What did you discover today while playing the sims?

[Peni Griffin]

When kids talk to pregnant bellies, they play peek-a-boo with the fetus! How did I go through so many pregnancies without seeing this before?

Did the adults-classic-dancing-with-kids interaction come with a specific EP? Because I can't get it no matter how hard I try. I really like the way kids throw themselves around solo dancing, but I want to see the intergenerational dancing, too!

[VioletPadfoot]

My adults and elders autonomously dance with their child relatives all the time Peni. I wonder what's stopping them in your game? Its really cute 'cause the children "ride" on the adult/elder's feet like I used to do with my Daddy at Father/Daughter dances.

[Clashfan]

When kids talk to pregnant bellies, they play peek-a-boo with the fetus! How did I go through so many pregnancies without seeing this before?

Did the adults-classic-dancing-with-kids interaction come with a specific EP? Because I can't get it no matter how hard I try. I really like the way kids throw themselves around solo dancing, but I want to see the intergenerational dancing, too!

I believe it came with OFB along with kids being able to "show off" and blow bubbles. I don't remember having any of those interactions prior to adding OFB.

See there's a good reason for you to add it. :D

[LittleFallenAngel]

I discovered that the land lady of my row houses can just walk right on in and go into the back yard of my sims and use their composter. She stayed forever running around the lot raking and collecting things to put into my composter. I finally had my sim shoo her away.

[smorbie1]

Yeah, I have stuff like that happen too. Once I had a lady stay so long in my apartment I had to check to be certain I hadn't somehow added her to the family.

[Aegagropilon]

That when a sim soaps a fountain, nice sims look exasperated and grouchy sims nod in approval.

[HylianWolf]

I recently discovered that you can move entire families from one neighborhood to the other. All you have to do is place the whole lot (Sims and all) into the Lots and Houses bin, open up another neighborhood and place them wherever. I moved my new Kokiri Family from Veronaville to Pleasantview this way. They seemed to lonely out there so I wanted them to be where all my Sims were. Yay for packing up and moving!! ^_^

[Nissun]

Erm, you may wanna look around the forum about the topic of moving families between neighborhoods that way, HylianWolf. Turns out it's not a safe thing to do, as it can screw up things in the neighborhood.

It was recently discussed in this thread: http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=394352&page=1 You may get lucky (after all, I was able to keep playing one of my neighborhoods after doing it myself), but it's not advisable.

[MsScribble]

I found out that when you're randomising sims in CAS sometimes a sim will pop up wearing a towel - its so cute! It should be a regular wardrobe feature.

[Peni Griffin]

I discovered that one of my sims has a fetish! He's a kind of "leftover" sim - I needed a grandmother/granddaughter family and the only way the game would let me have it was to include the father in between; so I built him to be Sleazy Irresponsible Romance Guy, moved them into an apartment, and immediately moved him out with most of their worldly goods in his inventory. I then moved him into a cheap apartment downtown to experiment with storylineless basic playing: fulfilling his wants as they come up, making no record.

Well, I couldn't keep him out of the storyline and he's engaged to and moved in with (but has no intention of marrying) a woman with teen sons. They bought a house and moved in. He showed up at the curb with a want to be Best Friends with a two-bolter, so while the others walked to work and school he blew off work and went on a date. Since I wasn't convinced he could work fast enough to get her back out of the house and the dream date flowers delivered before the boys came home, they went to the Crypt-o-Night Club and got it on in the photo booth.

When he went into the photo booth, he just wanted to woohoo. When he came out, he wanted to woohoo in public. It was a 5000-point want and I know that's a number-racking series of wants, so I figured there'd been a glitch in the aspirations and I'd better send them back for a second time to keep the count of sims he's done public woohoo with accurate. He came out, the want rolled - and was replaced by another want to woohoo in public! O-o-okay. I sent him home for a nap, from which he was roused when the evening first-day outing call turned out to be from one of his girlfriends. He still had that public woohoo want; so I figured what the heck, sent him out to a venue with hot tubs, did it again - and he rerolled it again, along with the first want in the number countdown. He retained them both on rerolling when coming home, too.

Criminy law. Since I've seen other people complain that this or that aspiration keeps rolling the same want incessantly, and I've never had it before, I guess this is a natural result of being guided by their wants instead of actively training them, as I normally do. The only other sim I've overindulged in this way, a Pleasure sim I started at University, isn't nearly so bad - she wants to buy clothes a lot, but isn't constantly rerolling it as soon as it's fulfilled. Probably the effect is exaggerated by the CAS adult restriction to four wants, whereas the Pleasure sim has six now.

[smorbie1]

I learned that doggies chase their tails. I can't believe I had never seen that before; it's so cute!

[MarylenaSTAR]

When a sim eats cake that doesn't necessarily mean that they are an unhealthy life simulator.

[Peni Griffin]

Oh, and I also learned (but you can see how it got overshadowed; it's more useful information, but less pruriently interesting than the fetish thing) that if you rearrange active garden plots the sims' ability to tend them gets borked up. Fortunately the household in which I learned this isn't dependent on the garden for food.

[Bellasaurus]

Grilled Cheese sims will get a memory of eating Grilled Cheese every time they finish a plate of it. (I've just restarted my Uberhood and am playing Natasha Una.)

[Aegagropilon]

Grilled Cheese sims will also get the memory of eating a grilled cheese sandwich with every bite they take if you interrupt their meal, then have them resume eating.

Each time they start eating triggers the "ate grilled cheese" memory.

[Cphyperdude]

yea i know i agree

[Mootilda]

yea i know i agreeThat's what the "Agree" button is for. ;)

[Aegagropilon]

The werewolf's howl can make for some VERY speedy potty-training :lol:

[LittleFallenAngel]

I discovered if the burglar is caught the police will give you an insurance check. Guess in all my years I never caught one before or never paid attention after one was caught.

[Asteriski]

Sims can simultaneously want and fear something. One of mine wants and fears having a baby right now.

[smorbie1]

I discovered that all those warnings about playing the Ottamas family were correct. I finally couldn't stand looking at them in my homeless bin with poor Samantha being perpetually pregnant and moved them into a house. All went well until David grew to adult. Then the crashing began eventually spreading to every house in my game. So, as of yesterday I have a brand spanking new hood and a fresh resolve to never doubt seasoned simmers warnings.

[AlexandraSpears]

In order to keep my Sims from bringing the Ottomas bunch home, I go into SimPE and make everyone in that family unemployed.

[smorbie1]

In order to keep my Sims from bringing the Ottomas bunch home, I go into SimPE and make everyone in that family unemployed.


I have added one (Peter) to a family in the past to make him a servant. I never had a problem. I guess the problems occur when the whole family is played. The thing is, I really liked that family. They were sweet. And Samantha had twin girls.

[Mootilda]

The simplest way to solve the Ottomas problem is to patch your Seasons game. Of course, that won't fix existing neighborhoods.

[Peni Griffin]

I'm playing the Ottomases without any problem (even from before knowing about patches); apparently one later edition of the Seasons EP came pre-patched and I got lucky. People go on about how homely they are, but people always do that and I have much uglier sims in my game; and I really needed some more teens and children.

But it's always better to load the patches.

[Darby]

I recently (within the last week or so) discovered that there's a "bonfire dance" interaction available between sims when there's a bonfire going! It's short, but very cute!

I haven't tested much, but it seems to have a very high acceptance rate. Twice, I've had sims my playable had only just met (0/0) be willing to do the bonfire dance with my sim. With one of them, I happened to notice the daily relationship boost, which was 8 points. Nice! :D

[smorbie1]

I discovered that roommates sometimes don't pay their share of the rent. My family paid their's promptly on Monday as is required. On Tuesday I saw an action show up that the landlord was coming to collect the rent. I cancelled it because I thought it was a glitch. But later, Merrily went out on her own to pay it. A note popped up saying thank you for paying your roommate's rent. Didn't know they had an option not to pay it. Maybe I should have given him a bedroom and a bed, huh?

I thought that when new expansion packs can out, they included the patches for the previous ones. Am I wrong about that?

[Peni Griffin]

Yeah, look at his "roommate satisfaction" meter. The lower that is, the less worthwhile it is to have a roommate.

[Darby]

I thought that when new expansion packs can out, they included the patches for the previous ones. Am I wrong about that?

Yes, you're wrong about that. I don't know where that notion came from, and you're far from alone in having heard and believed that, but the fact is that unless you're using the (evil) compilation packs, which are believed to be pre-patched, all EPs (plus Family Fun Stuff) need to be patched separately with their relevant patches. The one exception is that the NL patch contains the Uni fixes. :)

[smorbie1]

Yeah, look at his "roommate satisfaction" meter. The lower that is, the less worthwhile it is to have a roommate.

There's a roommate satisfaction meter? Where would that be?

[Peni Griffin]

I don't remember the exact track, but it's not hard to find. Click his little icon on the HUD and go exploring. You can find out his personality, mood, relationships, etc., just as with an active sim, but instead of (I believe) an inventory he has a roommate satisfaction icon which, when clicked, shows you a half-dial with a bunch of similies, ranging from the miserable frownie on one side to the 100%-satisfaction smilie on the other side; with an arrow pointing to the appropriate level on the dial.

It's amazing what you find poking around in the HUD.

[Glic2003]

I don't remember the exact track, but it's not hard to find. Click his little icon on the HUD and go exploring. You can find out his personality, mood, relationships, etc., just as with an active sim, but instead of (I believe) an inventory he has a roommate satisfaction icon ....

It's actually in place of the "rewards" icon (since you can't buy rewards for a roommate).

[Glic2003]

don't know why someone would disagree. my sims' kitties sleep on counters all the time.

Yeah, I thought that was so cute I started training my cat to do it. ;) (using "praise - for being on the furniture").

[PolterGeist44]

I discovered that roommates sometimes don't pay their share of the rent. My family paid their's promptly on Monday as is required. On Tuesday I saw an action show up that the landlord was coming to collect the rent. I cancelled it because I thought it was a glitch. But later, Merrily went out on her own to pay it. A note popped up saying thank you for paying your roommate's rent. Didn't know they had an option not to pay it. Maybe I should have given him a bedroom and a bed, huh?
I don't really see roommates as really useful, other than the fact they might 'sometimes' pay the rent. Most of time they're just doing errands, on community lots and if they're at home, they mostly arrive at night when your sims are most likely sleeping already.

Speaking of that, once when I played on my self-made apartment building, there were vending machines and my sim's roommate kept interracting with them until he died O_o
I really wondered what happened right there.

Here lies Pug-Faced Sim, he died fighting a vending machine.

[DrowningFishy]

I learned today so long as there is a teenager in the house a parent can abandon their kids to marry. One of the relationships didn't work out for my sim so I offed him with the fly cheat and called the match maker. Long story short Grace married General Buzz Grunt when it asked who's moving in of course I hit the wrong button. Here I THOUGHT that you had to take the kids. XD

[Peni Griffin]

It's not true that roommates "mostly arrive at night." They keep normal work hours for their jobs. You can see what job they have when you're scouting for roommates, and pick one with hours compatible with your sim's. You can take them along with you when you visit community lots, influence them to clean and repair things (though since you're in an apartment and can call the landlord there may not be any point to the latter), and if you get to be friends with them, ask them to move in and become selectable. Your friends who meet them can treat them like any other townie, befriending or becoming enemies with them, dating them, etc.

It's getting pretty chaotic in my household that has one, with the original sim's half-siblings moving in willy-nilly and an unplanned pregnancy that will require a bigger place soon; I'm thinking of asking the roommate to continue being part of the household. It'll give it that proper bohemian/commune/alternate lifestyle edge to have this random guy as part of the family, and I'm hoping adding his funds will enable them to buy a house that's actually big enough for them all.

[smorbie1]

Speaking of that, once when I played on my self-made apartment building, there were vending machines and my sim's roommate kept interracting with them until he died O_o
I really wondered what happened right there.

Here lies Pug-Faced Sim, he died fighting a vending machine.[/QUOTE]

it really bothers me that the vending machines advertise so highly yet the sims can't act autonomously with them. Inevitably when I have a machine on the lot and one of my sims has been stupid enough to allow himself to get really hungry, he will stand gazing at the snack machine like it had mesmerized him in some manner, only stopping to alert me to his starvation. Meanwhile the fridge stands two steps away. I swear, it's all I can do to stop myself from allowing him to die of stupidity.

[Glic2003]

... influence them to clean and repair things (though since you're in an apartment and can call the landlord there may not be any point to the latter)....

Influencing them to repair things might be a good way to get them to improve their Mechanical skill. I find that roommates have trouble getting promotions because they don't autonomously improve the right skills.

Personally, I like roommates. Having a Sim around that I can't control directly makes the game a little more interesting and gives me a chance to take advantage of the "influence" interactions. They did not seem to be compatible with the "smarter beds" mod, however. I can't get my roommate to sleep in a bed! He always sleeps on the couch or on the lounge chair by the pool (yes, even in winter). ;)

Btw, as far as paying the rent goes, if the roommate does not pay his share, there's an interaction to "ask roommate for rent money." So, if your roomie is a bit of a deadbeat, you might have to start nagging him for the money. ;)

[smorbie1]

I just had the family buy a house and leave him there by himself. I normally don't even bother with roommates. But someone in this family wanted it persistently, so I gave in.

[lg135]

Speaking of that, once when I played on my self-made apartment building, there were vending machines and my sim's roommate kept interracting with them until he died O_o
I really wondered what happened right there.


In general, only in apartments is where I've seen townies and such actually die on their own. I've had 2 neighbors and a roommate who just let themselves drown (there was a ladder! It wasn't me!!) in the pool -- I have no idea why. They could've just gotten out and gone inside but instead they literally swim themselves to death :x (well in the case of one neighbor, I opened the lot and he instantly drowned. Pretty sure his motives were up, as he had just come off a date with my playable. It reminded me of the Pets glitch where a pet parrot will just randomly drop dead when first entering a lot - food dish ful or not)

[Chronicle]

Today I learned that the AI for plantsims seems to be a little... borked.
I have a house with LOTS of windows. A few rooms have sunlamps in them, but they don't really match the decor so I don't want to put them ALL over the house. Still, the sunlamps are there and there's things to do in those rooms. There is also a greenhouse/hot-tub-gazebo outside with a surplus of sunlamps, where a pair of plantsims could reasonably be expected to stay, in the hot tub's comfort, forever. Moreover, when it isn't raining, there's plenty to do outside.
So what do my two plantsim elders do?
They sit inside, as far away from the sunlamps as possible, all day. There are windows nearby, but somehow those don't seem to help. I don't know either.
Then, JUST as it starts raining or the sun sets, they suddenly realize -- OMG! I DON'T HAVE ANY SUN! So clearly the only thing to do is -- not go under the sunlamps, oh no -- RUN OUTSIDE AND PASS OUT. Except there's no sun out there. Just rain and/or darkness. So they lay there, their sun motive slowly draining even more. I'd love to help them out, kindly point them in the right direction, but I'm playing under ISBI rules... which means I can't touch anyone but my one designated-controllable sim. So they're on their own.

Honestly, I'm not sure how they've survived even this one week in which they've been plantsims. I fully expect them to die one of these nights, and then I'll be horribly sad. I'm sorry, Marigold and Glickle! I did my best, but you're apparently suicidal. ):

[Peni Griffin]

Try replacing all your roofs with greenhouse glass.

However, that might cause your non-plant sims to get heatstroke...

[zauberlinda12]

It started to snow and my sim's little kid cried "There's weather in my house!". I was like, wuh? Then I remembered that I had built on a room addition (kid's bedroom) but forgot to extend the roof. So yes, there was weather in his house...snow was all over his bed and desk! I never knew a sim would let you know that. I do that all the time (forget to extend the roof) and never had them say anything.

[Chronicle]

Try replacing all your roofs with greenhouse glass.

However, that might cause your non-plant sims to get heatstroke...
I'd honestly consider doing that, in spite of the heatstroke, but, well... It's a two-story house, and the plantsims in question never go up to the second story. They'd rather hang out in the bathroom. :faceslap: (Most of the sunlamps are up there on the second floor anyway, though I have placed some on the first floor as well.)
So unless the greenhouse glass effect goes through floors, I sadly don't think it would help.

I was also half-considering just locking the plantsims into the hottub gazebo, but then they wouldn't be able to interact with their grandkids. And just as I was considering it, Marigold went and tucked her grandson into bed -- the first time I've seen a sim do that autonomously. D: She's so sweet. Dumb, but sweet.


It started to snow and my sim's little kid cried "There's weather in my house!". I was luck, wuh? Then I remembered that I had built on a room addition (kid's bedroom) but forgot to extend the roof. So yes, there was weather in his house...snow was all over his bed and desk! I never knew a sim would let you know that. I do that all the time (forget to extend the roof) and never had them say anything.
Haha, I remember doing that with one of my first houses! The sims were constantly complaining "There's weather in my house!" but I couldn't figure out why... until one day I was going to take a picture of a sim outside the house, and flipped up the walls and roof. The problem immediately became obvious. Whoops. XD

[rosalinarocks232]

I found out that you can slow dance with another sim under the same room without your husband/wife slapping you. Lol, I had to ORDER them to slap cause the only thing they where doing was crying and using they vending machine every few seconds. I know catching them in the act was depressing, but I didn't know it was that depressing. trololol x3

[CowPlantsForHire]

I didn't discover this today (I actually found out about it back in May), that if you placed a painting on a half wall using the Moveobjects On cheat, then the painting will not disappear, even if you switch to the walls down view. ;) Of course, you can always download mods to have the paintings not disappear on regular walls when switching to the walls down view.

[Peni Griffin]

I discovered that there are some mirrors that don't give you the "change toddler's appearance" option. I learned this on a CC mirror, so presumably the option was added in an EP and that mirror was made prior to that and never upgraded.

Re; Slow Dancing and slapping, Rosalina, probably the cheated-on sim is either so high-nice he is seldom moved to fisticuffs, or has studied anger management. Given sufficient provocation, these sims will fight, but it's not their default option. I have one 10-nice pointer who went off on the cow mascot that flirted his girlfriend and once beat the snot out of a guy who cheated on his sister, but only after witnessing several instances and doing the pained looking-through-his-fingers-wincing thing. Ernest, who has studied anger management, lost his best friend (same guy who got the snot beat out of him, as it happens) to relationship decay after the friend dated his mom, but when they run into each other on a community lot while the friend is with someone else, Ernest just looks Very Very Disappointed in him. One of the friend's dates, however, a random townie, has gotten into fistfights with Ernest and is now dedicated to stealing his paper and kicking over his trash can. The difference is presumably related to the fact that Ernest and the cheating friend became BFF in college, but he didn't know the townie from Adam's off ox.

[Charmful]

I learned I couldn't put a telescope on a University community lot :/ I go to the hobbies bu section and all the logic stuff BUT the telescopes are Avaliable.
Welp there goes my dreams of making an observatory for the college persons.

[Mootilda]

I learned I couldn't put a telescope on a University community lot :/ I go to the hobbies bu section and all the logic stuff BUT the telescopes are Avaliable. Welp there goes my dreams of making an observatory for the college persons.Brainania has telescopes on a community university lot. Just change your lot to a residential lot, add the telescopes, then change it back to a community lot.

[lg135]

After trying and trying, then looking for info, then trying, trying, trying, then researching more and finally getting said info, and then trying again.......

I have (finally) had one sim successfully plead to his boss for his job.... and got his job back!!!!
:beer:
:beer:
:beer:

However,

It was not his same position. He was sent from level nine all the way back to level one. :faceslap: WTH!! I could've called on the phone and got a higher position!!!!!

[Darby]

I learned I couldn't put a telescope on a University community lot :/ I go to the hobbies bu section and all the logic stuff BUT the telescopes are Avaliable.
Welp there goes my dreams of making an observatory for the college persons.

Another solution: Inge Jones' Community Telescopes Patch.
http://drealm.info/simlogical/sl/Sims2Pages/Sims2_MiscHacks.htm

[Peni Griffin]

I learned that my breastfeeding mod doesn't give the wife of my alien's father the option to breastfeed the alien baby, even though she's got plenty of milk from nursing the baby she had about the same time. :( I suppose you can only ask for so much from these things. Maybe the alien already has her teeth, so they pump the breastmilk and feed that in the bottles. Yeah, that's probably it. :)

[saskganesh]

I discovered electric toy cars can go up and down stairs! I have one house (a Boho Bungalow ... renovated by the now deceased Dustin Broke)with two well placed stairways. When his orphans play, the cars climb up one stair, zip across the open concept rec room on the second floor, then barrel down the other stair and finally roar across the dining room to form a big loop. Rinse and repeat.

Very cool, but I have only seen it in this household.

[smorbie1]

I learned that my breastfeeding mod doesn't give the wife of my alien's father the option to breastfeed the alien baby, even though she's got plenty of milk from nursing the baby she had about the same time. :( I suppose you can only ask for so much from these things. Maybe the alien already has her teeth, so they pump the breastmilk and feed that in the bottles. Yeah, that's probably it. :)

Since the alien baby is her husband's child with the pollination tech., she is not related to the child at all. The nursing mod (which I can't do without) won't allow anyone not related to the baby to nurse it no matter how much milk she may have. I mean in normal circumstances you wouldn't nurse your neighbor's baby, right?

[Peni Griffin]

I might, actually. Why not, if I had the milk and was less tired/sore/dried up than her and we had a mutually supportive relationship? (Easy to say, since I've never had a baby and never will.) It used to be common for upper-class mothers, or mothers who were unable to produce sufficient milk, to farm their kids out to wet nurses or assign a servant/slave to nurse them alongside their own babies until weaning time came. It's even possible to induce milk production in a woman who hasn't been pregnant, though it's a certain amount of work; adoptive mothers of newborns, and older sisters or aunts in extended families, have done it. And for all intents and purposes other than the purely biological, the father's wife is this baby's mother; the only one she's ever going to get.

If I were to add a family flag in SimPE, would the option become available, do you know? (I can always go ask the creator if you don't; it won't matter much longer in this family but I have a feeling it won't be the last time it's relevant.)

[M.M.A.A.]

*this was actually discovered days ago, but didn't have the want to post right away*

In a thread, i read a post that i misunderstood something about, which was thinking that sims in the sims 2 cant move their eyeballs, just their heads' direction, but now i have proof to proof opposite.

http://thumbs.modthesims.info/getimage.php?file=1227219

:rolleyes: :lol:

[Fluffy Puff]

Today I discovered the simple, pure joy of awnings. Oh, how they beautify your patios!

I think I'm in love.

[smorbie1]

I hate awnings. You're right; they make things look so much better. But they are almost impossible to see through to do stuff

[SusannaG]

I thought I saw a plug-in for a breast-feeding mod that would allow wetnurses once. I think it was here: http://www.leefish.nl/mybb/thread-1679.html . Would one of those work?

[Fluffy Puff]

I hate awnings. You're right; they make things look so much better. But they are almost impossible to see through to do stuff

I haven't had that problem. Maybe it's due to the fact I'm on the ground level. I'll check it out.

Edit: Yep. With the walls cutaway and the lowest level selected, I have no problem with the awnings obstructing my view.

[MsScribble]

That a lightning storm can break the tv - its probably happend a hundred times and i've just never put the two together, lol.

[Darby]

That the Dance Sphere alien pregnancy is silent. :lol: (I probably knew this before, but it's been quite awhile since I had one of these, and I'd forgotten.)

Anyway, I'm currently playing a werewolf that I wanted to have get alien pregnant. He's a Popularity sim with secondary Knowledge, so no Summon Aliens, but enough Science enthusiasm to get Search for UFOs. Took awhile, but he finally got abducted, but no pregnancy.

So, as soon as he got back (and there was no lullaby), I popped him into a Dance Sphere. After a few hours, *poof* he's gone. (Missed his carpool! :lol: ) I was a bit dismayed to not hear a lullaby when he got back, but checked with the Sim Blender and yeah, he's preggers - yay!

As far as I know, when they reduced the chance of alien pregnancy via telescope abduction, they forgot (or didn't intend to) change the pregnancy chances on the Dance Sphere. As far as I know, that method is still at or very near 100%. Which I'm happy about. :lovestruc

[omglo]

I just discovered through Darby's post that Sims can abducted through the dance sphere. No more dance spheres for them.

[Darby]

I wouldn't worry about it. The Dance Sphere abduction only occurs with sims who've already been abducted via telescope, and then, only in Hard mode.

My daughter discovered this quite by accident years ago. She thought it was a glitch when her sim disappeared while using the sphere, and then was REALLY surprised when he turned up pregnant! :giggler: (She was building a huge alien family with him anyway, so it was all good.)

Also, this only works once with each Dance Sphere, for anyone wanting to use this method. Once an abduction has occurred with one, you must sell it and buy a new one if you want it to happen again.

[Peni Griffin]

I had no idea they had reduced the chance of pregnancy by abduction. I had understood that if aliens abducted a man, he came back pregnant.

[Darby]

They pretty much had to reduce the chance of pregnancy in order to balance the new relative ease of abduction that came with FT. Knowledge sims with the Summon Aliens perk will be abducted within three nights or less, in my experience. (I don't have tons, so I may just have been lucky, but still...) The Search for UFOs option for sims (any aspiration) with high Science enthusiasm takes longer, but the chances are still better than pre-FT abductions.

I'm glad they apparently left the Dance Sphere alone, though, because I lurve me some aliens.

My pregnant werewolf developed an inexplicable craving for cheesecake one night... :D

[Matt53099]

i discovered that sims have a lot of WTF moments :lol: i had over 20 in 2 hrs :rofl:

[SingleClawDesigns]

Unless this is a glitch and I don't believe so because i had Brandi Broke and child Beau Broke do this to see if Brandi was a fluke.

After reading physiology make them jump rope and you'll get the body skill completely filled in about an hour.

[M.M.A.A.]

*lower jaws falls open with eyes widley open*
What?! are you sure? well that'll save time and hard work :P

[Cyjon]

After reading physiology make them jump rope and you'll get the body skill completely filled in about an hour.

That's yet another bug EA never addressed. I know somebody fixed it but I can't remember who. It might be alfixes at MATY (http://moreawesomethanyou.com/ffs/al/hacks/).

[VioletPadfoot]

That's yet another bug EA never addressed. I know somebody fixed it but I can't remember who. It might be alfixes at MATY (http://moreawesomethanyou.com/ffs/al/hacks/).

And that would explain why I've never come across this. I've had all of Pescado's fixes for a long time now...

[simonem]

I discovered my sims can woohoo in a helicopter - it bounces around on the helipad and fireworks come out!

A very small kitten can eat a fish 10 times it own size and still be hungry afterwards. And a cute little white kitten can grow up to be the biggest, fattest, ugliest grey cat with a pushed in face. It spent the rest of it's life relentlessly following my sim around the lot - everywhere.

The paper delivery person will shelter on your porch during a hail storm while my Knowledge sim carried on fishing and looking at him wondering what he was doing.

That while my Family sims are awful parents, the Romance guys are completely devoted daddies. My Knowledge sims seem to forget they had the baby to start with and my only Pleasure sim parent happily snoozed in the hammock while the Social Work took the poor kid away.

And that my very first post was about woohoo in a helicopter :rofl:

[MarylenaSTAR]

I have been playing pleasantveiw in a rota for the past few weeks. At Beau Brokes birthday party I invited some of Brandi's friends, Dina Caliente, Nina Caliente and Cassandra Goth. Well, the moment Beau grew into a child and got talking to Cassandra he rolled wants: Play with Cassandra, Be friends with Cassandra, tell joke to Cassandra. I mean, woah! And a few days later at Dina and Mortimer Goth's wedding I invited alot of people including Brandi Broke and Beau! (Dustin was married to Angela) Well after the marriage ceremony I saw Cassandra and Beau doing that cute 'Dance together' interaction that came with OFB. I mean, they really took to eachother! (You should see Cassandra now, she's freaking gorgeous)

[Bwinney43]

I have been playing pleasantveiw in a rota for the past few weeks. At Beau Brokes birthday party I invited some of Brandi's friends, Dina Caliente, Nina Caliente and Cassandra Goth. Well, the moment Beau grew into a child and got talking to Cassandra he rolled wants: Play with Cassandra, Be friends with Cassandra, tell joke to Cassandra. I mean, woah! And a few days later at Dina and Mortimer Goth's wedding I invited alot of people including Brandi Broke and Beau! (Dustin was married to Angela) Well after the marriage ceremony I saw Cassandra and Beau doing that cute 'Dance together' interaction that came with OFB. I mean, they really took to eachother! (You should see Cassandra now, she's freaking gorgeous)

That's cute/funny. Even funnier because in my game pre-computer explosion I killed off practically the whole Goth family. I got so sick of Mortimer jabbing his bony old finger into the shoulders of my science-y sims, dammit! And then there was Cassandra who knew Don was cheating from a mile away!(This was before I knew about Jealousy hacks/ACR/No jabbing finger telescope hack)

I think I had posted somewhere how Alexander was the last alive, wearing horrid clothes and constantly being haunted by his dead relatives. He'd probably be dead from being scared if my computer hadn't destroyed itself.

[MarylenaSTAR]

That's cute/funny. Even funnier because in my game pre-computer explosion I killed off practically the whole Goth family. I got so sick of Mortimer jabbing his bony old finger into the shoulders of my science-y sims, dammit! And then there was Cassandra who knew Don was cheating from a mile away!(This was before I knew about Jealousy hacks/ACR/No jabbing finger telescope hack)

I think I had posted somewhere how Alexander was the last alive, wearing horrid clothes and constantly being haunted by his dead relatives. He'd probably be dead from being scared if my computer hadn't destroyed itself.


Haha that's so funny! I know about the ghosts, right? When Mortimer and Dina got married, right before they got to the actual marrying (they were jut standing in the arch) a ghost went out and scared Mortimer and caused him to wet himself!

I've planned for Cassandra to marry Beau, and I also discovered she's older than Dina! I mean, ewwww. :S

Unfortunalty the Calientes are non-exsistant since Dina is now married and is Dina Goth and Nina died whilst living with Don and shortly after the birth of their daughter Taylor. Don is currently engaged to Mellisa Lon (a sim made by my sister who is also a romance sim) and has one daughter, Mia who is a drop dead gorgeous teen and Tom who is still only a baby boy.

Sorry, I rambled a bit but Pleasantveiw is hardly recognisable now I'M in charge!

[num3rat0r]

Wow...old thread.
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I discovered my Trottco TV was broken. Why?
RECOLOUR FAIL :D

[omglo]

That while my Family sims are awful parents, the Romance guys are completely devoted daddies. My Knowledge sims seem to forget they had the baby to start withI've noticed the same thing about family and romance sims. My knowledge sims are nuts over their toddlers though, at least while there are still skills and nursery rhymes to teach.

[AlexandraSpears]

I found out how to export walls and floors from Life Stories for use in Sims 2 (since I own LS as well as Sims 2). Pretty easy, really--just time-consuming!

*goes back to exporting those really cool tile floors*

[LittleFallenAngel]

I discovered my sims can woohoo in the closet. Was an accidental find, I was testing the lot and trying to change my sims outfit to make sure there was room between the closet and bed and the option to woohoo with his wife came up (never messed with closets until recently.) I was laughing the whole time what with the door banging opened and closed. Made my day. xD

[Peni Griffin]

I found out that there's damn all anything to eat on Twikkii Island! Seriously, I had my second family ever to take a vacation stay at Potterhouse Bungalows (should've looked at them in build mode first) because I figured it'd be better to have kitchenettes than deal with the crappy service at the restaurant at Twikkii Beach Hotel, where three out of four meals my first family ordered in the restaurant were stolen, and room service costs too much and brings either one serving or six (and you can't store them in inventory). So I get to the Bungalows and there's no kitchen on the site anywhere. Who builds bungalows with no place to eat? Not even the inadequate buffets you used to get in Sims1! The groom of the honeymoon couple was hungry almost the entire time they were on the island, and though I may have missed a spot, the only full-service restaurant I found was the one at Twikkii Beach Hotel. Everyplace else had either a grill (and they couldn't get at their inventoried fish; they really wanted to fish and I couldn't find a place to do it) or a food stand. Those two ate enough Pineapple Surprise, Luau Ribs, and Teriyaki Mahi-Mahi to last a lifetime.

I've been in that exact situation before IRL, but in my case it was because no one's set up to feed hypoglycemic vegetarians on low-sodium diets, which is understandable.

Also discovered how to woohoo in the hammock, which is trickier than it sounds!

[lg135]

^S'why one day I just went into each vacation hood and edited all the lots to my liking. Now if only I had the same energy to redo Downtown -_____-

I've noticed the same thing about family and romance sims. My knowledge sims are nuts over their toddlers though, at least while there are still skills and nursery rhymes to teach.

I like seeing how aspirations work in other people's games :) In my game I think the Knowledge sims are rather distant. They always roll wants for their children to achieve things, but they never seem to roll wants to do things with them. Fortune sims as well sometimes.

Romance to me is like Popularity, but more upfront about what they want. Popularity sims in my game want to woohoo just as much as Romance, but they play it off with "just making friends." :P

[AlexandraSpears]

Cellphones wake up babies.

[Peni Griffin]

Other things I learned on Twikkii Island:

A sim who is outgoing enough to skin out of his shorts in the hot tub will wear his trunks in the hot springs, but will not change back into street clothes when he leaves the lot, like his shyer bride. He'll happily spend the entire vacation in his swim trunks. Which is good news for the bride and the player...

Hot springs don't work like hot tubs - you can't cuddle and so on in them. :(

Not in the sauna or changing booths, either.

There don't seem to be any hot tubs on Twikkii Island.

(Don't judge me. They were on their honeymoon, for pete's sake! Of course they were going to look for that option where ever they went. Hmmm...forgot to check on the pirate ship. Probably not, though.)

Vacation lots save, so if it's raining when Couple A ends its vacation, it will still be raining when Couple B starts; if Couple A left Twikkii Beach Hotel on a close-up of the phone booth, Couple B starts there with a close-up of the phone booth; if Couple A left a lot in fast forward Couple B will arrive on fast forward; if you took a players'-eye look at a lot from above the view will still be from above when you play it, which makes picture taking a bitch; and so on.

I really, really need to figure out how to change the camera angle. Probably also need a better mouse.

The wants of sims on vacation are really erratic, sometimes scrambling for no apparent reason.

Vacation lots don't forcibly evict you when the time runs out, like University lots do. You can apparently hang around the lot indefinitely until you realize that you need to click on the phone to call the shuttle for the airport. (My first honeymoon couple owned a cell phone; the second had to use the payphone, so I kept clicking on the sim trying to end the vacation, and not getting an option.)

[Nalia]

Vacation lots don't forcibly evict you when the time runs out, like University lots do.
The lots won't evict you but the shuttle will come to get you to the airport nonetheless.

You can apparently hang around the lot indefinitely until you realize that you need to click on the phone to call the shuttle for the airport.
False. You can't hang around indefinitely. See above.

[Darby]

Hot springs don't work like hot tubs - you can't cuddle and so on in them. :(

Not in the sauna or changing booths, either.

No woohoo option on the sauna or changing booth? I'm 99.99% certain it should be there for those two items.

[Peni Griffin]

I have yet to get a "woohoo in changing booth" option no matter what I did, so presumably I'm doing something wrong there. How does one go about doing that; ditto in the sauna?

I was going to wait out the timer, but the bride's energy was tanking so I went ahead. Any idea how long it takes after the clock runs down for the shuttle to come on its own? Because it was a good long stretch after that bar filled up before I gave up and realized I needed to use the phone.

[smorbie1]

I think it comes like at 9 a.m. the day you are scheduled to leave. I usually get bored and cancel the vacation before that though.

One time I had a couple of limited means and let them stay for several days in a very expensive hotel. I discovered if you can't pay the bill when you leave, it will arrive with your next scheduled bill delivery. So instead of having bills for like 200 simoleans, I had a bill for several thousand, Had to sell stuff to pay for it.

[Darby]

I have yet to get a "woohoo in changing booth" option no matter what I did, so presumably I'm doing something wrong there. How does one go about doing that; ditto in the sauna?

Well, dang... I just did some testing to see what the exact process is, and found that the changing booths - both the plain one and the one with the camera on top - are very tricky.

I've got a playable on a date with a townie at the Maple whatever Spa, to which I added the plain (non-camera) changing booth and a sauna. Sent the playable in to a booth to change to swimwear (the only options were Change Into... and Plan Outfit, as usual), then checked to see if a Join option would appear for the date. Nothing. So I made the date selectable and clicked on the changing booth to see what options she had and voila! - Woohoo was there.

Didn't work, though. She started in, but then he came back out and woohoo action in the date's queue went away. I tried a couple more times with each of them, and at one point got an error. Worse, after I hit Reset on the error, I could no longer get the Woohoo option on either changing booth at all.

I'm highly annoyed, because I KNOW this is possible, because I've done it. It was years ago, and might have been only the one time, but I remember it being like photo booth woohoo where everyone in the store comes over to cheer. I may have to test this in a vanilla 'hood...

The sauna worked great, though. The trick there is to get both sims in there, then click the sauna itself - not the other sim - for the woohoo option. :) (I'd done that one before too, but didn't remember details as to how.)

[AlexandraSpears]

I think WooHoo in changing booth is only an option if there are clothes for sale nearby. If you have one just by itself, with no clothing racks around...WooHoo isn't available. (Because your Sim is supposedly "trying on" clothes, is my guess.)

As for the sauna, what Darby said...click on the sauna seat and you'll have a pie menu "WooHoo/Try for Baby with...."

[Peni Griffin]

Ah, that explains it on the sauna - I was clicking the sims. And I haven't tried very hard (because I generally don't woohoo sims who don't both want it, it's rare for that to happen except on a date, and my best date venues aren't clothing stores) with the changing booths, but I've never gotten any options, anywhere, by clicking the booth except for "change" and "plan outfit." I knew it was doable, not only because I've seen it in simblogs (where it might have been down to a mod) but because the text for the "public woohoo" memory specifically references changing booths. I can give that a go next time I play my Romance sim with the publicity fetish.

I now get the "woohoo in elevator" option at Hans' Trapdoor Co., ; so OFB is justifying its installation.

[Aegagropilon]

Kristen Loste and Malcolm Landgraab IV got the "public woohoo" memory when their ACR-addled brains told them that that gazebo in the center of the park was a private enough place for some fun. (At least five sims did the "Omigod nudity! D:" shriek as they walked by them XD)

[Aegagropilon]

I discovered that it's possible to use the Resurrect-o-nomitron to resurrect sims whose gravestones have disappeared due to EP installation. Welcome back, Genesis Lam! :D

[lizard49]

If a Sim owns a business & has advanced to the level of being able to Assess Mood, he keeps this ability even if he sells the business back to the community.

[Lady Scarlet]

I discovered water drops leaking from my celling XD

http://i1196.photobucket.com/albums/aa414/LadyScarletSmith/Waterdrops.jpg

[AlexandraSpears]

Mr. Big (and likely the Diva) always have all Flirt options available, no matter how high or low the relationship score towards another Sim.

[lazzybum]

Discovered that not having a fix for Freetime's Model Train set's random combustions are good for increasing death opportunities. Was too busy surfing the net while having the game run, when I realized the fire was not a usual kitchen fire, and the guy who was playing with it was already dead.

[Charmful]

I discovered that if a person is busy petting a kitten and their car pool comes, they will take it with them. I looked for [sim] hours for that little kitten since it's needs were getting low but it wasn't on the lot or invisible and then it showed up when the girl came home from her job and ran to the food like it was starving.

[smorbie1]

One of my teen sims, Jamie HuMan, was practicing her charisma in the mirror. Prior to that she had picked up toddler sister, Tweety, and brought her upstairs. She continued to hold Tweety while skilling in the mirror. The then took Tweety to school with her, and later to her part-time job. When she came home from that, she and Tweety went right back to looking in the mirror.

[DrowningFishy]

That the asperation (sp?) to whoohoo 20 sims is actually the most fun, and it comes with a lot of halarity. Add in a fiance and man it is a good time.

Oh and having your fiance run out of the wedding is negitive for a romance sim (same with actually getting married talk about being damned if you damned if you don't), but cheating is a positive thing for a romance sim.

[Peni Griffin]

Last night Pigeon Hawkins moved out of University and today first thing I went to Drama Acres, added her to her old family, and loaded the household so I could get her some decent clothes to get married in.

Now, in the year I've been playing this neighborhood, the loading screen for Goz and Kitty Hawkins has shown them in the center of the blue box surrounded by family. As long as they were adults, if neither of them was holding a baby or a toddler, Kitty would be kissing Goz. Once they both turned elder, they were standing next to each other at the center of the box. Now, suddenly, Pigeon is in the center, with two of her sisters on the left, one sister and Goz on the right, and Kitty sitting on the ground in front of them (lounging sexily!) alongside the dog.

I was a little taken aback. It was as if the game knew she was coming back to take headship of the household away from her parents. Then I thought, "I bet the program is set up to always have the adult in the center, if available." But when Oliver Onions moved back in with his elder parents, he didn't take up the center - he took his old teen position off to one side.

So I suppose it's a random change. Spookily appropriate, though. Next time I play this family, Pigeon will be getting married; and the arrangement will change again, so maybe Kitty and Goz will be back where they belong. I hope she's kissing him again.

[SimMegaptera]

Even better than closet woo hoo is car woo hoo. :) "Sit in car" leads to a lot of fun. I don't know why Sylvia Marie can't get pregnant, though. Maybe Frankie is shooting blanks.

[Peni Griffin]

Keep at it. Pierre and Marie Curian had to try about ten times to get their second child; then I impulsively had them try for baby once on the last possible day Marie could get pregnant before turning elder, and bam! Late-life baby. Maybe Frankie and Sylvia Marie are waiting for you to find the perfectly tacky toddler outfit. Though personally I think the pink tuxedo would be hard for CC creators to top.

Last night I discovered that if you cancel the "serve food" option on the buffet before all the food is out, you can't reactivate it. Which is okay, since there's always huge wastage at a party, and this way I only had to throw out about half a turkey. You can put a full buffet in the sim's inventory, but then the food may spoil before the next party finishes.

Also, sims can hate an apartment! I moved a sim into one so he could buy his post-graduate clothes and have a phone to be called for his wedding party, and he wept after signing the lease. He also immediately wanted to buy a vacation home (though I just used a big chunk of leftover grant money to buy him one right before he graduated) and a community lot. I guess some Fortune sims are naturally interested in real estate.

[AlexandraSpears]

You know, there are times when I've had a Sim try for baby...they try like three or four times in a single morning, then wind up with twins. I've seen it happen so many times.

[saskganesh]

One of my teen sims, Jamie HuMan, was practicing her charisma in the mirror. Prior to that she had picked up toddler sister, Tweety, and brought her upstairs. She continued to hold Tweety while skilling in the mirror. The then took Tweety to school with her, and later to her part-time job. When she came home from that, she and Tweety went right back to looking in the mirror.

I just had Ronnie Harrison, granddaughter of Nina Calliente, take her newborn to work and back with her. I guess her legal firm is pretty progressive. The little dude seemed quite fine with this unexpected outing ~ of course, he was clasped to mum's breast the whole time, so like what did he care?

[SimMegaptera]

Penelope Wiley got a map to a lost location while spending the weekend at Takemizu. She and her sister Lexie snuck off, bought kimonos, and went to the Pagoda in the Shadows. I'd also never seen the process of learning a new greeting -- after having tea with the wise man, he taught Lexie to bow, and she was clumsy at it for a bit but finally nailed it. Once she was able to bow properly she also had the option to bow to Penelope, who didn't know how to bow, and now Penelope can bow clumsily. They'll have to teach their dads and then spread it around Belladonna.

[Amalia81]

I never noticed this before, but apparently reading scifi novels pulls down the reader's hygiene level. Huh??

[AlexandraSpears]

I never noticed this before, but apparently reading scifi novels pulls down the reader's hygiene level. Huh??

I guess it makes them sweat, while reading a cookbook (not studying Cooking) pulls down their Hunger motive.

[DrowningFishy]

I was watching Nervous making happy with his wife. Nervous has always been so romantic with his wives without having to be qued. Now a while back the daughter Nervous had with a GF passed away. Mne was as far into the red as a child can go when she passed. Of course this left behind the recipe for an angry ghost. Time went on with no sign of the ghost of Mne, till of course I start watching Nervous and his second wife; who is still bloody pregnant wife.

My introduction of Mne creates two discoveries I have learned today. Well besides my heart can completely stop and I can be so startled I cannot wet my pants.

1. Being refused from a kiss is not the only way to abort a kiss, a sim can be frighted off while in the process of kissing.
2. Ghoasts can pop out of the body of another sim.

http://s1111.photobucket.com/albums/h462/DrowningDaFishy/?action=view&current=snapshot_bafeb2d0_9b797266.jpg

[Aegagropilon]

Sims can pet cats that are sitting on the couch:
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj202/aegagropilon/GrimmPetsEarthborn.jpg

[SimMegaptera]

I love your green spotty kitty!!

@Peni, oooh, that reminds me, I do need to find some tacky toddler and kid clothes.

ETA: krehata's Kitty Dress has a leopard spotted skirt and booties. Perfect for Sylvia Marie's daughter. It better be a daughter. ;)

http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=385441

[SimMegaptera]

When they learn parenting from a book, it doesn't do much as far as I can tell. It gives the adult the option to 'check on' a baby in a crib. This consists of picking the baby up, holding it to one's shoulder and cooing to it, and then the baby gets a thought bubble with a toilet in it. It's always a toilet. Apparently babies don't think about anything but pee. I try checking on them before they get fed and they still just think about toilets, not about being hungry.

ETA: little Takako Mashuga just made a liar out of me. She thought 'bed' when someone picked her up while she was sleeping and woke her up; later she randomly thought 'shower'. Can babies be washed? We'll find out!

ETA: of course! Babies get bathed in the SINK. :lol:

[Darby]

Yeah, in my game, I only ever bother having sims learn about parenting if it will give them a needed aspiration boost and they've got nothing better to do.

I'm not much of a baby person at all, but I think they're adorable when being bathed in the sink. :lovestruc

[Peni Griffin]

I have sims who are going to have large families, or who have a lot of experience with babies, read up on parenting. As far as I can tell, babies have hunger, energy, and hygiene scores. You never have to worry about the hunger scores because they'll be fed obsessively by their parents and visiting adults; but if your sim's fun is low and you're trying to decide whether to play with the baby or go do the crossword puzzle, you can check on the baby and if the bed symbol shows, you know to leave him alone and go do the crossword.

[SimMegaptera]

Hunger, energy, hygiene, and... I think the bathroom switch is binary, on or off. They don't have to go to the bathroom until they've actually messed their diapers. Which is sort of like real babies. ;)

[Darby]

Well, they do have a bladder motive, for sure. As with all other sims, when bladder bottoms out, then tops off, then the diaper is soiled and hygiene is tanked. Bathing isn't actually necessary, because changing the diaper deals with they hygiene issue, but it's cute anyway.

[Peni Griffin]

Yeah, I forgot the bladder when I was typing, because there's nothing you can do about it till the diaper change kicks in. Hunger, energy, and hygiene are the ones the parents can affect in game. They may have a fun score, but if so, my parents already play with the baby enough (because they're desperate for some fun and I figure they may as well bond with Junior while they're at it) that it stays full.

I think you have to bathe the baby if you change a diaper without the diaper-changing station; but I haven't put myself through that hell since my very first experimental game with the Broke family.

[Darby]

I think you have to bathe the baby if you change a diaper without the diaper-changing station; but I haven't put myself through that hell since my very first experimental game with the Broke family.

Have to, no, but it may be that, as with toddlers, the hygiene meter doesn't get topped off with a non-changing table diaper change.

As for infants' fun meters, I once heard that it increases when they're on the floor. I seem to recall having verified it in my own game, but it was so long ago, I can't swear to it. At any rate, after having heard that, it doesn't bother me so much when sims leave babies on the floor. I figure the change of scenery/perspective has got to be interesting for them. ;)

ETA: Oh yeah, so I've got a "What did you discover today..." thing. Tonight, trying to breed cats, I discovered that I could have two females "Try for Kitten". :blink: So I did, and it worked. I do have TwoJeff's Pregnancy for All Genders, so it's probably no big mystery, but I didn't know it affected pets too!

[Peni Griffin]

My frat boys can't prank the cow mascots! Hmph...

I also couldn't get an appropriate action between a frat boy and the cow mascot who just made a pass at his girlfriend (obviously, I need to smite the mascots some more; they've already forgotten what happened the last time!). He did the spontaneous slapping, and then cried, but I couldn't raise an "attack" or a "fight" or even an "Irritate" interaction. Fortunately there was a llama mascot at the party who was looking for an excuse to jump the cow anyway, but it would have been a lot more satisfactory for Luis to have done his own ass-kicking.

Nobody ever gets to beat up the cow mascots but the llama mascots. It's not fair. :(

Edit to add: Oh, and if you have good chemistry with someone, you have specially-marked options to irritate someone you're at negatives with!

[AlexandraSpears]

Peni--Have you heard of TwoJeffs' cow mascot trophy head? I always put one of these in my Sims' lots (including dorms).

It's hilarious!

[Peni Griffin]

I've seen the cow mascot trophy head, but do you really want to see that on your wall all the time? It might be appropriate deco for the frat, though.

When the cow mascot comes to kick over your trash can in winter, he/she wears Outerwear, with the cow head on top. Disturbing.

Autolights will turn on the lights in a room the cockatiel flies through.

[margonaute]

Peni, when are you going to start a sim blog??? I wanna see your guys! :bunny:

[Peni Griffin]

When I am completely incapacitated and have nothing else to do but learn to take decent pictures.

If you really want to see some of them, I post in the pictures forum sometimes, when I get a pic I think might look like something by the time it gets to the newsgroup. And of course you can see two of them in my avatar, Sage Ann and Ernest doing their "excuse me while I gaze into my spouse's eyes" routine.

I still can't make changing booth woohoo happen. It's frustrating. For me, and the sims.

[Darby]

I still can't make changing booth woohoo happen. It's frustrating. For me, and the sims.

Me neither. :( I begin to think one of the later EPs broke this interaction. Or maybe I've got a hack that prevents it somehow. Can't imagine what would do that, though. It's not an ACR2 option either. Should be.

I wonder if TwoJeff's is all done tweaking ACR2? I REALLY need to wander over there and find out...

[lazzybum]

I just tested out changing booth woohoo since I havent done it for a long time, it still works for me (I have all EPs & SPs). You need to have a sim in there first with "try on" when shopping, then the second sim can join in.

And for ACR2, its been called beta ever since but its works just fine. I've been using it for months without any problems.

[Darby]

I just tested out changing booth woohoo since I havent done it for a long time, it still works for me (I have all EPs & SPs). You need to have a sim in there first with "try on" when shopping, then the second sim can join in.

And for ACR2, its been called beta ever since but its works just fine. I've been using it for months without any problems.

OMG, you are so right, lazzybum - thank you!

Peni, it works. We were just doing it wrong! :lol:

Lazzybum, I've been using ACR2 for ages also, and I don't have any serious complaints either. A changing booth woohoo addition would be welcome, however. I just posted on the ACR2 wish list thread about it. I don't know what the scoop is and ACR2 status, but my sense is that TJ doesn't seem to be working on it, but has not officially declared that he's done. So maybe he will still do some tweaks. *fingers crossed*

[DrowningFishy]

Today after having 2 toddlers, and 2 babies, a teenager, million cockroaches, over worked butler, and a married couple who havn't whoo-hooed in like ever my sims needed a bigger house. If only for the sake of their butler... And of course to lazy to deal with those all consuming roaches (yes you can delete them with move objects on). So while I was building a new house an idea popped into my head.

If a sim marries into a family teenagers can be left behind, so does moving work the same way?

I don't want to say those sims died needlessly so teens can live alone... ... ...

BUT I have to say it, those past sims died needlessly so the teens could live alone; they could have died for my sheer enjoyment.

[Bellasaurus]

If a sim marries into a family teenagers can be left behind, so does moving work the same way?

If you use the Find New Place option on the paper or the computer you can indeed choose to leave the teen alone in the old house.

[DrowningFishy]

If you use the Find New Place option on the paper or the computer you can indeed choose to leave the teen alone in the old house.

Yeah I figured that out, I was just trying to say that without having to admitt it considering I took the road of offing the adult sim for so long. ::sigh::

Always new things to learn in Sims.

[Peni Griffin]

Can teens Find New Place and move out too? And stay teens? Or do they age up if you do that?

[DrowningFishy]

Teens can't move out if they live with adult sims. If a teen lives with other teens can he move out? Well, I do not know the answer to that, I am guessing not. However you can move teen(s) using the move family tool which moves the whole family into the bin so you can move them into a new house. An alone teen is not stuck in the same house till he is an adult.

[AlexandraSpears]

Teens normally cannot move out on their own unless you have Inteen or another hack.

[margonaute]

If the town burglar comes to your store and you sell her something, she will just walk out without paying!

[FranH]

Actually, teens can be left in the house alone, if the adult moves out. They're considered 'self-sustaining' for all intents and purposes. As a matter of fact, there is one family in the FT EP (Newsons) that has 2 teens taking care of 4 other children.

[lg135]

^But I don't think they can call on the phone to move out of the household themselves without a mod - even the Newsons. I remember Ginger had to age up before she and her son could leave the household.

[Bellasaurus]

Carrying a dirty diaper to the trash drains hygeine faster than anything else (except maybe jogging!).

[Aegagropilon]

Today I discovered that the worst sort of SimHell is the one of my own creation :faceslap:

In a move fueled by strong cold medicine and a peculiar sort of vengeance, I decided that it was time for Uncanny and Tank to raise their own damned kid. Prior to this, their son Gunn's primary caregiver was Tank's teenaged half-brother Howitzer. My leap of logic was, since Howitzer was already an acting teenage dad to his nephew and that I was planning on having him and Grimuara reproduce eventually anyhow, why not just bop on over to PMBD and download a teen pregnancy hack! That way Howitzer could move in with Grimuara's family and get his Family sim baby fix with his own baby while Tank and Uncanny could, as planned, raise their own damned kid. Plus, I missed seeing babies in the Subject household. Everyone wins!

However, my plan hit two snags:
1) Grimuara is fertile Frieda's fertile daughter: she had natural twins.
2) Grimuara's father Nervous has apparently (and understandably) decided that his new goal in life is to make Howitzer suffer as much as possible. He's nice to him as long as someone else is around, but the second they're alone it's alllllllll over. (The best part is that Nervous rolls the want "be friends with Howitzer" whenever he goes into torture mode :lol: )

And, on top of all of this, Grimuara's sister Difficult came home from her afterschool job with the flu and quickly passed it to Grimuara and Howitzer. I tried to keep the adults in the house from catching it, but Nervous came down with the flu after tormenting Howitzer, which means that it's only a matter of time before Frieda catches it, too.

So now I've got a household with twin newborns who specialize in simultaneous diaper-filling, four 10 points active sims with the flu who absolutely will not rest, one well sim who's constantly tired because three of those four 10 points active sims will not let her rest, and a constant prefight state between Nervous and Howitzer. And, in the Grunt household, Uncanny and Tank still won't pick up the slack. (The Grunt household also contains General Buzz and angry alien general Idun, but they're too busy passionately arguing about what filthy aliens eachother are to be of much help.)

I AM A GENIUS! :faceslap: :gjob:

[Peni Griffin]

Time to break out that soup. Unless you don't have FreeTime, in which case you're up a crick and your paddle just floated by. Flu is hell in a large family till you get that wonderful magical soup.

Suffering builds character.

[SimMegaptera]

THE SOUP. I always have one Family-oriented sim who can make the magical soup. Not that my sims get sick often, but when one of them does, I'm glad to have the soup.

[Aegagropilon]

There is NO SOUP D:

(And Nervous would so spit in Howitzer's bowl when he wasn't looking if there was. Just because.)

[Darby]

What about the medicine made with the career reward thingy from the Medical career? Does that actually work? (You'd think so, but considering how many things are "broken" in the game...)

I don't know if you're looking for help so much as relating the story (which is awesome :rofl: ), Aegagropilon, but this is what I'd do, if I didn't have access to Soup or medicine.

Lock each sick sim in a separate room with nothing but a bed and a toilet, and maybe a tub. They can Relax, read a book for Fun, or daydream for Social. Food can be ported in by The Hand of God.

Give the caretaker sim an Energizer.

Don't take anyone to a community lot until the sick sims are all well again, because if any of the sickies were to escape their rooms and show up on the community lot, they could spread the plague to the general population!

[Peni Griffin]

I'm pretty sure spitting in the soup doesn't reduce its effectiveness.

When I was waiting for FreeTime to arrive in the mail I used the "medicate" that comes with the Chemistry Kiosk from PC Sims, downloaded off the Sims Graveyard as per instructions given me here. The stuff in the Tylenol bottle gave the most satisfactory results, though I couldn't get the Kiosk itself to work.
http://sims2graveyard.com/download.html

[Aegagropilon]

What about the medicine made with the career reward thingy from the Medical career? Does that actually work? (You'd think so, but considering how many things are "broken" in the game...)

I don't know if you're looking for help so much as relating the story (which is awesome :rofl: ), Aegagropilon, but this is what I'd do, if I didn't have access to Soup or medicine.

The medicine is actually pretty impressive when it does work: it even cures morning sickness. Pollination Technician Ellison had the career reward before she had her kids, so I'd have her drink the medicine moments after conception. She never, ever threw up or even got queasy.

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed the story :lol:. One bit of luck I stumbled into is that incredibly fit sims and sims with high body skill seem to have shorter sicknesses than sims without, so it was more an issue of sending Howitzer and Nervous to separate corners (and keeping an eye on them so they wouldn't fight) while Difficult and Grimuara had video game marathons on the couch whenever it wasn't baby-juggling time. (It was cute watching the sick sims find each other or troop all the way up the stairs to the cribs to either hand the babies over or place them in the cribs before going into coughing fits.) Everyone's fine now, and Frieda didn't even catch it! I'm amazed.

The flu still lasted annoying long, but they didn't manage to reinfect each other. I'm just glad the babies didn't get sick: Loyal and Unruly fill their diapers enough as it is :|

[RebaLynnTS]

I found the cowplant today .... and lost a sim to it.

Glad I saved ... BEFORE .. touching the "cake".

[shoo_flee]

Last night i found the option "buy off with £50" with a sim who had caught my sim cheating on her, then a little message popped up saying "fine i'll leave you alone . . . for now". Never ever seen this before, not sure if its part of a hack or the origanal game, think it lowers the whole furious sim thing.

[Peni Griffin]

The only time I've seen the "buy off" option, a sim whose sister is Romance was interacting with his husband's friends at a party, and the option came up on one of these friends who was currently furious with the sister. I didn't go with it as it seemed tacky under the circumstances.

The option, alas, did not come up in a recent incident in which an ex should have been trying to blackmail the active sim.

[smorbie1]

I've seen that a time or two myself. I never selected it because, not being certain what it would do, I was afraid it would mess up my storyline.

[LilSister]

One of my sims had a want to put on their pj's. I also had a sim who wanted to retire and they are no where near becoming an elder. Since I've never had a sim who retired I decided to see what would happen. My sim had 10 vacation days accrued which I thought they would be paid for (my sim is a World Famous Model who makes $5000 a day). I had the sim use the phone to retire, she received a pension of a little over a $1000 a day, but she was not paid for her unused vacation time. I was just wondering if her vacation time was calculated in her pension. I didn't save the game, decided to wait until she was closer to becoming an elder and do some additional research.

[saskganesh]

I've seen that a time or two myself. I never selected it because, not being certain what it would do, I was afraid it would mess up my storyline.

I don't have any romance hacks and my sims live dangerously so they are always going out to community lots on dates. During dates lulls, my sims like to walk around the room and greet most everyone they they see. If I choose to do a short interaction, I get that option quite a bit (I have many convoluted relationships and it's a safe bet that at any given lot someone is angry at someone else about something), and I have used it only rarely... the paid off sim walks to the other side of the room and ignore the payee for while. I do not know if there is a time limit.

Rather than pay off Sim B, my sims often use influence to influence Sim C to annoy Sim B. Works like a charm.

[Mootilda]

My sim had 10 vacation days accrued which I thought they would be paid for (my sim is a World Famous Model who makes $5000 a day). I had the sim use the phone to retire, she received a pension of a little over a $1000 a day, but she was not paid for her unused vacation time. I was just wondering if her vacation time was calculated in her pension.No. Sims just lose any vacation days owing. I remember seeing a mod to fix that; I'll post a link if I can find it. Otherwise, ask in WCIF.

[Update:] Can't seem to find the mod, so I wonder whether I was thinking about a Sims 3 mod. Sorry.

[omglo]

I discovered that due to a weird glitch, every sim is going to have to drown and be resurrected just after they grow into a child. It's the only way to stop them from growing into deformed child/toddler hybrids.

[smorbie1]

I have never had the option to retire before the person aged to elder. I've had them want to, but the option has never come up. Weird!

[lazzybum]

smorbie1, you can only retire a sim if they are an elder, not an adult.

[LilSister]

No. Sims just lose any vacation days owing. I remember seeing a mod to fix that; I'll post a link if I can find it. Otherwise, ask in WCIF.

[Update:] Can't seem to find the mod, so I wonder whether I was thinking about a Sims 3 mod. Sorry.

Thanks..I think I remember seeing something like that too. However I did discover that their pension is half of their salary. My sim makes $15,000 for a 3 day work week and her pension is a little over a $1000 a day. I'll keep looking and report back.

[Cyjon]

One of Pescado's mods (I forget which one) has the undocumented feature that it looks at remaining vacation days when determining eligibility to retire. This allows adults to retire if they have enough vacation days to take them to elder. You won't see the retirement on the job tab until the sim actually ages to elder, but the pension comes in every day.

[Mootilda]

I think that I found one.

Vacation time Payout:
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=205632

[SamanthasIdeas]

I didn't know Sims can have nightmares. I've never seen it until I took the Travellers on a vacation and now the parents, Trent and Trisha are having them every night.
They don't listen too well to what I tell them to do.
It's jarring how much detail is put into them waking up from them.

[DrowningFishy]

smorbie1, you can only retire a sim if they are an elder, not an adult.

So did my game glitch? Because Ferfil was still 6 days from elder and top of her career (and pregnant to less) and she rolled the retire and got to retire before elder.

[lg135]

Maybe your sim's planning ahead? I've had a sim roll it too, in late adulthood. I've also had female sims who are like a day away from aging up suddenly roll the want to have a kid (◔‿◔ )

[Aegagropilon]

One thing that's interesting is that retired elder sims who have been aged down still collect their pensions as adults. Olive still receives her rocking chair money promptly at 3 every day.

[Peni Griffin]

As many dates as my sims go on that end in woohoo, you'd think I'd have noticed before yesterday that the plumbobs move horizontally over the bed as the sims change positions under the covers.

Man, David Ottomas and his new bride Susana are *acrobats!*

[LilSister]

I think that I found one.

Vacation time Payout:
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=205632


Thank you Mootilda...I have been searching for Pescado's Mod because that the one I remember and all the mods/hacks in my game are either his or compatible. I will test this one as a last resort. This one concerns me because it tweeks other areas that I don't need tweeking. In my experience when you have mods/hacks made by different people tweeking the same area it can cause funky results in game even if the hack detector says there are no conflicts. Thanks again, I'll keep you posted.

[LilSister]

One of Pescado's mods (I forget which one) has the undocumented feature that it looks at remaining vacation days when determining eligibility to retire. This allows adults to retire if they have enough vacation days to take them to elder. You won't see the retirement on the job tab until the sim actually ages to elder, but the pension comes in every day.


Thank you for responding, it is Pescado's that I remember seeing, it was so long ago and now I don't have a clue. I have the directors cut folder and still not sure what I'm looking for. I wish I could register at the site and ask but it thinks I'm a spammer...lol. I will continue to look, until then I will just have manually make the adjustment when the . Thanks again, by the way I love your site...I've got a folder of your stuff too.

[smorbie1]

There's a fruit bowl here on MTS that has the feature of buying out vacation time. It has a lot of other things, like graduating from college even if you've never been, and choosing jobs and job levels. As far as mods go, it's grrrreat because it has so many functions.

[SamanthasIdeas]

Apparently there's a tree ring in the Three Lakes that has initials carved into it and all sorts of interesting messages as they examine it.
It's pretty neat.
/is currently learning about Bon Voyage and vacations thru the Travellers/
"2 years ago - This majestic giant is struck by a faulty communications satellite and knocked down. Other sections of its trunk were used to construct telephone poles. In an effort to prevent further irony, we ask taht you refrain from carving your phone number into the tree" :lol:
"D.L. + C. G." I have a feeling the initials are actual characters...but I'm too lazy to look it up now.

That and having a woman go on vacation in her final trimester of pregnancy no matter how cute it may be is not a good idea... :faceslap:

[Peni Griffin]

Why, what happens? She can't actually give birth during vacation, can she? I've only done two vacations to date, both honeymoons, and one of the brides got pregnant on the second day, which limited what she could do afterward, but she never popped. As far as I can tell aging is off the whole time. You ought to be able to let her laze on the beach within sprinting distance of the bathroom and room service the whole time while the rest of the family does other things. That's pretty much how pregnant ladies spend vacations, in my experience.

D.L. + C.G. = Don Lothario and Cassandra Goth. I've heard of this tree, but not having gone to Three Lakes haven't seen it. There should also also be D.L + N.C., D.L. + D.C., D.L. + K.L., maybe more (never played Pleasantview except for experimental games, so I'm not sure how many ladies he's actively involved with when the story opens).

[AlexandraSpears]

Pregnancy is "frozen" during vacations.

That's why I find it pointless for newlyweds on their honeymoon to "try for baby" the first night. I have them wait until the last night. They come home pretty much the same time they left, and the pregnancy counter starts at the time they left home.

[smorbie1]

If she gets pregnant while they are on vacation, I have them cancel the trip and return home. I'm always afraid something will happen to her to mess up my game. Good to know time just stops.

[SamanthasIdeas]

Naw, I'm not worried it messing up the game.
I was more or less annoyed that I had them be frugal and she was constantly close to needs-failures.
At one point, she wouldn't sleep so her energy was red and she wouldn't eat when she woke up to do so her hunger was red.
She kept climbing out a tent to go to the grill for food, grab a plate, sit down to eat it, stand up, and climb into her tent to sleep again while someone stole her plate.
I eventually had to max motives her to keep her alive...
She's probably having one of the harder pregnancies I've seen in the game yet.
Poor gal.
I kind of thought it'd have to do with him. Thanks for filling me in.

[LilSister]

I discovered that just because a sim doesn't immediately erupt into a jealous rage when another is flirting with their significant other doesn't mean they aren't bothered by the flirtation. In my hood Shiloh Aaron Cole Whitney is going steady with Malia Ellington. They were hanging out at the community center and a teen townie Serendipity (I didn't name her) was brazenly flirting with Aaron. Malia just stood frozen nearby. Every now and then she would get Aarons attention to makeout, hold hands or tell him a joke and Serendipity would always interrupt. Well, Serendipty was beginning to annoy me too, and Aaron being the teen male that he is couldn't resist dividing his attention between both girls. Malia stood by silently watching them tickle each other, joke and play red hands. Who knew this shy mild mannered sweartheart of a girl was seething inside. Without warning, Malia jumped on Serendipity and beat the snot out of her. It was so funny, there was no poking or shoving she just attacked.

[nikel23]

I found out that roommate doesn't count as Sims who can look after children.

One of my family consists of an adult, a child, and a roommate. The adult went to work without nanny supervision, knowing that the roommate wasn't going to work at that day. When a child is left alone at home, the game would remind us before the adult leaves the lot. Since the roommate is also on the lot, the game didn't show the reminder. In a matter of sim hours, my child was taken away!!! This is the first time I lost my child unintentionally!

[Darby]

I found out that roommate doesn't count as Sims who can look after children.

I haven't ever had a roommate in my game, but I assume roommates can come and go as they please, yes? If so, it makes sense that they wouldn't be considered reliable default babysitters.

Lack of a warning sounds like an oversight on the part of the developers. :rolleyes:
Exit without saving?

[Mootilda]

I haven't tried it, but couldn't you ask the roommate to look after the child, just as you can ask other adults? After they accept, they should not leave the lot.

[AlexandraSpears]

I know you can ask a neighbor but I don't think you can ask a roommate.

[Mootilda]

I know you can ask a neighbor but I don't think you can ask a roommate.That's too bad. It would be a reasonable solution.

[SimMegaptera]

Sylvia and Frankie went to Takemizu for a vacation and she got pregnant the first night they were there. (Okay, I used SimBlender because for some reason Try For Baby wasn't working.) Everything was normal during the vacation but the day after they got home she was puking all over the place. Now they have two cute little girls named Takako and Mizu. ;)

[Peni Griffin]

I discovered, but I think I remember reading it here, that kids' fun can go up when dreaming about their hobby.

I also discovered that the teen "break-up" interaction is actually pretty adorable. Dominic is furious with Theodora, but you'd never know it from the body language - he's rubbing the back of his neck and hemming and obviously saying: "Look, I get it, there's a reason you were sneaking out with seniors and that reason was me so - " Like it was all his fault, which it totally isn't.

Theodora also walked past his house four times that day - once before dawn, once in the morning, once right before the school bus came, and once a couple of hours afterward. She was obviously cutting school, possibly hoping to get his mom on her side or something. And she never kicked the trash can once.

[SamanthasIdeas]

I discovered toddlers can play in piles of garbage left in the house.
It looks like playing in a puddle except you see wrappers and drink cups instead...
The Travellers make horrible parents for babies and toddlers, at least in my game.
:blink:

[Cookie911]

"D.L. + C. G." I have a feeling the initials are actual characters...but I'm too lazy to look it up now.

The first sims, that popped into my mind with those initials are Don Lothario and Cassandra Goth... :lol:
Anyways, today I learned, that my Sims Pet Stories has a glitch. At the end of the Midnight Masquerade I chose Erin as the queen. They got married and went on a trip with a limousine. They never came back and kitty Diva got taken away :cry:. I googled and found out that if I would've chosen Rachel none of that would've happened :(. They said after Erin and Stephen left the game should turn into free play (story ends and you can do whatever you want). To finish the story right, I should reinstall, play Best in Show until I unlock Midnight Masquerade and play that until the end and choose Rachel. Uh..I'd rather install Life Stories and play that -.-

[AlexandraSpears]

If you throw a birthday party for a baby that's aging up to toddler, everyone gets a memory for "Had Family Reunion."

[Mootilda]

If you throw a birthday party for a baby that's aging up to toddler, everyone gets a memory for "Had Family Reunion."Actually, I think that the "Had Family Reunion" memory occurs when a certain number of (possibly non-resident) family members are present on the lot at the same time.

[Peni Griffin]

Yep; a simple visit won't do it, but any party or occasion that gets a bunch of Hawkinses, Newsons, or Gavigans together on a lot generates "Family Reunions" in my game. Georgette Skirt inviting her two sisters to a party didn't, so I don't know if a certain number, or a certain percentage of the allowed guests, is the trigger.

[AlexandraSpears]

Actually, I think that the "Had Family Reunion" memory occurs when a certain number of (possibly non-resident) family members are present on the lot at the same time.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

Jules (O'Mackey) Bronson and her husband have a daughter, and when little Carlie aged up to toddler, she invited her parents and her two younger brothers over for the party. Since my Sims can only invite two people, she invited her parents to the party, then invited her twin brothers over separately.

Gabe, Alexandra, and their sons have the Had Family Reunion memory, so do Jules and her husband and daughter.

The memory icon is the balloons with the family icon.

I thought it was kind of neat.

[LilSister]

No. Sims just lose any vacation days owing. I remember seeing a mod to fix that; I'll post a link if I can find it. Otherwise, ask in WCIF.

[Update:] Can't seem to find the mod, so I wonder whether I was thinking about a Sims 3 mod. Sorry.

Just wanted to let you know that I found the mod I was looking for. It wasn't Pescado's it was Ancient Highways PTO fix.

[Mootilda]

Thanks. That explains why I couldn't find it. I was searching for Retire, Vacation, Pay, ... PTO never occurred to me.

[DrowningFishy]

Today I discovered there's a movie animation for engagement refusal.

http://s69.photobucket.com/albums/i59/Apple__Ro/?action=view&current=Sorryno.jpg

[WooHoo31]

I realized recently that your sims can watch TV while laying in bed. I always wondered if they could, and when I found out they could, I thought it was the best thing ever. :D

[margonaute]

I found out that roommate doesn't count as Sims who can look after children.

One of my family consists of an adult, a child, and a roommate. The adult went to work without nanny supervision, knowing that the roommate wasn't going to work at that day. When a child is left alone at home, the game would remind us before the adult leaves the lot. Since the roommate is also on the lot, the game didn't show the reminder. In a matter of sim hours, my child was taken away!!! This is the first time I lost my child unintentionally!
I don't know if it would work for a roommate since that sim would be counted as member of the household, but Squinge's Watch Kids Enabled mod (http://www.insimenator.org/index.php/topic,95096.0.html) lets you ask friends to babysit. It works really well and is especially great for increasing bonds between extended family members!

[lg135]

I realized recently that your sims can watch TV while laying in bed. I always wondered if they could, and when I found out they could, I thought it was the best thing ever. :D

Until you want them to just relax in bed to read, daydream, or woo-hoo, and they keep queuing up to watch the damn telly.

It's rather funny though, if you have a sim who's watching tv and then you command them to start kissing/making out with someone, their face/eyes will still be on the tv! Great if you want a shot of what looks like a sim kissing another on the cheek/neck, but a little unromantic.. and maybe a little realistic too :p

[cheshirekat]

I discovered that it is fun to create my own Secret Society sims in my custom Uni hood. I have the maty hack installed so ss students don't get generated automatically by the game. So, I made a bunch of new students, plopped them on a simple lot with a few hacks, used one of the Uni hacks to make them ss members, then turned them into townies and cleared the lot of them.

I made the ss members look a bit more maxis-like, so I won't be so tempted to make them playable. (In one of my previous hoods, I emptied out the ss sims by making them playable and wasn't sure how to replenish them.) I am kind of obsessed with getting all my Uni sims to join the ss, so it is nice to know I can make my own ss whenever I want to. Although, I have to admit that I don't like any of the pre-made ss lots. I always have to do a makeover of the pre-made ss lots. Maybe next time I will learn how to make my own ss lot using the changelotzoning cheat instead of remodeling a maxis lot. I don't know what might happen if I were to make a custom ss lot now that one is already in play.

What is interesting is that I made a bunch of student townies that I did not make ss members. When my first sim got abducted, I saw a bunch of other student townies there. I guess because they made friends with the ss members while I was playing and testing some of my new lots in my custom Uni hood. And when they had enough ss member friends, they automatically become ss members when they are townies. I love making all my own Uni buildings instead of doing makeovers of maxis lots. I even made and played my own dorms for the first time. I built several dorms a while ago but never played them before deleting them because I was afraid I would forget something important and have to kick my sim out of the dorm to fix the mistakes. Playing with a "test" sim lets me try things I otherwise wouldn't even though I really get attached to my test sims.

[SakuraKonekoChan]

I discovered that, in the architecture section that came with M&G, the straight cornice and belt pieces from Apartment Life don't show up. Which is odd, because the corner pieces do, and all of the pieces from M&G show up. And the AL straight pieces show up in the AL collection, but not in the architecture sort. Weird.

[Peni Griffin]

I learned that if you have two households on vacation at the same time, they still can only talk to each other on the phone, not invite each other over. Bummer. I had the Hawkins honeymoon couple buy a primitive camping lot on the beach directly across from the vacation house the Munny family bought, and I was looking forward to them doing some back-and-forth before returning them both to the main hood. It's disappointing.

I also got that invisible pond that lets you fish from piers, and discovered it was built for seasons and won't work with BV beaches. Another disappointment.

Weirdly, you can leave your kids on the beach with your guest (in this case a grandparent) while you take a tour; but if you try to leave her in charge while you go out for a date, you get the "no babysitter" notice.

However, I still get a nice long rotation for both of these families, who are among those I'm always reluctant to move on from, so that's good. And when I had Ernest help one of his boys build a sandcastle, he was looking at it critically, cocked his head, and stroked his beard; whereupon young Mark echoed the gesture exactly. I know that's just a gesture programmed into the sandcastle building animation, but when you factored in that they were dressed similarly, the illusion of the boy trying to be Just Like Pa was perfect.

[saskganesh]

I had my first flaming bag of pooh!

Late teen Santana Cabot had been dating Morrigan Morgana, but had started seeing Candy Broke on the side while Candy's usual boyfriend was in youngish adulthood (it was all really Candy's idea, but whatever). Details are a bit hazy, but I assume Morrigan's twin sister Melisandre saw them dating and told her.

Anyhow, the Sunday night before Santana aged up, with no other plans in mind, he got a call from Mor. asking him out for a date. "Last Time was great!". "Sure," thought Santana, "Triple Bolt Bonus!" He hopped in the cab and went downtown.

Out off the cab, onto the curb. Date starts. It was a trap! Immediately Morrigan started the "I can't believe you would break up with me" speech. Twice for good measure. She cuts out, Santana's needs plunge harshly, he takes the next cab home and crashes hard.

Shortly Morrigan shows up,and does her fecal arson. It's horrible and gross (and flaming!). Mum put it out.

I think she really likes him.

[smorbie1]

I discovered that Wanda Tinker and Herbert Goodie have three lightning bolts for each other. I had the families move in together, mainly in an attempt to get Maxis mades out of my homeless bin. These two could not stop swooning hearts at each other. Finally, I was forced to move them out together to try to maintain peace. This has left Faith Goodie living with Stephen Tinker. They have two bolts, so I'm thinking it could all work out.

[royalinedebi]

I realised that I REALLY miss having CC in my game and because of my crap computer I just have to make do with the Maxis stuff.

[smorbie1]

I realised that I REALLY miss having CC in my game and because of my crap computer I just have to make do with the Maxis stuff.

Sorry. It really is bad once you've gotten used to modding the game to make it exactly the way you want it to be. :heyhey:

[nikel23]

I don't know if it would work for a roommate since that sim would be counted as member of the household, but Squinge's Watch Kids Enabled mod (http://www.insimenator.org/index.php/topic,95096.0.html) lets you ask friends to babysit. It works really well and is especially great for increasing bonds between extended family members!

Gee, that's a great mod! I just found that out! But... still didn't change the fact that roommate can't watch kids...

I found out that if you didn't enable the cinematics and your Sim is returned from alien abduction, you can see the temporary stars in the sky and the UFO ceases in the mid air from cameramen view. Several seconds later, all vanishes. I heard that since Seasons, the sky no longer shows cloud and the night no longer produces stars in the sky.

[Peni Griffin]

Family kiss works between in-laws! At least, in-laws you're already friends with who aren't of your preferred gender. Gallagher Newson was out skating with his daughter, and Gabriella's husband Harris showed up with his kid, and after the grown-ups knocked off skating Harris just walked up and kissed him! That man's going to give me diabetes if I'm not careful.

I'd never dare late Harris go through with a kiss interaction on any of his sisters-in-law, though.

[Aegagropilon]

Family kiss works between in-laws! At least, in-laws you're already friends with who aren't of your preferred gender. Gallagher Newson was out skating with his daughter, and Gabriella's husband Harris showed up with his kid, and after the grown-ups knocked off skating Harris just walked up and kissed him! That man's going to give me diabetes if I'm not careful.

I'd never dare late Harris go through with a kiss interaction on any of his sisters-in-law, though.

The family kiss works between inlaws of the preferred gender as well. When the Grim Reaper went on vacation and moved in with his long-time love, his daughter-in-law Frieda strolled right up to him after being greeted by Olive and gave him a family kiss. She hadn't ever met him before, so their interaction score was 0/0 at the time.

The family kiss is completely innocent and, once they count as family, they can't do romantic interactions. Ruby has three bolts with her brother-in-law Test and they only have the family kiss available now. (Not that Test -- despite being one of the kings of the family kiss -- will attempt it: Ruby is vicious and liable to rip his lips off and beat him with them. He'll family-kiss his other inlaws, though.)

Today I discovered that four kids can potentially jump on a double bed, as demonstrated by Jessie and Gunnar's three children:
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj202/aegagropilon/ThePilfersonChildren.jpg

[Peni Griffin]

I wasn't at all confident about that, because family markers don't show with any of the in-laws. And I've read on here about affairs that included in-laws. I suppose that's an ACR option.

I kind of wish my Hawkinses could get together with your Subjects for playdates. But it's hard enough getting them together with their existing cousins, aunts, and uncles, let alone making friends with unrelated sims.

[Aegagropilon]

I wasn't at all confident about that, because family markers don't show with any of the in-laws. And I've read on here about affairs that included in-laws. I suppose that's an ACR option.

I kind of wish my Hawkinses could get together with your Subjects for playdates. But it's hard enough getting them together with their existing cousins, aunts, and uncles, let alone making friends with unrelated sims.

I think it depends on whether or not the sims had any romantic contact before becoming inlaws, or when they first met (or sometimes things just don't click when the families blend due to programming). Surt doesn't have family options with his mother-in-law Crystal, even though he has the family options with his father-in-law Lazlo. He has family options with his sister-in-law Grimhild as well, but he used to flirt with her back when they were teens, so the romantic option "check sim out" is available in addition to the family kiss. Ruby and Test have known each other since they were children -- and have triple bolts versus the two that Ruby has with her husband Grimm -- and have been best friends for a long time, but only have the family options available. (Again, not that Test actually will family kiss her. Back when I had ACR active and they were in college, Ruby would go on the warpath whenever she and Test were alone together. She would either argue with him or just jump rope until Grimm came back within grabbing range. Even though Ruby was at OneSim-only autonomy, Test was single at the time and I'd seen before that a triple bolt match could trump that in ACR. Poor awkward Test would just try and be her friend while she flipped out at him.)

I've thought the same thing: Hawkins-Subject playdates would be loud, epic, and entirely hilarious :lol: I really enjoy reading about the adventures of your Hawkins swarm.

[aaries16]

I discovered that in unisex community bathrooms, men won't use the urinal if a woman is in the room. That really sucked at my cemetary's bathroom when my male sim wanted to go and for some odd reason half of the people on the lot gathered in the bathroom to play kick bag. Luckily the stall wasn't blocked.

[nikel23]

I found that the cheap telescope doesn't include animation when a Sim is abducted. Originally, only expensive telescope allows Sims to be abducted. FreeTime allows Sims to use the cheap telescope with the lifetime benefit. When Sim is abducted, the telescope doesn't move up and down as it should.

[smorbie1]

I discovered that in unisex community bathrooms, men won't use the urinal if a woman is in the room. That really sucked at my cemetary's bathroom when my male sim wanted to go and for some odd reason half of the people on the lot gathered in the bathroom to play kick bag. Luckily the stall wasn't blocked.

Don't you love the odd places sims congregate? They hang out right in front of the bus so their kids can't get off. They play rock, paper, scissors in the bathroom so no one can go (or get out of the shower). They share animated recollections of their potty training in front of the fridge. They can be so oblivious to each other sometimes, but then they have temper tantrums if someone is seven steps ahead of them on the stairs.

:lol:

[Aegagropilon]

Don't you love the odd places sims congregate? They hang out right in front of the bus so their kids can't get off. They play rock, paper, scissors in the bathroom so no one can go (or get out of the shower). They share animated recollections of their potty training in front of the fridge. They can be so oblivious to each other sometimes, but then they have temper tantrums if someone is seven steps ahead of them on the stairs.

:lol:

One of the cheerleaders at La Fiesta Tech habitually does her homework in front of the fridge (and used to head to the bedroom to do her homework back when I had ACR active, leading to a lot of flustered -- and fruitless -- shooing from the couple), but I get the impression that that's intentional malice on her part and not the usual sim cluelessness.

Especially when she would camp outside the bathroom and cheer while her chosen enemy of the hour was ....occupied.

[lizard49]

If a Sim is vacationing at a hotel, campsite, etc. they can't call their friends back home. But if a Sim is vacationing at a house they own, they can call them, although the only option is "just talk."

[aUserName]

Recently I discovered that you can create a new hood with a map that isn’t currently in the loaded in the game. You don’t have to reload the game for the program to see it.

[Peni Griffin]

Lizard, that's not true. My Gavigans just got back from Takemizu Village, where little Miguel fulfilled his want to make best friends with Harlan Hawkins by calling him from the hotel, using the hotel phone. I wonder why yours is different?

It sucks that you can't invite over somebody who's vacationing in the same subhood.

[nikel23]

Lizard, that's not true. My Gavigans just got back from Takemizu Village, where little Miguel fulfilled his want to make best friends with Harlan Hawkins by calling him from the hotel, using the hotel phone.
I don't know if you're a lucky one or I'm just unlucky, but I feel like the lifetime relationship never goes up whenever I go on vacation... It makes locking "Become Best Friends with" want rather useless!

[Peni Griffin]

Not even if you take the person you want to make best friends with on vacation with you? That was only my fourth vacation (and third completed; I still need to finish one honeymoon, which I moved on from deliberately to test whether they could be visited), so there's a lot I have to learn about vacations yet.

Miguel not only made best friends with Harlan, he finally - and partly because neither one of them wanted to go on tours with the rest of the family - made friends with his Uncle Jeremiah. However, for awhile it looked like the more time he spent with his Aunt Naomi the lower her relationship with him got. Naomi made friends with Isaiah and his wife, though. Those were all from the same household, so I could work it from both ends. When the Munnys went on vacation, they invited Ernest's mother, who made friends with her grandson Mark while uncontrollable. They learned to hula together.

[lizard49]

Lizard, that's not true. My Gavigans just got back from Takemizu Village, where little Miguel fulfilled his want to make best friends with Harlan Hawkins by calling him from the hotel, using the hotel phone. I wonder why yours is different?

It's possible that my game is different because I play Tarlia's Megahood ... I think that's her name, where everything is a subhood of Belladonna Cove.

Where does Harlan Hawkins live?

[Peni Griffin]

I have one main neighborhood, Drama Acres, the three vacation subhoods, a downtown, and a University. Harlan lives in Drama Acres. So if a megahood setup influences the way vacation lots communicate with the other hoods, that's likely where the difference lies.

[lazzybum]

I discovered that lightning can strike a sim if they are just taking out the trash. I've only seen lightning strike when is sim is in a hottub or hot spring outside. I was confused on why my sim placed the garbage on his porch out of no where and then this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v343/lazzybum/Sims2EP92011-10-0314-44-41-25.jpg

[nikel23]

Not even if you take the person you want to make best friends with on vacation with you?
Well, I never thought I would make best friends with someone by bringing him along to the vacation. That kind of friendship would be expensive! :D It's just that I always have a personal or family vacation.

[Peni Griffin]

Eh, an extra $500 for the plane ticket isn't that big a deal in some sim families. I agree I wouldn't do it for a stay at a hotel unless the vacationing family was very small. But for a well-to-do family with a vacation home, asking along one of the extended family or someone who is already close to a family member - say a teen's steady or a university student's fiancee, or even the BFF of a child if, say, the BFF is neglected at home or something - in order to cultivate relationships in the rest of the family makes story sense and is likely to be fruitful.

I learned that lightning-struck tree fires can spread to deadly effect even if it's pouring rain, if there's shrubbery around the tree. Learned it the hard way, too! The strike came while the Thyme family was eating breakfast, and when they didn't all get up to cluster around it panicking I ignored it, figuring the rain would put it out as usual. By the time the carpool came for Hi, it had spread all over the yard and he reacted to it with the normal panic, so I started him extinguishing. The four girls all ran out and started panicking, too, so I started them extinguishing, too. I didn't even think to call the fire department, figuring that with five of them and the rain pouring down it wouldn't be that bad. I didn't realize how wrong I was till Spring ran inside, spreading the fire indoors and finally triggering the alarm. By that time, it was too late for her. :( And she died right inside the door, so when I tried to have one of her sisters Plead with Grim for her, all I got was routing issues. I swan, routing is the single most important factor in this game!

I have one house left in this rotation. I'm a little afraid of what's going to happen in it, after all the DRAMA that's been going down this round.

[nikel23]

I found out that when you're unlucky, the lightning strike causes fire and the rain stops right away. It makes the object on fire until it becomes ashes. :-/

I also found that fire won't break in community lot, or when visiting a neighbor in apartment.

Also, teens or children will slide on the stair (not modular one) autonomously if they're going downstairs. This happens only sometimes.

[RebaLynnTS]

I was playing the Warren Family, and when I went to have Greg take out the trash, I found a "Salvage" menu item, I never saw before.

[Peni Griffin]

I discovered that being on a vacation lot doesn't prevent you from showing up on community lots in the main hood.

I also discovered that Ezekial Gavigan Hawkins is fighting with his mother-in-law before he's even moved in. (Help! Dramaspam!)

[Aegagropilon]

I also discovered that Ezekial Gavigan Hawkins is fighting with his mother-in-law before he's even moved in. (Help! Dramaspam!)

I recommend chess. Lots and lots of chess. Chess is what got Ruby and Nervous civil towards each other after their near-apocalyptic "Welcome to the family!" fight. And what got Joshua's ex-girlfriend Genesis and Nervous civil after their gigantic, drag-out fight. And Beth. And Tina. And Siggeir. Basically, anyone who marries, dates, or gets engaged into the Subject family ends up in a fight with Nervous at some point (except for Frieda, who got welcomed by Nervous's mother Olive).

The only problem I'm running into now is with Howitzer. Nervous is no longer making his life miserable, but 10-points-nice Howitzer (who really is the son of General Buzz and Idun, despite his nice points) is completely fed-up and now tries to fight with him every chance he gets. Chess has only succeeded in boosting the short-term stat, and Howitzer's long-term stat towards his future father-in-law stubbornly remains in the -30s. :faceslap:

[Peni Griffin]

I also learned that choosing the "print photos" option and not arranging an album wipes out your existing story album! Thank goodness I was doing it to see whether the Travellers, who only started last rotation after I installed BV, had any existing vacation pics, so I didn't have anything to recreate. Thinking that all the option would do was print photos taken by sims, I actually had the option in Mary Gavigan's queue when I closed that household this time - wiping that album out would be a disaster, as there's a lot of Drama Acres history in it, the Gavigan Curse and the birth of the neighborhood's first twins and the initial stages of the Hawkins-Gavigan connection, which is going to be every bit as epic as the Hawkins-Newson one.

Yep; it was chess and phone calls and an apology he didn't much want to make that got Zeke to be friends with Pigeon's sister Sparrow before he graduated, despite the big old fistfight they got into at Oliver Onions's off-to-college party. I've decided that Zeke's problem is he's jealous as hell as well as just plain touchy. He doesn't like many people, and those he does like, he has total invested rights in, and if you get between him and them, or he thinks you don't treat them right, he'll get right in your face about it. This is endearing when he's picking fights with a woman who cheated on one of his close friends and annoying when he's doing it to his best friend's wife and Pigeon's entire family' except Harris, who is a) hard to pick fights with and b) an obvious deal-breaker. And Kitty has managed to not make friends with any of her in-laws at all. I think she's probably much too obvious in her opinion that her children are doing these people a big favor by marrying them.

Chess, lots of meals together, a Pigeon-mediated apology, and several rotations of alertness on my part and it'll all be fixed up, I expect. By then Pigeon'll be well into her first child. It wouldn't be right if playing that household got easy.

[Babahara]

I discovered that being on a vacation lot doesn't prevent you from showing up on community lots in the main hood.
Lol! Some sims come back home sometimes to take stuff they've forgotten :)

[FranH]

I discovered today that if a sim has maxed out all of the points in a skill, they can 'impart knowledge' as a discussion.
Ben Long, who has maxed out his logic and cleaning, can now tell others how to do it!

On lightning strikes: I once had a 'replacement road' in one of my hoods-and on a house lot, it got struck by lightning. I thought the fire would be brief and go out by itself.

I was dead wrong-not only did it spread all over the section of road, the inhabitants of the house it was facing came out to freak out over it, and then one of them caught fire...Unbelievable! It just kept burning and burning. No way to stop it at all.

I was only able to save Herb Oldie because I forced him into the house and locked the door. Coral was a goner, though. Had to delete the fire truck, and let the fire burn out by itself (that took about one hour in sim time). That was a massive, terrible fire!

But that was also when I discovered that you can make money off piles of ashes by deleting them (and not by cleaning them up). They cost money! :lol:

[katya_stevens]

I discovered today that if a sim has maxed out all of the points in a skill, they can 'impart knowledge' as a discussion.
Ben Long, who has maxed out his logic and cleaning, can now tell others how to do it!

I assume Ben Long is part-Knowledge, as this should be one of the FT Perks (Impart Knowledge) available to primary and secondary aspiration Knowledge sims.

[Peni Griffin]

And you don't need to max it to do it. I thought she meant that anybody with max points had the option? You don't get to impart knowledge unless you choose the perk on purpose.

[FranH]

Actually, Peni, when I click on another sim for Ben Long to talk to, the option of "impart knowledge" comes up with "chat, gossip,hang out," etc. That's after he'd maxed his creativity and cleaning (I misspoke..) skills.
I'm almost tempted to make him into the 'Wise Man' of Bellefleur, the neighborhood he's in. Maybe he can even charge for it-through writing articles or giving advice on-line.
He always was an overachiever. Always in Platinum! :rofl:

[Peni Griffin]

And you haven't bought him the perk, right? My sims who have that perk can impart knowledge without maxing the skill. But you have apparently discovered that maxing the skill will do it without the perk.

[FranH]

No, no perk at all. I'd just recently revived that neighborhood, and had not done anything to get any special perks-although I had to update the neighborhood to what EP's I'd installed since it was last run.
I guess it's part of maxing out the skill-might be related to the hobbies that FT provides. I haven't even checked to see if his wife, Ivy has any special powers, too-she's got one or two skills maxed as well.

[Aegagropilon]

I discovered that the used copy of Bon Voyage that I bought won't install :cry:

I'm going to have to find another copy of it. I was looking forward to sending Olive's household on an island vacation, so the hula zombies could brush up on their signature dance moves.

(Since the installation was incomplete, will that affect my pre-existing installation of the base-game plus my other expansions?)

[smorbie1]

I discovered that the used copy of Bon Voyage that I bought won't install :cry:

I'm going to have to find another copy of it. I was looking forward to sending Olive's household on an island vacation, so the hula zombies could brush up on their signature dance moves.

(Since the installation was incomplete, will that affect my pre-existing installation of the base-game plus my other expansions?)

Bummer.

But no, your other installations should be fine. Did you try to install more than once?

[nikel23]

Kids can slide the spiral staircases from AL

[Darby]

I discovered that the used copy of Bon Voyage that I bought won't install :cry:

The disk may just need a good cleaning. Even if it's pretty badly scratched, making sure it's completely free of dust and smudges can make the difference.


ETA: To avoid double-posting...

I just saw something I've never seen before. Two teens (twins) returned home from visiting a community lot, and as soon as the home lot loaded, I got a popup that said "Recent tragedies have caused Fieri to lose permanent platinum status." :blink:

Fieri is the mom in the family. She's a popularity sim with a LTW to have 20 Best Friends. She has not achieved this LTW as yet, but hit permplat by filling the FT lifetime aspiration bar recently. I didn't know sims could "lose" permaplat status in the first place, but the really weird thing is that I can't figure out what "recent tragedies" have occurred that can explain this. She was fired from a job once, but it was a long time ago. Since then, she has been very happy most of the time, and has even had another baby, with Have Baby locked in her Want panel.

So, it's a mystery all around. Anyone else run into this issue? I don't really mind, because permaplatness is stupidly easy to get. I just hope it's not a bad sign of... something bad. :!:

[Mootilda]

"Recent tragedies have caused Fieri to lose permanent platinum status."Sounds like a whole new meaning for the word "permanent". Leave it to EA to redefine the English language.

[katya_stevens]

I just saw something I've never seen before. Two teens (twins) returned home from visiting a community lot, and as soon as the home lot loaded, I got a popup that said "Recent tragedies have caused Fieri to lose permanent platinum status." :blink:

The only thing I can think of is that Cyjon has made a Fragile Permaplat (http://drupal.cyjon.net/node/345) mod:

Adults can be broken by any of the 5,000-point Fears such as death of a loved one. Children and teens who manage to get permaplat, typically through wishing for Peace of Mind with the genie lamp, can be broken by smaller fears, though I'm unsure of the actual minimum value.

[saskganesh]

I thought earlier that female Captain Heroes didn't fly to work, but it turned out that Starla was just taking the carpool to keep Felicity company on her way to the Law Office.

Mea culpa.

[Darby]

The only thing I can think of is that Cyjon has made a Fragile Permaplat (http://drupal.cyjon.net/node/345) mod:

AHA! Didn't sound familiar, but I checked, and sure enough... :lol:

Still kinda wonky, though, since Fieri hasn't had any strong hits to her fear panel. I think she ran into having to change a diaper with that fear in place, but that's about it.

Fieri's husband, Egan, got this message shortly after, also. In HIS case, he hadn't even hit permaplat yet. In both cases, the message recurred regularly for most of a sim day. This hack is probably going to get yanked. Doesn't seem to be working as it should.

Anyway, thanks for the info, Katya! :)

[eldavis]

Well, being a newbie to TS2 (as in just got it today), a lot of things. I've discovered that it runs amazingly on my computer! Also, I found out that my pregnant sim has an obsession with snow. She won't stop trying to go outside in her pajamas to build a snowman. :wtf: Also, the mail man wears shorts...when it's snowing. :faceslap:

[frankokomando]

I learned my sim will get into a hot tub naked with a person he just met.

[Darby]

Naked hot-tubbing is something highly outgoing sims do, even with sims they've never exchanged a single word with. :giggler:

[Peni Griffin]

Ah, Eldavis, what surprises and wonders are in store for you! Pregnant ladies in snowdrifts are the least of it, believe me.

That will be a high-social sim in the hot tub, yes. I don't think I've ever seen Mary Munny's bathing suit since I built her in CAS. She won't go swimming if there's a hot tub in the vicinity (and there's always a hot tub in the vicinity!) and she won't wear a swimsuit in the hot tub. It doesn't even phase her shy son and daughter-in-law anymore. Some of the more interesting pre-wedding conversations her daughter-in-law had were conducted in Mary's hot tub, as a matter of fact. Someone here - maxon, I believe - has a sim so sociable and comfortable with everybody that he won't get dressed when he gets out of the shower, either. I haven't had anybody like that yet. I'm tempted to give my next CAS sim 10 social points just to see if I can get that behavior.

[AlexandraSpears]

Sounds like a whole new meaning for the word "permanent". Leave it to EA to redefine the English language.

I've had Sims in permaplat, and if a relative dies and they take a 5000 point hit, the meter drops...but into low platinum. They're still in a great mood...but not quite so great!

[Darby]

I've had Sims in permaplat, and if a relative dies and they take a 5000 point hit, the meter drops...but into low platinum. They're still in a great mood...but not quite so great!

That, I have seen happen. It maxes back out pretty quickly too, iirc.

[Amairani]

I discovered that the used copy of Bon Voyage that I bought won't install :cry:



If the installation fails because of a disk, can you try installing the game the other way: disable autorun, open the disk's content (My Computer - CD/DVD drive), copy the content of disk to your PC, and install the EP manually using the installer.exe.

On occasions when I had to reinstall the original TS2 game, I used this method just fine, 'cos the system couldn't read some help files from the disk due to umlauts in files' names and I would have to rename those files first in order to install the game.

[eldavis]

:cry: OMG. Toddlers crying in their cribs is just heart-wrenching. God, they are so much more lovable than the ones in TS3. /over-emotional

I'm pathetic.

AWWWW! He just went into the room where his mom is sleeping. Hopefully he doesn't cry cause she's real tired. :giggler: Um. Okay. That's a bit creepy. He's just kind of staring at her. :wtf: /play by play

[Peni Griffin]

God, yes! "Daddy! I've been in here for thirty whole seconds! Are you gone forever? Don't you love me anymore?" Wait'll you see them hug the pet (if you have that EP) and eat mush and play with the dollhouse.

[eldavis]

I've had the game for like 6 hours and I'm already hooked on it. I've seen pictures and videos of them hugging the pets. It's so freakin' cute! I probably won't get pets for either game. I'm not really big on animals, in games at least.

I sound like such a valley girl but, OMG. You can bathe them! :anime:

[AlexandraSpears]

Wait until you see toddlers playing in leaves and snow (if you have Seasons).

[eldavis]

Wait until you see toddlers playing in leaves and snow (if you have Seasons).

I'm excited. I think Blaine is still gonna be a toddler when Fall rolls around. Two days til he ages up and 1 day left until fall. He was still a baby during winter time. :( Is it sad that I'm so excited about this? I blame it on the fact that I'm an ECE major. :giggler:

[frankokomando]

Naked hot-tubbing is something highly outgoing sims do, even with sims they've never exchanged a single word with. :giggler:

That explains it. I learned something new! :D

[Alijah]

I learned that some sims just can't make up their minds! Premade-sim Tessa Ramirez grew up to be a romance sim and so far, she's done a bang-up job of breaking hearts all over town in an attempt to hit her "Woo-hoo with 20 sims" LTW. Like all romance sims, every time she got a new beau, she'd roll the fear of getting engaged to them. So imagine my surprise when, while on a date with a townie, she rolled the want to get engaged to them, as well as rolled both the fear of getting rejected, AND the fear of them accepting!

[Aegagropilon]

Thank you everyone for your advice on installing BV. It still isn't working -- and it hangs up in the same place every time -- but I've decided to give it a few days and regroup from there since I was only succeeding in getting annoyed. The disk does have some scratches on it, so I'm going to run it through a disk repairer next. Frankly, at this point I'm blaming the Unsavory Charlatan.

[AmphyPrincess]

That sending two teenagers out to the Twikki Island boardwalk without checking for the Unsavory Charlatan is a bad idea.