The bork pool for L&P Sims 2 "Free Time / Hobbies / Numpty Crap" EP7

[kuronue]

The maid will find herself in a new infinite loop of cleaning the koi pond. 

[Lord Darcy]

We'll, at least they get a Koi pond for reaching the top of the oceanographer career track. ...wasn't there something like that in sims1? You could get fish food and feed the fish? Damn it, now I want to start the old game up and find out.

In the community lot, you could also rent a remote-controlled boat from park booth.

[MadameUgly]

We'll, at least they get a Koi pond for reaching the top of the oceanographer career track. ...wasn't there something like that in sims1? You could get fish food and feed the fish? Damn it, now I want to start the old game up and find out.

In the community lot, you could also rent a remote-controlled boat from park booth.

They'll try to do that for sims 2 and the remote controlled boat will be borked, like the remote controlled car.  And if you have the holiday pack, Santa will now have the choice to give either the fucked up boat or the fucked up car.  JOY!

[gynarchy]

Supposedly there will be a remote controlled helicopter for them to fuck up as well.

[MidnightVoyager]

Supposedly there will be a remote controlled helicopter for them to fuck up as well.

Helicopters will have a chance of being stuck in the trees. Cars and boats will have a chance to strike obstructions. Either case will, instead of the intended behavior, make the object disappear immediately, leaving an invisible object and possibly sticking your Sim in the "retrieve" animation.

[Jelenedra]

The new woohoo object will be broken, as sims that use it to woohoo will immediately get crushes on themselves.

[MrsH]

Rumour (in the form of Snooty Sims) says that the new creature will be the Genie.  http://www.snootysims.com/

Oh joy.  EAxis have decided to revive something already ill-concieved from TS1 and insert it into TS2 with added numptitude.

The potential for horror with this ep grows all the time.  Pescado is going to be a busy bunny.

[MadameUgly]

Rumour (in the form of Snooty Sims) says that the new creature will be the Genie.  http://www.snootysims.com/

Oh joy.  EAxis have decided to revive something already ill-concieved from TS1 and insert it into TS2 with added numptitude.

The potential for horror with this ep grows all the time.  Pescado is going to be a busy bunny.

I liked the genie from Sims 1 (though didn't use him all the time).  The only way to play the stupid "hillbilly" house (that came with unleashed) was to ruin their lives with the genie.

[Assmitten]

Rumour (in the form of Snooty Sims) says that the new creature will be the Genie.  http://www.snootysims.com/

Oh joy.  EAxis have decided to revive something already ill-concieved from TS1 and insert it into TS2 with added numptitude.

The potential for horror with this ep grows all the time.  Pescado is going to be a busy bunny.

Thank you for the infos, MrsH. Also enjoying the word "numpitude." YOINK!

I thought we already had the genie, in the form of the wishing well.

[Aner-Dyfan]

Yup we do Assmitten which is why they will add it, it will use different code and cause massive conflicts with the wishing well. So that if you have a wishing well anywhere in your hood on installation the hood will immediately get corrupted and explode the game.

[mitchellcjs]

Toddlers will be allowed to go to the "Special" lots in the car, but the animations will be borken, resulting in ADHD, and the sim-parents will attempt to take the toddlers to regular community lots in the car, which will PHAIL and crash the game.

ETA:  Upon the crash, both car and Sims will be stuck in limbo, and we will need Pes's Awesomeness to get the sims back.  The car will be lost forever.

[Venusy]

I am fairly worried about the Lifetime Friends feature. Given everything we know from previous statements, a "low chance of relationship decay" actually means a "0% chance of relationship decay" (much like how an "increased chance of twins" actually means a "100% chance of twins"). To this end, they will probably also be hilariously easy to obtain, leading to more useless relationship panel spam.

And given that the Lifetime Aspiration meter will probably be powered by Lifetime Wants, it's almost a certainty that sims who have previously fulfilled LTWs won't get all/any of them counted towards the LTAM.

[morriganrant]

I predict excessive gypsy spawning because of this sentance on Snooty Sims.

The Lamp is delivered to you by the gypsy, but if you want more genies, you can spawn it with boolprop.

They either assume that everyone has NL or they will spawn a gypsy for those that don't have NL. So those of us with NL will probably end up with extra gypsys. Maybe repetitive npc spam once again.

The FT cars will not work properly unless you have NL, those without NL will suffer from car errors every time they try to leave the lot in one.

[kutto]

When a sim dies of old age, 3 of their elder friends will also die of old age due to how birthdays are now handled. These sims will be, more often than not, your playable sims who are at the very beginning of their elder years.

[Giggy]

Everyone in the household will be forced to grow up without warning when one sim grows up
while elders die off quickly

[sloppyhousewife]

When a sim dies of old age, 3 of their elder friends will also die of old age due to how birthdays are now handled. These sims will be, more often than not, your playable sims who are at the very beginning of their elder years.

Actually, I wouldn't mind *that* bug at all.

[TheMagicBullet]

The Eternal Newspaper Delivery will start if you don't remove/update inTeen or inSim prior to installation. And, of course, the "become Lifetime Friends with [insert random townie they just met and will never see again]" want spam.

[MajorMercedes]

When your sim parks a car, it will park two levels above where the garage is.

All newborn babies will be aliens, regardless of who their parents were.

Social Workers will take your baby as soon as it's born, but will never leave your lot, rendering it unplayable.

Precision Lightning strikes will begin occuring as frequently as possible.  They will strike down your sims at completely random times, regardless of whether or not they are inside or outside, or if it's even storming to begin with.

It will completely delete your downloads folder at first play.

All sims will be bald.  Therefore, your game will explode when you calculate their man score:
division by zero=fail.

[Jelenedra]

That's why you take your Downloads folder OUT before installing a new EP. DUH.

[Count Four]

Choose one or many;

a) There will be no option to have an alarm installed in a fixable car.
b) There will be an option to have an alarm installed in a fixable car, but sending a fixable car to have an alarm installed will result in limbo loss of car, sim or both.
c) Sending fixable car to have an alarm installed will result in mysterious spawnage of multiple, identical, cheap-ass, fixable cars, that all want to come home;
d) Sims will have option to install car alarm themselves, resulting in portal deletion and/or other mayhem.
e) Fixable cars do not register as repaired, even though the car fixin' progress bar is full--car is driveway art, until Pes hacks a fix.
f) Car fixin' is outdoor-only activity and borks temperature, resulting in spontaneous combustion plague.
g) Car fixin' is garage-only activitiy; fixin' car inside garage borks garage doors.

[sloppyhousewife]

[...]
f) Car fixin' is outdoor-only activity and borks temperature, resulting in spontaneous combustion plague.
[...]

Spontanous car combustion would be awesone ("I swear, Officer, it was an accident").

[Jelenedra]

It would be awesome if there was a new sim death, "Crushed by car."

[Shake]

That would be much too violent for the sims, they cannot let their rating go up past Teen, even though violence is part of real life.

e) Fixable cars do not register as repaired, even though the car fixin' progress bar is full--car is driveway art, until Pes hacks a fix.

E for the win.

[sloppyhousewife]

Too violent for a game where dying in a kitchen fire is considered funny ?

[maxon]

The new supernatural, according to Snooty Sims, is a genie.  In a bottle.  wow.

Still - all kinds of potential for borkiness when granting your three wishes (Mine: 1. make the game work properly, 2. stop the madness of sim monomania, 3. no more hidden neighbourhoods).

Edit
Ah - ninja'd on the news about the genie, I see, but I still want my three wishes

It would be awesome if there was a new sim death, "Crushed by car."

That's the first thing I tried when I got Nightlife - 't would indeed be awesome.