As always make sure you back up your UserData folders. In order to have all Maxis families and lots in one hood, we need to move a couple of files around, unfortunately since the game lacks these tools we need to resort to trusty Windows Explorer. Livin Large is also a desired expansion to have, solely for the Mashuga family.

I wondered if something similar could be done for the original sims.įor this we need to be using The Sims with at least Unleashed expansion installed, since the increased lot slots were a requirement for this. By doing this you could have one large hood where different sims from different hoods could interact with each other. You could even do this with hoods introduced in later expansion packs, and hoods that shipped with the Sims stories spin-offs. For example Pleasentview would be the main neighbourhood, with Veronaville, Strangetown would become sub hoods, known as shopping districts in the game. This took advantage of the sub-hoods introduced in the Open for Business expansion pack. Playing Sims 2 for as couple of years I came across multiple projects that seek to combine multiple neighbours into one ‘Megahood’, where pre-made neighbourhoods could be merged into one large neighbourhood. Maxis intended for you to create and move in sims to keep them company but personally i’d rather have all Maxis sims in one hood. One thing that bothered me with Livin Large was the Mashuga family, who up until Unleashed were the sole residents of neighbourhood 2. Livin large mitigated this by allowing multiple neighbourhoods, but Unleashed went one step further and expanded the neighbourhood to accommodate a large amount of lots. This meant if you wanted to use the downloaded families, they had to overwrite an existing lot in the neighbourhood, which would replace the family on the lot. Whilst skins and objects are easy to integrate into your game, lots and families are harder, especially if you had the original base game that had no support for multiple neighbourhoods. Listed as ‘Get Cool Stuff’ players were able to download free families, objects and skins to use in their game. Over the course of the original sims lifespan, Maxis had released early forms of free DLC (Downloadable Content) for free on their website.

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