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BFF is a new friendship level. A Sim who is best friends long enough will develop BFF. A BFF will have a slower daily relationship decay, and will never fall out of friends, even though they are [[furious]] with each others. BFFs also have benefits, such as far away greet and inside jokes interaction. |
BFF is a new friendship level. A Sim who is best friends long enough will develop BFF. A BFF will have a slower daily relationship decay, and will never fall out of friends, even though they are [[Fury|furious]] with each others. BFFs also have benefits, such as far away greet and inside jokes interaction. |
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The Sims 2 FreeTime[1] (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.
New Features
Lifetime Aspiration[2]
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 living throughout their life. Its accumulation depend on the daily aspiration bar. The longer the daily aspiration bar is kept high, the faster the lifetime aspiration bar accumulates. Sims who reach the maximum Lifetime Aspiration will be rewarded Perma-platinum mood.
Lifetime Aspiration Benefit
The higher the lifetime aspiration bar a Sim has, the more aspiration benefits he/she can spend. Sims who spend their aspiration benefit will be given special personal abilities and advantages. For example, slower needs decay, faster making friends, smooth talking, higher salary, etc.
Secondary Aspiration
The secondary aspiration unlocks Sims' possibilities for new wants and fears that are beyond their primary aspiration. Sims can choose their secondary aspiration from their 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 types of hobbies: Cuisine, Film and Literature, Games, Tinkering, Science, Arts and Crafts, Fitness, Nature, Sports, Music and Dance. Each Sim has a predestined hobby. Sims will build enthusiasm faster on the hobby they are predestined.
Secret Hobby Lot
Sims who have gained enough enthusiasm will discover a secret hobby lot. The hobby instructors will give Sims the membership to gain entrance for the hobby club. The hobby lot can only be visited by Sims who have the membership.
Best Friends Forever[2]
BFF is a new friendship level. A Sim who is best friends long enough will develop BFF. A BFF will have a slower daily relationship decay, and will never fall out of friends, even though they are furious with each others. BFFs also have benefits, such as far away greet and inside jokes interaction.
NPC Aging
Sims who have townie friends no longer remain the same age forever. Whenever Sim grows up, they can choose 3 of any townies they know to grow up together. With this feature, childhood friends can grow older, and teen girlfriend can be married when they're old enough.
Genie
The new life state introduced in the Expansion Pack is Genie. Genie can grant 3 wishes to Sims who wish. Sims cannot become a Genie, nor a Genie is playable. A family whose members have high enthusiasms will have higher chance to be delivered a Genie lamp by 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
- Basketball Hoop
- Soccer Goal
- Sewing Machine
- Pottery Wheel
- Ballet Barre
- Restorable Car
- Model Train Set
- Don't Wake the Llama Board Game
- Ant Farm
- Teeny Tykes Activity Table
- 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.[TS2:NL]
Gallery
Video
<videogallery> Video:The Sims 2 - FreeTime Official Trailer|The Sims 2 - FreeTime Official Trailer Video:Natasha Bedingfield - Pocketful Of Sunshine (Simlish)|Natasha Bedingfield - Pocketful Of Sunshine (The Sims 2 Freetime) Video:Datarock - Fa Fa Fa (Simlish)|Datarock - Fa Fa Fa (The Sims 2 Freetime) </videogallery>
External Links
The Sims 2: FreeTime on TheSims2.com
