Cape Town in South Africa (if anyone cares)

Ive tried recently to play the game without cheating, but WHATS THE POINT?! they want so many thing and need so much more that by the time you get to where those needs are finally fulfilled they are 2 days away from being elders and still single....and you don't get to go through the whole other aspect of the game.  I'm not one of those people who can sit in front of my PC for DAYS to get stuff done, so I have to speed up the process a bit...I can waste all my playtime in trying to max the skills of a sim manually etc.

I usually kill them all kinds of ways to make my storylines seem better...like burning the whole house down to kill everyone inside and around.  

But for quick deaths I use the Insim and make them die by sunlight (or whatever...its the vampire death anyway - they dont need to be vamps)
Or Ill pretend they ate poisoned food and have them die of "sickness"

My sims in general have a very short shelf-life.  It's like a soap! Everyone dies at some point, and then some just get brought back later on if the story needs them.

Wow...I just read some of the older posts...and a few requests there have actually been fulfilled...like having pets...and there was a few others i cant remember now..but still... maybe the powers that be are aware of what players want...or at least visit fan sites to find out...

What I'd like to see is more random stuff...like accidents happening I had a ball yesterday trying to make a pregnant sim be pushed down the stairs by her really evil ex-husband, having her tumble down, and land on a table with a candle on it...then having her lie unconcious while the house caught fire  <- all for a storyline... not hectic stuff like that, but tripping on stairs or over furniture?  


*  Neat sims wiping their feet on the doormat before going into the house...but REAL quick, this could be annoying...

*  Changes to the house and landscape...like in the sims 1, when you disturbed the ground the grass grew back later on... the terrain paints should fade with time, and the paint on the house should dull... If a room is on fire the walls and floor should go black... steps would break through after some time, and windows would be visibly dirty (Kaylynn would have to have a specific wash-day for windows!)

*  Live-in maids, or at least having them stay in a room at the back.

*  Kids pretending to be sick to stay at home

*  Having parent-free households..(as previous posters noted!)

---and i agree with everything dutchdude posted!

That was truely great, I loved it.

The anti-baby harassment hack for sure! That is THE most annoying thing in the Sims in my humble opinion... They hound that poor little thing 24/7 and keep stuffing bottles down it's throat...then casually put the baby down on the kitchen floor, puts the (full) bottle down and walks away...
5 sim-minutes later they're back to drowning the baby again.  sheeez! Now that's bad parenting!

OMG.  Another sims! It just makes me feel silly for lapping up all the sims 2 stuff!
...then again, it is kinda obvious that they'll release something new like that - the people at EA are in a black hole of sorts, since there can never be an end to the sims.  Its not like those games you buy, play and finish, so they have to keep going on and on.  To meet the demands of new consumers and keep the brand alive they must keep re-inventing it.  Its all basic marketing.  

Ill probably buy Sims 3.  Im such a sucker!

Log in, as you are, and find something you want to download.  There will probaly be a text link at the bottom of the first post ending with .zip or .rar or whatever.  click on that, or control-click it and select "download linked file" or whatever download option your browser gives you.

I did that in the end...i also prefer to play with testingcheats enabled..but it just got too annoying to direct them all th time and it kept happening when the action i gave them was done, so i finally turned TT off and they can keep swimming in the ground untill someone can find a fix...

I still have the sinking pet thing, but i never used a hack for community lot sleeping

- thanks for the reply squinge, i don't want to be a pest by repeating previous threads, but apparantly there is also another cause for this.

I saw a thread on this earlier, but its been closed as "resolved" without there actually being a fix for the problem...

Has anyone found/created a possible fix for this yet? Its super annoying!
thanks for any advice/fixes/help with regards to this!

All this so SO true...there's an endless supply of Angelina's out there...  It was the same with Sims 1 - i remember there were about 10-billion Britney Spears sims.  they were EVERYWHERE!  Angelina is the new Britney.

One question about this:  Once you activated the codes - are they permanently activated (as in even after you quit the game and restart?) or do you  have to do it everytime you want to use the unlockables?

-I dont have the EP yet, so I cant see for myself

Thanks SO much Kathy, you rock! This will come in handy when I finally get pets... I was wondering about this 'cause over here where i live they don't promote games (that i know of), and we wouldn't have gotten any codes to unlock the incentives, even if you pre-ordered.

And thanks for posting this, everywhere on other sites ive been on people are too scared that its illegal... (I dont think it is, the unlockables are already IN the game, so we're not "stealing" )

Real memory jogger...but i can still remember my first family from sims 1, there were 2 girls, Phoebe & Caroline Corr, and my first male sim from 1 was Jonathan Ericsson.  Jonathan and Caroline married and had a boy later on called Frank.

Sims 2: James & Caroline (by chance!) Carver...and they had a son called Marcus...they lived in Pleasantview and Marcus grew up to marry Kaylynn Langerak.