The Sims 2 FreeTime

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FreeTime


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Release date:	Windows: ^EU February 22, 2008 ^NA February 26, 2008 ^AU February 28, 2008 ^UK February 29, 2008 Mac OS X: TBA
Price:	$26.99
Sub-Genre:	Hobbies
Race:	Genie
Rating:	Teen
Platform(s):	PC Only

Found in copies of BV and TSS.

This was announced inside copies of The Sims 2 Bon Voyage and The Sims 2 Teen Style Stuff.

Now your Sims can rediscover the joys of leisure time! Awaken your Sims' true passions in life as they discover and excel at all-new activities. Whether they're tossing a football with the family, practicing ballet, restoring cars with friends, or building train sets, your Sims now have more ways to build skills, enhance friendships, and make their lives more successful. Craft new, unique items for your Sims to use in their daily lives including clothing, pottery, and more. Your Sims will even unlock secret rewards by mastering their hobbies and advancing all-new careers. Explore a wide variety of new hobbies that will change your Sims' lives!

[edit] Loading Sequence

Factoring Hobby Excitement (?)
Calculating Lifetime Aspirations
Predicting Predestined Path
Populating Yards with Bugs and Birds
Writing Scrolling Startup String Text
Reticulating Splines in the Zone
Recruiting Snooty Food Judges
Breaking Down Restorable Cars
Threading sewing needles
lacing Football Cleats

[edit] Info

[edit] Basic Features

Discover your Sims' passion from a wide range of new activity types, from sports to science to arts and crafts. All-new hobbies include basketball, soccer, restoring cars, ballet, even searching for stars and planets!
Hobbies offer lifetime rewards. As your Sims master new activities they'll unlock aspirations, earn rewards, and uncover secret lots.
Once your Sims build up their skills, they can sell their arts and crafts or see how they stack up against the competition by entering dance, food, and video game contests!
All-new group activities are a great way for Sims to spend time with family and friends. There are even special activities for kids and toddlers, including an activity table for drawing and playing with blocks!
Hobbies can be full of unexpected moments, especially for Sims with low skill levels. Your newbie Sim might sew a bear with one eye, make a lopsided jar on the pottery wheel, get poison ivy while hiking, or who knows what?!

[edit] System Requirements

1.3 Ghz processor (2.0 for Vista)
512 MB RAM (1GB for Vista)
Windows(R) Vista, Windows XP, Windows ME, Windows 98 or Windows 2000 Operating System.
8x or faster CD/DVD drive
At least 1.5 GB of additional hard drive space (5.0 GB total is required if installing both The Sims 2 and The Sims 2 Bon Voyage Expansion Pack at the same time.)
A T&L-capable video card with at least 32 MB of video RAM.
Supported video cards:

ATI Radeon(TM) series 8500 or better (9600 or greater required for Vista)
8500, All-In-Wonder 8500
9000, 9200, 9500, 9600, 9700, 9800
X300, X600, x700, X800, x850
X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950
NVIDIA(R) Quadro(TM) series
Quadro, Quadro2, Quadro4

NVIDIA GeForce series GeForce2 GTS and better (GeForce 6200 or greater required for Vista)

GeForce 2, 2 GTS
GeForce 3, 3 Ti
GeForce 4, 4 Ti, 4200, 4600, 4800, MX 420, 440, 460
GeForce FX 5200, 5500, 5600, 5700, 5800, 5900, 5950
GeForce PCX 5300, 5900
GeForce 6200, 6600, 6800
GeForce 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950
S3 GammaChrome
S18 Pro
S18 Ultra
Intel(R) Extreme Graphics (see note below)
82865, 82915 and above

NOTE: If you have a non-T&L capable video card, such as Intel Extreme Graphics, then you need at least a 2.4 GHz processor.

[edit] Hobbies

	Arts	Cuisine	Film	Fitness	Games
Personality	Sloppy,Nice	Neat,Lazy	Shy,	LazyOutgoing,Active	Playful,Grouchy
Mannerisms	Frame Hands	Rub Tummy	Read walking	Stretch	Wrist Stretch
Skill	Creativity	Cooking	Charisma	Body	Logic
Interests	Culture,Fashion	Food	Entertainment, Culture	Health	Entertainment
Career	Architecture	Culinary	Entertainment	Adventurer	Gamer
Secret Lot	My Muse II	Sue's Kitchen	Desirable Discourse	Platinum Gym	Games of Glory
Unlockables	None	Serve Chips (3) Serve Cheese(5) Serve Appetizer (8)	Book Club (3)	Go Jogging (3) Protein Shake(5)	None
Newspaper	Arts	Food & Dining	Entertainment	Health	Fun and Games
Titles	Finger Painter (2-4), Crafty Creator (5-7), Modern Artist (8-9), Creative Champ.(10)	Tasty Appetizer (2-4), Talented Palate (5-7), Delicious Dish (8-9), Master Chef (10)	Regular Reader (2-4), Bookclub Pres. (5-7), Movie Maven (8-9), Media Mogul (10)	Workout Buddy (2-4), Trim and Toned (5-7), Fit as a Fiddle (8-9), Leader of the Pec (10)	Casual Gamer (2-4), Weekend Warrior (5-7), Hand/Eye Coordinator (8-9), Gaming Guru (10)
Magazine on:	Tuesday	Friday	Sunday	Thursday	Saturday
Develop with:	Activity/Drafting Table,Sewing Machine,View painting/Sculpture,Pottery Wheel,Camera,Flower/Toy arranging bench,Easel	Juicer,Bar,Chocolate station,Cooking,Eating at restaurants,Food judging table,Cooking channel,Write restaurant guide,Kids stove,Toaster	Read,Discuss book,Read to sleep,TV, Watch movie,View posters/Stand-ups/Etc. Write novel on PC	Yoga,Swimming,Ice skating,Exercise bike,Jogging,Protein shake,Tai Chi,Workout Channel,Obstacle course,Rollerblading	Bowling,Arcade Machine,Chess,Dart,Llama Board Game,Mahjong,Marco Polo,Myshuno, PC games,Pinball,Poker,Pool Table,Videogames

	Music and Dance	Nature	Science	Sports	Tinkering
Personality	Outgoing,Serious	Sloppy,Playful	Neat,Serious	Active,Grouchy	Shy, Nice
Mannerisms	Drum on Leg, Hum, Practice Ballet, Whistle	None	Do Logic Puzzle	Shadow Box, Practice Throws	None
Skill	Creativity	Cleaning	Logic	Body	Mechanical
Interests	Entertainment,Culture	Animals, Environment, Weather	Sci-Fi	Sports	Toys
Career	Music,Dance	Natural Scientist	Science	Athletic	Military, Intelligence
Secret Lot	My Muse	Peerless Park	Aspirational Laboratories	Dreamy Fields	Will's Garage
Unlockables	None	Go Hiking (3) Collect More Bugs (5) Collect Even More Bugs (8) Search	for Constellations (3) Search for Planets (5) Search for UFOs (8)	None	None
Newspaper	Music and Culture	Home and Garden	Science	Sports	Technology
Titles	Foot Tapper (2-4), Rhythm Junkie (5-7), Groove Master (8-9), One with the Beat (10)	Leaf Picker (2-4), Hugger of Trees (5-7), Force of Nature (8-9), Elemental (10)	Baby Biologist (2-4), Telescope Whisperer (5-7), Discoverer of Galaxies (8-9), Some Kind of Einstein (10)	Backyard Athlete (2-4), Stadium Sitter (5-7), Season Ticket Holder (8-9), Number One Fan (10)	Fixer Upper (2-4), Eager Engineer (5-7), Talented Tinkerer (8-9), Master of Machines (10)
Magazine on:	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Tuesday
Develop with:	Stereos,Ballet,Guitars,DJ Booth,Drums,Karaoke,MP3 Player,Violin,Modular Synth,Singing,Nursery Song,Dancing,Watching others dance,Pianos,Hula	Aquariums,Beach Activities,Bird Watching,Bug Collecting,Catch Butter- Fireflies,Cowplant, Fishing,Gardening,Hiking, Hydroponic Garden,Koi Pond,Pet Bird,Tent	Ant Farm,Biotech Station,Stargaze,Surgical dummy,Telescopes,Weather Machine	Basketball,Axe Throwing,Boxing bag,Log rolling,Play catch,Putting green,Rollerblade/Ice Skating,Soccer,Toss Football,Watching Sports	RC car/helicopter,Restorable Car,Robot Bench,Tinkering Patch,Train table,Repairing

[edit] Careers

Sims will be able to pursue employment in five new careers including dance, entertainment, intelligence, oceanography and architecture. There are another 5 careers, totalling 25 now for The Sims 2. The careers are Oceanography, Intelligence, Entertainment, Dance, Architecture. A poll on Snooty Sims showed that fans like the careers pretty much equally though Architecture stood out most and Entertainer wasn't very popular:

Which FreeTime career do you like most?

Intelligence agent: 18%
Oceanographer: 18%
Entertainer: 11%
Architect: 32%
Dancer: 21%

[edit] Creature

It has been revealed that there will be a new creature, a Genie, quite similar to the one in The Sims Livin' Large. The expansion will also add new secret lots.

[edit] Neighborhoods

Free Time also includes a new neighborhood, Desiderata Valley.

[edit] NPCs

New NPC's are known as Hobby Members at the moment.

NPC	Where it's found	What it does	Image
Rod Humble	On your home lot	Gives you a present

[edit] Sims

The ten new hobbies included in the expansion pack are fitness, cooking, music/dance, sports, nature, science, films/books, gaming, tinkering, and arts/crafts. Every Sim is created with a predetermined hobby which cannot be modified by the player. While the bar is filled, the Sim will be "in the zone," shown graphically as a white glow around the Sim; preventing their needs from decaying.

[edit] New Wants/Fears

[edit] Wants

Want	Aspiration/Influence score	Image
Talk About Hobby
Blog About [hobby]
Reach Maximum Enthusiasm in [hobby]		(Tinkering)
Be BFF with [sim]	+5000 aspiration +1000 influence

[edit] Fears

Fear	Aspiration/Influence score	Image
Be booed
Lose a Dance Contest	-1250 aspiration points

[edit] ReadMe

Main article: ReadMe's

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The Sims(TM) 2 FreeTime Expansion Pack
Readme document

http://www.TheSims2.com
Electronic Arts
Version 1.0
12/10/07

(c) 2008 Electronic Arts, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Table of Contents
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General
Installation Warnings for The Sims 2 FreeTime Expansion Pack
Installation
System Requirements
Backing Up Your User Data

New to The Sims 2 FreeTime Expansion Pack:
-New Activities
-New Careers
-Other New Stuff
Performance Tips
Known Issues
 -Windows Vista Issues
 -Video Card Issues
 Windowed Mode
 -Other Command Line Options
Cheats
Video Capturing
 -Camera Settings
Web Content
Custom Content
 -Custom Neighborhoods Using SimCity(TM) 4 Terrain
 -Custom Neighborhood Picture
The Sims 2 Body Shop

[edit] Media

[edit] Music

EA has also announced that the soundtrack will include artists such as Natasha Bedingfield, They Might Be Giants, and Datarock.

[edit] Videos

[edit] The Sims™ 2 FreeTime Official Trailer

[edit] The Sims™ 2 FreeTime Music Video feat. Natasha Bedingfield

[edit] The Sims™ 2 FreeTime Datarock Music Video (by MaxoidPlumbob)

[edit] Artwork

[edit] Hobby Magazines

[edit] Artpics

[edit] Screenshots

[edit] Noticed Glitches (Still undergoing resesarch)

[edit] Lag-related

[edit] Other

[edit] Bugfixes

(these can be downloaded (from thesims2.ea.com) here Complete list of changes as per thesims2.ea.com:

[edit] Game Issues

Note: Not all fixes will take effect on existing The Sims 2 FreeTime saved games. If you have an existing lot, Sim, object or neighborhood that does not seem to be improved by this patch, we recommend that you replace the affected object, or create either a new family, lot or neighborhood, depending on what is affected by the bug.

Sims will now remember which side of the bed is theirs to sleep on.
Crash will no longer occur when users attempt to load another lot while associating a neighborhood using the Advanced Neighborhood Options panel.
"Neon Flamingo" is no longer missing from Buy Mode.
In Audio Options, Custom Station icon no longer blocks the Stop button.
University Service NPCs are now able to join a dance contest in a Secret Hobby lot if they are not on the job.
Sims will no longer pop back onto the screen when Sims walk to a Secret Hobby Lot.
"Electrono-Ticket Machine" will now correctly turn off when you move a Home lot into the Lots and Houses Bin.
Saved lots with an in progress dance contest will now reset correctly when placed into the Lots and Houses Bin.
Sims can now watch UFOs with the "Astrowonder Telescope".
Sims can no longer mark items for sale on top of the "Upright Pottery Wheel by QuicKraft".
Iconic Hobbyist NPCs can now be reached by telephone after meeting them.
"Socialus Butterfly" can now be caught for the Bug Collection.
Sims will no longer teleport when you cancel the walk home interaction in a community lot.
Primp interaction is no longer missing from the game.
First woohoo memory will now occur when Sims woohoo for the first time in a tent.
The reduced bladder effect from the "ShowMeOff Rack of Glory" will now trigger correctly when Sims are in range.
Sims reading a book from the cooking genre will now correctly gain Cuisine Enthusiasm.
Preoccupation will now work correctly at level 10.
Pets will no longer chew or scratch cribs if they are in use.
Garden Club members are now treated as townies.
"Carefree Koi Pond by Simulated Life" no longer displays an environment score.
Teen and Child Sims will no longer receive the unachievable Bird Watch Want.
College Grades in German, French, Polish, and Brazilian Portuguese is now displayed correctly.
The Sims 2 FreeTime credit section has been correctly updated.
Violin Tip Jar will no longer cause an unusable tile after being picked up.
Child Sims will no longer pop when asked to "Clean Up" the juice tray.
Vampire Sim can no longer receive a Want to turn Bigfoot into a Vampire.
Using the Draft Scene interaction will no longer apply a sketch filter to in-game camera snapshots.
Motive decay on the "H-O-R-S-E of course Basket Ball Hoop", "The Goal of Paul", "Teeny Tikes Activity Table", and "One Man's Junk Car from Mechanically Minded" objects and Go Hiking interaction has been retuned.
"Basic Blue" and "Gripping Green" wallpapers will now appear in Build Mode.
Sims will no longer receive a phone call for magazine subscription at level 2 Hobby Enthusiasm.
Sims will no longer gain fishing skill points while digging for treasure.
Sims in Custom Neighborhoods can now access secret hobby lots when sub-neighborhoods are unassociated.
Custom Radio Stations can now be deleted correctly.
Matchmaking Service will now function correctly when the "Dusty Old Lamp" is on the lot.
Pregnant Sims can now browse or blog about hobbies on the computer.
Items created from the "Upright Pottery Wheel by QuicKraft" now appreciate and depreciate correctly.
Sims can no longer sell home lots from computers on a secret hobby lot.
Vacation guest who is asked to Join a Sim in a tent will now properly leave the tent after an appropriate amount of time.
Drinking “Eggplant Juice” no longer produces a false memory of maximizing a skill.
Having a honeymoon and a wedding party with a child, toddler, or baby Sim in the family will no longer cause a second wedding party to occur.
Servo will no longer break in vacation neighborhoods.
Children will no longer pop when drinking Hot Chocolate.
Female children will now be able to change into gym wear while playing with "The Goal of Paul".
"First Place Food Contest Ribbon" can no longer be duplicated by shift clicking.
Watch Movie Interaction will no longer produce two of the same pie menu option.
Option to "Offer Free Makeover to" "Zip Zap Zop! Classic Model Car" and "Falconeer Chopper" have been removed.
FX cloud now appears correctly when destroying Sandcastles.
"Ask to Join" interaction no longer appears on Iconic Hobbyists Sims when they route to user Sims while relaxing on a bed.
Servo will now recharge correctly after "Tinkering" with any shower.
Sims performing the "Join Freestyle" interaction should no longer pop.
Text Notification no longer spam when raising Music & Dance enthusiasm by performing "Join Freestyle" interaction.
"Hunka 711 by Hwang Motors" car design now appears correctly.
Interaction tooltip now appears correctly when Sims use the "Teeny Tikes Activity Table".
NPCs will now correctly use "The GrroveLayer 90000 Professional DJ Booth by HotBeets" and "The GrroveLayer 10k Professional DJ Booth by HotBeets".
Memory for achieving Lifetime Want "Woohoo with 20 Different Sims" now appears correctly on the appropriate Sim.
Romance Sims no longer lose earned platinum tombstones when moved to a community lot.
Neat Sims will no longer be furious when told to clean up a waterballon puddle the Neat Sim created.
Sims will no longer autonomously attempt to interact with a computer that is already in use.
Fish, harvested fruits, and vegetables will now go to the owner's inventory on an owned business lot.
Foods will no longer disappear when ordering from the hotel room service.
Graduation Party memory will now appear correctly when Sims have a graduation party.
Sims will no longer pop while fishing.
Medicine created from the "Simsanto Inc. Biotech Station" will now be able to cure sick Sims.
Neat Sims will no longer have the "Lick Clean" interaction.
"Walk to" lot interaction no longer causes Sim’s motives to change abnormally.
"Tinker" interaction is now available on the "Garbage Ninja by Kitchensations", "Big and Brown Dishwasher by Romantic Notions", "You Got Feets Bathtub", "SuperJet Corner Shower by Sleek Sensations", "The Coldinator by Kitchensations", and "Solid Sense Fridge by Romantic Notions".
"Stock" and "Get Leftovers" interactions are now available on "The Coldinator by Kitchensations" and "Solid Sense Fridge by Romantic Notions".
"Compose Contents" is now available to "Garbage Ninja by Kitchensations".
"Red Brick Road Walkway", "Neutral Sand Linoleum", "Latipsoh Green Linoleum", "Square Squares Stone Floor in Large Squares", "Square Squares Stone Floor in Small Squares", "Pristine White Marble", "Blank Slate Flagstone Flooring", "Sid's Cement Flooring", "Light Wine Stone Walkway", "Mixed Slate Stone Flooring", "Irregular Views Grap Stone Flooring", and "Octogreat Teracotta Tile" floor tiles will now appear correctly in game.
Users can now place objects in front of the "Shiny Sewn Curtains".
NPC Maid will now correctly route to available trash compactors.
NPC Maid will now correctly clean the entire lot.
Sims can now call known sales NPC they meet on a community lot.
Sims can now serve “Smart Milk” to toddlers who are sitting in the "High Society High Chair".
Teens no longer have the option to "Birdwatch".
Servo will now exit correctly after swimming in the ocean.
Body temperature no longer increases while Sims go jogging without Seasons installed.
Sims will now autonomously use the "Good Times Changing Table".
Lot information will now correctly display after deleting a family from the Sim bin.
Life Time Want "Reached Golden Anniversary" is now achievable.
Sims will now correctly perform the Hula dance when asked to.

[edit] System/Config issues

ATI 2000 and 3000HD series graphic cards will now display correct pictures when Sims use the computer or TV.
Resolved an issue where some players started their game through the launcher or clicked on the game executable, but never saw the game splash screen on monitor.

[edit] Reviews (not researched)

[edit] External Links

FreeTime on TheSims2.ea.com

[edit] Sources

::Snooty Sims::

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