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The Sims Guide to the Galaxy - Part 1

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So on this Christmas day, I find myself wondering what on earth I’m gona do on my day off… well I think that perhaps my little Sims family could use a bit of xmas cheer themselves. I think the Roths in Riverblossom Hills are gona have their first white Christmas, with a big tree, a shinning Rudolf outside, some xmas cookies and then they’ll patiently await Santa, who will bring with him a shiny new present too So then I thought I’d post some tips for all you Sims 2 fans as well, before I go start the holiday cheer in Riverblossom Hills.

Christmas with the Sims

Ok so as I’ve said above, your Sims can have a Christmas (Sims 2: Christmas Party Pack) too, even a white one if you wait till Winter (Sims 2: Seasons). With Sims 2: Christmas Party Pack you can have your Sims dress up as Santa and Mrs Claus, have a decorated Christmas tree, decorate your house with Christmas decorations and even kiss under the mistletoe.

Want the real Santa Claus to come visit? Put up a Christmas tree, bake some Christmas cookies which you leave out for him and just wait. He’ll come by, dance about your house, eat your cookies, use your loo and leave you a present behind. It’s usually something kewl like a stereo or chess table.

Having a House Guest

Ok so if your little Sims has a dreary life and decides on a little getaway, he or she will mostly likely meet new people while on vacation (Sims 2: Bon Voyage). Now whether you go to the Far East, to an Island or even up to the mountains, you’re gona meet a lot of local folk. A nice interface that Maxis has made in the Sims 2: Bon Voyage is that you can phone and talk to (not invite over) with your current friends, to keep the relationship status high. Same applies for people you’ve met while on vacation. Now, if you’ve made a friend while on holiday, you’ll be able to invite them over as a house guest for 3 sim days, when you get back home.

This can be loads of fun, as it gives you a chance to interact with your friends from far far away :biggrin: Now, they will make themselves at home, but I’ve noticed don’t, uh, well they don’t n

ecessarily sleep, which is ok, cause it doesn’t seem to affect them negatively. IE: they don’t stand and complain that they’re tired like they should be doing and all other Sims do.

Dig up Your Garden

Ok so I see a lot of you Sims fans out there want to know about the Sims voodoo doll. This can be obtained from an Island vacation lot (The Sims 2: Bon Voyage), but it’s a secret lot and you can only find

it if you have the secret map. Now each holiday destination has their own secret lot and if you want to find the map to it, you have to dig… dig dig dig. Dig up your garden, you’ll find all sorts of things and more importantly, every so often you’ll find a map. Clicking on it in your Sims inventory, will tell you the destination of the map. Once in the appropriate holiday destination, you’ll be able to walk to that secret lot… as you now know how to find the secret path there.

Oh and don’t forget, you will find lots of other things in your back yard, mostly just rocks and bones, but if you’re persistant, perhaps even some buried treasure, which you can then go into Buy Mode and sell for a hefty some of simoleons.

* The Voodoo Within

Ok so now once you have the map for the secret lot, see above under Dig up Your Garden, you need to go on holiday, to the Islands and you’ll be able to take the next step in acquiring your Sims Voodoo Doll. The lot has a little house upon a hill, where the witch doctor lives. He’ll be terribly grumpy cause his house is full of broken furniture and appliances. Like the bathtub, dish washer, stereo, etc. Talk to him, then fix all his broken household goods (you’ll need a decent mechanical skill level to do it all) and talk to him again. He’ll be so grateful, as a reward he’ll give you a Voodoo doll.

The Voodoo doll is quite cute. It sits in your inventory and allows you additional interactions with other Sims. Like all other items, there are some positive and negative results with the Voodoo doll. You can make an instant friend, use it to make some one fall in love with you instantly, without the hassle of courting them first. You can also do something like cause the other Sims temperature to sky rocket or make them all wet. Lots of fun to be had with the Sims Voodoo doll.

* Myths, Legends and Old Wives Tales

Ok so now once you have the map for the secret lot, see above under Dig up Your Garden, you need to go on holiday, to the Far East and you’ll be able to take the next step in learning the Legend of the Dragon.

This is a nice little trick, cause it gives you the opportunity to r

etell the tale of this legend, which not only gives you and your listeners fun, but increases your social points.

* Look Mom, it’s SimFoot

Ok so now once you have the map for the secret lot, see above under Dig up Your Garden, you need to go on a Holiday vacation and you’ll be able to take the next step in your journey to meet Big Foot.

Big Foot lives in a little cabin in the mountains, where he lives out his days fishing in a nearby lake. You can interact with him, yes he speaks Simlish. When my alien Sim, Stella Terrano (yeah she’s just my favourite Sim to play with) met Big Foot, they became friends and she quickly asked him to move in with her. Now interactions with Big Foot are the same as with any other Sim, except that he cannot have any romantic interactions, so there went my hopes of an alien Big Foot.

He does have an extra interaction and that’s a big foot hug, which is kinda cute, he’ll give your Sim a big grizzly hug. But he has the same aspirations as your other Sims and a very cute hat and waistcoat he wears to work, should you wana send Mr Big Foot into the workforce that is :biggrin:

Oh and FYI, you can get fishing badges while on holiday too.

Return of the SimWolf

Getting your Sims to become Werewolves (Sims 2: Pets) is pretty tough at first, although I think after getting it right the first time might make it a little easier the next time. Firstly, your Sim needs to attract the leader of the wolf pack to his or her lot. Not just any wolf, it has to be the pack leader, only he or she can make your Sim a werewolf. There is only one difference between the leader of the pack and a regular wolf and that is their glowing yellow eyes.

Best way to attract the pack leader to your Sims lot is by making it wolf friendly… they like lots and lots of fauna. Buy some vegetation, plants, flowers and let the garden over run a little with weeds and untrimmed hedges.

Once you spot the leader of the pack, make friends with him or her. They’ll only come by at night and will leave the early hours of the morning, before sun rise, so your time is limited. Alternate between the first two available social interactions, which is Feed Treat and Stroke. So you do that, repeatedly until a third and fourth option becomes available. Once your Sim is friends with the wolf, might take more than one night, your relationship should be around 80 and your stats quite low, then the wolf will nibble you and your Sim will be a werewolf.

Remember to keep your stats down before nightfall, so you’re ready when the wolf comes by, probably the second or third night. Keep your social, fun, comfort, hygiene and bladder as low as you can, without causing your Sim to become too miserable to follow your instructions.

Once a werewolf, your Sim will change every night and change back every morning. Once they’ve shape shifted into werewolf form, their hunger will take a dive… as a wolf man, they obviously like red meat, so give them a big hefty meal each night. They can howl and in turn convert their own friends by biting them.

You can get the lycan cure, Lycanthropic – B, from the matchmaker, phone her up she’s

under Services.

FYI – any cure, whether it be vampires, werewolves or plantsims, you can take it out of your inventory and use your influence to influence some one to drink the cure… so if you’re sick of your best friends night time habits.

Count Simula

If your Sim loves the night life and wants to free themselves of their mortal coil, you can get them turned by a vampire (Sims 2: Night Life). What you need to do first is locate and befriend an existing vampire. Now the game has two premade vampires, a female and male. You’ll usually find them downtown. Best bet is to hang out, during night time only of course, at the Crypt O’ Nightclub.

Befriend them and once your friendship level is high enough, they’ll bite you, turning your Sim into the undead. As a vampire, your Sims will have a slighter paler complexion… looks a little grey if you ask me and have elongated teeth or fangs. Same as with the werewolf, above mentioned, they can then in turn bite their own friends, turning more of Simville into vampires.

Vampire Sims will die in sunlight, you have to take out their windows and keep them indoors during the daytime. Their stats go down quite quickly, the longer they’re exposed to sunlight, so I guess if you need to run to that last exam real quick, it should be ok. Buying them a coffin to sleep in might be a good investment. Coffins also have one or two cute interactions for other Sims.

As a vampire, your Sim will be immortal and be able to turn into a bat while moving about. Vampire Sims cannot get pregnant. If you’re friends with a vampire, phoning them during the day for a chat has the same effect as phoning a Sim after midnight, if you wana phone them up, do it when the sun is down.

Your Sim Vampire’s stats will stay as they are, that is if you stay out of the sun, just like mythic vampires, they don’t really need sustenance to survive. Unless of course you’re making your Sim vampire do lots of exercise, their hygiene will also go down and of course, they do get tired as well. Oh and your Vampire will also not have a reflection, which I thought was a cute touch.

You can get the cure, Vamprocillin – D, from the matchmaker, phone her up she’s under Services.

FYI – any cure, whether it be vampires, werewolves or plantsims, you can take it out of your inventory and use your influence to influence some one to drink the cure… so if you’re sick of your best friends night time habit.

Nigh of the Living Simbies

Zombies kinda creep me out, half decomposed creatures dragging themselves around… just creepy. But if you’d like to see how Maxis has created zombies for your Sims, you’ll need Sims 2: University.

Firstly you need to reach a high level in the Occult career path. Once you’re eligible for a career reward, you get the phone which allows you to call the Grim Reaper and if you know any dead Sims, you’ll have the option to resurrect them.

Now, it doesn’t come cheap. For a full resurrection, you have

to pay the full price, the less you pay, the, uh, well less fully assembled they’ll come back. You get to choose between 1 to 10 000 simoleans. If you decide to only pay a pitiful amount, like under 1000 simoleons, the Grim Reaper will get a little ticked off, take your money, not resurrect the Sim and tell you to stop wasting his time. Now, if you want the Sim not to come back as he or she was before and you’re looking for a zombie, then don’t pay the full 10 grand. Pay like 3 or 4 thousand and you’ll get your very own Sim zombie.

I was a little disappointed with the zombies, they don’t seem to have as much extra features as the other ‘monsters’ in the Sims 2. They act and sound like a zombie, like he drags his one leg behind him and does a lot of growling… or grunting, or what ever you call that gargly sound a zombie makes. They’re a slightly greener colour and it seems that their hunger does not go down. Guess zombies don’t need to eat

Your Garden Variety PlantSim

If you ever just get fed up of trying to keep you little Sims happy and thriving and wish that for once their stats would just become easier to maintain, then with Sims 2: Seasons, you can now get them to turn into PlantSims, which have much less stats to worry about.

Now, the only way to get your Sim to become a PlantSim is for them to become exposed to a high amount of chemicals… the pesticides used to kill the bugs on your crops. So if you use the ‘Spray’ feature a lot on your crops, your Sim will eventually join the ranks of PlantSims, green plant like creatures with the same wants and aspirations as any other human Sims, but with a different type of needs.

PlantSims are easy to care for, their needs are only Water, Sunlight and Love. Love is of course like your Social bar. And as for Sunlight, well you can get one of those indoor sunlight, that’ll do just fine.

If you want a PlantSim, don’t build a greenhouse at first. A greenhouse (ie: the glass walls and roof you can now build around your crops – Sims 2: Seasons) will keep your crops pest free.

PlantSims cannot become pregnant, as plants are asexual; they can have a baby all on their own. Only thing with that is that a PlantSim baby is born immediately as a toddler and also skips a lot of the life cycles. They go directly from toddler, to adult, to elder. You can at anytime cure them which will let them continue the normal Sim aging cycle.

You can get the cure, Plantophic – C, from the matchmaker or Garden Club, phone them up, they’re under Services.

FYI – any cure, whether it be vampires, werewolves or plantsims, you can take it out of your inventory and use your influence to influence some one to drink the cure… so if you’re sick of your best friends night time habits.