I like University

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I really like this more than I thought I would. It's like a whole other
game all on it's own. I like the feel of it and I like the added
influence aspect as well as being able to bring back Sims who have died,
and the plastic surgery machine (however these are college career
rewards and am looking forward to someone who can make them buyable). I
also like the cell phone, though I had to take out the phone hack.
Let's just hope Maxis got smart and eliminated all that phone ringing.
I had to only take out a few hacks... the study computer and the
homework sometimes faster fun. I have lost a lot of downloads ....
still deleting.
Oh and it is true, I had to reinstall Sims 2 to get rid of the patch
before it would take University.
All in all I give it 2 thumbs up

 

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Oh and I also like the under the counter fridge!

 

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"JulyRaine" <JulyRaine@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I really like this more than I thought I would. It's like a whole
>other game all on it's own. I like the feel of it and I like the added
> influence aspect as well as being able to bring back Sims who have
> died, and the plastic surgery machine (however these are college
> career rewards and am looking forward to someone who can make them
> buyable). I also like the cell phone, though I had to take out the
> phone hack. Let's just hope Maxis got smart and eliminated all that
> phone ringing. I had to only take out a few hacks... the study
> computer and the homework sometimes faster fun. I have lost a lot of
> downloads .... still deleting.
> Oh and it is true, I had to reinstall Sims 2 to get rid of the patch
> before it would take University.
> All in all I give it 2 thumbs up

Well heck!! After all that trouble I went through the other day
uninstalling Sims 2,
then reinstalling and then.......I went to Maxis site & got the latest
patch. I could just slap somebody!! LOL

Oh well, back to the drawing board..........B

PS Thanks July for posting about the hacks. BTW these objects that don't
work,
have they been upgraded to EP compatible??? Just curious!

 

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Jay&B wrote:
> "JulyRaine" <JulyRaine@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
>>I really like this more than I thought I would. It's like a whole
>>other game all on it's own. I like the feel of it and I like the added
>>influence aspect as well as being able to bring back Sims who have
>>died, and the plastic surgery machine (however these are college
>>career rewards and am looking forward to someone who can make them
>>buyable). I also like the cell phone, though I had to take out the
>>phone hack. Let's just hope Maxis got smart and eliminated all that
>>phone ringing. I had to only take out a few hacks... the study
>>computer and the homework sometimes faster fun. I have lost a lot of
>>downloads .... still deleting.
>>Oh and it is true, I had to reinstall Sims 2 to get rid of the patch
>>before it would take University.
>>All in all I give it 2 thumbs up
>
>
> Well heck!! After all that trouble I went through the other day
> uninstalling Sims 2,
> then reinstalling and then.......I went to Maxis site & got the latest
> patch. I could just slap somebody!! LOL
>
> Oh well, back to the drawing board..........B
>
> PS Thanks July for posting about the hacks. BTW these objects that don't
> work,
> have they been upgraded to EP compatible??? Just curious!
>
>
LOL!

 

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I installed University without reinstalling Sims 2. Anyway, I have not
played it much yet. Spent my free time playing my regular sims and buying
new objects for them. Will get into it more today.
"JulyRaine" <JulyRaine@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I really like this more than I thought I would. It's like a whole other
>game all on it's own. I like the feel of it and I like the added
> influence aspect as well as being able to bring back Sims who have died,
> and the plastic surgery machine (however these are college career rewards
> and am looking forward to someone who can make them buyable). I also like
> the cell phone, though I had to take out the phone hack. Let's just hope
> Maxis got smart and eliminated all that phone ringing. I had to only take
> out a few hacks... the study computer and the homework sometimes faster
> fun. I have lost a lot of downloads .... still deleting.
> Oh and it is true, I had to reinstall Sims 2 to get rid of the patch
> before it would take University.
> All in all I give it 2 thumbs up

 

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On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 04:27:58 -0800, JulyRaine <JulyRaine@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>All in all I give it 2 thumbs up

Thanks for the report

Now.. TELL US MORE COOL STUFF! Us freaking euros have to wait another
week and a half!!! :-(((

 

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Guardian Pegasus wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 04:27:58 -0800, JulyRaine <JulyRaine@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>>All in all I give it 2 thumbs up
>
>
> Thanks for the report
>
> Now.. TELL US MORE COOL STUFF! Us freaking euros have to wait another
> week and a half!!! :-(((
==
Well, when you you choose your neighborhood you are prompted to choose a
university, there are three. One looks like it is set in strangtown
from the looks of the thumbnail.
You are then taken there and are able to play or go back to your
neighborhood.
You can combine households now by taking a Sim from the Sim bin and
moving them into any household you want. I really like that
If you want a teen in your neighborhood to go to college you have them
do it over the phone, by selection 'go to college'.
When they get out of the taxi in College town they turn into a young adult.
The capacity of your meter for influence grows as you make more friends
You get a dark blue outline around the wants that when satisfied give
you influence points. The amount varies and is in tool tip under the
amount of aspiration points.

I have been spending most of my time deleting objects and figuring out
which hacks I needed to take out. My option for going to class and
doing college stuff on the computer wasn't there nor my option to use
the cell phone. I just took out the hacks that had anything to do with
these and it fixed the problem.

Oh and I like that when you move into a dorm they have someone who does
all the cooking and cleaning of the kitchen, so all you have to do is
grab a plate.

They have wall showers, I like that!
There is a treadmill and another workout bench. One of the career
rewards is a camera which allows you to take pictures and hang them on
the wall or set them on an end table framed! That is cool.

They have a vanity for the girls, I haven't tried that yet so I don't
know what the interactions are with it.

That's all I can think of for now

 

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On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 04:27:58 -0800, JulyRaine <JulyRaine@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>homework sometimes faster fun. I have lost a lot of downloads ....
>still deleting.

July, does that mean the downloads that are not compatible still show
up in the game? Or are you deleting manually via windows explorer?

 

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Guardian Pegasus wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 04:27:58 -0800, JulyRaine <JulyRaine@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>>homework sometimes faster fun. I have lost a lot of downloads ....
>>still deleting.
>
>
> July, does that mean the downloads that are not compatible still show
> up in the game? Or are you deleting manually via windows explorer?
==
They show up in the game, some blue and some (in the thumbnail) normal.
It's deceiving just to look at the thumbnails because they look normal
and then when you put them in the game they turn blue.

What I am doing is going to an empty lot and taking out all the objects
category by category and using the update tool to go through and delete
the ones that turn blue.

It's easier to use the update tool as you don't lose your place every
time you delete. It goes pretty fast this way, I have just finished and
I have a ton of objects.

 

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"JulyRaine" <JulyRaine@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Guardian Pegasus wrote:
>> On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 04:27:58 -0800, JulyRaine <JulyRaine@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>homework sometimes faster fun. I have lost a lot of downloads ....
>>>still deleting.
>>
>>
>> July, does that mean the downloads that are not compatible still show
>> up in the game? Or are you deleting manually via windows explorer?
> ==
> They show up in the game, some blue and some (in the thumbnail)
> normal.
> It's deceiving just to look at the thumbnails because they look normal
> and then when you put them in the game they turn blue.
>
> What I am doing is going to an empty lot and taking out all the
> objects
> category by category and using the update tool to go through and
> delete the ones that turn blue.
>
> It's easier to use the update tool as you don't lose your place every
> time you delete. It goes pretty fast this way, I have just finished
> and I have a ton of objects.

Update tool? I need to go inside the game & figure out what this is.
Boy, I
think sometimes, I'm loosing it. LOL

....B

 

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Cool! I hope to get my copy this weekend, for my birthday. I have ben
throwing hints out every chance I get...lol

Dianna

"JulyRaine" <JulyRaine@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I really like this more than I thought I would. It's like a whole other
> game all on it's own. I like the feel of it and I like the added
> influence aspect as well as being able to bring back Sims who have died,
> and the plastic surgery machine (however these are college career
> rewards and am looking forward to someone who can make them buyable). I
> also like the cell phone, though I had to take out the phone hack.
> Let's just hope Maxis got smart and eliminated all that phone ringing.
> I had to only take out a few hacks... the study computer and the
> homework sometimes faster fun. I have lost a lot of downloads ....
> still deleting.
> Oh and it is true, I had to reinstall Sims 2 to get rid of the patch
> before it would take University.
> All in all I give it 2 thumbs up

 

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"k-n-d" <k-n-d@nospam.none> wrote in message
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> Cool! I hope to get my copy this weekend, for my birthday. I have
> ben
> throwing hints out every chance I get...lol
>
> Dianna
>
Tomorrow is my birthday & my hubby is getting me the game but I can't
wait for him
to get home from work, so
I'm going in the morning to get it. ROTFL He told me "Now, remember it's
from me". LOL
Am I anxious or what??

.....B

 

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JulyRaine wrote:

> Oh and it is true, I had to reinstall Sims 2 to get rid of the patch
> before it would take University.

> All in all I give it 2 thumbs up

Thanks, Ebert. (Or are you Roeper? ;-) So, lemme get this straight,
you uninstall Sims2, which makes the patch go away, but you don't erase
your added folders and stuff, reinstall Sims2 and then University, and
you have a game that runs and all your old stuff and scenarios are still
there?

What about your third-party downloads? Are they still working?

--
--Cuth

 

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Cuthbert Gurdlestone wrote:
> JulyRaine wrote:
>
>> Oh and it is true, I had to reinstall Sims 2 to get rid of the patch
>> before it would take University.
>
>
>> All in all I give it 2 thumbs up
>
>
> Thanks, Ebert. (Or are you Roeper? ;-) So, lemme get this straight,
> you uninstall Sims2, which makes the patch go away, but you don't erase
> your added folders and stuff, reinstall Sims2 and then University, and
> you have a game that runs and all your old stuff and scenarios are still
> there?
>
> What about your third-party downloads? Are they still working?
>
==
Yes it asks if you want to keep your saved files when you reinstall
(Maxis got it right on that one) so you don't lose any of your game.

 

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JulyRaine wrote:

> It's easier to use the update tool as you don't lose your place every
> time you delete. It goes pretty fast this way, I have just finished and
> I have a ton of objects.

Pardon the ignorant, but what is the "Update tool"?

Hmmm...this sounds like a lot of work to me, unfortunately.

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Cuthbert Gurdlestone wrote:
> JulyRaine wrote:
>
>> It's easier to use the update tool as you don't lose your place every
>> time you delete. It goes pretty fast this way, I have just finished
>> and I have a ton of objects.
>
>
> Pardon the ignorant, but what is the "Update tool"?
>
> Hmmm...this sounds like a lot of work to me, unfortunately.
>
it's the little tool that looks like it has a bunch of fabric swatches on it

 

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JulyRaine wrote:

> It's easier to use the update tool as you don't lose your
> place every time you delete.

What is the update tool?

T.

 

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JulyRaine wrote:

> Well, when you you choose your neighborhood you are
> prompted to choose a university, there are three. One
> looks like it is set in strangtown from the looks of the
thumbnail.

Can you go to university from a custom neighbourhood?

T.

 

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Taemon wrote:
> JulyRaine wrote:
>
>
>>Well, when you you choose your neighborhood you are
>>prompted to choose a university, there are three. One
>>looks like it is set in strangtown from the looks of the
>
> thumbnail.
>
> Can you go to university from a custom neighbourhood?
>
> T.
>
>
==
yes, you choose the college town you want associated with your
neighborhood. You can choose any of the three. Each one has a
different look to it.

 

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"JulyRaine" <JulyRaine@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Cuthbert Gurdlestone wrote:
>> JulyRaine wrote:
>>
>>> Oh and it is true, I had to reinstall Sims 2 to get rid of the patch
>>> before it would take University.
>>
>>
>>> All in all I give it 2 thumbs up
>>
>>
>> Thanks, Ebert. (Or are you Roeper? ;-) So, lemme get this straight,
>> you uninstall Sims2, which makes the patch go away, but you don't erase
>> your added folders and stuff, reinstall Sims2 and then University, and
>> you have a game that runs and all your old stuff and scenarios are still
>> there?
>>
>> What about your third-party downloads? Are they still working?
>>
> ==
> Yes it asks if you want to keep your saved files when you reinstall (Maxis
> got it right on that one) so you don't lose any of your game.

I did that, but I also backed up the sims folder in My Documents and I'm
glad I did that because while all my sims are still there and such, it did
delete most of my storytelling pictures. Not sure why it did that. I had
about 60 of them and now there are only about 15.

C

 

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On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:56:15 -0800, JulyRaine <JulyRaine@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Well, when you you choose your neighborhood you are prompted to choose a
>university, there are three. One looks like it is set in strangtown
>from the looks of the thumbnail.

You choose *one* university for your whole neighbourhood?

>You can combine households now by taking a Sim from the Sim bin and
>moving them into any household you want. I really like that

Sweet! Is the person-specific door available in neighbourhood
buildmode??? If not I'm sure someone will hack it quickly enough hehe

>I have been spending most of my time deleting objects and figuring out
>which hacks I needed to take out. My option for going to class and
>doing college stuff on the computer wasn't there nor my option to use
>the cell phone. I just took out the hacks that had anything to do with
>these and it fixed the problem.

How do you know which objects to delete? Are they blacked out or
something? Or do you have to test them?

>That's all I can think of for now

Thanks! That'll keep me for another day or so... LOL... then I'll need
a new fix

 

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"Guardian Pegasus" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:56:15 -0800, JulyRaine <JulyRaine@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Well, when you you choose your neighborhood you are prompted to choose a
>>university, there are three. One looks like it is set in strangtown
>>from the looks of the thumbnail.
>
> You choose *one* university for your whole neighbourhood?

No, the university is like a "neighborhood within your neighborhood". When
you load up for the first time, you're asked if you want to associate a
college with your neighborhood and you can then select one from the three
templates, and what you have to do the next time you load your game is go to
the neighborhood, hit the university icon in the upper left next to the
switch neighborhood button, and the university you've selected shows up as
the first choice in a menu that looks exactly like the neighborhood
selection screen from when you start the game. You can then add more
universities to associate with the neighborhood in exactly the same manner
that you would create a custom neighborhood in the neighborhood menu. So as
far as I can tell you can have as many universities associated with any of
your neighborhoods as you'd like.

C

 

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On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 11:44:00 -0800, JulyRaine <JulyRaine@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>it's the little tool that looks like it has a bunch of fabric swatches on it

*scratches head* Is this something new in university?

 

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"Guardian Pegasus" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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>on it
>
> *scratches head* Is this something new in university?

No.

Gareeth

 

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Guardian Pegasus wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 11:44:00 -0800, JulyRaine <JulyRaine@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>>it's the little tool that looks like it has a bunch of fabric swatches on it
>
>
> *scratches head* Is this something new in university?
==
look by the eyedropper in buy mode