This may be old news to most of you, but I was excited to read yesterday that we’ll be able to send teenage townies to college in the new expansion! I got the information from this transcript of a press conference with Tim LeTourneau (via Snooty Sims). Here’s the blurb about the townies:
Once you’ve chosen a Campus, a screen will apear that let’s you choose which Sims you want to send off to University. You can send off a maximum of 8 Sims at a time. And here’s a scoop for you: you can not only send your own teens to College, but the townie-teens as well! This will make the townie-teens playable characters, and thus you can let them grow up and move into one of your own households. So for all those players who have always wanted to let their Sims mary their highschool-love, this is your opportunity!
There is a TON of cool stuff mentioned in that same transcript. Some of the things that really caught my eye were:
- A new cheat which will allow us to build more than 5 stories high (although it will slow down the game quite a bit, it sounds like)
- Sims will be able to have 5 or even 6 wants in their aspiration panel at one time, although they have to “unlock” them first
- One of the new career objects is a Home Plastic Surgery Kit which allows you to change a Sim’s features — now you can mold those moved-in townies to suit your liking! (It won’t change their DNA, though, so they will still pass on their original features.)
- The campfire is back! Let’s make s’mores!
You can find loads of more tidbits in the transcript. I’m getting really psyched for this expansion and starting to think about who I’m going to send to college…maybe my 10th gen Legacy heir and a bunch of his/her cousins? And Meadow Thayer, of course. She needs to grow up already!
lol I vote for Meadow too. Those sound very cool! I can’t wait for the EP to come out. Thanks for this info.
wow! it sound so great!! I wish I could fast forward time like in the game!
Meadow is like a fallen angel, she looks cool but inside…
great find, Jen! i hadn’t read this article yet. i know that SimMasterRalph (on the Exchange) can get more than 5 stories. his lots are amazing. he uses a few of those building cheats heavily. he works for Maxis, too.
i saw pics of the Plastic Surgery Kit on some foreign Sims 2 website. i can’t wait to have that because i created a Sim based on a friend and i accidentally gave him glasses. i heard you can’t get rid of glasses when you change appearance using the mirror.
i read about the campfire, too. did you know that they’ll be able to carry around and use cell phones? :)
finally, i’m glad they finally explained how to get them into the University. they say you can only bring in 8, but that’s more of a pc limitation, i believe. that’s why you can have only 8 on a lot. if your pc can handle it, you can get more on the lot.
it’ll be here in TWO more months! YAY!
Ooh yeah, SimMasterRalph makes neat stuff, though I haven’t downloaded any of it — my neighborhood is too full as it is, and my Sims would be soooo slooow on those huge lots! I don’t even put many trees on my lots anymore. And yeah, I read about the cell phones, very cool! I didn’t know that a Sim couldn’t get rid of their glasses at the mirror — I assume that’s only for CAS-created Sims?
Thanks for the synopsis. I save my Sims reading time for the story blogs, so it’s helpful to see tidbits posted here and there. The campfire idea sounds fun but I would love the cell phone idea. I get tired to sending them to stationary phones.
you’re probably right, Jen. i never actually tried taking the glasses off via the mirror, and i did put the glasses on him when i made him in CAS. i’ll have to try that. i haven’t rewarded my Blogger family with a change of appearance yet. soon, though!
Yea! Now I don’t have to kill off my Townie teens :) I can’t wait for the expansion pack!!! University is going to be so fun to play, and expect there will be some great stories from it too.
*sigh* the more I think about the expansion pack that I won’t really give a hoot about, it makes me want all the other things I’d like to have even more like weather, the ability to visit neighbors, at home careers, vegetable gardens and pets. Wah :-(