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[5] Walkthroughs
This chapter is to help you with various things. This helps to start off, earn
money, etc.
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[5.01] Help to Start Off
Okay, you have your family and all your need is a lot. Get a house (from the
house and lots bin) and slap it down. Buy the house if it is about §10000.
Then move your Sims in.
When you move in, there will be some items for you already. Go to buy mode
and make sure that you have:
1 Fridge
X Beds where X is the number of Sims (except toddlers)
1 Microwave or Oven
1 TV
1 Table with X Chairs where X is the number of Sims (except toddlers)
1 Crib and Changing Table (Only if you have a toddler)
A telephone
1 Toilet
1 Shower
Some Paintings
Some Toys
Bookshelf
When you finish buying that, you will be low on money. Get your adult Sims to
look in the newspaper. Find the highest paying job (Military or Politics) and
get in there. If you have teenagers, make them have a job as well. This will
bring more § into the household. If you have §500+, that's good as there
is need for more §. When the money starts to roll in, buy more things like
computers, better beds, better kitchenware, etc. When you have no more space
in your house. Stop.
When you have §20000+ in cash, refill your fridge (you should refill it
earlier, but hey). Either take a taxi to a community lots where you can buy
food or order over the telephone. Ordering over the telephone involves a §50
delivery fee. Quit your Sims jobs. All of them. Then try to find a job in the
Athletics Career. Get some friends and keep promoting them. When you have the
money, then you keep playing yourself, the Noob Walkthrough is over.
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[5.02] Earning Money
There are many ways to earn the easy buck. If you happen to have an art easel
and a high creative Sim, start painting. It earns you money on a more you
paint the more you earn basis. I've heard about people earning §2000+ per
painting! And there is the Hydroponic Garden. As a reward, your Sims will
cultivate plants and sell it for money. Getting a lot of family friends and
a lot of skill points with the odd maxed out set will greatly speed up your
chances at getting a promotion at work.
And who could forget the good old money tree. At §40 a pop every eight hours,
you could be rich! Don't have too many excess, unwanted objects as your bills
get calculated from the amount of objects your have and their values. Don't
make your Sim's eat without having a low hunger bar as food from the fridge
comes from the groceries you have to order. Use this walkthrough only if you
are on the verge of bankruptcy in the Sims 2.
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[5.03] Art Money Maker
This should belong in the art section but I really don't care. When you finish
your painting on the art easel, you don't have to sell it. Go to buy mode and
hang it somewhere. As the time goes on, you'll forget about the painting, no
seriously, you'll forget, just like me. Leave it there and the price of the
painting will slowly increase over time. I once had a crappy painting which
was worth about §56, and when I remembered about it, it was worth §500! Man
was that a great deal. The price of sale increased by over 450%. You can also
do this with the painting you can buy like the §5500 one but it will increase
slower, it increased only §78 in 3 days.
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[5.04] Need Control
This section is the faster way to regain your needs if you live in a single
storey house or you are short on time. Of course, check your bars for the one
that is in the most red. If it is bladder, go to the toilet to avoid a nasty
accident. Hygiene is cleared by going to the shower. Fun is quickly cured by
watching television, it regains the fastest on a channel besides the Yummy
Channel and is best on the wide screen plasma television. Hunger is the most
annoying one as it takes time to cool. Go for an instant meal is you are red
but if you have time to same yourself, you should aim for a meal like an
omelette or something that your Sim will not have the chance to get away from
as when they are hungry, they tend to leave food in the oven and stuff their
face with food while their cooking project is in the oven, starting to set the
whole house on fire. Social is best regain if you send e-mails many times and
when you check your e-mail, you will get a massive boost to your bar as you
decided to spam many e-mails over the SimInternet. Energy and comfort is best
regained on the Most expensive double bed. Comfort will skyrocket and energy
will slowly but surely regain itself. Environment is regained if you find a
better furnished and cleaner room then you are in now. If not, clean the damn
room up.
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[5.05] Skill Builder
Under here is the fastest way for my Sims to build up those hard to earn skill
points. Use the exercise machines, they are the fastest ways to build up those
annoying body skill points. Cleaning is best gained from cleaning benches and
toilets and such. Although cleaning from the bookcase could be faster, you are
actually helping out around the house and save on those maid bills. Cooking
skill points are best learnt from the television (the Yummy Channel) and
cooking and serving food. This can help you because the Yummy Channel is a fun
activity for all Sims and the cooking and serving for everyone is helpful
because it can relieve hunger for yourself and other Sims. Mechanical can be
learnt from the bookself but helping out and fixing the broken objects are
also important but the danger of getting fried by some broken electrical
product is quite high. Charisma is only learnt from the mirror as there is no
naturally occurring object that will raise it. Creativity is the most easy
one to raise because of the sheer fact that your Sims will do it with free
will. Paintings are the best in my opinion because they will provide some nice
needed money and boost your creativity which will boost future paintings.
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