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Facts
Here are
just some few and simple facts that I took the time to post on
this site.If you want to post your own facts email me or just
post in the forum area!.
- 3D environment - TS2 will have a
completely new 3D environment. Making for better details,
and imaging.
- Animations - The animations will
now be more smooth and life like.
- AI - The new AI will be much more
realistic. Sims will turn their heads to look at eachother,
or objects in the room, as they pass by. And they will also
deal more appropriatly with situations.
- Building Options - Create mountains
with the use of Simcity 4 terrain builder, build 3 story
homes, put doors and windows on diagonal walls. Other new
options include, bridges over water, raised
porches/threshold, with just a few steps leading up to it.
No more ground level only front porches and back decks. And
now even more: Possible
flat roofs the sims can walk on/roof top terraces, and
Terraces over mummering brookes.
- Calendar - The new sim calendar
will work by the week. Meaning there will be a weekly
calander of events kept (ie your kids birthday is next
Monday, today is Tuesday).
- Cameras - Now you can place cameras
all around the room to capture a party, or anything else,
from all angles.
- Careers - For adult sims, there
will be 18 careers, with 10 levels each. For teen and old
sims there will be 7 careers, with 3 levels each(whether
they are the same for teen and old, is yet unknown). Also
elderly sims will receive a pension upon retiring. There is now a slight variation being
reported, from the original. It's now reported that all
together there will only be 15 careers for all sims to
choose from. Included in that 15 are special jobs, for
teens, and seniors. One reported teen job is: "Filling chips
at a fast food outlet."
- Child Care - Yep now mommy and
daddy will be able to hire a baby sitter to come watch the
little ones while they go off to work.
- Diaries - Now you will be able to
create video as well as snap shot diaries of your sims life,
and even add audio.
- DNA and Genetics - DNA, and
genetics will be a big part of TS2, allowing generational
game play. Your sim parents will now pass traits down to
their children. Things such as, eye color, body size, and
personality are able to be passed down, as well as some
career skills. And the degenerative DNA problem of real life
won't affect your sims. Which means they can marry first
cousins.
- "Exotic" Characters - New to TS2
will be the ability to create Aliens and Elves, as your
little sim people, using the custom content tools.
- Furniture Aging/Renewal - Furniture
will now age, and show it, however by recoating it instead
of buying new your sims can save money.
- Family - The family limit will
still be set at 8. But new to TS2 is the ability to create
all ages, except infant, in the create-a-sim area. So you
could start out with a Mom, teen, and toddler if you wanted.
- Family Tree - Yes now the
generation will be kept track of by a photo family tree,
that you'll be able to access with a few simple clicks.
- Interactable NPC's - You will now
be able to interact with NPC's such as the Maid, and Pizza
Boy, and even bring them into the family via marrige.
- Inheritance - Those who spend the
most time, and possibly live, with the elderly sim before it
dies will get a larger inheritance than anyone else.
- Leaving the house - There are two
options for leaving the home. 1) Going to the grocery store
to buy ingredients for special meals, 2) Going to the
clothing store, to buy special clothing items. Which you
could assume to mean, wedding attire, swim wear, and
pajama's.
- Life cycle - You'll now follow your
sims from birth to death, and through 6 stages of life. They
include infant(non playable), toddler, child, teen, adult,
and old age.
- Life Moments and Big Decisions -
These will effect your life score, and also have an effect
on your sim as they get older. Some of these included:
Toilet training, first step, first kiss, first crush,
getting a job, getting married. Many smaller life moments
will effect the score as well, such as: Father and son
playtime, mom burning down the kitchen, and kids helping
grandma. An indication that one of lifes big moments
happened, stars and hearts swirling around the sim.
- Life Score - this is the score with
which you can judge how well a sim is being played. This
also effects interactions available to that sim, and the
sims mood. Other things affected will be the rate at which
needs have to be met. The life score is like your sims
memory.
- List of new objects (Some are not
confirmed) - There will be 500 new objects in TS2
including: in ground hot tub, corner shower, polygraph
machine (one of many career reward objects), Large telescope
for star gazing or neighbor peeping, T.V. video game system,
crib, childrens' building blocks, Yoga Mat for the mind
motive, changing table for babies, hand held video game, and
so much more.
- Meals - The Meals will be simple,
like the original sims, but you can go to the grocery store
and pick up ingredients to make special things.
- Mine or Yours? - Sims will now know
their bed from everyone elses in the house. How this will
work is unknown.
- Missions - Short missions will also
be part of the sims everyday life now. An example is: invite
your boss to dinner! When everything works fine, and your
boss leaves your house after a good meal, saturated and in a
good mood, the next advancement will come sooner. But if
your boss will witness your kitchen burning down or your
wicked kids bother him, your boss won't like you much.
- Motives (the new ones) - 2 new
motive will be added, thirst and mind, and social motive
will be split into two separate ones, friends and family.
Things that effect the mind motive are: the yoga mat, good
(special/gormet) meals, good music.
- Multi-tasking - your sims will now
be able to do things such as get and eat popcorn while
watching t.v, sit on the floor while playing video games,
and eat chips while sitting on the bed watching t.v.!
- Neighborhood - You will be able to
choose the size and placement of all lots in the
neighborhood. Another mention is that as your families
expand, so will your neighborhood. There will be a total of
50 lots in the neighborhood. And you can import Simcity 4
terrains in to create unique neighborhoods.
- Object Customization - There is now
in game customizing of objects, but only the fabric style,
not the shape, or size. Object creating tools might be
included to create new objects with. Maxis reports that Maya
will be the supported object creation tool. (We'll provid
more information on that soon)
- Other Options - Choice to breast
feed or bottle feed babies(not confirmed), no sex or babies
for teens, Adult sims will have the option to move out, and
start a family of their own, and Divorce is possible. Also
possible are affairs. And it could end up the the
wife/husband end up hearing about it "through the
grapevine".
- Pets - No there will not be any
pets in TS2.
- Relationships and Reproduction-
Teen sims cannot have relationships with adults, nor
seniors. However Adults, and Seniors can have relationships
together. And elderly male can get an adult female pregnant,
but and elderly female cannot become pregnant. And female
sims are limited to 7 births in their lifetimes.
- Time - Time will stand still for
all the houses not activly being played.
- The View - When asked, Maxis
reported that you will not see the grey screen when in lot
like in the original sims. However they didn't give any
hints about what you might expect instead.
- Vacation Homes - Your sim family
may own more than one home at a time, and use one of them as
a vacation home, if so choose.
- Weather and other natural
occurrences - There will be as far as is known
now: Rain, thunder, lightening, sun set/rise.
- Weddings - The weddings will
consist of more this time around, and possibly be able to
invite the sims families, however that is all that is
known
*Post your own
facts by emailing more or posting in the forum I will update
facts on the next update!
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