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1831. The Neighborhood Handler 4.00 Final out!

Written on Sunday 15 December 2002 at 22:34 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

It's here, the final version of The Neighborhood Handler 4.00! After months of work, it's finally ready. The manual got a new design and has been rewritten nearly completely. A few tutorials have been added too. But most important: the program is working ok! There were still quite a lot of bugs in the latest Release Candidate 2 version, a few of them causing not all files to be copied properly. Those old versions have been taken offline. To prevent such problems and other bugs, ALL users of The Neighborhood Handler 4.0 RC1 or 4.0 RC2 MUST upgrade to the 4.00 final version! I will not be giving any support anymore for these versions. Because this update is so critical, everybody can download it right away, so the big public doesn't have to wait a week after the group members got it.

You can download the full version from this page, or get the upgrade version here. For the upgrade version, you need to have version 3.7 or later installed. Enjoy this new version.

1832. TSO December Update

Written on Saturday 14 December 2002 at 18:43 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Now it's getting so close to the release of The Sims Online, the official site has gone through a bit of a remake. You could call it a relaunch. Unfortunately, quite a few things (like the news, message boards and more) have moved to the player website only, guests can't access much. However, one of the new things everybody can enjoy is the Sim Persona Test. Test what kind of Sim Personality you have there! All you have to do is answer 16 questions. Some old game features articles have been put in the spotlight again too. However, there are also new articles from this month. All the old and new articles can be found at this page. One new article is about advertising in the game, others about categorising, "Backstage Online!?" and an article about the media attention. The fifth 'article' is the persona test I mentioned earlier. Those who are in the beta test or who will be having the game next week (you must be registered anyway), can visit the player website here. All other people should have a look at this page.

1833. More donation files added

Written on Friday 13 December 2002 at 22:58 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

They've been slightly delayed, but a two more files have been added for donors only. They're made by Bettjoe, and you can download them if you donate some money to us to help us (and the RGA) out. Please donate, we really need the money. We have received a few donations so far, and we hope many more will follow that example. Any spare bit of money, from $1 to $100 or even more, is useful to us. Of course, the more you donate the happier we are. Oh, and don't worry that you have to pay in US Dollars: we accept British Pounds, Euros and Canadian dollars to. So please donate now!

1834. European fans can test TSO longer

Written on Friday 13 December 2002 at 21:39 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

There's some good news for European play testers of The Sims Online. As the release of the game in the US is coming closer and closer, the test is also getting closer to its ending. Testers can enjoy the game until another 2 weeks after the release, so until the beginning of next year. However, Europeans still have to wait a while for The Sims Online to be released. Fortunately though, those Europeans will be get in the so-called "International Founders Group". They can play until a while after the European release for free. If you register the full version of The Sims Online before the end of the play test (and after the release) then you will not lose your game progress. The exact release date in Europe is yet undetermined, but it will be next year.

1835. Pop-ups

Written on Thursday 12 December 2002 at 23:39 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

As you might have noticed, The Sims Zone is running out of money. We didn't put up the donations section for nothing last weekend... we need about £300 ($450) before the end of April next year. We hope you can help us out with that, as we don't want to become a pay site either. To get a bit of extra money from advertising (which isn't a lot at the moment), we've added pop-ups to our site. They will only pop up if you're not logged in as member. If you're not a member, then there's a chance that you will get to see a pop up. This depends on ValueClick at that moment, they have to have ads available at the time. If you feel like helping us out, please donate! You will get a few extra (special) files from us as reward. Besides that, if we get more money than we need, you will also support the RGA. Read all about it in the donations section. Thank you.

1836. SimDay: More chats...

Written on Thursday 12 December 2002 at 19:40 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

This week in SimDay: a new TSO and SimCity 4 chat, a patch for The Sims Deluxe and a new The Sims PS2 website. The patch and website info can be read in the "Read more" link, but first here is all the chat info. First of all, tonight at 11pm (British time, midnight GMT or 3pm Pacific) there will be a chat of SimCity 4. Guest of honour is Joseph, designer of that game, who will be talking about the rewards system. Tomorrow there's another TSO chat where you can talk about the development team. That event will be held at 2am British time (which is 3 in the morning in Europe, 6pm PST). A chat of last week's chat is available at the TSO site. As it's available only in the community events section of the bug boards, I cannot read the chat as I cannot join the play test either. Remember that we have a TSO interview too! You can still submit your questions to us so your questions get answered. Read More!

1837. New Poll

Written on Thursday 12 December 2002 at 19:14 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Last night a new poll was added again. We are wondering what you have done to your Newbies and Goths, you know, the two families in the original game that everybody knows. Let us know how your Newbies and Goths ended up by voting on the right or at this page. In our last poll ("How will you pay for The Sims Online?") over 50% voted they will not be buying the game: 30 of 57 people chose that. 3 other options ("Game time cards", "Don't know yet" and "I will check TSO out first with the play time that comes with the game, then decide about it") all got 8 votes each (14.04%). The people who will pay with their credit card are in the minority: just 3 people picked that, which is just 5.26%.

1838. Server is back! New feature up!

Written on Sunday 8 December 2002 at 23:55 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The moment you've all been waiting for (well, we were anyway) is here! The server is back up which means we can properly add files for your enjoyment again. But, we've also added something new, which is necessary for us. As I've explained more often, hosting a site costs money. At the moment, the costs are quite high for us and unfortunately we cannot afford it anymore at the moment. That's why we need your help! You can send us an amount of money (you decide how much) using the Donate button on the left (or by following this link). With the donations, we hope to cover all our costs. But, that's not where we stop! When we're able to pay all our bills, we will send the remainder of what we got to a charity. For the next few months we've selected the RGA. For more details about that, go to the donations page.

As we don't want you to leave empty-handed, we give you some value for your money too. Every month, a new bunch of special files will be added to this site. When you donate, you will get an email with a username and password, which you need to download these files. The files are listed in the donations file group, so you can get a preview of the files before you donate. You can also wait a month to get the files for free then, but then you also don't help us... which might mean we have to close down eventually! So:

1839. TSO Interview: Send us your questions!

Written on Sunday 8 December 2002 at 12:21 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Some good news after all the server trouble: we have been invited to have an interview about The Sims Online with the TSO development/producers team. This means an interview with them will be seen here sooner or later. However, we know you probably have some questions you want to ask about The Sims Online. Now here's that opportunity! You can submit your questions to us by either e-mailing me or otherwise by making comments to this news post (registered TSZ members only!). We will select the best questions and add some of our own. These will then be in the interview. There is no guarantee that your question will be answered, but it's worth a try. Everybody is allowed to submit one or more questions, so send them in! You can submit questions until next week midnight between Sunday and Monday (so until Monday 16 December, midnight). We're waiting for your questions...

1840. Server Trouble Update Again

Written on Saturday 7 December 2002 at 18:57 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Our .com server is back again for now, and so downloading has been re-enabled. Unfortunately there are still some problems with uploading files, so the new feature will have to wait a day or so. This problem was caused by the transferring of files, which made the directories on the server inaccessible for us (for writing). This will be fixed asap, which may result in another bit of downtime of a few hours. We are tired of the problems too, and hope everything's working properly again tomorrow or monday.