Sims 2 Store Items List

[Kassim Sin]

Thisis a list of items available for purchase from Strangetown Store in The Sims 2. This list comprises all things which can be purchased throughout gameplay including one-time purchases from the store. This list is divided into types of objects in order to make navigation easier. Where applicable, items are organized by standard range in alphabetical order and then deluxe range in alphabetical order.

Items in SimCity BuildIt can be categorized by their use. New Mayors first produce raw materials in industrial buildings, also known as a factory. These materials are used to produce items in commercial buildings, or stores. Special items cannot be produced but are obtained through general gameplay, performing certain actions, or participating in specific content.

Manufactured items are used to upgrade residential zones, craft higher value items in commercial buildings, complete business deals for currency or sold in Global Trade HQ for simoleons, deliver in cargo dock shipments to earn Golden Keys or airport shipments to earn special residential items, start disasters, and to complete quests to earn special items.

Popping Sim opinion bubbles has a chance to get a random item, including special items when content is unlocked through city level, population, or buildings. As city level increases, commercial buildings become available for upgrade, increasing their production speed. Some items require upgrading commercial buildings before making it. Note that the Global Trade HQ displays items advertised if those items are unlocked, the locked items will not appear in another city's trade.

Raw materials are needed for producing higher value items using commercial buildings but require more time to manufacture. They can be created at the same time in factories, unlike commercial buildings. Depending on the factory, between two and five items per factory can be produced simultaneously.

See also: List of industrial buildings in SimCity BuildIt

Regional factories produce a unique item used for upgrading that region's residential buildings and for crafting regional commercial items. There are five different factories, one unlocked per region. Each factory has five production slots and requires city level 25 and 15,000 simoleons to bulid.

The following tables display an item's overall profit, factoring in cost of all materials. Profit per Min column does not factor in production times of all previous materials, this column applies for materials already owned.

A third tier of items, called special items, are used to upgrade the city storage, expand the city's area, contribute to Club Wars or starting Disasters. Special items are not manufactured but are earned by popping Sims' opinion bubbles and through rewards like completing City Journal tasks, Mayor's Pass Contest Assignments, or by watching optional video ads for a random reward. They can also be purchased in the Global Trade HQ, Daniel's city, or in the NeoMall.

Materials can be produced simultaneously, so the minimum time to produce materials needed for an item is the time it takes to produce slowest-producing material (e.g. to produce Cement it takes 120min to produce Chemicals, the required Minerals will have been produced at the same time).

I recently installed the Sims 3 on my new PC after a 7-year hiatus from the game. Back in the day I had the Sims 3, along with a handful of expansion packs and purchased Sims 3 Store content, installed on a laptop and put HOURS into the same. Now that I have a PC capable of handling the Sims 3 and all of the added content, I decided to install the Sims 3 once again for nostalgic purposes.

When I launched the game and began playing with a new household, I realized some of the content that I had purchased YEARS ago via Sims 3 Store was not in the game (some CAS items like hair styles and clothing, Build/Buy objects, and some other misc. stuff). I went to the Sims 3 Store to view my purchase history and billing history. The purchase history contained most of the missing content - which I then downloaded and installed into the Sims 3 game successfully. Interestingly the billing history page was blank - suggesting that I have no billing history, which is strange given there are purchased items in my purchase history.

Anyway, the issues is that some but not all of my purchases showed up in my purchase history. I KNOW for a fact I had several other sets and stuff that I purchased from the Sims 3 store back in the day that are no longer among the list of items in my purchase history - including:

Obviously these things did not resolve the issue because the problem is with the Sims 3 Store and not the game nor origin. I did not purchase these things through origin. They were purchased through the Sims 3 Store: - a concept that customer support could not comprehend, because they told me to keep re-installing the game and clearing my Origin cache until my items showed up. The thing is, these items are not showing up in my game because they are no longer purchased items on my account. I need real help to get these items back, and not some waste-of-time generic troubleshooting tips. The customer service rep basically told me that if re-installing the game didn't fix it, I'm SOL. NICE error handling, EA !

I had to scour the Sims 3 store to find the items that were not appearing in my purchase history. I found the item pages on the store and noticed the prompt said "Download" rather than "Buy Now". So even though these items did not appear in my history, I was still able to download them. Unfortunately, this is an exhaustive method. I had to go through literally every store page, looking for items I recognized. I noticed some of my items were one-off items from a pack, which required me to visit the store page for that item instead of the page for the pack that was it was apart of. Using this method, I believe that I have finally identified all of the items that I purchased from the store. If this method works for you, I highly recommend bookmarking the store pages for your items because they will not appear in your history, even after downloading.

This brings me to my next discovery: the Sims 3 launcher will not recognize your purchased items after you launch the game and close out of it. The items show up in the launcher downloads page, but they won't be installed. Trying to install them again from the launcher won't work, and I noticed that if you try to re-download the items from the store and install them, it just created a second instance of that same item, which exasperates the issues. Uninstalling/reinstalling the game isn't enough. Apparently, this is a known issue with the Sims 3 launcher, and because it is no longer supported, it isn't a bug that will ever be addressed. There is a method that I found online that works 99% of the time, but unfortunately, I have to do this every single time I want to play the sims 3.

I hope this helps everyone. It's so unfortunate that this software has been completely abandoned by the Sims team.. they really dropped the ball with supporting the integrity of their customers purchases. Hopefully they make better choices in the future.

@BakedBrii If you check your order history on ea.com, you may find placeholder entries for the missing purchases. It's difficult to tell what each purchase is from the info there, but the entries do list the points you've spent. For example, my most recent "purchase" used 45 SimPoints to complete a set, and the info looks like this:

If you go back far enough, you should find all of your purchases, and it's possible you'll be able to match the cost in points to each set. With that and the order number, you may be able to explain the issue to a support rep and get some help. I've personally had a range of experiences with support, ranging from having to explain a store issue over and over to finding someone who knew what they were looking at and was ready to fix it before I'd finished typing, so if you're not getting anywhere with a support rep, it's worth trying again later.

UPDATE: Looked through my order history on Origin and it doesn't display any orders placed before August 2013. I know I have orders placed before then because I purchased The Sims 3 prior to August 2013. I will have to keep digging to see if I can find something else to prove I have other purchases.

@debraacts What content are you missing that you paid for? If you refresh the store page a few times, does the content show as owned? Please check both your purchase history (Store > My Store Account > Purchase History) and the items' product pages.

I too had almost every add on and expansion. For some reason I lost access to my old email address. I updated all to a new address. I found this problem because the Army movers misplaced half of my games. I recalled they were on the app to install though I bought them at a store and disk loaded them. For years all was good. Now I have nothing. I did load by disk what I can find. But the real fun was all my add ons. How can I re claim it all?

@mustangschelle Are you saying your expansions and stuff packs were previously available on your EA account, but you lost access to the email associated with the account, and therefore the account itself? If so, then the only move here is to regain access to the old account. There's no way to move your purchases from the old account to the new one; that goes for expansion and stuff packs as well as Store content.

If you think you can prove ownership of the old EA account, you can contact support and go through the account recovery process. I would strongly recommend using live chat rather than email; if you don't see the option, choose a different category of issue. And you can also access support without signing in if you use the "can't login" category (or similar), so try that if nothing else works.

@mustangschelle You're referring to the Sims 3 Store. Can you sign into the EA App with the same email address and password you use on the Store site when you see your purchased content? If so, you should be able to download your expansion and stuff packs as well.

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