Shang Simla
Shang Simla is a peaceful community set near a mountainous area of China near the Great Wall. It was founded by a group of monks with an ethos of discipline and Martial Arts.
Sims University
Sims University is a university sub-world in The Sims 3: University Life. Only Sims who are aged from Young Adult to Elder can travel to the university.
The Sims 3 career tracks and jobs
I compiled an Excel database with all career tracks and job positions, showing also job description, salary, work days, skills and responsibilities required, etc. Creating this Excel table was more difficult compared with The Sims 1 and 2, because The Sims 3 have careers some with 2 branches (paying hourly), professions (paying weekly) and part-time jobs, in total 49 careers and 482 job positions. Summary of salaries is shown in this table:
Brindleton Bay
Brindleton Bay is a world that was introduced in The Sims 4: Cats & Dogs. It is a big coastal town surrounded by beaches and various pets related activities. It is based on typical New England seafront towns.
Twikkii Island
Twikkii Island is a Tropical-themed sub-neighborhood that appears in The Sims 2: Bon Voyage as a vacation destination.
It contains 13 lots, of which 7 community lots, 4 lodging lots, 2 vacation homes, and 0 families living in.
Secret Vacation Lot: The Mysterious Hut, occupied by the Witch doctor.
Al Simhara
Al Simhara is an ancient land built against a river, full of magic and mystery. It is found in Egypt and features activities and items drawn from Egyptian culture.
The Sims 2 career tracks and jobs
I compiled an Excel database with all career tracks and job positions, showing also job description, salary, work days, skills and friends required, etc. Summary of salaries is shown in this table:
Forgotten Hollow
Forgotten Hollow is a world introduced in The Sims 4: Vampires. It is comprised of 5 lots; 4 residential and 1 empty lot.
Forgotten Hollow is a centuries-old neighbourhood with a mix of Victorian and old Transylvanian architectural style. The world is scattered with tombstones, withered foliage and creeping fog, as well as gargoyles and other stone statues. The world contains only a single neighbourhood with 5 lots surrounding a central plaza, and at the center there is a memorial statue of Vlad, the founder of Forgotten Hollow.
This world is unique compared to other worlds in The Sims 4, because night time lasts a lot longer here than in other worlds, meaning vampires can stay out for longer without the risk of being burnt in the sun.
Three Lakes
Three Lakes is a mountain-themed sub-neighborhood that appears in Bon Voyage as a vacation destination.
It contains 12 lots, of which 6 community lots, 4 lodging lots, 2 vacation homes, and 0 families living in.
Secret Vacation Lot: Hidden Burrow, occupied by Bigfoot.
Champs Les Sims
Champs Les Sims was settled towards the end of the Medieval period and has a rich history and culture. The town is modeled on rustic small towns in France.
The Sims 1 career tracks and jobs
I compiled an Excel database with all career tracks and job positions, showing also job description, salary, skills and friends required, etc. Summary of salaries is shown in this table:
San Myshuno
San Myshuno is a world introduced in The Sims 4: City Living. It is a coastal city surrounded by mountains, with a river running through the middle. It is packed with many diverse Sims of different cultures and sprawling with activities and festivals. This world is based on a variety of modern cities from around the world like Tokyo, San Francisco and New York City and also features elements of Indian, Chinese, Japanese and Moroccan cultures. Its geography resembles that of Hong Kong. San Myshuno is the only world in The Sims 4 to feature apartments and penthouses.
Takemizu Village
Takemizu Village is a Far East-themed sub-neighborhood that appears in The Sims 2: Bon Voyage as a vacation destination.
It contains 11 lots, of which 6 community lots, 3 lodging lots, 2 vacation homes, and 0 families living in.
How to build taller than 5 floors
By default, The Sims 2 allow you to built up to 5 levels. This means houses like basement + 3 floors + roof or terrace. You can eliminate the basement, or built an underground floor inside basement. There is a TRICK that allow building 6 levels: put a dormer on the highest level, but this will not allow anymore stepped roofs taller than one floor.
University Expansion Pack allows to change the floor limit: press Ctrl+Shift+C when you are in Neighborhood (NOT in a lot), type sethighestallowedlevel 16 (or any number up to 255), then open any lot and you can built more levels. If the height limit was reached, just put a dormer to unlock the limit.
The Sims free download
In 2014 EA Games offered The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection for free download via Origin for a limited time of one week. Only people who grabbed the free download at right time can re-download the game at any time. Sadly, I missed the moment.
Some people uploaded Ultimate Collection on various file hosting services, where anyone can download for FREE:
Condominium 5 blocks N 116
I planned this condominium using AutoCAD to make it as big as possible while keeping under limit of 2100 wall segments. I made 5 blocks with 8 floors, each floor having 116 squares and 52 wall segments. 52 x 8 x 5 = 2080 wall segments. Gate uses remained 20 wall segments. Then I built half-height walls, 24 segments per floor x 8 x that do not count towards wall limit, roof terrace with 66 x 5 half-height walls. Then I build foundation tall like one floor and pool that does count towards wall limit but can be built even after 2100 limit was reached. It took about 5 hours to build in September 2018.
World Trade Center
The Sims is a game meant to build houses, but I can also build a skyscraper… or two, the twin towers of World Trade Center, completed by Marriott Hotel and the 3 additional low-rise buildings.
The Pinnacle Tower
The Pinnacle Tower is the largest of the series of skyscrapers I build in The Sims 2. Because the game do not display in neighborhood view flooring above 150 steps from ground, had to cover building using a pitched roof. 15 floors is the maximum height possible using SetHighestAllowedLevel cheat, without crashing game.
The Empire Tower
The Empire Tower is a The Sims 2 optimized version of Empire State Building, because the game do not display in neighborhood view flooring above 150 steps from ground, had to cover building using a pitched roof. 15 floors is the maximum height possible using SetHighestAllowedLevel cheat, without crashing game. Sister building with Imperial Tower.
Empire State Building
The Sims is a game meant to build houses, but I can also build a skyscraper. Well… I had to downsize it from 86 floors + 16 floors spire, to 9 floors + 3 floor spire.
The Vertical Tower
The Vertical Tower is the simplest of the series of skyscrapers I build in The Sims 2. Because the game do not display in neighborhood view flooring above 150 steps from ground, had to cover building using a pitched roof. 15 floors is the maximum height possible using SetHighestAllowedLevel cheat, without crashing game.
Apartment block
Apartment-like block built for visual experiment. In The Sims 3 there is no cheat of building more than 5 floors so this is the tallest building I can make.
Windenburg
Windenburg is a world introduced in The Sims 4: Get Together. Its architectural design—dominated by timber-framed houses—and its structural design, in combination with modern city aspects, is heavily based on central and southern regions of Germany. Castle-like ruins can be found on the mainland and most of The Island is surrounded by crumbling man-made walls. These ruins are inspired by Gothic buildings in Europe and they indicate the old age of the city.
Magnolia Promenade
Magnolia Promenade is a neighborhood introduced in The Sims 4: Get to Work. It is comprised of four lots, three of which are retail.
Bluewater Village
Bluewater Village is a shopping district sub-neighborhood that was introduced in The Sims 2: Open For Business expansion pack. Bluewater Village can be added to all neighborhoods and played separately in each.
It contains 32 lots, of which 18 community lots, 14 owned community lots, 10 residential lots, and 5 families living in.
The Sims squares to Square Meters or Feet conversion
Based on furniture size, one square (unit) in all The Sims games seems to be 3 feet (0.91 meters), or 9 square foot. But this is not important, you can consider each game square to be 1 square meter (= 10.7 square foot). However, if you want to replicate real houses, you should NOT pay attention to matching size of real house, instead you should adjust the house size to make it suitable for your Sims family size.
Palace of the Parliament 6×5
I noticed that nobody build in The Sims 2 a replica of my country’s Parliament Palace, so I made my own replica.
Granite Falls
Granite Falls is a sub-world introduced in The Sims 4: Outdoor Retreat game pack. Sims can vacation in Granite Falls for up to seven days, but cannot live there as in normal residential worlds. Sims with the Outdoor Enthusiast aspiration or loves outdoors trait will often want to go on vacation to Granite Falls.
Downtown
Downtown is a sub-neighborhood shipped with The Sims 2: Nightlife. When viewed in the neighborhood view, by default it is nighttime as opposed to the usual daytime for other neighborhoods and sub-neighborhoods. The player can toggle daytime/nighttime view in the bottom-left corner of the screen.
It contains 44 lots, of which 30 community lots, 14 residential lots, and 0 families living in.
Terraced Houses 1×2
Do you thought that is impossible to built terraced houses aka townhomes in The Sims 2? These houses were built on larger lots then the lot was shrunk using Lot Adjuster, which allows reducing the non-buildable area with 1 square. You cannot built walls on lot limits, but you can make buildings that apparently continue from one lot to another. Looks nice in neighborhood view!