Any guides still around?

Well The sims wiki is still a good place for some info.
Unfortunately the good guides i know are in french, but lately @Rflong7 had post a link in the thread about chance card, and it seems kinda good http://www.snootysims.com/thesims2index.php?id=infocenter .

Guides? We're here, what do you need? :mrgreen:

There is still a lot of information out there.

"RiennaTelemnar;d-926496" wrote:
Are there any good TS2 guides around like Carl has for TS3-4?

Do you mean like what each hidden skill is, and how to do stuff and what each chance card means, and how to gain skills etc. and all that technical stuff like that. SnootySims still has the cheats for all that stuff and for all the boolprop cheats. ModtheSims still has some archived stuff and it may take me a minute to find it, it's stuff originally on the site when TS2 was new, and not what is seen over on the Wiki.

ETA: Here is the link to their Wiki but it still not what I was talking about, there is an older archive if I can still find it.

http://simswiki.info/wiki.php?title=Sims_2_Game_Help

I know Carl did have a guide for sims 2, but I think it has been gone a while. He might have let it go, no google search finds anything now, even the way back machine can't find anything, but I know it existed. I haven't been able to find anything of substance, just little bits here and there. If I run into anything I will let ya know.

So I'm not totally crazy and senile yet. Shew! Thanks, Jules1111! I feel better now!

Update: I reached out to "Carl" of Carl's Guides and he confirmed that he never did a TS2 guide. Jules1111, I checked that link for the Simswiki and while the page is there as is some of the information, many of the links are gone. For instance there is text that says there is a link to information on careers but there is no clickable link. Having said that, my computer has been acting VERY weird on the Internet the past couple of days with things not loading right. I get my new video card today so I'll check it again later. It looked like a good site and basically what I was hoping for.

@RiennaTelemnar Weird, i could have bet that he has done one for the sims 2 too :open_mouth:

Snooty Sims has left their TS2 information page up. It has information on careers and some of the Chance cards; not all though.
http://www.snootysims.com/thesims2index.php?id=thesims2
http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Career_tracks

Sims Wiki has information on University
http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Majors

Mike Inside was one of the first building sites I used and where I learned to do the userStartup cheat :)
http://mikeinside.modthesims2.com/

Here's a Strategy Guild I found. I've used the info for the Chemistry so I don't know how reliable it all is..
https://strategywiki.org/wiki/The_Sims_2:_Nightlife/Attraction_and_Chemistry
More info on the left panel.

If you have SimCity4 and want to create your own neighborhoods
http://simswiki.info/wiki.php?title=Tutorials:A_quick_guide_to_create_your_neighbourhood

Information on all those Social Class Sims from Apartment Life
http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Social_class#Socialites

If you ever made a Sim and you really like them but forgot to create them in Body Shop... use Simpe
http://pixel-trade.livejournal.com/16091.html
Download the one for Everyone- https://sims.ambertation
Some tutorials for Simpe at the bottom http://modthesims.info/wiki.php?title=SimPE

You want dice but don't have any - https://www.random.org/dice/
You want random names- http://www.behindthename.com/random/
How about picking them a random color- http://randomcolour.com/

What to create a random family?
http://paper-mail.net/sim/
http://www.mangaroo.com/sims2/

A list of mini challenges if the families get a little boring
http://fightocrime.livejournal.com/52461.html
Random ideas
http://generations32.blogspot.com/2009/08/im-ready-to-start-new-sim-adventure.html
https://plymouthfalls.wordpress.com/gameplay/random-occurrence-scenarios/

Me too Jules1111! I hardly played TS3 plus it came out when I was living somewhere else. I remember looking at SOMETHING for reference when I was playing TS2. Maybe it's one of those Rflong7 posted above. Seems to me I might have printed some stuff out long ago so I'll dig around in my "old stuff" cabinet. The above list is great though. I'll be reading up more this weekend!

EDIT: Ok so I had a few minutes before work today and dug around in my "old gaming stuff" cabinet and guess what. I found a print out timestamped 10/27/2007 of all careers up to that date, how much skill you needed to get promoted, work days, salaries and friends. And it's from Snooty Sims.

Jules1111, I think that's what we must have been thinking about, along with the sadly shut down TS2 forums.

I have the Prima Official Guides for Sims2. They're all in my closet.