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Hello, Fi! Sorry to bother you with wcif but i wasn’t able to find it myself :( Do you remember where from is a watermelon fruit bowl thing in the post 142683465828? PS I love your simblr so so much, please never stop sharing your beautiful pictures with us <3

(omg someone asked me about this item aaaaages ago, like probably literal years ago, was it you?!?! I’m so sorry if you were waiting all this time omg)

Anyway, it’s by Tinkle and you can find it in their archive HERE (I’m prettyyyyy certain it’s the file titled “S2SummerbyTinkle”). Enjoy! And thank you so much for the kind words about my simblr even though my posting is sporadic at best and my wcif-answering is even worse <333

I finally managed to get ts2 ultimate collection, thanks to ea support, and I’m so happy! I haven’t done much besides downloading cc and reading your story, and im so in love with all your sims <3 I wanted to ask you, if you could explain and/or give some tips on how you play. Do you switch between all your families etc.. Sorry if this is a odd ask, but I've havent played this game in years, and i really love the way your game looks :) lots of love <3

Ahhhhh awesome! I’m happy you were able to get the UC 🙂 and I’m happy you’ve been enjoying my story, even though it’s more random commentary than a story (and sometimes even less than that). 😀

I don’t have a set style of playing, the only thing I really follow when I play is that I play in “rounds” that follow the seasons (although the seasons in my neighborhood are all completely out of sync but ANYWAY). Five days to a season, so five days per household, then I move on to the next. 🙂 Other than that, no set way of doing things. If you’d like more structure in your gameplay, you can always try a BaCC. It’s pretty similar to how I play, except you follow a basic rule set (there are many different kinds out there, pick one that suits your gameplay style or just make up your own!) and you play to “unlock” certain careers, or community lots, or adding new townies/households based on the productivity and achievements of your founding sims. I’ve never officially played one, but it always seemed like a lot of fun and a bit more challenging and goal-oriented than regular gameplay. If I had more time to devote to TS2, I’d like to attempt it. 🙂 

But yeah! To answer your question, I pretty much just started with a bunch of random sims at college, played with them a bit before introducing new sims, they eventually started pairing off and getting married or having kids, so now I have about seven?? households in the main hood (plus two university households) that I play through in rounds. 🙂 

However, I am VERY slow at playing through rounds. Like, painfully slow. Lack of time, spending too much time on screenshots (trying to get better at just playing and not documenting so much), and organizing cc instead of playing. To put it in perspective, I am currently (as of April 2018) playing the Caron household. I last played that household in JANUARY 2017 lmao. It’s basically taking me over a year to get through the entire hood. (To be fair, 2017 was a bad year for me in terms of TS2 time, but the point remains.)

Now that I’ve completely derailed from the original question, I hope you have fun with TS2 again after all these years, no matter how you decide to play! And thank you again for your kind words ❤ 

Hi, Fi! I’m an old TS2 player super tempted to play again, and I have what might be a rly silly question. I installed the UC last week and spent some time playing premades, but it’s only this week that I found out about clean hood templates & how susceptible the game is to corruption. So my question is: do you know if I need to do a complete reinstallation now before I can safely replace the hoods, in case the one I’ve played in has become corrupted? Thank you so much in advance for your time!!

Hi there! Ahhhh, this question has been sitting in my inbox for awhile, I’m sorry. :’D I’m not sure what you ultimately ended up doing, but just in case, here’s my two cents~

There are two types of corruption, game corruption and neighborhood corruption (you can read more about it HERE). As long as you haven’t done anything during your gameplay so far to cause actual game corruption (corruption of the game’s actual program files), a complete reinstall shouldn’t be necessary. Neighborhood corruption shouldn’t require a complete reinstall, but depending on the degree of corruption, you may ultimately have to delete the neighborhood. Some neighborhoods remain playable for months or years following an “incident” that causes corruption, so even if you know you did a no-no, you don’t necessarily need to start over immediately. 🙂

SO, if you haven’t become too invested in your hoods yet and don’t mind replacing the neighborhoods with clean templates, you can go ahead and do so. But you shouldn’t need to reinstall the whole game, if that’s what you’re asking. 🙂

Maybe a strange question, but what’s the largest amount of cc you’ve had with your game still running (at least relatively) smooth? I’m getting back into the game but can already tell I’m gonna need a BUNCH of default replacements before I’m satisfied, and our computer specs are similar, so I figured I’d ask!

Hey! Hmmm, well, my game runs pretty smoothly regardless of the amount of CC (I just like to keep it around or under 10 GB for my own sanity/catalogue browsing/etc.). I start noticing a bit of a difference in load time when I get to the 12 GB or higher mark (which is where I am currently… in the middle of a cc cleanout, heh). Honestly, though, it usually always loads up between 20-25 minutes. It may be different for other people, even with similar specs, because load time is affected more by the amount of files (not so much their file size), how deeply you have everything subfoldered, if there are any special characters in the file path, etc. @dramallamadingdang has a post about it HERE, if you’re interested!

As far as keeping the game running smoothly, this was the singular best thing I ever did. My game almost never crashes (even on large lots with a lot of Sims present… maybe a bit laggy, but no crashing!). So as long as you have more than 2 GB of RAM, give it a shot! 🙂 

hey. i adore the overall feel of your game and i was wondering how you managed to balance maxis match with stuff that’s a bit more realistic? i kinda want to branch out from my super mm game and i just don’t know where to start.

(First of all, apologies for taking an eternity to answer this ask. It’s a good thing tumblr doesn’t include timestamps on messages because that would make me feel WAY WORSE.)

But anyway! This is a hard question to answer, because there’s really no set method to my downloading/decorating madness. It’s more a matter of if I see CC I like, I download it. 🙂 I don’t really sit around saying, “mehhhhh this really isn’t Maxis-match enough”. If I really like something, in my game it goes. I shy away from writing that isn’t Simlish (although if the writing is super small/subtle, I make the occasional exception). Most of my “realistic” CC is usually clutter. :3 I also have a weakness for a good rustic wood texture, so I have a lot of furniture recolors that aren’t exactly maxis-match, but they make a nice contrast in an otherwise simple/clean-textured room. 

I tend to be more Maxis-match when it comes to CAS – hair, clothes, etc. But even some of my skins/makeup/facial enhancers? may give some of my sims a more realistic look. But I’m all about TS3/TS4 conversions, recycled/updated Maxis meshes, etc. for clothes! 

Basically, the whole point of this is, there are no set rules governing how to play this game. There’s no checklist that says to be MM you MUST or MUST NOT use certain items. Plenty of people who are considered MM branch out from time to time when it comes to decorating or making sims. Some people prefer MM decorating but realistic sims, or vice versa. I feel like the game becomes more of a chore if you have to consciously restrict yourself from downloading content because you feel it won’t fit your aesthetic. Experiment and go crazy with new content! Your dl folder won’t like it, but I assure you, it’s a good time. 

As for a good starting place, I guess decide which aspect of your game you’d like to branch out from first? Like, if you want your sims to be on the more realistic side, try downloading a more realistic eye set or a few hairstyles with a more realistic hair texture? Really, it’s completely up to you! There’s no right or wrong way to play, just mix and match until you find what works for you! I used to play a completely realistic game until I tried some MM content, and then I realized that’s what worked for me. You just gotta try different things. 🙂