Repurposed trailers that have been neatly stacked into a livable space. Arguably the cheapest place to live in the district! Everyone even gets one window (luxuriuous).

I'm playing with Story Progression on (but aging off screen off) and ACR and jealousy off.
Each household consists of a 'commune' with the households they originated from:
- Bin
- Pleasantview
- Strangetown
- Veronaville
- Bluewater Village
- Riverblossom Hills
- Desiderata Valley
- Belladonna Cove
- Widespot

I'm merely the observer for the most part.
Communes (one household each)

• Bin commune — Ottomas, Cooke, Roseland, Newson, Picaso, Ramaswami, Traveller, Goodie, Gavigan
• Pleasantview commune — Goth + Pleasant + Lothario + Broke + Dreamer + Dreamer + Oldie + Burb + Caliente
• Strangetown commune — Smith + Grunt + Specter + Beaker + Singles + Loner + Curious
• Veronaville commune — Capp + Monty + Summerdream
• Bluewater Village commune — Delarosa + Gieke + Larson + Landgraab IV + Tinker + Ramirez + Jacquet
• Belladonna Cove commune — Baldwin + Cho + Cleveland + Contender + Cordial + DeBateau + Green + Peterson + Riley + Rutherford + Patel
• Riverblossom Hills commune — Roth + O’Mackey + Greenman + Goldstein + McGreggor + Wan
• Desiderata Valley commune — Aspir + Contrary + Jocque + Bell + Una + Mole
• Widespot commune — Land + Hart + Mann + Beech + Weiss

Bin commune

• Romance: Dora Ottomas ↔ Cyd Roseland
• Romance: Julien Cooke ↔ Dora Ottomas
• Pregnancy attempt: Jessica + Matthew Picaso (odds 61%, roll 40) → Pregnant
• Marriage: Ginger Newson + David Ottomas (married name: Newson)
• Births: Pouffe Ottomas (boy) + Velvet Ottomas (girl) — twins of Peter Ottomas + Samantha Ottomas
• Age-up: Pouffe Ottomas + Velvet Ottomas → toddlers
• Romance: Priya Ramaswami ↔ Peter Ottomas
• Romance: Trisha Traveller ↔ Julien Cooke
• Romance: Trisha Traveller ↔ Matthew Picaso
• Romance: Trisha Traveller ↔ Nathan Gavigan
• Romance: Trisha Traveller ↔ Peter Ottomas

Pleasantview commune

• Teen first kiss: Angela Pleasant ↔ Dustin Broke (both teens)
• Romance: Don Lothario ↔ Nina Caliente (both single)

Strangetown commune

• First kiss: Ajay Loner ↔ Lola Curious (both single)
• Romance: Lola Curious ↔ Nerve Specter
• Engagement: Ajay Loner → Lola Curious

Veronaville commune

• First kiss: Bianca Monty ↔ Oberon Summerdream (Bianca single; Oberon married to Titania)
• Teen romance: Juliette Capp ↔ Mercutio Monty (first kiss; both teens)
• Romance: Miranda Capp ↔ Romeo Monty (first kiss)
• Teen romance: Puck Summerdream ↔ Miranda Capp (first kiss; both teens)
• Romance: Tybalt Capp ↔ Celeste Seavey (first kiss)

Bluewater Village commune

• Romance: Chester Gieke ↔ Katherine Kimbrell (both single)
• Romance: Florence Delarosa ↔ Gilbert Jacquet (both single)
• Romance: Jodie Larson ↔ Malcolm Landgraab IV (both single)

Riverblossom Hills commune

• Teen romance: Jacob Martin ↔ Jules O’Mackey (both teens)
• Relationship (not married): Patricia Wan ↔ Leod McGreggor (both single)
• Engagement: Leod McGreggor → Patricia Wan

Widespot commune

• Romance: Daytona Beech ↔ Luis Aspir (Widespot commune ↔ Desiderata Valley commune)
• Engagement: Mary Land → Junior Mann
• Marriage: Junior Mann + Mary Land
• Teen romance: Woodie Weiss ↔ Goldie Hart (first kiss; both teens)

Desiderata Valley commune

• Romance: Luis Aspir ↔ Daytona Beech (Desiderata Valley commune ↔ Widespot commune)

Belladonna Cove commune

• Marriage: Armand DeBateau + Jessica DeBateau

thought this was a little interesting. this install of the sims 2 includes a little game to play called “grow your sims” — didn’t get all the way through it but I’m assuming it’s all just trivia and matching.

I have the most dramatic alien soap opera going on between the Goths that I just had to share! :)

Previously, I shared that I crash-landed an alien into the Goth graveyard for Alexander Goth because apparently he couldn’t stand anyone on his home planet. Well… Alexander actually ended up falling for the cute alien. They got married and even had a kid together. The kid is not from PT, it's Alex's baby (Orion's genes were fighting for their life here!). Alex even built them a new house near the crash site with a little observatory. It honestly could have been a wholesome love story… if not for one tall, blond, handsome problem: Dorian Goth.

Dorian is Mortimer and Dina’s son, and he looks SO much like Dina. He developed a huge crush on Orion. Honestly, I think, it must be the alien Caliente ancestry in action.

The thing is, Dorian had been dating Stephan Broke (Brandi and Skip’s third son) since high school, and they were even engaged. But Stephan didn’t want to get married, rejected Dorian’s proposal, and they broke up. To make things worse, Stephan had also been cheating on him with a congressman for a while.

So Dorian started pursuing Orion instead. He invited him over to his Downtown apartment constantly and kept visiting Alexander’s house whenever Alex was at work and Orion was home alone with the baby. Alexander didn’t suspect a thing.

I’ll give Orion credit.. My green boy resisted the flirting for a while. But eventually he could not withstand the Caliente charm. And then… Orion got pregnant from Dorian too.

Alexander eventually realized you can’t get two pregnancies from one woohoo. There was screaming, slapping, and absolute chaos. In the end, Alexander threw Orion out of the house and I must say Alex actually looked happy about it! Meanwhile their son Elio was crying while his mama left. Absolutely heartbreaking.

Epilogue

Alex is now raising his half-alien son alone.

Dorian proposed to Orion. They have an adorable alien baby together and moved into that cool vampire mansion in Downtown.

At this point I have FOUR alien babies in the Goth bloodline... IT’S AN INVASION.

making a Sims 2 Hospital, didn't have some Ideas:

it is a 5x5 lot, and I looked at many photos on how to make a hospital, I don't know what am I gonna build... hmmm?

well I wanted to build a modern hospital?

So I didn't notice the cat was in the area I was leveling until I was finished and noticed it sitting on it's own personal little platform.

I've seen a lot of people talking about how Paralives feels like the Sims 2, but I would like to know what real Sims 2 players think about this.

I personally feel like Paralives, even though seems to have a huge potential, doesn't even touch the surface of what The Sims 2 was/is at the moment.

A new 45 minutes long gameplay just released, and honestly seems REALLY good, they've implemented a "storyteller" feature that adds chance cards every night that add real impact on the Paras lives (for example, one of the cards they got during the gameplay was about the wife getting an affair with her co-worker) and you can choose how much drama you want. They also added a whole museum and community center that reminds me of Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley. The museum also has a shop that works really similar to how Open for Business works.

But even with that, to me the game doesn't seem to be half as detailed as TS2 (it does look better than TS4 tho). Animations look weird, Paras look like the don't belong in their enviroment, personalities don't seem to be detailed (at least from what I could see) and I fear emotions will be as annoying as they are in TS4 (they showed the "embarassed" emotion can appear just because someone with certain personality is around you, even if they're not doing anything embarassing).

*picture has been taken from Soffarox youtube channel, all credits to her*

Hello everyone,

So first, I want to just say sorry for my English Level, I am French, so sorry for mistakes.

I don't know much about the Sims 2, I grew up with the Sims 3 and I absolutely love it. But I have a question and a problem to solve.

I don't know much about The Sims 2's inner workings since I grew up with The Sims 3. I am a French Lore YouTuber, and TS2 is on my list of games to cover. However, I also want to play the game for fun with my own custom family. Because of the way TS2's saving system works (unlike TS3/TS4 where you can have multiple save slots), I don't want to modify or touch the original premade neighborhoods like Pleasantview, Strangetown, or Veronaville.

So I thought of creating my own city and move all my favorite premade families there (the Goths, Capps, Montys, Specters, etc.) using the default family bin. However, I was told this causes severe neighborhood corruption, which I knew nothing about. I have since deleted that neighborhood to avoid any issues.
Is it possible to create a custom world, bring in these famous premade families with their original houses, family trees, and memories, while keeping the game 100% safe from corruption? For example, one day in my family, I would like to marry either Cassandra or Alexander Goth to be linked with their family.

The first picture shows you the world I was creating but I stopped after learning about this, I took family off their world with the family boxes and added them here, the second a bug I had in Pleasentview which the lore family stories disappeared but I succeed to make it back.

I know some people use "Clean Templates" or "Megahoods," but I'm completely lost on how to set it up properly, especially since I need to keep my original hoods untouched for my YouTube channel. Has anyone tried this? Do you have any advice or guides for a beginner?

My hood glow up ✨

edit: i added new roads with the latest version of SimPE! ❤️