Befuddled Newbie
Sooze:
I got given TS2 for Christmas and now have all the expansions and stuff packs (although I haven't played the most recent three much as they were omly installed recently). I've never used downloads before (although I have now downloaded a small number of things from this site so I'll be trying them out soon). I have spent the last couple of days reading various posts and threads on this site to try and further my understanding of the game (but I will obviously have failed to find the precise ones I need to answer my questions). I found a lot of it very difficult to follow but I assume it will gradually get clearer as I read and play more. Rather more worryingly I have discovered that the delightful makers of the game do not take the trouble to warn buyers about things that can make your game explode; I have just been reading a couple of threads dealing with deleting families from the bin, something which I have been doing without realising that it will cause problems.
I was wondering if someone with more experience than me (i.e. pretty much anyone) could help me with the following:
1. Are there any other really important things I need to know that I must not / must do in order to protect the integrity of my game? It would be good if you could point me to any relevent topic threads.
2. What are the most important tools/hacks that I would find useful to start with? In particular to address significant issues rather than just slanting the game play slightly.
3. What is SimPE?
jrd:
1) The big three don'ts:
Never put a lot with Sims in it in the lot bin (package lot),
Never put Sims or occupied lots from the Exchange in your game,
Never delete a Sim from the Simbin
2) Anything labelled critical or higher here. Look in the hack threads for the "terror scale" images.
3) The editor. If you're a newbie, stay far away from it. You can easily destroy your game with it.
Flamingo:
If you want, you can get the Director's Cut which should include all the necessary fixes as well as some pretty helpful features. You may want to look at the RTFM file for macrotastics before you install that, though.
SimPE isn't really that bad, as long as you don't screw with stuff that you have no comprehension about. I wouldn't go about downloading it until you want to edit some kind of download, personally. SimPE is possibly the biggest tool out there for the game, as well.
KatEnigma:
I don't think that the Maxoids actually know that doing certain things will make the game explode.
For hacks, hmmm. I think this is a personal thing. If you've installed Seasons, definitely install the warmthfix, indoorplantfix, and antiweatherreaction from Pescado's files. Those fix bugs that Maxis hasn't gotten around to patching yet. Other than that, as you play, you'll figure out which things really annoy you, and chances are, if it annoys you, it's annoyed someone else, and there's a hack here to stop the behavior. :) But some of the things most of us have "fixed" in our games are useful, at first, for learning how Sims act and what their weaknesses are. But then, I played for the longest time (almost 2 years!) with only twojeff's college adjuster installed, and then eventually the dailygardener, and that was it.
Sooze:
Thanks for these. I shall go on a hack hunting expedition.
Luckily I have never used the Exchange or packaged a lot so that's knocks a couple of things off my "learn to do" list.
In the longer run I think I will have to start understanding things like SimPE - at some point I want to rid myself of the wretched Ottomas family (ugly! ugly! ugly!) and from reading the thread on this it looks like I might need it (and lot debugger, deleted 2 and other stuff I don't understand). However they are not in the hood I'm currently playing so I think I can leave that a while. There are also a few god-ugly townies that I would like to put out of their suffering.
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