The Sims 2 Bon Voyage
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| Release date: | Windows: (NA)Sept. 4th, 2007 |
| Price: | $Not Researched |
| Sub-Genre: | Vacation |
| Race: | Bigfoot |
| Rating: | Teen |
| Platform(s): | PC Only |
The Sims 2 Bon Voyage was announced by TheSims2.ea.com on Thursday May 24th 2007.
Whisk your Sims away from their everyday routines and take them on exciting trips to three exotic locations! Whether relaxing on a lush tropical island in a luxury suite, camping with the family on a pristine mountaintop, or exploring the culture of the Far East, your Sims will enjoy new activities to relax and rejuvenate them. Transform them from bumbling tourists to savvy international travellers as they learn new customs including local greetings, dances, and more to take home and teach to their friends. Send your Sims packing for the trip of a lifetime!
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[edit] Loading Sequence
- (Main article Loading Sequences)
As in all EPs, and many SPs, Bon Voyage's Loading sequence features a scrolling marquee announcing what the game is "doing":
- Readying Relax Receptors
- Predicting Pagoda Peaks
- Originating Oceanic Currents
- Faceting Precious Gems
- Preparing Vacation Days
- Spawning Sights to See
- Reticulating Ninja Splines
- Analyzing Axe Trajectories
- Training Tour Guides
[edit] Info
[edit] Travel to Three Dream Destinations
Each location offers unique landscapes and local residents, such as the Fire Dancer and Ninja, for your Sims to meet and learn from. Try local cuisine and admire cultural landmarks as your Sims explore these new locales.
[edit] Send Your Sims on Tours
Glass bottom boat rides, adventurous van tours, and other excursions are fun new activities for your Sims, but there may be some surprises in store!
[edit] Buy or Find Unique Items
Shop for unique objects found only on your Sims' travels, including rare jewellery they can wear or take home as gifts. Stumble upon hidden locations, collect shells on the beach, or dig up treasure.
[edit] Stay at New Travel Accommodations
Splurge on the luxury suite for your Sims or save Simoleons and choose a more cosy lodging. Your Sims will enjoy the comfort of room service, get pampered at the spa, and more.
[edit] Starting a vacation
To start a vacation, simply use the telephone or computer. The "Trip Planner" screen will open where you can choose the duration of the holiday, the maximum is 7 days, when and who is going and choose between 3 different price ranges. Note that you can also invite friends which then will travel with you. When you arive, you can choose a hotel room or buy a vacation house. You recieve a tourist guide with things to do.
[edit] During the vacation
New kinds of Talent Badges have been added. For example if you learned to hula dance, this badge will be filled in. You will be able to excavate and have the possibility of finding a map that will take you to a hidden treasure. Souvenirs, either bought or found can be taken home to display there (or just sell them). Jewellery can be worn or used as a gift.
[edit] NPCs
| NPC | Where it's found | What it does |
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| Bellboy | Any travel destination | Shows you your hotel room. |
| Ninja | Anywhere in the Far East | (If you answer his questions correctly) Teaches you the art of teleportation. (this can be self-taiught in other ways) |
| Wise old hermit (same as Wise Old Man?) | This man will give good or bad advice to you. | |
| Wise Old Man | The secret lot of the Far East | (If you can predict and do what he wants without him telling you what it is he wants) Teaches you the Dragon Legend |
| Bigfoot (the monster that comes with Bon Voyage) | It will appear if your Sim is lost in new areas you are unlocking. | You can take it home with you and it will grow and die. It likes to dance and can take care of the kids. |
[edit] Sims
Sims can have piercings, rings, necklaces and bracelets and you can even choose on which side you want it. All Sims ages can go on vacation except for babies. Pregnant Sims can go on vacation but don't give birth during the vacation.
[edit] Activities
- You can sunbathe but you can be burned so don't forget the suncream.
- The Sims will be able to enjoy three types of massages, and they will be able to learn to do them.
- There is a helicopter tour however they can have a helicopter accident.
- Sims can do games like axe-throwing and there is a tree trunk where Sims can make romantic inscriptions.
- You can learn 4 types of dances: Hula-hula, the fire dance, tai-chi and the dance of the mountains.
- The beach comes with real waves and Sims can swim in the water. You can build sandcastles and look for shells.
[edit] Misc
- Even if you have OFB, you cannot run a hotel
- You can unlock new building options (like the Asian roofs) by visiting the vacation resorts.
- There are several new types of flooring.
- You can change rooms/hotels during the vacation.
- A good or bad holiday will affect their family life and career.
[edit] Pirate ship
It's one huge object where Sims can climb and play in. The boat has a ghost and you need to make him laugh; curing his torment. Then it will teach you a song with the accordion and you will be able to teach it your friends.
[edit] Vacation home
You can send your sims on a vacation, but if you do, and your sim spends a lot of time outside, you must be carefull, because he/she might get sunburned (unfortunately, you cannot put sun cream on your sim, for there is no such thing on The Sims 2). If your sim does, however, get sunburned, there is nothing you can do for them except making sure that they sleep and take baths, for being sure getting plenty of rest will help your sim recover a lot faster.
[edit] Bug
When the product was launched it contained a serious bug. From the user's persepctive the game will seem to run correctly at first. After a while he or she will experience progressively increasing loading times until system limitations made it impossible to run the game.
The problem is that every time the player enters a business or vacation lot an NPC spawns and a character file is created. This results in incresing amount of characer files that will slow down the game until it can no longer run.
The bug is thus insidious and the problem created is so far irrecoverable with anything less than a complete reinstallment, completely resetting the game and resulting in the total loss of all progress thus far. Destroying the extra character files is no solution since it is likely to cause the program to refer to files that no longer exists.
The bug has now been rectified by an official Maxis patch, and it is recommended that all users of Bon Voyage install this.
[edit] ReadMe
- Main article: ReadMe's
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The Sims(TM) 2 Bon Voyage Expansion Pack Readme document http://www.TheSims2.com Electronic Arts Version 1.0 07/16/07 (c) 2007 Electronic Arts, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Table of Contents ----------------- General Installation Warnings for The Sims 2 Bon Voyage Expansion Pack Installation System Requirements Backing Up Your User Data New to The Sims 2 Bon Voyage Expansion Pack: -Destinations -Vacation Time -Creating a Vacation Destination -Jewelry Performance Tips Known Issues -Windows Vista Issues -Video Card Issues Windowed Mode -Other Command Line Options Cheats Video Capturing -Camera Settings Web Content Custom Content -Custom Neighborhoods Using SimCity(TM) 4 Terrain -Custom Neighborhood Picture The Sims 2 Body Shop
[edit] Media
[edit] Videos
 Preview Advertisement |
 Producer Walkthrough |
 "Music Video" |
[edit] Artwork
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Screenshots
 This is the first image we have, showing the new features, like vacation travels to far east places! (presumably mountains) |
 This is the second image we have, showing the beach! |
 The third image shows us the mountain locations! |
 The fourth image shows a workout, hmm... what's so 'Bon Voyage' about this?! |
 The fifth image is also a mountainous location. |
 The sixth image looks like a Tiki island, do you think Season's Tiki stuff was a hint? |
 The seventh image shows a hotel reception, looks great! |
 The eighth image shows a tropical island with some hotels in the foreground. |
 The ninth image shows camping and talking around a camp fire. Notice the new speech bubble icon and backpacks on two of the Adult Sim shoulders. |
 The tenth image shows a family checking into a hotel. |
 The eleventh image shows people swimming in the sea. |
 The twelfth image shows a scene from the Far East, it looks like a market. |
 The thirteenth image shows some of the souvenirs you can now get! |
 The fourteenth image is another Far East scene. |
 The fifteenth image shows tourists on the beach front. |
 The sixteenth image shows children roasting marshmallows on the bonfire and adults talking around it. |
[edit] Noticed Glitches
Strikethrough (Glitch) indicates glitch was fixed.
[edit] Lag-related
Game will preform unusually slow while:
- Saving This glitch was reported by Supuhstar.
- Loading game This glitch was reported by Supuhstar.
- Building/Placing:
- Pools This glitch was reported by Supuhstar.
- Foundations This glitch was reported by Supuhstar.
- Floortiles This glitch was reported by Supuhstar.
- Connecting pillars (arches) This glitch was reported by Supuhstar.
- Only certain ones (see a picture of this glitch) This glitch was reported by Supuhstar.
[edit] Other
- When a mini fridge is under a counter, next to a corner, the corner will not function correctly. (see a collage displaying this glitch) This glitch was reported by Supuhstar.
- Under certain, currently unknown, circumstances, you will lose all control of your sims until the game is saved. This glitch was reported by Supuhstar.
- (believed to be related to glitch 2) Under certain, currently unknown, circumstances, the hostes at hotel restaurants will not pay attention to sims waiting to be seated. Instead, she will talk on the phone on her podium. This glitch was reported by Supuhstar.
The sink in the hotel restaurant's kitchen will break unusually frequently (sometimes thrice a day). This glitch was reported by Supuhstar.Sims have water balloon fightsand pillow fightsway too often, and even in community lots. This glitch was reported by Supuhstar.- Connecting pillars (arches) don't connect properly. This glitch was reported by Supuhstar.
- Only certain ones (see a picture of this glitch) This glitch was reported by Supuhstar.
[edit] Bugfixes
Complete list of changes instated by patch released on The Sims 2 Official Website:
Note: Not all fixes will take effect on existing The Sims 2 Bon Voyage saved games. If you have an existing lot, Sim, object or neighborhood that does not seem to be improved by this patch, we recommend that you replace the affected object, or create either a new family, lot or neighborhood, depending on what is affected by the bug.
- Sims will no longer have the option to call vacation service NPCs after acquiring the business perk "Head for Numbers" which was causing a crash.
- Sims will no longer have the option to "Call Taxi" using their cell phones if they have driven to the community lot with an own-able vehicle which was causing a crash.
- If the Sim misses the shuttle, it will no longer return to a vacation lot without the Sim at the end of the vacation. Sometimes, this caused the vacation lot to become unusable.
- Game will no longer create new vacation NPCs each time a lot is visited which was causing many issues due to character file overload. Any existing extra NPCs will be unlinked and their character files greatly reduced in size.
- Periodic Events Controller will no longer loop twice per hour through each neighbor which was causing extreme lag on certain machines.
- Autonomous water-balloon and snowball fights have been tuned so the interaction will occur less frequently.
- Housekeeper no longer repeatedly spawns.
- Children will no longer go on a vacation alone if their parent dies before van arrives.
- Riverblossomhills townies will no longer be invisible when The Sims 2 Seasons is uninstalled.
- Sims no longer pop out of hammock when WooHoo is rejected.
- Sims no longer get stuck during logrolling when trying to exit while another is entering.
- Children can now drink served juice.
- Undo and Redo can now be used on ClubCubes.
- Vacation guests no longer leave when a party at a vacation home ends.
- Locals now change back into native outfits after exiting water.
- Housekeeper now fills holes and fixes broken objects.
- Housekeeper now repairs servo.
- Sims no longer fall in love while chatting in a tent.
- Sim can now repair stereos.
- Pets no longer show platinum mood in thumbnail background.
- Bigfoot can no longer change appearance on the vanity table.
- Hotels no longer become Community lots after being visited by a Young Adult.
- Make Furry Friend vacation memento is now achieved by making friends with Big Foot.
- Souvenirs only restock when Sim has them in inventory.
- Sledgehammer Tool can no longer be used on Hotels by pressing "J".
- Sim no longer wants to learn a massage if they have already been learned. (This is correct: this is how it is on the Official Website)
- Polish Only: Fixed issue with hotel room pricing.
- You can now queue up multiple Dig For Treasure interactions.
- When clicking "Ready to Play" the Launcher now launches first.
- Sims can now be added to a group when "Walk To…" interaction is canceled and re-queued.
- Sims no longer become stuck in vehicle when transitioning from a Secret Lot to a Vacation Home.
- Customers reject a massage if the purchase price is set too high.
- Bigfoot can no longer be asked to go on Group Outing.
- Fire Dancer Mat and Food Stands cannot be placed in a Sim's inventory.
- Seating can now be removed from the Food Stands.
- Fire dancer mat cannot be set for sale.
- Having the Business Perks interface open when the vacation loading screen begins will no longer cause the game to freeze.
- Young Adults who are staying at a vacation home no longer have the option to Get Married or Move In another Sim.
- Sims can no longer assign others to be a masseuse.
