I bought a handheld for sim to reduce playing pirate in bathtub. So what...
He plays pirate in bathtub, then jumps out and plays handheld. I forgive him because he is pleasure sim and unemployed.




My teens use apple juice a lot, especially those who have jobs.

If I remember well, apple juice helps with being done with homework faster.
And yeah...one is really cheaty, eggplant juice. It gives one random skill point for every glass. I admit, I still use eggplant juice, even though I know how unfair this is. lol

I wonder if there's a way to modify the eggplant juice to something like....giving a temporary boost to skill-building instead?

That is already the function of veggie juice (list here). I never use eggplant juice because I don't want my Sims getting free skill points, because getting them isn't all that important to them and if they need them for something they can earn them themselves. But I am tempted to try orangeade, might be a fun way to randomize a badge for a Sim to work on.

I don't regard it as cheating if the Sim has grown the eggplants him or herself

That they can roll wants to "See a shooting star" or "Tell an Inside Joke". I never realized how many wants there were....and that goes for fears too, I had an elderly sim roll a fear of "Sending an Email"

On my laptop, the tilde ~ / backward accent (grave?) ` key operates the pause/run portion of my game.
No more have to scroll my cursor across the page to pause play. It's so much easier when I'm trying to take photos of my game play.

I accidentally found this out when my finger missed the TAB key, which makes the control panel disappear and reappear.

Discovery: That while pressing Tab switches the game to free-camera mode (or whatever it called), pressing F10 hides the UI but still retains the normal camera. This is useful sometimes.

Simelissa, can't you just hit "P" to pause the game?

I discovered that having sims play kick ball is excellent for testing new outfit...(bone assignment-wise)
Oh..and that if you place a baby on a kitchen table, your sims won't be able to interact with him. What was I expecting...

Okay, so sims CAN put toddlers in high chairs autonomously!? Why don't they do it more often?

If you have a keyboard with a numpad, the num keys 1 to 3 will control the game's various speeds while num 0 pauses it.

On my laptop I've adapted to using the arrow keys to shift the camera around, thus it's easy enough to reach for the num keys. However on my XP tower I use WASD and then the keys above those to control the speed.

Call me old-fashioned for using the arrow keys. XD

Yes, I can! I didn't know that until I read your post and gave it a try. :-)
Odd how both P and the tilde do the same thing.

I am still getting used to using Q -lower; W - zoom; E - higher; A - left; D - right; X - back. But if I press Q before using the TAB button, it always asks if I want to quit the game. I'm unsure which of these functions are Sims 2, Gunmod's Camera or just basic computer movements, but I started using them after installing Gunmod's camera mod, which allows me a better view of my neighborhood.

Mostly, I've used my computers for searching the Internet, emails, watching Netflix and work stuff (not anymore). One of these days, I'll load another neighborhood and start pressing buttons to see what everything does. If anyone knows of a list of Sims 2 keystrokes I'd be interested a link.

Those are all Sims 2 functions and they're awesome, frankly. I'd rather play without a mouse than without a keyboard. I really love my shortcuts! I didn't know about the ~ button until today, I tried it and it works for me, too. It's closer to the other speed controls (1, 2 and 3), too, I might switch to that one instead of p.

Other shortcuts I know of are pg up and down to go up or down a floor, home/end to get the walls up or down, f1 for live mode, f2 for buy mode and f3 for build mode, L switches between night and day while in buy mode, h switches to the hand tool, r to the design tool, j to the hammer thingy, e to the eyedropper tool, the arrows can be used to move around, the < and > keys can be used to rotate the camera but also objects in buy mode, the spacebar or the n button will switch sims and hitting enter will zoom in on the sim that is selected... Those are all the shortcuts I know of, I think. I also keep thinking that I can hit control+S to save but I don' know why. It would be a nice feature, though. :P

Also, I already knew that but the sheer pettiness of sims who are neat, serious and mean and will get mad at their freaking toddlers for playing with the toilet never ceases to amuse me whenever I rediscover it.

http://simswiki.info/wiki.php?title...board_Shortcuts

It is normal sims 2 behavior. I have been using those same keys since forever, and I didn't have a camera mod.

Oh!!! And another thing, whenever it rains, roofs have a texture of rain on them!!! Ah it's such a neat little detail!!! :O

Heads up that the actual keys listed are not correct on all keyboard setups. Different languages have different keyboard layouts, and the shortcuts for Sims tend to go by position, not by what pressing that key would type. So if you find a shortcut does not work for you, google an image of the US keyboard layout and compare it to yours, and try keys in the region where the key listed would be on your keyboard.

Children can teach toddlers the nursery rhyme.

Not TS2 itself, but one of my friends sent me a link to some design documents for the Sims 1 and I was reading MaxisSimRules.pdf:

You can't get your invited guests to vacations to use most pose boxes, not even with controlpets on. Only way i found was to download and use Dolphin's Control this Sim-hack. Best mod I've downloaded in a while.
http://modthesims.info/d/140314

Awesome, now somebody please mail that to EA and the current Sims developers.

discovered recently::
the cover-able part of any half wall is closer to a third of regular wall's height.

discovered awhile ago::
Home Crafter program recognizes floor covers when they are in the main folder.

Provided you have the correct mod for enabling build- and buy mode and the catalog everywhere, you can write novels on hotels, and probably any other lot. They just call your hotel room phone to give you the money and deliver the book to the hotel. No problem!

ACR's adjuster might say a sim is pregnant and expecting 1 baby, but twins might still happen.



I used that mod for awhile. It became redundant when I added Chris Hatch's Walk to Visit Other Sims mod.
If I recall, I could only control one Sim at a time with Dolphin's mod, but I can control multiple at once with Chris', so I prefer his.
Unfortunately, I have never been able to walk to another Sims lot. The option has never come up for me. So, I just use it as a Sim controller now.