posted by Buddha Paul (Admin) on Oct 31

 Merge Merge Merge

Well, we survived merge-mania and now we’re all just kind of laying-low waiting for it to happen.  I know many of you are very discouraged and at times even bored right now.  It’s really hard to keep motivated knowing there will be a huge change in the not-so-distant future.  A few tips that I hope help…

Skill Skill Skill

We may be losing our money, but we won’t be losing our skills.  Rumor has it that we may even have more skilling options down the road.  Now is a great time to maximize your skills as far as you can take them.  My strategy is to have each of my sims max out at least one skill in hopes that it will be my future source of income.  (in-game that is!)

Friends Friends Friends

Post merge we’ll essentially be in one gigantic city.  Now is  a great time to rekindle those old relationships as well as seek out some new friends.  Once the merge comes to fruition, teamwork will become very important.  Don’t just learn about your friends socially.  Learn what there skills are.. .are they a potential pizza or code partner?  What type of house do they run? 

Build Build Build

If you have any homeless sims why not give them a big old property and house?  We can’t take our money with us but it appears our property and posentions will move.  Even if you have a sim in a city you don’t frequent you should do this! 

We won’t be able to sell-back anything after the merge so don’t just stock up on expensive items, put together a functional house of your chosen category.

Comment Comment Comment

Anymore tips and suggestions?  Comment away!  We’ve been getting tons of new registered users here lately so I know the game is not dead.  I think the most exciting days are yet to come and we should all be excited to be at ground zero of this new sim revolution. 

posted by Buddha Paul (Admin) on Oct 21

Halloween Party at The Hangout

October 26, 27th starting at 21:00 GMT until whenever each day!

posted by Buddha Paul (Admin) on Oct 18

Jess, Mana, Maggs, Marie and Buddha Paul walking on water! 

Want to learn a new trick?  Visit Jess’ house The Hangout in Mount Fuji and have roomie Maggs teach you how to dance ON WATER!!  Sync dancing lessons available too!  Come join the fun!!!

posted by Buddha Paul (Admin) on Oct 18

C:\Program Files\Maxis\The Sims Online\TSOPatch\TSO.exe

This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem

If you get this error after a Sims Online update that occured on 10/17/07 then the solution is to down the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86) which installs runtime components of Visual C++ Libraries required to run applications developed with Visual C++ on a computer that does not have Visual C++ 2005 installed. (Something that the patch itself should have installed).

You can download this file from Microsoft.  Installation is painless.

posted by Buddha Paul (Admin) on Oct 14

posted by Larin Masterson (Author) on Oct 11

I am sorry to report that the wedding of Larin and Emma will be postponed…As we havent been online enough to set a time…lol…But it is all good as this will give us a longer engagment as is proper…;)…when a new date and time is set I’ll let y’all know.

L

posted by Paulina (Admin) on Oct 9

OK, with Halloween fast approaching and anyone with little ones having already ” Costume Issues” and the Halloween Candy being promoted since forever..lol, I thought we could talk about the scariest thing ever that happened to you on Halloween.

Being born and raised in Germany, we did not have Halloween.  We have ” Fasching” which starts on Nov. 11th and ends on Ash Wednesday and is like Mardi Gras or the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro.  So I actually did not get introduced to Halloween till I met my ex-husband.

Needless to say, I remember watching Poltergeist and Nightmare on Elm Street for the  first time with friends and it scared the daylights out of me.  Especially the second Poltergeist with the old Preacher , he just gave me the greeps. I mean Freddie looked good at that point..lol.  But to make it worse, our friends thought it was so funny, they actually found a person that looked like that and introduced me one night to that person.  I will never forget that moment, he had his back turned to me and as I said hi he turned around and I jumped about 5 feet in the air, and let out this horrible scream.  Our friends thought it was hilarious and had the time of their lives with it, but I had the heebee jeebees all night.

The guy actually felt bad and apologized, but I still could not get over it.  To this day I am not able to watch that Poltergeist movie because of it.

So let’s hear some of your stories or moments.  Let’s get spooky…

posted by Buddha Paul (Admin) on Oct 6

EA Land - Test Centers - Real Money - and Crap

I was totally shocked the other night to come across an old time player in Interhogen that had no idea what was going on with the future of TSO. So, just as an additional method of spreading the news.. here’s a link to a great FAQ on the merge that consolodates evertying quite nicely and from a reliable source.

Once you go through the official accounting of what will be happening, I’d love to hear what if anything , you are doing in preperation for this merge?

Since we will not be bringing our money with us, it seems the hardest thing to do in EA Land to get started is creating a lot.  So I have made sure that all my homeless sims now have their own lots that serve some sort of  function that will benefit my little simmy family, like a skill lot that will let my own sims achieve their goals and a store lot that will hopefully allow me to sell wholesale to my friends and family. 

I imagine many have already thought of this strategy and once the merge starts falling into place, we’ll see an overabundance of general skill and money lots.  So if you’re ultimate goal is to run the busiest and most popular lot you may want to think of what niche you want to specialize in.

 I’d really love to hear your thoughts.

And PLEASE - I know this is a very sensitive topic and many of you (including myself) have some very strong opinions.  Let’s leave the complaining over on the stratics board and here we can just deal with it as just something we’re going to have to live with.    If you’re of the mindset to get all upset and threaten vocally to leave the game, please.. just leave.. don’t let it hit you on the way out.

CLICK HERE FOR OFFICIAL NEWS

posted by Buddha Paul (Admin) on Oct 4