For example, the cheapest bed in The Sims 2, which costs three hundred "simoleons," brings your Sim one point of comfort and two points of energy; a three-thousand-simoleon bed carries seven points of comfort and six of energy.
Typing "motherlode" into The Sims 2, for example, endows your Sims with fifty thousand simoleons.
Every house in the game is a meeting place, and every homeowner will try to lure you with various activities, most of which will earn you simoleons, the Sims equivalent of money, or increase your simoleon-making skills.
The game gives you 10,000 simoleons to get going, but I hardly needed it.
I came across one home devoted to erotica, where a girl named Tanea offered to have sex with me for 100 simoleons.
"The Walkaway" is ultimately headed for the same quarry where it began, as the search for the stolen simoleons picks up steam.
We filled two theaters and were told by the trainer Jenine Sahadi that we had ponied up 50,000 simoleons for laid-up jockeys, exercise riders and equine research.
For instance, for most players the most economically efficient way to power their virtual cities may be with coal plants, which produce 500 units of electricity and cost 3,000 simoleons, the game's currency, to build.
(A nuclear plant costs a whopping 30,000 simoleons, produces 1,500 units of power and zero emissions, but reduces the happiness of nearby citizens nonetheless).
On the other hand, a solar farm in the game has no negative side effects and also costs 3,000 simoleons but produces only 100 units of electricity, a mere fifth of the coal plant's output.
"Even if your Sims have a lot of Simoleons in the bank, they are not as happy as they could be," the manual says.
