Indeed. I can type everything in upper- or lower-case as the mood strikes me, and the game simply accepts it. But on some systems that is not good enough. Nobody knows if it's the installation language, the processor type or the game version that causes this. We only know that it happens.

So usually, the best advise is to follow exact capitalization of the cheats as provided.

Thank you, SleepycatDSL! Oh, you have beach lots...I often like to look at those. Mostly I'm curious about what hacks are out there, but new neighborhoods are interesting to me too. Much appreciated, and I shall download yours and have a look.


Has anyone figured out why that changes from game to game? I mean...that's rather an odd thing to have vary.
Edit: Thanks to BO for answering the question before I'd asked it, lol.

My UC game accepts all lowercase for all stuff you put in the box that pops up when Ctrl-C is used (except household names, I suppose...well, actually, I don't know, because I've never not capitalized those properly), and when I first understood that not everyone's does, I appreciated it for that. As I recall, my up-through-OFB game did the same.

ETA:

Though if there's a mod to simulate that, I don't care to know about it. (Thanks for the laugh, Charity!)

My game has always accepted a properly-spelled command no matter how I typed it in terms of upper-case and lower-case letters (including household names, since I use "familyfunds" often), no matter the EP/SP configuration I run or the machine I've had it installed on. (Which is...um...6 machines to date, I think? All with different hardware/processors, some laptops, some desktops, and one very underpowered netbook. ) So, if I had to guess, I would say it has something to do with the game itself, possibly your base game version? In my case, except for the first install, which was Double Deluxe that I downloaded from EA back before Origin was a thing, I've always used my daughter's Deluxe disc as my "base." Aside from Nightlife, all the EPs/SPs over the years have been installed from various stand-alone games as well as collection packs. (I had several SPs -- and M&G -- via the Fun with Pets and...um, Best of Business, I think it was, collection packs for a while.) So, the only (more or less) constant for me has been that Deluxe disc. (And the Apartment Life disc I bought, but I didn't buy that until...2011? I'd been playing for a few years before that, and I could type cheats however I wanted before I got that.)

Perhaps it has something to do with the language the game runs in? That Deluxe disc of my daughter's is a UK one that she bought on eBay back in the Dark Ages. So, my game is in UK English.

Interesting, thank you, iCad! (And now I will try lowercasing household names as well when using FamilyFunds.)

Well, if we're trying to establish a pattern, my original game, before I had the UC, was on a US basegame-only disc, no pack. The three expansions I got were also US versions (heh, and I remember that I installed them while painstakingly following the order in which I had found they were released, because I'd just come to understand that might help. I remember thinking then that this game seemed very high maintenance. I didn't know the half of it!)

If you are lazy, like me, and you don't want to type it out yourself, there is this wiki article on lot zoning to everything except apartments, which can instead be found in this article.
EDIT: I guess hotels is not in the first article either. Never tried building one so no idea how that works.

As for the caps or not - I believe it is something in the individual configuration of a pc, rather than the game version or just the system. I have UC, I have Windows 10, UK English and I have a quite good pc - but it wants upper case for some (not all) cheats. Some of them will not work without caps, it is not about the spelling. So I just go along and do it that way. The main thing, imo, is that some players need to use caps and others do not, and if cheats do not work without caps, then they may work with them.

They're pretty easy, work much like building apartments. Except that with hotels, you build them as a community lot first (as opposed to building them as residential first, as you do with apartments), making sure you use the hotel room doors for each hotel room and that you have a check-in desk somewhere. When you have everything the way you want it, you change the zoning to "hotel."

ETA, to add to the capital letters discussion: Although once in-game, I can type cheat/commands with or without capital letters with impunity, in my userstartup thing, I have to use the caps in the right places or it doesn't work. So...I dunno. You'd think this would be something that would "improve" with time in that the game would get "smarter" as time goes on, but since Justpetro has the UC (and I don't), that's apparently not the case. Is a puzzlement, as the King of Siam says. It'd be nice to be able to figure it out, but we probably never will.

You're welcome. The beach lots are flat. While I have shared a few mods, they were just edited versions of other peoples.

Thank you so much iCad & JustPetro! I'll give that a try

How do I make townies playable? I have two townies who are really into each other and I'd like to get them a house and start a family. How does that work?

within game Adults & older can be made playable through non-cheat/non-hack ways. Move-In and/or Marry/Join.
Teens & younger; the testingcheatsenabled cheat or either insimenator or its equivalents.
do not know yet about Young Adults.


a question of my own::
how likely would it be for a service NPC to die from any base game death (while on duty)? just wondering.
flies I would guess would be the easiest; fire I would guess would come second.

The teleporter is probably the easiest - teleport them over, move them in, tell them to Find Own Place.

Mootilda walked me through a method that allowed me to put Crystal Vu directly into the Family Bin to move into her own house; but it was a little complicated and I screwed it up once. It involves SimPE. If you really want me to I can probably dig up the notes or find the place (in this very thread?) where she told me how to do it. But the teleporter is simpler.

I'll try the teleporter. Seems least likely to cause issues. So I just need a 3rd party Sim to move one of them in and then they can propose to the other townie?

Cat statue does all that, and is safe (and verry pretty) to use.
http://www.simlogical.com/sl/Sims2P...Teleporters.htm

I would have 2 ways of doing this..
1- One of my own sims could try befriending one of the townie. Once done, my sim could ask to move in. Townie would accept, become playable, and could find own place.
Once in the bin, i would play ex-townie, and wait for that other one to pass by..or else, and then..BOOM...just with normal gameplay.

2- I would use the cat statue to teleport 1 or both. I would then move them in, using cat statue again. Once moved in...send them to the bin with find own place.

That looks useful! If I have UC, do I download the Apartments version or Free time?
Sorry, I am full of random dumb questions today!

I only have ALL the individual packs..and Store Edition. What's in UC exactly?...I will let someone else answer you.
And i see nothing dumb in all your wonderings.

Apartment Life - it came after Freetime, and with the UC you should always download the most recently updated option.

How much does standing someone up for a date effect the relationship?

My sim 'stood his date up' even though he was just about to get into the taxi when I got the pop up message.....so I invited her again once he got to the community lot. I had him propose twice and she denied both times!

By the way, has anyone ever had a "jilted at the altar" situation? I haven't, but I'd like to know if it can be triggered, and how...

Long term needs to be 70 or below and he/she will leave just like Don does to Cassy.




Its a big hit and you need to repair the relationship before you try to propose.

@FranH: Yeah, start a new game in Pleasantview, go into the Goth household, select Cassandra, click the Wedding arch, and choose to get married. In the last possible moment Don will back out, causing the "Left at the alter" memory for Cassie. It will take a while for her to forgive him, if ever!

Oh, that one I know of, and it's the only instance where it occurs in the game in a scenario..I was wondering if anyone has had it besides the 'canon' one.
Although it is a singularly depressing one-Cassie will go into spectacular aspiration failure, and she doesn't forgive him at all for years and years.

It's not an actual scenario, they are simply set up for him to leave due to the relationship points, but he doesn't have to. If the relationship goes up perhaps because they chatted on a community lot while you played another family or they made out before the wedding arch is clicked he may not.

When I recently had started playing Sims 2 my sim left Komei Tellerman at the altar because she needed to go the bathroom.

In the Dutch Pleasantview (at least in Tarlia's cleaned Pleasantview), the notice you get when you first time open the Goth house, it says something about a romantic interaction between Cassandra and Don Lothario to get them married. That made them marry in the Pleasantview where I first let her get pregnant by Don, and the Pleasantview were they first had some romantic interaction at Don's house.