Sims 2 Discoveries !

and when they play in the leaves

I just started playing the SIMS 2 again and I'm loving it! I loved sims 3 because of open world and the color wheel- that's the only thing I find missing in the sims 2 for me... So on that note, can you download more hair/eye colors for sims in the Sims 2 ?

Also in my Sims 2 the entire house went up in flames because someone is a bad cook- I didn't have a fire alarm so everyone died. I wasn't even trying to kill my sims and I was so shocked to actually" loose" the game of life! I can't even kill a sim if I try in the Sims 4 lol

@emilymsims That's what I love about TS2, the unpredictability. :)

"emilymsims;14750164" wrote:
Also in my Sims 2 the entire house went up in flames because someone is a bad cook- I didn't have a fire alarm so everyone died. I wasn't even trying to kill my sims and I was so shocked to actually" loose" the game of life! I can't even kill a sim if I try in the Sims 4 lol

OMG! I'm so sorry you lost your family to the fire! However, welcome back to TS2!

"emilymsims;14750152" wrote:
I just started playing the SIMS 2 again and I'm loving it! I loved sims 3 because of open world and the color wheel- that's the only thing I find missing in the sims 2 for me... So on that note, can you download more hair/eye colors for sims in the Sims 2 ?

Yeah you can, there's lots of cc for the game.

"emilymsims;14750164" wrote:
Also in my Sims 2 the entire house went up in flames because someone is a bad cook- I didn't have a fire alarm so everyone died. I wasn't even trying to kill my sims and I was so shocked to actually" loose" the game of life! I can't even kill a sim if I try in the Sims 4 lol

Oh dear. That's the kind of thing that happens to me. I left my game I paused once by accident, went to the bathroom and came back to my sims had no kitchen and were missing two family members due to fire. Whoops.

"EgonVM;14512127" wrote:

"cleo00;14511127" wrote:
I never realized it actually snows in the neighborhood view as well as on the lot.

And apparently sims can lay down when they're hanging out in Uni.

Also was extremely creeped out to see that if you line a bunch of sims up and have them all pose their heads follow you. Give it a try. Line a bunch of sims up - have them all pose stand still - pause it - rotate the screen - unpause.
I had it with sixteen sims. Utterly terrifying.

Also, not from my experience but from watching sims 2 lets plays on YouTube that there are video cut scenes for birthdays to the different age stages. I wonder how come I never saw any.

For the birthday cut scenes, you need to throw birthday party and blow out these candles. Also, make sure, that sim's aspiration bar is green or above. So you need to do three things:
1.Throw a Birthday party,
2.Blow out the Candles on birthday cake,
3.Have sim age up well.
And then you should get birthday cut scene.

growing up well with a cake has nothing to do with the cut scenes. In the game options, video, choose enable special event camera. that is all.
Weddings, engagements, first kiss, first woohoo and woohoo in the spa also have a cut scene. Can't remember if dying has one or not.

Toddlers get a wish to buy a bush. They don't however do anything with that bush.

If your pregnant sim eats cheesecake they will have twins, even when the house is full. So say you have 6 sims in your house, and 2 of those sims get pregnant, which they can each to have one baby each normally and make 8 sims. But if those two sims then eat cheesecake, they will both have twins and tip the house over to 10 sims. I guess then it would be possible for 4 sims in the house to each get pregnant, the game assuming they will have one baby each making 8, then they all eat cheesecake, all have twins, tipping the house over to 12 sims. There is no cheat or mod involved with that either. It's just the cheesecake. It was a tip that was told to people in a thank you email from EA in return for registering one of the games, it might have been Seasons? Whichever expansion it was that came with the ability to make cheesecake.

Has anyone discussed all the different ways to woohoo? Besides the bed and the spa, there is also:

• the car
  
• the elevator
  
• photo booth
  
• dressing room (for trying on clothes at a shop)
  
• can't think of any others right now, but I'm sure there are others.
  
  
  

I just discovered my Sim Amelia (who had just returned from class and I hadn't noticed) admiring her engagement ring and whilst I might expect that at the time of the engagement, it's been about 10 Sim days since the event! :)
It makes me wonder; Amelia wasn't too happy about becoming engaged in the first place!

"LadysimPlayer8;14785150" wrote:
@DivinylsFan
Thank you for the tips but I don't know if you can make 12 living on the lot as in the past I tried making a Big Brother style house with most residents of Pleasantview including Brandi Broke and it wouldn't let me have 8 adult residents only 7. It might be different though if the female adults are already in situ?

Places to woohoo - "blushing" - the hot tub and fitted wardrobes that come with Apartment Life. :)
Sorry did not see thegummybear13 post on woohoo.

If you have the expansion that enables your sim to make the dessert 'cheesecake' it will force your pregnant sim to have twins whether there is room for them or not.
It's not from any mod or cheat
It is however a high cooking skill that can make the cheesecake.
There is nothing sinister about it.
I've done it before many times.
Cheesecake forces twins whether there's room or not.

it was a tip sent to me in an official email from EA Games in reply to registering my game. Way back when, when the Sims 2 was fully up and running, if you registered your game, you got an official email from EA which included a tip, often a secret tip that's not told in the manual. Cheesecake = twins was one of them. So I tried it out for when there was only space for one baby in the house, and sure enough .. twins, tipping the household number to over the maximum. What happens to their portrait is it appears in a second column, smaller than the others. I've been told this is what the layout for portraits is for Pets. So if you have Pets and you've seen those smaller portraits in a second column, that is where the extra baby's face will appear, and they are fully operational.

Try it yourself, prove me wrong, but you won't. Your sim has to eat the cheesecake while pregnant. One slice is all it takes.