Tulips in a vase
987 (Med Poly)





****Low Polygon Object - less than 800 vertices and faces per tile.****
****Medium Polygon Object - between 800 & 1600 vertices and faces per tile.****
****High Polygon Object - more than 1600 vertices and faces per tile.****


Some info about Poly Counts-

Well according to Maxis around 800 vertices and 800 faces or less per in-game tile is the ideal, this is pretty hard to achieve with most objects, they couldn't do it themselves, many Maxis items have much larger counts than this. A lot of sites put out objects which have thousands of polygons, counts over 10000 and even 20000 are surprisingly common - of course with such high levels of detail the objects look gorgeous in the previews but unless you've got a really good computer these will likely bring your game to a crawl. 

I would suggest the closer your computer is to the minimum system requirements for The Sims 2, the more you need to be concerned with these poly counts - if you have problems with very sluggish game play and your game settings have already been optimized as much as possible then try and ensure you do not add items of more than 3000 vertices/faces per tile to your game or try and use high polygon objects sparingly. 
