Can expansion discs access other expansions I have a weird question, I hope this doesn't make me sound like a newbie because I have been playing Sims for years. Now, I know you can't use The Sims 2 disc when you have an expansion, but can you access other expansions with another expansion pack. Like for instance, if you use the Nightlife disc can use access University stuff or vice versa. I am curious about this. Don't pick at me too bad. Please be gentle.
I think I understand. The game has to run from the disc of the last expansion you installed, but all previous expansions that have been installed are still available. The issue of needing the disc in the drive is a copyright protection thing to stop you buying the disc, installing it and then selling it on eBay
You can use all of the stuff you've got installed as part of the game, so if you've got university and NL you can use both at the same time, for example, your university students can go on dates downtown. Is that what you were wondering about?
Yeah, I was wondering about that. Because I knew you could do that with the Sims. But in the first sims, you could use the The Sims game disc and play with the other expansions. I learn you couldn't do that in The Sims 2. I was wondering why because that would have been awesome not have to use the expansion disc.
Not sure what difference that makes. A disk is a disk is a disk, unless you were hoping to share with a friend, which is the whole reason for the "you need to use the expansion disk" thing.
<rant> While I understand the need for Maxis to practice loss prevention I also believe that they tend to go overboard. My whole family plays Sims2, often simultaniously, and it really galls me to pay for multiple copies of every EP. Especially so when one family member ends up not liking the new EP and wants to go back to a previous install. The "one cpu one licence" practice was established for business software. Up until recently game software was released with the silent understanding that you were purchasing a "family licence". I'm sure that if Maxis put their minds to it, they could figure out a way to protect their copyright while allowing say 5 or less users in the same home to play at the same time without having to pay for 5 copies of each cd. </rant>
LOL WereBear, I hear your argument ... but then there's another side to it. A family that afford 5 computers, all suitable for playing TS2, can easily afford the $100 a time for an EP disc for each puter. And if not, then maybe they spent too much of their resources on the hardware. I think that it's high time the idustry came up with a more robust system of copyright protection that not only works for the industry, to protect its valuable assets, but also for the end-user as well by not making our lives a misery. I spent weeks trying to get Civ4 working and that turned out to be a copyright protection issue in the end ... it was only when I actually went searching for a NO CD crack that I found the legal answer ... go figure
All of our computers are frankenstiened from spare parts after upgrades, and my computer has a lot in common with "grandad's axe" so the hardware expense is spread out over time. Of course it would be cheaper if I didn't have to install 5 new video cards to be able to run each new EP.
LOL Would Grandad's axe have anything in common with Trigger's broom (ten staves and fourteen heads ... but it's still the "same" broom) My puter's like that as well. I tend to shudder like a sim who's just seen the ultimate turn-off whenever I see a supermarket "special" PC piled up and cluttering up a perfectly good aisle
