Steps to create a family in The Sims. Click one of the tabs that reads 'Create a new family Choose a family name for the Sims. All Sims created in this household will share the same last name. Click the plus button represented by a 'plus' symbol to add a Sim to the family. To delete a Sim, click that Sim's thumbnail and click the delete button which is represented by a 'trashcan' symbol.
Sims can be edited by clicking on the thumbnail for the desired Sim and then clicking the 'pencil with eraser symbol' located between the 'Add A Sim' and 'Delete A Sim' tabs. A maximum of eight Sims can be created for each household.
You are now in Create a Sim. Choose a first name and enter it in the text box at the very top center of the screen. Not all of the them need to be assigned to a Sim. This determines the Sim's zodiac sign. Players can also cycle through the 12 zodiac signs which will automatically assign personality points to the Sim, based on their chosen star sign. Use the buttons in the middle of the screen to choose the basic appearance of the Sims. Select their skin color light, medium, or dark , their age adult or child and their gender male or female.
Use the left and right arrows on either side of the displayed Sim to choose the Sim's head and body type. Here's a breakdown of each pair, what it means, how it affects your Sims, and what strategies can be employed because of them. This affects the Sim's natural desire to clean up after itself, and its tolerance for crap around the house.
A Sim with points in this category will automatically wash dishes after eating, and will rarely leave puddles after showers and baths. The Sim will, however, be extremely irritated at dirty dishes and stinky Sims.
Sims with few points here will be the complete opposite. Many gamers feel that points here are a waste of time, and they have a point. Getting a maid back in the old days of Sims 1 was a fantastic way to keep a clean house on someone else's time. It was extremely cheap, and allowed your Sim to have personality in "more important" areas.
However, now that maids are more expensive, it's less helpful. Also, having a clean house automatically will impress guests more, and that may JUST be enough to get a Sim to befriend you.
Arguments can be made on both sides, and the only way to know whether it'll help you is to play some. If it's your first Sim ever, set it at 3.
If it's your first Sim in Sims 2 but you're a vet of Sims 1, set it at 4 or 5. This affects the Sim's ability to make friends. A Sim with many points here will easily gain friendships, but will also need friendship more frequently than a Sim without those points.
It's no secret that the hardest need to get fulfill again, needs are explained later in detail is the Social need. Setting this personality high will allow your Sim to quickly recover its Social need, but setting it low will retard the decay of said need, allowing you to spend more time doing other things. Unless you plan your Sim to pursue the Politics career track, or throw many parties, set this at 5 until you're more comfortable with Sims 2 even if you're a Sims 1 vet.
This sets the decay of your Sim's energy, but also changes its preference for activities. A lazy Sim will be more inclined to read a book or watch TV than, say, work out or dance. That alone is not necessarily bad, but again, with low scores in this personality, your Sim also won't last long when he HAS to push himself, and all Sims do at some point. This plays more into your personal play style. It's pretty much just as easy and cheap to buy a TV for fun as it is a stereo, and both double as a workout machine.
Unless you plan on doing some hardcore sessions for job skill gains also explained later , keep this one around 5. Basically self-explanatory, this personality affects a Sim's preference for things to do when it is bored.
A playful Sim will be more inclined to watch TV or play computer games than read a book or look through a telescope. Also, Sims with high points here can have playful interactions with other Sims like telling jokes or tickling pass more than they fail. It's typical to make some snooty Sims, and set more Lazy and more Serious personalities. Or you can make blue-collar middle-class Sims who are more Active and more Playful.
Any combination will work, provided you have the Sim do what plays into its strengths. This one affects not only a Sim's inclination to other Sims, but also indirectly how easy it is for the Sim to make friends.
A grouchy Sim will insult and nag strangers, bringing down relationship levels and basically annoying the crap out of the target. Basically, if the Sim you're making is going to be getting a lot of friends by need or by choice , get this as high as possible. Unless you're specifically trying for a particular personality, keep this one above 4 for all your Sims. Once your personality is set for your Sim, you need to set its aspiration.
Aspirations are, in short, what your Sim is after. Does your Sim want money? A family? You must choose one here. I'll go into more detail about them later.
As you can see from the screenshots, Kelly wants to throw parties and have a million friends, so her aspiration is popularity. Her personality is almost completely balanced, but she's got an extra point toward Outgoing.
After that's all done, you're ready to save the Sim. Click the checkmark under the 6 button to accept the Sim. He or she will be posed at a backdrop ready for a family photo to be taken.
You can make more Sims here, but I'll touch on that later too. For now, one Sim is enough to deal with. Click the checkmark button in the bottom right, and we're off back to the neighborhood! The Sims 2 Wiki Guide. Last Edited: 28 Mar am. Gussying Up the Neighborhood As you can see, the neighborhood looks pretty barren.
It depends on your game resolution and whether you play in fullscreen mode. In general, though, larger resolutions show more Sims on the sidebar. On my computer, with the game in windowed mode running at x resolution, the sidebar fits 17 Sims. Yes No. Not Helpful 0 Helpful 1. Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. By using this service, some information may be shared with YouTube.
If you're spawning Sims and want to do it quickly, pause the game and then continue spawning Sims until the Sim's action queue is full. When you resume the game, it should spawn multiple new Sims at once. Helpful 1 Not Helpful 0. Avoid spawning too many Sims if you have a low-end computer. The game will become slow and potentially crash. If you have spawned many, many Sims, it is highly likely they will all lose needs at the same time, causing jams, messes and whines all over the place.
Unless you want to keep it like this, don't save your game! Related wikiHows How to. How to. About This Article. Co-authored by:. Co-authors: Updated: April 5, Categories: Sims 2. Thanks to all authors for creating a page that has been read 66, times. Did this article help you? Cookies make wikiHow better. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our cookie policy.
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