So I just got the sims 2 ultimate collection 3 days ago, and I'm so overwhelmed! I don't know where to start!Having all the expansions I don't know what to do!I didn't want to start my own family yet, I wanted to play some premades. I thought since university was the first expansion, I'd play a family with teens and send them to college. I chose pleasantville, and the pleasant family (I think, right?) Because they have the 2 daughters. I was surprised to see the dad having an affair! As soon as I started playing, it rained, mom got the flu. I sorta wanted her to die (sims can die from the flu. Right?) Just so the dad could openly be with the maid, maybe move her in, and send the daughters to college. That was the plan. Well the dad got fired almost immediately and then the mom caught him cheating, so she divorced him. During this, the daughters would not stop fighting! Never! They were constantly slapping and attacking each other. I sorta couldn't stand them, so I decided to just play university with someone else. I found a female alien in the townie bin and moved her to sim state. That was alot of fun! She graduated with honors. I was really disappointed to find I can't move sims between neighborhoods :( I wanted her to be a paranormal investigator in strangetown, but I can't move her. So now I'm sorta stuck again. I want to check out everything! I want pets, I want a family, I want to check out supernaturals, but where to start!?! I've been reading lots of threads here and checking out pics and stories, there's so many options! I love it but omg hahahIt's so much to get used to haha anyone have any advice on what to do!? Or a similar experience?? :)

"surraaaaaa;906040" wrote:So I just got the sims 2 ultimate collection 3 days ago, and I'm so overwhelmed! I don't know where to start!Having all the expansions I don't know what to do!I didn't want to start my own family yet, I wanted to play some premades. I thought since university was the first expansion, I'd play a family with teens and send them to college. I chose pleasantville, and the pleasant family (I think, right?) Because they have the 2 daughters. I was surprised to see the dad having an affair! As soon as I started playing, it rained, mom got the flu. I sorta wanted her to die (sims can die from the flu. Right?) Just so the dad could openly be with the maid, maybe move her in, and send the daughters to college. That was the plan. Well the dad got fired almost immediately and then the mom caught him cheating, so she divorced him. During this, the daughters would not stop fighting! Never! They were constantly slapping and attacking each other. I sorta couldn't stand them, so I decided to just play university with someone else. I found a female alien in the townie bin and moved her to sim state. That was alot of fun! She graduated with honors. I was really disappointed to find I can't move sims between neighborhoods :( I wanted her to be a paranormal investigator in strangetown, but I can't move her. So now I'm sorta stuck again. I want to check out everything! I want pets, I want a family, I want to check out supernaturals, but where to start!?! I've been reading lots of threads here and checking out pics and stories, there's so many options! I love it but omg hahahIt's so much to get used to haha anyone have any advice on what to do!? Or a similar experience?? :) Maybe start by making a household full of all supernaturals? That ougtha be fun.

The Sims 2 can be quite overwhelming the first time you play it because it is quite a bit more challenging than TS3 or TS4. My suggestion is to start out slow. Start by creating/playing a single sim or a couple, and try out new features as you go along and get used to the flow of the game.I remember the first day I played the game, I created a couple and had the wife get pregnant. Pregnant sims are HARD. You constantly have to watch their needs, and they can't do much more than eat, sleep, or pee. Then once the baby was born, I wasn't really used to juggling needs/gameplay yet, so my sims were constantly falling asleep in their food while the toddler screamed and threw tantrums in the background. I was so frustrated but I couldn't put it down, it was that much fun. If you check out the thread New to Sims 2, which is similar to yours, I posted a long list of things I have yet to accomplish in the game that you might have fun trying out.Good luck and have fun!

"surraaaaaa;906040" wrote:So I just got the sims 2 ultimate collection 3 days ago, and I'm so overwhelmed! I don't know where to start!Having all the expansions I don't know what to do!I didn't want to start my own family yet, I wanted to play some premades. I thought since university was the first expansion, I'd play a family with teens and send them to college. I chose pleasantville, and the pleasant family (I think, right?) Because they have the 2 daughters. I was surprised to see the dad having an affair! As soon as I started playing, it rained, mom got the flu. I sorta wanted her to die (sims can die from the flu. Right?) Just so the dad could openly be with the maid, maybe move her in, and send the daughters to college. That was the plan. Well the dad got fired almost immediately and then the mom caught him cheating, so she divorced him. During this, the daughters would not stop fighting! Never! They were constantly slapping and attacking each other. I sorta couldn't stand them, so I decided to just play university with someone else. I found a female alien in the townie bin and moved her to sim state. That was alot of fun! She graduated with honors. I was really disappointed to find I can't move sims between neighborhoods :( I wanted her to be a paranormal investigator in strangetown, but I can't move her. So now I'm sorta stuck again. I want to check out everything! I want pets, I want a family, I want to check out supernaturals, but where to start!?! I've been reading lots of threads here and checking out pics and stories, there's so many options! I love it but omg hahahIt's so much to get used to haha anyone have any advice on what to do!? Or a similar experience?? :) I know. This is the ONE disappointment to me about the game. I have a couple of Sims I wanted to move to a different neighborhood but it's not possible. They thought of EVERYTHING else for this game. I wish they'd thought of a way to make this possible too!

"surraaaaaa;906040" wrote:So I just got the sims 2 ultimate collection 3 days ago, and I'm so overwhelmed! I don't know where to start!Having all the expansions I don't know what to do!I didn't want to start my own family yet, I wanted to play some premades. I thought since university was the first expansion, I'd play a family with teens and send them to college. I chose pleasantville, and the pleasant family (I think, right?) Because they have the 2 daughters. I was surprised to see the dad having an affair! As soon as I started playing, it rained, mom got the flu. I sorta wanted her to die (sims can die from the flu. Right?) Just so the dad could openly be with the maid, maybe move her in, and send the daughters to college. That was the plan. Well the dad got fired almost immediately and then the mom caught him cheating, so she divorced him. During this, the daughters would not stop fighting! Never! They were constantly slapping and attacking each other. I sorta couldn't stand them, so I decided to just play university with someone else. I found a female alien in the townie bin and moved her to sim state. That was alot of fun! She graduated with honors. I was really disappointed to find I can't move sims between neighborhoods :( I wanted her to be a paranormal investigator in strangetown, but I can't move her. So now I'm sorta stuck again. I want to check out everything! I want pets, I want a family, I want to check out supernaturals, but where to start!?! I've been reading lots of threads here and checking out pics and stories, there's so many options! I love it but omg hahahIt's so much to get used to haha anyone have any advice on what to do!? Or a similar experience?? :) I absolutely love your story! This is the difference between TS2 and TS4... so much drama :joy:

"SataiDelennn;15368254" wrote:"surraaaaaa;906040" wrote:So I just got the sims 2 ultimate collection 3 days ago, and I'm so overwhelmed! I don't know where to start!Having all the expansions I don't know what to do!I didn't want to start my own family yet, I wanted to play some premades. I thought since university was the first expansion, I'd play a family with teens and send them to college. I chose pleasantville, and the pleasant family (I think, right?) Because they have the 2 daughters. I was surprised to see the dad having an affair! As soon as I started playing, it rained, mom got the flu. I sorta wanted her to die (sims can die from the flu. Right?) Just so the dad could openly be with the maid, maybe move her in, and send the daughters to college. That was the plan. Well the dad got fired almost immediately and then the mom caught him cheating, so she divorced him. During this, the daughters would not stop fighting! Never! They were constantly slapping and attacking each other. I sorta couldn't stand them, so I decided to just play university with someone else. I found a female alien in the townie bin and moved her to sim state. That was alot of fun! She graduated with honors. I was really disappointed to find I can't move sims between neighborhoods :( I wanted her to be a paranormal investigator in strangetown, but I can't move her. So now I'm sorta stuck again. I want to check out everything! I want pets, I want a family, I want to check out supernaturals, but where to start!?! I've been reading lots of threads here and checking out pics and stories, there's so many options! I love it but omg hahahIt's so much to get used to haha anyone have any advice on what to do!? Or a similar experience?? :) I know. This is the ONE disappointment to me about the game. I have a couple of Sims I wanted to move to a different neighborhood but it's not possible. They thought of EVERYTHING else for this game. I wish they'd thought of a way to make this possible too!Hey guys, this is 100% possible in your game because of subhoods. That said, you have to either download someone else's megahood or create your own (I prefer to create my own, but wouldn't recommend for a novice TS2 player... play first, customise later). If you are interested in doing this yourself, please let me know and I'll post links to tutorials as well as my quick and dirty guide I wrote up after rereading these tutorials so many times :blush: Otherwise, consider using this Maxis megahood.

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isabellathesime
6 years ago
without packs
M13Vulpecula
Seasoned Novice
6 years ago
@izzythesimer first of all: welcome to the Sims Forums. :)

To answer your question: I looked it up for Sims 4 (only have the cas demo myself) and the butler only comes with Vintage Stuff, not with the base game.

If you meant Sims 2 though (this is a thread under the Sims 2 section), the butler comes with the Apartment Life pack. If you didn't mean to post in the Sims 2 section, then you can find the Sims 4 section here: https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/categories/the-sims-4
phillipsg148
6 years ago
I havent played any sims on pc for almost 5 years and was planning on installing the sims 2 and all of the ep and sp packs that go with it. i remember they need to be installed in order but i was worried i will not be able to patch my games. is this true?
Rflong7
Seasoned Vanguard
6 years ago
"@phillipsg148;c-16990881" wrote:
I havent played any sims on pc for almost 5 years and was planning on installing the sims 2 and all of the ep and sp packs that go with it. i remember they need to be installed in order but i was worried i will not be able to patch my games. is this true?

You can find the patches still. I believe modthesims still has them. . . a search engine will find them. :)

Here they are: https://simsvip.com/sims-games/patches/
keekee53
Seasoned Newcomer
6 years ago
"nanashi-sims;c-15368432" wrote:
"surraaaaaa;906040" wrote:
So I just got the sims 2 ultimate collection 3 days ago, and I'm so overwhelmed! I don't know where to start!
Having all the expansions I don't know what to do!
I didn't want to start my own family yet, I wanted to play some premades. I thought since university was the first expansion, I'd play a family with teens and send them to college. I chose pleasantville, and the pleasant family (I think, right?) Because they have the 2 daughters. I was surprised to see the dad having an affair! As soon as I started playing, it rained, mom got the flu. I sorta wanted her to die (sims can die from the flu. Right?) Just so the dad could openly be with the maid, maybe move her in, and send the daughters to college. That was the plan. Well the dad got fired almost immediately and then the mom caught him cheating, so she divorced him. During this, the daughters would not stop fighting! Never! They were constantly slapping and attacking each other. I sorta couldn't stand them, so I decided to just play university with someone else.
I found a female alien in the townie bin and moved her to sim state. That was alot of fun! She graduated with honors. I was really disappointed to find I can't move sims between neighborhoods :( I wanted her to be a paranormal investigator in strangetown, but I can't move her.
So now I'm sorta stuck again. I want to check out everything! I want pets, I want a family, I want to check out supernaturals, but where to start!?! I've been reading lots of threads here and checking out pics and stories, there's so many options! I love it but omg hahah
It's so much to get used to haha anyone have any advice on what to do!? Or a similar experience?? :)

I absolutely love your story! This is the difference between TS2 and TS4... so much drama :joy:

Yeah I found the story hilarious...only in sims 2 hahah
violaineT
6 years ago
To not be overwhelmed, there cheats in game to use but but I won't recommend it, I think it's a good feeling go explore and don't make immortal overpowered Sims, just make new generation and so on.

When you get more used you can then start to have a look on modding the game, but you still can enjoy a lot without going in that.

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