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The Sims of Shangriquama
© 2006 - 2008
Site Info: The Sims of Shangriquama is best viewed in Mozilla Firefox. It was coded by me, Jüri, the webmaster of the site. The site is hosted at Int2000.
Disclaimer: This site is not endorsed by or affiliated with Electronic Arts, or its licensors. Trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Game content and materials copyright Electronic Arts Inc. and its licensors. All Rights Reserved.
The Sims of Shangriquama
© 2006 - 2008
Tips and Tricks
Ok, I know the collection is small, but I hope it'll grow with time.
Anyway, here are some things for making the playing of The Sims 2 a bit easier for you!
Rotating objects 45 degrees without University
I finally found a way to rotate objects 45 degrees without actually having the University Expansion Pack installed. But this trick does require the Open For Business Expansion Pack.
At first you need to download the Slot Enable Package by Numenor from ModTheSims2.com via this link. This will allow your sims to use the corner-counters.
Now turn on The Sims 2, and place three counters just like on this picture. Any objects placed on the middle counter will be usable for your sims. Now buy the cheapest Open For Business shelf and place it on the middle counter. Open the cheatbox (hold down Ctrl, Shift and C at the same time), type in "moveobjects on" without the quotes and hit Enter on your keyboard. You'll be able to place almost every 1-square object on the shelf but because the shelf is rotated 45 degrees, all the objects will automatically be rotated too. Pick the objects from the shelf and place them whereever you want! Pretty cool, huh? Oh, and once you're finished, deactivate the cheat with " moveobjects off". Have fun!
Running a Succesful Restaurant
I have experienced, that running a cafe/restaurant/diner is much harder than running a shop or a pay per time lot, so I thought I should give you some tips.
Employees
If there are at least 3 adults or teens in your family, then there's no need to hire employees, since you have to pay them more than you earn.
Once your sim purchases a community lot with a dining place, let him/her travel to it and invite two or more household members to the lot so they could do the following:
> Sim 1: Be the host(ess);
> Sim 2: Be the server;
> Sim 3: Be the chef and sell (basic sell, dazzle, etc).
> You don't actually need a bartender, since customers won't buy much drinks (they didn't buy any at Swan Cafe!).
> You also don't need someone to tidy up, since the server will do it automatically.
> Tip: If the server lives in the same household, all the tips given will be added to the family funds!
Selling
> If you opened a dining place, then don't sell any objects there, even cakes, because the customers will buy them, but they won't order food from the kitchen!
> As long as your selling sim can't dazzle, all prices should be average. Once your sim learns how to dazzle, you can make the prices higher.
> If the seller is the chef, make sure he/she has made a dish and put it on the restaurant stove before he/she goes selling.
> Plan the menu, because if the chef doesn't have enough skill to make some foods, but someone orders it, it'll be burned and most likely, you'll lose a customer loyality star.
> Don't forget to build a toilet for your sims! Also, a shower or a bath is quite handy!
Running a Succesful Cafe with only a Single Sim
This is a tutorial good for poor families of one person wanting to own a restaurant to earn some money. Believe me, you CAN run a restaurant with only a single sim working!
Working
This time, you only have a single sim working at the business. After purchasing a community lot, travel to the lot and make sure, the business is closed. Click on the restaurant podium and choose "Plan Menu" so you could remove the foods that require more skill than your sim has. Then click on the restaurant stove and let your sim be the chef. After he or she has finished making a dish (he/she puts it on the empty side of the stove), go on and open your business, your sim can be a host for a while. When the customers read the menu, you can easily sell to them. When you have seated the sim(s), click on the podium again, ad choose "Be Server". Your sim brings the food to the customers and can go and make another dish. Then return and be the host. Then a server, a chef, a host, a server, a chef and so on. It may look silly and exhausting, but Seagull's Eye, which works exactly like this, has already earned The Best-of-the-Best Award, so only try to tell me it's pointless!!!
How to make a cheap starter-home look good?
At first, download The Sims 2 Homecrafter Plus if you don't already have it. You don't actually need to make anything new (if you don't want to). Just clone some of the existing walls and floors you like, and change the price to 0 Simoleons. Silly? Nope, now you can easily decorate the houses and give them the best look without giving out any money at all.
There is also a tutorial on my SimPage, if you want to know the rest. Read it by clicking here.
Clone weeds
It may happen, that you make a story, a movie or something else in The Sims 2 and need the whole yard to be full of weeds. It's easy! Once you have at least a single weed growing on the lot, open the cheatbox by holding down Ctrl, Shift and C at the same time. Type "moveobjects on" into the white box that appears (but without the quotes) and hit Enter on your keybord. Then choose the hand tool, pick the weeds up, hold down Shift and place them as much as you want! To unactivate the cheat, "moveobjects off" into the cheatbox (but again, without the quotes!). This small trick should also work with some other accesories in the game but not with all (coffee cups, etc).
An easier way to copy your stories
Whenever you want to upload a story to your own site instead of the Exchange at TheSims2.com but at first want to write in in-game using the family photo albums, then now there's an easy way to copy it all! Just go to your preferred neighborhood's Storytelling folder and scroll to the very end. These "webentryblahblah.xml" files, you know what these are? These are the actual family photo albums. A double click opens them and that way you can find all the stories you've written in those files and whenever I need to put the whole thing up to your site, you I can simply copy the whole text from there instead of minimizing-maximizing your game or at first uploading the story to TheSims2.com.
Last updated: Thursday, August 18th 2007
Ok, I know the collection is small, but I hope it'll grow with time.
Anyway, here are some things for making the playing of The Sims 2 a bit easier for you!
Rotating objects 45 degrees without University
I finally found a way to rotate objects 45 degrees without actually having the University Expansion Pack installed. But this trick does require the Open For Business Expansion Pack.
At first you need to download the Slot Enable Package by Numenor from ModTheSims2.com via this link. This will allow your sims to use the corner-counters.
Now turn on The Sims 2, and place three counters just like on this picture. Any objects placed on the middle counter will be usable for your sims. Now buy the cheapest Open For Business shelf and place it on the middle counter. Open the cheatbox (hold down Ctrl, Shift and C at the same time), type in "moveobjects on" without the quotes and hit Enter on your keyboard. You'll be able to place almost every 1-square object on the shelf but because the shelf is rotated 45 degrees, all the objects will automatically be rotated too. Pick the objects from the shelf and place them whereever you want! Pretty cool, huh? Oh, and once you're finished, deactivate the cheat with " moveobjects off". Have fun!
Running a Succesful Restaurant
I have experienced, that running a cafe/restaurant/diner is much harder than running a shop or a pay per time lot, so I thought I should give you some tips.
Employees
If there are at least 3 adults or teens in your family, then there's no need to hire employees, since you have to pay them more than you earn.
Once your sim purchases a community lot with a dining place, let him/her travel to it and invite two or more household members to the lot so they could do the following:
> Sim 1: Be the host(ess);
> Sim 2: Be the server;
> Sim 3: Be the chef and sell (basic sell, dazzle, etc).
> You don't actually need a bartender, since customers won't buy much drinks (they didn't buy any at Swan Cafe!).
> You also don't need someone to tidy up, since the server will do it automatically.
> Tip: If the server lives in the same household, all the tips given will be added to the family funds!
Selling
> If you opened a dining place, then don't sell any objects there, even cakes, because the customers will buy them, but they won't order food from the kitchen!
> As long as your selling sim can't dazzle, all prices should be average. Once your sim learns how to dazzle, you can make the prices higher.
> If the seller is the chef, make sure he/she has made a dish and put it on the restaurant stove before he/she goes selling.
> Plan the menu, because if the chef doesn't have enough skill to make some foods, but someone orders it, it'll be burned and most likely, you'll lose a customer loyality star.
> Don't forget to build a toilet for your sims! Also, a shower or a bath is quite handy!
Running a Succesful Cafe with only a Single Sim
This is a tutorial good for poor families of one person wanting to own a restaurant to earn some money. Believe me, you CAN run a restaurant with only a single sim working!
Working
This time, you only have a single sim working at the business. After purchasing a community lot, travel to the lot and make sure, the business is closed. Click on the restaurant podium and choose "Plan Menu" so you could remove the foods that require more skill than your sim has. Then click on the restaurant stove and let your sim be the chef. After he or she has finished making a dish (he/she puts it on the empty side of the stove), go on and open your business, your sim can be a host for a while. When the customers read the menu, you can easily sell to them. When you have seated the sim(s), click on the podium again, ad choose "Be Server". Your sim brings the food to the customers and can go and make another dish. Then return and be the host. Then a server, a chef, a host, a server, a chef and so on. It may look silly and exhausting, but Seagull's Eye, which works exactly like this, has already earned The Best-of-the-Best Award, so only try to tell me it's pointless!!!
How to make a cheap starter-home look good?
At first, download The Sims 2 Homecrafter Plus if you don't already have it. You don't actually need to make anything new (if you don't want to). Just clone some of the existing walls and floors you like, and change the price to 0 Simoleons. Silly? Nope, now you can easily decorate the houses and give them the best look without giving out any money at all.
There is also a tutorial on my SimPage, if you want to know the rest. Read it by clicking here.
Clone weeds
It may happen, that you make a story, a movie or something else in The Sims 2 and need the whole yard to be full of weeds. It's easy! Once you have at least a single weed growing on the lot, open the cheatbox by holding down Ctrl, Shift and C at the same time. Type "moveobjects on" into the white box that appears (but without the quotes) and hit Enter on your keybord. Then choose the hand tool, pick the weeds up, hold down Shift and place them as much as you want! To unactivate the cheat, "moveobjects off" into the cheatbox (but again, without the quotes!). This small trick should also work with some other accesories in the game but not with all (coffee cups, etc).
An easier way to copy your stories
Whenever you want to upload a story to your own site instead of the Exchange at TheSims2.com but at first want to write in in-game using the family photo albums, then now there's an easy way to copy it all! Just go to your preferred neighborhood's Storytelling folder and scroll to the very end. These "webentryblahblah.xml" files, you know what these are? These are the actual family photo albums. A double click opens them and that way you can find all the stories you've written in those files and whenever I need to put the whole thing up to your site, you I can simply copy the whole text from there instead of minimizing-maximizing your game or at first uploading the story to TheSims2.com.
Last updated: Thursday, August 18th 2007