Sims 2 apartment life premade families

Up to four different families can reside in the same apartment. The rent price will vary depending on the apartment's size, interior architecture, and backyard patio.

In order to lower the weekly rent, Sims can search for roommates. Roommates will live together with Sims, but they will be unplayable and take care of themselves. Roommates can be searched for via computer or newspaper, or Sims can use the phone to advertise for roommates. They could be nice to the Sims they live with, or could be bothersome.

Roommates have a Roommate satisfaction meter, which displays how much they enjoy living with the Sims. If the satisfaction meter gets too low, they may move out on their own.

This Expansion Pack introduces new features to bring more realism of community living, Social class. From now, each lot, whether residential or community, calculates its lot class value.

The value will indicate if the lot is high to low. The value is determined by the price of the furniture, the size of the lots, the number of household members, the messiness, and the values of surrounding lots. Social Group Townies are a new kind of Townie. They are the townies who will occupy vacant apartments and become the roommates. Socialites and Techies will occupy expensive apartments while Bohemians and Gearheads occupy the worst.

In contrast, they determine how "rich" they are and their surroundings. Sims now have reputations. Reputation is determined by how nice or mean a Sim interacts with others. Having good reputation will benefit Sims while bad reputation will give Sims penalties. Townies will also react to the Sims' reputation. The new life state introduced in the Expansion Pack is Witch. Witches have 3 alignments: a Sim can be good, bad, or neutral witch.

As a witch, Sims will have witch attributes, be able to cast spells , and fly with a broomstick. Spells require reagents , which witches can craft or buy from the High Witch. Ceiling is a new minor addition. Ceilings are now visible by toggling the ceiling button on the lower left of the HUD. The ceiling can be seen by tilting the camera to the sky from the ground.

Ceiling can be customized by adding floor tiles. This tool automatically activates itself when the player is building walls, half walls, fences, flooring, ceiling, foundations, decks, stages, wall coverings, adjusting terrain, roof, garden plots [ TS2:S ] , awnings, and pools.

Player can press the [ or ] buttons to raise or lower the position of wall-hanging decorations. The Sims Wiki Explore. Recent posts Game news Community news. Deletion discussions Development discussions Admin discussions Admin's noticeboard. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? The Sims 2: Apartment Life. Edit source History Talk 9. Do you like this video?

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The Sims 4. They are condominiums, townhouses, and connected apartments. Condominiums are separated apartments. Townhouses are connected, but have a garage and a separate roof for each apartment. And connected apartments have a building with all the apartments inside. Make a lot for your apartment.

Connected apartments can be 3x3 in size, condos can be 3x4, and townhouses can be 5x2. These are just suggestions, but the sizes really make a difference. Enter cheats to build it. Press Ctrl, Shift and C to activate the cheat box.

Type in the following cheats: changelotzoning apartmentbase boolProp aptBaseLotSpecificToolsDisabled false "changelotzoning apartmentbase" changes the lot to an apartment. You can tell if the mailbox turns into a multiple slot mailbox. Start by creating the foundation optional and outside walls. If you have foundation, don't forget the stairs. Avoid boxes, and don't make it too big or small! Remember, there should be 3 or 4 apartments within each lot, so make sure you have the size right.

Add windows, a front door, and a roof. Try to put the windows all over the apartment building, or else an apartment won't get enough light. The front door can be any door except for the apartment door with the rug, or else Sims will rent the whole thing. For the roof, you can put in an actual roof or flooring. For a roof, click on the roof tool button, then drag the roof tool to where you want.

You can select different styles and colors of roofs. For flooring, go to the flooring tool, then drag the floor you want across the desired area. Put in outside wall covering. This can be stone, brick, paneling, whatever you want.

To do it faster, press Shift before you click the wall. The whole area is covered! Do this for each story of the house. Create the lobby. Every apartment in Sims 2 has a lobby. On the first floor excluding foundation , put in a medium sized room with a fireplace, couches, tables, etc.

This is the main room where your Sims can hang out. Remember, Sims 2 Apartment Life comes with vending machines! Make the outline walls of the apartments and add the apartment door for each one. Fill in each apartment with walls, wall covering, floor covering, and basic furniture. The wall trick explained earlier also works for floors.

Create the outside environment. This can be a garden, a fence, or a playground for the little sims. You could even add a pool! Be creative, but even a bush or two really changes the environment. Another idea is to add outdoor lamps and benches. You can only make apartments with the "Sims 2 Apartment Life" expansion pack. Yes No. Not Helpful 3 Helpful 4. Unfortunately, no. If you don't have Apartment Life, you can make a residential lot that looks like an apartment, but you won't be able to rent out individual apartments or have multiple families on one lot.