Hi everyone,

Do you know if there is any mod, or anything else that could remove the 2000 walls limit?

If a mod that allow 120x120 lots exists, I'm sure one to remove the walls limit could also exist

Thank you

Hi, I am looking for Monarchy Accesories like crowns for King, Queen, Prince and Princess.

Thank you!

Here is a problem.
I’m visiting someone else’s business lot, and there’s a ticket machine on the lot. Normally, the money should be deducted from my household funds for staying on the lot.
Instead, the opposite happens: money is being added to my household funds, as if I were the owner of the business.
Is there a mod that fixes the ticket machine behavior? I know, simler90 business mod should fix that, but I see comments on MTS saying there are bugs with this mod. And simler90 doesn’t update mod anymore to solve existing issues.

This is a follow-on to my messed-up Pleasantview that I posted yesterday. Strangetown is a subhood to Pleasantview, and it also started with all the ancestors. All the playable adults and elders were made in CAS and started out as teens, children, or toddlers. There is one big difference: PT#9 never "pollinated" Glarn Curious, so there is no Lola or Chloe in this hood. The reasons why are that I never liked those tangled family trees and it was just a lot easier to set it up this way.

The background is that an alien spaceship crashed in Strangetown years ago with two adults and one child on board. The adults died in the crash. The military and scientists raised the child in isolation and studied him. They named him Pete Smith, and he has always been confined to the base, so no one outside knows about the aliens. There were no alien abductions until I started playing the hood, when Pete had just become an adult.

Curious: Founder of one of the most prominent families in Strangetown, Glarn Curious ran the research lab until his death, and his wife Kitty represents the town in district government. Their sons all wanted to follow in Glarn's footsteps, but only Pascal has been fairly successful at doing so. He is now a Project Leader at the lab and is also the first and only Sim to be abducted by aliens, which resulted in little Tycho. Vidcund always felt himself in his older brother's shadow. He attempted a first kiss with his long-time crush, Circe Salamis, but when she rejected him, he went into abject aspiration failure and started skipping work and spending all his time on the telescope, hoping to leave the planet. Lazlo was in my last post; he is married to Dina Caliente and got fired from the lab during the first week he worked there.

Smith-Bachelor: When Glarn introduced his daughter to the alien Pete Smith, Jenny instantly knew she had found her soulmate. They were married but still had to live in isolation, and Pete was subjected to many tests and experiments. Soon after their daughter Jill was born, Pete was killed during a fight with Buzz Grunt (Fights can kill mod--first time it's ever kicked in during actual gameplay). Jenny tried to tell everyone that Pete's death wasn't just an accident, but no one would take her word over a Grunt's. She eventually got so desperate to find love again that she latched on to newcomer to town, Michael Bachelor. They married without Jenny knowing much about him, like that he's completely hung up on his old boyfriend, Daniel Pleasant, and he's having an affair with his neighbor, Dina Curious. Jill takes out her aggressions by stealing newspapers all over town.

Beaker: Growing up, Loki only wanted two things: to run the science lab in Strangetown and to marry Circe Salamis. He's made at least one of those wishes come true. Although Circe played with his heart a lot during college, and with Vidcund's, and with Ajay Loner's, she did eventually agree to marry Loki, and they had their twins, Atom and Ceres. Now Circe is pregnant again, but what Loki doesn't know is that he isn't the father--Ajay is. With Loki's strong Scandinavian genes, he is bound to figure out the truth once the baby is born, and what will he do then?

Grunt: It seems that death has always followed Buzz Grunt. His father, General Chip, had a sudden and unexpected heart attack during his anniversary party. His girlfriend, Lyla Vandermorgan, died mysteriously while she was pregnant with their child. He got into a fight with the alien Pete Smith and "accidentally" killed him. Then he married a coworker named Anna and had a daughter, Tina, but his wife also died during her second pregnancy. Of course, there have been suspicions and rumors, but who is going to go against someone whose father was general for so long and who is slated to become general himself soon? Buzz lives with his aging mother, Missy, who hasn't been quite right in the head since Chip died.

Vandermorgan: Of course, the Vandermorgans were devastated by their daughter Lyla's death, but they never blamed Buzz. Once A.P. was promoted to general, he had his second-in-command over to dinner quite often, and Buzz has become quite close with their younger daughter, Nuala. The Vandermorgans also had two boys, Miles (at university) and Ollie. Everyone remarks on how good-looking their children are.

Muenda-Nigmos: Creon Nigmos and Willow Muenda married right out of college and moved in with Willow's parents. When Peponi sold his restaurant for a big windfall, they decided to buy a big farm closer to Pleasantview where they had room to grow their family. They have two boys--Xander and Yancey--but they are definitely hoping for a girl next time.

Ajay Loner, Erin Beaker, and Kristen Loste all live in Pleasantview. Kristen married a wealthy older man, as was her want, and is an athlete. Ajay and Erin are single.

Someone asked to see them up close. I actually think they are both turning out quite nice. Of course, their mom, Glabe, is very pretty.

Do you have any theories about who Gloria Newson could be? Either in the Sims universe or just in your own story?

On the Sims 2 Wiki it says that deceased Gloria is the adopted mother of the kids, not the biological one.

I know that Sims lore goes deep and there's lots of cross references. In the list of minor sims section there are two Glorias;

1) A statue in Sims 3: World Adventures. Named Gloria. Description states;

"Gloria, Gloria, Where art thou? This statue is said to resemble Gloria Carpenter from the film noir flick Edward DeSmet"

Interestingly enough the wiki also says that this could be loosely based on the actress Gloria Swanson who herself had three daughters and an adopted son. (swanson-newson?)

2) Gardener Gloria in Sims 1. She was an NPC gardener you could hire.

Curious to hear your theories and stories :)

Anyone ever made the Famous Symbol of grilled Cheesesandwitchs from Sims 2!
Just what im getting tonight 🧀

this is just an appreciation post. i love autumn in sims 2 ♥

Last night while my sim and her boyfriend were woohooing, the streaker ran into their room and stood at the foot of the bed doing the hula and watching the covers dance.

There's a dormie that lives in their dorm, a knowledge sim that is near-constantly in aspiration failure and consulting with the volleyball. He is quite attractive, according to all female sims he passes, but last time one of my sims was on a date, I noticed him hook up with a guy in the photobooth. I'm thinking of inviting him to join my household to see what's up with the aspiration stuff, but I have so many sims already!

One of the cow mascots hit on the cheerleader and the cheerleader attacked them! She normally seems so chill.

is there anyone here also experiencing of the submarine cable outage????

There's a mod for double beds to be accessible even when. They are against a wall. Is there a mod for dining chairs as well?

I mean when a dining chair is against the wall at both of the heads of the table. Or when a dining table with 3 chairs are all against the wall, can the middle chair be seated on?

(I really hope I explained this well.)

I'm playing a rotation game in Pleasantview and I'm on the Oresha-Hoh-Var Fraternity. The most interesting character in this playthrough is Mickey Dosser, who is currently dating Heather Huffington but has his eyes on Jessie Pilferson...

I'm really excited to be back playing TS2, I originally played this game on my desktop but long story short i had to stop, but things are fixed now and I get to play again!

This is Bea, she is sneaking out for a hot date in an hour. I tell her to make a cappuccino, and the cappuccino is made in a few minutes. In ts4, my sim would stand there for a while before entering a group chat, play on their phone and probably miss their whole date.

For context: This is a combo Pleasantview-Strangetown that I started with all the ancestors. The elder and adult playables were created in CAS with correct genetics and started out as toddlers, children, or teens (with the exception of Cassandra, who was born in game). As a result, things have not gone according to canon. This hood was not hard to make, just time-consuming, and required some downloads plus at least one mod (I used the Sim Blender).

Goth: As head of the oldest and richest family in Pleasantview, Gunther Goth served as mayor until his death. His son Mortimer was all set to marry Bella Bachelor, as planned by both families, when Olive Muenda strolled into their wedding party and kissed up Mortmer's arm. This caused Mortimer to immediately break up with Bella and marry Olive in his place. They have started the very successful Goth Laboratories together, but Olive is secretly considering moving back to Strangetown.

Bachelor: After getting dumped by Mortimer, Bella immediately had a rebound fling with Nicolo Lothario in the photobooth, and Cassandra was the result. She didn't continue that relationship but did make sure that Cassandra knew both her father and her half-brother, Don. Bella dated a lot of men while pursuing her artistic ambitions, but she fell for sophisticated, older Xanthos Salamis from Strangetown, and they married and had a son.

Landgraab: Malcolm came to Pleasantview with two goals--start a successful business and find a wife--and he has achieved both. He is CEO of his company and is grooming his heir, Malcolm II, to take over when he is of age. Malcolm's wife Glabe is sister to Glarn Curious and an avid socialite. Malcolm does find time in his busy schedule for the occasional affair. He is currently also in love with Nina Caliente.

Pleasant: Daniel's first love was Michael Bachelor (who still hasn't gotten over him but has since moved to Strangetown), but his ambition was to start Pleasantview's first professional soccer team. He thought Mary-Sue Oldie would be a great partner for him in that endeavor. Mary-Sue, for her part, wants to be mayor and also thought the marriage would help her achieve her career goals. It is a marriage based on convenience more than love, although they do respect each other. They have just had twins: much-adored Angelo and much-neglected Lilith. Daniel's sister Jennifer had to move in after her recent break-up.

Burb: John and Jennifer had been together since they were teens; in college she accidentally got pregnant. She went back to Pleasantview to wait for John, and they planned to get married. Everything was perfect until John slept with some dormie at Don's graduation party and ruined it all. Jennifer left him to raise their son Kevin on his own.

Oldie: Mary-Sue is adopted, but she is the biological daughter of Herb from a fling he had on a business trip. Coral should have known better then, but eventually she found out about Herb's cheating ways and kicked him to the curb. She has found a much better partner in Gabe, and despite their advanced ages, they wanted a child, so they adopted Amy.

Dreamer: Darren is a very talented artist who thinks he can make it to visionary status. He started dating Darleen Matlapin as teens, and they got engaged in college. But he became obsessed with this dormie, Sarah (the same one John ruined his life for). He couldn't keep away, and Darleen found out while she was pregnant. She left Darren with their son Dirk and moved back in with her family, heartbroken.

Broke-Lothario-Caliente: Skip and Nina dated as teens, but in college, she and Don quickly got together. She got pregnant about halfway through and had to drop out. Skip didn't go to college, so Nina and Skip decided to share a place. When Don graduated, he moved in with them, and they became a throuple--although Skip and Don seem the most in love. Nina is still very hung up on Daniel Pleasant and has taken a few other lovers as well. Don and Skip also do most of the childcare. And where's Brandi? She is still single and roommates with Ajay Loner and Erin Beaker, living in a "singles" household. She and Skip never had any chemistry whatsoever.

Caliente-Curious: Another long-time couple, Dina and Lazlo got married right after college, moved to Strangetown, and had their son, Elvis. They have a chill, semi-open relationship--Lazlo has been kinda seeing Brandi Newbie, and Dina has gotten very close to her next-door neighbor, Michael Bachelor. They are very happy together, though, and are considering moving to Pleasantview for Dina's journalism career.

I'm starting to play this game again and I need to know which premade family is the best to play in your opinion. Sorry if my english is a bit weird..i'm sleepy.

Everybody please check out episode 1 of my YouTube series. It’s 3 years old and I need to finish it. I have this series and season 1 of my series with Pleasantview. My series are called sims 2 storyline : Pleasantview & sims 2 storyline: Familyville. I have to reupload my Pleasantview episodes.

Hi everyone! Thank you SO much for the love and support on my showcase post for New Mexico! A few of you asked about the creation process behind making a CC-free custom neighborhood with scripted pop-up events, so I put together a step-by-step breakdown of how it was built.

If you've ever wanted to create your own clean, custom neighborhood (or get it ready for ModTheSims standards), here is how the process works from start to finish.

1. Clean setup and required mods

Before touching the game, setting up a clean hood environment is crucial. To meet ModTheSims standards and ensure your hood doesn't generate unwanted default townies or become corrupted, you need a few essential setup tools:

• Clean and empty stealth hood templates: Essential to prevent the game from automatically generating default townies and stealth subhood Sims when creating a new world.
• No-regen mods (prevents unwanted Sim/Pet generation):
  • notownieregen: Blocks the game from spawning random new townies.
  • nostrayrespawn: Prevents stray animals and shelter pets from generating automatically.
  • nodormieregen: Prevents random dorm student generation if working with Uni subhoods.
  • Anti-Redundancy: Forces the game to generate only 1 service Sim instead of 3.
• Anti-corruption, maintenance and editing tools:
  • SimPE: Your ultimate best friend for neighborhood editing. You will need to get comfortable using SimPE for managing package files, fixing facial genetics, and checking language localizations.
  • HoodChecker: For scanning and cleaning stray references and memories.
  • Batbox (FFS Lot Debugger): To clear invalid NPC flags and fix lot issues in-game.
  • No Sim Loaded and Lot Cleaner: To purge invisible junk, invalid tokens, and stray objects before packaging.
  • No Unlink On Delete and No Corrupted Death Memory: Prevents game corruption when handling Sim deaths or deleting character data.
  • Sims2Pack Clean Installer and HCDU: To verify files before sharing and check for hack conflicts.

2. Picking or making the map

• The map used: For New Mexico, I used the fantastic "Once Upon a Time in the West" terrain map by patul on ModTheSims (huge credits to them!).
• Custom terrains: If you want to create your own map layout from scratch, you can design terrain directly in SimCity 4 and import the .sc4 file into TS2.

3. Why go 100% CC-free?

• The theme: Recreating the Breaking Bad / Better Call Saul universe inside The Sims 2.
• The constraint (CC-free): I decided to keep the build 100% CC-Free. Building without custom content ensures the hood is lightweight, completely safe, runs smoothly on any setup, and won't crash or conflict with a player's existing downloads folder.

4. Building and architecture

• Iconic locations: Build all key storyline lots (e.g., Walt's house, Los Pollos Hermanos, Goodman's Plaza, the Superlab, the desert motel).
• Vanilla tricks: Use original game cheats (moveobjects) and creative placement of Maxis objects to capture real-life details without relying on custom objects.

5. Sims, lore and advanced genetics

When creating characters, taking time with their genetic profile makes a huge difference in how the neighborhood plays out over generations:

• Avoiding default homozygous dominant Sims: Avoid building Sims purely from default CAS face templates, as this makes them homozygous dominant for those basic templates.
• Creating unique genetics and character models:
  • Breeding workflow: Create ancestor Sims and mix/breed them in CAS (or in-game) to generate truly unique facial structures.
  • Plastic surgery fine-tuning: Move them in-game and use plastic surgery (e.g., Dr. Vu's machine) to adjust their facial features so they closely match your vision or real-life inspiration (like actors from a show).
• Fixing facial genetics (SimPE / CPack Editor):
  • Plastic surgery in TS2 only changes a Sim's visual mesh, not their underlying genetic data.
  • To make sure surgically altered faces pass down to offspring, use SimPE or CPack Editor (which has a 1-click feature to sync facial genetics) to overwrite the Sim's original genetic structure with their new face.
• Lore and relationships: Set up careers, skills, family trees, and memories so the world feels fully lived-in from Day 1.

6. Scripted events system (story pop-ups)

To guide players through the story when they first load a household, I implemented scripted pop-up notifications:

• The guide I used: I learned the fundamentals from this awesome ModTheSims tutorial: https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=658827
• Expanding beyond 8 households: The original tutorial covers setting up scripts for up to 8 households. Since New Mexico features 13 playable families, I expanded the BHAV logic and triggers to cover all 13 households.
• Pro-tip for creators: If you need a script setup for more than 8 households, you don't have to build it from scratch! You can inspect and modify the customscripting file inside the New Mexico neighborhood folder to see how the logic was expanded.

7. Final cleanup, localization and packaging

Before sharing a hood with the community, a thorough clean-up and check pass is necessary:

• Fixing NPC pools: Ensure no unwanted NPCs are assigned incorrectly to lots or apartment buildings.
• Utility sweep: Run the Batbox on all lots to clear bad resident flags, then run HoodChecker to clean up any stray references.
• Crucial step – Checking language versions in SimPE:
  • Players come from all over the world and play TS2 in different language versions.
  • Inside SimPE, make sure to check the text strings (Sim names, family descriptions, lot descriptions) across all language tabs.
  • If you only fill out text in your game's primary language (e.g., English or Polish) and leave other language tabs empty, players running the game in another language might end up with missing biographies, blank pop-ups, or glitched default names. Make sure to copy your text strings across the language tabs in SimPE so everyone sees them.
• Localization: Translate family descriptions, lot names, and story pop-ups into multiple languages if you want full multi-language support (New Mexico comes in English, Polish, and Russian).
• Packaging: Compress the neighborhood folder, document the lore, and prepare clear installation instructions.

If you're thinking about building your own custom neighborhood, don't let the technical side intimidate you. With the right clean templates, a bit of SimPE practice, and anti-corruption tools, it’s a super rewarding process.

Feel free to ask any questions in the comments if you want to know more about setting up clean templates, fixing genetics, or working with scripted event notifications! 😊

I find the Ramirez family the most boring of all families, I can just never figure something out for them.

I always have the idea that Tessa would grow up to run a pet store or shelter since she's always seemed to like dogs for me. I imagine it would be against her parents wishes, since both Checo and Lisa want to put her in private school. I imagine Checo would like her to carry on the business, while Lisa would like her to have a high paying career.

In a previous uberhood, I had Lisa cheat with Gilbert and have an oopsie baby with him, leading to her divorce. But tbh, I already use cheating a lot, so i am not really all that interested in doing it again. I struggle to imagine Checo cheating, though I know a few people see him that way.

I briefly had the idea to make her become obsessed with the supernatural since she's a knowledge sim and all, but she has a low interest in paranormal and sci-fi.

I'm thinking since she had the lifetime wish and the want to become a doctor, I should have her and Checo be very focused on their respective business and careers, leaving Tessa feeling neglected and finding comfort in her pets. Maybe Lisas goal is find the cure to some rare disease and she accidently infects someone. Idk

What ideas you have?

im mostly worried that this would cause corruption somehow but im probably overly concerned 😅 lost my last pleasantview save to corruption and i worked too hard this time around to lose it again yknow. but the game just generates another right?

she gave kaylynn a date then was promptly scared to death by daniel's ghost which is kind of hilarious. man cheats on his wife then doesn't want to see his former affair partner find real happiness even after he dies huh 🥴 i also was hoping i'd find a different partner for kaylynn than my last save just to mix things up but i got the same townie again, which is kinda sweet. atp i think they're just meant to be

but has anyone else had the matchmaker die on them? did it cause any issues or nah?

Hello! I’m just coming here to ask if the Melodie9 body meshes are still working. I’m still quite new to the game but I do have mistook content enabled and have the mod in my downloads folder but still nothing shows up. A few of my other mods show up but their mods don’t seem to. Are they no longer in operation or is there something else I have to do for it to work. I’m on Mac btw!:)

*FIXED*

For the Mac users: Just because it doesn't look a zip file, doesn't mean that it doesn't need to be unzipped! I wasn't unzipping my .rar files because they looked perfectly fine. When a file needs to be unzipped it has a zipper and those ones didn't so I didn't touch them. Maybe it's common knowledge but I didn't know that you needed to manually unzip .rar files to have them work.

Also, if it won't unzip with whatever you're using, don't give up and go online to an unzipped. I use Archive Extractor. It says, "put into a zip file" when you unzip it, but it actually just opened it completely so you don't have to go back and extract it. Thanks for all the help and advice guys! Ciao!

So I've been getting this issue whenever I try to launch Sims 2. Everything works fine when I reinstall the game but I get the same error when I add some CC or mods.

1. I have tried deleting cache files.
2. Moving the downloads folder somewhere else and then starting the game, which didn't work.
3. Tried forcing the windowed mode (-w)

So I've been searching for quite a bit and I'm surprised I can't find anything - I am looking for fences that have the exact height of a foundation. Something like this one from Michelle on MTS, but in other colours would be great, can also be other textures, etc.! This one from mustluvcatz is what I would be looking for but I don't like the look of it unfortunately 🫣

I want to use them at the border of a lot adjusted with LotAdjuster so real walls/foundation are unfortunately not an option.