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[33] Miscellaneous Stuff
This section is for stuff that doesn't have a section, that is why it is
called miscellaneous stuff. If you have a topic that is not in this section
or in the guide and you feel the need to make sure that it is in here, then
send it in, its no good to talk to yourself if no one can here you.
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[33.01] Bills
This thing really pisses me off. The bill is not calculated by the water, gas
and electricity you use, it is the amount of objects you have and their values
that they possess. The more you have, the more valuable they are, the more
you have to pay. If you don't pay your bills, the bills will grow from a
white colour to a yellow colour, then to an orange colour and then red. When
it turns red, you will receive a warning that you should pay your bills. If
you don't, the repo man will come and take items that are worth the amount of
the bills you own.
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[33.02] Free Will
Free Will is an option allowing you to let the Sims do what they want to do
unless you force them to do what you want. They will take care of their needs
and others but they can be all over the place. Without Free Will, you are the
master and they only take orders from you. There has been a massive debate
about free will so what I think is that you should leave it on. But then
again, that's my opinion.
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[33.03] Vacation Days
Vacation Days are aquired by going to work for several days / weeks. When you
get a vacation day, what it means that you can skip a day of work and still
get paid for it. You do not get access to chance cards and promotions or any
other work related things. Use it only when you forget that your Sim has to
go to work and they are in such a bad mood that they miss the carpool. If you
waste it, even if you are a Business Tycoon, you can still get fired. That is
not possible if you have a vacation day up your sleeve.
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[33.04] Fat and Thin
A new addition to the Sims 2 are the fat and the thin. You can control the
size of your Sim whether they will be a fat tub of lard or as skinny as a
bowling pin (no offense meant). The size of your Sim can be control if you as
God look after it properly. To see your Sims weight / blubber, on the mood
thingy, there are 5 buttons / options. The fourth one should be it (its above
the careers and aspiration rewards buttion). Its the one with the head. One of
the options will a guy doing a jumping jack. This is the one that will show if
you Sim is fat or thin. There are two influencing factors that contribute to
your Sim's weight.
Food
Your Sim can have their weight like what it is forever if you make sure that
their hunger bar does not go over full capacity when their are eating. This is
because when you eat food, for the excess energy, it is turned into fat which
happens in the Sims 2. For every gulp of food over the Hunger Bar, your Sim
will transfer the food into fat which will drop the fitness bar. Before their
meal is complete, cancel their eating action. You have to be careful as the
better meals like Lobster when cooked by a master will recover most and
quickly so be careful on the mouse.
Exercise
Of course, exercise the the only possible way to get your fat little sim thin
again. Walking, running and skipping are excluded because their will not be
the need to get fit if you get fir by walking. Everything that pumps up your
body skill will boost fitness so that is an added incentive to exercise. The
personality of the Sim does not effect the fitness of the Sim but active Sims
seem to enjoy the exercise unlike their lazy counterpart. Yoga is another way
to get rid of that excess flab that no one wants to see.
Exercising on a machine or a punching bag will make a Sim fat to thin in about
10 hours. However, this is the fastest way to rid the hygiene bar so be
careful on that note.
Yoga can make make a fat to thin sim in just about 20 hours. This is a better
alternative because you seem to slow the decrease of your motives where as
on the machine, you speed up the decrease. Yoga is handy as you only need 3
points of body to perform it and you can do it anywhere.
Swimming in a pool can make fat the thin in about 24 hours. This is in-
effective as swimming decreases energy like a chainsaw revving up so swimming
into shape is not a good idea.
The worst offender of fitness is the obstacle course. I thought that working
in the military forces will encourage you to get thin, however, it encourages
the idea that time exercising is more important than fitness. However, the
rate of motive decrease is slower than most activities and body skill seems
faster to raise so you can gain more points when trying to get fit on this
hunk of junk.
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