The Sims

[Narck]

quote: Originally posted by LordStone1 on 02-15-2000 11:15 PM *sigh* I can't keep up my social rating no matter what....

I just got the game... and found the solution to the social rating is very simple: Let someone (preferably with a reasonable cooking skill) serve breakfast and diner, and have your entire family eat together at those times. They'll chat with each other at those times. As a result, my social rating is always sky high.

As for the jealousy problem, just don't do anything romantic within sight of one of your other lovers, and you'll be fine

[Cthol]

quote: Originally posted by Narck on 02-23-2000 04:45 AM As for the jealousy problem, just don't do anything romantic within sight of one of your other lovers, and you'll be fine

YOU CHEATERS!

[Cthol]

Lordstone1, because of you i will buy this game and not just load it from some warez site that narck has recommended. Maxis should hire you! damn you make me want to play this game!

[Narck]

quote: Originally posted by Cthol on 02-23-2000 05:46 PM Lordstone1, because of you i will buy this game and not just load it from some warez site that narck has recommended. Maxis should hire you! damn you make me want to play this game!

LOL To tell you the truth, I did d/l this from a warez site first... then I found that it was an awesome game, so now I bought it and own a legal copy. Buy it, you won't regret it. Although I think it's a darn shame that you cannot buy your own car in this game... Ugh, that damn carpool all the time
[This message has been edited by Narck (edited February 23, 2000).]

[LordStone1]

I hate the carpool, too!

Well, I'm a bachelor - I don't think there are any other single Sims in my neighborhood. So I'm condemned forever to adultery.

But interestingly, playing the Sims has given me a different perspective on my own life - particularly in the morning. Playing my Sim, I now make him go to bed around 10:30 or 11:00 and get up at 4:30 or so, in a very comfortable bed. He has all the time to take a shower, poop his entire guts out, make a nice healthy breakfast, and watch TV. Then he goes off to the carpool in a GREAT mood and gets promoted. I now realize I should do the same thing - go to sleep earlier and get up a bit earlier, and that way I'll start my day much better. Cool, eh?

I don't think any other games approaches this realism (although I think the clock is just too fast!). In sim games, you need to take control of your resources. Most of the time, it's money.

In the Sims, it's time. Manage it wisely and you'll do well.

[Narck]

quote: Originally posted by LordStone1 on 02-23-2000 08:41 PM I now realize I should do the same thing - go to sleep earlier and get up a bit earlier, and that way I'll start my day much better. Cool, eh?

Very Are you actually going to do it more than once though?

Btw, another thing that pisses me off in this game is the fact that the adults spend almost half an hour sitting on their bed, trying to wake up

[Narck]

quote: Originally posted by LordStone1 on 02-23-2000 08:41 PM I now make him go to bed around 10:30 or 11:00 and get up at 4:30 or so, in a very comfortable bed.

Yeah, mine also get up at 4:30 so that they have time to get ready. However, they need to go to bed at 9:00 or they won't be fully rested when it's time to get up.

[LordStone1]

Uh oh, I just needed some more friends and now I'm in love with my first male lover's wife. And now they're getting in the worst arguments when I invite both of them over.

This is getting into one screwed-up love triangle. At least I can do it with Bella Goth, since Mortimer is nowhere to be seen, hehehe.

[Narck]

Ummmm.... you don't fall in love with other sims unless you flirt with them

[LordStone1]

Well...yeah.

[Monkey]

Mind if I hijack this thread? I just got the sims yesterday and I was wondering if you can get anyone else to play basketball with you. And how do you anyone to fall in love with you? I've been chatting up Bella goth every night and it still hasn't produced anything hot and heavy. I don't get the option to flirt at all.

[LordStone1]

Well, do other stuff with Bella Goth. Try entertaining, hugging, dancing, jokes, back rubs work really well.

Or maybe you both are really incompaitable.

I haven't tried the basketball thing yet. Maybe I will, once I get the piano and some other stuff.

[Monkey]

Well, my sim has automatically done all the above and I supplement his actions with more of mine. In fact those hugs are starting to get mighty suspicious... Maybe that's because she's with mortimer and doesn't want to break the family? But then, how could she refuse a computer geek like my sim?

[Burning sheep]

Is this game very dificult or easy?
Can you tell me some cheats?
Is it recommendet?

[Narck]

sheep,

It's very easy and it's a simgame, which means it doesn't end... You can make it as hard or as easy as you want...

As for cheats, if you don't have the game yet, you don't need them either, but there are TONS of websites out there that will discuss cheats...

I suggest you surf to www.thesims.com which is the official site.. look around and click on fansites, especially the ones with a star in front of their name are good.

As far as you liking this game, it really depends on whether or not you like Sim games

If you do, I can highly recommend this game.