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Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Help / Sinking Business...
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on: June 23, 2012, 11:21:42 am
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I was wondering if anyone had some advice for running a successful business in OFB.
I have this store and I worked pretty hard on it. I have four employees, have priced all of my items, and I am really focusing on "assessing moods and desires" and my employees' sales techniques as well as customer service, yet my cash flow is plummeting! I'm not understanding why.
When I priced my items, at first I went "average" on every item. My cash flow wasn't doing too well, so I overpriced some items. This was all right for awhile but then my cash flow began to sink again. I went the other way and decided to make everything average and a few things cheap. Now I'm really sinking.
Any help from my Sim peers?
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Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Help / Solved "Runaway" Issue
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on: February 25, 2012, 03:44:20 pm
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It's taken me awhile to figure out what exactly to do with those pesky runaway teens! I know a lot of Simmers here have the same issue... can't find the hack to keep them at home! So, I added my own cheat for you in case no one else has here. Try this: Save-a-Sim. For anyone who's not familiar with this concept, follow the below instructions: When your Sim teen announces she's going to run away, hit Shift/Control-C. Write in the following cheat "move_objects on"
Switch over to Furniture. Grab a hold of the "runaway" teen.
Delete the teen.
Switch over to Neighborhood. And yes, you're going to want to SAVE!
Come back to the lot and your teen is a brand new Sim. Fully happy and all their needs are met! Happy Simming!
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Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Help / Stopping Runaways Cheat?
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on: June 22, 2011, 11:17:13 am
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Okay, as always, I think I have pretty much exhausted all other resources to try to solve my problem before seeking Sim counsel.
I have an issue with runaways. Yes, it would be a heck of a lot easier to maintain a household of less than 8 kids and keep everyone happy, but it's also less challenging. So, my question is (speaking of less challenging), is there any cheat I could use to stop teens from running away without having to download anything into my game (computer is out-of-commission downloading wise).
If not, I can always just keep on struggling with maintaining relationships, which is a part of the reason I love this game. But, I was just curious...
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Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Help / Re: Sims Becoming Popular at the Price of No Privacy Period
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on: December 29, 2010, 02:10:51 pm
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Hey, thanks, ancienthighway, for the tips. I'll check into some of those options. I guess I'll try the social decay on the lot. I hope the same isn't true for the cell phones ~ always ringing, at any rate.
miros1: I guess I could, but the problem with that is that whenever he / she tries to make a phone call, the dang thing just keeps ringing. So, really, I can't use the phone at my Sims' leisure.
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Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Help / Sims Becoming Popular at the Price of No Privacy Period
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on: December 29, 2010, 11:34:55 am
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I'm in trouble. I downloaded the cheat mailbox for OFB. It's a great tool, however, it came with NO instructions for any cheat it comes with! I have no idea what any of cheats really do. So I decided experiment. I found that choosing the cheat "Make me know everyone" really means, "Have my phone ring off the hook constantly night and day. Allow me no free time to deal with quiet, deal with daily chores and make me starve because everyone won't leave me alone."
I want this to be reversed somehow. It's no fun playing the family out when the phone is constantly ringing and the worst part is, I can't seem to get my family members to ignore the dang thing because it's an automatic response. What can I do to reverse this cheat? Please, someone help. I really would like to give my Sims their privacy back. From now on, I'm going to make my Sims popular the good old-fashioned way... meet Sims through the Sim itself.
Also, if anyone would have an idea about where I can find the instructions or details on what those cheats mean or what they do ~ please let me know where I can find them. That would be much appreciated so I don't run into problems with yet another one of those cheats. Thanks in advance.
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Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Help / Re: What happend?
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on: December 19, 2010, 10:09:50 am
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I don't know if this may be the problem, but I have had a few experiences where my own Sims have changed their look and due to not having the mesh downloaded properly, I have had missing hair, faces, or even sometimes mostly nothing from the neck up.
You think you may have a mesh or two missing, possibly? If so, I would suggest trying to track down the custom content and re-downloading it into your game.
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Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Discussion / Re: Things you've only recently discovered about the game
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on: December 08, 2010, 10:33:23 pm
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DaSpecial1: I'm not sure what you mean about characteristics, but if it's personalities and the whole character profile you normally can choose for the average Sim that you are talking about, than yes. You can create what they are like just like a normal Sim. My custom alien is full-on extraterrestrial... and a rather friendly one at that who has a desire to be a family man one day. Here is the link that I just found: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Alien-Sims-and-Vampires-in-Sims-2 (if you keep going past vampire, you'll find out how to make werewolves as well)HylianWolf: I believe that you would be correct on Maxis programming Sims that way. I think the turn on's and off's are generalized among all Sims. But, even though NPC's have free-will, that would have been a sight to see the whole same-sex flirting and kissing going on. I have yet to experience that one. Interesting...
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Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Discussion / Re: Things you've only recently discovered about the game
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on: December 08, 2010, 11:12:35 am
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Wow... I feel dumb now! I didn't realize that if you type in "boolprop testingcheatsenabled true" in the neighborhood screen and then hitting the Ctrl+Shift+C once inside CAS, you can reveal hidden skins and costumes (clothing department)! You can create aliens, Plantsims, Mannequins, etc this way! I also discovered how you can create Vamps and Werewolves, using similar techniques!
No more waiting around for my Sims or PT #9 to get abducted to creating other aliens, or sitting around waiting for that Count to show up to bite my Sims and then having to make them bite others! This is such a time-saver.
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Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Help / Re: Game Crash Frequently
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on: October 30, 2010, 10:15:27 am
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The raven: Man, I hear you on that photo album ~ one of the main reasons I let it run. Sometimes I'll make a note or two about what I am planning next in the story sequencing but I have such bad memory myself, I tend to forget what I'm in the middle of doing. And yeah ~ I have been known to keep my game on for few days. Oops...
Unfortunately, right now at least, I can't minimize my game to my desktop because I have none in existence at the current time. I have to go into my game through the backdoor as it is (Esc+Cntrl+Alt) and open up every program file through browsing. It really sucks. But I will take this advice once I get my new shiny toy.
Good tip, miros1. I won't go into this too much (after all, this is a Sim site, not a computer one). I was just simply wondering if this could be one of the contributing factors, in which case, I now am starting to believe that it is. On the other hand, my computer is pretty old in the computer world and overrun with other issues (one being a bad windows installment). I am looking into a whole new media beast as we speak. It is not fun running my game right now because of the slowness and all the other factors involved with my crippled PC. But, again & most definitely, good tip about stopping the game when I'm finished for the day.
I did, however, hear that leaving the computer on overnight was an OK thing to do, so maybe I'll at least continue doing that. I guess you just confirmed that advice I had been given before for me. But hearing The raven disagree makes me think that it is still a debated issue. I do, actually, give my computer a break every now and then, so maybe I'm still good on this issue.
Okay, now that I'm done, I will return this forum to being a Sim related forum...
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Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Help / Re: Game Crash Frequently
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on: October 30, 2010, 09:07:33 am
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I know I'm not henisacat. But thanks for the tips about the memory improver and about not leaving the game on all night. It takes my game forever to load and so sometimes I will leave it running while I sleep. Guess I won't be doing that anymore. No wonder my game is getting slower and slower ~ not mentioning my computer in general. I'm wondering if that has any contribution to my desktop no longer showing up...
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Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Help / Re: Property line cheat
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on: October 28, 2010, 11:20:00 am
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Hm, I understand that much. And I could be wrong about the walls going all the way to the edge ~ maybe its at least one more over. But I remember someone instructing how to do it and I was able to get at least one of my properties to do so.
Thanks for the locktiles cheat, though
If I'm confused, than I'll try to figure out what I did. But if someone can help me, that would be great.
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Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Help / Re: Property line cheat
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on: October 28, 2010, 10:13:50 am
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Thanks for the tip, miros1. But this isn't exactly the cheat I'm looking for. I want to be able to build a wall on the last tile line of the property with a cheat I can type into the cheat box.
But again, thanks for the extra tip.
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Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Help / Property line cheat
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on: October 28, 2010, 07:58:01 am
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I know this has been discussed here before, but I can't seem to find the topic. So here goes...
I would really like to build walls of my houses outside the invisible property line (two squares inside the lot). How would I be able to build right up to the lot boundary?
Like I said, someone knows how to do this here. I hope you can me out.
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