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Author: makabaer | Posted Sep 8, 2009 | 4 comments

Just wanted to let you all know what's happening around here and why I'm not online much: I gave birth to our 3rd child just two weeks ago :-) It's a little absolutely cute and lovable boy! Since today I'm almost able to sit normal again ;-) So might be online a little again but of course there is just SO much "real life" demandements now... (besides our eldest child just started school 3 weeks ago!) and honestly speaking my little boy is much more fascinating than any video game just now ;-)

But of course I'll be back, promise :-)

Author: makabaer | Posted Jun 24, 2009 | 0 comments

I see quite a few people have bookmarked me - probably hoping for new creations, so I want to say sorry for keeping you waiting but right now I'm just downloading a bit of this and that and getting to know Sims2 again and the expansion packs I didn't have back then before I quit. Still can't believe I'm actually playing again ;-)

My spare time is very limited so please bear with me, it could take a while.

Meanwhile I'm thinking of taking on a TSR challenge. I always thought that was a neat idea - I'm just hesitating because I had so many technical problems with Sims 2 in the past (one reason why I quit it - the other being my limited free time) and don't know how it will affect my game if I install the challenge wizard (or whatever it is called). Well - and besides I still have to discover so many things in the game itself ;-)

Anyway - if you're reading this - tell me if you have ever played any challenges and your experiences with it, I'm curious :-)

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Edit on Sept. 8th: Stupid me forgot to enable comments - never noticed they were turned off by default. Now corrected that for all my posts (except the first one - strangely that was the only one with comments enabled - well, anyway...) so.... I'm still looking for someone who wants to tell me about those challenges and their experience :-)

Author: makabaer | Posted May 11, 2009 | 0 comments

Just wanted to let you know I got Sims2 again indeed! With all expansions. It's so much fun again!

Although I don't have much time for it... right now I can't really play and won't have time to create anything either of course, but I'm not in a hurry... I know I'll go on simming for years ;-)

I'm so happy I decided against Sims3 - I read many more news I didn't like at all. If they won't change the basic programming with an expansion pack (and that's a nearly impossible thing to do I guess) I won't play Sims3 at all - ever. I mean - the way I understand it is either the whole neighbourhood is aging - or nobody at all. So either you're missing lots of days in those families you don't play at that moment - or your sims will never age. Now that s***!! 

I'll just stay with Sims2 until Sims4 comes out ;-))

Author: makabaer | Posted Apr 3, 2009 | 0 comments

I decided today: yes, despite all the trouble I have to go through *again* (because of all lost data) I will indeed go for Sims2 a second time :-)

I will start with buying Super Deluxe and add expansions slowly... (whenever I find a good deal on Ebay or something)

I am so excited about this, have been thinking about nothing but Sims for days now *lol* (Well, okay, of course there were lots of "real life" topics too... my daughter got an operation today for example... I just meant: whenever I was *dreaming* there were only Sims in my mind ;-)

Can't wait to get Super Deluxe!!

Author: makabaer | Posted Apr 1, 2009 | 0 comments

When I quit Sims2 (more than 2 years ago) I deleted all my downloads (darn....) and deinstalled and sold the game plus all expansions.

After my decision to not buy Sims3 I am honestly considering to play Sims2 again... there is so much beautiful stuff out there and I could get many of my old downloads back still. (Not all of them, some were donation etc... oh, idiot me, I shouldn't have deleted everything... I spent so much time (months and months) sorting my downloads and editing them... wow, all that work lost...)

I am not sure... there was a reason I quit of course - many reasons even. I didn't have enough time (and still don't), the game crashed over and over - even without any downloads! - and because of all the work I had with editing the files (mostly skin files... but as I always used a base from someone else I couldn't upload them here, they were just for personal use) I didn't get to actually play the Sims for many months - which is ridiculous... as I just did that for improvement of the game of course.

The TIME I wasted on all that... unbelievable.

And now I'd have to spend a huge amount of money to re-buy everything plus new expansions etc. and maybe even some stuff packs... (as I see so much phantastic houses here for example which need all stuff packs...)

Phew.

Still I'd love to play Sims again so very very much.... For many years Sims were my passion. And as I am surfing Sim sites again since some time I recognize I'm still addicted... (guess that's the same as with alcohol - once you've been an alcoholic you stay that for your whole life even of you don't drink anymore ;-)

*sigh* I can't decide.... to sim or not to sim... that's the question here. (Hm... Hamlet's answer was "not to be" if I remember correctly, so that would mean not to sim... but who is Hamlet anyway? ;-)

Author: makabaer | Posted Mar 26, 2009 | 1 comments

I was so looking forward to Sims3 - nearly since I quit Sims2 1,5 years ago.

There were some disappointing news about it but mainly okay (although I had expected a little more - like weather and seasons for example in the original game, not needing to buy an expansion pack later on, and some minor things....) so I pre-ordered my copy a while ago already.

Well, yesterday I read a detailed review from people who were alowed by EA to play an early version - wow, that was quite a shock... obviously I hadn't read any and every information available or I guess I had known about those "rabbit holes" for example or that you can't design your own neighbourhoods and many more things like that... But my way of playing the Sims - since Living Large came out! - was to have one neighbourhood with "normal" Sims, one medieval and old roman, one scifi, one creepy etc. etc.... and I tried to get everything in that neighbourhood as realistic as possible, so that my Sims from ancient rome don't have to go to a modern downtown etc.

So, I can totally forget about that way of playing. Even if I could have several neighbourhoods, they would all seem fairly alike because of that ridiculous rabbit hole nonesense! I am SO disappointed and sad about that!!! I was SO looking forward to this game!!!

I canceled my pre-order. I won't start playing Sims3.

Well, I will wait and see if maybe the fan-community can do something about it or if future expansion packs will change everything totally or whatever... but I guess that will take quite a while. Maybe I get lucky in 2010.