that would normally be disabled when in a dorm lot.
• boolProp allow45DegreeAngleOfRotation [true|false]: Allows users to rotate any object in 45 degree increments instead of the 90 degree increments used for most objects.

These cheats, as well as the descriptions, are placed in the Readme file of the Sims 2 University. Thanks to SP Zone and AlphaZedPrime in this thread at N99 for the info.

1076. Sims 2 for Mac in June

Written on Thursday 3 March 2005 at 00:29 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Despite May 2005 was planned to be the month for the release of the Sims 2 on the Mac platform, Aspyr has delayed the project by a month. It's now in Beta stage (see Aspyr's Product Status page), and so is feature-complete and in the debugging stage. An exact release date hasn't been given by Aspyr yet, but we'll keep you posted. For more information about the Mac version of the Sims 2, see its info page.

1077. IGN University Review

Written on Tuesday 1 March 2005 at 18:57 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

After GameSpot and GameSpy, entertainment network IGN has now also posted its review of the Sims 2 University. SimJim appears in the screenshots posted in the review again, although he's mentioned in no more than just one paragraph. IGN's main downside about the game are graphical glitches and bugs, whereas the animations are excellent. With an 8.5 of 10, and an Editor's Choice award, they think it's a good expansion pack. Read the review to get their exact thoughts.

1078. T-Mail 6 - The End

Written on Tuesday 1 March 2005 at 10:28 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Because University has officially shipped, Tim has sent his last community e-mail regarding this expansion pack. He once again gives some basic info of the expansion, and says goodbye for now. He will be back in a few weeks though, quite possibly for Nightlife. For now he's sent another movie, and two wallpapers to download. You can find those below. Read on for Tim's exact words.

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Movie, High resolution (5.6 Mb)

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1079. Objects at 45 Degrees

Written on Tuesday 1 March 2005 at 01:01 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

A new cheat that will be included in University will allow you to place objects diagonally. This is revealed by MaxoidTom, a Maxis employee, in this post at the ModTheSims2 forums. He won't reveal the cheat yet, but Snooty from SnootySims does reveal that boolprop mayPlaceDiagonally [true/false] might be the cheat in question. It's unsure if this is the actual cheat, but it does exist in the original Sims 2 files but is disabled. It might be enabled in University. This is said in a post at the SimParool forums (post and most of the site in Dutch). It's unsure if this is the actual cheat or not, but Maxis will probably reveal that later.

1080. EA Officially Ships University

Written on Tuesday 1 March 2005 at 00:53 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

EA has officially announced they've shipped the first expansion for the Sims 2: University. Although the release was officially set at 3 March, there are already many people who have received the pack a few days early. The European release date is set to late next week, and so Europeans should start receiving the expansion pack as well pretty soon. Read the press release for more.