You know you've been playing The Sims too long when...

[pne]

...the computer isn't doing some task quickly enough, so you press "2" to increase the speed of the simulation.

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[gothiclord-nick.livejournal.com]

Haahaa, I've done things like that before. :P

[angelsk.livejournal.com]

Teehee :)

[asciident]

I probably would if I used the numbers for the speed (I'm a lot more mouse-oriented in TS2...) :)

[pne.livejournal.com]

I do most things by mouse, but speed (1 2 3 P) is keyboard.

Perhaps because my most common modus operandum is "do something, pause, click on next action, pause, etc.", and using the keyboard to control the pause means I don't have to find the tiny little area of screen real estate that represents the pause control -- then move the mouse back to which ever Sim I'm controlling.

Oh, and F1 = play, F2 = buy, F3 = build, usually (rather than clicking on the icon).

[jordik.livejournal.com]

` 1 2 3 is even better, ` is also pause.

Home/End to change wall dropdown modes.
Page Up/Down to change floors.

I just wish there were more key commands!

[pne.livejournal.com]

` 1 2 3 is even better, ` is also pause.

That doesn't help on my keyboard, since on a German keyboard, ` is a non-spacing combining grave accent and is to the left of the backspace key (two keys over from 0) -- and to the left of 1 is ^, which is also a non-spacing combining accent, so I'd have to press space afterwards before it'll do anything. Unless the game hooks the keyboard and doesn't use processed input from the keyboard driver.

Home/End to change wall dropdown modes.
Page Up/Down to change floors.

Ah, right -- yes, I do use those a fair bit as well, especially PgUp/PgDn. (I usually play in all-walls-down mode or occasionally in the next mode, so the Home/End key doesn't see as much use as I don't shift modes that much.)

[allegrox.livejournal.com]

That would work well with Dvorak, which has the P right under the 4.
Now I have an excuse to get the Sims.

[joyitude.livejournal.com]

That's better than trying to hit Ctrl + F when reading. :P

[opal1159.livejournal.com]

or ctrl-z when writing x.o

[ladyortyger.livejournal.com]

You know you use Firefox exclusively when you get frustrated that Ctrl-T doesn't work at work (IE). You know you are used to the keyboard shortcuts in the legaloffice support program when you try to go back to the index of files (Ctrl Shift F) from Quickbooks and realize you can't.

[sovereigna.livejournal.com]

I must admit, someone gave me a copy of sims 2 to have a go at cause I was interested in it.

I just don't get it :S. Do you use any cheats at all? (Like stopping your adults getting old?) Don't you feel awful when they die?? Do they die?

How good at this game, are you anyway?

[pne.livejournal.com]

Do you use any cheats at all?

Rarely.

(Like stopping your adults getting old?)

I don't think I've ever used that one. I confess I'm a bit unsure how to play elders - they just kind of tend to hang around but have not much to work towards. Most of the time, I start playing their children or grandchildren (who will tend to have moved out if they had any) more and the elders less -- which also means that they rarely die since I'm not playing them! I think I've had one elder die of old age on me so far. Her son was rather distraught; I, not so much.

How good at this game, are you anyway?

How do you measure that?

I like to think that I'm moderately efficient in getting certain Wants fulfilled and skills built. I'm not that great at keeping up Social and Fun, nor at making and keeping many friends. (I've often made a number of friends to increase influence or fulfil a Big Sim on Campus Want -- both things introduced with University -- but then tend to forget to call them or invite them over occasionally to maintain the friendship.)

Stella says I seem to have a grim determination rather than fun when I'm playing; I'm not sure but I do tend to work towards goals (especially Life Aspirations) and then wonder what to do when that's achieved, rather than just playing around and having fun as she tends to do. (When she plays at all; she prefers to build houses, I think.)

[sovereigna.livejournal.com]

Yeah, i have fun building houses. But I tend to get bored with the actual game playing. It frustrates me that they'll go have a whinge about something stupid (like the mixer jug missing from the bar or needing to go to the toilet)- when they show more initiative in avoiding doing something that I want them to to do, but they don't want to. agh.

I really don't understand my sims. They need to be led by the hand to do just about everything, but then you *accidentally* get them to do one bad thing (like drink from the bottle- just to see what they do)-- then they learn that bad habit and start doing bad habits everywhere they go! One of my sims needed to go to the toilet, but he was nearly starving, so I made him go have something to eat first and he peed his pants. Do you think he bothers to go to the toilet now? Nup. lol

But I admit, I cheat. I'm not a big games person. You get stuck in one place and go around and around in circles. At least if you read a book you go from cover to cover, not get lost around chapter 9 somewhere unable to continue until you figure out to pick up that item you left behind in chapter 5, then have to start again. If they had a walkthrough for the game, I'd do it. :S

happy simming :)