I played The Sims 2 without cheats for some months and really enjoyed it at first but it got to be too much hard work. It seemed I was spending most of my time going to the bathroom and cooking and cleaning and replacing the flowers that kept dying even though I watered them constantly, and little messages kept coming up saying so-and-so was no longer a family friend but I still had time to ring them up and save the relationship. It was just like real life I suppose and the drudgery was winning over escapism.

Now I like to play with every cheat imaginable and create bizare situations. I had Mortimer Goth abducted by aliens and returned as a female baby who grew up to be stunningly beautiful with a romance aspiration. Interestingly, she continued to receive a retirement pension right through school and college. And although I never changed her personality, everyone loves her and thinks she's hot, while as an old man he was rather crabby.

I give extreme makeovers to unsuspecting sims and I even have a special lot which is like a resort with lots of medical facilities and strange contraptions where sims can go (or be taken by other sims!) and get completely changed, including a personality transplant. For me the game is a fantasy playground.

Thanks so much!

Would someone please teach me how to make transparent recolours of objects? I have never recoloured anything so I would appreciate some very basic help.

This is great! Thank you so much!

Insim can remove or set furious with the Relationship Adjuster (or is it Quick Relations)?

That is a great Lynda Carter. And it doesn't look like an easy face to do either.

The sim that committed the murder and the sim he killed were both townies. That is what I found most disturbing.

So he murdered the guy because he was bored! Not even a crime of passion. And he had a pretty high niceness score as well.

Such darkness lurking in the hearts of my sims! I shall be keeping an eye on them.

Now, the false cheating memory rings a bell. Wasn't this something that was supposed to be fixed in the patch? Or there is a hack to fix it or something. Anyway, I've seen comment about it before.

I also had this, but way back in the sims memory, and, again, I had jealousy off so it didn't bother the family and I never noticed anything untoward at the time. I know it was a false memory as this sim had always been absolutely faithful to her husband. But you could be on to something if spontaneous falling in love triggers this memory in committed sims.

I didn't think this was even possible, but playing last night I had a sim autonomously murder another sim! It happened in the secret society of my university lot.

I had forgotten to turn off jealousy (with Insimenator) and my active sim flirted with one of the sims there which set off the jealous slap reaction from another sim who was in love with her. I fixed up their relationship and turned off jealousy but forgot about the sims relationship the other guy. He picked a fight with him, which I thought I'd let run its course. Then the other guy disappeared and the fight was over. I searched for him on the lot but he was nowhere to be seen. I couldn't see an urn or tombstone either. There had been no crying softly.

I thought I would nevertheless just get my active sim to check with the Grim Reaper on the resurrectometron (or whatever it is). Sure enough, there he was, dead!

I was so shocked I resurrected him and made him best friends with his murderer, who, incidentally, had the memory only of winning the fight against the other sim. Anyone else had this happen? I have lots of hacks but none that allow autonomous murder so far as I know. I found it very disturbing.

Another curious thing happening in my game is my sims are autonomously falling in love without any romantic interactions. They'll just be talking away and suddenly fall inlove.I don't mind this as it is actually like this in real life (I have found), but I did not think the game allowed it.

1. When you're a straight guy and see an attractive girl. You look at her appreciatively and think, "Wow! I have that top!" And your next thought is, "Pity about the shoes."

2. You catch sight of yourself in a mirror while out shopping and think, "OMG I'm a townie!"