Thursday, May 8, 2008

Ask a Question to Natasha Bedingfield @ TheSims2.com

A blurb on TheSims2.com leads to this link--TheSims2.com Community Interview with Natasha Bedingfield--and the following notice:

Our Sims team will be interviewing...Natasha Bedingfield! She's recorded her smash hit "Pocketful of Sunshine" in Simlish and is taking questions from our community! Here's your chance to submit and possibly have one of your questions answered by Natasha during our interview with her next Tuesday.

Next Tuesday meaning May 13, 2008, I assume, but it doesn't say. Well, what are you waiting for? Follow the link and ask away! Your question might get picked.

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Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Maxis Wants YOUR Help! Troubleshooting FreeTime Patch

From the keyboard of MaxoidDrea:

As most of you know, we had put out a patch for FreeTime but had to recall it because of installation issues. Some of you were getting an error with the objects.package when trying to install the patch. We're currently trying to troubleshoot this issue and need your help. If you had an issue with the objects.package while installing the patch, we've provided the below FTP instructions. It would be a great help if you could provide us this file so we can look into the issue and make the correct fixes to the upcoming patch.

We appreciate your help! [Emphasis hers.]

Personally, I did not have problems with the old patch, and it is installed in my game. But if you would like to help Maxis, now is your chance! Details in her post on TheSims2.com BBS.

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EA-Land -- AKA The Sims Online -- Shutting Down

Via EA-Land Blog » EA-Land Drawing To A Close and Snooty Sims:

It is with mixed emotions that today we are announcing the EA-Land experiment will soon draw to a close. Since 2002, EA-Land / TSO has attracted a very special group of players (of which you are one) and we certainly appreciate your participation in the EA-Land community. The lifetime of the game has drawn to an end, and now we will be focusing on new ideas and other innovative concepts in the games arena. We’d like to thank everyone who has taken part in this online community as a unique experience in the virtual world.

I've never played TSO, but it seemed like a fun idea, and it's too bad it has to go. Hopefully, something even better will come along to replace it. You never know.

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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

The Sims 2 Apartment Life Expansion

Update June 05, 2008 - Apartment Life will be released August 26, 2008. Preorder today! Looks like the creature will be a witch. Check out my flickr photostream for more screenshots!

Looks like the next expansion pack for The Sims 2 will be Apartment Life according to MaxoidDrea at TheSims2.com - Forum BBS.

Here's a little video someone made that shows the teaser MaxoidDrea is talking about.

What will be included in this pack? Apartments, maybe? Ha, HA!

Update: Found some more info at Snooty Sims which gives clues as to what the expansion will deliver (excerpts from an EA survey):

The following is a list of features that may be included in a new apartment life themed expansion pack.
- Ability to move four single family households into one apartment building
- Asking your neighbors to baby-sit
- Different living experiences based on the surrounding communities impacted by rent and noise
- Experiencing living with an unruly roommate
- Owning a helicopter
- Learn to Breakdance
- Learn a new life skill: fire prevention

If it's anything like my apartment, the neighbors above will stomp and stumble repeatedly, play music that makes the stored glasses clink together, and vaccuum at 1am. Stay tuned!

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Friday, May 2, 2008

Freebie Friday - The Sims 2 - Eira Summit Visitors Center

Eira Summit Visitors Center

Another week has flown by. This post is a little later than usual because I had to catch up with some housework. Aha! You thought I was rich and had a maid, didn't you?! AHAHAHAHAAAA! No.

Eira Summit Visitors Center (multi)

This Freebie Friday is the first entry of a Bon Voyage Vacation Destination series: Eira Summit. Eira means snow (I think. I hope!) in Welsh (maybe?), and it sounded romantic and snowy-destination-like, so I went with it. You can make your own Vacation Destination and call it Eira Summit if you want to add these entries to it piece by piece (it'll take several weeks to get them all finished and up for downloading). That way, you can place the sights-to-see where you want them. You can also place these lots in your Three Lakes Destination for your favorite neighborhood, since they fit the forest theme.

You will need all the expansion packs (but you don't need any fun packs) installed for this lot. Only Maxis objects were used for this lot, no recolors.

Oh, I almost forgot to tell you what this lot has! There's everything a sim needs except a bed--but they can order coffee to help stay awake. They can fish, check out an old tree ring, read about whatever it is sims read about, buy new clothes & change, buy souvenirs, play a little chess, and even barbeque. There's speakers so they can slapdance, and there are restrooms and a snack bar, too.

Google Fight turned up more than twice as many entries on the web for Visitors Center than for Visitor Center, so that settled the question (for me, anyway) of which was right.

Next Friday there will be another great lot for Eira Summit, so be sure to visit again!

Download Eira Summit Visitors Center here.

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