Ts4 destroyed my ability to enjoy ts2
I wonder if this happens to anyone else. I launched TS2 today (mac super collection) played for a short while and got frustrated and closed it. Going to a community lot Down town is a drag, pick up th...
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For awhile I was really lazy in TS2 and used MaryLou and Numenor's Coat Rack to get free clothes at home. Mainly because I was doing a lot of machinima several years ago. But after I went back to TS2 (after TS4) I decided I wouldn't be so lazy and get free Sim clothes. I started to go ahead and buy clothes for my Sims who I was going to age up before they got to that stage. I was planning ahead. :D
I made events out of it. Like if Carolyn was going to age up (or I was going to rush it and age her up) I would send Mrs. Johnson (housekeeper) or her mother or maybe even her uncle to get her some new clothes while they were out looking for something new for themselves, or maybe I would think it was a birthday present for her. lol TS2 is great that I can buy anybody some clothes (ages) no matter which Sim I'm shopping for at the time. (Except townies unless you move one in). So, long story short Mrs. Stoddard sent Mrs. Johnson shopping for groceries and some new outfits for her daughter, Carolyn, before her birthday. :)
Sims in TS2 are tired (because they wake up autonomously at 6:00 A.M.) if they have a long day of school and work and sometimes even part time jobs after school. I decided coffee was their friend. Some pots offer more energy than others. I know I was very annoyed coffee in TS3 or maybe it was TS4 didn't raise energy. But it does in TS2. So there is always a pot in my Sim houses.
Kids are a little harder, since they were almost always tired and really low on fun (they must hate school) by the time they got out of school. I would make them go to bed or take a nap in a quite room or even better use a recliner and get them up around 6 p.m. for dinner and to get some homework help which would speed up the next time they had to do it alone. But homework always lowers fun for kids. So, to combat this I figured out kids have fun at different speeds. If they are serious they prefer to read books, (it fills faster with books) if they were playful they had more fun (faster) if they played a game with another child and or with an adult. Such as dance on shoes, or cops and robbers. If they were somewhere in between playful and serious there were other things such as use the swing that could build fun faster. But toys only offers one or two points for fun so yeah, fun was going to build a lot slower for everyone. Playful Sims actually enjoy more the kid Tv shows on the Tv and the better the Tv the faster it goes.
Concerning Sims waking up late into the night/morning, I let them get up and finish whatever it is they need to do, a quick nap before work and or school worked wonders. I didn't let them rush out of the house an hour before scheduled. Nope, they finished their breakfast, they finished their homework, or they got in a few more zzzs.
And finally after they are all at school or work or whereever (some just go for a spin in the car for awhile) Mrs. Johnson can do her dutites and make the beds (Immersion is Everything) clean up the dirty dishes and start her routine of cleaning the commodes and calling a service Sim to repair a broken shower. She will go ahead and 'make' a group meal for dinner that night, she will work on her own hobby, talk to a few friends on the phone, and sew herself a new dress. But sometimes, she sneeks into Roger's study and knocks back a few of his finest juices and takes a nap in his reclyner. lol :D And the very best part of all this to me is, she can go to a community lot and do whatever she feels like, then come back home and it still mid moring and get her chores done. No one had to ever know she was out having fun, lol, and the house will be all neat and clean again by the time they get home and time for dinner. Some will go wait for food until she serves it, and some will not come to dinner if they are on that silly pc but have to be made to go eat, but once that is done, she may retire very early since she needs to get up early to make sure there is enough food left for a group meal for breakfast.
David is a different story, he torments others, aggravates others, and always pulling pranks. His homework suffered until I added a governess to help him with homework. The great thing about TS2 is if a kid has a grade B+ or A they don't have to do it for several days if I just can't find the time. Vickie will help him on the weekend to get all caught up between taking him to the movies (works great in TS2 to build a theater) and parks etc.
This family is not the bowling type but in TS2 I love I can pick a day and take a managed group of Sims to go bowling on Thursdays. Or maybe even out to a movie, and or they can all eat at some dive restaurant and or greasy spoon where they can also dance and play pool and many other things not in TS4. Sam and Maggie (his daughter) can always been seen bowling with their group and or at least headed that way and or down at the local diner. I didn't even need TS4 for 'groups' to do this years ago. It's very nice they added groups in TS4, but I had to buy a pack to do that. I could already have a timed outing in TS2 and or just a group activity for fun , asking anyone to join it, for my Sims and their friends to go do anything they can do. And David is enjoying my parks even better, lol, since I added TS3's balloon, lol, 'I'm on top of the world, ma.' heehee.
I made events out of it. Like if Carolyn was going to age up (or I was going to rush it and age her up) I would send Mrs. Johnson (housekeeper) or her mother or maybe even her uncle to get her some new clothes while they were out looking for something new for themselves, or maybe I would think it was a birthday present for her. lol TS2 is great that I can buy anybody some clothes (ages) no matter which Sim I'm shopping for at the time. (Except townies unless you move one in). So, long story short Mrs. Stoddard sent Mrs. Johnson shopping for groceries and some new outfits for her daughter, Carolyn, before her birthday. :)
Sims in TS2 are tired (because they wake up autonomously at 6:00 A.M.) if they have a long day of school and work and sometimes even part time jobs after school. I decided coffee was their friend. Some pots offer more energy than others. I know I was very annoyed coffee in TS3 or maybe it was TS4 didn't raise energy. But it does in TS2. So there is always a pot in my Sim houses.
Kids are a little harder, since they were almost always tired and really low on fun (they must hate school) by the time they got out of school. I would make them go to bed or take a nap in a quite room or even better use a recliner and get them up around 6 p.m. for dinner and to get some homework help which would speed up the next time they had to do it alone. But homework always lowers fun for kids. So, to combat this I figured out kids have fun at different speeds. If they are serious they prefer to read books, (it fills faster with books) if they were playful they had more fun (faster) if they played a game with another child and or with an adult. Such as dance on shoes, or cops and robbers. If they were somewhere in between playful and serious there were other things such as use the swing that could build fun faster. But toys only offers one or two points for fun so yeah, fun was going to build a lot slower for everyone. Playful Sims actually enjoy more the kid Tv shows on the Tv and the better the Tv the faster it goes.
Concerning Sims waking up late into the night/morning, I let them get up and finish whatever it is they need to do, a quick nap before work and or school worked wonders. I didn't let them rush out of the house an hour before scheduled. Nope, they finished their breakfast, they finished their homework, or they got in a few more zzzs.
And finally after they are all at school or work or whereever (some just go for a spin in the car for awhile) Mrs. Johnson can do her dutites and make the beds (Immersion is Everything) clean up the dirty dishes and start her routine of cleaning the commodes and calling a service Sim to repair a broken shower. She will go ahead and 'make' a group meal for dinner that night, she will work on her own hobby, talk to a few friends on the phone, and sew herself a new dress. But sometimes, she sneeks into Roger's study and knocks back a few of his finest juices and takes a nap in his reclyner. lol :D And the very best part of all this to me is, she can go to a community lot and do whatever she feels like, then come back home and it still mid moring and get her chores done. No one had to ever know she was out having fun, lol, and the house will be all neat and clean again by the time they get home and time for dinner. Some will go wait for food until she serves it, and some will not come to dinner if they are on that silly pc but have to be made to go eat, but once that is done, she may retire very early since she needs to get up early to make sure there is enough food left for a group meal for breakfast.
David is a different story, he torments others, aggravates others, and always pulling pranks. His homework suffered until I added a governess to help him with homework. The great thing about TS2 is if a kid has a grade B+ or A they don't have to do it for several days if I just can't find the time. Vickie will help him on the weekend to get all caught up between taking him to the movies (works great in TS2 to build a theater) and parks etc.
This family is not the bowling type but in TS2 I love I can pick a day and take a managed group of Sims to go bowling on Thursdays. Or maybe even out to a movie, and or they can all eat at some dive restaurant and or greasy spoon where they can also dance and play pool and many other things not in TS4. Sam and Maggie (his daughter) can always been seen bowling with their group and or at least headed that way and or down at the local diner. I didn't even need TS4 for 'groups' to do this years ago. It's very nice they added groups in TS4, but I had to buy a pack to do that. I could already have a timed outing in TS2 and or just a group activity for fun , asking anyone to join it, for my Sims and their friends to go do anything they can do. And David is enjoying my parks even better, lol, since I added TS3's balloon, lol, 'I'm on top of the world, ma.' heehee.
