The Sims

[triki1988]

Ah yes, that vicious PC game where you can give a person a bright future or make his or her kids play voodoo with them and drown them in a pool afterwards.
So, does anyone here have a sick fascination for it? I'm an addict already. What do you think of the game? Do you belong to the group of people who presses 3333333333 so things can go faster and then slapped by reality?

You please.

[WatsonFan11]

That game rocks! I only have the plain "The Sims", but I want more!:elaugh:

[Inkwolf]

I have The Sims, Living Large and House Party. That's all my old computer's maxed-out 128mb RAM can handle. I have made skins of a bunch of the Hogwarts teachers. :D

I get frustrated trying to play any more, because my game crashes when I try to add more stuff! :cry:

[Alex]

The Sims is a frighteningly addicting game. I have the original game but I never got any of the expansion packs. I spent entirely too much playing that game. It's the kind of game that makes you forget all about the real world. On more than one occasion I would glance at my watch on a school night to realize it was 5:00 AM and I had to be up for school in an hour. That was fun. And yes, I have caught myself hitting "3" while browsing the web, and I've even thought about it in real-life.

[Cat]

I like The Sims. I go for relatively brief periods of playing it continuously (like right after an expansion has been purchased) but then it sits on the shelf for a long time. Currently I've been playing it continously. It reminds me of playing with dolls, actually. I could still happily play with a doll and I'm seventeen.

My sim, Simon Strange, has killed several people and a cat. I tried to make the Dursley household once but it wasn't very good.

I like the Unleashed expansion pack. That and Hot Date are the only ones worth it.

[Emcee]

When I first got the Sims, I played it like 7 hours a day, everyday, for like three weeks. Then, I got bored with it after the repeition of the daily routine and haven't touched it sense. Maybe that's a good thing because I have a ton of homework to do :D

[Laura Patil]

I love the Sims. Love love love love love.

I have Livin' Large and Unleashed. I only use one neighborhood though...With Unleashed I think you get 8. With many many lots. I really want hot date.

Cheats... Press Ctrl Shift C... A little box will pop up in the left top corner of the screen

rosebud ENTER
Then after that get a new box and type !; and then press Ctrl Alt... A, C, V... Then hold the V. After you get to the end of the box (it ends with !) Press Ctrl Alt A C. Then ENTER. After that every time you pop up the lil box you just have to do Ctrl Alt V.

Uh... Am I confusing anyone?

A very useful one is Move_objects on ..... It allows you to pick up people in the buy mode. You can also move things to the edge of your property... Like, the very very edge. You can delete dishes, newspaper, trash, and even people.

When you delete the people, to bring them back just click their face on that panel in the live mode... The one with all the family members' faces on it. Then they'll reappear all happy.

[DarlingChild]

Ooh! I love The Sims! I have them all except for the new one which I want for christmas. Well you see, at the moment, I can't play any games on my computer. Its only like two years old and it crashes whenever I try to play The Sims. My mom says the entire hard drive needs to be re-formatted...eek! Anyway. Yea, I love The Sims. I wish it was working so I could make a family of me and Sean Biggerstaff :love:

[Inkwolf]

move_objects_on is good for getting rid of frozen guests, but it can be dangerous...it's easy to accidentally delete a portal....and you never realize it until you notice that guests and the paper girl stop turning up...or the cars no longer come to take you to work or school...

[Laura Patil]

I think I might have deleted the portal once... Or maybe just moved it. I used to always delete the mailbox so I wouldn't get mail, and it took me forever to realize that people couldn't come over.

[crisco]

i love sims. how do u get the harry potter characters are they on kazza?

[Inkwolf]

Well, you can get mine at SimHogwarts
http://www.redrival.com/hammerhead/snape/simhogwarts.html

And there are links to all the other HP Sims sites I know.

[Emma]

I just recieved the game, now I have downloaded some stuff from the web. Stuff like Planters and hamsters and stuff. How do I get them into the game??? I'm so hopeless..

[Inkwolf]

Stuff like hamsters and planters, once they're unzipped, you can just put in the TheSims/Downloads folder and they'll work.

Or you can put them in The Sims/Game Data/ Objects.

Skins have to be put in the The Sims/Game Data/ Skins folder.

Objects and downloads can be in their own subfolder and still work, but skins have to be tossed into the skins folder all naked and unsorted. :whistle:

I should warn you about the hamster--if you forget to care for it and it dies, it might infect the family with a horrible, deadly, hamster disease which is quite hard to cure.

(If I remember right, before you can use the hamster, you need to have the Maxis guinea pig installed, which you can download free from their official site. Some downloadable objects you can't use unless you have the specific item they were cloned off of....so if it was made as a variation of a House Party item, you won;t be able to use it unless you have House Party installed.)

[seashell323]

As Inkwolf knows, I'm a big fan of the Sims games! I don't have a lot of extra time, so I play it very sporadically. Over the summers and winter breaks I usually have some Sim time. I have all the expansions packs, except for Unleashed, which is on my Christmas list. ;)

But, yes, it's a very addictive game. When I sit down to play it, an hour or two can go by and I don't even notice. Kinda scary. It's just so fun to control the little people's lives, and I love taking them on vacations or into downtown (for dates even). I don't know how to do a lot of the extra stuff, like downloading skins, etc. I have no clue how to get the people to look like celebrities, and did your character really kill people Cat? Yikes. I always make my people nice, so don't let that guy in my neighborhood! My Sim neighborhood is like Mayberry I guess. :lol: It's a fun game though, and the money cheat is great. I've gotten to the point where I'm very bad about making my people go to work. I really have to start doing that so I can find out more about the careers.

[Harmonica]

I´m so addicted to The Sims it´s almost ridiculous! I have all the cool skins Inkwolf made and my neighbourhood is quite an interesting place to live in with a mix of me, my son and our cats, Hogwarts teachers and studens, LOTR and SW characters...imagine living in a place like that for real! :D I tried to make some skins myself, but I only did a few, since I find it to be very difficult to do. If you are curious you can see them at http://www.geocities.com/harmonicangel2000/harmonious.html
I have all the expansion packs except for De Luxe, but when I get that one I might be able to create more skins using the Sims Creator.

[Inkwolf]

Cool skins, Harmonica! :) I may download Harrison Ford.....

[Harmonica]

Thank you Inkwolf! :) HF looks much better in the game than he does on that picture. Oh...do you have any plans on making a Lucius skin? I need more bad guys in my neighbourhood. ;) Has anyone here tried the Sims Creator you get with the De Luxe version?

[TheShadow]

I have The Sims, Livin' It up, Hot Date, On Holiday and Unleashed. Back at MNet me and Inkwolf used to talk about it all the time. :lol:

[Cat]

I don't have Livin It Up but I really want the chemistry set or whatever it is...

[Inkwolf]

Originally posted by Harmonica
do you have any plans on making a Lucius skin? I need more bad guys in my neighbourhood. ;)

Well, back last Spring when I quit, I had a half-finished Flitwick, with plans for Lucius, Sprout, house elves, and a couple others. Don't know for certain if I'll get back into it--have to see how I feel about it and how much free time I have this winter. ;)

[Cat]

Oh, do you have Vernon Dursley for my Dursley house? I could make it again.

[triki1988]

Do those links have stuff for Macs?? I'm always getting frustrated because I can never download any of the sims skins.

[Inkwolf]

Triki, I have a Mac, too! :D My site has Mac versions of everything.

It isn't that hard to convert PC versions of skins over, once you know what you're doing. You just need to change the names that are too long for the Mac, both in the filename, and inside the file.....you can usually open the CMX and SKN files right in Simpletext and adjust them.

So, something like B200-BODY-PELVIS-UGLYDUDESLEATHERJACKET-biker.skn (which won't work because your Mac cuts off the end of the name)

Open the SKN and CMX files......change the name, wherever listed, to B200-BODY-PELVIS-USLJ-biker.skn or something...


There's also a downloadable app called Namer which allows you to drop the SKN files on it and (you need to know the full filename, which you can get from opening the SKN or CMX in Simpletext usually) enter the full name, getting a name-coded version that the Sims for Mac will recognize. You should be able to get Namer from the Aspyr site or maybe thesimsresource.com. I use it, it's very handy, though it makes your skins hard to recognize by name. :)

Hope I didn't get too confusing there....

[triki1988]

Woah. Thanks a lot! :smile:

[Harmonica]

Ahhh...my friend has a Mac! I will let her know how to covert files the way you said. Thanks! :)

[Laura Patil]

Where do you get the stuff to create skins? I want that SO bad...

[Inkwolf]

Weeeeelllll, you can download some stuff from Maxis or Aspyr....but unless you're making a custom mesh shape (like adding Dumbledore's hat or something) you can make new recolor-only skins in any paint program, even Paint. :)

You just have to remember to make them 256-color indexed BMP's, and name them to match your mesh (skn) file.

A great place to go for info on making your own skins is the message board at www.simfreaks.com--that's where I learned almost everythign I know! I think they have tutorials somewhere, too.

Here's an actual skin BMP, so you can see what it looks like....this is Lockhart's pajamas....

[Laura Patil]

Inkie, you accidentally put the url for the link as www.simfreaks.com--that ... Edit, pretty please!

[Inkwolf]

Edited--thanks!

[seashell323]

Does anyone have the new expansion pack, Unleashed? I got it for Christmas, and I think it's really an excellent addition to the series. I love the Old Town feature, and the homes are finally integrated into city environments (with stores, parks, etc.). And I've been going crazy with getting pets for my sims. It's really fun to take care of a pet, and some of the animals are so cute. Anyway, what does everyone else think of this expansion?

[Inkwolf]

I probably won't be getting any more expansion packs....not until I manage to get a newer computer. :shrug:

But from what I hear on the SimWatch mailing list, it sounds really cute! :)

[Laura Patil]

I love Unleashed! ...The most difficult thing in the Sims is living without cheats.

[seashell323]

I could not agree more Laura! I use that "rosebud" cheat far more often than I should. It's so much nicer to use the cheat and get all the pretty furniture, flooring, paint, etc. than to get all the ugly stuff because it's cheap. ;)

I hope you're able to get the new expansion soon Inky!! :D

[Chocolate Frogs]

I was wondering if anyone had the sims online? if you do, which cities do your sims live in?

[seashell323]

I don't have the Sims Online, and I don't think I plan on getting it. I guess I'd rather just play it on my own (without the online bit). Is it a lot of fun Chocolate Frogs? Can your people live in different cities?

[triki1988]

I'm DYING to get The Sims Unleashed. I recently got the Vacation pack and I'm loving it!! the only thing that sucks about having a mac is that you have to wait for the game to go through the Beta stage and all that stuff to convert it for macs...which gets on my nerves because the Sims were originally created for us, apple users.

[Celestine_Adams]

I'm totally addicted to this game! I even tried to be a beta tester for Sims Online, but my computer can't handle all the requirements for it. :'( :rasp: :grumble: So all I have right now is Sims Hot Date.

[Celestine_Adams]

Originally posted by triki1988
I'm DYING to get The Sims Unleashed. What is Sims Unleashed? The pets one?

[Cat]

A few days before Christmas I played on The Sims and one of my families had a Christmas party. Somebody broke the espresso maker, somebody peed on the floor, my Sim man and another man got into a slap fight over his girlfriend, the toilet got clogged and then everybody went home because they were hungry...

[seashell323]

Cat, that sounds like what happens to me everytime I attempt to throw a Sims party! :lol: It's hilarious when the players start slapping one another.

Celestine, the Unleashed expansion pack is the one with the pets. It actually has quite a few other (non-pet related) features too. :D

[Chocolate Frogs]

The sims online is good, but you can't play it on its own. You have to play it online. plus, it costs $9.99 a month. Its just kinda like a big chatroom.

[ben folds]

i LOVE the sims!!! i always try and find new and creative ways of killing them, or making them do things! i've got house party and hot date, and living large. all good. hey, i had a snape skin once, it was brilliant - looked exactly like him.

[Inkwolf]

Triki, don't know if you're on the Aspyr mailing list, but I just got the news yesterday that Unleashed is shipping for the Mac. Go for it! ")

[WatsonFan11]

I know, I know. I was like the first one to reply to this thred. But this Christmas I got The Sims Unleashed! It is so fun! you get to adopt pets! Theres dogs, cats, turtles, fish, gerbils, reptiles, etc.
You can teach them tricks, love them, feed them, even housebreak them! I suggest getting the game, or going on this site. http://thesims.ea.com/us/index.html?frame_src_content=/us/about/unleashed/

[Lauren]

Has anyone played the Playstation 2 version of The Sims?
My computer isn't strong enough to run The Sims, I'd like to get it for PS2 though. :) Just need to gather up the $50.. Bah.

[triki1988]

Originally Posted by Inkwolf:
Triki, don't know if you're on the Aspyr mailing list, but I just got the news yesterday that Unleashed is shipping for the Mac. Go for it! ")
Yes, I am on the mailing list and I couldn't contain myself when I read it. I already told my dad it's out, now I have to wait and see.

[Firebolt]

Ah, don't mad at me but I didn't like it. I played for about an hour and I get bored. I like the other Sim. The Sim Cicy 3000 Unlimited. Waiting for Sim City 4 which comes out mid Jan. It's the game that you build your own city or empire (If you don't know). If you like The Sim, you might like Zoo Tycoon. You build your own Zoo, pick your own animal, even Dinosaur. Make them happy.

[apples]

I'm such a Sim addict! :lol: I have all of the expansions, except for Unleashed (*pouts*), and I love them all!

I love creating homes and places to visit. Right now I'm making a Hogwarts vacation resort, and it's coming along ok. It's not as good as the Hogwarts house I created, but it's still fun. :)

[apples]

I'm not sure if anyone is interested, but I finished my Hogwarts castle! :) You can see it on my SimPage here:

http://thesims.ea.com/mysimpage/simpage.php?avatar_id=581168

It's not perfect, but it's ok. I hope you like it!

[Kingdom Ops]

I'm quite the Sims person myself.. I have Livin' Large(though Livin' It Up sounds cooler *shakes fist*) and Hot Date.. I'm going to get the rest here soon though(Unleashed for sure). I've downloaded my share of add-ons and houses, nothing too impressive. Coolest Harry Potter things i've found are those large, I think they are, tarps for the houses and Hogwarts. I haven't found anything too impressive with the skins. I'm not very good at the game, furthest with a job i've gotten is getting picked up in a viper.. yea then I lost my friends and haven't moved up since. I like to build, I usually give my sim(in the "cheating neighborhood") some extra cash and build huge houses or just small ones.. I tryed Hogwarts, thats still comming along, slowly but it'll be finished sometime..

[TheShadow]

Originally posted by Lauren
Has anyone played the Playstation 2 version of The Sims?
My computer isn't strong enough to run The Sims, I'd like to get it for PS2 though. :) Just need to gather up the $50.. Bah.
No I haven't but it looks good.
Unleashed is my favourite of the expansion packs. I've had lots of dogs and they always wee in the kitchen. I decided to have a cat and that never wees. :shrug:

[triki1988]

It comes out this month (Jan.).
I have a question, I dunno if my cousin was saying it just to tease me, but, how much is the Sims Unleashed? Is it still $29.99? or more?

[Skyfang]

I like the Sims. I had a house with all the hobbits, a house with elves and a house with several Harry Potter characters!!!! :) :) :)

[Harmonica]

Originally posted by apples
I'm not sure if anyone is interested, but I finished my Hogwarts castle!
Oh, it´s wonderful! Well done! :clappy:

[Harmonica]

Originally posted by Firebolt
If you like The Sim, you might like Zoo Tycoon.
Oh yes...both my son and I like that game. I recently saw a new expansion pack called Marine Mania? And did you know you can get a Unicorn if you call one of the animal homes "Xanadu"?

[Inkwolf]

That sounds cool.

And Apples, Hogwarts looks great! :)

[[VTN]]

When I first played the original Sims, I was amazed at how addictive it was.

After a while, though, the whole "living" thing got kind of boring for me. I started making people and spent all their money on 20 different bathrooms, made houses with nothing inside them except for a sink, and so on, and so on. It's much more fun to watch Sims living without toilets, that's for sure :angel:

[seashell323]

Apples, your Hogwart's Castle is excellent! I'm sure that took a long time to make, but it was well worth the effort. :) Shay, where do you find the LoTR skins? I'm awful at finding skins; I usually end up sticking to the ones that come with the programs. I also have a dial-up modem, so I'm always afraid the downloads are going to take forever. And Triki, as far as I know, Unleashed also costs $29.99 (I got it as a gift, so I'm not positive). You might want to try to find it under the software section at Amazon.com. :D

[GryffndorBeater]

I LOVE the sims! But I can't figure out how to download things and get them into my game, I can get them to just sit on my hard drive but how do you import them into the actual game?

Anyway, I've only got Livin' Large and House Party, and I'm a total addict. I've actually made a two houses of CoS people, and it's really funny to just watch what they do when you aren't telling them to do things. I've given them all the personality that I think the person has and how they interact can be really surprising sometimes.

[Inkwolf]

Originally posted by GryffndorBeater
I LOVE the sims! But I can't figure out how to download things and get them into my game, I can get them to just sit on my hard drive but how do you import them into the actual game?



Well, first you have to open the zip files they're in. (It's surprising how many newbies don't know this! :) )

Then look in your The Sims directory/folder. There should be a subfolder called Game Data. Inside that is a subfolder called Downloads. You can put most furniture and stuff here, or you can put it in the regular folders (objects for furniture, walls for walls, etc.) There is a folder labelled Skins, and if you download a skin, you put all the files from it there.

Then the next time you play, if the new stuff is okay and complete and installed correctly and if you have the appropriate expansion sets to run them, they should appear either in the people selector, the 'buy' screen, or the build options, depending what they are.

[apples]

Yaaaay! I'm so glad you guys like my castle! I was hoping you would!
*hugglesquishes Harmonica, Inkwolf, and seashell*

And yeah, that castle did take me a long time to make. I just wish there was more that I could have done with it. Like in the Great Hall, I ran out of ideas for doing cool stuff in there, and I wish there was more I could do with making the Gryffindor common room. Maybe I'll make another one some day and fix all those little things I don't like about this one! :)

But anyways, I really want to get Unleashed! I played it over at my friends house a few times and I fell in love with it.

[Harmonica]

Thanks for the hug apples! :) The Sims Online will launch in Sweden at the end of this month and I will sure get it! I have looked all over the internet, but still havent found a Lucius Malfoy skin....*hint* *hint*...Inkwolf..*hint* *hint* ;)

[Harmonica]

I have been looking for a skin of Lucius Malfoy for ages, so when I could not find any, I decided to make my own. I have only made 3 skins before, so I am still quite new to it, but I think my Lucius skin is pretty good. As usual, the skin always look better in the actuall game than it does in a preview picture. If you want to download the skin to your game, go here
http://www.geocities.com/eressiee/sims and if there is any problem with the skin working in the game, please tell me, so I can fix it as soon as possible. I hope you like the skin. :)

[Inkwolf]

Looks pretty cool, Harmonica--nice snotty expression! :D

[Charmed]

I have all the Sims games. I used to play it all the time-yes I think I was obsessed but I am getting a bit tired of it now.

[triki1988]

Sometimes it's just plain annoying...like when you're trying to get 2 of your Sims married. Man, after the 2nd time the other Sim declines, I'll nag it and then insult him/her and look for another partner. So yeah, somtimes it sucks. But hey, that's life..I guess.

[Animagi Girl]

I LOVE the Sims!!! I have all the expansion packs except online. And I put in a Harry Potter neighborhood! I just thought that I should warn you all not to download to much stuff b/c my cousin and I both did that and both of our games ended up cutting out so we had to re-install them. I don't know if that'll happen to you, but I just thought that I should tell you just in case.

[1MelissaPotter]

I have all the Sims up to Vacation, but when I installed Vacation it wouldn't work and i had to uninstall the whole thing!
Otherwise I LOVE the Sims!!! Its so much fun to play.

[Cat]

I wish I could make the little miniature objects for the Sims. I'm interested in the textures and all sorts, bu I can't make head or tail of any of the programming tools. I tried to make a door once and in the game it looked as though a rabid werewolf had been trying to get in, it was that cut up.

[triki1988]

I wish my [sim] kids would grow up.

[Animagi Girl]

Originally posted by triki1988
I wish my [sim] kids would grow up.

I don't think Sim kids can grow up. But my cousin downloaded smething that can make them grow up from a site.

[dog star]

Originally posted by Cat
I tried to make a door once and in the game it looked as though a rabid werewolf had been trying to get in, it was that cut up.

:lol: That could be a useful thing, though, if you're building a Harry Potter neighborhood... ;)

[TheShadow]

Great Hogwarts castle apples! I can't wait for the Sims to come out for Playstation2! It looks well good. You can have 2 player where you both control a different Sim. :cool:

[Cat]

Originally posted by TheShadow
Great Hogwarts castle apples! I can't wait for the Sims to come out for Playstation2! It looks well good. You can have 2 player where you both control a different Sim. :cool:

Bugger that, why do they have to keep improving the game? Ripping us off, they are. I'll have to buy a Playstation...

[ron fan]

I am a major Sims fan. (In fact, I originally heard of this site on a Sims site). I've been playing the game pretty much since it was originally released. I have the original and all of its expansions, but I don't have The Sims PS2, Sims Online, or Deluxe.
I'm a download addict, and while there are some limits for objects and skins, it's really limited more by how much space you have on your hard drive. I've never had any problems with downloads.
I tend to go through phases where I play it all the time and then phases where I'd rather read or do other stuff. Right now, I'm on a down phase, but I'm starting to feel the itch to play again.

[Virtuousdream]

I adore the Sims, and have all of them up to Sims online. My computer can't physically take that, and it is very jerky on the Sims unleashed, so until I get a better computer and want to get addicted to it, i'm calling it a day. I've fought hard to end my Sim obsession hehe. I still go on it though, but I don't have any Harry Potter skins!

[Chocolate Frogs]

I went to my friend's house the other day, and she has The Sims Deluxe Edition! I really want it, because it has an easy program to make skins for your sims. You can even make guys wear skirts!:rotfl: I am obsessed with getting new skins and objects off of the internet. :)

[Harmonica]

Originally posted by Inkwolf
Looks pretty cool, Harmonica--nice snotty expression! :D
Hehe....thank you!
Ok, so I made 2 Dan skins! One child version and one adult version so you can...eh...date him..you know... :lol: As usual the skins look much better in the actual game. I will try to do better alternative Dan skins later, but these are at least a start. :) http://www.geocities.com/eressiee/sims

[TheShadow]

Cool skins Harmonica! :bigtu:

[rebkos]

Did you guys just use the sim designer thingy to make those HP ones? or did you use something else?

[Inkwolf]

I made mine the old-fashioned way....by learning first to paint over old skin BMP's, then by using other people's custom meshes, and finally I started learning to do my own meshes.

[rebkos]

ah, coolio

[Chocolate Frogs]

Wow Harmonica! Those skins are really cool! I wish I knew how to do that! :)

[weasleytwinsrule]

I love the Sims, that is my favorite computer game, I have all the upgrades and its really cool.

[Harmonica]

YOHOO!!! I have UPDATED the adult Dan skin and it looks much, much better than the first one, so if you have downloaded the old skin I highly recommend that you download the new skin cause it looks a lot more like Dan and I´m really happy about this skin.
:clappy:
http://www.geocities.com/eressiee/sims

[suskee608]

ohh i love the sims i am addicted to it , once i staid up til 5 in the morning playin it ........me and my brother play the sims everyday.......i have the deluxe edition and unleashed, but i hope to get more expansion packs later

[TheShadow]

Cool new skin Harmonica! :tu:

[Harmonica]

Thank you!
Oh, don´t you just LOVE this game?! It gives you all kinds of opportunities...... hehe
http://www.geocities.com/eressiee/directorscut

;D

[TheShadow]

lol, funny picture. :lol:

[Laura Patil]

I could've sworn there was already a thread about the Sims, but I did a search, and it wasn't there... :??:

Anyway, do you have the Sims? What do you think of the game?

I'm currently trying to download the Sims Facelift, but every time it tells me it's a "Corrupt Cabinet File", whatever that is.

[MarcKal]

I love The Sims. In my game mag, they said they are coming out with a game called The Sims 2. It will be fully 3-D, fully interactive, and Sims can now age! Oooooo!

[Lee]

I love the Sims. It's a lot of fun and I can waste a whole day playing with myself on it.

That sounds awful.

[Llopin]

Well, the Sims is a very interesting game, and was very innovative when it got out. I remember being highly addicted to it then, but to be honest I've became bored of it. The expansion packs are OK, but they don't add anything really different. However I'm looking foward to the Sims 2.

[Weasley24]

I used to be completely addicted to The Sims. I have all the expansion packs up to Vacation, but I haven't played the game for a really really long time. They made my computer really slow so I just got rid of them.

[MarcKal]

They have to age, The Sims is a life simulation, so they have to.

[Virtuousdream]

Wow, I love the sims, and the sims 2 sounds amazing! I recently bought Superstar, it's funny lol but it's so slow because my computer isn't powerful enough!

What I'd really like to see is teenage sims, though that will probably happen with the sims 2!

[Dormitorius Draco]

OOh, me am a Sims maniac, :wacky: I spend countless of hours perfecting my so called world..... and yes, I do have a life. It's a fascinating game that you can spend hours on it without realizing that you have, and also it's an endless process, you can dl clothes and objects to your liking, what's more to ask for? Personally speaking, I have every expansion packs with the exception of the Sims Online (I have never wanted that one.) and the Sims Superstar (It's quite new and I'm still deciding whether or not it's worth it.) :grumble: But yeah, Sims great, I would go on but then those of you in here would want to murder me :D

[Sweetie]

I have it, but I don't really like it that much. It wasn't that much fun when I was always poor, never could build a good house and they all had to have jobs...but then after I discovered the cheat codes, it wasn't fun to have unlimited money either...

[Melissa_Potter]

I think the Sims is fun. Very good game but I have maybe an old or not very good version but it still helps me when I'm bored of the computer :)

[Jinxie Cat]

:lol: I'm addicted to The Sims... These are the games I have:

The Sims
The Sims Deluxe Edition
The Sims Vacation
The Sims Livin' Large
The Sims Unleashed
The Sims Superstar

I told you I was addicted! I most recently purchased Superstar. It just came out a month or so ago! This is a truly awesome computer game. I also have strategy books for The Sims, Hot Date, House Party, Livin' Large and Vacation. Those books came as a set.

[Aurora]

I LOVE The Sims Series! I have SimCity 2000, I've tried SimCity 3000 at school, and they're both awesome! Right now I'm trying to get my hands on The Sims Superstar, it just looks too cool.

[Jinxie Cat]

The Sims Superstar is awesome! I just bought it! I want to get Hot Date and House Party and then I'll have everything but all of the SimCity ones!

[Dark Fallen Pride]

I love the Sims
I love building and decorating houses.

[Catherine Weasley]

I love The Sims. I love creating these ridiculously enormous houses filled with my heart's deepest desires :crush: lol

[Laura Patil]

I keep trying to download skins and stuff, but they never show up on the game. Grrrr...

[Catherine Weasley]

They never work for me, either...

[thethirdman]

I used to play it on my friends computer. She always complained that she could never do the cool stuff like get abducted by aliens. That happened to me on the first try. I also got twins by pausing as the baby turned into a child. THat was an accident.

[Weasley24]

Did the twins actually work like actual people? Cause I tried that before and it resulted in one of them actually working and the other one didnt even show up, just the little box of the head on the bar. Then my game crashed...

[thethirdman]

One worked the other didn't. The twin did nothing but eat and paint.

[Elena_Berezhnaya]

I have all the aepansion packs I love it I even tried an Alexei Yagudin head it was ugly and looked deformed and twisted, and I had some errors when I was registering on the Sims web site. Lol

[Emma]

Oh MY! I just starting really playing again...The old computer used to freeze with the Sims game going...To frustrating.

The new computer and The Sims and Me are on till 3:00 in the morning sometimes...I can't believe that I got hooked. I'm going to try to go to the site later.

[WaffenSS]

My sis use to be hooked, I never really got to into it, I ended up making houses for my sisters sim families and thats about it.

[Milliecutiepie]

the first time i played the sims i couldn't get the hang of it but now that i have i can't stop. i have th sims and the sims unleashed and i love that, i want all the expansion packs!!!!! i thought something amazing would happen when your sim has studied and gain all those job points to their full capaciity, but nothing happen, i was very dissapointed!!!!!!

[NuttyNiffler]

Looks like I been missing out on some fun. Anyone ever hear of Ultima Online? My friend wants me to start playing that.

[Virtuousdream]

I have a question about superstar. one of my sims has earnt half a star *coughs embarrassingly* how do I up it?

[Aurora]

Sorry if this has been asked before, but do you have to have The Sims to get The Sims: Superstar??? Someone told me this, but I need confirmation. I'd hate for Superstar to just be an expansion pack...

[Catherine Weasley]

Yes, you need The Sims for the Sims Superstar, You need it for all th expansion packs.

[Virtuousdream]

Can someone answer my question...please?!

[keskin_snape]

Well I just downloaded 'The Sims' 2 days ago and I'm hooked. I also downloaded the 'Snape' skin from Inkwolf's site and have put him to my will!
I also have the CSI sim characters and Nick Stokes is currently living with the diabolical potions master.
Nick amazingly enough, got a job as a lab tech whilst Snape is working for the military. Both seem pretty happy, though Nicks skills with Mrs. Goth aren't very good.
Snape gets on well with everyone... which is odd. :??:
Soooo.... does anyone else want to share their HP sim stories?

[Virtuousdream]

I would just like to post this bit of news from TLC which I'm delighted by!

The Sims Creates a World of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Electronic Arts recently announced a new expansion pack for The Sims tentatively titled "Makin' Magic" with all sorts of impressive features. Sounds a lot like "your world - my world, your parent's world" - Harry's world.

Some of my favorites include:

Every spell has a unique Backfire (Ron)
Cast Spells to take care of your Sims’s needs, keep up the house and cook meals (Molly)
Travel via the Magic Portal to the all-new Magic Town location (Hogsmeade/Diagon Alley)
where Sims perform magic and duel (Dueling Club/H vs V/DA at the DoM)
Trade, quest, and shop with Gypsy Vendors, the Vampiress (KnockTurn Alley)
New decorator set, including moving paintings, creaking stairs, and twisted trees. (Hogwarts?)
I may just buy Sims for this so I can go to Hogwarts, Hogsmeade or Diagon Alley with fellow fans and hang out.

YAY! I can now start my Snape and McGonagall family like Inkwolfs nd have them live in a hogwarts environment!

More info here (http://thesims.ea.com/us/news/makin_magic_features.html)

[4everWeasley]

Thats cool. I already am obsessed with The Sims ( I have every expansion pack except for Online) :o . I love Harry Potter's world, so this sounds really fun.

[NeedAM!nT]

Woah! They seriously are gonna make a game like that?! Awesome I love the Sims!

Hey can anyone please hook me up with the skins and such for Harry Potter? I did a search but nothing came up.

[Don' eat raw hagis]

Give them a spell to kill or set stuff on fire and ican finally finish my graveyard. Because I want the biggest haunted house. Like Hogwarts with the ghosts.

[FlyersFan]

Darn it! My poor computer can't handly any more games. No fair.

[Eva]

This probably belongs in Muggle Media. Just a warning that a mod will probably move it. The pack does look cool though!

[Rose Zeller]

Um... can you post some pics of Snape and the others this sounds interesting.

[Jinxie Cat]

This sounds really awesome! I'm a huge Sims fan! I have mostly every game and expansion pack. And of course I'm a huge Harry Potter fanatic! If you put the two of them together... I am one happy person! :D

[keskin_snape]

http://www.redrival.com/hammerhead/snape/simhogwarts.html

Thats the website to go to if you want to download a Snape, McGonagall, Dumbledore, Gilderoy, Rita Skeeta or Hagrid sim person. There are also links to get HP houses and objects.

Whats happening on my sims at the moment...... well you'd never believe it but Snape and Nick are a couple! They share the same bed now, isn't that nice?
They're both improved their cooking dramatically and Nick nolonger sets the stove on fire every time he cooks. Its all going pretty well. Nick dances to improve his 'fun' rating and Severus likes to play on the computer.

[Virtuousdream]

Nick?!

As for the person with the graveyard, do you go round killing all your families in them? LOL!

I cgot called sick the other day because I said I liked killing my sims and locking them up. I currently have a woman that has locked her husband up in a prison room with his own fridge and bathroom and bed thing whilst she sleeps with all his friends...Yes I am sick!

I just wish my Snape and McGonagall sims would work *cackles*

[jmk623]

Oh...I love simulation games. But I don't have the Sims game, so I can't play it...or with the Harry Potter themes. Sounds like fun. I am seriously considering buying the entire games.....

[Virtuousdream]

But them, they are defenatly worth it! But it'll cost you unless you can get a special pack...

There's the Sims
The Sims Duluxe
The Sims houseparty
The Sims Hot Date
The Sims Holiday
The Sims Unleashed
The Sims Superstar
The Sims Makin magic - currently in development.

[Catherine Weasley]

Awesome! I can't wait!

[Lord_Chatterley]

Did you know The Sims will create the new expansion pack The Sims makin'magic???

[Catherine Weasley]

I just heard that! Yes! *squeals* I hope it comes out soon, otherwise I might do something drastic to get a copy early...:o

[Virtuousdream]

Someone REALLY needs to make a Voldemort sim, oh the fun I would have!

*plots matchmaking with snape when he works and Voldie starting a singing career in country songs and adopting a child and singing lullabies to it*

[triki1988]

Voldemort could play death or someone who comes to round up the payment for your bills :D.

[Cat]

I hope the Makin' Magic one will actually work on the majority of computers, unlike Superstar.

How much are they jumping on the bandwagon with the upcoming expansion pack? It's shameful!

Still going to buy it, though. I love controlling little people.

[Virtuousdream]

What do you mean Cat? The fact they have announced it so early or the fact they have involved themselves in a magic thing?

I wish they'd do a special Harry Potter one though, that would be cool

[seashell323]

A Makin' Magic Sims sounds like a lot of fun. Hopefully, I'll be able to whip out a wand and create a little more havoc in their lives. ;) Actually, I'm just being goofy because I let my Sims have fairly peaceful lives. But, it sounds like an excellent idea. I had no idea that many computers had trouble running Superstar. Mine works perfectly, and even somewhat fast in comparison to how the game was with the other packs. I wonder why so many computers can't run the game?

[Virtuousdream]

because the graphics and quality of the game improves and slower computers can't cope with it.

In my top quality house the top speed thing moves in slo mo, lol, it's so annoying.

[triki1988]

I wish it would be something like:

Harry-Charms-Apply-Aveda Kedavra-on-Malfoy.

[Catherine Weasley]

lol right, does anyone know when Makin' Magic is supposed to come out?

[Virtuousdream]

Nope, no date as of yet. it's still in porduction.
I wonder how far ahead EA work? I wish they'd slow down though because they rush them and then the games have bugs, though lately they havn't been that bad.

[Yavanna]

THE SIMS! My other addiction besides this. I cannot wait until the Sims 2 comes out, it will be excellent. Right now I am trying to get my Sim to be 5 stars, it is really hard. Well, that is all for now.

[Catherine Weasley]

Can't wait for the Sims 2, it'll be fun to be able to watch our Sims grow up now.

[Cat]

The Sims 2?! Argh! Will they never stop?!

I suppose there will be several hundred new expansion packs that can only work with The Sims 2 after that, as well...

[Catherine Weasley]

Nope, I don't suppose they'll ever stop :lol:

There'll be hundreds of expansion packs and new Sims games...it will just go on...and on....and on....and on....and on....and on...and on.......

[Cat]

Yeah, there'll be The Sims Flushin' It Down, where you can get a new assortment of toilets. There will also be The Sims Go Nude, The Sims Do Drugs, The Sims Insane Asylum... can't you just imagine them all?

[MollyWeasley22]

:'(
Yes it's true!!!!! I'm a fan of the Sims!!! :'(


Okay seriously, I love the Sims games. I think it is a lot of fun, only in small doses. If I play it too long it becomes old quickly, unfor. the latest expansion pack has caused me to not be able to play it at all.
Why exactly? Well they haven't put out a patch for this problem, heck I don't even know if they have a patch for SuperStar yet,but my Sims keep on vanishing into thin air. But I finally fixed it to a slight degree and they now appear in the gray off screen type area, still uncontrollable.

Anyway, I do love the Sims and I cannot wait for Sims2 ... the only down side is I have to buy a brand new system in order to play it.
:'( *looks in wallet sadly*

But I will say this the console version of the game is a blast too ...
for a while .. once you beat the 'get a life' it can get rather boring...

[Lord Vetinari]

I'm looking forward to the next expansion. I've tried to create a Harry Potter neighborhood, but was unsuccesful mainly because you can only have two floors. I'm going to try an Ankh Morpork/Discworld neighborhood, where the Downtown area will be the Shades, the Studio Town area will be Holy Wood, the Holiday area will be a mixture of Uberwald, Djellybeybi and XXXX, and the Magic Town area (which will come with the new expansion) will be Unseen University.

[Doggy]

I only got the Sims a couple of weeks ago (how have I managed before? Oh yeah, these forums..). Anyway, I really want an expansion so I planning on getting it for my birthday. My problem is that I don't know how to buy those two incredibly expensive houses in the nieghbourhood. How do you get enough money?

[Virtuousdream]

There is a password, but if you don't have any expansion packs, it wont work and I can't remember the first password for the original sims because it was really long and weird

I'll put it in spoiler the expansion one for making a thousand simolians on the expansion packs

you need to press cntrl shift and c at the same time, bringing you up a little box. typing "rosebud" in will get you 1000 simolians. If you want to repeat the last password and make lots of money, just type "!;" again and again to up the amount of money you want.

That won't work on the normal one though, but I think it was something like clapaucious. I'm not sure if it's the right spelling, but keep trying similar virsions on that or google it.

[Lord Vetinari]

Here are some pictures from the 'Spellbound' expansion:
http://forums.thesimsresource.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=2370872

http://forums.thesimsresource.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=2370875

http://forums.thesimsresource.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=2370878

http://forums.thesimsresource.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=2370879

http://forums.thesimsresource.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=2370882

http://forums.thesimsresource.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=2370884

http://forums.thesimsresource.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=2370887

http://forums.thesimsresource.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=2370890

http://forums.thesimsresource.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=2370892

http://forums.thesimsresource.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=2370893

http://forums.thesimsresource.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=2370894

[Virtuousdream]

WOW that rollercoaster looks cool!
They do realise, don't they that us HP fans will be in Sim heaven with our HP adaptions!

[Lord Vetinari]

The skeleton maid looks especially good!
A bit of transmogrifying and you could turn the duelling arena into a Hogwarts style table, as in the COS movie.

I almost forgot; here's the box art.

http://193.45.143.17/attachment.php?postid=2370863

[Catherine Weasley]

Wow! Cool! I'm so behind on these things; I didn't even realize they'd changed the title. :D

[Lord Vetinari]

I think it's still called Makin' Magic over in America, but it's Spellbound here. Don't quote me on that, though!

[TheShadow]

I found some more pictures:

http://thesims.ea.com/us/news/images/local/makin_magic_1_big.jpg

and

http://thesims.ea.com/us/news/images/local/makin_magic_2_big.jpg

[Catherine Weasley]

I think you're right, Lord Vetinari. I like the title Spellbound more than Makin' Magic though. Oh well.

[Prof.Aze]

I have all the sims with me except for the latest Sims:Superstar. The game is totally cool. It rock. It is te best. I can't get the latest since i don't have money to buy them yet. :lol: I'm telling the truth. But i will someday i know i will.

[Max]

Brilliant. :D

I'm willing to bet anything (alright, almost anything -- I hate taking risks) that every Harry Potter/The Sims fan would run out and but the Spellbound expansion pack once it's released. We'll see if this one's worth it -- it looks pretty good, though.

[Virtuousdream]

What it's spellbound here in the UK? Cool!
Anyone know release dates? it must be near if they are releasing box designs.

[Lord Vetinari]

I think that it's October. To quote gamespot, 'in time for Halloween'. :lol:

http://thesims.ea.com/us/news/images/local/makinmagic_1.jpg

http://thesims.ea.com/us/news/images/local/makinmagic_2.jpg

http://thesims.ea.com/us/news/images/local/makinmagic_3.jpg

[Virtuousdream]

Excellent! just in time for my birthday.

[TheShadow]

October. I'm looking forward to it. :D

[stellaluna]

I have the Sims game and I play it sometimes when I'm bored. Though, I have to say I find it gets boring after a while *hides under table*.

[OctoberPhoenix]

I love the Sims but I'm rather far behind expansion pack wise. I think the last one I bought was Living Large.. lol Its to expensive to keep up with the expansion packs.

[Catherine Weasley]

I'll agree with you there, OctoberPhoenix. 30 bucks just for an add-on. :(

[AirbiwonKanobie]

The Sims Rules!

[Max]

I have the Sims game and I play it sometimes when I'm bored. Though, I have to say I find it gets boring after a while *hides under table*.

Yes, the Sims really is a come-and-go thing. I play it for a few weeks, until the everyday mundane tasks become mundane, then I return it to its humble abode under the stairs for it to collect dust. Ah, such is the life of a copy of the Sims ...

[Virtuousdream]

I know what you mean. There is too much to do now and unless you devote 24 hours a day to them, there's not enough time to do it!

For example I havn't explored the Old town properly, or trained up my pets, there's not time. All my families havn't been on holidays for ages...as I've said too much to do.

[stellaluna]

I don't have a single add-on,. just the full version, but a friend wanted to lend me some of her add-on's :).

[x Natalie x]

I :love: love :love: The Sims games! I have Livin' Large, House Party, Hot Date, Vacation, Unleashed, and Superstar. I cannot wait for Makin' Magic/Spellbound to come out, it is really going to be good for making a Harry Potter photo album! Oh and The Sims 2 is coming out on the PC so you can have 3 story buildings, and maybe even a basement! OoOoOoOoOoOo I can't wait! :clap: :love: :wow: :rotfl: :elaugh: :lol: :agree:

[Virtuousdream]

I always wanted a 3 story house, it annoyed me you could get only 2...YES!

I also really want the kids to grow into teenagers. That would be fun. Apparently the sims 2 makes them age and die of old age.

[x Natalie x]

its true. your sims will age, die of old age, and when two sims have a baby, their offspring will have similar features which is a great thing! I cannot wait for The Sims 2 to come out, im so excited! lol!

[Virtuousdream]

same, yet it will be sad to see my sims die...imagine snape getting old and dying...must try to get him working tomorrow.

[Lord Vetinari]

I think there's an option to switch off ageing.

[Max]

Lord Ventari: Hopefully there is, but ageing really adds a new layer of immersion with your Sims. Who can resist seeing the life of your Sim play out right in front of your eyes?

[Virtuousdream]

I suspect you can switch off aging. I can keep it on for families I want to die :evillaugh: and turn it off for my faves.

After all, you can control their free will in the game.

[FizzingWhizbee]

What's this about a Spellbound expansion pack? Sounds cool! And what about Sims 2? When does that come out?

I have Living Large, House Party, and Unleased. :agree:

[TheFifthMarauder]

The Sims IS addictive! I have The original Sims game, Unleashed and Superstar. My computer's really slow though, so I really can't enjoy the games without the computer freezing on me. :grumble: It's strange, because I could be really addicted to the Sims for a week or so, and then forget about it. It's a never ending cycle...

[Catherine Weasley]

My favorite expansion pack is Unleashed. My one family has 6 dogs and a cat. And they live in a one room house. :lol:

[Lord Vetinari]

Squallour's funny - remember the Hicks from Unleashed?

My family that I am working on at the moment is the Frankensteins, and is composed of three sims: Victor, his wife Helga (not Esmerelda, but then it isn't much like the book), and her cat Malkin. Victor's a mad scientist, earning 1,000 a day (not including the hordes of garden knomes he creates in mere seconds), and Helga is a cult leader, earning 1,500 a day. Victor's got his own 'little area', which is accesible by moving a bookcase in their immense library, revealing a teleporter which takes him to his laboratory, where he makes numerous potions and fiddles around with house robots. Helga is at the opposite end of the spectrum, and has items like crystal balls, voodoo dolls and genie lamps. Once I heard about the Spellbound expansion, I immediately cleared a huge attic room in preperation for building Helga her own 'little area'. They've got a very nice house, which I have successfully managed to make into a very large castle, complete with dungeons, secret passages, a hedgemaze, ghosts and a very large library; it's a little like Hogwarts, really. :lol:

[Max]

Brilliant job, Lord Ventari. I've never had much success with my sudden urges to build Hogwarts-esque castles, though I've managed to make them at least a bit like luxury spas, unfortunately. I love the secret entrance with the moving bookcase -- interesting. :p

[Chasing_Wood]

I can't wait until the Sims 2 comes out. It sounds really cool. My favorite expansion pack is probably the Sims Unleashed. Sims Vacation got boring quite quickly and my Sims are having a lot of trouble in Sims Superstar, probably due to a lack of effort on my part though. It seems really cool, if I could get my stupid Sims to actually sound good.

Does anyone else kill their Sims? I was disscusing killing methods of Sims with one of my friends, another friend sitting with us thought it was terrible that we killed off our sims. I know it's not very nice, but it's just so funny to see a Sim catch on fire and fall the floor looking like the Wicked Witch of the West. Has anyone else sent any of their kids to military school? I desided I didn't want my kid anymore so I just had him stop studying and eventually he went away to military school. tehee. I'm such a mean Sim commander.

[TheShadow]

I sometimes put them in the swimming pool and then take away the stairs so they drown.

[Catherine Weasley]

I've done that before. I told my mom and she called me an evil child but she laughed and told all her friends. :no: I don't get parents sometimes.

[Max]

I sometimes put them in the swimming pool and then take away the stairs so they drown.

:no: I don't do that anymore, but what I do is to get a Sim with no cooking skills to cook the others their lunch, stuff everyone into one room, fill the room with flammable objects, and sit back as the hilarity ensues.

I also stuffed one of my Sims into a 2x2 room before with no way out, but I think I'll leave that for later.

[CBeMe]

The Sims is a lot of fun. I have the Deluxe edition, House Party, Hot Date, Vacation, Unleashed and Superstar. My favorite thing about The Sims is downloading items, skins, etc. There is just so much out there.

{Quote}
My Sims are having a lot of trouble in Sims Superstar, probably due to a lack of effort on my part though. It seems really cool, if I could get my stupid Sims to actually sound good.
{End quote}

I find the Sims Superstar is a lot easier if you fill up at least half of their creaitvity points before getting an agent.

CBeMe

[XoticRaven]

ahh cool, I love the Sims!
I love making Snape overly-possesive with my main sim. He had a fight with my Kane sim, hilarious to watch :elaugh:
But in the end, all was well:

[leenielou]

where do u get the harry potter skins from for the sims? i've got every single one on my computer in my room but i need to install it on this one - my own is rather bad and crashes all of the time!

on ways to kill them i've done them all.

1) fire - always good. cooking with no skill is an option, but for the more creative, use the firework launcher inside and watch them scream.

2) water - taking away the ladders...it'll do. but what i like to do is to build a house with a moat around it with a diving board on the roadside and ladders at the house, so that when visitors come they have to swim through the moat to knock at the door. however, the neighbours can't get back out again (because of the diving board) and are doomed to spend a life getting in and out of the moat!!!! :elaugh: :elaugh:

3) starvation - they just get annoying after a while, moaning all the time. this is how they die if you lock them in a tiny room.

4) electrocution - get a sim with no mechanical know-how to create a purple potion. another sim then drinks this and turns into a monster, breaking everything in the house. get the dumb sim to try to fix the TV and he/she will electrocute themselves. Scorching! :evil:

I did have an amazing family of all women who I would make marry neighbourhood bachelors. They would then chuck their new husbands in a room together, watch them get really annoyed, and then I'd make the guys fight each other to see who won. Eventually they'd die of starvation or one of them would leave, but it was very entertaining whilst it lasted. :elaugh:

*Happy sigh* Don't you just love the sims?

[XoticRaven]

where do u get the harry potter skins from for the sims? i've got every single one on my computer in my room but i need to install it on this one - my own is rather bad and crashes all of the time!
http://www.angelfire.com/dbz/sparkfguy2580au/OtterianFrame.html

http://www.face2facesims.com/HarryPotterskins.html

[TheShadow]

2) water - taking away the ladders...it'll do. but what i like to do is to build a house with a moat around it with a diving board on the roadside and ladders at the house, so that when visitors come they have to swim through the moat to knock at the door. however, the neighbours can't get back out again (because of the diving board) and are doomed to spend a life getting in and out of the moat!!!! :elaugh: :elaugh:

Haha! I have to do that! :lol:

[Inkwolf]

Bwahahahaa! :)

My niece was over last week, and playing The Sims on the computer, and it gave me the urge to play again. :)

I deleted my old, messed-up version, and am happily making an all-HP neighborhood. :) Families moved in so far:

Snape, originally living alone.
Me, now living with Snape. (no comment)
The Death Eater family (Lucius, Narcissa, Rookwood, Bellatrix, Karkaroff, Draco and Pansy)
The Staff--Pomfrey, Pince and Vector. (Pomfrey's got the Medical career, Vector has the Hacker career, but for some game-bug reason she can't seem to get promoted, and Pince is in the army.)
The Lockhart Family--Gildreoy the slacker, and Rita Skeeter the journalist

Still waiting to move in are:
The Hogwarts family--Dumbledore, McGonagall, Harry and Hermione
The Ministry--Fudge, Umbridge, Kingsley and Tonks
Hagrid and Madame Maxime
The Odd Family--Sinistra, Hercule Poirot and Admiral Thrawn. :D

Heh, heh, heh...the addiction has struck once more! I probably won't make any new skins, but I may make some new robe designs for use with the meshes already on my characters.

[Lord Vetinari]

If yo haven't got the Magic Expansion, get it. It is extremely funny. I had fun with my Saruman sim, who recently beat Gandalf at the duelling arena - well, it was Gandalf the Grey.

[Chrysalis]

Oooooh I love the Sims. My sister bought the game but I too got addicted quickly! We have the Deluxe Edition, Hot Date and Unleashed. I uninstalled it though, cause it was taking up too much space on the pc. I had a family called Armitage whom I sent from rags to riches without cheat codes! Can't wait for the Sims 2 though, 'cause those Sims are really dumb. I hate it when one Sim has to go to the bathroom and all the Sims are standing in there so he wets his pants. There are a lot more instances of dumb Sims. Once I drowned my Sims, because I wanted gravestones. I told my mum and she said something like 'the poor things' and she thought that I was twisted. :elaugh:

:lol: I came across a site with Sims from Tolkien's stories. The owner had built a house called Valinor, where all the Valar lived. They had a swimming pool to kill ordinary Sims. There was also a house called Thangorodrim, which Morgoth and Sauron shared.

[Lord Vetinari]

Speakng of which, might anyone know where I would find a Grima Wormtongue skin? :lol:

[Inkwolf]

If yo haven't got the Magic Expansion, get it. It is extremely funny. I had fun with my Saruman sim, who recently beat Gandalf at the duelling arena - well, it was Gandalf the Grey.

Wish I could...my old computer doesn't have enough memory to handle more than the two expansions I've got. As it is, I have to watch it when adding new items, because I get major crash failures if I overload the game with too many add-ons.

[Angora]

I tried out Makin' Magic a while ago, and it was pretty cool. The whole part where they jump in a magic hole to transport themselves to magic town cracks me up. But I don't have room in my houses for all of the paraphenalia you need to have to do magic. Right now, I just stuffed it in somewhere and it looks weird.

When Superstar came out it used to crash my computer all the time because it wasn't technically good enough to play it, but I forced it to anyway... but then my dad gave me hand-me-down hardware from his computer, so now it can chug merrily away. Dads are good for those things. ;)

With my very first sim family, way back when, I too took them from rags to riches without cheating. But now I cheat like rotten because I don't have the patience for anything. Also, I would have to keep installing and uninstalling, so my sims always lost all of their friends... so then I downloaded the famed magic mirror, and it all went downhill from there. :)

I used to always build neibourhoods with an evil sim and a sidekick for the evil sim, and they would kill their neighbours in all the possible ways... because I too wanted gravestones for the yard.

Before the new expansion pack I was in an interior decorating phase where I would either make or download all of this beatiful furniture and spend, like an hour doing their houses up... and then not play with them at all.