The Sims 2: FreeTime

The Sims 2 FreeTime, (sometimes spelled as The Sims 2: FreeTime, TS2 FT or simply FreeTime) is the seventh expansion pack for The Sims 2. It was released on February 26, 2008. It mainly features group activities and hobbies for Sims.

Description
''Now your Sims can rediscover the joys of leisure time! Awaken your Sims' true passions in life as they discover and excel at all-new activities. Whether they're tossing a football with the family, practicing ballet, restoring cars with friends, or building train sets, your Sims now have more ways to build skills, enhance friendships, and make their lives more successful. Craft new, unique items for your Sims to use in their daily lives including clothing, pottery, and more. Your Sims will even unlock secret rewards by mastering their hobbies and advancing all-new careers. Explore a wide variety of new hobbies that will change your Sims' lives!''

Desiderata Valley
Desiderata Valley is the new neighborhood shipped with The Sims 2: FreeTime. It mainly focuses on the residents' leisure activities and pastimes. All families are at moderate economic status; not too rich and not too poor. There are a number of community lots where Sims can do many activities, such as gallery, sport park, community kitchen, and so on.

Lifetime Aspiration
Sims now have a new bar between the daily aspiration bar and the Influence bar, the Lifetime Aspiration bar. This bar indicates how happy a Sim has been throughout their life. The longer the daily aspiration bar is kept high, the more points the lifetime aspiration bar accumulates. Sims who reach the maximum Lifetime Aspiration will be rewarded with Perma-platinum mood.

Lifetime Aspiration Benefit
The higher a Sim's lifetime aspiration bar is, the more aspiration benefit points he/she can spend. Sims who spend their aspiration benefit points will be given special personal abilities and advantages. For example, slower needs decay, making friends faster, smooth talking, higher salary, etc.

Secondary Aspiration
The secondary aspiration unlocks Sims' possibilities for new wants and fears that are outside their primary aspiration. Sims can choose their secondary aspiration as an aspiration benefit.

Hobby Enthusiasm
The new simology includes hobby enthusiasm for each Sim. Sims who do activities in certain hobby will build enthusiasm that makes them more keen on their hobbies. There are 10 hobbies: Cuisine, Film and Literature, Games, Tinkering, Science, Arts and Crafts, Fitness, Nature, Sports, Music and Dance. Each Sim has a predestined hobby, and Sims will build enthusiasm for that hobby faster than for the others.

Secret Hobby Lot
Sims who have gained enough enthusiasm in a hobby will discover a secret hobby lot. The instructor for that hobby will give the Sim membership in the hobby club, which will give him/her entrance to the hobby club. The hobby lot can only be visited by Sims who have a membership, though they can take other Sims with them.

Best Friends Forever
BFF is a new friendship level. Two Sims who are best friends long enough will develop the BFF relationship. BFFs will have a slower daily relationship decay, and will never fall out of friendship, even if they are furious with each other. BFFs also have benefits, such as an autonomous "far away greet" interaction, and the ability to tell inside jokes.

NPC Aging
Sims' townie friends no longer remain the same age forever. Whenever a Sim grows up, they can choose any 3 townies they know to grow up together. With this feature, childhood friends can grow older, and teen girlfriends can be married when they're old enough.

Genie
The new life state introduced in the Expansion Pack is a Genie. A Genie can grant 3 wishes to Sims who have received the Dusty Old Lamp. Sims cannot become Genies, nor are Genies playble. A family whose members have high hobby enthusiasms will have higher chance to be have a Dusty Old Lamp delivered to them by the Gypsy Matchmaker.

New Additions

 * New Life State: Genie
 * New Careers: Architecture, Dance, Entertainment, Intelligence, and Oceanography
 * New Lifetime Wants: Become City Planner, Become World Class Ballet Dancer, Become Prestidigitator, Become Head of SCIA, and Become Hand of Poseidon
 * New NPCs: Food Judge, Hobby Instructor, Rod Humble
 * New Skills: Nursery Rhyme and Parenting
 * New Radio Station: Indie Wave
 * New Talent Badges: Pottery and Sewing
 * New Meal: Grandma's Comfort Soup
 * New TV Channel: Movie
 * New Video Games: MySims, FIFA 08, Command and Conquer: Tiberium Wars, Spore, and The Sims 3

Minor Features

 * Rod Humble will come to greet newly moved-in family and drop off a gift. The gift will contain a free computer and a video game of the preview of The Sims 3.

New Objects

 * H-O-R-S-E of course Basket Ball Hoop
 * The Goal of Paul Soccer Goal
 * Sewing Machine
 * Upright Pottery Wheel by QuicKraft
 * Basic Barre by Deuxjoint Ltd. Ballet Barre
 * One Man's Junk Car from Mechanically Minded Restorable Car
 * Model Train Set
 * Don't Wake the Llama Board Game
 * Ant Farm
 * Teeny Tykes Activity Table
 * Simavarious VII Concert Violin
 * Synthesizer

New Interactions

 * Sims-based
 * Sims can birdwatch outdoors.
 * Hiking and jogging.
 * Bug Hunting.
 * Older Sims can teach Nursery Rhyme to toddler.
 * Object-based
 * Sims can enter contests and win the prize.
 * Crafted paintings can be framed.
 * Drawings drawn on Teeny Tykes Activity Table can be hung on wall.
 * Sims can tinker on most appliances, plumbings, and electronics.
 * The ReNuYuSenso Orb can be used to reset Aspiration benefits.

Video
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