Introduction

A long time ago I used to be terribly bad at playing The Sims 2.


Now I own all the expansion packs and have played for a while I know what I'm doing. I also tweet about it too much, but don't like when people get too involved in the stories they tell.

The purpose of this blog will be for me to post updates and maybe occasional pictures on what has been happening in the Sims 2 neighbourhoods.

If this interests you, please keep reading the blog. Oh, if you're curious about the numbers on the gravestones, the represent former residents from an old game file.

1 - Amy Jones (Pleasantview Paper Girl) [Killed by disease cannon]
2 - Oa Ai Pensioner (Original member of Retirement Home) [Killed by Elixir Of Life]
3 - Derek Vijayakar (Pleasantview Paper Boy) [Killed by disease cannon]
4 - Brittany Lam (Pleasantview Paper Girl) [Killed by disease cannon]
5 - Coral Oldie (Mother of Mary-Sue) [Died of natural causes]
6 - Herb Oldie (Father of Mary-Sue) [Died of natural causes]
7 - Brooke Seavay (Pleasantview Paper Girl) [Killed by disease cannon]
8 - Darleen Dream (Darren's former wife, Dirk's mother) [Unknown]
9 - Dongsool Kwa (Innocent Passer-By) [Killed by disease cannon]
10 - Alon Livingston (Pleasantview Paper Boy) [Killed by disease cannon]
11 - Jennifer Burb (John's wife, Lucy's mother) [Died from starvation]
12 - Conrad Ying (Pleasantview Paper Boy) [Killed by disease cannon]
13 - Omnipotent Avenger Pensioner (Original member of Retirement Home) [Killed by fire]
14 - Daniel Pleasant (Mary-Sue's husband, many Pleasant members fathers via Kaylynn & Mary-Sue) [Died of natural causes]
15 - Sophie Wilkie (Pleasantview Maid) [Killed by disease cannon]
16 - Odi Aimes Pensioner (Original member of Retirement Home) [Killed by fire]
17 - Michael Bachelor (Somehow related to the Caliente's) [Unknown]
18 - Remington Harris (Pleasantview Maid) [Killed by disease cannon]
19 - Contessa Margaret King (Vampire, Don's lover) [Killed by the sun]
20 - Sandy Hanby (Formerly Brut, one of Lucy's lovers) [Killed by fire]
21 - Old Aged Pensioner (Original member of Retirement Home) [Killed by fire]
22 - Elise Livingston (Not related to Alon, a maid) [Killed by disease cannon]

Ramaswami Reboot

A long time ago, I started up this blog for my Sims 2 games and stories. Now due to a few computer issues, the game doesn't run as well as it did, so I only have a few expansion packs installed. I shall note when I am adding a new one, I am currently running with;

- Base game
- Seasons
- University
- Pets
- Mansion & Garden Stuff

I have moved in all but the Crittur family as I don't know what to do with them yet.

I decided to play as the Ramaswami family. They are a recently married Indian couple, who both have the Popularity aspiration, which I don't really like to do, so it's a challenge for me.




Priya is a journalist, and started off as a Fact Checker. Her lifetime want is to reach the top of this career, and she needs a good few friends to do this. Fittingly her aspiration helps with this. She made good friends with Alvin Futa when he passed by. Then she was too busy fact checking at work, so made a mistake and was demoted down two jobs to a Blog Writer, but she's made new friends in Darren Dreamer and Amy Jones, the paper girl and has been promoted back up. She WooHooed with her new husband a few times, and has been practicing in the mirror to get her charisma up.




Sanjay starts off as a Coffee Shop Sound Engineer, wanting to become a Rock God at the height of his career. He wants to be popular too, and made fast friends with Amy Jones, Mortimer Goth and Randy London. He's also started to chat with the post woman, Dagmar Bertino, but they're still only acquaintances. Autumn soon rolled around and the energy saving items were put into place, with wind turbines about and some nice statues too just because they had some spare simoleons. Sanjay got himself promoted up to a Battle of the Bands Judge, and is well on his way with his career.

There were some lightning storms in the autumn which set some statues on fire, but it was fine. They also threw a New Year's Bash, which Amy and Dagmar attended (in their uniforms, which was odd) as did an old man called Father Time, who transformed into Toddler New Year at 12am, and then faded away.

Priya wants to have a baby, but I think it will wait a bit, until they have enough money to expand their bungalow and perhaps have an upstairs. Another thing is that children don't really like parties, and Popularity Sims do, so that's a difficult one.

Which family should I play as next?

Region

Hoenn has now escaped the asylum and taken a secondary Knowledge aspiration. A new lifetime want has rolled about to become top of the Business career, but as he's Mayor, I don't really want to quit that job.

Asylum Challenge - The End

Hoenn earned 100,000 simoleons thanks to a generous chance card from his Mayor job, where Malcolm Landgraab donated him 30,000. As he'd passed 75,000 a short while ago that made up easily for it and his lifetime want was achieved.

I was all ready to go when I realized I'd made Hoenn recycle today's paper meaning I could not move him out until the morning, meaning surviving the nightly ghost assaults. Through trips to the bathroom, outside and generally anywhere the ghosts were not (as there were three, Hoenn was spooked a few times) Hoenn managed to make it until the morning and has now moved out.

Johto, a surviving female Sim died from a triple ghost shock on the last night, as had her companions the night previous and the one before that.

This leaves the house with eight ghosts, as a visitor was struck by lightning about a week ago in Sim time. I have no idea of my score on this, but I did have a really good time playing.

Asylum Challenge - Rule Bending

Last we left, Hoenn had a genie lamp. He wished for a long life, and resurrected two of the dead Sims, and sipped from the Elixir of Life twice himself.

Hoenn has made enough friends to become a congressman and WooHooed with them all except for John Burb (yet). He's earned $50,000 so is halfway to escaping the lunatic asylum.

Outside of Hoenn, two of the original, never died before residents are now old men who had unsurprisingly horrible lives. The resurrected female (Johto I think) is now the youngest in the house.

The other resurrectee? Oh yes, they were spooked by a ghost a died of fright, after being struck by lightning. Not a good day in general.

Hoenn may yet escape this place.

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Asylum Challenge

I played in my asylum challenge the other day and went from eight Sims down to 3. I can't recall which fate befell who at the moment, but here's the list of deaths.

One Sim got in the new pool I built and then refused to get out to eat and subsequently drowned. I have since deleted the pool but her ghost leaves puddles everywhere that the others clean up and waste all their time and energy on.

The second one went out to watch clouds and got killed by a satellite which I haven't seen a legitimate death of ever before so that was surprising.

The third was splashing in a puddle and got hit with a bolt of lightning and fried.

The fourth died of starvation even though the fridge was stocked full.

The fifth died from starvation also I think, but it was when my Sim was at work and I've yet to see the ghost.

There was going to be a sixth death (from starvation) but as my Sim was there (Hoenn) he stepped in and won against the Grim Reaper.

I've also just obtained a genie lamp so may resurrect someone.

Meanwhile for Hoenn (my controlled Sim): He fell in love with Brandi LeTournea and WooHooed with her whilst the double bed was free. He fears getting rejected for engagement to her but he can only do that if he can escape the madhouse. He's also been promoted a time or two, and became friends with Angel something.

He also has a good friendship with the Sim he saved from death. He becomes an elder in 12 days along with the other living Sims besides the resurrect-ee who's adulthood has been set back to tick from the start.

It's just getting into winter, and my Sim's Lifetime Aspiration is to earn 100,000 Simoleons so it's possibly achievable.

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Restart & Asylum Challenge

I've had to restart my games on my wife's laptop as my laptop is in it's last few throes of life.

So, things in Pleasantview are back to default. I have however, played as the Goodie family and started a new challenge, so here's all the details:

Goodie



I always think of the Goodie family as being kind of a replacement for the Oldie family (as I assume you're not meant to just install them all at once, so then the Oldies'll have died off) but I play them both differently.

Faith & Herbert got some jobs but both have unachievable lifetime wants given their age but I did make them adopt a child, Regina who has now studied all optional skills (Parenting, Fire Safety etc.) and all the normal skills, such as Cooking to maximum. She's just gone off to Sim State University to study Art to pursue a culinary career.

Faith & Herbert'll probably adopt another child when Regina is done with university. Next up is:

Asylum Challenge

Rules are here at Scout Sims.

I made the "Region" family, and made Hoenn (the sane one), Kanto, Johto, Sinnoh, Unova, Orre, Corna (from Pokémon Quartz) and Pokétopia as the other inmates.

Everything is going okay. Hoenn's lifetime want is to earn 100,000 simoleons, which he should achieve. No fire yet, some Sims have fallen asleep on the floor, some have pissed themselves but nobody has died yet and Hoenn has a good career in politics and a bit of a love life too.

Right, think that's all. Next time then.

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