More Awesome Than You!

Ok - Skimming the posts at the BBS anout OFB, someone posted the description of the "sentry bot". I've highlighted the parts that I think would be interesting interactions for "certain" modders to do "something" with:



Just imagine the possibilities with this one...........  ;D

I know, I was reading the stuff too.  Makes me want to go to the mall tonight and get the guide.  :D

Your malls have the guide?!  I've been calling around to see if anyone has it yet!  Nope, nope, nope!

Somewhat related - I preordered the game and stategy guide from Gamestop. When I first ordered, it indicated that the guide was to ship by 2/24. Now when I check the website, it says that the guide won't ship until 2/27. I hope that they don't handle the shipment of the game the same way.

What has been people's experience with Gamespot? (this is my first time ordering from them) Do they deliver when they say they will or is this their usual MO to push out delivery dates without informing the people that have placed the order?

I was just hoping they had the guide.  I called and they don't have it until Monday.  Perhaps I can sucker ask nicely for the guide for my birthday.  ;D

I just realized there's a few things I'm going to need this payday:  the guide, the game, and Walk The Line comes out on Tuesday.  :P

Hehe sounds cool it needs to be modded to add functionality to zap the cow mascot, cheerleaders and other annoying pests think how good that'd be.  Cheerleader races in and starts cheering moment later she's on the floor twitching with sparks coming off her.

I called my local EB Games last night, they said it'd be there today.  I called today...

"Nope, I don't have that yet."

"When are you getting it?"

After Monday, it's not in our shipment queue yet."

If I hear no one more time, there be trouble.

Where are you people, anyway?

Edit:

Called just now, they were "supposed to get it today" but they didn't, so it "should be in tomorrow."

More like, when Hell freezes over.

Eidt the Second:

Called to see when the get the game: "March 15th"

Oh. My. God.  I'll paw out my eyes and preorder from EA games.

...And then TS2 will turn out to be a shooting game - no, thank you...:). I have much too much lethal possibilities (including scissors and cow plant).

You want shooting? Go and play "Doom"...:).

Doesn't the game come out on the third?  Where do you live that you'll get it on the 15th?

When Nightlife came out, I got it the day before official release from EB Games, and I didn't even pre-order.

Europe, possibly. University was delayed here for, hm, about a week after release in North America. However, NL wasn't, so I don't know why they'd delay OFB.

I did have to go to a department store to get NL, because the EB Games in Helsinki said they wouldn't have it in for a few days. Whatever, guys.

I give it two weeks before someone turns it into a sexbot with optional furry accessories. *SIGH*

Seriously, what I would like to see is a human skin for it. I didn't like Servo before...I kept waiting for him to go nuts and destroy all humans. I would keep a close eye on him at 2 am.

Also, is this implying that there will be a "deadly robot" crafting station?

I live not far away from Claifornia at all!  I'm within a fifth of the globe!

I AM in North America, and if they release it the 125h, I will kill something.

I keep forgetting that not everyone lives in North America, and a big city at that.  :-[

I feel so forgotten.

And, if they do release it the 15th, be somewhere safe.

I'm more worried about J.M. they won't be delivering it to his bunker for quite some time, which means no Awesome hacks for a long time.  I've been thinking of asking him if there'd be a way to help i think with uni he was sent a copy of some of the core files used to make the mods.

Well, the day it comes out, people will be posting all about what works and what doesn't, so don't feel too bad about the Awesome Guard.

...you know you just worried me, by reminding me how random Maxis does stuff.  Like for this sentry bot "and sometimes even death" now in Maxis terms that probably means a 100% chance of them dropping dead from a shock.

Somwtimes even death is probably still just exactly like normal electrocution.

Even if i try i can never electricute my sims.  I mean send a sim with no mechanical to repair the computer and nudda.  Although the trash compactor has a high chance of dusting anyone that tries to fix it, even a repairman with max mechanical.

So use the trash compactor.

Yeah problem is their never broken when you want em lol.

Anyways should be interesting to see what new bugs they add in with the new expansion.

"boolprop" break induser is your friend  ;D

Is that one of the objects you can spawn?  Because i've tried boolprop and breaking a tv or stove but despite clicking the break or whatever it is option it just doesn't work.

The "break" option is broken? ;D

Is this something we should be worried about......

Probably lol, i'll try that break inducer next time and maybe i can get stuff broken.

 ;D

Amazon.com sent me an email a few days ago and said OFB was delayed and will be shipped between March 11-14.  I didn't order the guide. The guide aggravates me with the few pages in the front about the expansion, and the remainder old news.

Well, I pre-ordered the other day from amazon.co.uk, and the shipping date quoted is March 4th, and I should receive it on March 7th.  Haven't heard anything to the contrary, and they're usually pretty quick about letting you know changes in delivery dates.

Well I checked at the local Wal-Mart the other day.  OFB will be in the store on March 2.  I'm so excited it's so soon, but I will have to wait 1 day until Payday to purchase.  :( ;D

That's because they don't want another...incident.

I went and double checked my email to be sure of the dates and it does say March 11-14. Maybe they threw some extra days in there to cover their butts.

University is the last EP this happened with (and thus my Uni guide has replaced my original TS2 guide). The Nightlife guide is mostly NL-specific stuff, with charts at the back reviewing careers, objects, and interactions, and someone has reported that the OFB guide (which is bigger than the NL guide) is all or nearly all EP content.

That said, don't pay $20 for it. Hunt down a good discount on fetchbook.info or something.

Could be - or maybe since they've been rather criticized in the past for making us wait in the UK, they've made sure the shipment went out in plenty of time, and Amazon UK already know it'll be in stock in time.

Thats the tragedy of the internets.

Or the hilarity of them, considering your point of view.  ;D

I pre-ordered on 1/20 from amazon.com and the "Delivery estimate" for mine is March 2, 2006 - March 4, 2006   ;D

I also pre-ordered the guide at the same time, I always do because some of the information is really nice to have on hand.

I pre-ordered January 4, 2006 and it still says mine will be delivered March 11-14. Can't figure what's up with the difference in dates. Doesn't make sense that several of us would get different delivery dates on the same item.

I pre-orderred at EB games, checked my order, and it still says that the delivery will be made at 28th of March.

I am going by EBGames this afternoon for GalCiv2. I will see if the guide is here yet (not buying it, but I can taunt you all).

I also preordered from EB just checked the site again and it still says Feb. 28.  Although what will probably happen (even though I picked the fastest shipping) is that it will get here after all the stores have it anyways.  I'm only pre-ordering online so I don't have to go out with a 3 year old to get a copy and can stay home (and wait impatiently on the copy of it).

I just preordered on the 17th from Amazon.com, delivery is estimated at March 2-6th. I've never preordered before, I usually just hop over to Walmart and get the ep at a huge discount (around $23 for the first week)  compared to Amazon's bloated price. This time though, I had a gift certificate for Amazon so I'm only paying $5, including free shipping so I decided what the heck. I also ordered the guide because where I live, the guides are extremely hard to find for some reason.

Just ordered from Gameplay.com :D

If the reviews are correct, it will be able to woohoo with regular sims already...  :-X

That's ugh!!!! And why is it so darn cheap?  Servo was a top of the range robot in Sims1, so I'd expect it to be something really expensive for those fortune sims to drool over!

Servo IS the top of the line. The sentry bot is not the same as Servo. There are something like 5 different kinds of robots, and Servo is the only one which is a robot Sim; the others all have specific functions and don't do anything else.

From what I remember reading -
Servo top of the line does everything including woohoo and can make new servos at the workbench
"water" bot that will water plants and put out fires - might act as a kiddie sprinker
"cleaning" bot - cleans up trash
"sentry" bot - in this post
There is one that will go and get food like pizza, chinese, etc and bring back to the lot. Can't remember if that a special one or one of the functions of one of the bots listed above.

Hmm...this makes me think...I think I saw a "Gigolo Joe" skin over at MTS2 the other day. You might be able to recoup your investment.

If this is true, Jack Thomson types will piss themselves.

The munchiebot is a separate type. Also, I believe the kiddie sprinkler is a separate object.

I've pre-ordered from the official EA Store site, just cuz I get them newsletter $15 discounts, but I still have to pay for S&H. Total, it ends up about 25$ or something. Which ends up at least being 10$ cheaper since retail is about 35$.

And it usually ships fairly early. In the past, I've gotten Uni and NL essentially the same week that it's released. :)

As for the guides, they don't really seem worth it. Prima I believe has digital versions that you can order online for only $9.99. But regardless, the info doesn't seem all that useful or interesting to me. I don't really care about the specific values/stats for objects and interactions. Especially with SimPE, if I was really interested, I could just root through the "code" but meh. :P

What I was hoping to find in them was unexpected or "secret" interactions that are like personality dependent, which I don't always see, because the majority of my CAS made sims have very average personalities and don't fall into the extremes of 10 or 0 points in a certain trait. From what I've seen, the majority of Maxis made personality tweaks depend on these extremes. So I pretty much never see these interactions available, or even witness them period. :P Unfortunately, the books don't contain this info, so that pretty much makes them worthless to me. I always get more info from reading other people's posts or just asking other players about their own experiences.

The one thing that I do look forward to about the guides, is that now, I usually go to Barnes and Nobles with my sister to check them out. We'll spend a good part of the day "browsing" through the guide while sippin on Starbucks ::) Basically, we'll hang out and chat and gossip and brag and tell secrets about what we find in the guides. We'll squeal with glee and giggle like little girls over our anticipation of what's to come in the new EP. I think I have just as much fun just chatting about it with my sister than I do actually playing the game. ;D

Ste

PS. For anyone that remembers... about the pretty evil thing I did to my sister's game. She finally noticed about a few weeks ago while she was playing. In her Pleasantview, she had one of her sims go to college and use the Uni directory. Apparently, it lists sims in alphabetical order (by first name of course ::) ) and 'lo and behold, the first name that pops up is that of her ex. Hehehe. If anyone recalls, I made a sim that sort of looks like her ex, and then I hijacked one of the dormies in her game and used SimPE's Sims Surgery to replace his skin and renamed him. I initially intended for her to discover him when she sent her selfsim to college (they ended up going to the same college in real life, but they broke up about the time of her 2nd year which was unfortunately also around the time that he was entering his first year :P). But, she ended up starting a separate 'hood for our self family (this original 'hood just had CAS made adult versions of her and her current bf, and adult versions of me and my hubby - i.e. we didn't start off related in this game, I had to use SimPE to edit our relationship).

Anyhew... so she finally noticed, and when she brought it up to me, she was just totally shocked and dumbfounded. The painful yet funny thing is, she totally believes it was an in game thing! I sort of semi-lied to her, and told her that the name could have come up randomly either by Maxis, or the fact that I was using jordi's better names hack. :P Aren't I evil?!?!?! The thing is, she is just totally shocked, and she almost thinks that it might be like a "sign" or something. She and her ex try to remain friends, but it's obviously really hard because of what they went through. I'm not like doing this to be cruel or anything, I just thought it would be funny. :P And the thing is, I actually liked her ex. He was nice and friendly and all around, a pretty cool, stand-up kind of guy. I thought they were good together, and he took care of her. But then again... she kind of has this knack of finding guys that sort of do that for her. ::) Anyways, the thing is, it's all kind of funny that she seems to honestly believe that it was just random chance. That the sim just happened to look like her ex, and just happened to have the exact name as him. Still... I don't think I could tell her that I did it. She would probably hate me for it. Well... at least for a little while. Lol. God... I'm going to hell aren't I? Meh... not like that's news.  ;)

*snort* Probably. You are probably going to gypsy matchmaker hell. That's a funny story--I hope it comes out okay.

I pre-ordered mine on Jan. 24 on amazon.com and it still says that it will be shipping on Febuary 28th...  I think mine is way off.  :P

That's pretty funny. Your slut sister deserves it.

I'm glad you found it amusing. ;D But see... my sister's sim is Fortune, not Romance. See... she has a knack for finding sugar daddies, as I said. :P

Anyways, I ended up redoing this in her other 'hood with our sim family. So... let's see how she reacts when she finally gets around to playing us and sending her self sim off to college, and she runs into him for the 2nd time. I wonder if she will still think it's Maxis thing. ;)

Ste

You hate your sister that much, syberspunk? ;D

You know, I could almost get behin-

... I'm not going to continue that sentence.  ;D

Oh, Ste? Here's your handbasket. Enjoy your trip!  :D

Syberspunk this is a great practical joke hope she feels that way when she finds out what you done. ;D

I'd watch out for something nasty lurking in my bed if I were you! ;D

Wait... where am I going... and why am I in this handbasket...? Lol


And actually... I really love my sister. We are like twins, even though we're 5 years apart. Every thing we hate about ourselves, we see it in each other. And every thing we say, do, and what not, we can't help it that we are so alike sometimes. It's kind of freaky. :P

I'm sure she'll be upset at first, but she'll just think I'm a stupid ass for it. ;D And plus, I don't really live at home right now, so I won't have to worry about it. ;)

The thing is, I was hoping she'd play our family sooner. I don't know if she'll ever get around to it. Hehe. Let's just hope she never gets around to actually browsing these sims sites I've showed her. So far... she sticks to just downloading stuff from MTS2 and doesn't actually post or anything. Heheh. ;D

Ste

But they look really nice sitting next to the other guides and the TS2 cases sitting on my computer bookshelf. :D

Hm, that's an interesting decorating scheme.

Oh. My. GOD.

Guess what!

"We were supposed to get it in today, but we didn't.  We won't get it until next week."

I think the local EB Games is broken.

And now I have to wait until next week.

I pre-ordered from my local EB Games and they reckon the date is about the 6th March.  The store is run by women and they remember who you are and acknowledge you when you walk in etc so I make a point of shopping there.  The staff ring me the morning that the game comes in, so I just keep my mobile handy and if it the game is released early, I get a call early.

btw I'm back at uni now, so I'm madly trying to get all my presentations & assignments done before OFB comes out as there is no way I'll be doing it after OFB is released :P

I never preorder.  The way I look at it is that if you order it somewhere you'll either get it right away or a week or two after the release date.  Also, you will miss out on some good deals later on such as gift cards and copies as cheap as $20.

As for Prima Guides?  You're better off waiting a few months to get more accurate info here.

As for the robot thing, I find it oddly hilarious that Servo can make other servos.  Let's say someone makes a servo, the servo ends up killing its creator because he has a desire to kill all humans and then makes an army of Servo to destroy the rest of the neighborhood.  There's still hope for J.M's LTW for those robots for "Kill all Humans".

So does mine, reason why I moved out and haven't spoken to her in approaching a year. Classic Romance Sim. Sad thing is, Sims is one of the things we actually got along over, when we did...

Someone needs to make a teen woo hoo mod that also makes the sentry bot shock anyone doing any romantic interactions with a teen.

The Chastity bot.

Would that include wolf-whistling a teen who is freestylin'?

Yes, but it would shock the freestyling teen first for being stupid.

Maybe he's just poor!

Amazon almost always overestimates shipping dates and such, so I usually get things several days before they said I would.  I wasn't very excited about OFB at first, but I really missed Servo and can't wait for my first death by elevator.  I don't suppose the new workbenches include a gnome workbench, like in Sims 1.  I used to have my Sims stay home and make gnomes all day to sell for $150 each, unless some jackass like Mortimer Goth decided to come by and kick one of the gnomes, causing them all to explode.  I killed him so many times.  Man, the death by starvation in a square of fence used to take forever!  I wonder if they're going to bring back the fireworks.

Then my poor people zapper bot would get him before he has time to attract the attention of the chastity bot.