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491. New Poll

Written on Thursday 5 August 2004 at 02:00 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Last week we held a poll about the colour of your Sims' rooms. After a week with 554 votes, it turns out Blue was the big winner with 23% of the votes. The rainbow (i.e. people who use many colours) got second with 18%. Furthermore White got 10% and red 9%. All the other options where in the minority. See the results page for the exact results.

As for this week, we go green. We want to know if your Sims do their gardening, or if they have it done by somebody. Let us know and vote on the right or on the latest poll page. For more polls, check out our poll archive. Enjoy!

492. New Files Section Launched

Written on Tuesday 3 August 2004 at 18:26 by ChEeTaH - 3 comments.

Hard work has been going on in the background the past few weeks to bring you something great and almost new. The files section has been rewritten almost from scratch, and many features have been added. First of all, there are nested sections, which means they are sorted better. Also, files may be placed in several sections at a time (more than just 2 as before), so you will definitely find the file you're looking for fairly easily. Add the new 'portal', sorting options, a far more powerful search than ever before here at The Sims Zone, and finally the previews on the overview pages, and it's all a lot better. None of the old functionality has gone lost, but everything has been improved greatly. In the next few weeks some administration might go on in the background, and so you might notice a few changes every now and then. That means you won't see the new "Requirements" fields in action for now, but sooner or later the files that require specific expansion packs or other custom content will show it separately (as long as the information has been provided to us).

If you find a bug or notice that something is wrong, please e-mail me and we'll get it fixed. Thank you.

493. New Poll

Written on Thursday 29 July 2004 at 15:31 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Last week we asked you to help us make a top-ten of how you spend your time until the Sims 2 release in September. The results are in, and here they are:

10. "I play with real-life dolls. Gotta love Barbie and Ken!"
9. "Nothing at all. I just sit and wait for the game to arrive."
8. "Something other than the options mentioned above."
7. "I'm asleep most of the time, I just wake up once every few days to get the latest news and a bit of food."
6. "I go to work/school every single day and just fill up my schedule with things to do."
5. "I hit the refresh button on this or other fansites all the time, to see if there's any news."
4. "I talk about it on forums, in real life, and just can't stop thinking about it. It drives me (and my family) mad!"
3. "I mess around with the Body Shop, creating Sims which will become alive 17 September."
2. "I stare at the screenshots, videos and other stuff over and over and over again. I can't get enough of it!"
1. "I play The Sims 1."

The other 2 options (Waiting for the URBZ or not having a clue what The Sims 2 is about) got a minor amount of votes, just 1% and 4%. See the results page for exact details of the results. This week we have a question about your game again. We're wondering what's your favourite colour for decorating rooms in. Vote on the right or on the latest poll page.

494. Sims 2 in Magazines

Written on Wednesday 28 July 2004 at 22:43 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Several gaming magazines have a preview of The Sims 2 this month. Three of them are the German PC Games and GameStar, and the French PC Jeux. Some news comes from these magazines. The info has been summarised in the Read More part. Click below for some screenshots from the magazines, as well as an advert featuring some real people. Thanks to our affiliates SimsZone and the French The Sims 2 Creation for the info and pictures.

Read More!

495. Sims 2 Screenshots Translated [Update]

Written on Tuesday 27 July 2004 at 05:11 by ChEeTaH - 3 comments.

About 2 weeks ago, the Taiwainese website GameBase.com.tw, posted 54 new screenshots of the Sims 2. Though the meaning of the text has been unknown so far, user 'pepperonicheese' has posted a translation of the texts in the Sims UK (official site) forums (see this thread). If you want to see the pictures and their translations together, go to this page on SnootySims. They've posted the pictures along with their translations. Noticable is that the motives haven't changed after all - it was said there would be separate family/friends motives instead of social a long time back, but there's no sign of that now. You can also see some of the social interactions from the menu. Be sure to have a look if you want to know what the pictures are saying.

[Update 28 July, 20:50] Some more option images have been translated in the forums. You will be able to set the volume for music, voices, sound effects and ambience sounds separately. A picture-in-picture will be there as well, and you can turn it on or off (or like in the Sims 1, make it static or live). In the movies screen you can choose the size quality (just like with photo albums), whether to record sound, and the maximum duration. Other options are pretty much the same as for The Sims 1. See the forums thread for exact details. Thanks to David Pendray for the tip.

496. Submissions

Written on Friday 23 July 2004 at 17:51 by Steve - 0 comments.

I have just added the latest submissions to the site. To start we have a lovely (although slightly insane) roof design, which I personally love. Download this here, or click here for more roofs.

For those of you out there who own The Sims Vacation, we now have a blue version of the Lovebed available. This re-coloured object has been kindly provided to us by Buciaer. Download the file here.

A treat for all of you Livin' Large owners. Fancy a mansion? Well I have one right here for you. Thanks to Alex for this. A second house, also added is a very large, partly furnished mansion. You can download this here. (Please note this house requires all expansion packs).

If you want to submit a file to The Sims Zone then please goto the submissions page. Please follow the instructions there and send your file to us. Remember, if a file is too large to send us using the site, just give me an e-mail and I will give you further instructions what to do.

IMPORTANT: Due to the server move back in March, please could anyone who has submitted me files, that have not yet been added please re-send me these files. We will get them added ASAP. Unfortunately some submissions from before the move have gone lost. We are very sorry for any problems, or missed sumbissions due to the move, but hope you will keep submitting.

497. The URBZ new Logo revealed

Written on Friday 23 July 2004 at 15:04 by ChEeTaH - 2 comments.

EA has revealed a 'new' logo of the URBZ. It's appeared before in a few gameplay movies (since last week's Hot Summer Nights event). The logo is now also available as high-resolution image, and of course we have it. The official site still carries the old logo, but that will probably be updated sooner or later too. Check out the new logo below.

498. SimDay

Written on Thursday 22 July 2004 at 14:37 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

This week's SimDay doesn't bring much real news, just like the URBZDay. First of all there are links to three previews of the Sims 2, which we've told you about last week. Maxis has also posted the pictures of the Hot Summer Nights event. The same pictures were included in the latest E-mail from Lucy Bradshaw. To watch them again, click here. Finally there's a chance to win The Sims Mega Deluxe or Sims expansion packs by playing Poppit. That has been up on the official site for a while already, and we also mentioned it 2 weeks ago. For more information, visit the official site.

499. URBZDay

Written on Thursday 22 July 2004 at 03:09 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

From this week onwards, we'll keep the SimDays for The Sims PC games separate from the SimDays for the console version - the URBZ. Hence this is the first URBZDay news post. And this week, there isn't very much new. To start off with the old news, there are 5 screenshots which we posted last week. There are also 3 gameplay movies of the GBA version. They were posted at GameSpot already late June, as part of longer gameplay movies. New in them is the new Urbz logo though. It's been spotted before in the Hot Summer Nights gameplay movies, but this makes it even more likely that the final logo will be different from what we've seen so far. It's not been confirmed by EA yet though. New is that Maxis is again holding a focus group about the Sims on the consoles. This time about the GBA version though. If you're a GBA player and live in the area of Redwood City, California, you can participate in the focus group. You'll be discussing the game with other fans. If you qualify you'll get 2 EA GBA games in return. See the Urbz website for more. Finally there's the weekly blog. This time that too is about the GBA version. Cheryl, assistant producer of the game, tells the GBA version has reached alpha stage already, and they're now getting rid of the bugs in the game. She mentions a few odd things that have occured in the game so far - and they raised a few laughs at the team. For the gameplay movies, screenshots, the focus group and the blog, visit the Urbz website.

500. New Poll

Written on Thursday 22 July 2004 at 02:00 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The status of a European release of the Sims 2 DVD edition is still quite unsure. Hence we held a poll last week in which we asked if EA should release the DVD outside North America too. The majority, 45% has voted for an absolute yes. An addition 15.5% said they'd just get the CD version if they didn't, but they prefer a DVD version. 10% said the DVD would be nice, but not necessary. Just 2% said not to release it since nobody wants it anyway, while 4% said no because they don't have a DVD drive in their computer. 17% of the people said they don't care as they can get it no matter what (they're in North America). And finally, just 6% said they don't care at all or don't know what the DVD version is about. When adding it up it comes down to about 71% saying yes, 6% saying no, and 23% doesn't care. 348 votes where issued within the past week. For the exact results, go to the results page.

This week we're doing a top 10. Let us know how you are going to spend the next two months (approximately) until the Sims 2 is released. We've put up 10 choices (including an 'Other' if none matches what you'll be doing), as well as the usual two for those who aren't waiting for the Sims 2 or who don't know what it is. So get voting, on the right or at the latest poll page.