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Section 2: Controls Section 3: Types of relationships Section 4: Cheat Codes Section 5: FAQ Section 6: Every Sim's aspiration Section 7: Walkthrough Section 8: Expansion packs Section 9: Credits, copyright, and how to contact me. ---------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- 1. About the game: The point of The Sims 2 is to create a sim and take them through steps of life, from baby, toddler, child, Teen, young adult(with university expansion) adult and elder. What are sims? Sims are creatures like humans, but they speak "simmish"(gibberish) instead of english and they are more complex than humans, They must be controlled by a human (you) and well, they go to the bathroom about 10 times a day. :p ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Controls: 1 = Normal speed 2 = Super Speed 3 = Hyper Speed , and . = basic camera controls Actions = To perform any action you must select a sim and click on them, then a list of actions will come up. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Types of relationships: -------------------- *Note*: In order to activate some relationships, you need to use social interactions, such as, to activate "Crush" you need to use a flirt or something of some type, to activate "love" you need a kiss at the certain amount of daily/lifetime relationship. Here's a little list to help you out with all the types of relationships. ------------------------ Friend: Daily relationship: 50 Lifetime relationship: N/A -------------------------- Best friend: Daily relationship: Friend Liftime relationship: 50 ---------------------------- Crush: Daily relationship 70 And a romantic interaction (Flirt, backrub, ext...) Lifetime relationship: N/A. ---------------------------------------------------- Love: Daily relationship: Crush Lifetime relationship: 70 and a romantic interaction (Romantic kiss, smooch, ext...) --------------------------------------------- Going Steady: ((*note*: This is for teens only)) Daily relationship: 70(Crush and love) Need to activate by "propose" "Go steady" Lifetime relationship: N/A ------------------------------------- Engaged: In love and you need to activate with the "propose" "engage" interaction. ------------------------- Married/Joined: In love and "propose"/"marriage" interaction. ((Can also be activated using the wedding cake and wedding arch)) -------------------- Enemy: Either daily OR lifetime relationship below -(negative)50 ------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Cheat Codes: to open up the cheat window, type ctrl, shift, and c at the same time, then a rectangular box should apear at the top of your screen, click the box and then type in one of the following cheats, after that hit enter. Motherlode = 50,000 simoleons Kaching = 1000 simoleons aspirationPoints # = # amt. of aspiration points strectchSkeleton # = Increase or decrease character size moveObjects (on)/(off) = move objects that are not normally movable aging (on)/(off) = turn on/off character aging. maxMotives = motive bars filled max motiveDecay (on)/(off) = turn decay of motive bar on/off showHeadlines (on)/(off) = turn on, turn off thought bubbles unlockCareerRewards = all career rewards lockAspiration (on)/(off) = lock current aspiration bar point help = show a few simple cheat commands chanceOfTwins #% = increase/decrease chance of twins exit = exit cheat window slowMotion # = set speed of game (0 through 8) deleteAllCharacters = use in neighborhood view, delete all families boolProp testingCheatsEnabled true = (then hold shift and right click on sim, newspaper, or mailbox for list of options. ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- 5. (F)requently (A)sked (Q)uestions ---------------------------------------------- Q: What are the 6 types of aspiration? A: Romance, Knowledge, Fortune, Popularity,Family, And Pleasure with the sims 2 nightlife expansion pack. ------------------------------------------------------ Q: How do I adopt a baby? A: Pick up the phone and dial service, “adoption service” and the next day the social worker should arrive to give you your new child. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Q: Can I unlock extra costume pieces in create a family mode? A: Yes, go to create a family mode, and use the boolProp testingCheatsEnabled true cheat . Then hold shift and N and it will say the sims 2 is now in debugging mode. Typing M will turn debugging mode off. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: Is there a way to move my families to different neighborhoods? A: Yes, to do so package a sim to the family bin, then open it up in a different neighborhood. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: Is there a way to determine whether my pregnant sim will have a boy or a girl? A: No, once your sim has become pregnant there is no way to determine the gender of the newborn. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q: Does my sim’s aspiration/personality decide what his or hers lifetime goal will be? A: Yes, unless your sim has family/pleasure aspiration, their career lifetime goal differs with personality, for example, a lazy sim will not want to be the top of the athletic career, but maybe the slacker career instead. ----------------------------------------------------- Q: Is there a way to choose whether the sim I adopted will be a boy or girl? A: No, sims you adopt you can choose between baby, toddler, or child, but DNA such as gender and skin color are all random. -------------------------------------------------------- Q: How do I get aspiration points? A: You get aspiration points by fulfilling your sim’s wants, in the wants trey, other than the fears. They will have daily goals you can lock by right clicking it. -------------------------------------------------------------- Q: How do I spend my sim’s aspiration points? A: Click on the small treasure chest at the bottom of the screen and “aspiration rewards”. There you will also find career rewards you unlock by getting to the top of one of the careers. --------------------------------------------------------- Q: How do I get a job? A: click on the computer, or newspaper then “find a job”. --------------------------------------------------------------- Q: How do I take a screenshot for my story mode? A: the C key. ------------------------------------------------------------ Q: Where is Bella Goth? A: Bella Goth can be randomly found in strangetown. --------------------------------------------- Q: How do I send my teen sim to college? A: You must first buy The Sims 2 University expansion pack, then click on the computer and “go to college” but once you go to college your sim will turn into a young adult and will not be able to be a teen again. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Q: How do I drop out of college? A: click on the phone then college and register – drop out. --------------------------------------------- Q: How do I get a car? A: Go into build mode, buy a driveway then buy a car under miscellaneous in buy mode. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Q: Can I resurrect a dead sim? A: Yes, buy completing the paranormal career track and purchasing a resurrect-o-nomitron under career rewards. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: How many sims can I have in my family? A: 8 sims, and at least 1 must be a adult. -------------------------------------------- Q: Is there a cheat for twins? A: (See cheats) there is but it works for a limited time, but there is a popular hack for definite twins that can be found at modthesims2.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6: Every Sim's Aspiration --------------------------- Pleasantview: ------------------------------- Goth family: Mortimer: Knowledge Cassandra: Family Alexander: Grow up --------------------------------- Pleasant: Daniel: Romance Mary-Sue: Fortune Lilith: Popularity Angela: Popularity ---------------------------- Dreamer: Darren: Knowledge Dirk: Fortune ------------------------------- Caliente: Nina: Romance Dina: Fortune --------------------------- Lothario: Don: Romance -------------------------- Broke: Dustin: Fortune Brandi: Family Beau: Grow up ------------------------- Strangetown: ------------------------------ Curious: Vidcund: Knowledge Lazlo: Knowledge Pascal: Knowledge ------------------------ Smith: Pollination Tech#9: Family Jenny: Family Johhny: Popularity Jill: Grow up --------------------------- Beaker: Circe: Fortune Loki: Knowledge Nervous Subject: Family --------------------------- Specter: Olive: Knowledge Ophelia: Family -------------------------- Grunt: General Buzz: Popularity Tank: Popularity Ripp: Romance Buck: Grow up ------------------------------- Veronaville: ------------------------ Monty: Patrizio: Family Isabella: Family Romeo: Romance Mercutio: Popularity ------------------------ Summerdream: Oberon: Knowledge Titania: Family Puck: Popularity Bottom: Grow up -------------------- Capp: Hermia: Family Juliette: Family Consort: Fortune Tybalt: Popularity -------------------------------------------- Whew! And that's every sim's aspiration that's already been made for you when you install the game, now ready to make your own legacy? Read my walkthrough next. ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- 7. Walkthrough: Basic gameplay, the sims2: First off, when you start the game up it will take you to decide which neighborhood you want, there are 3 to choose from, Pleasant View, Strangetown, and Veronaville. Also if you click the right arrow you can create your own three. I will get to that later. You can play all three of them but for now you just choose one, the decision is up to you, Pleasantville consists of nice people and a green terrain with many houses ranging from condo to mansions, this is about your average town. Then there is Strangetown. This consists of mostly small houses and a few large, with a nice orange desert terrain, Aliens can also be found in this town. Last but not least veronaville, with a nice green grass terrain, this consists of three families, but mostly this rich mansioned city is the Monty's and the Capp's. There is a "war" going on between the two families. but the younger generation of teens are in love. After you've chosen a neighbor hood it's time to create a family. Go to the big + box that says "create a family" click on it and then click on one of the smaller boxes on the right and create a sim. You can choose your age, ranging from toddler, child, teen, adult, and and elder. Keep in mind each family needs atleast one adult. Then give you sim a name and go on to step 2, choose a head to start off with. Then step 3. Here you can choose what your head, and facial features look like, along with your sims hair. Step 4, you can choose makeup, facial makeup, eyebrows and other accesories such a facial hair for men. Step 5, clothing, you can choose here top, bottom, full outfit, nightwear, simwear, undies, athletic wear, and formal wear. NOTE: You can always go to the store and change your sims clothing from every aspect. Then choose your sims aspiration and atrributes and you're ready to go! Create the family and then move them into a house, you start off with only $20,000 so you can't move into a huge house just yet. Now to use your leftover money to get some apliances, remember, cover the basic needs first. For the broke sim get a refrigerator, a stove, a place to eat, a toilet, a shower, a fire alarm for over the stove, and a bed. Then you can buy a couch, a tv, and a phone. Now you want more money? Time to get a job. Go pick up the newspaper by your mailbox and click "find job". Find a availible job that you like and get ready for your carpool tommorow morning. Attend to your sims motive bars and then go to bed because you've got a hard day of work tommorow. Wake your sim up about a hour before his/her carpool arrives so you can attend to normal morning needs real quick, make sure you have all the skills needed for your job then head off when your carpool gets here, you have a hour to get into your carpool before it leaves you. When your sim gets back if he was in a high enough mood he will get promoted. Keep on repeating every day and make sure your sim has high enough skills and the right amount of friends to get promoted. You do need friends to increase your social bar and get promoted...but sometimes sims become more than friends. When your sim finds a sim that he/she likes of the oposite gender, you must build up the relationship to friends or best friends, then do a romantic action to trigger a crush, such as a flirt. Then later on have your to sims have their first kiss, they will fall in love, later on you can click on "Propose" and get engaged to the sim. After that call up your friends for a wedding party, buy a arch from micselanious buy mode and get married. Now it's time to have some fun inbetween work and building up motives, go over to the phone and throw a house party! To get a good score at the party make sure there is many sim interactions going and the sims have fun. Next is skill building, to build up your skills buy a item in by mode that has a "+" by the name such as Workout machine 2000 +body. Buy that and your sim will get more body skill points, along with gaining more muscles, body skill points can be used for fights and atrracting the ladies, as well as the other 6 skill types. Then there is your age bar, as a adult you have 29 days until becoming a elder, use your time wisely. And then most importantly, ASPIRATIONS! Your aspiration bar is the big vertical thing you see on your screen, there is 4 mods, red, green, gold, and platinum, clicking the bar shows your sims lifetime wants, fufulling that big want keeps you in aspiration mood for the rest of your sims's lifetime. Also you can look at your wants and fears under the aspiration trey. You can right click to lock a aspiration wants or fears. When your sim goes to sleep and wakes up their aspirations change nightly. Also there is more than one buy mode, also if you click the little treasure chest on the right side of your screen you can choose your items that you have in your personal inventory, aspiration rewards where you can buy special items purchased using your aspiration points that you earn fuffuling your wants. Aspiration rewards usually have about 5 uses on each of them, they are items such as a money tree, the love tub, and the simm succubus vacum, which sucks out your enemy's skill points and give them to you. Then there is career rewards aswell, big rewards you get for getting to the very top of a career, example: getting to the top of the paranormal career track gets you the resurecto-nomi-tron, which allows you to resurect any deceased sims. Also when you get to a certain part of some careers you unlock outfits in your dresser. Such as when you get to the top of the Criminal Career track you unlock a red and black super villain costume. That's about all for the sims2, now onto the expansion packs... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. The sims 2 expansion packs: ------------------------------------------------- The sims 2 University: In the sims2 university you get the choice to send your teens off to college, to do this get a sim with good grades and you need a computer, select "Move to college" and your sims if off. Once he arrives he will be turned into a young adult, At college you need to first off pick a dorm room, then go to the computer and every term you will need to write a term paper, also you need to choose your major. This expansion pack also comes with a few new character creation options, items, and a cool new "Create" students mode in the college campus area. -------------------------------------------------------------- The sims 2 Nightlife: In the sims 2 nightlife you can now create your sims with Turn ons and Turn offs. This effects your sims "chemistry" with other sims. Chemistry is represented in the relationship bar with lightning bolts. 1 bolt=some chemistry 2 bolts=mild chemistry 3 bolts= max chemistry. Also you can buy cars, go out to downtown and have a party. You can ask sims on outings and dates, and acheive the ultimate ranking of dream date. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9. Credits, Copyright and how to contact me: You can contact me if you need any additional help or have any questions at shadowllamaz@yahoo.com. Also i am zack_attack at cheathappens. Copyright(c): Please do not steal or use my walkthrough without contacting me and asking for my permission! Thanks! Thanks to: Maxis and EA Games for the making of this game because it rocks! You for reading my guide that I made! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE END!