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1181. TS2U Designer Diary 2

Written on Thursday 13 January 2005 at 22:08 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The second part of the Designer Diary of the Sims 2 University has been posted at GameSpot. This time college jobs are described. Jamming with a band, being a personal trainer at the gym, or being a tutor in the library can help your students earn a little extra cash. It's also said this money can be spent again at the pool table, by placing a bet. Some other jobs include serving at a bar or at the espresso shop. New decoration styles are also present in the expansion, one of which being the frat style. That features "torn leather couches, ratty chairs, beat-up fridges, and dingy linoleum to really give you a chance to re-create the authentic frat basement, complete with Greek letters." The groovy collection takes your Sims back to the '60s and '70s. Included are a few new screenshots, which you can see below. Read the designer diary for more precise information about the jobs and earning money.

1182. Free Will in new TSO city [Update]

Written on Thursday 13 January 2005 at 21:43 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Today EA opened up a new city in the Sims Online, called Betaville. This is a city that's more Sims 1 like, as jobs are existing, Sims get personality and even a free will. It seems Maxis is trying to make the Sims 1 go online, as many fans might have expected it to be in the first place. It's still a prototype city and the features may not be complete. Players can create a family of up to four Sims using a free will button in the Select a Sim screen. This family can then be placed in Betaville. See this post at Stratics for more information.

[Update 21:30] It seems there are some problems with the city. Although the information at Stratics says it should be possible to create a family even if you have three Sims in other cities already, people with three sims don't seem to be able to create the family:

"NOTE: We are aware of the current problem preventing people from creating Sims if they already have Sims in three other cities. We are working on this issue and hope to have it resolved very soon. Please refrain from reporting this problem so the bug board does not get too cluttered."

1183. New Sims 2 Patch

Written on Wednesday 12 January 2005 at 22:08 by ChEeTaH - 1 comment.

We've catched up with all the news again, but there's still one more thing to tell. Maxis has unexpectedly released a new patch for the Sims 2 today. It fixes two bugs, namely the custom content browser for Asian territories, and some bugs related to downloadable objects. It's not available as separate small patch, but there's only one big patch (which includes the original one) available. You can download it for almost 17 Mb of hard disk space, from the Update page.

1184. TS2U trailer

Written on Wednesday 12 January 2005 at 22:04 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Games website GameSpot has posted a brand new trailer of the Sims 2 University. The video, which comes in a download of 6.7 Mb or in streamed format, shows some students playing a game of pool. The winner gets the girl. The video is fairly short and can be downloaded or viewed from the media page. Free registration is required.

1185. EA Supports Asia Victims

Written on Wednesday 12 January 2005 at 21:59 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Electronic Arts has made a financial donation of $250,000 to the UNICEF South Asian Tsunami Relief fund to support the victims of the tsunami disaster at the end of last year. Employees donating to UNICEF or the Red Cross before 31 March will see their money donated on a 2-to-1 ratio by EA. Electronic Arts is not the only games company to pledge money to charities for the disaster, CCP in Ireland has also donated some money, and gamers at the Big Screen Game Tournament in London 8-9 January also raised nearly $2,000. See the article at GameSpot for more information.

1186. T-Mail 3

Written on Wednesday 12 January 2005 at 21:52 by ChEeTaH - 1 comment.

The newsflow continues as we catch up with the news of the past two weeks. As you might have read, Tim LeTourneau, Senior Producer of the Sims 2 University, is travelling across Europe to show off the first expansion. After going to Amsterdam, Brussels and Warsaw he sent out an e-mail to the community telling a bit about the presentations and the game itself. No real new info is given, but Tim does clear up the difference between "objects" and "items":

"As I'm demoing the game, it's becoming clear to me that we need to make everyone aware of how we describe the content we make for each expansion pack. As you know, The Sims 2 introduced many new types of content, for example Neighborhood ploppables and ground textures. We often use the terms Objects and Items and I want to make sure you are all clear on the difference so that when it comes up as a topic you can make sure players understand what each word means."

With the Cow-plant being one of the most favourite objects in the new expansion, Tim also sent out a movie showing how that works. You can download that at the cost of approximately 14 Mb. Besides that the two screenshots below were also included. Click the thumbnails to see larger versions, and read on for the complete e-mail.

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1187. TS2U Release Date

Written on Wednesday 12 January 2005 at 21:39 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Recently there has been a bit of confusion concerning the release date of the Sims 2 University. The official UK site has reported the game will be released there on 11 March. However, SimsExpress reported the official Spanish site stated 4 March earlier. Nevertheless, several other European sites have confirmed the date of 10 or 11 March, which makes the last the most likely for the UK (as that's a friday). In the US the game might be expected the tuesday before that, but that's not officially confirmed yet. Of course we'll keep you updated of any changes that occur to this release date.

1188. Modding Sims 2 Meshes

Written on Wednesday 12 January 2005 at 21:31 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The central place for the Sims 2 modding community, ModTheSims2.com, has launched a new closed beta test for a special tool. The program can change the meshes of objects. In result, this will mean completely new objects, in different shape and (as seen before) behaviour than the default objects. Besides that, there's also a Milkshape plugin to edit meshes. For now a few objects with changed meshes have already been released, namely a Bio-Hazard sculpture and a Shower kit. It probably won't be very long until we'll see more objects like these on the net.

1189. Sims 2 Hacks spreading through Exchange

Written on Wednesday 12 January 2005 at 21:21 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Since the community found out how to hack objects and other game content, hacks have been spreading through the exchange "like viruses." Website SecurityFocus has posted an article about this problem, and how the community is also trying to solve it. In it, EA says they were surprised that hacks spreaded through the exchange by loads, unwillingly. Despite an added warning shield, some hackers had already come up with a tool to identify and remove installed hacks. Read the complete article for more.

1190. Screenshots and Art

Written on Wednesday 12 January 2005 at 21:08 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

There are several new screenshots from the Sims 2 University posted over the past few weeks. The first comes from the French site, then there are four from the German site and one from the Italian site. The last four are rather small, and come from the Spanish site. Some might look familiar but are taken from a slightly different angle. Besides that, there have been several artworks on the German site, kindly put together by our affiliates SimsZone, whose picture you can see below. The other small artworks have been extracted from the official site's information page. They are posted here in their full size already.