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The Sims 2

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The Sims 2 is a 2004 simulation game developed by Maxis and published by EA Games.

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About The Sims 2

From the neighborhood view, the player selects one lot to play, as in The Sims. While there are both residential and community lots, Sims can only live in residential lots. Sims can travel to community lots in order to purchase things like clothing and magazines, and to interact with NPCs and townies. The player can choose between playing a pre-made inhabited lot, moving a household into an unoccupied pre-built lot, or constructing a building on an empty lot. One novelty from The Sims is foundations. The player switches among the Live mode (default) to control Sims, the Buy mode to add, move, or delete furniture, and the Build mode to rebuild the house and make structural changes. Although the Buy and Build modes cannot be accessed when on a community lot, the lots can be built on by using the neighborhood view. It is also possible to import neighborhood terrains from SimCity 4.

The game contains some time-bound social challenges that provide a reward if successful. Sims can throw parties to gain aspiration points or invite the headmaster over for dinner in order to enroll their children in private school. Some expansion packs have new mini-games like running a Greek house in University, or dating in Nightlife. In Nightlife, each date is a challenge to keep both Sims as happy as possible while accumulating aspiration points. Various other expansion packs introduce supernatural characters which Sims can be turned into, such as Zombies, Vampires, Werewolves, PlantSims, and Witches.

The main part of the game is to lead a Sim from the start of life to death. A Sim will be born when a female Sim and a male Sim try for a baby several times. The mother will spend 3 Sim days (each day lasts 24 minutes though time can be sped-up) pregnant before giving birth to a baby. During Pregnancy, the belly does not expand gradually. Instead, every day, it pops to a bigger size. Players can name the new Sim upon birth. The baby's appearance and personality will be based on the genetics of its parents (though the baby's appearance is hidden until it becomes a toddler). Babies can also be adopted by calling adoption service on the phone, even by single parents, old age sims or same-gender couples. The baby will change into a toddler in 3 days, and 4 more days for the toddler to change into a child. After 8 days, the child grows into a teenager, and will live 15 days before changing into an adult. After 29 days, the Sim will become an elder. An elder will eventually die; the length of this final stage depends on the aspiration bar when they become an elder.

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    I’ve followed the steps 100% correct, but when i launch the game (as admin) i launches, loading for a bit, but then crashes with no fault messages.
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    Tried to download but when half way done it fails and says the file is incomplete and to contact server administrator….
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    I’ve had downloaded this before and the issue I had was that the game wasn’t saving. I’d play then reload the game but all my saves were gone. Can anyone help? My laptop has little space, I’m not sure if that’s also an issue. I have an external hard drive as well
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    i tried downloading when i clicked sims2 it says please insert the correct cd-rom select ok and restart application do i have to wait for the maxis to download or what?
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    Awesome guide, I got it the first time down. However, I made a very silly mistake some hours into my playthrough. One of my Sims accidentally died, and I ended up shutting down my computer in a panic. Really dumb mistake. It wouldn’t allow the Sims 2 to load up without the error message telling me to insert a CD afterwards. So, I uninstalled the game and tried the process again, from step 3 onwards. Now, whenever I click “run as administrator” nothing happens. I don’t know what to do. Thank you for your time.
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    I managed to download and open the zipped file but when I open it there is no “setup.exe” file but a “The Sims 2.iso” file and I cannot open it..
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    I managed to download and open the zipped file but when I open it there is no “setup.exe” file but a “The Sims 2.iso” file and I cannot open it..
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    Hi! I have done all the steps but when i try to copy and paste the NoCD file into the TSBin location, all it tells me is that i don’t have enough space but i have double checked and i still have loads of space. is there anything i can do to fix this?
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