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1891. New poll

Written on Thursday 17 October 2002 at 02:49 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

As you might've read, Serena has left the Sim Brother house. That means it's time for a new poll again. This week: Will you participate in the TSO play test? As you all probably know, there's a play test so you can play The Sims Online even before it's out. Now we want to know if you're already playing it, if you're going to play it or if you won't. Also, we want to know how you joined or why you're not going to. Tell us by voting on the right or on this page. Your vote counts!

1892. Some TSO Updates

Written on Wednesday 16 October 2002 at 00:17 by ChEeTaH - 4 comments.

A few updates about The Sims Online from Amazon. This game will be released at 18 November 2002 in the US. As we can see at Amazon.co.uk, it appears to be released nearly a month later at 13 December 2002. The same probably goes for the rest of Europe. Also, there will be a 'Game Card' box, sold for $29,99, which gives you some play time for The Sims Online (I expect that to be 2 or 3 months). There will also be a so-called Charter Edition for an additional $25 over the 'regular' version of the game. The difference is that it comes with some extras. First of all, you get 2 extra months of play time over the regular package which has just 1 month play time. You'll also get a 'Charter Member Certificate' to 'show off your special status'. Furthermore there's a TSO Soundtrack with the music from the game on it, and you'll get a full colour manual instead of the standard grey one. Two other items are an interactive "Be Somebody Else" Sim Magnet, and a twisty Sim key chain with which you can Mix and Match Sims on the go. If you want to pre-order one of the packages, visit Amazon US (US Only - TSO, Gamecard and Charter Edition), EBGames (Partially US Only - TSO (with or without play test), Gamecard, Charter Edition and the TSO Prima Strategy Guide) or Amazon UK (UK and Europe Only - just The Sims Online). Again, note that the game is still in development and will be released in a month in the US, and another month later in the UK and (probably) Europe. The play test is currently not available outside the US (unless you can get someone to mail-forward the cds), but EA Europe has some 'silvers' that they plan to make available soon. As soon as details follow on that, we will tell you. Thanks to our Sumit for the details on the Charter Edition and Andy for the Europe Play Test info (and also passing on the charter details to me), and SimGateway for the tip from Amazon.

1893. TSO: Buy your place in the play-test

Written on Thursday 10 October 2002 at 20:56 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Want to join the TSO play test, but haven't been invited yet? You can now buy your place by pre-ordering the game. It mainly goes for North America again, there isn't a list of participating retailers in Europe or elsewhere. Also, there's a little notice saying this:

"Excludes shipping and handling. Outside of North America, prospective pre-purchasers will need to verify participation in this program with their local retailers or verify that participating online retailers can ship to their desired destinations. Again, pre-ordering gets you into the Play Test, and every Play Tester is automatically in The Sims Online Founders program."

That isn't the only update at the official site though: there's the whole October update. 5 new articles, a MOMI update (about the play test) and a new webmaster pack (2.43 Mb) together make this update. The 5 articles are more or less the usual stuff. One is about "Bringing virtual building to a whole new level", a diary entry of a play-tester, how you can customise your lot's sounds, an article called "Playing with the Property Page", and finally something about TSO objects. That's all for the October Update, and you can find it all at the TSO official site.

1894. The Neighborhood Handler & Unleashed

Written on Thursday 10 October 2002 at 20:36 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

If you visit us regularly, you might know that I've been down with RSI (a mouse-arm) for a few weeks. I'm glad to say that things are getting better again, and I can do some work again. However, there was still quite some work to be done on TNHH and other things. That means there's some work piled up, so I'll be staying a bit in the background for another while to catch up. Matthew will be keeping you updated with the latest news most of the time. Now about my planning for The Neighborhood Handler. As said, I was working on a version that would be compatible with the new Unleashed expansion pack. As it got delayed, I thought I'd still want to release it as soon as possible - or at least something. There is still some work to be done on the program itself, but that should be finished within 2 weeks or so as I resumed the programming work today. I'll then post a simple version of the program, without a big readme, manual whatsoever. In other words, just the program and nothing else. Another few weeks later, a full version with manual, installation and maybe some bugfixes etc. will be uploaded. As usual, the program will be released to the Yahoo! Group first.

1895. SimDay: Lots of links and some other things...

Written on Thursday 10 October 2002 at 20:26 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Quite a big SimDay this week, although most of it are just links to reviews of Unleashed or The Sims Deluxe. One that isn't in our Unleashed review index yet is this one from Computer Simulation Games. 2 other reviews are from the Gamer's Temple, from both Unleashed and Deluxe. To end the list, TSO has been featured at SeattlePi.com. To see a list of several reviews of Unleashed go here, for Deluxe click here. Furthermore, part 2 of the Unleashed Pet Skins has been made available to registered users. It's not a real big download (468 Kb), so just get it by following this link. Also the Exchange has been reopened to international users so you can download even more. There's a new warning message when downloading, so make sure you read that. Finally, an Unleashed FAQ has been uploaded at the official site which answers questions from rezoning to getting rid of unwanted animals. The FAQ can be found here. That's all for this week, from the official site.

1896. Get well soon, ChEeTaH

Written on Thursday 26 September 2002 at 01:39 by Andy - 7 comments.

Our hardworking webmaster has been working too hard and is out of action with RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) in his right arm. He will hopefully be back in action in a week or so when his arm has been properly rested.

ChEeTaH has asked me to apologise for those of you who are eagerly awaiting TNHH v4, the latest version of his excellent neighborhood handling program. This will be made available when he has recovered.

In the meantime, the rest of the staff and I hope to keep you informed of the latest goings-on in the Sims Community and keep you stocked with plenty of new downloads for your virtual people.

Get well soon, mate. We miss you.

1897. The Sims Deluxe Discussions

Written on Thursday 19 September 2002 at 23:27 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Recently, since the press release about The Sims Deluxe came out, there have been lots of discussions about it. Many - according to a recent poll at this site, a lot of people think it's a rip-off. But many people in the discussions had no objections to Maxis releasing the pack the way they did. Now The Sims Deluxe has been released, and a few people had commented on it. As said, there are some people like this person (WorldSims forums) who like it. Apparantly the Creator is worth some money (in my opinion, I still doubt $40 - which most people will pay for it - is really worth it). Also it seems that it loads a bit faster and graphics look slightly better. But as Davybear commented in alt.games.the-sims the extras are of the type that "Most of them you would not download if you saw them on a web site". If you'd like to see for yourself, then here (at Club MOTS) are some pictures. I must agree with Davybear that they're not too original and do not really seem to be worth 5 bucks for all of them. Even if it was all great, it still doesn't rule out part of the open letter about neglected Europeans: Europeans cannot get a rebate. At all. And considering the costs there are to make the program - probably no more than $5000 - after which the costs per package (box, cds and paperwork etc) are no more than $5, they'd need just 1000 sales of $10 each (with just those extras, for the loyal fans) to start making a profit. No doubt that they'll reach that from all the 6 or 7 million fans who already bought the game. As many people already paid nearly $200 for The Sims (if not more) it seems that Maxis and EA could easily sell the extras separately for a small fee, or even give them away for free to fill up some SimDays - which have been pretty worthless recently. Of course it's still up to you whether or not to buy The Sims Deluxe, but I do not recommend it. That doesn't mean you have to listen to me, but you don't have to listen to EA either...

1898. Chat transcript

Written on Wednesday 18 September 2002 at 23:25 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Last night at 11PM British time (3PM PST or Midnight Central European Time) a chat event with Jenna Chalmers and Jonathan Knight was held at the official site. Another site, WorldSims already has the transcript available for you. Here's a small snippet, about the new lots and its interface, of the chat visited by over 250 people:

"We used lot numbers 50-80 for the new lots. The new larger neighborhood will be the first thing you see! No need to push any buttons or scroll anywhere. Its all right there in front of you. Downtown is the area that comes with the "Hot Date" expansion, "Old Town" are the community lots that come in "Unleashed""

We also get to know quite a lot of other things, like there won't be any leashes, but you will be able to get collars for your pets. Also, pets will dig into garbage or in the garden just to amuse themselves. So make sure they don't get bored! The Unleashed expansion pack will be released 23 September in the US, and early October in Europe. Visit this page at WorldSims to see the whole transcript.

1899. Advertising in TSO

Written on Tuesday 17 September 2002 at 23:58 by ChEeTaH - 2 comments.

Reuters has posted an interesting report about The Sims Online. It's all about McDonald's putting some advertising in the game, which they pay EA for. The same goes for Intel. Apparantly, EA needs to make more money from the game, and therefore they've decided to put in some product placement. Intel and McDonald's were interested because the game attracts many young players. One way that it'd be shown, is in the way that you can buy a McDonald's restaurant. As it's an online game, it'll be easy for Maxis/EA to put in future advertisers in the future. Something slightly similar already happened in The Sims when the Pepsi Drinks machine was released, although I'm not sure if Pepsi actually paid for that. The whole article can be found right here. Your opinion on this matter can of course be put in the comments of this article (only for registered members - it's free).

1900. 5 Unleashed, 5 PS2 screenshots

Written on Sunday 15 September 2002 at 00:00 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

PC.IGN.com has posted a few new screenshots of Unleashed. 5 to be precise. This time there are images of the community areas, namely a pet show and a farmer's market. There's also a filled table. As if that's not enough, you can see some pet training in action, and last but not least a cat that wants a bird. The screenshots are quite nice and worth checking out right here.

There are also 5 new screenshots of The Sims on PS2, like some sims working hard - in a hot tub, some skill fixing going on, the creating of a female sim, a nice house overview and finally some more hot-tubbing. And they're all on this page with some more older shots.