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431. OfB Chat Thursday

Written on Wednesday 18 January 2006 at 00:00 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Open for Business is coming soon, and the team of people working on it is ready to answer your questions about the expansion pack. Next Thursday, 19 Jauary, there will be a developer chat in which you can ask anything you have to ask the Maxoids. Who exactly will be answering the questions is not yet mentioned, but you'll find out if you join at 3pm PST (11pm GMT, midnight in most of Europe). The chatroom will open shortly before the chat starts.

432. System Requirements OfB

Written on Tuesday 17 January 2006 at 22:44 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Maxis has revealed the system requirements for Open for Business. Similar to Nightlife, this expansion pack will require a processor with a clock speed of 1000 Mhz (1 GHz) or higher (2.4 Ghz if you don't have a T&L capable graphics card). This is more than the original game, which requires 800 Mhz. Besides that, you'll also need an extra 1.5 Gb of disk space. During installation the program will probably need a little more to be free, for temporary files as well. Another change compared to the original (but not since Nightlife), is that the ATi Radeon 7000 series are no longer supported - an ATi Radeon 8500 is the bare minimum for ATi's range of graphics cards. For more detials see the official System Requirements page and our knowledge base article.

433. Unofficial Expansion: Sims 2 Spooked!

Written on Tuesday 17 January 2006 at 22:34 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Together with Maxis, several students of the University of Southern California have developed a mini-expansion pack for the Sims 2. This is reported by SimsOvernight. Carrying the title "Sims 2 Spooked" the pack contains 20 objects, designed and developed by students, from a Possessed Coffee Pot to a "Frank – the Do It Yourself Monster Kit". The students were given Edith, the tool Maxis uses to create objects and more for the Sims 2, as well as some other tools, to create the expansion pack. The group of 22 was also advised by several Maxoids during the development. It seems that the pack was already finished early last year, but it's only been discovered by Sims fans recently. SnootySims also reports that, coincidentally or not, the idea of the expansion pack was mentioned in an early survey that showed up on the official site last year.

For more information about this mini expansion, see the news page, and their project page where you can find movies, a guide to Edith (with complete wiki about the tool), and a original gameplay concepts and ideas, as well as a full handbook explaining the different items in the game. Whether the expansion pack is available to the public is not clear at this moment.

434. OfB Screenshot and German Previews

Written on Tuesday 17 January 2006 at 22:23 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

We already mentioned 30 screenshots of Open for Business a few days ago, from our affiliate SimsZone. They have now posted a preview as well, with some new information. They tell that when any Sim, townie or playable, enters a business that you're running at that moment (as NPC), will not be affected in any way when they make a purchase or so. That means that even if you see a Sim that you created buying an item, that item will not appear in their inventory, nor will you see any change in their budget, when you go back and play with that Sim. Instead, visiting Sims more or less have an unlimited supply of cash to spend.

Other than that, German website SimTimes has also been to Cologne to visit the presentation of Tim LeTourneau. They too have posted a (German) preview, along with 25 screenshots of the upcoming expansion pack.

435. T-Mail Screenshots

Written on Monday 16 January 2006 at 00:56 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

We regularly receive e-mails from Tim LeTourneau, talking about the upcoming expansion pack. Usually they also come with screenshots, and the next one won't be any different to that. Although the e-mail itself is yet to be sent, the screenshots have already been uploaded. Shown are a bakery, the perks interface (with a wholesale perk selected, showing that you can buy items with discount if you run a business), an unhappy customer and a robot with strange teeth and an odd walk... If you want to see them, click the thumbnails below. Thanks to our affiliate SimsZone for spotting these graphics.

436. 30 Open for Business Screenshots

Written on Monday 16 January 2006 at 00:45 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

After being in Brussels, Tim LeTourneau has also gone to Cologne, Germany, to show Open for Business there. Our affiliate SimsZone was there as well, and managed to take home 30 screenshots of the expansion pack. The screenshots show many parts of the game and its interface, and some of the possibilities of the objects. Check their screenshots index for all the screens.

437. OfB Presentation in Brussels Reports

Written on Saturday 14 January 2006 at 17:21 by ChEeTaH - 5 comments.

As we posted earlier, Tim LeTourneau was in Brussels last thursday to promote Open for Business. Besides our own preview there are several other fansites who also had representatives over, and they have now posted pictures and/or reports from the presentation. Below you can find links to the reports posted so far. Note that some of the sites mentioned below are Dutch, and thus so are their reports - in that case, you'll almost always find the same information in our article. If more reports appear, we'll post them here.

• SP Zone
• SnootySims
• SimsNetwork (English report, with pictures)
• The Hub
• DeKDeS & Mogway's Sims 2 Creations
• SimsPlanet2 Forums

438. The SimPrentice - Open for Business Preview

Written on Saturday 14 January 2006 at 16:56 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Like GameSpy did with the previous two expansion packs for the Sims 2, they have now started a series of articles called the SimPrentice. They talk to Grubbs, "a full-time slacker and part-time entrepreneur," who has set up his own salon in the Sims world, in his parents' garage. The article has several screenshots, including some of the interface. To see those, check out the screenshot gallery of GameSpy. Naturally for more details, you should read the interview.

439. Open for Business Preview

Written on Saturday 14 January 2006 at 16:46 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

When Tim LeTourneau was in the UK to present Open for Business to the press, website EuroGamer talked to him about the expansion pack as well. The result is a new preview, that gives a little bit of new information. For example, the three basic types of businesses are mentioned: pay-per-item, pay-per-service, and pay-per-time. Using stories from a demo, it also tells that one of the robots, probably hydro bot, was spraying water all over the place when it was broken. A cleaner but ran after it, cleaning up all the puddles. Things like conical roofing, awnings, split-level places and elevators are also briefly mentioned.

In the interview on the second page, which is more general about the Sims itself, Tim also mentions that Open for Business probably won't be available through EA Downloader, a service that EA introduced with the Holiday Party Pack. For more details, be sure to read the preview.

440. Open for Business Graphics

Written on Saturday 14 January 2006 at 16:30 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

It's not very uncommong for EA to release a lot of screenshots of the games they are creating. Open for Business, the upcoming expansion pack, is no exception there. Five screenshots have been found at the French site JeuxVideo.com. They show various shops in action, including some of the new objects. Besides that, EA has also posted a new artwork as well as the logo (without any backgrounds) of the expansion pack on their press site. You'll be able to see all the graphics by clicking the thumbnails below. Thanks to L'universims for discovering the screenshots.