Sims 2

[rune]

I've just recently bought this game, and it's usual for me to buy this kind of PC game as I tend to like playing board games and card games

Well I seem to have become very addicted to the SIMS I sat one day (on my hols) and never moved from the game, even forgot to eat until T Time

Has anyone else played this game?

[Leto]

Me.
I was a previous addict to Sims 1, and I'm to the V2.0. Altough you can't make your own aliens babies. You have to wait for one of your characters to fall in love with the current aliens.

My addiction to games come in circles : once is Sims, once is Age of Empire, once Diablo 2 or Legacy of Kain, and every time i come back to Alpha Centuri and Civilization 3. i can ploay on almost everything except FPS and soccer simulations

[Rane Longfox]

I never managed to make my sims fall in love Lost its appeal after a couple of fresh starts...

[I, Brian]

My other half has been addicted to the first Sims - and the kids like to get her to design homes for the Sim characters based on their own designs.

If I'm feeling generous at Christmas, she might just get Sims2 - compensation for being an internet widow.

[Lacedaemonian]

It's because you're a two time loser in love mate.

I have never fancied Sims but could well imagine getting addicted to it.

[Foxbat]

I tried The Sims but had to give up because I enjoyed torturing them too much. It's the computer equivelant of pulling the wings off flies

[Lacedaemonian]

I can understand that. I quite often torture computer peoples in simulations.

[Leto]

One good thing of this version is that once you've designed two member of a family you can set them up as lovers. So they go directly in the same bed without fuss. No trouble with having a spere bed for one time.

Foxbat, torturing your creation is one part of the joys of this game.

[Foxbat]

I can understand that. I quite often torture computer peoples in simulations

torturing your creation is one part of the joys of this game

I don't feel so guilty now. Maybe I'll get Sims 2 after all

[Esioul]

I'm not mean to my sims, I try to be nice to them, because I feel sad when they make despairing faces at me if they aren't happy.

Cal, make them flirt lots, and it should work.

I used to have a problem with my sims always being very fat, but I found out that a swimming pool is the right solution to that problem, even a very small cheap one.

[rune]

I have no problem getting my paired off and married it's getting the beggars to breed that doesnt seem to be going right. And the female characters I have chosen are such tarts they want numerous lovers.

I had to extended the house I started in because there wasnt enough sofa space and bed space. And I have a double bed that I can't move because the last person that used it died

Considering I've only had the game since last Thursday I get definate feeling I need to restrict my time on this game or I might wither away and die as I am too involved in keeping my sim characters going

[Kassad]

Only played the first Sims but never quite seriously. Here are some experiments:


*Tried to have 8 people live in a big loft with an indoor swimming pool occupying 90% of there space. All died.
*Tried to have a lazy carracter living in an enormous space a have 3 slaves bringing money for him living in a separate, ridiculously small room. Stoped the experiment has the slaves would always try to go in lazyman's room and lazyman had to beat them each time.
*I also tried to make a mock up of my real life home but it turned out to be not functionnal

What about you friends? How would you torture them?

[Foxbat]

LOL! I love your idea of experimentation. I'm going to try some of them - the results are so amusing

[Leto]

In term of torture you can't beat me. In Sims1, I had 4 sims commiting suicide in the pool !
In Sims 2, they only try to make babies all the time.

[Rane Longfox]

I did Esioul. It still never worked... maybe I wasn't patient enough