Reference: Styles by Apple Valley & Ashland Sims

After reading Ashland's post about these awesome style preferences, I wanted a way to refer to it easily from my blog, so I decided to make it a reference post.

Design and Clothing Preferences by Ashland Sims and Apple Valley Blogs

Reference: Taxes

Sims in the Peninsula State pay the following taxes, every year ending in 5 or 0 (every 5 years):

10% on the total of:  Home Value + Bank Balance (except college fund & retirement*) + Cash 

Deductions:
House Credit:  $1000 (and Sims whose home has a negative balance (mortgage), have the amount they still owe deducted from their total tax owed.  Together with deductions, this can cause them to get a refund instead of owe on taxes, see Refunds, below.)
Child Credit:  $1500 (per child)
College Credit:  $1500
Business Credit:  500 for Rank 1 up to 5500 Rank 10
Farm Credit:  $2000
Married/Joined Credit:  $1500 per couple

Exemptions:
Retired sims are tax exempt, but families who live with them are not.
*Up to $30,000  in savings can be considered to be for retirement, which is not taxable.

Refunds:
If deductions are greater than the total owed, the difference is refunded to the family.


Thanks to many other Sims 2 bloggers, most specifically Sullivan, whose numbers I have copied.

Reference: Age Lengths

0-1 Infant

2-3  Toddler

4-12  Child

13-17  Teen

Reference: How to Extract Sims with SimPE

These are just the notes I used when I was learning how to do this.  I followed the tutorial on Mod The Sims Wiki.

SimPE:

Go to TOOLS in the Top Menu.  Choose Neighborhood in the menu

Click Neighborhood Browser

Choose your neighborhood.

Go back up to Tools/Neighborhood

Choose Sim Surgery

Find your Sim.  On the right side choose use under the top square box.

Once you do that, the word Export appears above that same box where your Sims' picture should now be in blue.

Click Export.

Reference: In-Game Portraits with Antique Camera

Need:  OSMPs, Poses, Antique Camera

MoveObjects On; BoolpropSnapObjectstoGrid false; boolprop allow45degreeangleofrotation true

1.  Take pic with OMSPs, etc

2.  Convert to .bmp, copy

3.  Rename one snapshot.bmp, one screenshot.bmp

4.  Take an (irrelevant) in-game picture with the antique camera & press pause.  

5.  Exit game.

6.  Drop files in Storytelling folder

7.  Go back in your game and unpause.

Reference: Advice on Keeping Hood Clean and Easier to Restore

This is information I gathered from a few different places including the Sims Wiki on Mod The Sims, and tutorials on creating clean hoods and extracting sims.  (Notes to self to help me remember).

1.  Don't save with sims on the phone

2.  Use FFS debugger for gossip & memories regularly

3.  Before using any new lot, or before moving sims into a newly renovated residential lot, upload and save to SV All Lots folders

4.  Extract appearance of all sims at main life stages (& replace or rename earlier version)

5.  Use clean installer

6.  Periodically use hood checker

7.  Back up at least every few days (& keep all backups).

Reference: Log of Character File Creation

New hood with two shopping districts, Takemizu, Three Lakes, no uni, it had 274 characters.

3/27/2014:  Added Twikki Island, 289 characters

3/27/2014:  Added Simton University, 387 characters

3/27/2014:  Added 9 playables, 388 characters

3/29/2014:  Finished adding beginning playables; 422 characters (20 playables; 2 adoption pool)

Reference: Mods to Keep Character Files Minimized

Pescado:  no stray respawn, no regen, antiredundancy, no dormie regen, no SS respawn

CJ:  Only One Professor, 

Reference: Saving a new picture for 'hood menu

 Save as .png 300 X 225

Simdale Valley (Golden Creek):  N004_Neighborhood.png

Port Prominence (Chicamoco):   N004_Downtown001.png

Summerton (Bluewater):           N004_Suburb006.png

Ft. Strange (Strangetown):       N004_Suburb007.png

Simton University (Victoriaville):  N004_University001.png

Reference: Hood Numbers (for Stealth Hoods)

P001, Pets

G002, Seasons

V001, Bon Voyage

F002, Free Time

E002, Apartment Life

on 3/25?/2014, installed all but AL and backed up defaults to Maxtor Drive

Reference: Optimal Planting Times

Summer:  Cucumber, Pole Beans, Tomatoes

Spring:  Eggplant, Peppers, Strawberries

Reference: Careers Available by Location

Simdale Valley:

Dog rescue/training

Business owner:  arcade

Business owner:  bookstore

Business owner:  salon

Business owner:  Bakery

Teacher (2)

Journalist (1)

Politician (1)

Artist (clay or paint)

Seamstress

Farmer

Doctor (lower level, Family Practice only)

Corporate Business (upper levels, commute to Port Prominence)

Port Prominence:

Auto Mechanic

Politician

Doctor

Lawyer

Scientist

Natural Scientist

Musician

Entertainer

Show Business

Educator (Higher levels)

Dancer

Athlete

Summerton:

Counseling Psychology

Architecture

Doctor

Lawyer

Educator

Fort Strange:

Military

Paranormal

Doctor

Reference: Build Cheats

boolprop_snapobjectstogrid false

allow45degreeangleofrotation true

constrainfloorelevation true

Advanced wall decoration:  alt + ctrl (to place a second object on the same part of a wall

To move objects up and down on the wall:  press the bracket keys

Reference: My BCON for Inge's ijAgecons Mod

Lines 00 & 1:  baby stage, 1 year (representing 0 to 1)

Lines 2 & 3:  toddler stage, 3 years (representing 1 to 4)

Lines 4 & 5:  Child stage, 9 years (representing 4 to 13)

Lines 6 & 7:  Teen stage, 7 years (representing 13 to 20)

Lines 8 & 9:  Adult stage, 43 years (representing 21 to 65)

Reference: Sign Compatibility

Mutually Compatible
Aries-Taurus

Capricorn-Aquarius

Scorpio-Pisces

Gemini-Pisces

Libra-Virgo

Sign	Good Sign	Good Sign	Bad Sign	Bad Sign
Aquarius	Capricorn	Sagitarius	Scorpio	Virgo
Pisces	Scorpio	Geminin	Leo	Aries
Aries	Gemini	Taurus	Cancer	Libra
Taurus	Aries	Libra	Virgo	Cancer
Gemini	Pisces	Virgo	Capricorn	Aries
Cancer	Taurus	Scorpio	Gemini	Aries
Leo	Sagitarius	Cancer	Capricorn	Gemini
Virgo	Aquarius	Sagitarius	Leo	Taurus
Libra	Virgo	Cancer	Pisces	Scorpio
Scorpio	Pisces	Leo	Libra	Aquarius
Sagitarius	Pisces	Capricorn	Libra	Scorpio
Capricorn	Aquarius	Taurus	Leo	Gemini

Reference: Calendar & Holidays

Spring

Valentine's Day is celebrated on the third day of Spring.  Parents' Day is celebrated on the fifth day, but these are not work or school holidays.

Summer

Children have the summer off from school (thanks to Phaenoh Summer Vacation Winter's Day Package, here.  (Also the fourth day of winter is a holiday from school with this mod).   Parents still have to work during summer, so many kids have to go to "day care" during that time if no one can be home with them.  Also, if kids need to bring up their grades, they can go to school, but the bus does not come.  

Fall

The fourth day of Fall is Thanksgiving.  Usually extended families get together for a feast on this day.  Some families may celebrate this on a weekend if they are not able to get off from work for the day.

Winter

As mentioned above, the fourth day of winter is Winter Holiday.  Some sims celebrate Christmas, Kwanzaa, or Hanukkah on this day, but children do not have to attend school and most sims have a work holiday.