"clop1000;c-18121588" wrote:
The aging system and the need are just awful. Is it even possible to play this game without mods or buy only the most expensive items in the game?
Btw what are the best mods that increase lifespan of the sims? (I want something akin to the sims3 longest lifespan, when you have time to play with your sims).
What are the best mods that increases the needs meter?
Btw does the cheat code "Aging -off" works only for your active family? And any other preexisting sims will die?
Won't it lead that the neighborhood will be quite empty?
How do I reset the neighborhood to its initial state? Delete game files from "My documents"?
How do I may a backup?
Several posts in this thread deal with how to deal with motives.
It is possible to play the game without mods or buying the most expensive items in the game.
Just takes more time to manage their motives. But yes, to make things easier, you do have to work towards earning the better items in game that will fill their motives faster so that they can work on the things you want them to work on and not just fill their motives.
I've got several Sims who do manage to be successful with what I want them to do with their life, despite having cheap to medium priced items in their house. I just have to do more micromanaging in those households than I do in a more established household that has gotten a lot of expensive items.
There are several mods out there that affect the lifespan. Most just change the number of days a Sim is in a specific age group. In Sims 2 this does mean that these mods do not change the remaining days in an age group for existing Sims. Only new Sims and existing Sims will be affected AFTER they age up again. There are a handful of mods that do modify the process of the aging up that would affect existing Sims. But those mods don't properly display how many days left they have. So it depends on what you would accept. The mods that affect number of remaining days could easily be modified to mimic the Sims 3 age span - just add the YA and Adult spans in Sims 3 together for the Sims 2 Adult age.
No mods affect the length of needs meters. Which means it's likely not possible. You'll just have use motive cheats and work towards being better at managing your Sims motives. The SimBlender mod does let you set motives to full, half, or empty (among many other things) but nothing increases the length of the needs.
Aging off will only affect the house you play. Sims 2 Sims only age when you actively play them or if they are on the lot you are playing (ie: Sims visiting your lot or the same community lot your Sims are visiting are not invincible, but they won't die of old age or age up to the next age).
The ONLY exception is when you age up a playable and the prompt to age up a Sim comes up. But only townies will be in there and not other playable Sims.
The original neighborhoods - Pleasantview, Strangetown, etc, can be reset. There are instructions out there for how to reset them all over the place. You can't reset a custom neighborhood back to square one unless you delete it and make the neighborhood again.
For back up, it depends on what you are wanting to back up. But if it is your saves, that would be the folders in the Neighborhoods folder. You would just make a copy of the Neighborhoods folder and that would back up all of your saves.
