Please tell me this means soon you will be sharing another amazing lot.

I mean, quick by my standards! (but hopefully yes)

Come this time next year I probably won't have my desktop to play sims. Me and my mom were discussing whether or not to renew my Dell desktop warranty (it's only good for 3 years and this would be the last time before I'm on my own), and I had my fair share of headaches with this desktop that weren't related to sims 2. Sims 2 continues to run like a dream, and it looks like minor win10 issues have been resolved (I noticed my monitor doesn't flicker anymore too), but my mom likes how big the monitor is and will only use it to do basic internet things, so if we happen to move next year I'll give her this desktop, it's still in good shape after 2 years .

I'm 22 and I came to the realization that I can't sit at my desk for long periods of time like I used to and that cuts into my sims time, so that means I'll be on the lookout for gaming laptops (with a dedicated memory card of course, and I don't think I'll be straying from AMD anytime soon). Playing on a laptop was much more convenient I came to understand these past few days, I've been playing in windowed mode now for almost a year; plus my 27 in" monitor strains my eyes. I just need to find one in my price range to bookmark

My experience with warranties in general is that anytime you really need it, it's expired and that when you do have it, it either covers nothing useful or you don't end up using it. So I tend not to get warranties in general, and I have a strong dislike of extended warranties. But ymmv.

For computers, I do usually get a long 2-3 year warranty, but after that, nothing. With the internet, you can probably find tutorials and videos on how to fix problems yourself or you can take it to a repair shop. I think a general rule of thumb is that if the warranty price is the price of, or nearly the price of, a new product, then don't bother. And I definitely wouldn't bother with a warranty for a computer that someone is only using to do basic internet tasks. But again, that's me. After years of simming, I've become a bit less squeamish on looking up how to fix problems and repair them myself.

I like the concept of higher res assets, but the platinum/black bars just look weird to me. It's like his hygiene is evil or something.

I definitely agree with you there. We ordered my desktop off HSN and I assumed it would have a lifetime warranty (or at least a 3-year uninterrupted warranty like my current laptop from QVC, the warranty expired in 2018), so the warranty for just 1 year was a good $100~, but it jumped up a few bucks this year so we decided not to, I take good care of my desktop as it is. Plus I got the gist when the Dell representatives kept spamming me about how many days my warranty has left . Overall it survived a few blackouts, a 5 hour drive across state lines, a major water spill that would've fried it if it weren't for the rubber mat I have it sitting on top on (on top of carpet no less), and sometimes a 15-hour nonstop simming session .

I can imagine an empty motive bar looking more like a glass thermometer when the mercury is depleted. That would make it possible to see the UI's color behind it, too.

You know, maybe a cleaning skill does make sense

Besides the white and black bars, I don't see any difference whatsoever

Maybe it's because I'm on mobile atm but I just see no difference between the "before" and "after" pics :shrug:

Anyone else find that sims always age up in the worst outfits when going to and graduating from university?

Yup.






(I especially like this one because they're twins, and end up in matching colors, but very, very different styles)

Not sure if it was a glitch but I had one sim ageing up wearing just a towel.

Oh gawd, those outfits is why I like to download and install a bunch of default replacements and cc. Now my sims are looking good in most of what they age up in. I wish there a way to batch my cc for townifying so my sims could age up in whatever cc I had installed instead of mostly choosing the Maxis created stuff.

You can have tons of CC and almost all default replacements but game chooses still what you left Maxis one.

Yeah, what's up with the kimonos and the life jackets?! Absolutely horrendous!

I got strict rules about interfering. I like sims to choose their own personality. If you wanna age up wearing a hula girl suit, then I guess that's what you be wearing in the bedroom to woohoo, Be grateful that I don't send you to work like that. Get's more challenging now I added some castle and zombie stuff. Them hairs sure are amazing.

My female sims always graduated with that afbodysweater outfit from the H&M pack sitting in their wardrobe. I liked that outfit but it started getting annoying after the 12th graduate

You might want to read this thread: Is there any way to mass townify?

Here's a TL;DR version (bold emphasis mine):


Wardrobe Wrangler by jfade here: https://sims.jfade.com/index.php-ca...1&subcat=5.html

Oh, I wasn't aware of this function of WW :O thank you for sharing, I'd give it a go!

Random thought of the day: am I the only one that takes loads of notes while playing? Not about the actual gameplay, but about the CC I need or I have to remove? Sometimes I feel like I spend more time writing down stuff/cc hunting than actually playing.

Also, I should give a go to greatcheesecakepersona's neighborhood planner - maybe it's the time for me to actually create something from scratch.

Don Lothario is the easiest sim I've ever played with: it's been one (1) season since I started playing yet he's already at 125 thousand aspiration points. I don't even know what to do with so many points.

As I sat here today watching the plumbers work on my leaky toilet, I envied my sims. If anything goes wrong with a sim's plumbing, the sim can quickly and easily fix the problem themselves just by beating on it repeatedly with a wrench.

Also that sims repairmen say they'll come at 9am the next morning, and then they do. None of this "I'll be there between 8am and 2pm, but I'll actually show up at 4:30 and won't have the part needed to complete the job."

But the Sims repairman stood in front of the empty, broken trash compactor, charged my sim money, said everything was fixed, and didn't fix it! Didn't even touch it! (And yes, I double checked it was empty.)

I wouldn't pay that guy in real life.

My sims repairman does not repair my robot toys.

Fix available at: https://sims.jfade.com/index.php-ca...&subcat=32.html

I'm looking for people that would be willing to help me set up a discord server (Sim related). Just got to set up channels that would work appropriately..Anyone care to join and be my testing guinea pig?