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Sims Community: 2016 in review!

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Sims Community: 2016 in review!

WOW, was this year a crazy ride. Sure, there may have been more Stuff Packs than Game or Expansion Packs, but still, plenty of excitement was still present in the community.

Before I share the 2016 in review page with you all, let me just give a BIG THANKS to our entire SC team who keep delivering original articles and news from time to time. Also, BIG THANKS to our awesome readers who support every step of our way – all 1,7 million of you!

We wish you all the best in the upcoming 2017; may all your wishes come true!

Click below to check our 2016 in review page!

Sims Community: 2016 in review!

James’ Sims 2 Thoughts: The Sims 2 Pets (2006)

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James’ Sims 2 Thoughts: The Sims 2 Pets (2006)

The Sims 2 gave us College, Downtown and Shopping. What more can they give us!?

On October 17,2006 they gave us a very crucial pack that added plenty  of game play yet again

Pets!

Now, with this pack, unlike the others, it does not come with a new neighborhood or sub-neighborhood. But, I really didn’t mind that. I didn’t have The Sims Unleashed when it came out, so this was my first time really having pets into my sims games.  So, to have this expansion in my possession was something I loved.

The fact that “create a Pet” came with this game was super cool. The amount of detail that can go into your cat or dog of your choice is really neat! They seem so real and lifelike. You can really create a pet that you have in real life. There are many breeds that you can create in the new “CAS” setting.

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Now, you can do so many things with your new pet once you create it. You can teach your dog/cat so many tricks. You can train them certain commands and by scolding and praising them, they gain memories. For example, if your dog is rolling around in filth, you can scold them to not do that. The relationship might go down, but the pet gains a partial memory to remember not to do that action anymore.

Your pets can even breed! But, you don’t have direct control over them. But, what you do to them has a huge impact on their lives. And just Like Sims, Pets age too. Which makes it super sad when they pass on, but The game does it in a cute way, that still hits you right in the feels.

Besides having dogs and cats, I loved  the fact that I could have a number of smaller pets. What I mean by smaller pets are animals like hamsters, gerbils, birds, reptiles and many more. I loved this. The birds were always my favorite. same goes with the hamsters. I don’t know, but the hamsters were just so cute to me!

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If you have Open for Business, you can even have pet stores with pets of all sizes

This pack made me fall in love with the sims all over again. It added, yet again, so much depth to an already great game.

Next week, Get ready for the storm! I will be talking about my second favorite Sims 2 Pack “The Sims 2: Seasons!

The Sims 4 Vampire Game Pack: Features List!

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The Sims 4 Vampire Game Pack: Features List!

The Sims Team has recently added a feature list for the upcoming The Sims 4 Vampire Game Pack into a small .package file which gets updated from time to time. The spotlight.package file gets updated every time you open The Sims 4 and it’s used to fetch data for news and announcements you see in The Sims 4 Main Menu.

Here are the features mentioned in the file:

  • Create Vampires
  • Unleash Supernatural Powers
  • Escape to an Eerie Destination
  • Live the Immortal Life

The Sims 4 Vampire Game Pack: Features List!

Considering that this has been added just recently (yes, I’ve been checking the spotlight file every now and then) it means that we’re really close to the announcement of this Game Pack!

For more Game Pack 4 clues and findings, CLICK HERE!

The Sims 4 unofficially sets this year’s new record over the holidays!

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The Sims 4 unofficially sets this year’s new record over the holidays!

The Sims 4 has set this year’s new record of active online users over the holidays!

There are around 100K people who opted to play The Sims 4 online and connect with The Gallery.

The Sims 4 unofficially sets this year’s new record over the holidays!

Why is this important? Check out Steam’s list of top games by player count:

The Sims 4 unofficially sets this year’s new record over the holidays!

This means that more people are currently playing The Sims 4 than they are playing GTA V, which would make The Sims 4 the third most played PC game during this season!

Sadly Origin doesn’t have a list like this for all of EA games being currently played but considering that there are 4 The Sims 4 titles in the list of most popular games bought from Origin (City Living, Vintage Glamour, Base Game and Get Together), it’s safe to say that The Sims 4’s position before GTA V is valid.

The Sims 4 unofficially sets this year’s new record over the holidays!

The Sims 4 Christmas Yule Log Twitch Livestream

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The Sims 4 Christmas Yule Log Twitch Livestream

The Sims Team has launched a Sims 4 live stream version of a Yule log that you can watch on twitch!

Make sure you check on the stream from time to time and see what Pancake Bob and his ”juiced up” butler are up to.

The stream above is not the live version. You can check out the live version here!

The Sims 4 Vampire Game Pack: Vampire Teeth Found in Game Files

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The Sims 4 Vampire Game Pack: Vampire Teeth Found in Game Files

Another clue for the upcoming Vampire Game Pack has been found!

The Sims Forum member Dreagen1 discovered these vampire teeth, saying that there’s a possibility for vampires to retract these teeth:

The Sims 4 Vampire Game Pack: Vampire Teeth Found in Game Files

It’s not yet known when will The Sims Team announce the 4th Game Pack, but there is a high possibility of vampires being officially teased after the holidays!

Tip: @TheSimScraper

Origin Holiday Sale: Save up to 65% (City Living 50% off + more)

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Origin Holiday Sale: Save up to 65% (City Living 50% off + more)

Origin is having yet another sale, this time offering games that are now up to 65% off! The Sims 4 is also included in this offer, including the base game, game packs and expansion packs.

For the first time ever, City Living is 50% off! Down below you can see all of The Sims 4 offers:

For more deals, click the image below! Offer ends on January 5th, 2017 at 10AM PST.

Origin Holiday Sale: Save up to 65% (City Living 50% off + more)

James’ Sims 2 Thoughts: The Sims 2 Open for Business (2006)

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James’ Sims 2 Thoughts: The Sims 2 Open for Business (2006)

I am so excited for this week, because its time to talk about my favorite The Sims 2 expansion, and possibly my favorite Sims expansion of all time

Lets travel back to February 28th, 2006…

The Sims 2: Open for Business was released and changed the simming experience. It allowed us to create our own business and run them! This was such a revolutionary idea for the series and when I got it for Easter in 2006, I was floored by it. It added so many interactions, NPC’s and so many new objects.

The best part about the expansion is the idea of running your own business! I love doing this. I love being able to grab stuff from Buy Mode and be able to pick pretty much anything and everything to sell in your store

This expansion also added yet ANOTHER sub-neighborhood ( In 3 expansions,  we now have 3 sub-neighborhoods…. I’m looking at you, Sims 3 and 4...)

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Bluewater Village was added as a neighborhood full of community lots as well as some new families (we welcome Malcolm Landgraab IV to the neighborhood with this pack.) This neighborhood gave us a semi-blank canvas to work with, mostly to build our own restaurants and businesses.

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There are 3 types of businesses  you can run:

  • Services (such as stores, restaurants, salons, etc)
  • Restaurants
  • Venues

I am a big fan of the basic store idea. I love making flower shops or art galleries where other sims can buy my own creations. Bakeries are really fun, because you gain cooking skill as well as all the talent badges for running and selling your own products.

Which leads me into a new feature of this expansion: Talent badges.

You earn special badges for doing special interactions, such as hair dressing, toy making, robotics, flower making, etc,. The higher your talent badge is, the quality of the product you craft is higher as well. When the quality of your craft is higher, you can sell the item at a way higher price than what it was made, and be able to get a good profit from it.

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When it comes to restaurants, you can hire a cook or be the chef of your own restaurant and pretty much make a really good living from it. I just love the fact that my sim can have a level 10 cooking skill and be the chef in her own restaurant….  (I’m looking at you again, Sims 4: Dine Out…)

You can actually make a decent living  from owning a business. You can make a home business or a business from a community lot. The choice is yours. I love making a home business first, then transferring it over to a small community lot and go from there.

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Open for Business, in my personal opinion is THE best sims expansion ever made. If Maxis really wanted to, they could have easily made this a whole spin off of the sims series. It is a jam packed expansion that is full of things that I am still discovering over 10 years since it was released.

Next week I will be exploring what all the barking is all about, with The Sims 2:Pets!

The Sims 4 looks absolutely beautiful with The Sims 1 Camera Angles

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The Sims 4 looks absolutely beautiful with The Sims 1 Camera Angles

The Sims Team left a small camera feature which can really change your point of view in The Sims 4.

You’re probably familiar with the isometric camera in The Sims 1:

The Sims 4 looks absolutely beautiful with The Sims 1 Camera Angles

The same camera can be enabled with one small modification in The Sims 4 game files.

To turn on the isometric camera in The Sims 4, open a folder where Origin installed the game and then Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 > Game > Bin > res and in that folder you’ll find the Camera.ini file. Open it using notepad and find the OrtographicFOV part. The unmodified version will say OrtographicFOV = 0. To turn on the isometric camera, change the number 0 to 45. Save the .ini file and close it.

The Sims 4 looks absolutely beautiful with The Sims 1 Camera Angles

The results in-game are simply beautiful. The camera moves with ease and you won’t have any issues with clicking certain items. If an object is in your way you’re not locked to move your camera and view the game from a different angle.

Here are some of the screens I took using the isometric camera:

The isometric camera is only good when you use it in Live Mode. You’ll come across placing issues in Build Mode and a very zoomed-in camera in Create A Sim.

If you’re a modder and find it possible to simply turn-off isometric camera settings in Build and CAS modes, check out this thread!

The Sims 4 Machinima: Merry Christmas

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The Sims 4 Machinima: Merry Christmas

Get in the holiday spirit with a new The Sims 4 Machinima video by SimmerJonny!

The Sims 4 Gallery Spotlight: Holiday Lots

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The Sims 4 Gallery Spotlight: Holiday Lots

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In this Spotlight, we’re featuring holiday themed lots, most of which are made using the Holiday Celebration free pack + some other packs as well.

Hover over the pulsing plumbobs to see screenshots of marked areas. Pulsing plumbob that’s on the left bottom corner contains all the info (and download link) of the lot.

To see more of our previous Gallery Spotlights, CLICK HERE!

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Merry Christmas (Download Here)

by chips46

Value: §199,978
Size: 30×20
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Christmas Toy Shop (Download Here)

by Simproved

Value: §189,175
Size: 30×20
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Gingerbread Starter (Download Here)

by dasie2

Value: §19,185
Size: 20×15
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The Sims 4 CC: 30 New Skin Tones

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The Sims 4 CC: 30 New Skin Tones

Zerbu put 30 new skin tones that you can use for sims of all ages! They come in white, orange, red and brown variations.

To install these simply extract the .package file from the downloaded .zip file into Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 > Mods folder. Make sure you have mods and custom content enabled!

Here’s a skin tone I tested in-game. The custom skin tones are marked with the wrench icon.

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To download these skin tones, click the button below!

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Object Assets for a ”Cancelled Sims Mobile Game”

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Object Assets for a ”Cancelled Sims Mobile Game”

ArtStation user _Undertow_, who worked on The Sims 3 Store’s late projects published some interesting assets of objects for a ”cancelled Sims Mobile Game”. Although the member didn’t specify what this Sims mobile game was about, we do have interesting assets that feature career objects and city-themed items such as the crane.

More Sims assets, this time for a cancelled mobile game. Modeled with maya and textured in photoshop.

Free Sims Online Open Beta coming this January!

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Free Sims Online Open Beta coming this January!

We wrote about the FreeSO (Free Sims Online) project a few months ago while it was still in the early stages of development. Today, the folks behind this project have announced that FreeSO will be in open beta phase on January 6th, with a new features, objects and more!

Check out what you can expect in the open beta this January:

17 months later again, for New Year 2017, we’re finally launching the game in the large scale MMO context that we’ve been working towards this whole time.

You will be able to own a house in the city, run a store, skills lot, money lot, service lot, nightclub or whatever you want to create! Breach the top 100 with a fantastic lot, sell your in-game skills and real ones, work your way to the top of the career track with friends or just have fun, there will be a lot to do off the bat.

With new features and objects from the start, the future of the game is looking brighter than ever. The max lot size is now a huge 64×64 with 5 floors, and you can now see your neighbours around your lot. Compliment each other’s views or go to war with your neighbours, or just make a 5 floor castle in the middle of nowhere. As the past few years have proved, I’ll be there to listen to any feedback, quickly fix bugs that pop up, and lead us through the beta period to a full launch. Of course, the launch will fix a ton of bugs and introduce many welcome changes too!

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