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1961. 'New' SV loading speed fix

Written on Thursday 27 June 2002 at 04:01 by ChEeTaH - 3 comments.

It seems another fix to speed up the loading of Vacation has been discovered. It has to do with making files marked as Read-Only. This fix has been going around in the community for a while now, but I only heard about it just now for the first time. Here is how to do it:

With Explorer, go to C:\Program Files\Maxis (or the folder 'above' the Sims' folder where you installed it)

Select the folder of The Sims

Now click File at the top (the menu) and click Properties

Now if the read-only box is checked, uncheck it and re-check it. If it's not checked, simply put a check for it.

Click the OK button, and apply the changes to all files and subdirectories.

Reports go that this speeds up the loading a huge lot, and it's worth a try. If you get trouble saving houses, then you can use The Neighborhood Handler to 'repair' the neighborhood. However, it should cause no problems as far as I know.

 

1962. TSO Chat in 90 minutes

Written on Thursday 27 June 2002 at 02:30 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The news might be a bit late, but not too late: there will be a chat session at Stratics Chat in about 90 minutes (6:00 PM PST, 2:00 AM GMT). This chat session will be about The Sims Online. Part of the TSO team will be chatting there (Will Wright won't be there). This first ever "Sims Online House of Commons Chat" seems to be one of a series of chat sessions held at different places. More information is here (including the IRC Servers and Channels it's held at). You can enter the Java Chat client here if you're not familiar with IRC.

1963. Vacation for Mac

Written on Thursday 27 June 2002 at 02:25 by ChEeTaH - 1 comment.

After The Sims, Livin' Large, House Party and (recently) Hot Date have been ported to the mac, the next logical step is Vacation. Again, Aspyr Media will be making this Mac version of this fourth expansion pack. Currently it's in Beta stage, and yet far from finished. No release date is known yet, and it might still take a couple of months. In fact, The Sims Unleashed - most likely the fifth expansion - might be released on the PC before Vacation hits the Macintosh. If you're interested in getting The Sims on the Mac, then visit Aspyr Media.

1964. New poll again

Written on Thursday 27 June 2002 at 02:15 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Like every early thursday morning, we change the poll at this site. This week's poll is: What's the best in The Sims? Do you like to build houses or areas, furnish them, running or ruining the lifes of sims, or maybe even killing them? Or are you just a downloader and do you spend more time downloading than playing the game? Or maybe you're one of the artists who likes to just make and design extras? Have your say on the right or on this page. As for last week's poll: most people play 2 or 3 neighbourhoods regularly. 43 of 100 voted that. 33% voted that they play only 1 hood regularly. Strange enough, 4 people said they don't play any hood. However, 8 people are very active and play more than 15 neighbourhoods - or at least they say they do. 6% plays 4 or 5 hoods, while 5 people said they play between 6 and 10 neighbourhoods regularly. We wish everyone fun (not) playing so many neighborhoods, and ask you all to vote again this week on the right or here.

1965. The Neighborhood Handler 3.8 here!

Written on Sunday 23 June 2002 at 16:03 by ChEeTaH - 1 comment.

Those who have not registered to the TNHH group can now also get version 3.8 of The Neighborhood Handler. This new version was released to the group a week ago, and now everybody can work with this improved version. There are many fixes when it comes to previews of houses, areas and families. Indeed, families are now also previewed, including family member names, picture and biography. I don't think there will be another 3.x version for The Neighborhood Handler. The next version will be 4.0, and I've got quite a few changes in my mind for that. You can download the latest TNHH version from this page. Read More!

1966. New TSO Trailer

Written on Saturday 22 June 2002 at 02:03 by ChEeTaH - 1 comment.

There's another new video of The Sims Online. This new trailer shows - of course - The Sims Online, and it can be downloaded from the official site. It requires FilePlanet seems to have sound effects. It'll take a while to download though, as the file is 23.5 Mb big. If you have registered there, then you can get the trailer here. As you probably know, The Sims Online might not be released in parts of Europe. However, the US release has been set back a bit to 19 November this year. SimCity 4 will be out a bit earlier too: 15 November in Europe, a week earlier in the US (probably). Although these games are coming earlier than said before, we Europeans are still waiting for SimGolf to be released...

1967. SimDay Report: Boring again

Written on Thursday 20 June 2002 at 20:59 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Another boring SimDay this week, probably not even worth a report. All there is is a community update, and the news that TSO won an award. All about that can be found in yesterday's news item. Many people want something more for SimDay, and we are waiting for better days. As I mentioned earlier: back at TheSimsFusion there was a series of articles written by Andy about the SimDays back then, in February and March 2001. You can read Part I, Part II and Part III in the Editorials Archive.

1968. Sims earn a lot

Written on Thursday 20 June 2002 at 02:00 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Our research has given us some proof that Sims are generally quite rich: most earn over 1000 per day of work. This we can conclude from last week's poll that was held on this site. Of the 168 people who voted, 72 said that their most-earning sim earns over 1000 per day. With 32 votes, earnings between 250 and 500 is second in line, followed by 500 to 750 per day (27 votes). Only 5 of the players who voted have poor Sims (or they use cheats): their richest Sim earn 100 or less a day. The full report can be read here.

This week we are wondering how many neighbourhoods you still actively play. Please tell us by voting on the right or on this page.

1969. The Sims and SimGolf in NY Times

Written on Wednesday 19 June 2002 at 21:51 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The New York Times had featured The Sims and SimGolf recently. This newspaper describes what the games are like and what's so fun to play - including playing it the bad way:

"While you may choose to make the goal of the game acquiring money or making friends, all that is really expected is that you keep your characters alive, and even that is optional. In fact, the game is a lot of fun to play badly. I remember when I moved five people into a one-bedroom house. Without enough beds, characters slept standing up or simply collapsed. The ever-occupied bathroom meant that no one could ever bathe, and garbage piled up everywhere. Finally everyone was too depressed to go to work, the money ran out and they all starved to death."

There's nothing really new there for the fans of The Sims, but it's still a nice read. Currently SimGolf is set to be released late June or early July still in this year in Europe. But as we know it's been delayed quite a couple of times, and you never know what will happen when it comes near to the actual date. The official SimGolf website has posted the article, which you can find exactly here.

1970. TSO Best Simulation Game

Written on Wednesday 19 June 2002 at 21:46 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The Sims Online has been given the award for the best Simulation game of the E3 awards. It was also a runner-up in the category "Best Online Multiplayer". This in the official E3 awards which we mentioned here. The game was nominated in 3 categories: "Best of Show", "Best Original Game" and "Best Simulation Game". This is a bit of what they had to say about TSO:

"Is Will Wright a genius? Or is he just the one-man advance team for an alien race, sapping our energies with games that gleefully absorb more and more of our time, until we're helpless to resist their ruthless march toward galactic rule? There's evidence for both in The Sims Online, which takes the sitcom ingenuity of The Sims and turns it into a reality TV soap opera."

Read all the results of the awards here.