The Sims Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive 5

Missing premade families
Where are the families from the colleges, like Roxie Sharp and the sorority girls and such? They are still kind of a premade family, I think they should be included.
 * Good idea! Why don't you write them? Also, adding links to the characters from their neighborhoods, would be good. -- a_morris 20:59, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Characters of Sunset Valley
There is "no trustworthy" link that cites the characters of The Sims 3 and should be confirmed by EA or The Sims 3. That information is speculation thus making it misleading and should be deleted! I'm going to delete it if someone else doesn't create a new article which says 'Speculation on The Sims 3' and put that worthless infomation in it.

The title in the article with most of the speculation in it is 'Neighborhood Continuity'

F.Y.I. when questions were mentioned to The Sims 3 in relation to characters they typically responded with petty answers and could not confirm anything buy they did say "we're giving the game a fresh start,a new leap, in hopes for the sucess of the title"

Mrs. Crumblebottom is the only character confirmed in the game as of 22/7/08 - not nesseceraly meaning shes the only one lead onto this title but is confirmed.


 * You are right that speculation about The Sims 2 characters should not be included in the article. It has been removed. You must be a bit lenient as the game is still under developement and we have placed a disclaimer at the top of the page to that effect. Any cites and additional information you have about The Sims 3 is greatly appreciated. -- a_morris 00:05, 10 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Update: It is now known that The Sims 3 is a prequel to The Sims. Any speculation on the "future"s of The Sims 2 characters cannot be confirmed and should be removed. -- a_morris 05:11, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

HELP ME!!!!!!!!
I need help! my sims game stop working at my house, couldnt play it at all i had the seasons,pets, and freetime, well the game just stopped working, which left me to playing at realtives when i went there (you dont know my life) well at there house, cas isnt working! the loading screen pops up and then it just goes right back to neighborhood! HEEEEELLLLLPPPPPPPP MEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! please!


 * First, this is not a help site, it is an information site. If you are having problems you should contact The Sims 2 Tech Support, search help forums for other people who have the same problem or can help you. The first thing I would check would be downloads. Make sure that none of them are causing a conflict. This program might help: Sims 2 Hack Conflict Detection Utility. -- a_morris 14:32, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Ghosts of of Goth House TS1
Grandpa, grandma, auntie, uncle, cousin, vegas, bratty & boy? Who are those people that was buried in the Goth home in Neighborhood 1? If anyone knows, please tell me.

What's the deal with half-siblings in TS2?
In TS2, the Curious brothers are not shown as related to Lola and Chloe Singles, even though they share a father, Glarn Curious. But in another neighborhood, this one Sim fathered children with four other womenn, and I moved all of the women and their children together and the children showed the other children as their family. They too share a father. Do they have to know eachother to show their half siblings as family? Or did Maxis intend for the Curiouses and tLola and Chloe not to be related? -donlothariomustDIE


 * I don't know. The half-siblings in other families still treat each other as family. Maybe they were changed to half-siblings at the last minute and the family interactions weren't put on. But I really don't know. I think it's just Strangetown that has all this weird family glitches. Nervous Subject and Ophelia Nigmos are cousins and yet they can kiss, get married, and woohoo. - 67.68.18.136

I know everyone in strange town is inbreed because Pollination Technican 9 & Glam Curious go together to get Lola & Chloe and then later Pollination goes with Glam's daughter Jenny Smith to have their kids.211.27.110.228 12:45, 19 November 2008 (UTC)


 * It's a mistake that they don't consider each other family, I use Sim PE to correct it. Also the skintones genetics. -- Noneofyourbusiness 20:44, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

New Sim Template
I've made some changes to the Sim Template, putting more code into the template instead of having the user enter it, adding optional parameters, etc. This has, however, caused some problems on pages that uses the old template, mostly extra code around images and category markup appearing at the top of the article. If you see a page like that, please remove the extra markup (i.e. "", "", "[[Image:", etc.) . Categories can also be removed for sex, aspiration, sign, age and neighborhood as they are now part of the template but they will not sort properly without, so that should be left on or added to the page.

Pages that may have problems: Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Sim

-- a_morris 22:57, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

help updating the cheats page
the sims 2 README has a list of most cheats; (the ones they intended players to use) however i do not know how to properly format the text. i also do not know what cheats they didn't include, other than the testing cheat (the one that activates shift click functions).


 * I think it would be a good idea to create sub-pages for each game and expansion pack. It would keep the pages smaller and easier to navigate.

Layout -- a_morris 05:30, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
 * H1: Cheat Mode
 * H2: List of Cheats
 * List pages to: The Sims, The Sims 2, University, etc., testingcheatsenabled, Tombstone of Life and Death
 * On each page the cheats can be in a list instead of a table, with headings: "Build Cheats", "Gameplay Cheats", "Storytelling" Cheats", "Neighborhood Cheats", and "Miscellaneous Cheats".

Featured Article and Stories W/ pICS
Hi, I know I am new but I think I have some ideas that you might like. First of all: um, can we please change the featured article? I've been frequenting the site since August and it's been up since then-perhaps longer. It probably looks like the site administrators aren't paying attention to the wiki. And that's a turn off. Well, to a lot of people. Also, I was thinking we could have a section of the wiki where ordinary users like me could post stories with pics. Sites like insimenator.net and magicbeanssims have things like that, I think you might know what I mean. They're sort of like blogs. But anyway, if you don't, check out insimenator.net and magicbeanssims.com. On these things people write stories about their neighborhoods, legacies and ceratain families or Sims. They put pictures from the pictures they take in their games a lot of the time. So I think it would be a good idea to put a section like this up. PS, sorry about the typos because my computer is really sloww and it takes a long time to rite som sometimes i add extra letters or putt hings in all caps or something. So, I am sorry. Still take this seriouusly. -donlothariomustDIE
 * First, you are right, it is time to change the featured article. I will start a discussion to take suggestions. I would like to put a stop to your thinking that this is not an active wiki. If you look at the recent changes page you will see that I am on almost everyday, most likely several times a day. Second, players are able to post player stories of premade sims, and CAS sims already. If users like they can write stories of their sims, but I think users should use their user page or a sub-page for those. -- a_morris 04:41, 11 November 2008 (UTC)


 * i'm not saying i don't think it's an active wiki. I know it's an activ wiki, as II'm on the site a lot and see you editing things a lot. i'm just saying the people who might want to join might get turned off because if the featured article has been the same for a really long time they might say "oh, it's stagnant and not worth my time." That's all. :) --donlothariomustdie 04:17, 13 November 2008 (UTC)


 * In the previous layout there wasn't a featured article so there was no need to edit it simply because there wasn't enough feature worthy articles to put in the feature article section every week. The same thing with the feature media, though I'm not sure if this has been changed in a while or not. Suggestions on which articles to use may help, maybe A morris wouldn't mind taking them and posting them maybe every other week or so?


 * Users are free to use their User Pages if they would like to post stories with pictures, I don't see the harm in that. But I don't think we should create a special page for it. However, I wouldn't mind telling users to post their Player Stories on the Premade Sim's talk page. Makiah   (talk)  05:40, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Featured Article Suggestions
It's time to change the Featured Article and Featured Media on the main page. If you noticed a page that you thought was well-written an interesting suggest it here:
 * i THINK THE ARTICLE ON mORTIMER gOTH is interesting
 * It has been about a week, so Mortimer Goth gets to be the next Featured Article. Please keep the suggestions coming. -- a_morris 23:42, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Voting for featured articles will now be done here. --a_morris (talk) 05:02, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

College
We need a page about the college feature shipped with University, but I'm a little intimidated with starting such a large article. Anyone willing to help? --KazeNoYouko 21:35, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what you mean. We already have a lot of information about it, although spread over several articles: The Sims 2: University, Classes, Class Performance, Majors, etc. Combining the main points of these articles would be a great project. Or the more relevant articles could be placed in a sub-category of University (as this category is for the entire expansion pack) and possibly Life Stages. You may already be aware that the article College already exists but it certainly could be expanded on. --a_morris (talk) 04:19, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I was thinking of one page covering the 'college experience'. I wasn't aware of the fact that the info was already here. Thanks for the heads up --KazeNoYouko 14:32, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Licensing
Hey, I was just looking through here and noticed that a lot/most/(all) the images aren't licensed which brought an alarm to my head. Considering Wikia's image policy, I thought I should alert all of you guys will need to start licensing your images. I know it may be a tedious task, so I will offer the service of my bot to automatically add the appropriate license to all the image pages. I'll let you guys decide what you do, but you do need to license your pics, good luck. Cheers! ~Joey~ ^Talk^  07:46, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Learn about Licensing here. --a_morris (talk) 03:21, 1 April 2009 (UTC)