Chat Transcript: Numbers and Figures
The chat last night was quite a success, despite Lucy not being there. In her place was the Tuning team. MaxisKevin, MaxisHunter, MaxisDestry and MaxisDoctorVu answered many questions. The transcripts have been posted, but if you're too lazy to read that here are some highlights:
- Sims don't have to be married to get a baby
- Sims will not leave the lot when giving birth to a baby
- Sims can't die from sickness or fire until they're Teens
- Although twins are still a possibility, triplets have been taken out
- Any NPC (including the burglar) can be married, but the NPC will be replaced by another one
- The lifetime of a Sim ranges from 70 to 90 days. This is split up as follows: Baby: 3 days; Toddler: 4 days; Children: 8 days; Teens: 15 days; Adults: 29 days; Elders: 11-31 days. The life of a Sim can be extended by using the Elexir of Life which makes the Sim approximately 7-8 days younger, but they won't go back to the previous life stage
- All young Sims have the Grow Up aspiration (which includes learning to walk, talk, etc), as soon as a Sim grows up to Teen you get to choose their Aspiration track (Fame, Family, Fortune, Knowledge, Romance)
- The wants and fears have the chance of being rotated on a daily basis
- You can lock a want (or fear) by right-clicking it, if you want to focus on it
- One aspiration reward is the SimVac object, which sucks skill points from other Sims
- To change the appearance of a Sim, simply use the mirror
- There will be 10 careers with 10 levels each
- In Private school Children/Teens can gain skills from chance cards
- Sims in Private school might have an advantage in their career
- Sims can start gaining skills points as soon as they're toddlers
- Skills do not decay
- The autonomy of Sims has been much improved making them smarter. To make them stupid again, you can just turn off autonomy. Sims can take care of their moods better now, but still not perfectly efficiently.
- Instead of being sent to Military school, children with bad grades at school will be taken away by the Social worker. They might appear in the game again though, if by chance they're adopted by another family in the neighborhood.
- You can build 5 floors without, or 4 floors with a foundation (and you can put a roof on top of that)
- Teens can walk away from home and be brought back by the cops, but they won't end up in jail whatsoever
- There will be 6 or 7 different gnome designs
- And about 16 cinematic cut scenes
- When chatting on the Sim-computer, you can see who else from the neighborhood is online and chat to them
- Maxis will try to hold more chats until the release of the game, as well as some after the release
Of course more questions have been answered, but you have to
read the transcript for those.
Written at 15:21 on Friday, 20 August 2004 by
ChEeTaH.
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Written at 23:53 on Friday, 20 August 2004 by Neil Jones (NKTP)
What can I say?
Basements - brilliant idea, huge tall houses - cool. Opportunity to get military school kids back - should be good. The lack of aging in the original game was one of my personal gripes. The idea of private school sounds interesting, as does marrying the burglar :) Dunno what I'm gonna fill a four storey house with though :)
Written at 00:04 on Saturday, 21 August 2004 by Andrew Russell (AndyJR123)
I found the concept of marrying the burglar an interesting, if not strange, one. Although I suppose this makes it even more realistic.
Can't wait for my sims to be able to eat different foods, got so sick and tired of the food in The Sims 1.
Have to say that this game is going to be the very BEST game ever and can't wait for Sept. 17th!
One last thing, what possessed Maxis to decide to include 7 different gnome designs??!
Written at 10:58 on Saturday, 21 August 2004 by Neil Jones (NKTP)
Edited at 11:00 on Saturday, 21 August 2004 by Neil Jones (NKTP)
Probably the same logic that possessed them to add the ability to marry the bloke who steals your stereo. :) I wonder if he will have a bigger bag this time round - amazing how he was able to fit a huge 14" TV in that piddly little bag in the original game and run at such speed too :)
Written at 19:20 on Saturday, 21 August 2004 by Hayley (girlygirl09)
What is the DVD Edition? Does it show you what the game is like or is it the game?
HELP!!!!!!!!!
Written at 22:15 on Saturday, 21 August 2004 by Kukushka
The DVD version *is* the game. just in DVD format instead. DVD format is much better compressed so the entire game fits onto one CD instead of needing 4. Make sure your CD-ROM can read DVD format before you buy it, though. That can be an issue.
As for the chat, I was very pleased. I don't think we have ever had a chat so loaded with information. Besides that, it was refreshing to see straight answers. Kudos to the Maxis representatives and thank you to the people in the chat who asked good questions instead of the usual "are you married?" and "how old are you?" lol
Written at 22:21 on Saturday, 21 August 2004 by ChEeTaH (TSZ Webmaster) (ChEeTaH)
The DVD edition is the game plus a bunch of extras. You need to have a DVD drive in your computer to be able to use it. Also see our
knowledge section.
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Written at 01:26 on Sunday, 22 August 2004 by Simme2004
Good, we don't have to be maried to have kids!! Thats great, marriage is too much work lol.
Wait, so we have to have a dvd rom on our computer? Is there a non dvd version? That sucks if there isn't a non dvd version because everyone doesn't have a dvd rom.
Written at 01:31 on Sunday, 22 August 2004 by Kukushka
There is a CD version that is 4 CDs. This is the basic version. The DVD version is made available for pre-orders only at the moment.
Written at 03:14 on Sunday, 22 August 2004 by Hayley (girlygirl09)
Will the CD version be out the same time the DVD version is? Like Spet. 17?
Written at 07:48 on Sunday, 22 August 2004 by Tancy Tan (tancy86)
Yes, i suppose it's the same (",)
Written at 12:30 on Sunday, 22 August 2004 by Webmaster of Sim Abyss (Simabyss)
Hmm... I suppose the excess in gnome designs is the next generation after the Llama obsession. Great overload of information from the transcript, too. Some interesting info there. ;)
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Written at 17:35 on Sunday, 22 August 2004 by GloBee (GloBeeMonkey)
I like the idea of being able to interact with the burglar and other npcs. maybe you could use this to distract it from taking stuff while your roomie calls the cops....
Written at 22:50 on Monday, 23 August 2004 by Maria (Ria68)
there are 4 cds?? so what does ech of them do? well obviosuly the 1 of them instales the game, the other to play the game but what r the other 2 for?? last question for the dvd version is it the same price as the cds?? help!!
Written at 23:22 on Monday, 23 August 2004 by ChEeTaH (TSZ Webmaster) (ChEeTaH)
DVD version is the same price as the CD version (in the US anyway). You must have a DVD drive in your computer to be able to use it (i.e. there must be a DVD logo on the front of it). You can buy DVD drives for about $30-$50 I think.
All 4 CDs will probably be necessary during installation (as all of them contain data that's copied to the hard drive), and then the first is required to play. You're just asked to change CDs during the installation.
Please see our knowledge section for more help with the DVD version and the game - many questions have been answered there already. Thank you.
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