Maxis did not cheat for the puppy scene. I counted and there is 5 or 6 dogs/puppies in the scene. Out of reviews I read that the new limit was 12 but maxis might change it to 10 depending on the difficulty level. There will be a cheat to change the limits though. For the limits its still 8 sims and for the pets its a limit of 6.

EDIT : Whoops I noticed someone wrote the same above. Sorry !

Hope I helped,
Matt

I don't like that the Pets row is on the same side as the Sims, I think that side is already to cluttered. I hope that's not what it'll look like in the final product. I'd like the Pets to have their own Live Mode thingy, like so:



Enjoy my amazing artistic skills

Hey.. nice art skills! Yeah.. that would be better!

(wow... i come back to the thread I started 2 days later and find its 3 pages long...)

The only probelm with that is to go into the pets you are switching out of the sims live mode, how would that work? And than you would have to be switching back and forth between the two to keep checking the needs, wants and what not.

Hm... good point lol I do that alot (think of an idea, and look past something like that :P)

It was a great drawing though! :D

I suppose the only way to avoid all the flicking is have a small family with a small ampount of pets. Get used to that, then build upto having however many pets you want! From what I'vce gathered, there will be a limit of 10 pets and 8 sims individually, but you cannot have more than 14 characters in total. E.g 8 sims 6 pets. I might have the numbers wrong and their subject to change too

Have they come out with a new total # then? On that live chat thing I think they said the max # was 12. But don't quote me. And that is fine with me, I'm still getting the hang of having a bunch of sims on the lot, I don't need a bunch of animals too. :p

I actually thought the maximum was just 8 Sims and 6 pets.

i think its is like you can have 8 sims max and 6 pets max but th etotal number of sims AND pets is max out at 12 (or at least at this time they didnt say 100% sure it would be 12)
but i think it would be cool if you could have 12 total with just 1 sims and 11 pets (i really want a crazy cat lady =p)

During the chat, Maxis said it was 8 sims and 6 pets. (I think) :p

~Kitty

as dizzysim stated it is 8 sims, 6 pets max of 12 might be lowered
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Normally im not too interested in the EP. The plain sims 2 will just do me fine. But i do have to say that i am a little excited about Pets! Especially after i just read that it will have guinea pigs!! I have two at home Salt and Pepper.

How many of you are pre-ordering?

If I find somewhere that won't gip me, I'm preordering.