Sims Is My Spreadsheet Simulator

Since everyone is 21 years older I wanted to add these to my last post

Jenny is 64 and Paul is 84 ( he’s been old for so long and also immortal/j )

Johnny and Ophelia have twins Jonathan Jr. and Willow

I love the theory behind traits. It does seem to be a much more natural way to describe a personality. Unfortunately, just because it seems right, it does not make it so. Traits suffer from a deep and fatal flaw: they are binary. In the sims you either have a trait or you don’t.

So whats the problem with that? In theory personality should affect every choice that you make. With a list of binary traits, however, the program is reduced to asking, “do they have this trait? No. Do they have this trait? No…”

A trait may end up affecting only a handful of actions, not much mileage for something that is supposed to be fifth of your personality. This is why traits feel flimsy and characters defined only by traits feel less fleshed out. Until a sim blunders into a situation in which their traits matter, they are functionally identical to a sim with no defining characteristics whatsoever.

In theory this could be overcome by brute force coding… every single action could check for traits and every single base game trait could be given equal weight… but it would never be elegant. When things are not elegant, their execution bogs down the game. Then there are the expansions, which will inevitably bring new traits. It is beyond unlikely that they can be integrated with the necessary finesse. And cross expansion integration? Don’t make me laugh.

There is a crucial element missing in traits: consistency. The beauty of the TS1/TS2 system is that all sims have a framework on which the engine can draw to define behavior. How neat is this sim? a value between 0 and 10. Okay, how social? a value between 0 and 10. Because the game can rely on each sim to have unique values, it can create meaningful variation in the simulation.

❅ happy holidays, friends from planet earth! ❅

Hi sims 2 fandom, I’m new here… I drew some nervouses (nervi?)

I got bored and made some fanart from my TS2 screenshots. I'm going to refrain from pointing out everything I don't like about it, it's a bad habit of mine. References below.

running in fashionably late but

holy shit guys the Sims 2 is 20 years old!! one of my favorite games and huge sourse of joy!! yaaayyy!! 🥳🥳