Mod The Sims - What did you discover today while playing the sims?

Metatwaddle

24th Aug 2010, 11:02 AM

HaphazardSim

26th Aug 2010, 02:51 AM

Sims get mail after an ok date.

Amtram

26th Aug 2010, 04:06 AM

I'm probably late on this, but I only just got Seasons. I learned that ghosts change their clothes as they go in and out of the house in cold weather.

AlexandraSpears

26th Aug 2010, 10:39 PM

If your Sim is talking to a Sim that has a bad reputation, there's an interaction called Bad Reputation, and it appears in the action queue as Yell At.

cheshirekat

27th Aug 2010, 04:57 AM

I discovered that the penguin from Seasons likes to visit lots with fish on them, even if it isn't winter. If you mount the fish on the wall, the penguin will look up at the fish and wave and chatter excitedly. If you put the fish on the floor, the penguin will come in and eat them!

GUYS I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS. I love this game and the penguin is my favorite character and \o/

Also if you buy the scarecrow and place it in the yard, the penguin will come talk to it.

If more than one sim is fishing for a while, the penguin will come. Sometimes he will be so upset that he will pee on the sidewalk if there is no fish left on the ground for him. The pee makes the environment score go down. Not such a good thing for OFB lots.

Squirrel

31st Aug 2010, 10:05 AM

My simmie was at a local pool and another sim just jumped in without using the pool ladder or slide - she just held her nose and dived in. In was very cute and i'd never seen that before!

AlexandraSpears

2nd Sep 2010, 04:11 AM

If your Sim has a bad reputation, other Sims will shudder when they see that Sim and it sounds like they're saying "Ewwww...."

mangaroo

2nd Sep 2010, 10:36 AM

Teens can play with toys from the toybox bench! (After 1,763,233,299 hours of play, how can there still be stuff I didn't know about this game?)

katya_stevens

2nd Sep 2010, 11:42 AM

That (some?) sims will rub noses if they're cuddling in the hot tub. I had two teens woohooing in the hot tub in my game the other day, and in between making out and woohooing, they rubbed noses. Sadly, over before I could take a picture :P

Nalia

2nd Sep 2010, 06:48 PM

Teens can play with toys from the toybox! (After 1,763,233,299 hours of play, how can there still be stuff I didn't know about this game?)
They can? Seriously? :blink: Damn, I have to find out, after all these years!

If your Sim has a bad reputation, other Sims will shudder when they see that Sim and it sounds like they're saying "Ewwww...."
I bet those who say "Ewww" are the ones who have lost hundred of fights. :lol:

AlexandraSpears

3rd Sep 2010, 04:08 AM

I bet those who say "Ewww" are the ones who have lost hundred of fights. :lol:

Or maybe one of the many Sims who've had their butts kicked by Jessica Peterson....

She's even beat up Bigfoot a few times, I kid you not! :rofl:

Also: I discovered that Sims' "base" personalities don't change when encouraged in their personality traits. You can have two Sims with opposite personalities have a three-bolt attraction. You have to start them off with the same basic personality, then use SimPE to tweak their personalities (not the genetic personality). You could have a super-nice, active neat freak get on really well with a grouchy, lazy slob. One was encouraged to be nice, neat, and active, the other to be grouchy, lazy, and slovenly.

At least that's been my experience.

Sango_Uchiha

4th Sep 2010, 09:53 PM

Bellasaurus

5th Sep 2010, 11:05 AM

I went to Ikea today and I noticed that the stuff that came with the Ikea Stuff Pack actually are sold in the store! I kept saying to my parents things like "IT'S THE LACK TABLE!! I always buy the LACK table for my Sims! And the BILLY bookcase is in the Sims too!!!!!!" (Needless to say, I think they got annoyed after awhile).

I actually have 2 BILLY bookcases in my house! And the Doggy Dreams picture - it's quite a bit bigger than the ingame one. Sooo cute!

aaries16

5th Sep 2010, 01:04 PM

I discovered a sim can steal food from other sims at a community lot and not have any negative consequences.

lauratje86

5th Sep 2010, 01:17 PM

I went to Ikea today and I noticed that the stuff that came with the Ikea Stuff Pack actually are sold in the store! I kept saying to my parents things like "IT'S THE LACK TABLE!! I always buy the LACK table for my Sims! And the BILLY bookcase is in the Sims too!!!!!!" (Needless to say, I think they got annoyed after awhile).

I do that whenever my mum and I go to Ikea :-D It drives my mum absolutely nuts! Not only do I say "Oooh, that's in the sims, oooh, that's in the sims!" but also "I wish my sims could buy that, I wish my sims could buy that....". So practically every single item for sale gets some kind of sims-related comment :-)

Sango_Uchiha

5th Sep 2010, 03:48 PM

I actually have 2 BILLY bookcases in my house! And the Doggy Dreams picture - it's quite a bit bigger than the ingame one. Sooo cute!

My parents are actually considering buying the BILLY bookcase!

AlexandraSpears

7th Sep 2010, 08:37 AM

Green energy sources aren't just for looks and actually do save your Sims money. Instead of a bill in the mail, my one family got a refund of 31 Simoleons. They had no mail that day.

Amtram

7th Sep 2010, 12:22 PM

Heh. My house was already furnished completely with IKEA before the stuff pack came out. I bought it so my sims could have some of the stuff I already liked!

Kneon_Knight

8th Sep 2010, 04:16 AM

I learned two things today:

1) Attempting to detonate 48 of Paladin's firebombs on a lot will cause your game to freeze.

2) After the reset and mandatory EOD visit, I learned that pets are immune to fire, at least from Paladin's bomb.

But I'm not done trying, not by a long shot. I'll teach that mangy cur to dig up my yard during the garden club's visit.

DrowningFishy

8th Sep 2010, 05:57 AM

Having two sims going into labor at once will crash a game.

FranH

9th Sep 2010, 02:51 AM

I just discovered today that you can make a gay/lesbian couple in CAS, with children attached. Isn't that nice of EA, to finally give them the recognition denied by the courts and general populace? Now if the human race would grow up! Pathetic that a game of all things gives equal rights to a group of people who are denied it in real life!
(off my soapbox-sorry, I get carried away...)

Amtram

9th Sep 2010, 05:42 PM

It's been like that since day one. You can also have them have each other's children genetically with boolprop testing cheats or with any of a number of hacks once they're already in the game.

AlexandraSpears

9th Sep 2010, 08:56 PM

Call me a traditionalist, but I'd rather they have children the old-fashioned way. :P

With SimBlender they can have a child with themselves...gives a whole new meaning to that one term....

Hwes

10th Sep 2010, 08:57 AM

After reading this thread, I guessed how to get the "grilled cheese" aspiration... tried it... I was right... and it was hilarious! Quit without saving though, I have a plan for that sim and it doesn't involve *quite* so much grilled cheese.

aaries16

11th Sep 2010, 02:29 PM

I found out that the "no jealously hack" that I have doesn't work on cousins (and possibly other family members). Last night I was playing a dorm of 8 students. A guy, named Justin and his girlfriend were making out and woohooing in his bedroom. On the other side of the building, a guy, Malik, is making that angry animation and I look to see what about - he's mad at Justin. Now Malik hardly knows Justin or Justin's girlfriend, so I didn't connect the dots at first. Later on Malik starts shoving Justin and eventually attacks him. I figured it out. Malik's first cousin, Naomi, is a romance sim with a LTW to woohoo 20 sims, she's done it to Justin and they're still technically in love. So Malik was jealous for Naomi. And I also think it has to do with the fact that Malik is a family sim, because his twin sister didn't care.

Kailacat

11th Sep 2010, 06:09 PM

If a sim "Grosses Out" a Nice sim, they will laugh. The sim will get frustrated and attempt to gross out the nice sim again. Happened with two sims of mine, Penelope and Chelsea:
Penelope: *snort*
Chelsea: BWAHAHAHA!
Penelope: *belch*
Chelsea: AHAHAHAHA!
Penelope: *picks nose*
Chelsea: HEEHEEHEE!
Penelope: *fart*
Chelsea: WAHAHAHA!
Never have I played such a frustrating pair of enemies.

TUL

11th Sep 2010, 09:45 PM

I learned to save OFTEN. T.T I spent three hours building a boarding school for my Sims, finished it and was very happy with the results....and then when I exited to the neighborhood, the game crashed while saving. I don't wanna build it over, but I have no choice...T.T

my4monkeys25

11th Sep 2010, 10:48 PM

I learned that you can put the photo booth pictures on a table and not just the wall.

Kailacat

12th Sep 2010, 01:31 AM

I learned that ACR definetely works on the mailman.

Willow's Tara

12th Sep 2010, 11:15 PM

Having two sims going into labor at once will crash a game.

Actually I have had two, even three sims go into labor at the same time and it never crashed for me, maybe it was something else or an rare occurrence? One menu comes up and when that sim is done the other one does.

Hm I haven't discovered much of late, but there's always something to discover:P

Roseblossom90

13th Sep 2010, 12:55 AM

I discovered ACR isn't the best thing for people who tend to wander away from their computer when the family they are playing has absolutely no room or money for a child.... and for once I actually wanted a couple without any children.... *sighs*

funcioná!!!

13th Sep 2010, 01:11 AM

I didn't discover it exactly today, but I noticed that teens can't birdwatch and that with Apartment Life they don't longer have the useless option when I click on the ground outside. Jase439, at Simbology, made a mod that allows them to birdwatch (in theory; it didn't work for me). This is written in the ReadMe:

Birdwatching is a behavior introduced in FreeTime and is available to Adults and Elders. The menu option is also exposed to teens. However, selection of this option causes the action to disappear from the behavior queue shortly thereafter. This patch will restore Birdwatching functionality for teens. This patch also inhibits obsessive/compulsive autonomous birdwatching.

DEVELOPER NOTE: Maxis provided only adult animations for Birdwatching. These animations assume the sim is of adult height. As such, birdwatching teens will position the binoculars above eye level. There is no workaround for this and is undoubtably the reason Maxis elected to pull this from the game (even though they forgot to remove the menu option).

But then I remembered the "Pocketful of Sunshine" video, and there's a teen birdwatching. Also there are four teens birdwatching in a picture from snootysims.com.

Look at 1:24 in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8f5e2xEe5A
It looks like the teen puts the binoculars above eye level, as Jase439 says. The same happens with the two girls in the picture from snootysims.com. Did they do something similar to what Jase349 did?

Also I discovered the eternally in flames breadfruit tree.
And the tree ring display tells Don Lothario's story because... just look at the picture.

wickedblue

13th Sep 2010, 01:14 AM

Roseblossom90, it's always the couple I don't want to have children just yet that end up pregnant with ACR.

I really should turn off autonomous try for baby with all of the really inconvenient pregnancies I have in my game but I never do. One couple had just had a baby, literally, put the little critter down in its crib and instantly went to try for baby. I didn't know this was going on until I heard the chime and was like WAIT, WHAT?!

Roseblossom90

13th Sep 2010, 02:21 AM

Wickedblue, I know the feeling there.
Seriously, the average number of children born to a couple in the neighborhood I have been playing lately is ten. Or maybe I shoudl say born to every household because the women seem to like any and every male that happens to wander by the house... though no fault of my own by the way.
I guess I should stop playing Oblivion while the Sims is running...

Sango_Uchiha

13th Sep 2010, 02:40 AM

Wickedblue, I had that happen to me too.

AlexandraSpears

13th Sep 2010, 07:51 AM

katya_stevens

13th Sep 2010, 10:37 AM

From what I've heard of ACR, you wind up with babies you don't really want at the moment (like you want another, but not *right now*) and broken marriages. Ugh.

ACR does come with options to disallow pregnancy, put sims in birth control (ACR 2), have a morning-after pill for any 'oops' pregnancies, disallow any unmarried try for babies (so they only get stung on risky woohoo), set risky woohoo to whatever level you wish (even 0%), and set autonomy to spouse-only. Sure you can have illegitimate babies and cheating running rampant, but it gives you a ton of options to turn everything you dislike off.

AlexandraSpears

14th Sep 2010, 12:38 AM

ACR does come with options to disallow pregnancy, put sims in birth control (ACR 2), have a morning-after pill for any 'oops' pregnancies, disallow any unmarried try for babies (so they only get stung on risky woohoo), set risky woohoo to whatever level you wish (even 0%), and set autonomy to spouse-only. Sure you can have illegitimate babies and cheating running rampant, but it gives you a ton of options to turn everything you dislike off.

Hm. Maybe I should check into this mod. I like playing nice, stable families where mom and dad are passionately in love with each other. :D

AlexandraSpears

15th Sep 2010, 11:50 AM

I found out that Sim mothers can't nurse someone else's baby.

How I found out:

I started up another version of Riverblossom Hills for a Sim story I want to write. Gabe and Alexandra's second daughter was born the same day as Jason and Rebecca's son, so I moved Gabe's family out of their house and combined his family with Jason's. Just experimenting, I saw that while for Alexandra the nursing option was available for her daughter Gabrielle, it wasn't available for her nephew James.

(Quite the full house--four adults, a teen, and two babies!)

AlexandraSpears

17th Sep 2010, 10:57 AM

Another thing I found out:

If your Sim rolls a want for Kiss, the "Kiss Kiss Darling" interaction does the job!

funcioná!!!

17th Sep 2010, 08:12 PM

I turned the boolprop cheat on and I shift clicked on a statue. And option called "Debug Show Slot" appeared and I clicked on it. Bowling balls appeared on the ground surrounding the statue.

Hwes

18th Sep 2010, 11:30 AM

I tried the asylum challenge, finally:
I saw my first panhandler (my controllable sim, 3 minutes in!), flour baby, and ... dancing lampshade guy.
Learned that the piano needs tuning, and often. Learned that sims clap their hands over their ears when a beginner plays piano.
Learned that some sims are stupid enough to cook something on the stove when another sim has something in the oven. Not only that, she got the food off the stove, ate one bite, and put it down. THEN she proceeded to the fridge to make something else.
I pleaded for a life for the first time. Didn't win.
Learned that apparently sims can die of ... nothing? Two of them died for no apparent reason long after they'd all learned to cook and I thought they were done dying off. They were both in the kitchen so maybe it was hunger but there was food in the fridge at the time. Can sims die of aspiration failure? Cos the only two that are left are pleasure sims.
I learned just how much of a pain in the butt having a haunted house is. And how hard it is for three sims to share one bed when you add ghosts to the mix. A whole rainbow of ghosts!
http://i56.tinypic.com/14mdr42.jpg

katya_stevens

18th Sep 2010, 12:00 PM

Learned that apparently sims can die of ... nothing? Two of them died for no apparent reason long after they'd all learned to cook and I thought they were done dying off. They were both in the kitchen so maybe it was hunger but there was food in the fridge at the time. Can sims die of aspiration failure? Cos the only two that are left are pleasure sims.

If you look at the ghost colour, you should be able to tell what they died from:

Red ghost = fire
Blue ghost = drowning
White ghost = old age
Green ghost = disease
Pink ghost = fright (from a ghost scaring them when they had low motives)
Orange ghost = satellite (from cloud watching/star gazing)
Yellow ghost = electrocution
Purple ghost = flies (from walking through a really messy area)
Transparent = hunger, burning as a vampire, plummeting in the elevator
Dark pink = hail (when motives are low).

From your picture you've had a fire, a sim die from disease, and a sim who got scared to death by another ghost. I suspect the death by fright ghosts might be your died from 'nothing' ghosts.

Kennedy13

18th Sep 2010, 07:39 PM

Well, I didn't exactly realize this TODAY, but....that's not important. xD

But I discovered that when kids go to bed, before they actually fall asleep, teens and adults have the option to read to them as they're falling asleep! How precious is that?! I was quite excited...

applefeather2

18th Sep 2010, 07:52 PM

I discovered that both parents can read their toddler to sleep at the same time. It sure looks funny, but the kid doesn't seem to mind!

Hwes

19th Sep 2010, 03:06 AM

If you look at the ghost colour, you should be able to tell what they died from:

From your picture you've had a fire, a sim die from disease, and a sim who got scared to death by another ghost. I suspect the death by fright ghosts might be your died from 'nothing' ghosts.
I knew a couple of those, but I've never really had anyone die from anything but old age. I didn't even consider that fright would be its own colour, I figured they'd be the colour of whatever motive took the hit that killed them (so, hunger). Wow, thanks.
Didn't even know death by flies was a viable death without cheats. Add most of what you told me to the list of things I learned! ;)

AlexandraSpears

19th Sep 2010, 04:47 AM

I found this out by accident:

Say your Sim invited another one on a date...and while they're waiting for the taxi you think, RATS! Forgot to attach a downtown!

You can add a downtown using the advanced neighborhood option--it'll save your progress, attach the downtown, then return you to the lot. But your Sim won't get into the taxi. So--what you do is have them walk to the desired community lot (I think this is Bon Voyage and up), and your Sim will show up with their date.

Happened to me in two different neighborhoods, Sim was not accused of standing up their date. And going home--your Sim just walks home, no taxi required.

Another thing: If your Sim marries another playable on a community lot, like on a date, the other Sim will only bring what money they had available in their "bank." If you want them to bring as much as possible (like from selling their house and possessions), invite them over and have them marry at your Sim's house, throw the party, do whatever.

Bellasaurus

19th Sep 2010, 10:30 AM

Another thing I found out:

If your Sim rolls a want for Kiss, the "Kiss Kiss Darling" interaction does the job!

I tested this, and it only worked for me when the said sim was on a date. Just greeting/gesturing didn't fulfull, but when she was on a date & used the greeting, it did.

On a separate note, Family Kiss will fulfull it always.

katya_stevens

19th Sep 2010, 10:59 AM

I didn't even consider that fright would be its own colour, I figured they'd be the colour of whatever motive took the hit that killed them (so, hunger). Wow, thanks.

You're welcome :) I've never had anyone die of flies in my game, and from what I've seen others attempt it is a really tricky death to fulfill -- I remember it requires something like having a 3x4 room covered in trash and/or dirty dishes and having a sim walk through (and even then it doesn't guarantee the death will occur). The only other death that's as hard is satellite, as it's completely random.

If you have some other EPs, there are other deaths (cowplant = light green, rally forth [a business perk) = white with megaphone, vampire in sunlight = transparent). With seasons, overheating is counted as a fire ghost and I think being killed by lightning is counted as an electrocution ghost.

And despite all of this, unless it's for a story/necessitated for a challenge, would you believe that my sims all die of old age? :P

Hwes

19th Sep 2010, 11:31 AM

The only other death that's as hard is satellite, as it's completely random.
That's something else I learned recently! I made a new neighbourhood and rolled some random families to fill it with. One family wasn't meant to have adults though, so I gave them a father and promptly moved him out. Stuck him on an empty lot and tried to kill him by satellite, because I'd never seen it happen. Just put maxmotives on and let him lie there with the speed all the way up, I read while I waited. And waited...
He was nearly an elder when I decided to just turn maxmotives off and let him starve. :|

I know that starved ghosts will raid your fridge, diseased ghosts will act out their death, and drowned sims leave puddles EVERYWHERE (ugh!), do other types do anything unique? Fire and fright didn't seem to do anything special. They all seemed to enjoy cheering for their beds though, and waking sims up five times a night.

AlexandraSpears

19th Sep 2010, 02:41 PM

I tested this, and it only worked for me when the said sim was on a date. Just greeting/gesturing didn't fulfull, but when she was on a date & used the greeting, it did.

On a separate note, Family Kiss will fulfull it always.

That almost seems kinda creepy when you think about it...but this Sim wasn't even on a date, he was greeting a neighbor. *shrug*

katya_stevens

19th Sep 2010, 06:17 PM

I know that starved ghosts will raid your fridge, diseased ghosts will act out their death, and drowned sims leave puddles EVERYWHERE (ugh!), do other types do anything unique?

Electrical ghosts will also act out their deaths (complete with ghost electric shocks), and if you have a mod allowing vampires to kill sims they'll act out their deaths (as I believe they're a 'disease' death). It's possible that some of the others might act out their deaths (hail and flies perhaps?) but I've not seen them.

Regarding the satellite death, I've seen an instance where a player sent a sim to watch clouds (just to temporarily get them out of the way) and within a few real-world seconds, they'd been hit by a satellite. TwoJeffs over at Simbology (http://www.simbology.com/smf/index.php?topic=15.0) has a mod which increases the chance of dying from satellite (and according to him the base rate is 1%; he raises it to 3% -- unmodded, you're twice as likely to have a sim die from satellite than abducted by aliens).

funcioná!!!

19th Sep 2010, 10:20 PM

do other types do anything unique?

Sims that died struck by lightning haunt places with the burnt clothes and hair, and sometimes a spectral lightning hits their tombstones. It has no sound. I'll try to take a picture of it, the spectral lighting appears briefly.

Kailacat

22nd Sep 2010, 12:37 AM

HaphazardSim

22nd Sep 2010, 12:44 AM

I was playing and a pop up came up with the message "Stupid String" (on the RHS of the screen, where the time announcements come up) I have no idea what that is or where it's from but I had to laugh for a bit after.

Yukkuri Shiteite ne

22nd Sep 2010, 02:06 AM

Sim apartments black-out when rented.
And when before renting apartments, nothing shows up, but if you rent the apartment, it shows up. :|

sunandshadow

22nd Sep 2010, 03:19 AM

Today for the first time I saw an NPC sim eat out of my trashcan. o.O

Selly_2009

22nd Sep 2010, 01:25 PM

I'm playing a sim trying out his painting, and his currrently unplayable (another household) girlfriend is watching him and nodding her head and commenting on the painting while he paints it. Must be a sort of autonomous reaction!
If his girlfriend has high arts enthusiasm she's probably "sharing hobby tips" with him. I've seen the same happen on my lots with playables autonomously doing that.

backpedal

22nd Sep 2010, 04:29 PM

Noticed some random electrocuted dude running around my lot watering plants - thought WTF is that. Turned out it was my butler, apparently they can electrocute themselves whilst repairing things and then will spend the rest of the day looking a mess :P

AlexandraSpears

22nd Sep 2010, 08:36 PM

Today for the first time I saw an NPC sim eat out of my trashcan. o.O

Cow mascots do that all the time in university. I've actually seen one, heh, "water" the shrubs....

WoohooAndTheCity

22nd Sep 2010, 08:39 PM

Cow mascots do that all the time in university. I've actually seen one, heh, "water" the shrubs....

Was it Inge's bush?

AlexandraSpears

24th Sep 2010, 11:04 AM

Two things I found out today:

--Toddlers will "dance" to someone playing the piano, as well as any stereo.

--Outgoing Sims who normally go naked in the hot tub put on swimsuits when there are children present. My Sims, both 10/10 Outgoing, had a birthday party for their daughter, who aged up to child, and they were in the hot tub with swimsuits on.

I did mention sometime back that adults will not get into the hot tub with a naked teen; nor will a teen get in with naked adults. (Of course if you have Inteeminater installed it might be different, haven't tried that.)

Maranatah

24th Sep 2010, 10:07 PM

I've been playing with OFB alot lately and have discovered many things. One is that if a buyer-sim has to wait in line long enough at cash register, they start to wave their hands and yell. I also discovered how playable sim A can work in sim B's business. I have used townies untill now, so that's new to me. I also have experienced the wonders of sending my playable sim to go shopping on another sims business. Yes, haven't tried that before either. Pity me. B) I guess OFB has been kind of overlooked EP in my game untill now.

Kailacat

25th Sep 2010, 01:47 AM

Sims gain Social when sleeping in bed together (not WooHooing.)

If his girlfriend has high arts enthusiasm she's probably "sharing hobby tips" with him. I've seen the same happen on my lots with playables autonomously doing that.
Oh yes that was it. She has maxed out arts enthusiasm and it's her "special" hobby.

Maridian

25th Sep 2010, 02:23 AM

I noticed my sim child River, his aspiration was very low he stomped the flowers outside the house, and threw a fit.

Kailacat

25th Sep 2010, 04:15 PM

I just heard the scary ghost music - a sim died the night before. :( Usually I move graves to a graveyard, so I don't hear them, but I've decided to keep this sim at home.

AmphyPrincess

26th Sep 2010, 02:26 AM

I just learned that, just because Sims are married, it doesn't mean they always win to the Reaper. :(
It was for a story, I left without saving and got the relationship up to 100 this time. :D

Yukkuri Shiteite ne

26th Sep 2010, 03:57 PM

Sims can get sick even if they are eating the Grammy soup thing from freetime.

Bellasaurus

26th Sep 2010, 04:50 PM

Walking to work does not fulfill the 'Go to Work ' want. Grrr.

AlexandraSpears

27th Sep 2010, 07:53 AM

If your toddler is throwing a tantrum and not eating because she's tired, just select the toddler, click on the high chair, and choose "Consume Food." She'll eat.

I hate when you have to chase after them--especially when there are twins--just to get them to the high chair before they get too tired. (That's where I direct the second one to head for the kitchen/wherever the high chair is. But when you're busy with the first toddler, the second one sees something fun to do!)

lg135

28th Sep 2010, 04:24 AM

Two things - Sims can want to have Bad Reputations. Who needs to be gushed over when they can be yelled at and pushed instead? :D

Apparently I have too many sims in apartments because when I move in new sims, college kids are starting to show up as neighbors now. Would this be an effect from the no townie respawn mod?

AlexandraSpears

28th Sep 2010, 10:48 AM

Children can Classic Dance with each other. Here's Malcolm Landgraab V with townie Laci Wendland:

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/af292/alexandrasims2/snapshot_b9ab8b08_f9ad9aff.jpg

They are now teens and dating, which leads me to another thing I found out: when you choose to age up townies (FreeTime), children transitioning to teens aren't assigned an aspiration. Looking in SimPE I found that Laci still had the Grow Up aspiration, yet she had a teen career. I assigned her Fortune.

When they were out on a date no Aspiration symbol appeared and you couldn't access her Wants, so that's what prompted me to fix things with SimPE.

backpedal

28th Sep 2010, 03:19 PM

You can have two nannies at once. I had my nanny set at 'Track Schedule', and when my Sim came home from work and got a promotion, the nanny didn't leave. The promotion meant that my Sim had to go back to work a couple of hours later, at which point another nanny turned up. Two nannies but unfortunately they were both still useless.

e: Oh, and when they left I had no money. One took the fridge and the other took the toilet. :faceslap:

lg135

28th Sep 2010, 08:31 PM

Kailacat

28th Sep 2010, 09:09 PM

AlexandraSpears: When they're moved in though, they get assigned an Aspiration. Marsha Bruenig has a Family aspiration in my game.

katya_stevens

29th Sep 2010, 08:30 PM

That children who bring friends home from school during the summer have their relationships start off at 30/30 as opposed to 20/20.

angieshade

30th Sep 2010, 07:33 PM

I learned that pissed-off townies can steal the newspaper OUT OF YOUR HAND. :O

AmphyPrincess

1st Oct 2010, 12:25 AM

I learned that dressing identical twins the same exact way requires me to roll over to see which is which. XD

dostha

1st Oct 2010, 02:45 PM

I learned that untidy Sims pee in the shower.

Garambola

1st Oct 2010, 04:35 PM

I discovered that one can, indeed, mess things up enough to stop the game loading...

Well, it is a chance to start over. :)

Kailacat

1st Oct 2010, 07:00 PM

I discovered that a baby can be born by an affair and the person's spouse doesn't care.

Malade Imaginaire

1st Oct 2010, 10:37 PM

I discovered that just because you're at a downtown lot and have your sim kiss his date, doesn't mean his date's boyfriend won't show up at that moment and throw a fit. Oops.

AlexandraSpears

2nd Oct 2010, 03:31 AM

When a toddler follows one of his parents, it increases his Social. Even if the parent is sleeping.

I just let them have at it. Keeps them from going into Social failure (though with me it never even gets into the yellow). I just cancel any toddler interactions involving the toilet--and they don't have to have low Aspiration to do this. I'm playing Life Stories (Vincent's Story) right now and his younger child was in gold aspiration, and he kept heading for the toilet.

aaries16

2nd Oct 2010, 05:30 AM

I found out that natives of the vacation places aren't on the list of friends to age up with a sim. And I found out that when you invite a native of the vacation place to stay with you for 3 days as a guest and then have a party on the 1st day, your guest leaves with the crowd at the end of the party.

Kailacat

2nd Oct 2010, 03:05 PM

I just discovered my sim was an "Interpretive Dancer." Job description: "Since it's pretty much all up to interpretation anyways, who's to say you're not really really good?"

cheshirekat

3rd Oct 2010, 11:50 PM

For a story idea, I decided to put two stoves in the main cafeteria-style eatery of my Sim State University hood. It was worth it for the giggles when the cafeteria opened for the first time and to my surprise two cooks were ready to feed the hungry masses. Now I can't decide if I should get rid of one of the stoves. I like one of the cooks more than the other, so I don't know which one will stay and which one will be gone with the stove.

I guess I could keep both of them since it is a fairly small lot and with the clean templates, it isn't overwhelmed with a bunch of useless dormies. I think I may have too many lots I've created for my sims to hang out and eat. I just don't like seeing the same places over and over again.

It's been so long since I've played a bit instead of just building that I'd forgotten how many peppers are harvested with a bunch of pepper plants. Um, too bad Seasons didn't come with more recipes for the different vegetables. My sims harvested over 400 peppers for their first harvest. Yeah, I'm thinking they will need to plant something else in place of some of those pepper plants or they will have to plant a lot more pole beans and apple trees so they can sell a lot of the pepper punch.

AlexandraSpears

4th Oct 2010, 12:44 PM

pinimon162

4th Oct 2010, 03:14 PM

How active your Sim is determines how much working out on an exercise machine satisfies/depletes Fun.

10/10 active: most Fun satisfied in the shortest time
0/10 active: Fun depleted
5/10: doesn't seem to be any change

Did you really just notice that? That's the point of making a sim active haha :p I'd probably be a 2 or something :lol:

AlexandraSpears

4th Oct 2010, 10:16 PM

Well, I thought activity had something to do with it, so I just observed and confirmed it. :P

lazzybum

5th Oct 2010, 02:52 AM

Since I started playing Sims 2 again..

I've forgotten how smustling with your peers is a sims tradition. Everyone knows how..and they never reject..xD

AlexandraSpears

5th Oct 2010, 05:38 AM

A while back, someone had talked about a child Sim being taken home by an adult townie that apparently had no blood relationship whatsoever.

When you look at SimPE (townies), you see that different groups of Sims are in different households. It seems to me that the townie and the child are from the same household--even though the household doesn't have a house anywhere in the neighborhood.

Roseblossom90

5th Oct 2010, 09:36 AM

I learned that when playing a Vampire it is important to keep a close watch on his family tree....otherwise they may just end up marrying their great-granddaughter... :faceslap:

iamNOTHING

9th Oct 2010, 11:45 PM

I learned that a person you had talked to can set up a free blind date for you with his/her friend, but it's purely random chance, I think.

Willow's Tara

10th Oct 2010, 05:37 AM

IAN- Actually that comes with Apartment life, if a sim you are talking to, usually the batch of sims that come with AL (NPCS) I think and they like you they can do that for you.

katya_stevens

10th Oct 2010, 09:59 AM

@Willow's Tara: It can occur with any townies or NPCs (I have a couple of mods in which a) stop social townies generating and b) force regular townies to be apartment neighbours), and I've had the social perks given to a sim from a regular townie. The blind date thing does get annoying when I've found a decent match for a sim and am getting them to flirt and such, and the townie has gone "Oh, hey, we're getting on really well! Mind if I set you up on a blind date?".

Astraea Nevermore

10th Oct 2010, 03:35 PM

I discovered that, while evil mascots are annoying, DEAD evil mascots are even worse. Spawned one with testingcheatsenabled, just to kill it later for a challenge, and then its ghost started to torture my sims to no end. It kept on scaring both my sims during the whole night, to the point that they couldn't sleep at all. The next day, my sims were so tired that they sleeped the whole day. The kid missed school and was taken away by social services. :blink:

Note for the next time: Never. Kill. An. Evil. Mascot. Again. :blink:

AlexandraSpears

10th Oct 2010, 04:33 PM

Astraea Nevermore

10th Oct 2010, 10:40 PM

I would have moved the grave.

Yep, I did it later :lol: restarted the game to get the kid back and moved the grave in another lot. I guess it was kinda like cheating on the challenge, to this point, but anyway... :blink:

Croutonian

11th Oct 2010, 12:45 AM

Sims can listen to music while relaxing on the bed - I was aware they could watch telly if there was one in the right place, but it never occurred to me to try a stereo!

mitsuki2000

11th Oct 2010, 04:29 AM

today, i can learn light magic. but i don't know how to be normal sim, no magic.

Nalia

11th Oct 2010, 11:35 AM

today, i can learn light magic. but i don't know how to be normal sim, no magic.
There is a potion your Sim can buy from the Gypsy, if you want to cure him/her and turn him/her back to a normal Sim.

Prince Avalanche

13th Oct 2010, 02:58 PM

I have discovered if a sim kicks over a trash can with a Attack Bot activated on the lot it will go shock that sim all by itself.

AmphyPrincess

13th Oct 2010, 07:18 PM

I learned how to turn on cinematics! :D (Yay gaming computer!)
And just minutes later I learned you can have runaway brides AND runaway grooms. (That's it, Johnny just earned himself a spot on the "Amphy Hit-List" :|)

potatoehead

13th Oct 2010, 07:23 PM

Heh, I've been wanting to turn off cinematics.

Nalia

13th Oct 2010, 07:34 PM

Heh, I've been wanting to turn off cinematics.
Game Options, Camera, and somewhere there you will find the option to turn them off.

AlexandraSpears

14th Oct 2010, 04:28 PM

I tried out the fire jets in the Specter household in Strangetown. So--after Olive and Ophelia were laid to rest in the garden, I moved in an elderly Knowledge Sim, and found out the following:

--You can Summon Aliens in the daytime and no one will accuse your Sim of spying on them. (The reason I moved in an elderly Sim was to prevent any more alien residents in Strangetown.)
--Ghosts change into outerwear in cold weather. As if they could freeze to death!
--Ghosts will even take bubble baths.

My Sim has Met Aliens several times now and seen plenty of ghosts. Basically, he's my, heh, guinea pig. A nice, shy Sim who's investigating the happenings at the old Specter place.

AmphyPrincess

15th Oct 2010, 03:03 PM

I learned that an adult can play with the Clown-in-a-box and the Toy Robot! (Wow, jen, I know you're pregnant, but still, that's kinda loopy)

redbramblexx

15th Oct 2010, 06:25 PM

I just realized that the penguin from Seasons can actually walk into your house. The penguin entered through the back door and just waddled all the way through my house and out the front door. I thought they could only walk down the side walk-I guess not!

AlexandraSpears

15th Oct 2010, 08:23 PM

I found out: When you put in elevators, you need to put in one car per floor. For the first time I put an elevator--actually a bank of three--into a building. It was a mall I built.

Matthew and Jessica Picaso have children with Vulcan ears. I kid you not!

Bellasaurus

16th Oct 2010, 10:22 AM

I realised that the Aspiration Reward ReNuYuSenso Orb can reset the lifetime aspiration benefits without changing aspirations. Very handy!

Sango_Uchiha

16th Oct 2010, 08:09 PM

Sims with 4 Creativity points can play Greensleeves when they are practicing the piano.

pumukkel

17th Oct 2010, 01:59 AM

well i bought "pets" today and to see whats new, i went to a maxis-made family, which i usually don't do. to the brokers or whatever they're called. anyway, soon after starting, mom was having morning sickness. and soon after starting to show a belly. so i went to look at her memorys to see who's the dad as there isn't one living with them and noticed that the two other kids' dad had died before kid number two was born. then i went to look at her relationship-panel and found out, this woman doesn't even know any guy exept maybe her teenage son. SO WHO THE F*** IS THE DAD?????

Kailacat

17th Oct 2010, 02:36 AM

If the dad died, he doesn't show up in the relationship panel. You can't have a relationship with a dead person.

pumukkel

17th Oct 2010, 02:57 AM

yeah i know, but AFTER dad died, she already had kid number two and now she's preggers with kid number three....

Willow's Tara

17th Oct 2010, 03:21 AM

pumukkel

17th Oct 2010, 03:28 AM

well in her memory skip died before she had beau

Nalia

17th Oct 2010, 03:29 AM

I think baby #3 is not Skip's.

Kailacat

17th Oct 2010, 04:09 AM

Oh, yeah, EAxis got the memories out of order on that one. Brandi's unborn child is just a copy of her.

I just discovered that a Sim can go on a completely unromantic date... until the end, when he must kiss his date. :( I wanted a "Casual date."

iamNOTHING

17th Oct 2010, 07:24 AM

I discovered a Romance Sim that engaged with a positive memory, LOL =))

pumukkel

17th Oct 2010, 11:06 AM

I think baby #3 is not Skip's.
well actually out of curiosity i did play it out till the baby was born and indeed it IS skips child. i guess maxis just got the memories mixed up and skip must have died AFTER beau was born.

maxis-mistake :rofl:

Kailacat

17th Oct 2010, 06:30 PM

It is technically Skip's, but there is no DNA from Skip. It takes all the DNA from Brandi.

I just discovered when it's cold, Sims can see their breath.

AlexandraSpears

18th Oct 2010, 05:07 PM

One thing I noticed: You will not see children on a community lot unless your Sim takes a child to one.

As far as Skip and Brandi's third child, there are pictures in Storytelling that indicate that Skip was present at Beau's birth. Someone just got the Memories out of order, that's all.

EDIT:

I found out that a playable Sim can buy a pet behind your back (I knew about buying from other playable Sims' businesses).

Jules (O'Mackey) Wentworth (now married, obviously) had been in a pet store when she saw her aunt-by-marriage, Lillian O'Mackey, and talked to her. I noticed that Lillian actually bought a dog. This was a few days ago.

Today, when I went to Riverblossom Hills to play briefly, and I entered Jason and Lillian's lot, I was given the notice that a Sim in the household had bought a pet, would I like to welcome it, yes or no? I figured, what the hey, hit Yes.

That dog tends to growl when scolded. It's aggressive, too. I should have hit No. *sigh* I could just have them give the pet up for adoption, or I could just go with the flow, so to speak. Sure, I like some randomness, but I don't care for aggressive pets.

Bellasaurus

21st Oct 2010, 07:32 PM

If your sim has high science enthusiasm they can search for ufos with the telescope. This apparently increases the chance of being abducted - twice in one night!! Poor girl had only just aged to teen, and so got to spend her birthday night with aliens. Twice! Hahahaha.

lazzybum

21st Oct 2010, 10:08 PM

Ok not sure if this is suppose to happen. But I played a sim that lives on an apartment lot, which is 3 houses with fences around each, so the house walls were not touching each other. My sim had a crazy party and I made her sleep since she was about to knock out. Anyways, because of that, the TV was on the whole night.

And all of a sudden I see her neighbor ringing her doorbell at like 1am. I was like wtf?! And the lady walks away and back into her apartment. Few sim minutes later, the other neighbor did the exact same thing! They basically took turns going out of their apartment, ring my doorbell, and walk back into theirs xD And at 6am or something, one of the them rang the doorbell, and walked right in my apartment and sat down and watched tv >_> lols

simsamu

21st Oct 2010, 11:00 PM

The neighbours do that if they think your sim is making too much noise after 11pm (I think could be wrong on the time).

lg135

21st Oct 2010, 11:16 PM

Haha, don't leave dirty dishes in your house! They'll knock and complain about that too, even if you're in SFH several feet away from each other.

AlexandraSpears

22nd Oct 2010, 12:30 AM

Not specifically about the game, but about SimBlender:

It won't tell you the number of kittens/puppies that are expected unless a Sim in your household is pregnant. So when I checked to see how many babies my Sim was expecting, it told me 1, plus it told me 2 kittens were on the way (the female cat, obviously, was pregnant).

lazzybum

22nd Oct 2010, 12:32 AM

Haha, don't leave dirty dishes in your house! They'll knock and complain about that too, even if you're in SFH several feet away from each other.

Oh lols the apartment was filled with dirty dishes too.. even more reasons for them to complain xD

SimMegaptera

22nd Oct 2010, 12:40 AM

I discovered that if an elder is in platinum aspiration when she dies, a lei-adorned Grimmy and the Hula Zombies will show up, give her a tropical drink, and take her off to an afterlife that seems to consist of an endless tropical vacation.

aaries16

22nd Oct 2010, 04:17 AM

It's also annoying when an apartment neighbor who is a guest at your party suddenly straightens up goes outside and rings your doorbell to complain about the noise of the party that they were invited to.

DigitalSympathies

23rd Oct 2010, 07:40 AM

I just noticed that my party of six reserved teenaged sims sitting around a table having a BBQ allowed for the cops to be called and them running off the lot screaming like babies. XD

AlexandraSpears

23rd Oct 2010, 05:40 PM

Babies lying in their crib will drop off to sleep if their energy gets low enough. I always thought they needed a cuddle first.

callie810

23rd Oct 2010, 05:50 PM

I noticed that my sims can actually play Sims 3 on their computer, I was completely amazed!!! :D

lg135

23rd Oct 2010, 07:03 PM

I just noticed that my party of six reserved teenaged sims sitting around a table having a BBQ allowed for the cops to be called and them running off the lot screaming like babies. XD

Really? Like they literally run away screaming? I've never had a solely teenage party.

AlexandraSpears

24th Oct 2010, 01:52 AM

As far as parties...if you have so many guests, it goes past 11 pm, and you have the stereo going, count on the cop busting it up.

kuyke001

24th Oct 2010, 03:33 AM

cheshirekat

24th Oct 2010, 04:46 AM

I had been playing Darren Dreamer, he kept bringing home David Ottomas they became best friends. When I sent Darren to University, one of his wants was for Peter to go to college with a large amount of aspiration points as a reward. I didn't know that the Sims would wish for someone else to join them at college and I hadn't even played David yet. So I put his family in a house lot and then spent all afternoon fixing their house up to accommodate the needs of their large family.

That is funny when it happens. The sims way of telling you they want their friends to have the same opportunities they have. Or maybe they are afraid their friendship won't survive them going away to college.

When I played Veronaville, the Capp and Monty families were constantly rolling wants for the other Capp and Monty teens to go to college.

I never play out the Maxis stories, so I wasn't happy when Romeo kept rolling a want for Juliet to go to college. Then Mercutio also rolled wants for Juliet to get into college. I hadn't even planned to send her. And I didn't let Romeo date Juliet hoping he would get over her. I ended up sending Juliet to college and wouldn't you know, she was always walking by Romeo's house on campus and rolling wants for other Capp teens to go to college.

Yeah, those sims are always doing stuff to influence or change your plans.

lg135

24th Oct 2010, 06:28 PM

I didn't know that the Sims would wish for someone else to join them at college and I hadn't even played David yet.

This is one of the Wants my popularity sims like to roll for every single friend/family member they have that are teens. And they're terribly persistent about it :P I've had a sim who consistently rolled only "x come to college" Wants for almost 2 (college) years!

SimMegaptera

26th Oct 2010, 10:32 PM

Oh Great Green Plumbob, it was horrible! :cry:

I decided to make my residential cemetery. This is a lot where I move in a bunch of people, kill them until there are enough graves, decorate the place, and then move a gravekeeper in and build a house for him on this lot full of graves and ghosts.

First a sweet old couple died of old age, then the Burbs (who I hadn't played before and were just sitting there in the bin) drowned in a pool, and then a beautiful movie star starved herself.

Then I moved in a desperate single mom and her toddler son. She built a little house with two fireplaces, took her son inside, and deleted the door. She lit the fireplaces and proceeded to sit on the rug with her son and teach him nursery rhymes, all the while hoping they would both burn to death.

I zoomed out because I couldn't watch. :P Eventually the place did catch fire, and then Ellie caught fire, and I zoomed in to see what was happening. She was flailing and hopping around in the fire, and Jake was crying but I couldn't see him. I swiveled the house and there he was sitting outside on the grass.

What I discovered was that apparently toddlers can't die in a fire. They teleport instead. I don't want to repeat the experiment, though.

I took this as a sign and maxed Jake's motives while his mother ended up starving rather than burning. He sat there on the grass in a puddle of blue pee until it got dark, and the social worker came for him.

So that was the end of cemetery building. :Pint:

MadforSims

27th Oct 2010, 12:16 AM

I can build modern-looking homes that have colors other than black, white and grey!!!!!

A.K.A. YELLOW!!!

AlexandraSpears

27th Oct 2010, 07:55 PM

Babies and toddlers are fireproof, SimMegaptera. They can't die *at all* in the game. If you try to starve them, the Social Worker will take them.

BTW--I found out that the SimBlender doesn't seem to be reliable when it tells you how many babies are expected, if your Family Sim has the aspiration benefit of Super Fertility. I had it tell me my Sim was expecting one child...then when she went into labor I was told "There's TWO new babies in the family!"

My eyes went wide.

tlynnjpeg

28th Oct 2010, 12:36 AM

BTW--I found out that the SimBlender doesn't seem to be reliable when it tells you how many babies are expected, if your Family Sim has the aspiration benefit of Super Fertility. I had it tell me my Sim was expecting one child...then when she went into labor I was told "There's TWO new babies in the family!"
When in the pregnancy did you check? The Super Fertility doesn't kick in until the second trimester. So if you checked before the first belly pop, it could still show one and be correct at that time, because the magical mystery twin doesn't exist until the second trimester.

AlexandraSpears

28th Oct 2010, 06:50 AM

When in the pregnancy did you check? The Super Fertility doesn't kick in until the second trimester. So if you checked before the first belly pop, it could still show one and be correct at that time, because the magical mystery twin doesn't exist until the second trimester.

I'll have to check that out, since in my game Cassandra Lothario is expecting. I thought maybe with the Super Fertility it was decided at birth (like gender is) rather than conception.

Maranatah

28th Oct 2010, 10:44 AM

Babies and toddlers are fireproof, SimMegaptera. They can't die *at all* in the game. If you try to starve them, the Social Worker will take them.

Actually, atleast toddlers can die if one is using cheats like the death creator... :blink:

I knew that sloppy sims can pee while showering but I noticed that first time in my game when I was playing with Nervous. So this is my discovery of the week. :) I really should play more now...

AlexandraSpears

28th Oct 2010, 01:27 PM

Then there's Pescado's hack if you're into cannibalism. Bleah.

But without any cheats/hacks Sims can't die of something until childhood--children can drown or die in fires.

lg135

30th Oct 2010, 06:06 AM

Attention - Ashley Pitts does not use condoms. I repeat - Ashley Pitts, of one of the University Frats - does NOT use condoms! Keep your young innocent teenage girls away!!!

I swear, he's the father of half of my unexpected teen pregnancies. And almost always with girls I never thought would dream to jump in bed with virtually a stranger. Knowledge sims, girls with boyfriends girls with low autonomy... bleah. It's weird because when I play him all the girls he seeks out HATE him. Absolutely. But when I ignore him, he takes out his ACR male enhancement drugs and swoons every girl.. younger than him. I just can't throw toga parties anymore with him and teen girls, I guess. :p

In other news... I found out you can have pets in apartments. I finally broke and added Pets back in, and it's nice to see that they're included (though I wish it would cost extra like where I'm staying currently. Pets costs as much as a reserved parking!!)

Maranatah

30th Oct 2010, 08:25 PM

Toddlers can throw food when they're sitting in a high chair. I was wondering, why this little guys bowl was empty after a second and noticed that his daddy had to give him a new bowl two times before he actually started eating it and stopped playing. Never seen that before!

iCad

30th Oct 2010, 10:20 PM

I just noticed yesterday that the milk carton on the tray when a Sim is preparing cereal has a "Have you seen me?" missing child picture on it. That's a nice bit of "realism," I guess. :)

smorbie1

30th Oct 2010, 11:19 PM

I just noticed yesterday that the milk carton on the tray when a Sim is preparing cereal has a "Have you seen me?" missing child picture on it. That's a nice bit of "realism," I guess. :)

I, myself, have never paid attention to it, but I have read that it's a picture of Bella Goth. :turtle:

gabrielorie

31st Oct 2010, 12:14 AM

I discovered that sometimes in build/buy mode the cameraman mode is avaliable :blink:

Hiccle

2nd Nov 2010, 09:07 PM

I discovered that sometimes in build/buy mode the cameraman mode is avaliable :blink:

It's always available, whether you're in Play, Build or Buy mode.

jrhk72

3rd Nov 2010, 04:54 AM

I discovered that teenagers can take their infant siblings to school if everyone else is too busy to take the baby from them!! LMFAO! Of course, I discovered this AFTER searching for the little bugger for (Sim) HOURS!!!! I tried to attach a screenshot but it wouldn't work :(

somethingelse

3rd Nov 2010, 05:27 AM

oh my god i HAVE to try this. it would SO work in a teen mom story for my town hillbilly haven.

SmallMizz

3rd Nov 2010, 10:19 PM

I've discovered that my two teenage sons have EXACTLY the same face and it irritates me :L

my4monkeys25

4th Nov 2010, 12:01 AM

I've discovered that my two teenage sons have EXACTLY the same face and it irritates me :L

Sounds like that "roll the pacifier" syndrome thing. It happened to me in several of my families before I figured out what it was.

FranH

5th Nov 2010, 02:31 AM

In my game, I do not have Pets as an EP. I do, however, have FT and Al-and I was curious as to why there is a "pet pen" in the miscellaneous department of the downloads, because it was odd that it was there, without Pets.
So I took it out for a spin. I was very surprised to learn that you can adopt a small puppy, feed it treats, etc. Sort of like the same thing from Simslice, but animated and rather cute.
I wonder if the puppy dies if you don't feed it? (not that I'm that cruel, but still...)

lg135

5th Nov 2010, 03:40 AM

Nope, the cops will come take it away. Oh, and if you live in an apartment, don't leave it outside. If you play another family in the complex, the game will keep telling you it's starving until a cop comes and takes it away.

But... if you go back to that family, the dog will still be there! It's just annoying seeing the dog get taken away repeatedly every time you switch families over stupid AI's :P

lazzybum

5th Nov 2010, 09:40 AM

I discovered that kids can use hot springs lol

AlexandraSpears

5th Nov 2010, 02:00 PM

If you have a Sim with a bad reputation, if they go to greet someone on a community lot, they're likely to be ignored. Also, other Sims will shudder when they see them.

SmallMizz

5th Nov 2010, 05:10 PM

Sounds like that "roll the pacifier" syndrome thing. It happened to me in several of my families before I figured out what it was. What is that? =P

arathea

5th Nov 2010, 05:33 PM

What is that? =P
Firstborn Syndrome (http://www.sims2wiki.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Pregnancy#Rolling_the_Pacifier_and_Firstborn_Syndrome)

Kailacat

7th Nov 2010, 01:45 AM

In the painting "The Water's Flow"... well just check it out yourself! ;) (It's from SSN)

The water moves... and it also lights up.

xFlamezThief

7th Nov 2010, 09:14 AM

I discovered that i can't use custom double arches when building custom apartments xD

cheshirekat

7th Nov 2010, 03:26 PM

I always tried to build my lots without cheats. Then I found myself wanting to use the CFE cheat now and then. A few months ago, I started using the cheats while building quite frequently.

Yesterday, I was building a lot and realized that with moveobjects on, I could place floor tiles all the way to the edges of the lots. I always thought that the ability to do that was through another cheat I've never used. So, I never tried to place floor tiles on the edge of the lots. It was only by accident that I did.

So, of course I had to go back to the lots I had been working on yesterday to place some more floor tiles.

aaries16

7th Nov 2010, 03:51 PM

"Say Goodbye to..." should not be right next to "Flirt". And I shouldn't click the menu options too quickly. Now I have to mend a relationship.

Kailacat

7th Nov 2010, 04:01 PM

I just discovered that Super Fertility is a DO NOT WANT. Thank god I fixed the number of babies with InSIM before it was too late. *phew*

Oh. And do not try entering in the cheat "stretchskeleton off." Do not. I urge you.

AlexandraSpears

8th Nov 2010, 09:42 PM

A fellow Simmer pointed out to me that when you have SimBlender, and you give a Family Sim the Super Fertility benefit, you don't find out until the second "trimester" if it's twins or not.

Well...in my game, Armand DeBateau's wife was pregnant, and the SimBlender said one baby. Before she entered her second trimester, I gave Armand the Super Fertility benefit, and then in her second trimester, the SimBlender informed me she was having twins!

So...even if you give it to the father and not the mother (which was in this case), you can still have a twin pop up out of nowhere! (I consider the SimBlender to be an equivalent of an ultrasound in that case--not 100% accurate!)

I named them Matthew and Melanie.

arathea

10th Nov 2010, 12:29 AM

cheshirekat

10th Nov 2010, 01:30 AM

I just discovered that locking apartment doors only works from one side.If I lock the door for all sims, noone can enter the apartment but everyone can still leave.
That means instead of simply locking the door, I have to watch that stupid toddler or she'll crawl outside during a thunderstorm to play in a puddle. :rolleyes:

Is that the case, no matter which way the green arrow is pointing when you place the door?

I block the doors with furniture, like a sofa, when I want a sim to stay put. Same with the garden when I put the game on high speed while they are fertilizing or planting. When they are done, they zip into the house too quick for me to catch them to get the next rows ready to plant or fertilize. So, I either block the gate or remove it until I am ready for them to start on the next section.

However, I haven't ever had to lock a toddler in a room. But I think the door's green arrow has to point in the direction you want to block.

arathea

10th Nov 2010, 01:46 AM

Is that the case, no matter which way the green arrow is pointing when you place the door?
There is only one way for the apartment doors to work, similar to the dorm doors. The doors inside the apartment are working fine, it's the entrance door to the apartment that can only be locked from one side. Deleting/replacing the door is impossible too, because of the build mode restrictions at apartment lots.

AlexandraSpears

10th Nov 2010, 12:47 PM

I've actually locked a dorm door while a cow mascot was still in my Sim's room, and she couldn't get out. I just grinned. All she could do was assignments, since my Sim was ignoring her and doing a term paper.

arathea

10th Nov 2010, 04:52 PM

Sorry, that was a bit unclear. Dorm doors are locked from both sides but, like apartment doors and hotel doors, there is only one way you can put them in to make them work. All these doors have an "outside" (the sim pictute for the dorm door, the door mat for the apartment door) and an "inside". I can't just turn them around to have the green arrow point in the other direction.

Bellasaurus

10th Nov 2010, 06:58 PM

Phaenoh made 'Tiny Tikes Modular Playpen Fencing & Gate' - everyone can go through it except toddlers (they must be carried through) - handy for keeping them in the nursery, or you can build a litttle fence around your apartment door with a gate so those pesky tots can't leave of their own accord. It's here on MTS I think, I use it all the time.

AlexandraSpears

11th Nov 2010, 05:31 PM

If you throw a party, and no one shows up...what you do is invite people over.

This happened to me TWICE. My Sims rolled Wants for Have Birthday Party when their daughter was ready to age to child, then to teen (One's a Popularity Sim, the other Romance). They invited friends (via Throw Party) and no one showed up. Then I simply had the Sim invite someone over, they asked if they could bring a friend, I selected Yes.

Both times I wound up with a great party!

zauberlinda12

12th Nov 2010, 12:08 AM

AlexandraSpears

12th Nov 2010, 09:40 PM

A married couple were in bed cuddling and kissing when their roommate entered their bedroom. She proceeded to sit down and read a book right in front of them.

The couple were about to woo-hoo but they kept hesitating. Then, while in each other's arms, they both moved their hands in a shoo-ing motion until the roommate left. Once she was gone woo-hooing commenced.

Sims never fail to surprise me with their "human" reactions.

I think I saw them do the same thing in a hot tub.

Maranatah

13th Nov 2010, 12:52 PM

AlexandraSpears

13th Nov 2010, 07:35 PM

I found out that when someone uses the I Object podium (Legal career reward) they earn Simoleons. Let them have at it for a time and they build Charisma and make some serious coin!

Aegagropilon

14th Nov 2010, 09:09 AM

I found out that if one of the parents is present when a cow attacks, the parent will slap the cheater as well for breaking their kid's heart.

AlexandraSpears

16th Nov 2010, 07:44 PM

Giving a child/teen a memory of Learned to Study doesn't mean they learned.

Prime example: Tara DeBateau. Her memories indicate that Armand taught her to study, yet it takes forever for her to do her homework. I had her stepmother (actually her mother now, I used the SimBlender to have Armand's new wife adopt her, so now Tara has a mother and a father) teach her to study, and now her mother has a memory of Taught Tara to Study.

Seems to be a screw-up on EA's part.

Another thing I noticed: While Sims with bad reputations get an "eww" reaction from other Sims, Sims have this gesture for when they see Sims with good reputations. Kind of like they're spreading their hands in a "here we have a good Sim" gesture.

Nissun

16th Nov 2010, 11:00 PM

When you have a tombstone on screen, the ambient sound at night isn't the usual sound. I kept wondering why I heard crows, and creepy chimes, when I finally noticed that from my standard playing viewpoint I could see a tombstone.

I knew something similar happened with ponds (they give you a very nice swamp like sound, with frogs and crickets), but had no idea since I never play in lots with dead sims. It's neat. Does anybody know if there are other things that alter the background sound (besides the Pets EP, and different seasons)?

AlexandraSpears

17th Nov 2010, 03:13 AM

I found out that when a Sim gets pickpocketed by the Unsavory Charlatan and mixes it up with him, some dramatic but comical music begins to play.

AlexandraSpears

21st Nov 2010, 02:05 AM

Vidcund Curious is carrying a torch for Circe Beaker. Every day at the Beakers' I get a notice that Vidcund is no longer a family friend. Come to find out he has a crush on her, and they used to be boyfriend/girlfriend.

Reminds me of the drama professors.

lauratje86

21st Nov 2010, 02:47 AM

Whilst playing the game I discovered that werewolves get a point of Body skill each time they turn into a werewolf (ie each night). I think I had noticed that before, but I was still quite chuffed. It's especially handy when your werewolf sim has a LTW to reach the top of a career that requires the body skill to be maximised! :-)

Whilst browsing MTS this evening I discovered that someone discovered a way to give baby boys and girls different outfits, instead of all babies wearing the same outfit (either the standard diaper or a default replacement)! Apparently they first posted it on the insimenator site back in June, how did I not find out until now!! Now the baby boys in my game are wearing fakepeeps' blue llama onesie and the baby girls are wearing BlooM's pink dress :-D

(if you want to know more, check out this thread (http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=424871))

Sango_Uchiha

21st Nov 2010, 03:16 AM

In the Goth house, Bella's outfit is in the dresser. It is the red strapless shirt and red skirt.

somethingelse

21st Nov 2010, 03:45 AM

i didnt discover it today, it was a few days ago, but i discovered i cant play the beaker family in strangetown, it tries to load them, then the game shuts down. so far, it doesnt do that with anyone else.

i tried about 3 times.

i'm not that worried about it, but it might be nice to know why if anyone knows why.

at this point i have no horrible compelling needs to play them, i was just curious after having played the curious family and having seen their memories

lazzybum

21st Nov 2010, 06:40 AM

I discovered on one of the Seasons or Freetime outfit, with flip-flop as shoes, the sound of the shoes is actually flip-floppy, especially when they go down the stairs :O

Maranatah

21st Nov 2010, 04:23 PM

I've discovered many sound effects in the game since I started to play with headphones. Like footsteps. They sound so clear now!

simsamu

21st Nov 2010, 11:17 PM

I discovered it can actually be fun to play the premades, due to a major stroke of idiocy on my part I had to do a complete reinstall (losing my custom hood, custom townies the works) so I played pleasantview for the first time and let havoc reak like I would never do on my own precious simmies it was really fun.

Kailacat

23rd Nov 2010, 11:19 PM

I've known this for a long time, however I felt like sharing it.
Did you know your sims can live entirely off cake?
It's true! Keep old birthday and wedding cakes in your Sim's inventories and take them out when a Sim needs a meal! Never go near the fridge again! Pass extra cakes down through the generations and collect more cakes as your sims grow older! Sims can go through their entire life eating nothing but birthday cakes of ancestors they never knew! Your sims will never complain about excessively eating cake, because cake is good!

zauberlinda12

24th Nov 2010, 01:24 AM

I just discovered that dogs will bark and play with their reflection in a mirror. I usually don't have floor length mirrors in my game. I put one in the closet and the dog discovered it. Too cute. :)

AlexandraSpears

24th Nov 2010, 03:38 AM

I discovered that pranking other Sims is a negative social even if the Sim on the receiving end is a good sport (that and gossiping). My DeBateau twins, both girls, are Pleasure Sims (they're teens now). One pranked the other, who pranked back...and I saw the reputation meter getting a bit red. Oops.

katya_stevens

24th Nov 2010, 10:22 AM

Apparently the FT Pleasure Perk Write Restaurant Guide works on cuisine enthusiasm, not cooking skill. I have one sim, Neil, who has zero cooking points (good for an aspiring Celebrity Chef, huh?) and wrote restaurant guides throughout his time at university. The first few he wrote were in the $700-$1000 range (about what I expected for no cooking skills), yet when his cuisine enthusiasm got to 9 (still no cooking points), he was writing guides worth $2,800.

Croutonian

25th Nov 2010, 12:43 AM

I just discovered that dogs will bark and play with their reflection in a mirror. I usually don't have floor length mirrors in my game. I put one in the closet and the dog discovered it. Too cute. :)

I've had a small dog growl at it's reflection, despite the mirror being above a sink and the dog, well...kinda standing under the sink... :blink:

Kailacat

25th Nov 2010, 07:04 PM

The animations for the dancing bar are bad. You know how it's supposed to go against a wall? Well, when Sims "dance" next to it, their arms go THROUGH THE WALL. You'd think Maxis would have at least looked at their own animations to see whether the sim clips into the wall.

AlexandraSpears

25th Nov 2010, 07:11 PM

lazzybum

28th Nov 2010, 07:52 AM

I discovered playing Sims 2 at 1600x1024 resolution on my new montior is epic

callie810

28th Nov 2010, 02:05 PM

I discovered that if you have a parent swing their child around just after said child has eaten a piece of birthday cake results are not pretty, she was throwing up all over the place bless her

FranH

29th Nov 2010, 04:06 AM

I discovered that when you have a fire, the ashes (if you delete them by hand) are worth 1 simeoleon each. So remember, that fire in the kitchen can pay for a new stove!

SingleClawDesigns

29th Nov 2010, 09:44 PM

I discovered that if you don't have a fire alarm outside of your house that tree that caught on fire during that thunderstorm will continue burning everything around it if the rain doesn't put it out first. Nearly had to restart the Lothario household because he wouldn't leave the fire alone (somehow when redoing mods i forgot Squinge's fire one)

lg135

30th Nov 2010, 12:46 AM

Another outdoor fire discovery -- that fire can apparently burn grass.

Sim parents both had to work, so I hired a nanny to watch their baby and dog. It starts raining and lightning strikes the tree, and of course then the rain decides to stop before it put out the tree fire.

The dog runs outside and goes crazy, but the nanny doesn't notice I thought the fire would just stop after the tree burned down, but instead the grass caught fire and spread over to the whole playground set.

I guess the nanny started to notice all the passerby'ers running through the house to the backyard to scream at the fire, because she finally ran out and joined them.

And caught on fire.

And died.

And since no one was home with the baby, the social worker eventually came and took him away. And because the dog is outside watching the fire instead of eating, his hunger and hygiene drops, and the police comes and takes him away.

So my sim came home and discovered all their yard items gone, 4 people dead (the nanny and 3 passerby-ers), baby and dog taken away, and the damn fire STILL isn't out!!

somethingelse

30th Nov 2010, 02:31 AM

yesterday was a bad fire day in simville. i had an outdoor bbq catch fire and it spread, usually when a bbq would catch fire in the past it would go out on it's own.

so i have havolina go over and put it out, and she notices it has spread, so she keeps extinguishing, while theese strangers are jumping up and down like idiots "look! look! fire! it's hot! fire!..." and the guy she's shipwrecked with will barely get his stupid butt out of the way, she had to send him to go take a bath, knowledge sims can be SO stupid, if you want something done right around the house, ask a family sim.

Kailacat

5th Dec 2010, 10:19 PM

When you WooHoo with a burglar... it counts as WooHooing with a service sim.

AlexandraSpears

6th Dec 2010, 12:26 PM

If you have SimBlender, and your pregnant Sim is talking with her pregnant sister on the phone, and you call up the pregnancy scanner...it gives you the lowdown on BOTH pregnancies!

blueskies

7th Dec 2010, 06:00 AM

Today, I discovered you can to yoga on top of the coffee tables if you are very fit.

I discovered that when you go to somewhere in live mode, like downtown, but don't choose a specific lot destination, you'll appear downtown and you can choose the lot there.

my4monkeys25

7th Dec 2010, 01:30 PM

If you have SimBlender, and your pregnant Sim is talking with her pregnant sister on the phone, and you call up the pregnancy scanner...it gives you the lowdown on BOTH pregnancies!

Yup, and you can also adjust their relationships and such.

AlexandraSpears

7th Dec 2010, 02:31 PM

Yup, and you can also adjust their relationships and such.

You mean over the phone?

lazzybum

8th Dec 2010, 03:53 AM

I discovered theres a want to "buy a green energy source"

AlexandraSpears

8th Dec 2010, 05:26 PM

I discovered theres a want to "buy a green energy source"

I notice it's mostly Knowledge Sims rolling it.

I'm no treehugger...but I like it when my Sims get refunded Simoleons instead of having to trudge to the mailbox to pay bills (though I have the automatic bill/rent payer from Sim Wardrobe).

Another thing I found out: All the Tri-Var Sorority girls have a crush on Castor Nova. (Oddly enough he's a Knowledge Sim; with a name like that you'd have thought Romance.)

And I also found out, when the sorority had a toga party, even though the girls only have a crush on Castor (not love), if someone flirts with him--look out! Major catfight ensues.... :rofl:

lg135

9th Dec 2010, 02:38 AM

I learned that when young boys age up to teens, they can age up with facial hair! Also, on vacations, teens can still "go out" and "sneak out" if they're staying at a Vacation home.

funcioná!!!

9th Dec 2010, 03:18 AM

I discovered what happens to old teddy bears.
http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/bb400/crazyokapi455/bunnybear.jpg
I also discovered that penguins can eat fishes, and in a very cartoony way :anime: (that fish was on a OMSP).
http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/bb400/crazyokapi455/penguin.jpg

MsScribble

16th Dec 2010, 09:08 AM

Awww, poor ted. I didn't even know that pengi's would waddle into sim houses - fantastic pictures! lol

I discovered that if your sim rings a friend after hours and wakes them, said friend may come around the next day and slap your sim silly! Over-reaction much?

lg135

17th Dec 2010, 03:31 AM

Three things-

One, that if given the choice, some sims just won't order anything at a restaurant. I had a sim take his date out to eat and when ordering I just chose 'Chef's Choice' since that automatically chooses what the sim had in mind. When the food arrived, only his date had food :-0 I thought it was a fluke, but two dates later, and a family outing, and all he had was his glass of water. Intriguing :)

Two, said sim's ex-wife rolled a want to win a fight against him. I've never seen them actually roll a want to kick another sim's butt xD

And finally, I realized sims really do go out their way to be stupid and annoy you - I have a family of sims living in an apartment on the fourth floor and there's an elevator and stairs available to get down to the first floor. When I direct them to go to the first floor by walking, they ALWAYS take the stairs. When I direct them to run....they take the elevator >__< WHY!!

lazzybum

19th Dec 2010, 02:44 AM

Today I discovered..

-a pregnant sim can reject someone who wants to 'rub belly'. I was quite surprised to see my sim's HUSBAND get rejected, even though they were just making out o_O

-I tried the holiday SP's snowman stereo for the first time. I thought it was a regular stereo until it was turned on. The snowman started dancing to a christmas song using car sounds? (beeps and honks and stuff) lol I was also surprised on how smooth the animation for the snowman was too since its a machine, I kept staring at it.

somethingelse

19th Dec 2010, 08:29 AM

thats really cool that a sim can reject the "belly rub" there are times you dont want your pregnant belly touched by ANYONE but yourself. there are other times you'd pay your husband 5$ to rub your preggers belly for just 5 minutes durring halftime, but he has to promise not to rest his cold beer can on yer belly. the baby doesnt like it.

unless it's august and it's 110 degrees. then i swear they reach for icecubes 4 feet away in the fridge.

i learned that a butler is handy but expensive if yer at uni but want to live alone. be prepared to do alot of digging and selling, and any other shifty lil tricks you may know to keep him paid, cause i think i have the good one, and he's spendy.

of course he might not cost so much if she wasnt somehow cursed and broke things every time she touches them, i stopped bothering with televisions, only keep a computer now that i have a butler, he fixes it, shower...

someone else had a thread about greensmen breaking stuff, i'll go see if it helps cause i've looked and looked at the help section. i cant make heads or tales of anything so far, i'll keep looking.

OH, and i found out you cant have a servo at uni. everyone probally already knew that, but just in case, there ya go...

katya_stevens

19th Dec 2010, 10:20 AM

-a pregnant sim can reject someone who wants to 'rub belly'. I was quite surprised to see my sim's HUSBAND get rejected, even though they were just making out o_O

That's...interesting: normally in my game if I see a rejected talk to/rub belly, the sims don't have that good a relationship (like in my Build a City 'hood. I had Nina Westberg greet a random passer-by (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v203/Katya_Stevens/Albion%20Falls/877.jpg) -- they had only just met, and were something like 8/0 on relationship, and he tried to (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v203/Katya_Stevens/Albion%20Falls/878.jpg) talk to her belly (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v203/Katya_Stevens/Albion%20Falls/879.jpg). Needless to say, she rejected him.)

SimMegaptera

20th Dec 2010, 03:55 PM

I discovered that if a small object gets set down in the snow, it disappears. I have to go into Buy mode to take off the snow layer and see what's on the ground. This works with newspapers and babies, among other things.

It also happens with homework. Chiyo would step off the bus and put her homework on the ground in the snow before going inside. She was a day behind in homework because I had no idea where it had gone, and then I figured out the snow thing and found it. Honey, you constantly have a want to get an A+ in school, but it'll never happen if you hide your homework in a snowbank!

This was happening even though her bedroom had a desk with a desk locator on it -- but I wonder if that thing has a range, because the house is fairly big and her bedroom is in the far corner. Once I moved her desk to the downstairs study at the front of the house, she started putting her homework on that desk like she was supposed to.

katya_stevens

20th Dec 2010, 06:06 PM

Downtown has a crashed alien spaceship in amongst the skyscrapers:

funcioná!!!

23rd Dec 2010, 07:00 PM

The few times that I can play the game (because it crashes all the time), I discover new glitches and bugs. Now I discovered that this glitch hasn't been fixed since University. This is how the juice pineapple (or whatever its name is) looks when you buy it.
http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/bb400/crazyokapi455/RIGHT.jpg
And this is how it looks after it's used a few times. Teleporting cups.
http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/bb400/crazyokapi455/WRONG.jpg
Sorry for grammar mistakes.

AlexandraSpears

25th Dec 2010, 12:52 PM

Those drama professors...I made a couple of them selectable, and any time they make contact with another Sim, automatically their daily/lifetime with them is 100/100, along with Crush and Love added.

Of course I used this for my amusement. One of my Sims had the Frat Brothers household (Sim State) over for a party, a drama professor crashed the party, I made her selectable and had her propose engagement to Kevin Beare (and get rejected) then try to make out with Ashley Pitts. Then her counterpart, the male professor, was hitting on all the guys at the Aspirational Labs hobby lot...and getting rejected!

Funny thing is, they're not Romance Sims. She's Popularity and he's Knowledge.

(What would be hilarious is getting the two of them together...make them selectable and have fun!)

cheshirekat

25th Dec 2010, 06:01 PM

When my sims visited the beach lots on their vacations, I didn't pay much attention to all the stuff they can do on the beach. I heard sims could get sunburned, so I never let them sunbathe.

I've had a few sims living on beach lots and still ignored the beaches since the sims were too busy with other stuff. Well, now I have some of my plantsims living in a beach house. I had them all in the water to build up their body points. Then I had them get out one at a time. To keep them occupied, I had them build sandcastles. Well, I didn't know that they build creativity points with the sandcastles. So now I will have another way to build up their creativity skill points.

Also, toddlers on the beach get the option to "eat sand". Hehehehe.

I had one of my plantsims grow a plantbaby for the first time. It is nice that they skip the baby stage and do not have to learn all those silly toddler skills. Even better when I saw that the plantsim kid also had all the skill points of the parent. Even more surprising, the kid also had the same talent badges as the parent. And, I was quite happy that the kid got to grow up to an adult and not have to be bothered with the kid going to school. No homework and no bringing sims home from school. All win for me. I'm planning on growing a few more plantsim babies.

WooHoo31

26th Dec 2010, 05:50 PM

heytuesday

27th Dec 2010, 01:13 AM

I discovered how you reset a neighbourhood, which I've never done before, but had to today after a rather unfortunate incident. Stupid computer and its non-savingness!

Hwes

27th Dec 2010, 02:25 AM

I'm not sure if this one has been said, but I just got the Pets expansion, and I noticed that when dogs have an action to interact with a sim, the sim picture at the top will be in black and white. I thought that was so funny and clever since dogs are colour-blind.
Actually, it's in black and white to indicate that you can't change it. And dogs aren't colourblind, that's a myth. They do see less colour than we do, but they don't view the world in black and white.
Your idea sounds cuter though.

Peni Griffin

27th Dec 2010, 02:31 AM

The wedding and engagement rings are on the wrong fingers!

smorbie1

27th Dec 2010, 02:40 AM

The wedding and engagement rings are on the wrong fingers!

That's always kind of bothered me. :faceslap:

Maranatah

27th Dec 2010, 02:08 PM

Sim's social bar goes up when they are making snowmen, even when there's just one sim.

ゆかり

27th Dec 2010, 11:09 PM

That when 2 sims sleep together they can do this:
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n621/yoguruto/snapshot_da24986e_7a24fde7.jpg

FranH

28th Dec 2010, 12:39 AM

MadforSims

28th Dec 2010, 12:42 AM

that my cousin believes that the trees look scary when they are in the neighborhood and you are playing alot near them and it is snowing. and that she thinks sims laugh funny, which they kinda do.

AlexandraSpears

28th Dec 2010, 01:41 AM

Pets like playing with sentry bots. My Sims adopted Bonkers, who "plays" with the sentry bot by meowing at it.

Very Playful Sims whine when you direct them to play chess. Even if their favorite hobby is Games and they roll a Want to play chess. Very Serious Sims whine when directed to tickle someone.

zauberlinda12

29th Dec 2010, 03:03 AM

I've discovered (have been discovering) that Cyd Roseland has absolutely no luck with love. I've played him in both Strangetown and Pleasantview...even made him a Romance Sim and the ladies just don't find him appealing. :wtf: :(

EDIT: "Strangetown Cyd" finally got Kristen Singles to look his way. Luckily she's a coworker and when he invited her home from work they talked and flirted. Their first date was a dream date :lovestruc

Kailacat

29th Dec 2010, 04:55 AM

I discovered that Sims could "blow bubbles" and "show off..." to gain fun points.
I swear these are my two favorite interactions. :lovestruc

WooHoo31

29th Dec 2010, 07:23 AM

That when 2 sims sleep together they can do this:
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n621/yoguruto/snapshot_da24986e_7a24fde7.jpg

I've never seen my sims do that type of cuddle in bed. Mine usually just spoon each other.

AlexandraSpears

29th Dec 2010, 11:50 AM

If you have a party in college, and there's a fruit punch barrel...be prepared to see the guys smashing the paper cups against their heads! LOL

@zauberlinda I've paired Cyd up with Tara DeBateau (Belladonna Cove). Of course it helps if you change their turn-ons and turn-offs.

Peni Griffin

29th Dec 2010, 12:45 PM

I think (see the thread called "the new bed cuddles") that the more complex cuddling animations were added in Apartment Life. I try to zoom in on my favorite couples as they get close to waking as this is when I have a chance at seeing top spoon flop over and pull the bottom spoon onto his/her chest, or roll over and ruffle his/her hair, and there's supposedly a face-tickle I haven't caught yet. The better the relationship, the better the snuggles.

simsamu

29th Dec 2010, 04:40 PM

I dont if it's been said but the far away greeting is cute, they shout and do this dorky wave and get all excited, I have only seen this afternoon in the uni.

vampire_girl_77

29th Dec 2010, 05:00 PM

not to click gate 3 on the semester tester...it crashed my game and their was a glitch that wouldn't open them up even though she had the skills :( poor Brandi Jr.

Peni Griffin

29th Dec 2010, 05:44 PM

Gate 3? Semester tester? I spend a lot of time at Sim State and don't know what you mean. What am I missing?

Bellasaurus

29th Dec 2010, 07:24 PM

Gate 3? Semester tester? I spend a lot of time at Sim State and don't know what you mean. What am I missing?

It's a boolprop cheat, although also available here on MTS as a mod http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=148693

I believe it helps you cheat your way through college.

Peni Griffin

29th Dec 2010, 09:23 PM

Euw. What fun is that? And why would it be necessary? If your playstyle has the only way to get through college to be cheating, you can just grow up straight to adult.

'Course there's things that come with the game that feel like cheating in the sense of taking-all-the-fun-out-of-it to me. I've decided to disallow physiology, and I may knock off the smartmilk. And there's things in the aspiration rewards that I can't even imagine why somebody thought they were a good idea. Different strokes and all that.

Oh, yeah, this is a what've you learned while playing thread...Let's see... For months now I've thought the burglar avoided campus, and now I've had a poor residence and the frat robbed in quick succession. So now I'm going around installing burglar alarms; but in each instance, I had plenty of time to wake up a resident to call the cops. The poor students got reimbursed enough to get all their stuff back, and the frat - which has no need of money - got reimbursed for items that I can't even identify as missing.

I also found that you can't kick that stupid coach out of your party, but you can influence her to clean up during it, so that's useful. I'm going to start trying to influence every annoying NPC who invades my lots, see if I can get any good out of them.

lg135

30th Dec 2010, 07:09 AM

More with the Gestures.

I found out that sims can respond negatively to gestures. I had a sim who went to Takemizu and learned to bow (like really learned, not the awkward learning period). She returned and bowed to local she had never met before, and instead of bowing back he backed away and acted disgusted (not the confused response, as he was a local who knew how to bow), and both of their relationship scores went down.

I'm trying to see if I can get it to happen again, but just like parting with a gesture, it only seems to happen occasionally.

AlexandraSpears

30th Dec 2010, 01:09 PM

I found out by tedious work that all the hobbies can be linked to each astrological sign. I tested it with an entire neighborhood, and the results matched what I had for a formula.
That was a bit of work, but now I know how the OTH is done for the simmies. It doesn't even matter what the interests are, or anything but the sign. It's genetic, too.

I've found out differently.

For example, Jason O'Mackey in Riverblossom Hills is (or was, in my 'hood) a "cancer" and his chosen hobby was Film and Literature.

In my Belladonna Cove 'hood, I have a student who's a "cancer", he's 7/10 Neat, and his hobby is Science. I've found that neat Sims ("virgo" personality type) tend to gravitate towards Science. (Interestingly enough, Gabe O'Mackey is an 8/10 neat "cancer" and his is film and lit.)

Bella Goth's personality type is "cancer" and hers is Science.

maybesomethingdunno

31st Dec 2010, 06:23 AM

Not discovered while playing the Sims but while look through the LotTransition semi globals...

Here is a "Dialog prim string set" string apparently from OFB: "It looks like you're visiting this lot with its owner and all of the employees. It's time for a store party!"

Er, when can have you a store party? It must be something shelved or something. I've never heard of anyone having a store party in their game. I could be wrong, though....

mangaroo

31st Dec 2010, 06:27 AM

MSD - good catch. I believe that's the result of sending a social group to an owned business lot where the owner of the lot and any employees are included in the social group, but are not controllable. Since the game has no one to summon to run the lot as a business, it declares "store party!"

maybesomethingdunno

31st Dec 2010, 06:32 AM

Oh, wow! Thanks mangaroo. :)

Heh, I've had OFB for how many years now? :lol: My Sims have been on dates, but I've never really used the social groups option. I've got to try that sometime to see it in action. Learning is fun! :D

AlexandraSpears

31st Dec 2010, 01:54 PM

In Belladonna Cove, at least in my game, any time a Sim of mine goes to Freya's Raiments, Connor Weir is always standing by the cash register. Always. Without fail.

Doesn't that Sim have a life? LOL

karrie85

1st Jan 2011, 03:55 AM

Today I discovered for the first time that you can woohoo and try for a baby in community lot hot tubs. I also discovered that it takes several tries to get a sim pregnant in a hot tub.

Aegagropilon

1st Jan 2011, 04:58 AM

I've discovered (have been discovering) that Cyd Roseland has absolutely no luck with love. I've played him in both Strangetown and Pleasantview...even made him a Romance Sim and the ladies just don't find him appealing. :wtf: :(

:lol: My Strangetown's Cyd is married to Pavlov, who's the son of the Therapist NPC. They hit it off immediately and he gets along great with Pavlov's two eccentric sisters (Anima's into lycanthropy and Psyche is a Fortune sim determined to make Porthos a star). I was pretty tickled when Cyd got abducted; he and Pavlov take wonderful care of their green alien daughter Syzygy.

So he had luck in love in my game... just not with the ladies :P