Sims 2 Super Collection - Differences + Any Essential Mods?

Yeah, we have our old discs but my sister has them installed on her computer so I got this for myself. :) I was lucky that I got it in USD instead of pounds - we live in the UK but my Apple ID is still linked to a US bank account so I got $30 instead of £30! :sunglasses: Wasn't expecting that, haha.

Here is a picture of the mom and daughter from the first family I made:


Mom Daisy runs a New Age shop as a home business, while dad Darren's biggest aspiration in life is to be a professional party guest. They have a son called Randy who's a teenager. I've never had University before now so I'm going to have him go to college soon. :) The toddler in this picture is called Breeze and she just became a kid.

Gosh @Terra you really did hit the ground running! Did you set up your hoods, install cc, get university ready etc? Or did you literally just dive straight in and play?

I have taken half the day installing the game, installing cep and then looking for some nice houses to add (I am terrible at building in TS2).

Your screenshot looks great quality - is the mum's hair from the game or cc? I really can't remember half the stuff that comes with the game so I'm thinking maybe to play without cc for a while and see what there is. I do remember downloading heaps of cc clothes in the past though, so maybe I will not like sticking to the game clothing only.

@Terra

Because I come from all things 3 sims, furniture, lighting, terrain all must look stunning for me and of course that was achievable with create a tool for sims and furniture and mods for terrian lighting etc. Like @elanorbreton I am a dreadful builder so I have to rely on our wonderful creative community for that-)

When I went into 2 for the first time I had to spend quite a lot of time just getting used to how the game actually works because of loading screens, the way time works and no story progression or aging in the game etc. I needed a lot of help from this community to understand how to play properly but after some time as I was getting used to the game the same things started to bother me ugly sims, hoods too small, old houses, very bright blue skies and hood terrain colors so when I felt comfortable enough to start adding things back to game and it went from there. I downloaded face templates, skin, make up, hair, clothes, terrain paints, sky mods, houses and community buildings..

Then just before this PC upgrade I had tried using one of the empty pre made hoods from the game and loved it so then started to long for a much bigger hood I could make a city but also a beach area my sims could live in and swim in the ocean but making something like that is way over my head lol

Then Rflong7 kindly offered to make me a city style map and I asked for a small beach area I could put houses on as well and that wish was granted then finally being really cheeky because I understood how difficult it was to make lots fit on beach areas I asked for houses that would fit and was promptly given 2 :)

I was so excited I added airports, buses and bus station, modern railway's part motorways and a couple trams, cruise ships, boats and ferries and then started to build up my city area using neighborhood deco items and community lots however sadly that all came to an end when the upgrade was done because I already decided when I started fresh this time now I have some idea of exactly what I want and wanted to test all my mods CC again so this is going to be a long term project for me.

My goal after my hood is finished and all my sims are completed and added to game is to work through every business I can think of including using mods to run a school, prison, real estate office, lawyer career using a courthouse ect which can be done with mods this idea came from Mstybl95 on another thread as she posted pics of all her builds and careers and it really inspired me to just how much can be achieved in this series.

I am still sorting things out after the upgrade but I have added already added neighborhood and lot sky/cloud mods, greener grass mods so the terrain looks lush and a water mod that provides a little more depth to the water colors in the game, camera mod so I can look at the whole terrain on a custom map and lighting mod. Now thats all done today I will be starting to work my way through all the mods and CC I have and decide what I am keeping but that really is going to take some time as I have so much stuff :)

I was in awe the way you jumped straight into game after your download because I have to have everything looking the way I want it first :)

its this sort of thing I have been trying out before the upgrade, you can see my sims swimming in the ocean in my new map and the beach houses with an awesome space sky mod I tried out just to see what it looked like in game.




If you are interested there are a lot more pics and ideas on the following thread, and although it was started as a business ideas thread for 2 it sort of ended up being about anything and everything we could all think up :)

http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/882938/list-of-business-possibilities/p29

The map I am using and download here

http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/15052038/#Comment_15052038

the 2 houses that fit on the beach

http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/882938/list-of-business-possibilities/p28

all Rflong7 sims 2 builds everything Rflong7 has created is safe to download and use including all the customs worlds made for sims 3

http://forums.thesims.com/en_Us/discussion/873012/sharing-my-ts2-lots-up-to-18/p1

@Terra

I know but its just my play style and I blame 3 for it as it was so easy to make everything perfect so I never start playing until everything else has been done to my satisfaction :) I wish I did not care it would make everything so much easier lol

Yeah, I am quite OCD with my hoods - I can never start playing until my hood is to my satisfaction (with ts3 this could take months).

In ts2 I have always used the game hoods and just built them up with Lots and added world decor in. But this time I fancy a new hood that I can make more city-like. I had actually decided to download the same hood you are using @SPARKY1922 so I will do that later when I am home from work.

I've been downloading Lots from MTS, using their no cc filter, so I will enjoy adding those in. I also have a few Lots I uploaded myself to TSR years ago (a couple I'm not too embarrassed about lol) - one of which is my PYO farm store, which i always liked to add in.

I love the sound of your hood, sparky, I hope you will share pics when it is finished.

@Terra your excitement is so infectious! I just can't wait to start playing :) I just hope the game is going to behave, as I started it up to test a few things and sometimes it starts fine and then other times it fails and gives me random error messages.

@elanorbreton

I think you will love that hood because there is a central area where I was placing city hall deco and Bridgeport skyscrapers around it along with lots that are usable. I made little parks and separated the areas so that they had different themes then I moved over to the little beach area and added the 2 beach houses Rflong7 made for me but no matter what I have done since I cannot get any other beach lots to fit on that area except for one a beach camp site..

found on the following link should you also want to use it Sandy Beaches Camp although I cannot remember if it has any CC however as I don't mind a little CC I would have downloaded it anyway..

http://modthesims.info/d/549869

I understand re the OCD I am sure I am this way and you mentioning 3 sent shock waves into me as I have all that to do again as well however prior to this upgrade everything was backed up and notes and links saved to everything I was using in both series so when I do start over each world has what lots I used in every address on the map so all I will have to do is add it back :)

same with 2 but I had to sort out all the terrain stuff i like first and my CC is a mess so that is going to take me days to go through before I add it back but I don't mind too much because when its finished I relish the game play that's going to begin-)

I was about to start today back in that map but now clean installer is playing up and causing me problems and I cannot move forward without it being fixed. Every time I think I have something resolved and can begin my game something else is going wrong >:)

You guys are inspiring me to design some of my own neighbourhoods! I love doing that in sims 2. :) All this Sims 2 talk has inspired my sister to start playing Sims 2 again too! :D

"elanorbreton;15127373" wrote:
@Terra your excitement is so infectious! I just can't wait to start playing :) I just hope the game is going to behave, as I started it up to test a few things and sometimes it starts fine and then other times it fails and gives me random error messages.

Awww thanks! :) The past two days I haven't been playing but after all this talk I'm definitely going to play again tomorrow! I hope you don't keep getting so many error messages, though.

Is there a particular theme you guys are going for in the neighbourhoods you're designing this time around? I used to do lots of themed ones for TS2, like Japanese villages for example. I've seen there's tons of medieval CC as well so one day I might have to try my hand at one of those! Where do you go for getting lots, now that the Exchange is gone? (Sorry if you mentioned this before!)

@Terra

LOL trust me to put my foot in it :)

I am not saying its not interesting but I like to view it only from a fantasy point of view where people have clean clothes, still look washed and have a cheesy white smile, you know the version Hollywood likes us to believe as the reality is just too awful.

"urbandecay;c-16276306" wrote:
Hey where do you buy cats/ dogs/ wombats from - I cannot seem to find a store in the sims 2 super collection please tell me where and what store you can buy from I have looked at downtown and blue water. Thanks

There should be 2 in the Lots & Houses Bin in your Neighborhood screen. You can place one in town from there.

The only mod is use is the espresso machine and the money cheats