OT (mostly):My latest addiction - The Sims

The only cure is to go cold turkey off it! Once I start playing, hours go by without a thought to anything but my people! I love trying out new scenarios, seeing who I can get to fall in love with whom. DD#1 likes to get them to propose and have a baby. DS likes to build really big houses. He doesn't play much with the characters, just builds.

I'm considering using it to plan my kitchen remodel. It's easier to use than the interior design/remodel softward I have!

There's also a Sims Online game, where you can play with thousands of other people online at the same time...

I have all but the most recent expansion. I mainly enjoy the architecture and furnishing the house... so I cheat terribly. There's a money code for unlimited funds, and a way to prevent adults from feeling obliged to get a job.

But either way, it's so easy to become obsessed with the Sims' lovelife, career, housecleaning, sleep patterns, bathroom behaviour and other aspects of living that you forget to do any of it yourself.

Particularly when you get into the design aspects. You can make your own skins- so you can alter the character's appearance. You can alter the furniture and the art too, so you can design your own quilts as wall hangings, carpets, or bed covers. You can spend time browsing other people's work too, and deciding you need this that and the other thing to fit in your Sims' home too.

-georg

Kathy, you need to get the "cheats" for the game. That way you can just hit some keys and get more Simoleans. Simplifies things. There is a book to explain it all and some websites for these cheats. I think if you go to the home page the links are there. Have fun!

-- Sugar & Spice Quilts by Linda E

The answer is simple. Just get the latest SIM module, "SIM Quilting", and install it. You'll be so busy that you won't care if Melissa gets her promotion and Mortimer moves in with her. (He's a two-timer anyway.) :)

Mary in TN

Actually, I know where to find the cheats, from my Sim City days. But somehow, I kind of like struggling to afford that big screen TV. :-) (How unAmerican! ROFLOL)

Do you think this code could work in real life? I already have the code for not feeling obligated to work, but the other would make it so much easier.

ROFLMAO!!!

(And you're SO right about Mortimer! *grin*)

One of the tricks I learned when I played the Sims was make the household have 1 man who goes to work and 3 women. The kids went to school and if there were babies the ladies paid alot of attention to them. So no social worker! They accomplished much during the day. No this was not a harem. Only one was wife. LOL

-- Sugar & Spice Quilts by Linda E

Listen, if y'all think SIM is bad, try Snood. Snood is an evil, addicting game. It's shareware and can be found at

Mary in TN

Who would be sitting in front of a computer... playing "The Humans". ROFLOL

Sun bonnet Sim?

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Civilization III is even worse than that! I have wasted so much time building and conquoring nations that it isn't even funny! It's truely pathetic how addicted I am to that game!

Monica L. Tittle (and sometimes her husband Robert!) snipped-for-privacy@charter.net Southern girls don't drink, they sip. . .a lot.

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All of the above are retired.

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I LOVED Civilization I. I spent long hours at it, way into the night. I got Civilization II and never seemed to get into it as much. I don't know why. Maybe it was the diplomacy angle that was too bothersome, or the fancied up graphics that were harder to "read" at a glance, I don't know. I haven't bought III although I've been tempted.

Iris (sure like I need to waste *more* time on the computer!)

I couldn't get on with The Sims - but give me any of the "Age of Empires" games and I'm away with the fairies for hours...

Suzie B

-- "From the internet connection under the pier" Southend, UK

I had Ceasar and it was so hard to keep everyone happy. I don't know how many times It burned down the city. It was alot of fun.

-- Sugar & Spice Quilts by Linda E

Well, babies only require constant care for three days in The Sims. Don't let that depress you when your little one arrives. :)

Oh yes! I've done CaesarIII Pharoah and all those Seirra city building games!

Monica L. Tittle (and sometimes her husband Robert!) snipped-for-privacy@charter.net Southern girls don't drink, they sip. . .a lot.