Playing TS2 for the first time
I know I'm a little late to the game here, but anything I should know before playing?
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Welcome to the best sims game made so far! ? (and I’ve played all of them).
I mean… the best thing is really to just try yourself and discover things for yourself. Some helpful things to know though:
* Do not ever delete tombstones, delete sims from the bin or move an inhabited house from one world to another. All of these actions will corrupt your game.
* There are mods for literally everything in this game.
* It is quite different than sims 3 and 4 if you’ve played those. Sims 2 is extremely customizable (so is sims 3 to an extent also in all fairness, but in different ways), sims 2 is very supportive of rotational play if you’re into that. I’ve always played rotationally and that’s one of the reasons I never felt like sims 3 or 4 suited me.
* If you are used to sims 3 or 4 and miss story progression there is a really great mod for that for sims 2. I’ve never used it because I don’t want story progression, but I’ve read that many people missed it in sims 2 and that the mod has gotten great reviews.
* If you get into the game a bit and feel like downloading some cc I _strongly_ recommend downloading the world Elsewhere by Plasticbox. It’s wonderful and doesn’t contain a lot of cc and is so much fun to play with.
* Some useful cheats:
- Motherlode: adds 50 000 simoleons to your household
- Kaching: adds 1000
- Aging on/off: stops the sims on the lot from aging and turns it on again
- Moveobjects on/off: ability to place object where you otherwise can’t
- Boolprop allow45degreeangleofrotation true/false: allows diagonal placement of objects
Those are some basics, but you should really just try for yourself! Have fun :-)
I mean… the best thing is really to just try yourself and discover things for yourself. Some helpful things to know though:
* Do not ever delete tombstones, delete sims from the bin or move an inhabited house from one world to another. All of these actions will corrupt your game.
* There are mods for literally everything in this game.
* It is quite different than sims 3 and 4 if you’ve played those. Sims 2 is extremely customizable (so is sims 3 to an extent also in all fairness, but in different ways), sims 2 is very supportive of rotational play if you’re into that. I’ve always played rotationally and that’s one of the reasons I never felt like sims 3 or 4 suited me.
* If you are used to sims 3 or 4 and miss story progression there is a really great mod for that for sims 2. I’ve never used it because I don’t want story progression, but I’ve read that many people missed it in sims 2 and that the mod has gotten great reviews.
* If you get into the game a bit and feel like downloading some cc I _strongly_ recommend downloading the world Elsewhere by Plasticbox. It’s wonderful and doesn’t contain a lot of cc and is so much fun to play with.
* Some useful cheats:
- Motherlode: adds 50 000 simoleons to your household
- Kaching: adds 1000
- Aging on/off: stops the sims on the lot from aging and turns it on again
- Moveobjects on/off: ability to place object where you otherwise can’t
- Boolprop allow45degreeangleofrotation true/false: allows diagonal placement of objects
Those are some basics, but you should really just try for yourself! Have fun :-)
