HANDY
CHECKLIST FOR HOODS TO PREPARE FOR THIER NEW RESIDENTS
-Build
a moderate home for the incoming family if they are not traveling with
thier home. TIP: Keep the home value less than $20,000 as most families
will only travel with this amount.
-Arrange
a schedule of events, if applicable
-Arrange
for an online blog for the new family, optional
-Pick
up the family from the local EMAIL airport or the MAXIS EXCHANGE airport
and move them into the hood.
HANDY
CHECKLIST FOR FAMILIES PARTICIPATING IN THE SUN EXCHANGE
-Submit
your families information on the SUN Easier Living Board with the subject:
SUN Exchange: ABC Family of ABC Hood. Include family name, contact sim's
name, original hood, number of sims/pets and thier ages. For example: "We
are the Smith family from EverydayHood: John (elder), John Jr. (adult),
Jane (adult) and the twins Johnny and Janet (children). We also a pet named
Buddy (adult dog)." or "We are the Smith family from EverydayHood. There
are five of us (one elder, two adults, two children and one adult dog).
If you are interested in exchanging with us, contact John on this board
or the Friends Board"
-Read
thru the profiles on the SUN boards and select a family to exchange with.
-Contact
the family via the SUN Friends and Dating board.
-Determine
the length of the exchange: new dimensional families must take into account
aging.
-Determine
other arrangements, including guidelines for the new hood regarding the
family-some families perfer to marry outside of thier hood, others refuse
this notion, some families don't mind having an additional child or changing
jobs, etc.
-Pack
up the family and travel to the new hood using the moving instructions
below.
Old
Dimensional Moving Instructions
This
is technical moving information that you need to review before traveling
for the first time in the old dimension.
Once
you have found a family that you would like to trade hoods with you will
move out of your home and all your possesions will need to be sold to give
you money for the trip. To make sure that your furniture is saved for the
family that will be moving into your home, your neighborhood coucil will
need to take the following stops:
Before
you move out of your home they need to visit the hood storage facility
located at maxis/thesims/userdata/houses. The house furnishings are saved
under your address. You need to copy your furnishing to a secure location.
After
that is completed you may then move safely out of your home. To restore
the furnishings, copy them back to their original location. You will be
asked if you want to replace the empty house with the furnished one. Make
sure you click yes. Your house will be as it was before you moved out and
ready for your guests.
On
moving day, your hood coucil will need to go to maxis/thesims/userdata/export.
They will need to find the FAM file that corresponds with your family and
copy to a secure location. You can then travel via email as an attachment
to the new hood. If you use any specialized makeup if will be found in
maxis/thesims/gamedata/skins and that should be sent with you.
When
the new arrivals get to your email airport you will them need to open the
email attachment and move the family to maxis/thesims/userdata/import.
Any specialized skins that came with the family need to be moved to maxis/thesims/gamedata/skins
before the move in. The family can then be imported into your hood like
any other imported family.
You
can also travel by the Official Maxis Exchange. You can travel to the exchange
temporarily, notify the receiving hood and once they arrive they can be
removed from the exchange.
It
can be difficult to get through customs if you go from a modern hood to
an old fashioned one. Or when traveling to a hood of a different language.
You can gain entrance to a hood more easily if you travel with less then
100K of baggage. Also you should remember that you cannot travel with your
pets if you are going to a hood that does not allow them. :
New
Dimensional Moving Instructions
This
is technical moving information that you need to review before traveling
for the first time in the new dimension.
TIP:
To travel bewteen hoods faster remember to not pack any custom hair, makeup,
clothing, or accessories; travel in the smallest empty lot available; and
have a fairly empty inventory file.
Once
you have found a family that you would like to trade hoods with your neighborhood
coucil will need to take the following stops:
-In
your the neighborhood, select the family that you would like to upload
to the airport. This will bring up the lot information.
-To
make the process faster, we recommend moving the family to an empty lot,
however they may keep thier original home-though new surrounds is often
part of the fun.
-Click
on the Package Lot button. This looks like an arrow pointing up at an asterisk
(*).
To
upload a family to the Exchange (Maxis Airport):
-Check
the box to Package Lot to TheSims2.com and click on the check mark.
-Click
Yes.
-It
may ask you to login to the Exchange. Do so and click the check mark.
-Type
in a description for the lot, be sure to include family name and original
hood name and click on the check mark.
-You
may get an hour-glass whilst it connects, it will then bring up an Uploading
window that will tell you how far the upload is from completion.
-When
the Upload Complete window appears, click OK.
-Your
family and thier home is now on www.thesims2.ea.com on the Exchange. Notify
the exchanging hood of the keywords to search for the family by.
-Remember
it will take a long time to travel from the Maxis airport to the hosting
hood if the family has a large family tree or house data is large.
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To
upload a family to a file for travel via EMAIL airport or upload to another
file hosting site:
-Check
the box to Package Lot to a file and click on the check mark.
-Click
Yes.
-Type
in a description for the lot, be sure to include family name and original
hood name and click on the check mark.
-You
may get an hour-glass whilst it connects, it will then bring up an Uploading
window that will tell you how far the upload is from completion.
-When
the Upload Complete window appears, click OK.
-Your
family and thier home is now in the location that pops up on the screen.
Zip the families file and send via EMAIL airports or upload to a file hosting
site and notify the hosting hood of the family's location.
Misc
Tips for Travel in the New Dimension
Family
Relations
There
is some concern about losing family relations. Since the the original family
lot remains in the hood, familal relations will be kept, but no memories
from the trip will be kept. If you wish to import the family from the trip
and keep thier memories and famial relations, a 3rd party program-such
as SimPE can be used.
Extra
Data Taken During Travel
Beware
that other "invisible" baggage travels with your sims, including, but is
not limited to:
-Any
and all family trees-not just of the sim going, but all the sims related
to any sims in thier family tree. This is perhaps the BIGGEST data source
taken along.
-Memories,
data of sims the family knows and the associated photos of the sims including
custom clothing, make-up, and hairstyles of these sims
-Inventory
items
-Any
hood wide (global) hacks-such a phone/mail/etc-that are in use in the hood.
How
to Travel Bewteen New Dimensional Hoods with different EPs
Sometimes
a family discovers that a potential exchange hood has signed different
EP deals than thier base hood. Does that mean travel is impossible? Not
always. There are several work-arounds for this issue.
-When
packing your lot to travel to the exchange hood, pack only base EP clothing
items and hairstyles. Most sims often travel in thier underwear and shave
thier heads as a drastic measure. Base EP clothing and hairstyles usually
doesn't conflict with other hoods.
-Try
traveling via the CAS Clinic, this can be done with the help of the 3rd
Party Program, SimPE (http://sims.ambertation.de/). The exchange hood can
then assign the sims the appropiate personality and move them into the
hood.
-Use
a 3rd Party Program, Sims2Pack
Clean Installer to import the sims into your hood. The sims can often
be found in the immigration pool on a lot or in a CAS clinic, depending
on what the exchange hood decided to import.
-Send
detailed photos and profile information so the exchange hood can "recreate"
the sims.
New
Dimensional Moving Instructions with 3rd party program, SimPE
Sometimes
a sim will want to travel without taking extra data, such as contact information
and memories with them. One way to do this is to travel using a third party
program called SimPE.
Once
SimPE is installed, open the data from the neighborhood of origin. Neighborhood
data can be found easily by using the neighborhood browser under tools
/ neighborhood. Select the correct neighborhood, open, and then wait a
few moments for the data to load.
Once
the neighborhood has loaded, go to the tools menu and choose "sim surgery"
under the "neighborhood" menu.
Find
the sim that wants to move in the list on the left and select them. Then
click on "use" underneath "patient sim." When the sim's portrait appears
in the box, choose "export". When saving the sim's DNA give the data file
a descriptive name, such as the sim's name and remember which folder the
DNA data was saved to. Repeat these steps for any other sims that is moving.
When
this file is sent to the destination hood, it should be saved to the "Downloads"
or "Saved Sims" folders. The destination hood can then import this sim
through their own CAS clinic.
This
method of traveling only sends a sim's DNA to the hood they're visiting.
While the hood data is open in SimPE, other data, such as personality,
aspiration, turn ons /offs, interests, and skills, can be recorded and
sent to the destination hood in a text file or e-mail. All data on every
sim in a neighborhood can be found in the neighborhood records in the "sim
description" section of SimPE.
New
Dimensional Moving Instructions with 3rd party program, Sims2 Pack Clean
Installer
Sometimes
there are conflicts bewteen sims traveling from different hoods. It can
be that the hoods have signed different EP Deals, or that the hoods have
strict import laws and do not allow custom content to be imported. How
does a hood get around these travel issues?
Sims2
Pack Clean Installer (http://sims2pack.modthesims2.com/index.php?page=1)
is a 3rd Party Program that provides a way for hoods to allow only the
sims into the hood without any of the conflicting objects.
After
installing the program, you can allow only the lot and the family to travel
into the hood. Your hood can be more exclusive and remove any custom content
as well. The website has more up-to-date details and FAQs about the process.
As
with any 3rd party program, your hood should be careful and back up any
hood data before testing the software.
Good luck and
happy traveling
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