I tend not to play Maxis neighborhoods, mostly because I perfer to make neighborhoods myself. However, I do like making neighborhoods based off of shows and games that I like. (in fact, the neighborhood I play the most is based off a cartoon) However, I tend to be lax as far as following every single bit of canon about the show. I follow the important stuff and personalities of the characters, but with minor details, I just simply say "screw it."

Anyway, my speed tends to depend on what my goal is. If I want to age them, I play quickly, with aging on (apparently). I tend to take shortcuts and tend to socialize only when the social is low. However, if I want them to get established in their jobs, to work on relationships, or anything of that sort, I turn off aging and work on that aspect until it is settled enough for me to turn aging on.

I use the fast forward and pause a lot. I fast forward when they're skilling, or doing something which they won't autonomiously pull away from it. However, I pause to make sure they won't do something stupid.

I haven't played a Greek House yet, but is there any sort of hack that prevents them from visiting campus at all? It sounds more like a pain to me.

Ha ha ha. You people crack me up, both Democrat and Republican. You both act like victims if your side gets attacked.

I am sure John Kerry (nice French attack there, BTW. Very predictable.) would have been in just as much fire as Bush was. I am sure Republicans would've been more than happy to attack Kerry and use it to honor the Bushes, Reagan, and others. "If BUSH was in this position, blah blah blah would've happened, because Bush isn't lazy, unlike you slobbering Democrats!" Judging by your comments, I am sure you'll be amongst the blamers.

Political stubbornness is what is wrong with this country. Liberals vs. conservatives, Democrats vs. Republicans... and both of you are unwilling to make compromises, or at least let the other side speak. And the fact that this disgusting behavior is brought in during a time of crisis is heartbreaking.

I don't like the fact that the Democrats are accusing Bush altomatically. I think this all needs to be examined by non-partisan people before we start yelling and blaming. I think both sides are going to be seen as guilty, though. However, this is no time to start acting like victims or to start pointing fingers. We should help people, then poltical bitch later. After all, whining about Bush is not going to help the people of New Orleans one damn bit.

I would remotely consider buying this "booster pack," IF it had enough items in it, and if any these items were of any use. I am a sucker for new things, I must admit.

Then again, wouldn't all those items be leaked out on the internet, anyway?

I use the 6 room dorm (though a bit remade and remodled), and I haven't had any problems with it. Exactly what kind of problems do you mean? For instance, what do the dormies do different than on a normal dorm? (I never cared about them anyway; not my problem.)

Hey, what if they offered a patch for University as a preorder incentive? It wouldn't surprise me if they suddenly did that. Disgust me, yes. Surprise me? No.

Thank you very much, all of you. I'll bookmark the links just in case I want to change a Sims DNA again.

How do I, using Sim PE, change a Sim's hair color into some other color so they'll be able to pass it on to future generations? I know how to change their appearance, yes, but I know that this is basically the equivalent to "dying" their hair genetically. You see, I want to change a Sim's natural hair color to black so his kids could have black hair instead of brown. I heard this can be done, but I couldn't find any sort of straight tutorial about it. Anyone have any idea?

I chose 2, but it is mix between 2 and 3. I want to make sure it'll be okay to install Nightlife with my regular neighborhood without having to fear explosion. I'll see which downloaded hacks/items I need to replace or remove before attempting it.

I am also holding out in the hopes that Maxis will come through with that patch. It's waaaaay overdue already. However, my confidence in Maxis as far as patches are concerned is slipping, and I wouldn't be surprised if we DON'T end up with anything.

I've made a marriage community lot. I had my first Sim marriage there and I found it very convenient. I like it, since you can focus on decorations and make the place extremely pretty, even if the Sims are dirt poor. However, you'd have to switch it from a residental lot to community lot a few times, as the wedding arch and all that stuff is for residental lots only.

You also don't get that lemo and it isn't an "official" party. If you want specific guests to be there, you'd have to use the teleporter to put them there. However, none of those things really matter to me as long as the couple gets hitched.

I got that problem two times in my game, and both happening when I was moving my Sims into houses I haven't used before. However, for one of the houses, I could've sworn I visited it beforehand in build mode before moving the Sims in.

Eh, I gave this Sims2 Content Manager a try. The only thing redeemable about it is that you can just look at files that are of "questionable content" by themselves. I don't think the Clean Installer has that option. However, what makes me use the Clean Installer is to view the contents of .sims2pack files before extracting them and to see what files are just worthless empty packages.

I pretty much think that they churned this together, and then threw it to the public so they can unofficially "beta" it for them. I found it particular that it came in a Zip file as well.


But knowing the tactics of the average lawyer, I am sure they'll say that Maxis programming 'allowed' them to put such "naughty content" in due to allowing Sims 2 fans to make their own content.

I could've sworn I saw someone make a hack for this... but while searching MTS2 for it, I found this instead. However, it completely removes 'Play SSX3' altogether. If you don't mind that, give it a try and see if it works.

I would really like this. While it isn't an absolute necessity, it DOES get annoying restarting a lot over and over because I want my Sim to have a male baby.

Does this stop ghosts from raiding the fridge should the Anti Ghost Device be in the kitchen? I did just that, and the death-by-hunger ghosts still raided the fridge. However, maybe the fact that the house isn't on a foundation could be a problem.

The fact that I have Sims 2 is rather amazing. I am a console person. I have a lot of consoles and games for them (NES, SNES, N64, GCN, PS2, PSOne, Dreamcast, a ton of Gameboys, including DS). My favorite games include Megaman Legends 1 and 2, Super Mario 64, Super Mario Kart, Paper Mario 1 and 2, Animal Crossing, the Zelda games, Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie, Donkey Kong Country games, StarFox, and a hell of a lot more.

However, I just recently bought the Sims 1. I don't like it as much as the Sims 2, however.

Really? I have my teens watch the Yummy channel all the time (gives the TV SOME use), and they never seem to complain or change it when I don't want them to. Or are they talking about how much the fun increases/decreases?

Actually, I have my Sims clean up the dorms. It helps give them cleaning skill points, which is always good to boost up. Some of them even enjoy being neat freaks.

Can you hire a maid at dorms?

However, that method (with a huge neighborhood) takes a long time. You have to manually go through everyone's memories to make sure they have none for the to-be-deleted characters. I attempted it once, but then I decided my neighborhood is in no real danger right now with slightly over 300 characters. However, I would love some sort of program that deletes these empty character files and any memories pertaining to them.