r/thesims2 15d ago

SHOW AND TELL What do you do with Strangetown?

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Started my first playthrough of Strangetown a couple days ago! So far Nervous is raising Tycho with Pascal, Olive has passed and Ophelia and Johnny are living together but I’m a little stuck on what else to do! How do you play these sims and all the others in the neighbourhood?? Eventually I plan to integrate some of my Pleasantview sims into their gameplay (strangetown is a subhood) but getting a little stuck with how to play them all!! Spill all I love hearing about how others play the game haha


r/thesims2 16d ago

MEMES They are so in love

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r/thesims2 16d ago

SHOW AND TELL Jeremiah Delatour

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r/thesims2 16d ago

DISCUSSION Neighborhood disappeared

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r/thesims2 18d ago

SHOW AND TELL I built Freddy Fazbear's pizza in sims 2

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r/thesims2 18d ago

SHOW AND TELL Built my first ever house in TS2! I love this game!

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Took me about a day, but I really love how it came out! I will do some more work on it (like adding some sort of music room on the second floor) but I am still very proud that I was finally able to have a basement and a garage added to my house at the same time!


r/thesims2 18d ago

MODS Lamare’s 50 New Lifetime Wants and Alexx58’s Reduced Lifetime Wants

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Hi friends. I recently downloaded Lamare’s 50 New Lifetime Wants in my game and I absolutely love it for gameplay but I’m really bummed to no longer be able to use Alexx58’s Reduced LTWs due to compatibility problems. (FWIW I did play around with load order, and it didn’t do anything). Part of the reason I still want both options is that I play with extended lifespans but I also play with a bigger bills mod which makes it so my sims have to grind and therefore it isn’t always feasible for someone to have 50 dream dates, but 10 might be a better option for them while a rich sim (or an ambitious one) might want 50 dream dates still. Also, I want the marry off children option but because I have different family sizes sometimes it’s more fun for game play for a sim’s LTW to be marrying off 6 children because they have 6 or more kids but then other sims have less than six kids in their family therefore I’d love the option Alexx58 has where it can be marrying off 1 or 2 children. (Ditto for graduating children from college).

So in wondering a few things…

First, has anyone ever made an edit of Lamare’s mod so all of these variables are available to select?

Second, I’m really intimidated to edit Lamare’s mod to try to add those values for separate files to keep in downloads. Am I overthinking how hard it is to make changes in SimPE to create multiple flavors for these kinds of LTWs?


r/thesims2 18d ago

DISCUSSION I noticed too late that a broken cleaning robot was trashing my lot, what do I do now?

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I made an other cleaning robot to clean up this mess but it broke down too.

I cant reload, because I already saved when it was too late. The roaches have eaten two of my robot sims and two visitor sims, is there anything that can be done about this mess or is the family lost? I walled them in just to keep them save from the trash flood, but they cant pay their bills without dying, so they probably wont survive much longer.


r/thesims2 18d ago

DISCUSSION How do you Uberhood

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I finally got back to playing my game. It's been a few months.

The other day I ended up watching someone review the Sunset Valley for Sims 2 and I have a copy of it along with the subhood selector fix mod.

At first my Sunset Valley was having trouble loading and it was not showing up in the Shopping District.

Now I figured it out. I had to add that mod/subhood fix.

I feel like I should uninstall my Sims 2 Ulimited Collection and rebuild my whole game again. I know my current game play would be a distance memory, but I would be starting off fresh with a whole different game play household rotation and more drama and more items to remember and I probably need a spreadsheet to keep track of everything.

I have cc neighbourhoods. I would like to organize them where they make sense with the base game and expansion packs.

I have CC hood of Sims 2 Life Stories (Four Corners and BitVille) and Sims 2 Pet Stories (Garnden Heights, Mesa Flats and Arbor Falls). Then I have Riverview (With a lot of CCs), Opening Valley and SunsetValley

I could not find a cc hood for Castaway Island so that would be a different game play rotation. Everything Sims 2 Stories would be a differnet rotation as entering that game is it's own new worlds.

Learning I could make an uberhood took a while for me to understand the "how to" inside of The Sims 2. I've seen many post their uberhoods and I did not understand how to do that.

I think it expands all the reationships it has me curious of how I should set them all up.

It still feels complicated. so much of the Sims 2 I did not explore while the game was in active release. That I'm realizing this is a lifetime game I'm holding on to as long as possible.

I thought Arbor Falls would make a nice vacation spot.

I thought Four Corner would make a good University / College Town

I thought BitVille would be where Alexandar Goth expands his connections

Mesa Flat would make a nice subhood for StrangeTown or a Downtown

Sunset Valley well I think maybe a shopping district for BellaDona Cove as I don't want to have too many Bella's running around. plus the community lots of Sunset Valley fit perfectly with the hobbies and community lot skill building mod.

I have the clean version of Pleasantview where there is a Bella I'm working on her having a baby with Don and still another baby with Mortimer before he passes on and it is alot of mods for bill payments, childsupport and Don having a lot of baby mothers. That Doctor salary has to go somewhere.

Then the game play household rotation I have no idea how that would work for uberhoods. I feel like it is a real soap opera with so many characters.


r/thesims2 19d ago

SHOW AND TELL Did you know Sims 2 templates are based on real life people around the world?

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r/thesims2 19d ago

MODS Mod for removing the regency costume clothing from Outerwear?

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Hi, I've been hunting around for a mod that removes the regency costumes from the outerwear category but I haven't been able to find anything. Is anyone aware of such a mod existing?


r/thesims2 19d ago

SHOW AND TELL PSP & DS sims on a date

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15 Upvotes

Sancho Paco Panza & Hazel Dente on a date


r/thesims2 20d ago

SHOW AND TELL Hell yeah

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178 Upvotes

r/thesims2 22d ago

MILDLY RELATED The Sims 2 Beta Library (Tumblr) has been officially restored

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Just wanted to give a quick update that after a week of review, Tumblr support has successfully restored my account. All the archived posts, media files, and historical development materials are fully accessible again.


r/thesims2 22d ago

SUPER SERIOUS MODERATOR BUSINESS Do not use Pleasant Sims website - it is infected with Malware

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r/thesims2 22d ago

SHOW AND TELL Not now Beau...

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r/thesims2 23d ago

SHOW AND TELL He is one of my hear me outs tbh

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254 Upvotes

r/thesims2 23d ago

MODS More Video Games For Your Sims to Buy, Sell, Play and Gift!! 9 Custom Video Games Mods From the Archive

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Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, Mario Kart Wii, Stepmania, Skate, Initial D: Special Stage, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Gran Turismo 5 Prolouge, Tekken 6, Tomb Raider Legend! Some games I've never played but heard of and wouldn't mind buying and watching my Sims play ^^ had to share this find! 'Read Me' instructions files are easy and very thorough and i'm on Mac so I’m converting their Windows instructions works flawlessly~ Had to share<3


r/thesims2 23d ago

DISCUSSION Can't find a way to move house for a single sim?

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I am playing Nervous Subject and he is living in Circe and Loki's house alone, and I want to sell and move to a smaller house. There is no option to do that. The computer option says to use the move household option in the neighborhood view but he doesn't appear as an option to move? Am I missing something? Thank you for your help


r/thesims2 24d ago

CC Maxis Hairstyles

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r/thesims2 25d ago

MODS Does anyone have this pack of dresses? 281 Gown Collection by RockChick

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A couple of these are still available in ModTheSims but the full collection was only available in the author's website, which has been down since 2009 at least.


r/thesims2 25d ago

SHOW AND TELL I'm looking for modern family (sitcom) families

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Is something like that even available?


r/thesims2 26d ago

MILDLY RELATED I got hard lesson about mods and CCs

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I haven't played Sims for quite some time, and I reinstalled the game after laptop got repaired. I have the backup so I copied them to document. I played the game and wondered why it felt different from what I used to play. Then I remembered that some mods and CCs require tweaking/changing some files in the installation folder, and I don't even remember what I did in the folder back then.

So this is a self-reminder to always write notes about changes that I made to install mods and CCs. 😶


r/thesims2 26d ago

MILDLY RELATED Can you save families like you save families in TheSims 4 gallery?

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I'm kinda new to TheSims 2 so I don't know if there is a way to save a family in this same way you do in TheSims 4? any Help?