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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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模拟人生2De Sims 2Die Sims 2Les Sims 2Los Sims 2Os Sims 2TS 2

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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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  1. 0
    hello! this may all be an issue with the fact that i’m stubbornly trying to install ts2 onto a macbook without using bootcamp or anything like that, but i’ve gotten far enough to be able to run the setup. after that, ts2 doesn’t appear in my applications file but i was able to find a file called “sims 2.exe”, and when i try to open that it seems as if it’s about to open the game but then i receive this error message:
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/eb0dcfd7b2898baaeff9a24d9107e0efd15f3f41d9ee4e228b176537f5f6c125.png
    does anyone know how to fix this, or is this a lost cause due to the fact that i’m using a mac os? thanks!
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  2. 0
    Whenever I try to install, it tells me “Please insert disc: 1 with Setup-1.bin” And I have no idea what that means, but whenever I try to press anything nothing will happen.
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    Ive redownloaded the file over and over again and it’s still not showing up with the files its supposed to have. Yes, its downloading as a RAR and idk how to change that, and Yes I downloaded WinRar and it’s still not letting me do anything.
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      That’s a different game. You need either Sims Life Stories and/or the playstation 2 edition. PC sims 2 does not have a story mode.
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    • 0
      Go to the collections folder and remove the expansion packs and stuff pack you don’t want – I’m guessing
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  4. 0
    Hi, i’ve downloaded the game but when i want fix shadow and resolution, i can’t modify that. I can’t save the txt graphics Rules (because i need a admin) and i can’t change shadow in the game. Please help
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      I’m not sure if you’ve found a solution yet but try right clicking the graphics rules file and click run as administrator. I’m afraid I don’t think you can fix the shadows so you just have to turn them off but there are mods which can help the issue but no official fix.
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  5. 0
    It downloaded as an RAR file and I have no clue how to open it or what do next. I followed all directions, not sure why it’s RAR instead of a .zip file.
    Please help.
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      I’m not sure if you’ve found a solution yet but the reason it’s a RAR file instead of a .zip file is because it has been compressed as such with WinRAR. You’ll have to download WinRAR to extract the files.
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  6. 0
    where do i put mods, i tried putting them in the main folder but it didn’t work. (Yes I enabled CC and named the folder “Downloads”.)
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  7. 0
    Hi, my Sims 2 game keeps crashing i have literally tried everything and it never works. Please help me out here…
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  8. 0
    Hi I followed all the steps in the video but there aren’t any neighborhoods, there’s only a button to create custom neighborhoods and when I click that is says to place my SimCity 4 files in the Terrains folder. Has anyone else had this problem and found a solution?
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  9. 0
    the game works, but whenever i change something in the setting (like changing the resolution) if i click the setting option again, it will go back to default like nothing changes. can you help me fix this? i changed my resolution but it will go back to 800×600
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