Sims 2 gameplay

Character creation has also been added to. Giving players the ability to customise their facial structure, style and personality more than ever before. Allowing you to make your character exactly how you want them to be. Whether that's a character in your own image or a role-play as someone completely different. It's all possible in this title. The game also adds more focus to children and adolescents. These characters will have responsibilities much like the adults such as school, chores and social life.

This adds more depth to the original concept for children and they are also available in bigger numbers. Meaning that the gameplay isn't as adult heavy and seems more realistic. This coupled with the aspiration system that is incorporated into every character that you build for your world really adds a sense of belonging in this virtual life. Each character has an overarching life goal, whether that is a career, a family or whatever you choose it to be. It takes the rather arbitrary goal system of old and gives players a motivation to actually go after them.

Rather than simply cause havoc and toy with their little test subjects. The Sims 2 Ultimate Edition takes everything that galvanised the gaming landscape in the first title and simply adds more.

There is a link in the instructions page for the mod so follow that if you want the memory. Thanks Hendrik! Also, consider following me for updates, daily funny content, and behind the scenes footage of both of my channels! PLUS, I show you an alternative way to play for a different outcome. I hope you enjoyed my gameplay!

As she has the want to get married, would you do it? Or only if the active sim wants to? I will propose engagement and marriage any time ONE of the Sims want to. The other Sim can say no, but if one of them wants to propose, I let them. I love this, i usually play 2 days in the rotation, this is very eficcent, sorry if i write bad, am spanish.

How do you do yoga? Hi Tori! To do yoga, your Sim has to have a body skill of three or more. Then, when you click on them they will have the option. I usually have them jump rope or do some other fitness activity until they get enough points to do yoga. Hey Cindy! I love your ideas, and your gameplay! Thank you. But, if not bother you, I wanna a tip. Since almost all my sagittarius sims are born with a high level in playful points, they hate do everything that a knowledge sims are suposed to do, like stargaze, play chess, etc.

Of course, I dont need to force them to do this things, but sometimes, they roll a want to gain a logic skill point for exemple, and when I command them to play chess, they look at the camera complaining. I dont know, so I start to give them popularity or Fortune aspiration.

What you think about it? Everyone should play the way they enjoy most! I understand what you mean about the personality points. Many people do assign aspiration based on points and not zodiac, like I do. But if you prefer to use the personality points instead, you should do it!

Thanks for the response, Cindy! But I need to thank you again, because your videos are a relief in this pandemic madness. Not just pleasant sims channel, but now, with Life Plus Cindy too. Thanks a lot! Hugs from Brazil!

I want to do the same, so It would be really nice for you to post something about it! Hi and thank you! I basically just give them whatever is best for their career!

But I might make a post on it in the future. Will add it to my list of topics. They never get adopted? And finally, last mini-question. Sorry for long message and bunch of questions. Hope, you can answer them. Ah, sorry, I remembered another question.

Hi Cindy, I really enjoy your streams and gameplay and I have a few questions about it. No, I leave them the same. Older animals get adopted when there are no kittens and puppies available, or when Sims make friends with a stray.

Hey Cindy, I have a question. If your sims keep rolling the Fear of being rejected for an engagement with a sim, but never the Get Engaged to- Want, do you ignore it or let them get engaged? I ignore it. I only have them get engaged if they want to or if their partner wants to.

Hi again Cindy! Thanks for the fast answer last time I spend more time on my sims hobbies now! I never had my sim manage to actually upgrade something? Do you use a mod? I know you can tinker, but it only ever broke the object. I even read somewhere that it has no positive outcome? Since whenever my sims have nothing to do I let them learn something but it makes the adult sims a bit boring since there is not much they are lacking?

Any ideas how to keep their life interesting? Best wishes and much respect! Elders in my game usually have children to care for, but I also let them breed pets for the neighborhood or adopt teens, and of course, work on mastering their hobbies! Another thing you can do is send Elders on vacation and let them explore the Bon Voyage neighborhoods or have them start businesses to keep them busy!

I age up townies with my Sims, so when one of my Sims becomes and elder, I age up one their adult friends to an elder too. I keep track of which townies I age up in a spreadsheet — so the first one I age up I consider the oldest. Hi Cindy! In my game Dina Caliente has 7 kids with another one on the way kids Mortimer lived until he was the first time, he was saved from death, then lived to Out of the eight kids Dina only has one biological son, the rest including the one on the way are all girls.

I just started using some of your rules after watching some of your streams. First, how do you keep engaged in gameplay, I find I get quite bored very quickly. Also, do you know which mods conflict with the shorter semester mod? I play rotationally, so I never get bored. I could never just play a single family. That would be boring to me. I play the entire neighborhood and that keeps me interested for literal years. I have no idea which mods conflict with that, sorry!

But probably anything that affects university semesters in some way. Much love! Can you tell me if it has an opportuniny to add Pleasantview to Sims 2 life stories? I just want to say thank you. The Sims 2 was my first PC Sims game. I never played rotationally, but am trying your rules, modified to fit my gameplay style a bit. It so refreshing playing this, instead of Sims 4. It was just beginning to feel stale.

What cheats do you use to distribute money from a Sim that died prematurely? No mods needed except the ones you already had. What I did was changing the hour age progress from 6PM to midnight like in the Sims 3, so you can age anybody up anytime without messing with their age during the day. Credited from HobbesED to me on Modthesims:.

So you could try changing it to 0 to signify midnight and see if that works. I actually ended up playing along, and following most of the stuff you did for season 1 of your Pleasantview LP on youtube!

Thanks for the suggestion! I have a question regarding the wants based system for doing homework: do you also apply it to children and teenagers? Because I've had this case twice when they simply never roll the want to do homework, so their grades drop which I find cool , but they always end up with grades so bad that the university doesn't accept them, and I find it sad to only have Wealth or Knowledge Sims at uni, I want diversity haha.

My Sims are only teens for 6 days, so I have never had this problem. I appreciate your rules so much! I have a question. The problem is that all but a couple have rolled wants to join a Greek house.

I never play Greek Houses or Sororities, so my rule is to ignore those wants. I may even have a mod that stops them? Not sure? Anyway, you could always just allow Popularity and Romance Sims to join. Or maybe only Sims who are super outgoing. Hi Cindy, I really like your playstyle! I only move Sims at the end of the round after PM on the last day or the beginning of the next round before PM on the first day.

Hello Cindy! I was wondering how you set up a neighborhood? Do you add any new lots or add any extra sims before starting to play? In one of your videos, you talked about having a church and a career center, and I like those ideas! How about apartments, or sims in the bin like the Burbs or Oldies?

Where do you put them? Hey Cindy. Really nice rules. I am using them for my play also execpt few things like I have kept an orphanage so that all those unwanted babies can grow up in orphanage.

Because if orphange adult will adopt them then all the orphanages will become siblings. I let thwm be live as roommate, and sometimes love blossom between two orphanage. Also if i have teen pregnancy then most probabaily baby will go to orphanage but in this case mother can be in touch of baby if she want.

But it is not necessary in future she will be with ttje babay father only, she can be with someone else also if she want. But mostly if father already have a happy father and they are famous people of neighborhood then they usually put alien baby for adoption. Also for glasses also I have rule. As aome increase thweir skill, changes increases.

These are the rules i have added but few more I want which i am unable to decide e. Or children of public school have disadvantage over private school but I am unable to decide what disadvantage. Other than that, I want people of aletheric, or criminal career could get injured while working or anybody practicing body skill could get injured, but I am unable to decide what type of injury and how often it can happen amd how much time it will take to fix.

Do you have any suggestions of mod or cc to do this. Because i believe it will add realism in my game. If you are aware of any mod which can create more types of deaseases or injuries them please tell me. I love how informative your videos are. I am curious about your inheritance rules and why the oldest male sim inherits? Anyway, just curious. Also, where did you get those gorgeous skirt and blouse or was it a sweater outfits I saw you scroll pass awhile back?

Hi Cindy I just came across your video and I think they are great. I enjoy the joy you get from playing. I just saw you finance play for your town, if at all possible could you make a copy of that spread sheet I would like to set up my town payment system also thanks for that idea.

You have help put the fun in sims play with the way you play thank you for sharing. Hi London! So, I made a special one just for you. To use, make a copy to your own Google Drive and edit all you want!

Currently enjoying your Pleasantview playthrough. I have absolutely horrendous russian names for my townies in game. Do you change your first names in SimPE? You can absolutely change first names in Sim PE. Thank you for stopping by! Thank you so much for the help! It seems like.. This is also a reason why I needed the answer on that matter. Thank you again! Love these rules and I am hoping to get into playing more of Sims 2 using them.

I am playing Veronaville after watching your recent videos and you mentioned rules for pets but I do not see them in this list. Do you use the same rules as the Integrated Hood ones?

Hi there! I need to update my rules here. Cindy, I am playing a child who has Science as a hobby. I bought him an ant farm and that does qualify for Science. Also, does watching Sci-Fi on TV give hobby interest? That might be another one to add. We need more for Science. Hi Cindy, Thought you would want to know that I finally bookmarked this page. The new sub-hobby thing has become my well, actually your new way to make the game more fun. Since I am a bit of a rebel, I will change some for each circumstance.

I did not let Beau Broke have the piano as a sub-hobby because they are too poor. Thanks for continually adding more and updating your rules! Thank you Mary! And I do the same thing with the hobbies — especially for the premade Sims. Sometimes it needs a little tweak depending on the Sim!

Thank you! I just have a question about how you play with divorces and breakups. In Sims 2, playing with ACR helps a lot because Sims will sometimes flirt or get into other relationships with Sims besides their spouses.

It really just depends on the Sim. But I would recommend installing ACR and then when a Sim cheats, you can divorce them with good cause. A lot of times Sims will get wants to do romantic reactions with other Sims not their spouses after an ACR interaction.

I follow those wants, of course, and this will also lead to breakups and divorces. I have been using your blog as inspiration for my own gameplay, and i love how you have thought of basically everything. Its been super helpful when i tried to figure out how I was going to play neighborhoods.

I love how organized you are, and I have to say im really impressed with everything you have posted both here and on your youtube channel. I was just wondering how do you name your twins? Do you have a special twist for that or do you just use the two next letters in your naming system? I also saw that you manually randomize gender preference for your sims, but I thought this was already randomized by the ACR. If I dont do this, will all my playable sims only be straight?

Cause that would be insanely boring.