The Sims 2 Nightlife Expansion Pack for PC Author: Warfreak Version 0.5 Day Started 23/9/05 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Table of Contents [1] Introduction [1.01] Expansion Pack [1.02] New Stuff [1.03] Version History [2] New Lots (Still community lots though) [2.01] Restaurants [2.02] Nightclubs [2.03] Bowling Alleys [2.04] Graveyards [3] New Sims [3.01] Vampires [3.02] Mrs. CrumpleBottom [3.03] Gypsy Matchmaker [3.04] Diva / Mr. Big [3.05] DJ [3.06] Slob [3.07] Host [3.08] Server [3.09] Grand Vampire [3.10] Restaurant Chef [4] New Cars [4.01] Cars [4.02] The Smoogo Minima [4.03] The Smord P328 [4.04] The Landwhale by Heaveola [4.05] The Yomoshoto Evasion [4.06] Hunka 711 by Hwang Motors [5] Making and Spending Money [5.01] Being a DJ [5.02] Gypsy Matchmaking Services [6] New Food [6.01] Crepes Suzette [6.02] Uncookable Food [7] Aspirations [7.01] Pleasure Seeker [7.02] Grilled Cheese [7.03] ReNuYu Porta-Chug [7.04] ReNuYuSenso Orb [8] Dating [8.01] Turn Ons [8.02] Turn Offs [8.03] Chemistry [8.04] Attraction [8.05] Scope Room [8.06] Date Meter [8.07] Dream Date [9] Groups [9.01] Forming a Group [9.02] Managing [9.03] Going Out [9.04] Gifts [9.05] Super Outing [10] Post [10.01] Food Coupons [10.02] Love Letters [10.03] Hate Letters [11] Sneaking In [11.01] Good Gifts [11.02] Flowers [11.03] Flaming Bags of Poo [12] Stratagies [12.01] Getting a Dream Date [12.02] Getting a Super Outing [12.03] Being a Vampire [--] Q&A [--.01] Q&A [A] Contact Information [B] Webmaster Information [C] Credits [D] Sites FAQ is on [E] Copyright ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [1.01] Expansion Pack Wow, my forth FAQ in under one year. This expansion pack is Nightlife, for the Sims 2. If you have University, this guide would be fully understandable for you. If you don't, you should read the FAQ for the general gist. Also read my base FAQ for the instructions to stop those stupid questions. In a way, I am making you buy University because I'm me :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [1.02] New Stuff There are lots of new stuff in the Sims 2 Nightlife. I'll go over them in more detail later but here are the major things. Cars Dream Dates Groups Social Outings Neighbours Bowling Alleys Nightclubs DJs Restaurants Easier Community Lot Access Mrs. CrumpleBottom and so on ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [1.03] Version History Version 0.1 [23/9/05] Started my forth FAQ. I'm thinking of covering the whole series. Imagine that, the Warfreak's guide to the Sims 2 and all the expansion pack. I'll have a monopoly of Sims 2 guides. MUAHAHAHAHA Version 0.2 [25/9/05] Submission pending, anyway, this will be worked on for the time being. It will grow really large if it keeps going at this rate. I'm working of the table of contents and planning out the order of my future work. Version 0.3 [26/9/05] CJayC hasn't seen all the contribuations yet so this guide isn't public. Guess this guide will go under change till then. Version 0.4 [27/9/05] It guide is finally online but it is an old version. This one will be submitted to update the old FAQ. I think it is still version 0.1. Version 0.5 [28/9/05] This guide is flowing smoothly to say so myself. I'll keep the updates coming as soon as I have some more spare time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2.01] Restaurants "From the '50s diner to upscale fine dining, we've got all your Sim's noshing needs covered. Drop in for a quick bite while out on the town or take a date for some candlelit romance" "You're Sims no longer need high cooking skill to enjoy fine gourmet dishes. Take them out to the restaurant and ask a server or host to BE SEATED, then they can relax and chat while they are waited upon by servers and chefs. If they play their cards right, they might not even have to pay for it." Yes, there are restaurants. You can get restaurants in this game. You get food but at a price. However, the food is top notch and is the best, as in better than what you can pull off. This is how the restaurant works. There are normally four NPC's that are in charge of the restaurant Host - This elder will be behind the podium at most times. They will answer the phone from the podium, show you to your table and take money from your bank account to pay for the bill. You can have a better relationship for a discount. They normally dress in black. There are two waiters, a male and a female. More some strange reason, I see the female more often. Waiters - There are two waiters that will take your order when you are seated. Only one of them will take your order. To order, just click on them and order from the options. Have a better relationship with these two guys for a lower chance of food being dropped from a tray Chef - This guy is always at the oven. You cannot talk to him, but he will make your food, just after your order has been taken. Maybe the waiters have walkie-talkies, I don't know. This is another elder. Getting him a better relationship will not do you any good though. First of all, there will be a podium at the restaurant. There will be a person behind the podium at most times. On the podium, there will be a book and a telephone. To get a seat, click on the podium and select be seated. If you want to be at a counter, click be seated at counter. After that, you will be seated by the host. Second, the waiter will come. The waiter will take your order so click on the waiter. There are several options that you can choose from the waiter. You can have chef's choice. This is just a random choice for you. It can be anything from a hamburger to a lobster. But be prepared to pay a large bill if you choose this option. You can choose yourself from an extensive range of foods if you order yourself. You can also order for other people, like your date, and you can order for all the people in your group. You can find out what you date wants with the speech bubble over their heads. This will give a bigger boost to the date. If you don't have the bubble to guide you, just order something expensive to impress them. You can order some dessert to wash down the meal. Just click on the waiter again and order a dessert. Use your imagination to create a course. Mains, entrees and desserts along with some water. You can interact will eating food or dining. Click on your date or friends and look for a chair symbol. This chair symbol means that you can do this interaction while sitting down. This is how the ad was made that is on the Sims 2 website where a man was proposing. That is possible, as long as you have the necessary relationship with the person. You can give up your seat by clicking on the podium and choose give up seat. You can just click the Dining button to cancel it. When you finish your meal, you can pay your bill or skip it. Skipping your bill will give a negative relationship with the host and the waiters. If you leave the restaurant before you manually pay the bill, the moment you go into your car, you pay the bill. You don't lose any relationship with the host if you do this. You do not gain any relationship with the host either. Paying the bill yourself is a great way for you to gain some relationship points with the host and the date. Also, the better relationship you have with the host, the better the discount when it come to paying the bill. If you have a very good relationship with the host, then you may not have to pay any money (§) at all. This is just a thing to do in your spare time though and you cannot really talk to them while on the community lot itself. And another thing, waiters can drop food on your pants as well. This will go down as a negative memory. You can improve your relationship with the waiter to reduce the chance of your pants being spoilt by food that was meant to go in your mouth. There is a large range of foods to choose from. These include different areas go you can order an omelette at the middle of the night. Breakfast Foods Omelette - This is a morning dish, the best of the morning foods. It costs you §11 at default. Lunch Foods Chilli Con Carne - This dish will warm you up with speed. It is a great lunch food and costs §15. Chef Salad - This dish is made of vegetables and no meat. Despite popular belief that it is a salad, you can still get fat. It will cost you §16 for this dish. Hamburgers - A grill dish that can only be made from a BBQ at home. Too bad they don't serve it with fries. It costs §17 (WTF) for a hamburger. Dinner Foods Mac and Cheese - This popular dorm food makes a comeback in a restaurant. Just come yellow stuff in a bowl. Not very filling. It costs §9. Spaghetti - Another dorm food makes a comeback. It is just some white strands with some red sauce. It also costs §9 and is not very filling. Ribs - Want some ribs from a pig? Well this grilled item is sold in the restaurant as well. Quite filling and costs §18. Salmon - This fish, which is tasty by the way is a good way to fill up your hunger bar. This is very filling and costs §21. Pork Chops - This meal is about the same as the salmon as in hunger relief but looks better and will impress your date more. It is very filling and costs you §23. Lobster Thermidor - The king of the foods, the lobster. This is the most filling food in the game and requires 10 cooking to obtain this recipe. It is so filling, that it is most likely that you will have excess fat afterwards. It costs §35 for this massive meals. Desserts Cake - A big slab of cake. Not very filling but is a good snack after a big or not so big meal. It costs §8. Baked Alaska - A whitish cake, like a slick of a wedding cake. But more filling than the cake and costs §10. Crepes Suzette - A few crepe rolls, drenched in a source. A new type of food in this game. It costs you §13 for this filling dessert. Uncookable Foods (Obtainable in the Restaurants) Nectarine Tartlette - A tart with the flavour of nectarines. It is quite filling and costs §12 for this. I'm thinking it is a dessert. Lime Seared Prawns - This is a great meal. It is the favourate food of one of the producers of the game, according to the Sims 2 website. Anyway, it is prawns infused with the flavours of lime. It costs §19. I think it is a dinner meal. Filet Mignon - This is a very filling meal. It is a thick slice of beef from the tenderloin. Very tasty. Because it is beef, it costs §25. Glass of Water - Just a glass of water. Nothing more, nothing less. Does not do anything. As it does not do anything, it costs §0. There are several things you need when building a restaurant. First of all, you will need to podium. This is where the host can stand and greet people. Of course, you will need a SPECIAL oven for the chef. It will be found under the appliance section of the dining section of the buy catalog. Next, and the most important thing, is, chairs and tables to dine with. Where else are your guests going to sit? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2.02] Nightclubs "Dance until you drop at any of the myraid of trendy clubs littering the downtown area." Nightclubs are where people start dancing and having a good time. An good example of this is the Hub. This trendy club in the Downtown area is a great place to have a party. Most nightclubs include restaurants. They are normal restaurants like above but where you are seated is different. If you choose to be seated at the counter, you are most likely to be seated at the bar of the nightclub. All nightclubs should come standard with some bars. There are two distinct advantages of having a bar. One of them is that you can have some Sims having a good time with some drinks. The second reason is more obsecure. It is because that Mrs. Crumplebottom loves a drink, she can down about 5 drinks before a purse hitting. With the pub keeping her occupied, you can have a romantic slow dance or a normal dance. She doesn't like it either way so you can have some me time while she is busy. You have to have a DJ station as well. I mean, what are the Sims going to dance to? Air rustling? Nah. A dance station is quick helpful to have a good time because there more Sims can dance. And with several new interactions that come equipped with Nightlife, you can be sure to have a good time. You can mix some tunes and request different music, for your romantic purposes. A jukebox is a great for a nightclub. Its like a stereo, you can change the music of the area with it. You can change that horrible techno into classical which is perfect for a date or hip hop for the more modern date. Its quite a mix really. Then you need the karaoke machine, to watch those Sims sing a really bad song, or a good one, depending on the Sim. You have to have the dance sphere. If course, its a party attraction and a want of Sims to dance in it. Also raises body and actually depends on body either you are successful or not. It is a great way to gain some aspiration points so you might as well get one. Another must is some toilets. Well, you need the Sims to do their business somewhere. and where else but a toilet. But be warned, some Sims have a fear of using the toilet so want their aspirations. Funky lights are a must. They spin lights with colours and look great. It places the Sims in the mood by raising the Environment bar. A great way to get the party started. And thats about all you need for a nightclub. The rest is for your imagination and like the former EA saying. Challenge Everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2.03] Bowling Alleys "It's not just the striking shirts that pull them in at the local lanes. It's the crashing excitement of knocking those ten pins right off their feet." Bowling Alleys are a great place for a group activity. Bowling is a group activity, so have a good time. You might even see Mrs. Crumplebottom having a good time as she likes bowling. Bowling is a great way for Sims to have fun. If you decide to go bowling, have two Sims. Its more fun and you gain some social points for it as well. Its another automated chat time. Bowling is a great place to make friends so you should start to build a bowling alley as soon as possible. Let me remind you that a bowling alley is quite long so make the building long or wide to accommodate this massive alley okay? What you will need in a bowling alley, well, the most important things, is, well the bowling alley. You know, people cannot go bowling if there was no bowling alley to bowl in. Put them side by side, make them cross, do whatever you want to do with it. You need some seat and some chairs as well, or where else are they going to take a rest? After some seating, you need the decorative touch to the bowling alley. You need the rack of bowling balls. Once you have this rack, it will look more like a bowling alley. Then you will need a grill so Sims can cook hot dogs, the classic bowling snack. Some televisions, the one that hang in the air, would do quite nicely as well. A bowling alley should have a jukebox as well, to relive those old times. Then you will need some pinball machines as well to give the kids some entertainment along with some arcade machines. A poker table here and there will not do any harm either. A bowling alley needs some Sims who are willing to bet some money on a deck of cards. How else is the house going to make money? You know, a pool table would do nicely if you have Uni as well. Adds the nice finishing touch on the topic of sporting balls. You have the bowling ball and then the cue ball. Don't even think about what I think you are thinking. Anyway, add a coffeehouse as well. To make sure those Sims that are bowling don't fall down on the bowling alley. Might help them wake up as well. Add a toilet if they are using the coffee house. And there you have it, your own bowling or not so bowling alley. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2.04] Graveyards You can make graveyards anywhere. You can make them downtown, in your regular neighbourhood or if you really want to, place them in the University campus. You start off with a large community lot and then you start to build up your morbid business. First of all, you need to select your grave or graves if you have been purging Sims off the face of the Earth. Anyway, click on the grave and select the move grave option, or if there is more than one grave, move all graves option. Then, you can choose the cemetery that you have made and you just send them over there. If you use the move all graves option, you will move all the graves in the neighbourhood to the selected lot. Make sure you want to do this or you can just send them one by one to avoid moving them everywhere. Once you finish your grave moving, you can go into the build mode of the community lot with the graves and arrange it to your liking. You can place flowers of where the body will be, use your imagination. I mean, I don't think I should tell you that, you play your game the way your like. Anyway, place them the way you want, if you want, arrange them into the words Grim Reaper. Give Mr. Death some more furfillment in doing his job. If you want an example of a typical graveyard, go to Gothier Green Lawns. That is the graveyard of the Sims that lived in the House of Fallen Trees. There are also graves of that lot as well. Do not forget that there are two graves. There is the grave stone and the urn. If you place the remains of some one outside, it will be a tombstone and it will stay like that. If you decide to place it inside, it will be an urn. On another note, if you move a grave to a graveyard, you can resurrect them if you know them or they used to be on your lot. But when they die, they will have their remains on your lot, not the graveyard. You cannot move the graves by placing it in your inventory. The only thing you can do is take the graves home and place them on your lot via the inventory. You cannot select your inventory while you are on the commerical lots. Regardless. Also, the grave will still produce some ghosts. But the ghosts don't seem to attack the Sims that are still living that often. According to Maxis, the ghosts of the Sims who have died are more peaceful when they in the graveyard so be sure to place them there. And also, you can choose to place the graves on a residential lot but I don't know why on earth you will want to put them their, I mean, people live there. There are some transcripts about the graveyards *** Guest: Will there be an option to send Sims who have died before Nightlife comes out to send them to the cemetery or will only the newly dead have that option? MaxisLittleL: You'll be able to to move any existing grave to a cemetery now. Your ancestors will happily rest in peace. *** Guest: How do you go about making a cemetery? Is it a residential lot, community lot, or something different altogether? MaxisAmy: You can move graves to community or to home lots, so it is up to you. *** Guest: Can you visit a cemetery at night and see a whole bunch of ghosts floating around? (for those crazy knowledge sims who would love that) MaxisLittleL: Ghosts can appear at a cemetery, luckily they are happier and more relaxed there then they can be at home sometimes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [3.01] Vampires Vampires, the undead of nightlife. In the original Sims 2, the paranormal idea in the game was the ghosts. In University, the paranormal turned into zombies. In Nightlife, there are vampires. I think it fits perfectly. I mean, vampires are told in stories that they live at night and sleep in day. I guess Maxis made it the stereotypical vampire. Vampires are the masters of the night. No one can have more fun than them at night. During the day, however, is a different story altogether. As I said before, Maxis made the stereotypical vampire. This includes, red eyes (kinda like slits), fangs on their teeth, dead (or extremely pale) skin and some very special powers that sets them aside from your average Sim. You might be wondering, COOL! Vampires! How do I get one? Well, although I will mention below how, I might just ruin it for you. To get a vampire, you have to find the Grand Vampire. There are two, a male and a female. More on them later. Anyway, build up a good, solid relationship with them and sooner or later, they'll bite your neck. Then, you have joined the ranks of the living dead. Of course, you could get someone to influence the Grand Vampire to give them a ... little nibble on the neck. For the reasons that they are, Knowledge Sims have a knack for being bitten. But then again, Knowledge Sims are kind of crazy. They want to be saved from death, be turned into a zombie, see a ghost and now they want to be turned into a vampire. I swear, the paranormal was installed just for them. Of course, being knowledge Sim, they don't want to be normal, that won't do. They normally have a fear of being cured of Vampirism after they are a Vampire. There are many benefits of being a vampire. They don't have to walk or run anymore. They can either stalk or fly. By stalking, they cover their fangs and sneak to the area they want to go to. Flying, no, they don't grow wings and fly like that. They fly by turning into a small bat and flying. Pretty cool when you see it for yourself. Flying is the speed of skipping I would think. Its not just walking but they aren't at the speed of your average Sim running around. Of course, being able to fly, they don't go around obstacles on their path, they fly over the small obstacles in their path. The biggest advantage I would think is that their mood at night will not decrease at all. They is why I called them that they are the Sims of the night. It is because that their moods doesn't decrease for 12 hours. Between 7pm and 7am, their mood stays the same. Environment does increase or decrease but everything else can only go higher, not lower. Also, while they are in their coffin, they mood doesn't decrease. Only energy and comfort increase while they are sleeping. While at night, they can do whatever they want without draining motives. Exercising, cleaning, anything they do, it will not decrease mood. They only way it can drain mood is by "accidents" like electrocution or being burnt alive. That will drain mood. Another advantage is that they can make more vampires. They have the ability to bite necks if they are at a high enough relationship level. This can get rejected and most vampires will have the fear of being rejected for a bite neck. They do have a want to bite someone's neck. You can bite the necks of Sims that are teenagers onwards. They can spread their infections with other Sims, how generous! Another massive advantage is that vampires DON'T AGE! A vampire in this game is immortal as long as their life grows. Their children can be long and truly dead when the vampire is still an adult. It is by far the best advantage the vampire has, besides the ability that mood doesn't drain at night. They can make lots and lots of cash before they even age a single day. No need to put on the aging cheat when you have a vampire. Although they might not be able to age, they can die to other things. Other minor abilities include a new irritate option, Bleh! to other Sims and the ability to scare Sims that open their coffin and give a negative relationship with them. Quite a fair amount of benefits of being a vampire. Of course, with those benefits, there always has to be disadvantages. Well, vampires that no shortage of those either. During the daytime, from 7am to 7pm, they lose mood faster than regular Sims do while inside. This is not as worse as the next effect. If your vampire decides to walk outside during the daytime, they will lose their mood like a train travelling at the speed of sound. They start to burn up and lose their moods really quickly. You can see their motives drop dead within a few hours. If they die while they are outside, they will die, they advantage of not aging will not save them. Also, their ghost will be whitish / transparent. If they get a day job, they have to move very quickly to avoid losing too much mood. Anything that involves sunlight e.g., greeting guests, looking through the telescope, getting the mail or the newspaper will all burn the vampire. You can stop this by buying a coffin. This will protect them from all sunlight and they will not lose mood. While sleeping, the coffin will have its candles lit. They only wake up when it is 7pm, or someone decides to give them a ring, another victim perhaps. You should watch the sound and animation for a sim who awakes from the coffin. Very eerie. Another disadvantage or advantage is that the vampire can get pregnant. However, the child will not be a vampire itself. Will, think of it this way, the vampire disease is viral, not genetic. Only genetic data will be passed on to the child from the adult. Its your choice whether you want a vampire kid or not. You can bite the child when they are the teenager level. Vampires have no appearance or reflection until you decide to change their appearance with the mirror. After you decide to give them a major change, as in hair, eyes, their will have a reflection. Try primping with a vampire without their reflection. You can cure vampires with a simple potion. Get your vampire Sim to call the Gypsy Matchmaker on the telephone under services. Buy the Vamprocillin-D potion off her for §35. Then, click on the vampire Sim and make them drink the potion. Then they will be cured from the point they drink the potion. Of course, you can make a Sim become a vampire as many times you want. Vamprocillin-D Cost: §35 Dosage: 1 Flask Directions: Drink entire flask for best effect Not intended for use by children Vampires can go to college as well. They will recieve the Undead Scholarship because, well, they are undead. They is the only time that the vampire will age. They will transition into a young adult and into an adult when they finish their college education. You can get a mix of an alien, vampire and zombie. First, get a child that was born as an alien. When they transition into a teenager, kill them off somehow. Then, resurrect them as a zombie. Then, bite them. Not you what a 3 way undead, science experiment. It has light blue skin, alien features, red eyes, fangs and shambles even when it stalks. You cannot influence the townies to drink the vamprocillin. This is because of a bug maybe? Also, if you are planning to resurrect the vampire what was killed somehow, make sure they are not outside when you resurrect them or their moods wills drain really quick outside if it sunny. I suggest you turn the gravestone into an urn by placing it inside. They will allow you the chance to clean up the vampire on a sunny day while it is indoors. While you are downtown, during the day, it will fill up full with non vampire sims. But, people have to go home so when it is dark, the vampires start to lurk and the normal sims go home or turn into vampires when the Grand Vampire comes along to start biting sessions after your Sims are Vampires. Of course, you can just cure all your Vampire Sims and the Grand Vampires are a bit more sedated in the field of biting necks. They will bite NPC's and having most of Downtown vampires isn't such a good idea. Also, please don't make the lady below into a vampire, bad things happen. Just read below (Mrs. Crumplebottom) and why you SHOULDN'T turn her into a vampire when everyone else wants to. It can seriously do bad things to your game. When you go to work during the day, you are safe. Workplaces are vampire friendly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [3.02] Mrs. CrumpleBottom The old hag from Hot Date is back. And she has a hatred for any PDAs. Not the PDA you organise things on, it not the one you connect to BlueTooth on. In the World of the Sims, the acronym PDA stands for Personal Displays of Affection. This means, that any romantic move played by you the player or the other Sim will result in a bad thing, done with this old hag. According to the Sims 2 BBS, she is just an old hag that annoys everyone, and that is what she is used for. It is the intended function of Mrs. Crumple- Bottom, she is just there to stop the public displays of affection in public and doesn't get along with anyone. If you don't display any PDA's while she is in the area, you will be fine. Mrs. CrumpleBottom is only found on downtown lots. That being said, commerical lots only. She will not appear on your residential lots. Thats a relief. Imagine her face when you WooHoo in front of her. Although the location is not important, you can say she is everywhere. She will appear in clothing shops, bars, grocery shops, nightclubs, etc. However, many people have claimed that she is most likely to appear in restaurants, mainly the fancy restaurants. The people who say that they have never seen her on downtown lots are people who haven't visited the downtown commerical lots a lot or they are extremely lucky to avoid her. When you display a public display of affection in public, she will do several things to you. What she will do will vary. * Hit you with her purse This action will make her pull her purse out of her bag and smack you over the head with it. It will hurt a fair bit I imagine. *Lecture You This action is the mostly like action. She will use this action as a follow up on the last action or a seperate wave of annoyance altogether. You Sim will get very pissed off and put their fingers in their ears and mimic the sign that she is mental by swirling their fingers around their heads, like saying, "Mental Nut." If you are on a date, your date meter will fall with every whack and word coming out of her. There are several things that she will do when you is not annoying the hell out of your Sims. *Knit She will pull out a sock or sweater or something out of her bag and knit it. This action, while it may sound harmless, generally occurs in the room that is the largest on the lot or the room your Sim is in. This of course, allows her to see your every move and make sure that you do not show any PDA's. *Drink For an old lady, she sure doesn't drink like one. In the nightclubs and bar, she will often sit down at the counter and down about 5 to 6 drinks. For an old lady, she sure drinks a lot. Think of the liver. *Play Poker Mrs. CrumpleBottom sure plays poker. Many all that annoying might have thought her a few things about playing poker. Be warned, when you play poker with this lady, make sure you have money to lose as she is a very good winner and you are not likely to lose money because of her. *Bowling This lady goes bowling. Thats wierd, bowling is mainly a group activity, I thought she hated people. Maxis is stuffing up there. To avoid this lady, there is a way. When she is distracted or doing one of the above actions, move out of the room. While you are out of the room, you can perform as many PDA's as she cannot see you. I found this out when my Sims were performing as many PDA's as they wanted when Mrs. CrumpleBottom was having a few "beverages." Mrs. CrumpleBottom has a very wierd description. There are several unique features of her. * She wears only one colour. This is like a lighter brown mixed with a little grey. * She is an elder. This is recognised from the white hair she has. * She has a hat or cap. This hat will have a flower on the side. You can see that it is a sunflower * She has a pearl necklace around her neck. She wears this around her neck * She has a bag that is the came colour as her clothing. * Very thinish head. Green eyes, Long pointy nose and thin lips. * On her coat, the buttons are made of a gold colour. * Has two pockets on her coat. Those are the most distinguishing features of this lady. Below are several facts that you should read. Her aspiration is Family. Not a secret aspiration, and not a PDA aspiration. People on the Gamefaqs boards found this out. My hat goes off to them. You cannot interact with this lady. If you talk to her, she will not talk back. You cannot annoy her and as far as I am concerned, she cannot have any sort of friendship or relationship with her. This is very important that you know this. However much you may hate her, do not turn her into a vampire. According to MaxoidTim, a Maxis worker, Mrs. CrumpleBottom is an object in the games database. She is not to be modified or turned into a vampire. If you do turn her into a vampire, you will corrupt your game data and will have to reinstall. You have been warned. As far as Maxis is concerned, Mrs. CrumpleBottom is an object, which explains why you cannot develop a friendship with her. Also, another piece of useless trivia, word is it that Maxis created this old lady and named her Mrs. CrumpleBottom because it sounded catchy. Also sounded interesting and funny. Its coincidential that Mrs. CrumpleBottom is in Nightlife because Nightlife is like Hot Date from the Sims 1. They both had more dating options, more things to do with romance, and the start of player's annoyance at Mrs. CrumpleBottom. You cannot really avoid her. She seems to appear more often at night. Also, if you spend more than 3 hours at any community lot, 2 at night, (in the downtown district / nightbourhood), she is bound to appear. You cannot really predict when she will come. Try to be safe and do any romantic actions away from her. Then you won't have to be whacked with a purse full of nickels and quarters. When you see her, you have six options that you can interact with her. You have the choice to entertain, talk, hug, flirt (wtf), prank and irritate. You can choose any interaction but when the action queues up, it disappears, you cannot interact. And this lady is not the same Mrs. Crumplebottom as in hot date. I have been digging through the chat transcriptions on the Sims 2 web site and found this on the site. These are some interesting questions about Mrs. Crumplebottom and answer a few questions. Guest: Is this the same Mrs. Crumplebottom as in TS1 (although I thought she died), or is it a distant relative or niece? MaxoidLittleL: A distant relative, although she's frighteningly similar ... *** Guest: Can we get rid of Mrs. Crumplebottom's distant relative in this expansion. I don't want her hitting (with her purse I presume) my date? MaxisAmy: Mrs. Crumplebottom loves to go bowling. If you keep her busy, she is less likely to object to a little romance happening around her. *** Guest: What is in Mrs. Crumplebottom's purse? MaxisLittleL: Knitting, lint, some small stones and a portrait of her great aunt. MaxisHunter!: Also, raw pork. *** Guest: How is Mrs. Crumplebottom going to work? She's Mortimer's aunt and he's nearly dead himself when the game starts. MaxisLittleL: This is actually a distant relative of the original Mrs. Crumplebottom. The family has strong genes... *** Guest: Can you marry Mrs. Crumplebottom? MaxisLittleL: She likes to hit people with her purse ... marriage isn't such a great idea ... *** Guest: Does Mrs. Crumplebottom do anything new since The Sims 1? MaxisLittleL: I've heard she really likes to go bowling ... *** Guest: What's in the purse of Mrs. Crumplebottom MaxisLittleL: Magical mystical things ... and crochet *** Guest: Oh! Oh! Can we marry Mrs. Crumplebottom? MaxisAmy: I don't think Mrs. Crumplebottom is interested in your advances. Wow, that was a mouthful! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [3.03] Gypsy Matchmaker ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [3.04] Diva / Mr. Big ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [3.05] DJ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [3.06] Slob ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [3.07] Host ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [3.08] Server ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [3.09] Grand Vampire Grand Vampires, the head of all the vampires. They can only start biting your Sims and NPC's if one of your Sims are bitten are join the ranks of vampires. They are only found on downtown lots. There are two grand vampires, one female and one male. They only show up on downtown lots, they definately do not show up on regular or university lots. To get a normal vampire, you have to make the Grand Vampire give you a nittle nibble. You have to build up a relationship with the Grand Vampire to make him or her give you a little bite on the neck. The Sim you want to be bitten is that one you have build the relationship with. After you get enough relationship points for the vampire, they will soon give you a bite on the neck. The logic level of your Sim is the deciding factor on how many relationship points that are needed to give you a bite. If you have below 4 logic points, you can get vamped in about 50 to 60 relationship points. If you have 5 or more logic points, then you would need to have more relationship points. Say, for instance, you have 10 logic points, you would need 100 daily relationship points to be bitten. There is another way to get a vampire, but only if you have University. For the small price of 1,000 influence points, you can influence the Grand Vampire to give another Sim a little nibble on the neck. Those are the two ways to get a vampire. Either way, your Sim will turn into a vampire. I won't spoil it, but the animation placed for bite a Sim is really cool, better than making zombies. Vampires, the Grand Vampires, are quite hard to find. They randomly pop up in Downtown lots. There is no telling where you find them. If you are at a Downtown lot for about 2 hours and you haven't seen but want to see the Grand Vampire, then it is time for you to move onto another downtown lot. You will see the vampire sooner or later. When I play in the Downtown lots, I find that the vampires appear most often in Rodney's Hideout. Don't know why and its in my neighbourhood, not yours. The Grand Vampire names are different from game to game. But they have one thing in common. There is a prefix before their name. For the male Vampire, it would be Count *insert name here* and the female would be Countessa *insert name here*. Once they infect one of your sims, they will start biting all the downtown people and turning then into the denizens of the dark. However, if you cure all the infected Sims, the vampires seem more normal. My sims talked to the vampire, played pool with them, the vampire tipped the piano player and the strangest thing, the vampire spent about 9 hours playing poker with two other player. When the clock reaches 7 am, the Grand Vampire will stop whatever they are doing. Then, on the floor, they act like they are saying, argghh, the sunlight, must run. Then, the bolt out of the building and start running. (However the hell they can run, I don't know.) While outside, they will have smoke coming from them, like the Wizard of Oz, except that was a wicked witch. If you decide to "slay" a vampire, another one will take its place. I guess there is a circle of vampires, and when the elder dies, the next in rank will take its place. Or you can make them move in and make them give you some money. Also, when you have the portrait for a grand vampire on your telephone directory, they pose like they are about to attack someone. Real weird. Why you want to remember someone like they are going to attack. The Count will a gown, with a medal on his white shirt. Under the down will be a black suit. The Countessa will wear a red dress, that looks like something from the 1800's. Both will have red eyes, whitish - bluish skin and look different to other NPC's. When they walk, they "stalk" where they walk and cover their mouth with their hand. Strange. You will know a Grand Vampire when you either see it or place your cursor over it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [3.10] Restaurant Chef ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [4.01] Cars ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [4.02] The Smoogo Minima ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [4.03] The Smord P328 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [4.04] The Landwhale by Heaveola ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [4.05] The Yomoshoto Evasion ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [4.06] Hunka 711 by Hwang Motors ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [5.01] Being a DJ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [5.02] Gypsy Matchmaking Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [6.01] Crepes Suzette ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [6.02] Uncookable Food ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [7.01] Pleasure Seeker ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [7.02] Grilled Cheese The Grilled Cheese Aspiration is the result of failure of the ReNuYuSenso Orb that is below. When you fail, the machine emits red smoke, and then you end up with the almighty secret, the GRILLED CHEESE ASPRIATION. This aspiration revolves around, well, around the grileld cheese sandwich. This aspiration is strange in the way that it is. There are several wants for the wacked aspiration. Talk to Sim about Grilled Cheese. All you have to do is to click on a Sim and click on talk. Then, click on Grilled Cheese. Then, you talk to the Sim about the Grilled Cheese Sandwich. It is really strange and crazy. Make Grilled Cheese Sandwich. The funny thing about this aspiration is that you can make the grilled cheese sandwich anytime you want. You can make it in the breakfast and the dinner instead of just lunch. When you finish the meal, you furfill this aspiration want. Serve Grilled Cheese Sandwiches. This is like the former want, except that you have to serve it instead of eating it. Really weird wants. Make a Sim eat a Grilled Cheese Sandwich that you made. This one kinds of fits into the former grilled chesse want. Serve it and your want should be furfilled if a Sim eats it. Influence someone to serve Grilled Cheese Sandwich. Influence someone to serve a meal. Its a University only thing you know. There are also several fears, not much. Lose a Cooking Skill Point. This is hard to furfil. You can only lose a cooking skill point via chance cards and electrocution. Or simvac but you cannot lose it naturally. You have to intervene. Fire. This one is more cooking relation. Just don't burn a food. You have to really fail hard to burn food on a high cooking level. Just don't leave food in the oven and have a good cooking level and you won't burn anything. Make a bad grilled cheese sandwich. This one is that you don't over cook it. As long as you have good cooking points, that you won't burn it. Serve bad grill cheese sandwiches. This one is like the one above. If you have good cooking, like at about 5, you won't have a high chance to burn it so don't worry. The Lifetime Want for all Grilled Cheese Aspiration Types are to "Eat 200 Grilled Cheese Sandwiches". You have the amount of grilled cheese sandwiches eaten in your memory bar. You apparently keep count of how many grilled cheese sandwiches you eat. It might sound easy but 200 grilled cheese sandwiches is quite a lot. Don't forget the Maxis saying, "Grilled Cheese! Grilled Cheese! GRILLED CHEESE !!!!! Aspiration Meter Level Red 2 - Bumbling Bree Burner | | Red 1 - Cheddar Lacking Chucklehead | | Green 1 - Common Camembert Coveter | Green 2 - Gouda Gobbling Gourmet | Gold - Exceptional Edam Eater (Gold) | | | Platinum - Muenster Munching Maniac (Platinum) To get it, use the ReNuYuSenso Orb while on an aspiration lower than gold. I got it on my first attempt. This aspiration is quite easy to keep high. Think because all you eat can be made at any time you like. Its quite easy to keep your mood at platinum without furfilling the lifetime want. Jsut keep sticking you head into the orb if you fail. You only fork out about 6 thousand aspiration points, not a lot. You'll get it eventually. This is part of the challenge that is going all over the internet. Try to get a vampire, zombie and alien sim with the grilled cheese aspiration. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [7.03] ReNuYu Porta-Chug ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [7.04] ReNuYuSenso Orb ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [8.01] Turn Ons ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [8.02] Turn Offs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [8.03] Chemistry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [8.04] Attraction ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [8.05] Scope Room ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [8.06] Date Meter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [8.07] Dream Date ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [9.01] Forming a Group ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [9.02] Managing ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [9.03] Going Out ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [9.04] Gifts ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [9.05] Super Outing ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [10.01] Food Coupons ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [10.02] Love Letters ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [10.03] Hate Letters ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [11.01] Good Gifts ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [11.02] Flowers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [11.03] Flaming Bags of Poo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [12.01] Getting a Dream Date ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [12.02] Getting a Super Outing ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [12.03] Being a Vampire ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [--.01] Q&A ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [A] Contact Information Hey, what do you know, it looks just like my previous legal things, cause I'm too lazy to make another one. ****************************************************************************** Before you E-Mail me, read the guide first. 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