Sims 2 again

[Calislahn]

Well i have no need to call in sick as i have another day off ;D

But i must not spend all of it playing the sims

I shall download your sims later Motoki and see how we get on. The main reason i married this victor despite him being not very attractive, and looking a right nerd in his work clothes, was because within minutes of meeting they became friends and she didn't seem to like the other guy she met. I did try with him and asked him round but they just don't get on, by the time she told him to leave his meter was -28 ;D

Yet her and vitor get on fantastically and he's a level 8 cook which is always handy, i set fire to the oven ;D

Still not pregnant though, i wonder if i'm missing something, does it just happen or do you have to do something to make it happen

I turned the aging off until i do get a baby otherwise i might run out of time, i'm guessing that elders can't get pregnant, well maybe by the aliens

My sister has just phoned as my neice is sick so i'm going to go sit with her for an hour while she's at work, she does dinnertimes at the school, so that should get me off here for a bit

[Bravo 1]

Good god Cali, you're talking about getting a job as a security guard and now trying to get pregnant...for a second I thought you were talking about RL...

[Calislahn]

Well i wont say the job might not happen in real life but not the baby, i'm not the least child minded ;D

[motoki]

To get pregnant you have to relax on the bed and then invite your guy to join you. Once he's there if you click on him you should then be able to do different things if you relationship is high enough like cuddle, kiss, woohoo (sex lol), and try for a baby. Supposedly people say if you kiss and cuddle first it helps, but I don't know if that's true. Couldn't hurt, at very least it gets your relationship up.

Anyhow, you won't always succeed, but if you do, it will play this little lullaby-ish tune afterwards which is kind of easy to miss if you aren't paying attention. But the next day your stomach should get a little bigger (it was hard to tell with Blanche since she had some weight on her anyway at the time) and then you might start throwing up or having weird cravings like going and pigging out in the refrigerator in the middle of the night. Blanche was also ALWAYS hungry ugh, she was insatiable, and tired nearly all the time, but supposedly it effects different sims differently. Anyway it last for 3 days I believe (you do get time off work during and after the pregnancy) and then you have the baby. You don't choose the gender but you do choose the name.

If you don't get pregnant on the first try then keep trying. Blanche didn't on the first try but she did on the second.

[Calislahn]

Well i thought there must be something you had to do, no wonder they both keep sitting on the bed as they both want one ;D but i was clueless as to what to do, they have cuddled on the sofa, in actual fact their relationship is at 100 all the time so that bits okay

That fat thing, my sim was dancing, she does that a lot, and i suddenly thought her backside looked bigger then realised she'd got fat ;D i was forgetting to make her work out occasionally.

[motoki]

:laugh4:

My sim has been fat for most of his life so far. Chris' was too but I finally got him back in shape, but for some reason my sim is much more stubbornly resistant to getting in shape and it's taking a lot more work.

Funny thing is, with the women I think it just makes them look more curvatious, but with the men then have a beer gut.

Oh and I like how the old ladies have sagging breasts lol! You have that to look forward to.

[Calislahn]

Well my sim will shortly be getting a gut of her own, she got pregnant first try

I shall have to hire a nanny though as they both go to work at the same times, nice thing with that is they have weekends free so they had a party on saturday and had friends round on sunday to lounge in the love tub ;D

I saved my points for that, haven't got a clue what half the other things are

I was just telling my niece about it, she was most annoyed that Mitchell's sim was the grade A student and not her's, i said it was probably because i'd helped him with his homework and ran out of time to help her. She was not impressed ;D

She's at a new school now and they sent her home because she felt sick and there's nothing wrong with her, apparently if a child says they don't feel well they straight away phone the parents to collect them, my sister said when she went in the school to pick her up it was like a furnace, i reckon Emma just got too hot making her feel sick, if they'd taken her out for some fresh air she would have been fine but instead they sent her home

[motoki]

Well that's kind of silly about the school. I guess they just don't want to be responsible if something happens to the kids or some nonsense like that. People are so paranoid sometimes.

About the Sims, well that hottub is a nice reward, particularly when you are just starting out and don't have much money. The first time you use it, it makes whoever is in it with your sim get a high rating quickly with them. That's how Blanche snared the old guy. But you can also use it after that as a regular hottub, whereas a lot of the other rewards will run out after so many uses.

Most of them you don't want to use unless you are gold or platinum on the aspriation meter (the one next to your characters picture). If you use some of those other items while their aspiration meter is green it has a 50/50 chance of backfiring and if it's red it almost certainly will. The best one IMO is the elixir water and I save up for that. It gives up to 5 drinks and each one makes you 3 days younger. You can't get younger than the age you are already in though, so once you get to Elder you won't be able to go back to adult. I used it to extend Sim Mike and Chris and Blanche alive longer.

There's also career rewards, in the screen where you get the aspiration rewards, below that icon there's a job icon. Once you reach a certain level in your job each one has a unique item that raises a skill and most give fun too. You can use them to teach other sims below your skill level and they will learn faster or use it to train and get some fun at the same time. I have 4 of those items already, the medical practice kit, the executive golf putter, the chocolate factory machine and the lie detector.

[Calislahn]

I was going to show you some of my pics but they're a bit blurry, i need to adjust the game settings for picture quality i think

One thing i did notice though was a picture i took of the telescope, i forgot about that but she was looking through it and kept seeing this old guy, don't know what he was doing but it wasn't very pretty by her expression. Anyway the same old man has barged into the house twice now and had a go at first Victor then Cali. Then he just leaves again

Had a little girl by the way, wasn't sure which of them was having the baby as Victor got fat first, for a second i thought it might be twins ;D

Emma made me promise earlier that if it was a girl i should name it after her so i have, and if it was a boy i should get rid of it because she doesn't like boys, i'm sure her brother will be glad to know that ;D

[Calislahn]

It's a little blurry but i just thought i'd show you what a great mother i am.


Yes that is the baby on the lawn, and yes she did leave her there to go eat the pizza ;D

[Raistlin]

...Cali, sounds like you have a ghost on the property:

WHO YA GONNA CALL!?

GHOSTBUSTERS

...What a nice mum you are, I take it's a boy by how you're treating it? (as per Emma's wishes...;D)

PS - sorry about Emma RL, school here is more often chilly than warm though... (is she at a public school or private?)

[Calislahn]

Emma's at public school, there funny here with tempuratures, i remember having quite a few days off due to the heating not working so they wouldn't allow you to be in school.

By ghost i take it you mean the old man, actually i think he's the head of one of the big families in Veronaville, i suppose i shopuld stop spying on him and get to know him instead, there might be something in it for me

And despite my behaviour it is a little girl, i'm just a bad mother ;D that's why i hired a nanny

[motoki]

lol @ Emma and your Sim's parenting skills ;D

Yes definitely change the screenshots in the options to high quality and larger. Their large is 800x600, but you can take even larger pics than that by turning your game resolution higher (mine is 1600x1200) and hitting the printscreen key while the game is running, then alt tabbing out (you can safely alt tab back and forth to Sims2 unlike Morrowind ) and making a new image in photoshop then pasting on it. It should paste the screencap from the game when you hit printscreen.

You can also run the game in Windowed mode, though I haven't tried it yet. Apparently, I'm told you make a shortcut to the game exe file then add a space and -w after the exe's path.

[Calislahn]

Thanks i'll try that

[Calislahn]

I sent Victor to the market and he bumped into an old friend of yours Motoki



And Emma got her own back for being left on the front lawn by being sick on Cali ;D



And as it was Emma's Birthday they threw a party for her





The fact that i changed Victor's hair to brown seems to have had no effect on the genes as Emma's ginger like he was at first ;D

And as soon as she was crawling the first thing she did was flood the downstairs toilet