What did you discover today while playing the sims?

[esmesqualor]

A very neat sim (9 points) won't repair a dirty shower. She must clean it first. That, and the bonfire dance.

[Simsica]

So, hopefully, when the enthusiasm is high enough, they'll stop sweating while reading Sci-Fi? Or will they sweat more?

See, this is what you get with these indistinct genre labels! Sci-Fi, horror, fantasy - it's all the same to some people... It's not! Not necessarily, anyway.

[Orilon]

So, hopefully, when the enthusiasm is high enough, they'll stop sweating while reading Sci-Fi? Or will they sweat more?

See, this is what you get with these indistinct genre labels! Sci-Fi, horror, fantasy - it's all the same to some people... It's not! Not necessarily, anyway.

To me Sci-Fi is stuff like Star Wars. Even though H.P. Lovecraft had Sci-Fi elements in some of his stuff, I would categorize him as horror.


I learned that it is impossible to build with butterflies too close to where you want to build.

[Simsica]

Okay... Now I'm a resident in this thread, like I'm some kind of noob, God forbid!
But, I took my Sims to a beach, in the middle of the summer, and since I have a community shower that allows them cold showers they're now freezing, because the outdoor temp is 0. Zero, in the middle of the summer!

I used to have a global warming climate hack installed, but recently I removed it. Still, I thought that even without the global weather changing hack summers are supposed to be hot, on home as well as on com lots. Am I wrong?

[Orilon]

Okay... Now I'm a resident in this thread, like I'm some kind of noob, God forbid!
But, I took my Sims to a beach, in the middle of the summer, and since I have a community shower that allows them cold showers they're now freezing, because the outdoor temp is 0. Zero, in the middle of the summer!

I used to have a global warming climate hack installed, but recently I removed it. Still, I thought that even without the global weather changing hack summers are supposed to be hot, on home as well as on com lots. Am I wrong?

Do you have some other hack related to weather still installed? It is supposed to be hot in Summer on community and home lots. It is in mine, and I don't have any hacks that change weather, just ones to keep Sims from obsessing over it.

[Simsica]

No, no weather hacks.

[Orilon]

Not sure why that is then.


I found out that talking out loud to the screen sounds dirtier than you intended when the kid Sim you're controlling brings Bottom Summerdream home from school.

Benedick Monty brought Bottom home from school, and I wanted him to talk to her, but she kept walking around their house. "Dangit Bottom stop moving."

Why the heck did EA have to give her that name from Mid Summer's Night Dream?

[Charmful]

There's a music station that plays SIMS 1 musics!!! Had no idea. Don't even know what channel it is. I had a dinner party going and the music happened to be on and it sounded really familiar...and then I realized it was Sims 1 music.

[M.M.A.A.]

Originally Posted by Charmful
There's a music station that plays SIMS 1 musics!!! Had no idea. Don't even know what channel it is. I had a dinner party going and the music happened to be on and it sounded really familiar...and then I realized it was Sims 1 music.

i think its the 'Shopping' station since the music in it is called something like "Sims 1 Buy Mode 1", there are four of them.

[Orilon]

I have a mod from TwoJeffs that asks you first if you want a child/teen to bring a friend home from school, and I just got an interesting one for Romeo Monty.

When the school bus pulled in front of Monty Ranch, I get the pop up asking me if it was ok if Romeo brought Tybalt Capp home from school. I clicked no. I really don't want Tybalt harassing and trying to fight with Mercutio.

I was surprised because while Romeo is not enemies with Tybalt, they still have a negative relationship.

[Babahara]

I was surprised because while Romeo is not enemies with Tybalt, they still have a negative relationship.
I wonder what would've happened if you allowed him to bring him home. School friends brought home start out with a relationship boost, don't they? It's interesting if it would apply to them as well.

[Orilon]

I wonder what would've happened if you allowed him to bring him home. School friends brought home start out with a relationship boost, don't they? It's interesting if it would apply to them as well.

If you say yes, the School Friend gets off the bus. If you say no, there is a relationship boost anyway but the School Friend doesn't get off the bus. If you hit ignore there is no boost.

I hit no and Romeo had a slight relationship boost with Tybalt to where his relationship wasn't quite as negative.

Edit: I just looked at Romeo's relationship panel after playing the Summerdream lot, and his relationship with Tybalt was at -3/-3 which while bad, is an improvement over what they start with the first time you play Veronaville.

Tybalt got into a fight with Mercutio so their relationship got worse which seems to be pre-programmed, but what surprised me is Juliette kicking Mercutio's butt twice so they really have a negative relationship.

[eldavis]

Sims can roll the want to change into a certain outfit. My sim just rolled the want to change into formal wear. Also, Tank Grunt isn't half bad looking once you change his nose. Sims also seem to love a good fight. It might have been coincidence but several brawls occured during my wedding party and I got a score of "Roof Raiser". I usually only manage to get "Good Time". :lol:

[AlexandraSpears]

I've never seen the want to change into formal wear...just change into PJs for Pleasure Sims. Interesting!

[katya_stevens]

Romance sims will also sometimes have the want to change in to underwear.

[AlexandraSpears]

You can place the 8000-Simoleon TV above a fireplace.

[eldavis]

I just discovered that Strangetown Bella is a police officer. She won't stay out of my house...or my hot tub. Oh, and apparently you can gain cleaning skill points from a dream date... :heyhey:

[Orilon]

If a Sim Dance kisses another Sim and they both have Music and Dance hobby as their "True Hobby" they both discover the fact.

I moved Ophelia Nigmos and Johnny Smith into a dorm and since they are fing three bolters the first thing Ophelia did when I moved Johnny in was ACR Dance Kiss him. I got the pop up that they both discovered that Music and Dance were their "true hobby".

[Aegagropilon]

I just discovered that Strangetown Bella is a police officer. She won't stay out of my house...or my hot tub. Oh, and apparently you can gain cleaning skill points from a dream date... :heyhey:

Since Bella is a Strangetownie, she has a random career. She was either a Home Video Editor or a Web Designer in my game (she's a professional party guest now).

I'm curious: is your game's Crystal Vu also in the police career track? She and Bella are already friends when the game starts, and they were both in the Slacker career track in my Strangetown.

[DrowningFishy]

May sound mundane and obvious, but your sim can get trapped in the shower should a toddler decide that's the best place to fall asleep. Nothing like the shower curtian open and your sims blurred white rear (http://s1111.photobucket.com/albums/h462/DrowningDaFishy/?action=view&current=snapshot_9bbde8f7_dbbf3d17.jpg) standing there for the world to see.

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I discovered Sim genetics are a b!tch and they don't favor light skinned sims. For example Sun was green, Circe was dark tan they hand white, dark tan, and green children. Suns son -_- marries a light skinned sim and all his children are coming out red haired, brown eyed (from Circe I am guessing).

[nikel23]

I found out that singing Sea Chantey doesn't increase music and dance enthusiasm... -.-

Also, lemonade stand placed in a community lot is way less advertising than if the lot is owned. It took hours to have my first customer to buy a lemonade! And it's just before my child Sim starved to death!

[Aegagropilon]

That it's time to reinstall my game D:

I saved all my neighborhoods, so I'll be able to go right back to funtimes after the reinstallation is complete. The game crashed on shutdown the other day and suddenly I was without the gaudy neon goodness of those bars and counters that came with Nightlife. It says something about my decorating skills that those feature prominantly in several of my buildings.

[DrowningFishy]

Today I learned how many Sims the monkey bars can hold.

http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h462/DrowningDaFishy/snapshot_9bbde8f7_7bc19d52.jpg
Jake - Jack - Lilly

[malice macabre]

collin2's pose set, im so happy :bunny:
Today i figured out pose player and poses...oh the girl is so slow!!

[nikel23]

That curtain can only be placed one side on the door. If the door is placed and facing the wrong way using moveobjects, the door will be invisible but still usable

[M.M.A.A.]

That curtain can only be placed one side on the door. If the door is placed and facing the wrong way using moveobjects, the door will be invisible but still usable

you need to first place the door, then have moveobjects on, then place the curtain(s). this way the door will appear properly placed.
it worked for me.

[DrowningFishy]

::nod:: it's a very useful cheat especially when you got a sim that constantly rolls the want for curtians.

[nikel23]

I correct that it was arch, not door. Doing the opposite works too. It's only visual, so Sims still can walk through the arch. The difference is, they look as if they walk through wall! One of the arches in the Specter family is like this.

[M.M.A.A.]

I correct that it was arch, not door. Doing the opposite works too. It's only visual, so Sims still can walk through the arch. The difference is, they look as if they walk through wall! One of the arches in the Specter family is like this.

i repeat with some editing:
you need to first place the arch, then have moveobjects on, then place the curtain(s). this way the arch will appear properly placed.
it worked for me.
(i tried it with doors and archs.)

[simrae92to7]

I discovered sims can be really really stupid. My sim was complaining about needing to go to the bathroom and uh....she was right next to the toilet. *dramatic sigh*

[omglo]

That some sims don't get morning sickness. I didn't know my Sim had tried for a baby (I have ACR) until her belly popped and she got maternity leave.

[Orilon]

That some sims don't get morning sickness. I didn't know my Sim had tried for a baby (I have ACR) until her belly popped and she got maternity leave.

It depends on the Sim. Some Sims don't, some have a little, and some run to the toilet to barf a lot.

ACR has a pregnancy scanner so you can see if the sim is pregnant before the first pop.

[smellincoffee]

Parents can spoon their kids in bed. Tonight I played Belladonna Cove for the first time, and one of Tara DeBatateau's friends had decided to steal her bed, so I decided to tell her to sleep in the same bed as her dad, Armand. I know parents and kids can snuggle together on the couch, but Armand turned and spooned Tara as soon as she climbed in. It's...a bit weird given that she's a teenager and his ]adopted daughter. Nots sure if it works with parents with child-age kids..

[Darby]

Parents can spoon their kids in bed.

:wtf: That should not be happening. I'd double check to see that each recognizes the other as family.

[lg135]

Parents can spoon their kids in bed. Tonight I played Belladonna Cove for the first time, and one of Tara DeBatateau's friends had decided to steal her bed, so I decided to tell her to sleep in the same bed as her dad, Armand. I know parents and kids can snuggle together on the couch, but Armand turned and spooned Tara as soon as she climbed in. It's...a bit weird given that she's a teenager and his ]adopted daughter. Nots sure if it works with parents with child-age kids..

Times like these I wish we had more reaction buttons. Guess I'll have to settle for a smiley. :blink: ......... :alarm: :alarm: :alarm:

[Orilon]

That if you want a Sim Parent to find their own place and have their toddler move out with them, the toddler crawls to the taxi.

It took a few nights of stargazing, but Vidcund Curious finally got abducted and pregnant. After he gave birth he showed interest in a townie named Christy and they got married. The lot was getting too full so I had Vidcund, his wife and his toddler son from the abduction move out. I was expecting Vidcund or Christy to pick him up but they didn't, he crawled to the taxi. (Vidcund had potty trained him but hadn't taught him how to walk yet.)

They moved into their own house, which is a good thing since Christy is pregnant. (Family Sims Oi)

[RowenaLupin]

After all this time, I finally figured out how to do foundations! Lol, call me lazy, but I had to actually watch/read the tutorial thing. I'm so proud of myself =D

[Aegagropilon]

Parents can spoon their kids in bed. Tonight I played Belladonna Cove for the first time, and one of Tara DeBatateau's friends had decided to steal her bed, so I decided to tell her to sleep in the same bed as her dad, Armand. I know parents and kids can snuggle together on the couch, but Armand turned and spooned Tara as soon as she climbed in. It's...a bit weird given that she's a teenager and his ]adopted daughter. Nots sure if it works with parents with child-age kids..

:blink: That...shouldn't be happening. You should definitely check to make sure that their family ties haven't been removed somehow.

I've had a few households where getting everyone to sleep in their own beds is an exercise in complete folly, and I've never seen that happen. I've had parents and teenage children (and teenage stepchildren) sleep in the same bed and there have been no instances of ...that.

Even grown-up Tank Grunt, who frequently compliments his stepmom Idun on her hotness (they only have family interactions available, though), is able to sleep in the same bed as Idun without any spooning.

[lg135]

I've discovered that apparently YA can't vacation in vacation homes. They're not a part of their family's household so in hindsight that makes sense, but they can't buy them either :0 I guess the only way would be to inherit one, but I'm pretty sure YA probably can't do that either and I'm blanking if teens can inherit them.

So much for saving money...

[Orilon]

I've discovered that apparently YA can't vacation in vacation homes. They're not a part of their family's household so in hindsight that makes sense, but they can't buy them either :0 I guess the only way would be to inherit one, but I'm pretty sure YA probably can't do that either and I'm blanking if teens can inherit them.

So much for saving money...

I've since taken Bon Voyage out because the Sim getting stuck in the car at their vacation home glitch was pissing me off. Anyway I was able to have Juliette Capp buy a Vacation home of her own when she was in College, and was able to have her and YA Romeo go on a vacation during college.

I'm not sure if my able to was a one off or not though.

[Peni Griffin]

They can certainly buy them - Ezekial Gavigan bought the vacation lot where he and Pigeon honeymooned while he was a student at Sim State, using accumulated Alma Mater House money. I've heard mixed reports about whether it's possible for YAs to vacation at all, so it's possible your specific configuration and mods govern which vacation options, if any, are enabled from University.

[frankokomando]

I discovered today that the face templates I download won't show up in my game. Lame. -.-

[saskganesh]

I was reminded that young men shouldn't play with their telescopes at night.

Three abductions in my last rotation...well, this is something of a plot twist.

[smellincoffee]

For what it's worth, that weird Armand/Tara experience happened in the uber-megahood. I checked on them this morning: they both regard one another as family.

[RowenaLupin]

They can certainly buy them - Ezekial Gavigan bought the vacation lot where he and Pigeon honeymooned while he was a student at Sim State, using accumulated Alma Mater House money. I've heard mixed reports about whether it's possible for YAs to vacation at all, so it's possible your specific configuration and mods govern which vacation options, if any, are enabled from University.

Oh, you definitely can! I give some of my students 'Spring Break' between Sophomore and Junior Year. It's a nice way to get a break from University if you feel you're running out of energy to make it the last 'four' semesters.

[omglo]

I discovered that Sims can't walk across a basketball court if they aren't playing basketball. Due to the set up of the park, this lead to some Sims ending up trapped on a strip of grass between the court and the fence. They had to teleport out. :wtf:

[esmesqualor]

I was reminded that young men shouldn't play with their telescopes at night.

Three abductions in my last rotation...well, this is something of a plot twist.

True, telescope viewing = Risky Woohoo,

[lg135]

Oh, you definitely can! I give some of my students 'Spring Break' between Sophomore and Junior Year. It's a nice way to get a break from University if you feel you're running out of energy to make it the last 'four' semesters.

Oh yeah, my YAs can go on vacation fine, they just can't seem to buy vacation homes. Only regular community lots. I don't have any mods that affect YA specifically, so maybe it is something I can find.

[Orilon]

That Sims can Cuddle during a date during the day. I've seen married couples "cuddle under stars" before, but not on a date or during the day.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/Orilon/TankCuddle.jpg

[lg135]

They're "cuddling under the clouds" :P

[Peni Griffin]

Beverly Ku's baby was born this rotation (a boy! Yay!). The loading screen doesn't show her holding him, though. She's standing aside and her sister Lora is holding little Tri in the center, with her husband, Tri's Uncle Jimmy, looking down at him fondly.

Apparently marriage trumps parenthood for purposes of loading screen poses.

[Orilon]

Beverly Ku's baby was born this rotation (a boy! Yay!). The loading screen doesn't show her holding him, though. She's standing aside and her sister Lora is holding little Tri in the center, with her husband, Tri's Uncle Jimmy, looking down at him fondly.

Apparently marriage trumps parenthood for purposes of loading screen poses.

I always find loading screens interesting. The first few times I loaded the Curious Brother's Lot, Vidcund was holding his brother's daughter, not Pascal the actual father when she was a baby. It wasn't until Vidcund was abducted and had his half alien son that Pascal started holding his daughter.

Also what I find interesting is when a couple has twins. One parent is holding one twin close, and the other is holding the baby away from them like "ugh twins weren't my idea."

Sometimes when someone doesn't have the best relationship with the other Sims on the same lot they have a pissed off look on their face in the loading screen.

[katya_stevens]

Also what I find interesting is when a couple has twins. One parent is holding one twin close, and the other is holding the baby away from them like "ugh twins weren't my idea."

I find that the best is when sims have triplets or quads (mod only) and you see them in the loading screen. Even with four sims, that doesn't necessarily mean one baby to one parent:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/Katya_Stevens/Angelos%20Town%204/8505.jpg

[Peni Griffin]

I always interpreted the "holding away" posture as "display." "Hey, lookit, we got two of them!"

Tri's father dropped by, but he made no move to look at or interact with his son, and he brought his wife! Beverly always hated the wife, but now she hates them both. Can't say I blame her.

[Honeywell]

That the education reward books aren't gold any more. :( I wonder what expansion or mod I have broke that?

[M.M.A.A.]

i discovered how one of the Connection business perks work: Network

http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Business_perk

Network: A Sim can Network and get to know all Sims the target has met, with a Notable Reputation starting boost.

i had Komei and Jan hangout and suddenly, Komei's Influence bar stated rising up constantly, the people he knew became friends with him, without him interacting with them. :blink:

Note the action queue in the first image.
http://thumbs.modthesims.info/getimage.php?file=1247498

See the relationship bar, he's friends with everybody.
http://thumbs.modthesims.info/getimage.php?file=1247499

i wonder if she owns a business. hmm... :|

[saskganesh]

True, telescope viewing = Risky Woohoo,

yes, I think Chess is going to be rather popular for the next few generations.

Ironically, one of my new Mr. Mums is the son of my only previous alien. So maybe he knew what he was doing...

[eldavis]

Wow. I totally didn't see the sim sitting behind the plant. (Is that the Sim Blender?) I was like, WTF. That tree has a plumbob. It gives a whole new meaning to Plant Sim.

I discovered that Sims will steal back their lawn gnomes, as well as try to chase down a sim who they witness stealing their newspaper. :lol:

I had to get rid of the telescope. My Sims would not stay away from that thing.

[M.M.A.A.]

Wow. I totally didn't see the sim sitting behind the plant. (Is that the Sim Blender?) I was like, WTF. That tree has a plumbob. It gives a whole new meaning to Plant Sim.

yeah i know :lol: , i need to rotate the camera a bit, but that is Komei Tellerman sitting with his wife Jan Tellerman, a Townie family. i use the summoner to summone townies and simblender to connect them and move them in a household and then move them out to their own place, the Tellermans are in the family bin right now.

[Orilon]

Nervous Subject is staring to irritate me by sleeping in his stepdaughter's bed.

I have Two Jeff's Same Sex Marriage Mod so Nervous is married to Pascal Curious. Pascal has a half alien daughter named Lyra (the baby that Pascal is pregnant with the first time you play the lot). Lyra is good about sleeping in her own bed, that is until Nervous started sleeping in it. Ugh.

He's not even pregnant, Pascal is. (I also have TwoJeff's Preg for All Mod and ACR, so Pascal is pregnant with a ACR baby right now.)

[DrowningFishy]

I discovered 4 sims can play hacky sack together, if one leaves it does not inturupt the group, they just keep on going down to three. If you have three sims playing hacky sack and one leaves, they keep playing... Is this the only thing Sims can handle logically?

[Aegagropilon]

Nervous Subject is staring to irritate me by sleeping in his stepdaughter's bed.

I have Two Jeff's Same Sex Marriage Mod so Nervous is married to Pascal Curious. Pascal has a half alien daughter named Lyra (the baby that Pascal is pregnant with the first time you play the lot). Lyra is good about sleeping in her own bed, that is until Nervous started sleeping in it. Ugh.

He's not even pregnant, Pascal is. (I also have TwoJeff's Preg for All Mod and ACR, so Pascal is pregnant with a ACR baby right now.)

Heh, Nervous does that in my game as well. He seems to have passed that behavior down to all of his kids, too, to the point where I quickly gave up on making everyone sleep in their own beds. It's led to some cute moments: like when his two youngest were children and decided to sleep in the big bed, and he came in and tucked them both in before reading them to sleep.

[simonem]

:blink: Speaking of Jan Tellerman, I discovered she and the penguin make a surprisingly attractive daughter. I just discovered the Sim Blender and was fooling around as you can probably tell.

[Orilon]

Sims look funny when they are "warming up" on the dance bar and have "chess arm".

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/Orilon/Nervousarm.jpg

Nervous was playing chess with Pascal, but then I told Pascal to make breakfast because his hunger was dropping like a rock.

Nervous started warming up on the bar and had "chess arm" from playing chess with Pascal.

[Simsica]

I discovered 4 sims can play hacky sack together, if one leaves it does not inturupt the group, they just keep on going down to three. If you have three sims playing hacky sack and one leaves, they keep playing... Is this the only thing Sims can handle logically?

If hacky sack is "kicky bag", then yes. The only problem is, the bag gets stuck (and invisible) creating routing problems. Pescado's bat box has an option to nuke them, though. So all's well.

Edit to add: "chess arm" :rofl:, a perfect name for a very annoying thing. It made me laugh.
Anyone knows if there's a fix for this?

[Orilon]

Edit to add: "chess arm" :rofl:, a perfect name for a very annoying thing. It made me laugh.
Anyone knows if there's a fix for this?

I had Nervous play a little more chess after the picture was taken and it went away then had him eat breakfast.

The only fixes I've seen are more chess (strange I know but it works) or use the force error on the Lot Debugger. I try not to use the lot debugger because it makes everything reset and it takes awhile for them to obey commands.

[Simsica]

You can always reset a single object/Sim using testingcheats and forcing error.
And, about chess arm (I'm still amused :)) - thanks for the solution, it sounds reasonable. Now, how I didn't think of that?!

[AlexandraSpears]

That the education reward books aren't gold any more. :( I wonder what expansion or mod I have broke that?

I think FreeTime. And I *think* I have a fix for it...I used to have green books, now they're back to gold.

I can't remember the name of the hack offhand...I have to look at my huge Downloads folder....


At any rate...a Sim in permaplat can get busted down to gold. I had a Popularity Sim whose fears were deaths of her friends and she was in permaplat...two of these friends died, and her aspiration was in the gold, though her lifetime aspiration meter was still platinum.

[Aserette]

I discovered the "Have 20 grandchildren" want. That's right.. 20 GRANDCHILDREN!! I have never seen this want pop up before haha. I've seen the 10 children want but not 20 grandchildren!
(I was going to add in a pic but "print screen" is only capturing the desktop and when I take a picture ingame it doesn't show the UI, sorry!)

I just loaded up the Dawhalia household and Emily Dawhalia-Brown (child of Heather Dawhalia and Kenchi Dawhalia) had moved out and had twins.. Her brother Eric Dawhalia still lives in the Dawhalia household with their parents, when Heather rolled the want to have 20 grandchildren. Come on.. she only has 2 kids and her daughter just had twins! Heather's only got family as a second aspiration aswell. I don't plan to put her 2 kids through the trouble of having 10 each! I mean come on.. Emily just married into my Thimble/Brown Legacy and I don't plan for her to be a baby factory! They might have one more kid but.. jeeeeze. And her little brother Eric is still only a teen and isn't exactly family worthy atm.. but I do plan for him to have one.

Sorry Heather, you're just going to have to settle for 5 at the most!

Anyone else seen this want?

[katya_stevens]

Anyone else seen this want?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/Katya_Stevens/Angelos%20Town%204/8506.jpg

Yup (top-right want). For reference, this sim (Rene Hensley) who that wants panel belongs to has four children, three of whom are married already (the fourth one is Romance and has no inclination of settling down as of yet) and currently seven grandchildren, the oldest of which just turned teen. Of course, one of his children rolled Family and the LTW to marry off six children, so as she only has two so far Rene can look forward to four more grandchildren being born.

Edit: I probably should say that, yes, this IS the same household which just had quads further up-thread -- four new grandchildren and Rene still wants more.

[M.M.A.A.]

this is the first time i see a sim who wants 20 grandchildren, i usually see a want for those who want 10 children. :wtf:

[nikel23]

I played Tara Kat and destined her to be a cat lady, raising cats for her entire life. When she was about 5 days before being an elder, she keeps rolling fear about "Being Old and Never Married". I never saw it before, and it's kinda rare... Say, how many of your Sims are in this kind of condition?

[M.M.A.A.]

I played Tara Kat and destined her to be a cat lady, raising cats for her entire life. When she was about 5 days before being an elder, she keeps rolling fear about "Being Old and Never Married". I never saw it before, and it's kinda rare... Say, how many of your Sims are in this kind of condition?

do you have an image to show us that fear?

[Hulibert]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/Katya_Stevens/Angelos%20Town%204/8506.jpg

Yup (top-right want). For reference, this sim (Rene Hensley) who that wants panel belongs to has four children, three of whom are married already (the fourth one is Romance and has no inclination of settling down as of yet) and currently seven grandchildren, the oldest of which just turned teen. Of course, one of his children rolled Family and the LTW to marry off six children, so as she only has two so far Rene can look forward to four more grandchildren being born.

Edit: I probably should say that, yes, this IS the same household which just had quads further up-thread -- four new grandchildren and Rene still wants more.

May I know what's that top middle want? I've never seen that before :O

[Peni Griffin]

That's "Learn Parenting." You won't see it if you don't have EPs later than (I believe) Free Time. Rene is really focused on one subject there, I see. Relative gets engaged, relative gets married...that's the trouble with elderly family sims. Too many of their wants are things they can't fulfill themselves.

I expect the "20 Grandkids" want is like the "10 kids" want - something that pops up on the endorphin wave and goes away again quickly.

[katya_stevens]

Rene is really focused on one subject there, I see. Relative gets engaged, relative gets married...that's the trouble with elderly family sims. Too many of their wants are things they can't fulfill themselves.

I expect the "20 Grandkids" want is like the "10 kids" want - something that pops up on the endorphin wave and goes away again quickly.

Rene certainly was -- I did let him retire and most of those wants rolled away very quickly though. He's yet to re-roll the 20 grandchildren want again. In my experience, the 10 children want appears once that sim has three children, making it a bit of a pain to try and accomplish as it needs to be locked for the next seven children (or less if the third birth was twins or you have Trips&Quads).

I played Tara Kat and destined her to be a cat lady, raising cats for her entire life. When she was about 5 days before being an elder, she keeps rolling fear about "Being Old and Never Married". I never saw it before, and it's kinda rare... Say, how many of your Sims are in this kind of condition?

I've had a couple of sims roll that want, both Family sims -- one I was intentionally keeping unmarried for story reasons, the other seemed to glitch out and forget that she had been married and had three biological sons from that marriage.

do you have an image to show us that fear?

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v203/Katya_Stevens/Angelos%20Town%202/2432.jpg

I really am spamming with images at the moment...

[M.M.A.A.]

how did you get that fear? i have never seen those fears? and i need your fear for a story.
is your game modded or something?

[nikel23]

I really am spamming with images at the moment...
You sure are. You're 10 minutes earlier before I tried to show my picture... :rolleyes:

how did you get that fear? i have never seen those fears? and i need your fear for a story.
is your game modded or something?
Technically, Family Sim is the most likely to have that fear. Your Sim must not be married until around 10 days before being an Elder. I don't know if this one is related, but my Tara has no crush or lover, so perhaps that fear also require no lover...

[AlexandraSpears]

I played Tara Kat and destined her to be a cat lady, raising cats for her entire life. When she was about 5 days before being an elder, she keeps rolling fear about "Being Old and Never Married". I never saw it before, and it's kinda rare... Say, how many of your Sims are in this kind of condition?

I've seen that with widowed Family Sims who haven't yet reached the Elder stage. Their spouse dies, first thing they want to do is find a new one.

[Orilon]

I discovered the "Have 20 grandchildren" want.
Anyone else seen this want?

Yes. Any time my Family Sims get 1 or 2 grandchildren, they then roll the want to have 20 grandchildren.

It never gets filled because I usually try to keep my families small because most Sim parents suck.

That's "Learn Parenting." You won't see it if you don't have EPs later than (I believe) Free Time. Rene is really focused on one subject there, I see. Relative gets engaged, relative gets married...that's the trouble with elderly family sims. Too many of their wants are things they can't fulfill themselves.

Learn parenting was introduced with Free Time and won't be available unless you have that EP. Most of the time my Sims roll the want to Learn Parenting after they had a baby, or a grandparent will roll the want if they are a pre-made (for example, Mortimer Goth will roll the want to learn parenting after Cassandra has given birth)

Pollenation Tech #9 (Elderly Family Sim) is kind of annoying me right now because most his wants are stuff he can't do. Relative gets married, relative gets engaged, have a grandchild, have 20 grandchildren, etc. When he rolled the want to learn parenting after Johnny's daughter was born I jumped on it because it was something he could do to fill his want. I can't fill his LTW (Marry off 6 Children) because he and Jenny are too old to have children, so I'm trying to keep his Aspiration up because he doesn't have much longer before he dies of old age.

[katya_stevens]

how did you get that fear? i have never seen those fears? and i need your fear for a story.
is your game modded or something?

I do have a modded game, but the want itself is part of the game's own coding. The requirements seem to be to have a Family sim, close to becoming an elder, and either never married or a widower/divorced.

[eldavis]

That a sim can roll the "have a baby" want and fear at the same time. She was a family sim as well! It might have been a glitch or something. I've also learned that Sims will not try to dance to music if you wall off the stereo. I was getting really fed up with my Sims dancing non-stop. I have yet to find a mod to combat this that I can use with my game, seeing as the only one I've found requires AL. So in a sudden flash of inspiration I decided to make a sort of bay window-ish type of extension on my house, but I walled off any access to it. Seems like Sims take the concept of out of sight, out of mind rather literally. :lol: Oh, and sims seem to default to Salsa music when turning the stereo on. :wtf:

[Orilon]

That a sim can roll the "have a baby" want and fear at the same time. She was a family sim as well! It might have been a glitch or something. I've also learned that Sims will not try to dance to music if you wall off the stereo. I was getting really fed up with my Sims dancing non-stop. I have yet to find a mod to combat this that I can use with my game, seeing as the only one I've found requires AL. So in a sudden flash of inspiration I decided to make a sort of bay window-ish type of extension on my house, but I walled off any access to it. Seems like Sims take the concept of out of sight, out of mind rather literally. :lol: Oh, and sims seem to default to Salsa music when turning the stereo on. :wtf:


I've seen the want and fear at the same time many times, and it only seems to be Family Sims. I still haven't figured out what causes it though.

[AlexandraSpears]

I've seen the want and fear at the same time many times, and it only seems to be Family Sims. I still haven't figured out what causes it though.

I've noticed that it tends to pop up when they're halfway through their adult stage. Maybe they realize they're getting older.

[Peni Griffin]

I routinely get the have baby want/fear at the same time and I 've never understood why anyone thinks it odd. Ambivalence about them is natural in the circumstances in which I see it: Family sim, wants lots of children, but money's low/breadwinner just lost job/previous child still a toddler/previous child twins and still a toddler/parent will age to elder before child grows up.

If you look at the numbers, for family sims the want outweighs the fear. Kitty Hawkins had two of her girls with the want/fear combo and still went platinum. For the younger generations, I'm using the appearance of the fear as indicating that they're using birth control, and they can date without my having them try for a baby. Kitty and Goz, of course, never used birth control - they just didn't have the mindset. Kitty's been an elder for most of a week now, and Goz is still occasionally rolling a fear that she'll get pregnant with a kid he won't live to see grow up!

[VioletPadfoot]

That a sim can roll the "have a baby" want and fear at the same time. She was a family sim as well! It might have been a glitch or something. I've also learned that Sims will not try to dance to music if you wall off the stereo. I was getting really fed up with my Sims dancing non-stop. I have yet to find a mod to combat this that I can use with my game, seeing as the only one I've found requires AL. So in a sudden flash of inspiration I decided to make a sort of bay window-ish type of extension on my house, but I walled off any access to it. Seems like Sims take the concept of out of sight, out of mind rather literally. :lol: Oh, and sims seem to default to Salsa music when turning the stereo on. :wtf:

I've yet to see a mod to stop the constant dancing, but if you just want the look of a stereo, you can try my Decorative Stereos. I was inspired to make them b/c i couldn't play the Pleasant household at all b/c of the darn stereo. ~VP

[AlexandraSpears]

I've yet to see a mod to stop the constant dancing, but if you just want the look of a stereo, you can try my Decorative Stereos. I was inspired to make them b/c i couldn't play the Pleasant household at all b/c of the darn stereo. ~VP

Here are some dance fixes, including one where they can only smustle when they're in the same room as the stereo:

http://www.leefish.nl/mybb/thread-937.html

[Aserette]

:D Ahh.. I just love family sims :D The majoirty of my sims are family sims. Especially for my legacy

[Aegagropilon]

One thing that worked in my game as far as getting the baby fear to go away during a pregnancy is to have the baby-fearing Family sim parent interact with any current babies/toddlers in the house. I've only had that fear occur in-house during one pregnancy -- once sims start to fear having babies, they're done having them -- and that was when Frieda was pregnant with Grimuara, and it was Nervous who was rolling the fear. But, as soon as Nervous picked up then-toddler Difficult, the fear would roll away.

His son Grimm rolled the "have a baby" fear once when he went to a community lot to pick up supplies while Ruby was pregnant with their fourth kid Jasper, but that fear rolled away the moment he got home. (Though I think he feared the thought of another baby less than he feared Pregnant!Ruby, who undergoes a dramatic personality change for the duration of each pregnancy. He just wanted his surly wife back, instead of the overly-cheerful pod person she had been replaced with :lol: )

Ophelia, however, has rolled "have a baby" as a fear ever since her and Johnny's only child Juniper was born and, while interacting with her infant/toddler daughter would temporarily make the fear go away, the fear gets rolled again every morning when she wakes up. She'll occasionally roll the want "have a baby," but her true feelings exist on her fears panel :P

[Orilon]

I think I'm insane right now, I'm seriously considering using cheesecake on a Pregnant sim (available with OFB, cheesecake will change a pregnancy to twins). I'm not sure how to do it, but I'm thinking about it. I'm seriously thinking about trying to fill a Family Sim's Marry off 6 children want, and right now the pregnancy scanner says she's pregnant with 1 baby.

[Aserette]

I think I'm insane right now, I'm seriously considering using cheesecake on a Pregnant sim (available with OFB, cheesecake will change a pregnancy to twins). I'm not sure how to do it, but I'm thinking about it. I'm seriously thinking about trying to fill a Family Sim's Marry off 6 children want, and right now the pregnancy scanner says she's pregnant with 1 baby.

To get a sim to have twins via cheesecake is as simple as it sounds:)
While your sim is pregnant, it doesn't matter what stage she is in.. Just get someone/her to serve some cheesecake and make her eat it.. And Wala! She should have twins when she gives birth.
:D Works for me everytime.

[Aegagropilon]

I (re)discovered that ACR must never, ever be taunted.

All the ACR settings reset when I reinstalled my game. Even though I turned off the ACR autonomy, I hadn't put all the settings back in all of my households and still made use of the casual menu... because I figured that with the ages of most of my long-established couples' children being what they are, the chances of there being any baby attempts would be slim to none.

Bella and Pascal, whose twins are college freshmen and Pascal's alien son is the father of two, are now expecting another :faceslap:

[Orilon]

I (re)discovered that ACR must never, ever be taunted.

All the ACR settings reset when I reinstalled my game. Even though I turned off the ACR autonomy, I hadn't put all the settings back in all of my households and still made use of the casual menu... because I figured that with the ages of most of my long-established couples' children being what they are, the chances of there being any baby attempts would be slim to none.

Bella and Pascal, whose twins are college freshmen and Pascal's alien son is the father of two, are now expecting another :faceslap:

Yeah, I learned a long time ago that if I don't want a couple to have any more children, that I better turn on birth control (I don't know what version of ACR you have, but ACR Version 2.0 has a birth control option that I use frequently) or else they will have more children than they have room.

[Bunnyfoxes]

That toddlers can sleep in pet beds o.o

[Peni Griffin]

If your household is really teetering on the brink, they can also eat pet food. It tanks their hygiene score, but that's better than starving and the social worker coming. Soooo many reasons to have a pet in a toddler house! (Wait'll you see the toddler cuddle the critter!)

[Bunnyfoxes]

If your household is really teetering on the brink, they can also eat pet food. It tanks their hygiene score, but that's better than starving and the social worker coming. Soooo many reasons to have a pet in a toddler house! (Wait'll you see the toddler cuddle the critter!)
Found that out too! So cute, especially kittens/puppies.

But twins are sooo hard to take care of D:

[saskganesh]

I've seen ambivalence in other contexts: want to be a vampire/ don't want to be a vampire for example. Another: get engaged to sim x/ get married to sim x (which happens to some of my Romance sims.)

I think it's fine to have characters at odds with themselves. Sometimes it's eventually resolved, and other times never.

[Orilon]

I've seen ambivalence in other contexts: want to be a vampire/ don't want to be a vampire for example. Another: get engaged to sim x/ get married to sim x (which happens to some of my Romance sims.)

I think it's fine to have characters at odds with themselves. Sometimes it's eventually resolved, and other times never.

What I find interesting is if you have Free Time and give the Sim the Secondary Knowledge Aspiration. I had a Fortune Sim that I gave the Knowledge Secondary and she had the want/fear at the same time of being hit by lightning. I've seen others with the Knowledge Secondary Want/Fear at the same time of a Family Member being abducted by aliens. (The Sim in Question was Goneril Capp, She's Fortune but I gave her a Knowledge Secondary to get the Eureka Benefit to help her skill for her job. She had the want/fear of a family member being abducted by aliens after Miranda got abducted by aliens as a teen.)

Since Knowledge Sims want what the other Aspirations fear, you get interesting want/fear combos.

[existerande]

I noticed that toddlers can dance to the stereo! So cute I almost fainted.

[AlexandraSpears]

I noticed that toddlers build dance skill when they dance to the stereo (I have the Sim Manipulator, which can show hidden skills).

[saskganesh]

What I find interesting is if you have Free Time and give the Sim the Secondary Knowledge Aspiration. I had a Fortune Sim that I gave the Knowledge Secondary and she had the want/fear at the same time of being hit by lightning. I've seen others with the Knowledge Secondary Want/Fear at the same time of a Family Member being abducted by aliens. (The Sim in Question was Goneril Capp, She's Fortune but I gave her a Knowledge Secondary to get the Eureka Benefit to help her skill for her job. She had the want/fear of a family member being abducted by aliens after Miranda got abducted by aliens as a teen.)

Since Knowledge Sims want what the other Aspirations fear, you get interesting want/fear combos.

Exactly. I have FT and have Sims like that as well. I have some paired Alien Abduction wants/ fear rolling now in my community, probably as a result of recent events (word gets around!).

[saskganesh]

heh. My sims had spent all their money winterising their new mediterranean-style villa and then went on an outing to the Music Club. Some other sims were "Being the DJ" and it was my sims who were being paid.

So now I have a new idea about making house guests create wealth...

[M.M.A.A.]

Exactly. I have FT and have Sims like that as well. I have some paired Alien Abduction wants/ fear rolling now in my community, probably as a result of recent events (word gets around!).

not only in cases of "two-aspirationed" sims, "single-aspirationed" family sims themselves have wants and fears at the same time for having a baby, maybe EAxis made it this way so that it would be more realistic, meaning the family sim is not sure whether he/she actually wants a baby or not. :( :rolleyes:
just an opinion.

[Orilon]

not only in cases of "two-aspirationed" sims, "single-aspirationed" family sims themselves have wants and fears at the same time for having a baby, maybe EAxis made it this way so that it would be more realistic, meaning the family sim is not sure whether he/she actually wants a baby or not. :( :rolleyes:
just an opinion.

Exactly. I have noticed that several Family Sims with no secondary have the "have a baby" want and fear at the same time, which was the original discussion. I was just bringing up that interesting things happen if you do give a Sim the Knowledge Secondary.

[lizard49]

That an Elder Knowledge Sim can experience a fear of email ... LOL

[Orilon]

That an Elder Knowledge Sim can experience a fear of email ... LOL

I've seen elders of other Aspirations have that fear of emailing someone. I've had Family and Fortune sims have the fear of emailing, it seems to be an Elder thing.

Edit: Since no one posted after me, editing to add my discovery:

Sims can fear the abduction of Sims they met, but aren't family members. I've only seen Sims roll fears of family members being abducted before:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/Orilon/PollTech9fear.jpg

Pollination Tech #9 rolled the fear of Ophelia being abducted after she was abducted by aliens as a teen. He knows her as a casual acquaintance, they aren't friends yet and she's in love with Johnny but not engaged or married yet to him yet.

I'll admit that I used the Sim Blender to age Pollination Tech #9 down to Adult (he starts the game as an elder) because of this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/Orilon/JennyACRPregscan.jpg

His LTW is to graduate 3 children from college, and if I left him as elder, he wasn't going to live long enough.

[Peni Griffin]

I started getting alien abduction fears after my first legitimate (as opposed to boolpropped) alien pregnancy. Clovis is sufficiently gregarious that most of the playables know him at least slightly, but I was struck by how the fears that popped up around the neighborhood focused on a fear that he'd be abducted again, not that anybody else would be.

When the downright reclusive Gene Skirt got abducted, only family members rolled fears of it happening again; and then I was fascinated to see that his ex-best friend, Pierre Curian, got a Want for it to happen! I'm not sure what happened between Gene and Pierre - Pierre's score with Gene is still high, they have the BFF tag, and Pierre's son Paul is dating Gene's daughter Polly Esther, so they ought to be friends and see each other more than they see most people. Yet for several rotations Gene has been refusing invitations to visit Pierre or go on outings. So I don't know whether Pierre's sudden desire for Gene to be abducted again is down to his being a Knowledge sim who wants more information, or resentment of his behavior!

[Orilon]

I started getting alien abduction fears after my first legitimate (as opposed to boolpropped) alien pregnancy. Clovis is sufficiently gregarious that most of the playables know him at least slightly, but I was struck by how the fears that popped up around the neighborhood focused on a fear that he'd be abducted again, not that anybody else would be.

All of my abductions are legitimate. I don't have any hacks to increase the odds, and never use the Summon Aliens FT benefit available to Knowledge Sims. Even though, I have had two abductions in Strangetown so far (Not counting Pascal's that happened before the player plays Strangetown the first time): Julie Matthews (a CAS sim I made to be a Live In Nanny, currently living with Vidcund Curious and his family) and Ophelia right before I sent her to college. (Something is borked with Vidcund that he didn't get abducted the first night I played the Curious lot, so he doesn't have a half alien child in this incarnation of Strangetown).


When Julie got abducted I was afraid that Vidcund's toddler daughter would get a bad memory of the abduction, but she didn't. Julie is friends with Vidcund, and has a Ok relationship with Vidcund's wife, and their toddler daughter. It surprised me no one got the memory of her being abducted, and being Knowledge Sims Vidcund and his wife Marylena aren't rolling wants for her to be abducted again. Normally, Knowledge Sims get a good memory of someone being abducted, and they are the only ones that have the want for someone to be abducted again. All the other Aspirations roll the fear of someone being abducted again, like Pollination Tech #9 fearing that Ophelia will be abducted again. The other Aspirations sometimes roll the fear of a family member being abducted by aliens.

[Peni Griffin]

The good witch's familiar is translucent! When my sim picks her up, I can see her hands through the cat!

[nikel23]

The good witch's familiar is translucent! When my sim picks her up, I can see her hands through the cat!
I think it's for all feline familiars, not only the good one.

You can drag the talent badge icons!
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z464/Nikel23/The%20Sims%202%20Bloopers/Blooper11.jpg?t=1309925918

[fruitsymphony]

Baby sims can have a bath in the sink.

[eldavis]

I discovered that setting plant Sims on fire is much more fun when you play music. Sweet Dreams by the Eurythmics makes everything funnier. Yes, I may be slightly sadistic when it comes to killing off my Sims. I cured Rose (She's really freaking pretty in regular Sim form) and grew up daisy so that I could set her (Daisy) on fire. I have this irrational hatred towards plant Sims. It's only Wednesday and my week has already been torture, I apologize if none of that made sense.

Oh, and it can be incredibly awkward if you age up a plant sim toddler while they are being held. I almost peed my pants from laughing so hard.
http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu218/HelloSeaCow/Sims%202/Screenshot.jpg

[nikel23]

Normally, lot cannot be saved when there's fire somewhere. Business lot, however, can be saved when there's fire, although buy/build mode is still disabled. So, my Sim left her business lot when fire is still there. I played another family and visited that lot, and all visitors automatically freaked out when I arrived!

[RebaLynnTS]

Toddlers go into a wild sugar rush when someone is making candies .. go figure.

I'll Post a video on my Youe Tube a bit later.

EDIT; I just noticed there was a puddle of melted candy on the floor, and they were eating it.

[Peni Griffin]

I discovered that the birthday aging-up video is not a myth!

Seriously, it doesn't matter what age is growing, who the active sim is, birthday cake or not - I have never seen this video. My sims always just whirl around, emit fireworks, and grow up. But today I decided I'd better have Harlan Hawkins use the birthday cake for his teen birthday so he'd be able to drink some espresso and enjoy the end of his party, and I got a video! Yay!

I also learned that Harlan's itty-bitty pointy chin grew up into a smaller version of his dad's amazing how-did-that-happen forward-thrusting semicircular letter-opener chin, so that makes me happy. What can I say, I like being happy and try to do it as often as possible.

I also learned that the expensive hotel at Three Lakes sucks - no restaurant, and noisy as heck. Also, that you can order room service even if there's no kitchen in the hotel, which is odd, but useful.

[Aegagropilon]

I discovered that the sight of pregnant sims makes Family sims smile. I noticed that Jenny, PT9, and Nervous would grin whenever they'd look over at Bella while she was pregnant with Algol.

(...though none of them had better get any ideas: Johnny, Jill, and Jane "the Pain" Smith don't need any younger siblings, and the Subject household is hectic enough right now with youngest daughter Grimuara's twins without adding another baby (or two) to the mix. I'm making doubly sure their ACR tokens are set correctly after the Curious Incident :faceslap: )

[saskganesh]

Also, that you can order room service even if there's no kitchen in the hotel, which is odd, but useful.

It must be delivery! Of course the hotel probably has a healthy Margin$.

[FemGamerPlayer]

That sims can autonomously use mirrors. I had no idea that was possible until just a bit ago, when one of my sims autonomously gussied up at one (and then did the same at another)! I also learned why you shouldn't yank a couple out of bed mid-woohoo with move objects...Because it looks downright disturbing! My poor female sim looked as though someone had decapitated her and then put her head back on upside-down, and the bottom half of her husband's body was completely backwards. Not to mention the fact that their limbs were twisted at extremely painful looking angles! I'm just grateful that their son didn't happen to wander into the bedroom right then. The poor kid probably would have been scarred for life!

[LilSister]

[QUOTE=Peni Griffin]It doesn't matter what age is growing, who the active sim is, birthday cake or not - I have never seen this video. My sims always just whirl around, emit fireworks, and grow up. [QUOTE]

I've never seen the video either, are there certain conditions that have to be met or is it just a random occurance. I have had over 30 birthdays, with and without the cake.

[esmesqualor]

I thought the cinematic only occurred with the birthday party scenario.

I'm trying to hold birthday parties for all of my sims - even if that means having a child's birthday at 3am because that's the only time I can get the family together. I tried to have a scored "immediate family only" party for young Flamenco Caliente, but it didn't quite work. I thought that if I held the party at 10pm and chose someone with a very low relationship score, that they wouldn't show up and I would just have the immediate family. Unfortunately, I chose the newspaper carrier. She must have been so thrilled to be invited anywhere that she didn't care about the time. But it was a good party!

[nikel23]

It doesn't matter what age is growing, who the active sim is, birthday cake or not - I have never seen this video. My sims always just whirl around, emit fireworks, and grow up.

I've never seen the video either, are there certain conditions that have to be met or is it just a random occurance. I have had over 30 birthdays, with and without the cake.
Did you mean birthday cinematic? It always occurs to me when someone is having a birthday. To have the cinematic on, your Sim has to blow the candle from birthday cake, grow up well, and turn on the special event camera in the camera option.

[DrowningFishy]

SIMS BODY SHOP!

First off awhile ago I learned it may take five minutes but if you use the the body shop link listed under the last ep loaded the shop will eventually appear. Also it seems to respond better with Windows 7 in terms of loading.

Today I learned, after making many many sims with body shop that I have been doing things the hard way. You do NOT need to select a face template. You can, but unnessisary, unless you want elf ears. If you adjust those sliders you change the face, differnt face templates bring out different features. It is a lot easier then going into the adjuster and doing it yourself... Example if you want an elf face but round, you would put on the elf template then adjust the bars to the fat faces. It also helps to decrease the lines on your sims faces that are stubborn to get rid of.

PS works for more then templates works for all templates: nose, mouth, forehead-so on.

-edit- Holy batman, by doing this you can also change the shape of the elf ear as it adjusts closer to normal ears. XD Wonder if it sticks to ingame. And it's not size because the differnt looking elf ear grows and shrinks. I must examine this more.

Okay this is Christmas, and Valitine Elf (http://s1111.photobucket.com/albums/h462/DrowningDaFishy/?action=view&current=snapshot_bbd4a986_7bd4aa70.jpg)

Thanksgiving and Newyears (http://s1111.photobucket.com/albums/h462/DrowningDaFishy/?action=view&current=snapshot_bbd4a986_fbd4aa7c.jpg)

Thanksgiving was made in body shop, his ears are about the same size as his mothers but his mothers I grew larger. Newyears is used via the baby maker in CAS so results are probably genetic... More varances to be breed into my sims and I already em runing out of room.

Also if you havn't guessed Body shop is a lot easier to make sims for use. May be a pain to load but your Sims are easier to customize. They don't go all borky like they do in in-game CAS.

[nikel23]

-edit- Holy batman, by doing this you can also change the shape of the elf ear as it adjusts closer to normal ears. XD Wonder if it sticks to ingame. And it's not size because the differnt looking elf ear grows and shrinks. I must examine this more.
Did you mean you adjusted the elf face a bit to other face, so it looks like half elf-half normal? In CAS, we can adjust the face template to change 1/10 by right clicking it. If you don't get it... just try it.

[DrowningFishy]

Did you mean you adjusted the elf face a bit to other face, so it looks like half elf-half normal? In CAS, we can adjust the face template to change 1/10 by right clicking it. If you don't get it... just try it.

If you start off with an elf template and mess with the bar of another face template watch the elf ears. The point will adjust between very pointy we know, and move down to normal. THAT is what I mean. These ears in the modifier can be made bigger or smaller. Note the picture, especially of Thanksgiving his ear is ALMOST normal but not quite, where as his mother has the same ears but grown larger not the differanace with the husband wtih the default elf ears. Agian this is messing with the templates not teh modifers. Below the templates with bars that yes go to the right.

I havn't tried right clicking in CAS because i got Body shop to work. XD Now I am having fun with making elves wtih various ears.

[LilSister]

Did you mean birthday cinematic? It always occurs to me when someone is having a birthday. To have the cinematic on, your Sim has to blow the candle from birthday cake, grow up well, and turn on the special event camera in the camera option.



Oh! I've never had a scored birthday party. Most of my sims have a fear of birthday parties. I usually just invite family and friends over for a "unofficial" party with cake. I'll also have to check the special events camera-didn't know about that. Thanks.

[existerande]

About parties, I discovered that they can get a memory of a "family party". I had the Newsons gather for a party, and the memory showed.

[AlexandraSpears]

About parties, I discovered that they can get a memory of a "family party". I had the Newsons gather for a party, and the memory showed.

Same here...and after that I'd have Sims rolling wants for Have Family Reunion.

[RebaLynnTS]

If your toddler has ever played in the snow, and you zoom out and zoom back in quickly .... well try it out.

[nikel23]

I found out that... I think not all rugs can be used to use static shock prank. :-/

[Aegagropilon]

That not all clothes meshes are suitable for sitting down in.

Let's just say that Asphodel ended up flashing everyone when she went to hang out with her friends. I know she has 10 outgoing points, but the lack of underwear was a bit much.

[VerDeTerre]

The cops, or one anyway, will come and break up a party in the neighborhood if it goes too late into the wee hours. I guess I've never thrown an evening party before. :deal:

[omglo]

For the first time, one of my sims rolled a wish to see a shooting star. I also just noticed there's more than one animation for shooing. The vigorous two handed one I've always seen and a politer one handed version.

[eldavis]

I just realized how incredibly ugly the colonial shower/tub is. I mainly mean the fact that the only color metal there is to choose from is a horrendous gold color. It's a shame, considering there are some nice re-colours of the curtain for that shower. I also found out that after you finish throwing a party if you had balloons they deflate.

[Saturnfly]

I discovered that sloppy sims' bladder goes up when they shower... Which can only mean one thing. o.O

[Aegagropilon]

That coincidence is awesome, and makes for fun storylines.

Sarah Love was never quite the same after she caught her boyfriend Matthew Hart with Jessie Pilferson. After all, she thought she had their future all figured out: she had already picked out the names of their future children, had already planned out their wedding vows, and she had given herself carpal tunnel writing out "Sarah Hart" over and over again in her binder. She had even bought her wedding dress! She loved him, only to find out that he was... that he was... well, she didn't know a word strong enough to describe him, but she knew plenty to describe Jessie with and most of them began with the letter S.

Feeling disgraced, Sarah dropped out of school and started a new life in Strangetown. On her first day there, she met none other than the Grim Reaper (who shows up at practically every welcome wagon, since everyone meets him at least once in their life) and they struck up a fast friendship. He had a lot of sympathy for jilted brides-to-be and remarked that she needed to talk with his wife: Olive had been left at the altar before, too, and could give her some helpful advice on where to go from there. Sarah thanked him, and her new friend showed up the next day with Olive.

Sarah did indeed learn a lot from talking to Olive. She learned that it wasn't worth getting mad (she immediately rolled the want to learn Anger Management), but it was worth having a room in one's house that locked from the outside as well as a garden that needed frequent tending. Olive even offered to set her up with the mistakenly-resurrected Elwood Valley. Elwood was apparently something of a cheater (and a number of far more unpleasant things), but Olive remarked that she was sure that Sarah could set him right... somehow. In the mean time, she shouldn't worry her heart with Matthew: he'll get what's coming to him.

The next time I played the Fraternity lot at La Fiesta Tech, Matthew got a spontaneous phonecall from none other than Sarah's friend. He had a hard time understanding him -- while the Grim Reaper can sound normal in person, there's no fooling electronics -- but he thought he heard something to the effect of "See you soon." So, he walked outside and decided to pass the time until the mysterious caller arrived by looking up at the clouds. There were a lot of them that day, and they were the fluffy sort that usually looked like bathtubs and bunnies. In fact, one even looked like a bit of space debris! And it was coming closer! Oh...my.

His mysterious caller arrived a few seconds later, clipboard in hand.

http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj202/aegagropilon/SeeYouSoon.jpg

That was the first time in nearly two years of play that my game has seen a death-by-satellite, and the timing was far too perfect :lol:

[Jinyuu]

That if you angle the camera to the night sky, you might spot a shooting star.

I was all like ohhhhhhhh snap. :rofl:

[Peni Griffin]

Sparrow interrupted skilling to take a phone call from one of her lover's friends, and went on a scored outing (though she really needs the mechanical point to fix the computer with). In the middle of the outing, racking up the best score I've ever done with an outing, I got a pop-up notice: "Hanging out with all those tinkerers pays off! Sparrow has gained a mechanical skill Point!"

What the ...? I've never gained a skillpoint on an outing before, and none of the people on the outing, as far as I know, is much of a tinkerer. The group consisted of her lover, a bunch of his friends that aren't at University yet, and the parent of two of the teens. The only one of those playables who's ever tinkered at all is the parent, and he doesn't have a single mechanical point. The rule for playing this particular sim is that he can't skill with the bookcase and can only learn by doing; and he needs to get his first mechanical point in order to get his next promotion, so I had him tinker with the shower in hope of breaking it. (Normally I'd just stop telling them to clean the toilet, so it'd plug up - nothing like a clogged toilet to teach a sim the necessary skills for fixing computers! - but one of this guy's daughters is a depressed Virgo and cleans obsessively.)

Sparrow did greet her big sister Sadie, who is high on the career ladder and has a good mechanical score, but they aren't even friends and all they did was chat and have an earthy hug. And she certainly wasn't part of the outing.

[fruitsymphony]

Found out that sims can watch tv while relaxing on the bed. My sim will have a tv in his bedroom now.

[VerDeTerre]

Found out that sims can watch tv while relaxing on the bed. My sim will have a tv in his bedroom now. The only problem with that is that some Sim will come in and turn on the tv when your Sim is trying to sleep :(

[Orilon]

The only problem with that is that some Sim will come in and turn on the tv when your Sim is trying to sleep :(

That is why I keep noise making things like the computer and TV out of Sim's bedrooms. Sims are dumb about when it is ok to use a TV or play a computer game that makes a lot of noise and constantly wake up the Sim trying to sleep.

[lg135]

I also found out that after you finish throwing a party if you had balloons they deflate.

They'll deflate before then if you put them out too soon. Nothing like ruining a party by everyone complaining about the environment being crappy.

he vigorous two handed one I've always seen and a politer one handed version.

Shyer sims tend to do the polite one x)

[dtfan]

I learned that it is super easy to steal items from Greek Houses.

(:

[AlexandraSpears]

If you have twin babies (or a baby and a toddler) and you lay one baby down on the floor where the other baby (or toddler) is sleeping...it'll wake up the other baby (or toddler).

Mrs. Landgraab here has two daughters, three Sim days apart. She lay the newborn down on the floor where her older daughter was sleeping on the blanket, and the toddler woke up. Almost seems like she's thinking, "Who said I wanted a baby sister?" LOL

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/af292/alexandrasims2/snapshot_7bda33a6_3bdb9550.jpg

[smorbie1]

Where did you get that fabulous pallet the toddler is on???????

[AlexandraSpears]

Where did you get that fabulous pallet the toddler is on???????

The toddler blanket you can download from this site, plus I have McAlli's nursery stuff, also available here. Apparently the blanket picked up the pattern (I think that's what you call "repository").

I love that blanket. Saves your Sims from having to put them in their crib for their naps.

Blanket: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=329172

The nursery set shown: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=112199

[omglo]

Those blankets are great. Just be sure to distract everyone aged teen or older while the toddler falls asleep. If the older Sims aren't busy just as the toddler lies down, they'll go over and wake him or her up so they can put them in the crib.

[smorbie1]

The toddler blanket you can download from this site, plus I have McAlli's nursery stuff, also available here. Apparently the blanket picked up the pattern (I think that's what you call "repository").

I love that blanket. Saves your Sims from having to put them in their crib for their naps.

Blanket: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=329172

The nursery set shown: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=112199



mmmwhaaah (blows kisses) Thank you!

[McChoclatey]

I discovered that toddlers can die today. o_O

I never knew that toddlers could do that-I mean, I always thought they were fire-proof...or just death-proof in general. I was only leaving the toddler there in the fire so it's needs could get so low that the social worker would show up (just as I planned)-but instead of that, it just disappeared through the flames and all of a sudden the ol' grim reaper showed up. I was shocked. I already knew that kids could die by drowning in a pool, but now I'm wondering about the babies...

...sadistic, aren't I?

[AlexandraSpears]

Babies and toddlers aren't supposed to die. (Unless you have that horrible BBQ hack.) Something's not right there....

[McChoclatey]

Nah, I don't have the baby-grill mod in my game. And when I got my warlock (atrociously evil) sim to revive the toddler with his magic, the toddler came back normal. Kids and under can't come back as zombies, I guess, but it might be that they aren't supposed to come back as zombies. It seems that teens and older get zombie-ified, but no Sim young than that. I hope this just a harmless glitch, though. Hopefully this doesn't mean my neighborhood is imploding..

[Aegagropilon]

The zombie skin doesn't have an infant, toddler, or child state. That's why the offspring of CAS-created zombies (ie. fake zombies, with the skin but not the shuffle) can crash the game.

[AlexandraSpears]

I found out that the courthouse downtown (where I live) has the Second Empire architecture. :lol: Seriously, before Sims, I never took notice of that kind of thing, while my mother can tell me just by looking what era a house is from and what architecture.

[Dahll Haus]

It's a feature of University, in order to get the graduates get back home. If you don't have Uni, you don't have the feature. Sorry :(

I didn't have University until recently and I could still merge families. You just move one family out of the house, then when picking a new house for them to live, pick the family you want to merge them with and it will do it.

[Dahll Haus]

If your household is really teetering on the brink, they can also eat pet food. It tanks their hygiene score, but that's better than starving and the social worker coming. Soooo many reasons to have a pet in a toddler house! (Wait'll you see the toddler cuddle the critter!)

Mine will eat pet food whenever an adult's back is turned long enough!

[Aegagropilon]

Mine will eat pet food whenever an adult's back is turned long enough!

I swear some toddlers prefer pet food to anything else. Aldous Gieke had a terrible pet food addiction, and so did the Kat twins (heck, the Kat twins' first words were probably "meow" and if they could have used the litter box as toddlers, they would have).

[Aegagropilon]

I noticed that an adult male werewolf takes a much higher hunger motive hit after transformation than an adult female werewolf.

There are two grown werewolves in my game: Anne-Marie Howell and her young adult son Sonny Ray. Anne-Marie's transformation hunger hit never seemed too dramatic -- unless she was pregnant -- and neither did Sonny Ray's while he was still a teen. That all changed for Sonny Ray once he started at La Fiesta Tech.

I maxmotived both of them right before their transformations to show the difference:

Sonny Ray before:
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj202/aegagropilon/sonnyraysim.jpg
Sonny Ray after:
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj202/aegagropilon/sonnyrayweresim.jpg


Anne-Marie before:
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj202/aegagropilon/annemariesim.jpg
Anne-Marie after:
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj202/aegagropilon/annemarieweresim.jpg
(there's a bigger lag in transformation time for her because I had to wait for the pillowfight animation to completely end.)


Big difference!

[M.M.A.A.]

i discovered today that there is a wall-lamp called the "prisoner of azkalamp" placed in Olive Specter's House in the room that is rumored to be used by her to imprison people she hate.

[MalloryLynn]

That I love The Sims 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[saskganesh]

If I build a bowling alley on a flat roof, it lets snow inside during the winter.

OTOH, B-ball courts are seemingly weatherproof.

[-Zol-]

I discovered that sims could have nightmares. Poor sim guy looked terrified!

[Peni Griffin]

If lightning-scorch won't come off a sim's face after bathing, you can remove it in "Change Appearance" under "Full Face Makeup."

If you extract a sim last saved with lightning scorch on, he'll have lightning-scorch in CAS.

[lg135]

I noticed that an adult male werewolf takes a much higher hunger motive hit after transformation than an adult female werewolf.


Have you seen a hungry young adult eat? They can eat whole pizzas by themselves... and that's without being a werewolf! (aja, very helpful - I've never played werewolves and I kinda do now :o))

[AlexandraSpears]

A Sim living in an apartment has the option to Throw Building Party.

Also, I don't know if this is a glitch...but if you befriend a fellow tenant and ask them to be a roommate, their former apartment sits empty, yet doesn't say Vacant on the door--still has their last name.

That can be a plus, though--no noise!

[Peni Griffin]

I discovered that a file doesn't have to be downloaded, or used for anything, in order to corrupt and bork your game.

I had a problem where any attempt to buy clothes was causing my game to crash. So I started the whole Game FAQ process and got contradictory results (also found a few weirdnesses in my Downloads folder), taking up all my game time. This is a really crappy glitch to test for, btw, as first you have to load the game, then you have to load the neighborhood, then you have to load a household, then you have to send somebody to a community lot, where people you've put custom hair and clothes on wander onto the lot while their relevant downloads are inoperative and get saved in bizarro form.

So I was about to proceed to "generate fresh user data" when I noticed that I hadn't done the "delete SavedSims folder" step; and I do, as of last week or the week before, have a SavedSims folder. I've never downloaded a sim, but I have used SimPE to clone some premades and some of my favorite CAS and born in-game sims so I can have Nervous in Drama Acres and some Hawkinses in Strangetown and so on. It seemed improbable that these files, which had only been used a couple of times, could be the problem, but I figured for the sake of thoroughness I would do it. I didn't bother copying it since I can easily extract them all again any time I care to, just deleted the whole file, loaded the game for the umpty-umpth time, and - it worked.

So I quit my game, restored my entire Downloads folder in a lump, tested again, and - it worked.

The last time I had to do this, the problem was in a blouse. From the category of downloads specified by the FAQ as being the least likely type of file to screw up the game.

This is the kind of thing that makes me feel picked on by the computer fairies.

[Amairani]

I discovered that sims could have nightmares. Poor sim guy looked terrified!

His aspiration must have been in the red zone, poor little thing. When it's very low, Sims have nightmares and even I got scared few times when a Sim woke up abruptly and unexpectedly from a nightmare.

[MsScribble]

That cats and dogs will act aggressively towards the caged birds, who will then start flapping thier wings and squawking in alarm.

That kids can get hurt while at school and medical bills will be yanked out of the family funds! Upteen years of playing and that's never happened!

That solar panels aren't decorative, they can get rid of household bills and even give you money back.

[Peni Griffin]

The Romance swagger is about three times funnier when a teen does it.

[Liv Lukas]

That kids can get hurt while at school and medical bills will be yanked out of the family funds! Upteen years of playing and that's never happened!

Wow! I have never seen that happen! It was a pop-up while the child was at school? I've never even heard of that!

[Orilon]

Wow! I have never seen that happen! It was a pop-up while the child was at school? I've never even heard of that!

I forget the exact wording, but yes sometimes a pop-up comes up while the child is at school and the end result is the child "breaking" a limb and money is taken out of the family's bank for "hospital bills".

The only thing is the child gets off the school bus perfectly fine.

[MsScribble]

Woudn't it be great if they came home in the ambulance, with a little cast on, and hobbled about for a few sim days? lol

[Aegagropilon]

I discovered that the Good Witch skin overlay actually looks pretty cool (and surprisingly natural) on the green alien skintone.

[colazocker13]

I found out that when someone is in the shower and another sim flushes the toilet, the sim in the shower will abruptly jump out of the shower because the water is too hot and then run after the person who flushed and yell at him. I always do that now, it's so much fun haha.

[Aegagropilon]

I also discovered that I'm rather mean towards my sims as far as creature states go. Instead of having the Knowledge sims become them -- because what nerd doesn't want to be a zombie-were-warlock-vampire? -- it's usually the Family sims that get stuck with the zombie shuffle, uncontrollable spellcasting, or Supernatural Herpes (with care, you too can have werewolfism/vampirism without passing it on to your partner!).

I've noticed that the werewolves and witches seem to genuinely enjoy it (or maybe just accept it) after a while, though. Anne-Marie stopped rolling wants to be cured of lycanthropy before any of her kids were born (though her husband Scooter still occasionally rolls cure wants: his wife's howling has caused him many panicked sprints to the outhouse), and Sonny Ray still occasionally rolls cure wants but has stopped rolling them on a daily basis. And witchy Atlantis Howe hasn't yet rolled a cure want for witchcraft and instead regularly rolls wants to cast spells.

[Bellasaurus]

I found out that when someone is in the shower and another sim flushes the toilet, the sim in the shower will abruptly jump out of the shower because the water is too hot and then run after the person who flushed and yell at him. I always do that now, it's so much fun haha.

I believe this only happens with the lower cost bathroom items - I always use the expensive stuff and have never seen this happen. I'm thinking of replacing all the loos & showers to cheap ones just to see this!

[saskganesh]

Some Sims can juggle without using cups from the bar or bottles from the fridge. I never knew!

There's a lonely little girl who lives in a vampire house (her parents are essentially the servants) and she figured it out for me one long afternoon.

Anyone see the movie Tideland? I think it's just like that for her.

[Liv Lukas]

I found out that after my Sim invites other Sims over using Monique's computer's email invitation function, that when my Sim next checks their email, the invited Sims send an email to my Sim. Like saying, Thanks for the party! It's neat. I wonder if it happens after you throw a party the Maxis way?

[Aegagropilon]

That my game has an evil sense of humor of its own.

Since Atlantis Howe had been a huge fan of the Yummy Channel since childhood, I decided to have her bake in her free time so she could open up a bakery after graduation. And since she's a Family sim who's thought babies were wonderful even as a toddler (she's always had a positive initial STR/LTR towards all of her siblings when they were born, even Gozer and Glozel), I decided that the bakery would be called "Bun In The Oven" and sell cheesecake. She would not be tasting any of her wares.

So what happens when she finally gets pregnant? Natural twins.

[Peni Griffin]

I found that ghosts can come out in the daytime. I moved Ty and Sam Bubbler into the house where I killed an experimental sim, John Thomas Orphan (he starved to death while alien pregnant) and they've been taking good care of his grave, which they've planted with flowers and keep weeded and watered. But last night lightning struck while Ty was cooking breakfast in the morning, and I guess it struck the grave, because John Thomas came drifting into the house and tried to raid the fridge.

Poor John Thomas. I built him to look like a superannuated hippy, with shaggy hair and beard and opaque glasses, and in the alien maternity outfit he makes a particularly startling ghost.

[Orilon]

I found that ghosts can come out in the daytime. I moved Ty and Sam Bubbler into the house where I killed an experimental sim, John Thomas Orphan (he starved to death while alien pregnant) and they've been taking good care of his grave, which they've planted with flowers and keep weeded and watered. But last night lightning struck while Ty was cooking breakfast in the morning, and I guess it struck the grave, because John Thomas came drifting into the house and tried to raid the fridge.

Poor John Thomas. I built him to look like a superannuated hippy, with shaggy hair and beard and opaque glasses, and in the alien maternity outfit he makes a particularly startling ghost.

The only time I've seen a ghost out during the day was when the tombstone was struck by lightning. Something about lightning hitting irritates the ghost and Darleen Dreamer came out more irritated than usual.

[Darby]

I've seen ghosts out on very overcast days, too. :blink:

[Selly_2009]

Having just had a sim nibbled by the Leader of the Pack, I've discovered that even Knowledge Sims get a BAD memory of turning into a werewolf!

On the flip side, he's my very first werewolf in-game, so I'm happy :)

[YukiShine]

My stone age sims break their sinks a lot. The sims I send to repair it actually go out of their way to scold the sims who broke it. :D

[aaries16]

Police Officers don't care that they just took your pet from you when you ask to adopt it the same day. They will gladly give you your pet back no questions asked. Apparently the cat was starving, but hey there was plenty of food in the bowl she just needed to get her butt up off the couch and go downstairs and eat.

[Rarr]

I found that ghosts can come out in the daytime. I moved Ty and Sam Bubbler into the house where I killed an experimental sim, John Thomas Orphan (he starved to death while alien pregnant) and they've been taking good care of his grave, which they've planted with flowers and keep weeded and watered. But last night lightning struck while Ty was cooking breakfast in the morning, and I guess it struck the grave, because John Thomas came drifting into the house and tried to raid the fridge.

Poor John Thomas. I built him to look like a superannuated hippy, with shaggy hair and beard and opaque glasses, and in the alien maternity outfit he makes a particularly startling ghost.
My friend and i made a haunted house (partially to make sims of people we dont like then torture and kill them, and partially to kill sims for fun) but anyway we have about 12-15 gravestones and ive seen quite a few come out in the daytime. Given, her game could be borked, weird things have been happening

[eldavis]

Kids cheer when they get a snow day. Speaking of snow days, am I the only one who actually believed that sleeping with your pajamas inside out would give you a snow day? I also figured out why I couldn't get the genetic baby hair to show up. Apparently it only works on your four default skins. :faceslap: Speaking of genetics, has anyone else managed to get a red headed kid from a blonde and a red head parent? So far I've only gotten blond children. :(

[LilSister]

Police Officers don't care that they just took your pet from you when you ask to adopt it the same day. They will gladly give you your pet back no questions asked. Apparently the cat was starving, but hey there was plenty of food in the bowl she just needed to get her butt up off the couch and go downstairs and eat.




You can get your pets back if they are taken, unlike if your child gets taken away. Also, if the cat (and some dogs) have a finicky personality like Virgo or Capricorn, they will at some point refuse to eat out of a cheap pet bowl and will opt to starve to death unless you purchase the expensive pet dish.

[katya_stevens]

Speaking of genetics, has anyone else managed to get a red headed kid from a blonde and a red head parent? So far I've only gotten blond children. :(

Blond and red hair genes are eqi-dominant, so you have a statistical 50-50 chance of getting one or the other...however, that doesn't necessarily mean you're guaranteed to get 50% blond and 50% red (one time I had a brown/red haired sim marry a blond/blond sim; they had eight children who either had brown or red hair, no blond visible whatsoever). I've had a couple of red-blond couplings and red-red couplings where one had a recessive blond gene and I've gotten a blond kid (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/Katya_Stevens/Angelos%20Town%204/8729.jpg) from some of them.

[LilSister]

Kids cheer when they get a snow day. Speaking of snow days, am I the only one who actually believed that sleeping with your pajamas inside out would give you a snow day? I also figured out why I couldn't get the genetic baby hair to show up. Apparently it only works on your four default skins. :faceslap: Speaking of genetics, has anyone else managed to get a red headed kid from a blonde and a red head parent? So far I've only gotten blond children. :(


I've gotten red-headed children from father with brown hair and mother with red hair both girls. The boy child was born wih brown hair like his father.

[Peni Griffin]

AFAIK (and any number of people here might know better than me), hair only comes in dominant and recessive; one dominant gene will not be more dominant than another dominant gene. Blonde and red are both recessive. So if your red-headed parent has only red genes, and your blonde parent only has blonde genes, then the offspring will have one red and one blonde gene and it's a 50-50 shot which you get. In that case, a series of blondes would be a statistical cluster. Flip that coin enough times and you should get a redhead.

However, if the redhead produced in this way then breeds with a blonde with two blonde genes, the offspring only have a one in four chance of getting a red gene, who would then have the usual 50% odds of expressing either the blonde or the red gene; so the odds of getting only blonde children would be greatly enhanced.

[LilSister]

My sims get gifts and furniture discounts when they network with other sims. One sim received an $8000 flat screen TV, another got the expensive computer and furniture discount. Also when you purchase the furniture at discount you can sell it back at full cost.

[saskganesh]

Speaking of genetics, has anyone else managed to get a red headed kid from a blonde and a red head parent? So far I've only gotten blond children. :(

Sure! In my game, William Cabot had red-haired twins (Marisa and Otto) when he was married to Mari-jo Bendett ... who had dyed red hair! MJ's parents were former townies Joe Carr (brown hair) and Marisa Bendett (blonde). William's parents were Jennifer Cabot (black hair) and the evil Otto Skorzeny/Caliente (blonde). Jennifer's parents were my original sim, Veronica Cabot (black) and a random townie bartender named Brady (red hair).

If you are still following this, red-haired Brady would have been Marisa II and Otto's great grandfather and the gene was carried forward but not expressed (as an aside, William's two elder siblings also had red hair). What I don't know is if Joe Carr and Marisa I also carried the red haired genes.

[fruitsymphony]

One of my sims is excited by vampyrism so I called the vampire lady, in the middle of the night.
I think it is nice that she does not complain that I woke her up. Like the other sims do.

[smellincoffee]

The noise of the dishwasher wakes Sims up! I had no idea, but I'm playing a legacy challenge and the family still has their double bed in the same room as the kitchen. Every time someone puts a dish in, they wake up. :lol:

[Babahara]

I discovered a way to raise the social bar that I never knew about: a sim must read a romance book from the bookcase. It raises social really fast! No need to chat with people on the phone or on the computer, now my secluded sims can finally be in character.

If anybody knows what books in other genres specifically do, please share the information. I found it hard to determine, but they certainly don't raise social as much as the romance book.

[katya_stevens]

If anybody knows what books in other genres specifically do, please share the information.

Romance - raises social
Cooking - tanks hunger
Sci-Fi - tanks hygiene

[Ingefaer]

Romance - raises social
Cooking - tanks hunger
Sci-Fi - tanks hygiene

I find it funny that you can actually satisfy hunger from reading a cooking book... normally those books just makes me hungry :D

[Aegagropilon]

I discovered that sims'll congratulate each other on anything.

One of my sims just congratulated her dad on getting sprayed by a skunk... then went outside and tried to pet the skunk herself.

[VioletPadfoot]

I find it funny that you can actually satisfy hunger from reading a cooking book... normally those books just makes me hungry :D

Actually cooking books make sims hungry. That's what "tanks" means, in the context of the original post. ~VP

[AlexandraSpears]

The noise of the dishwasher wakes Sims up! I had no idea, but I'm playing a legacy challenge and the family still has their double bed in the same room as the kitchen. Every time someone puts a dish in, they wake up. :lol:

Must be the cheap dishwasher. :lol:

[SingleClawDesigns]

The joys of random sim genetics appearing down the line. It's never happened to me in game till now. Mortimer and Dina had twins the boy was lily white but the girl was black. I was totally shocked and thought my game glitched horribly so I deleted that hood only to discover when looking at the Caliente family tree that her grandmother has the S4 tone and it was passed down and finally appeared. I'm really pissed at myself because it went through my head afterwards to use that as a major storyline because as it happened in my megahood right before I brought back Bella into the story so that a huge conflict between Bella and Dina would be her black child with her husband alongside the plot of whether Alexander or the new baby boy would claim the heir to the Goth name if Bella couldn't produce another one before Mortimer dies as Alexander wants nothing to do with his father anymore or the Goth name. The odds of it happening again are slim I believe so I don't know what i'm going to do now. It was fun to witness though after I figured out what had happened.

On a related note Brandi Broke had twins and since the genetics are fixed in the megahood (so i read) they have the same blue eyes as Dustin and Beau, but as far as I know Skip had green and Brandi has grey so i'm wondering where those came from since dead relatives have greyed pics I cant see where in the line they came from. It never occurred to me to wonder why they had blue eyes until after the Dina/Mortimer thing happened. Kind of odd that I've been playing for three years and never once thought about how they have blue eyes when the mother has grey and the original skip had green.

[Orilon]

On a related note Brandi Broke had twins and since the genetics are fixed in the megahood (so i read) they have the same blue eyes as Dustin and Beau, but as far as I know Skip had green and Brandi has grey so i'm wondering where those came from since dead relatives have greyed pics I cant see where in the line they came from. It never occurred to me to wonder why they had blue eyes until after the Dina/Mortimer thing happened. Kind of odd that I've been playing for three years and never once thought about how they have blue eyes when the mother has grey and the original skip had green.

There are two Skip Brokes, the one with green eyes and the one with dark blue. It is commonly thought that the one with dark blue is the one that Brandi married and is Dustin and Beau's father because of Dustin and Beau having dark blue eyes.

[M.M.A.A.]

since dead relatives have greyed pics I cant see where in the line they came from.

Simswiki will help you, just google a sim from either the newbie or broke family and search between the characters.

[Ingefaer]

Actually cooking books make sims hungry. That's what "tanks" means, in the context of the original post. ~VP
And i've just made a fool of myself (: - thanks for correcting me (;

[Selly_2009]

What I don't know is if Joe Carr and Marisa I also carried the red haired genes.Can't speak for Joe Carr as I've never made him playable, but in the case of Marisa Bendett, I hooked her up with Makoto St. Julien and all four kids were blonde.
While this obviously proves Makoto's hair genes aren't dominant ones, if there had been a red gene lurking I might've expected at least one redhead among them. Unfortunately, only two of them have already had children; Hannah married red-haired Keith and Malcolm went with dyed-red (genetically black) Rose. Needless to say there's no way to tell from the grandkids!
The other two also have spouses with dominant genes so it's unlikely I'll ever know (unless I go look Marisa up in SimPE :lol:)

[saskganesh]

Aliens consider all other aliens siblings as Pollination Technician is everyone's parent.

So in Alpha Arthurs' case, his grandfather Xan (my first and formerly only alien -- I now have a few more) is also his brother.

I forsee that in many, many, rotations into the far future, Alpha, Cassiopia Goth and Ronin Cabot will have a "family" reunion.

[Chocklitkiss]

Sloppy Sims relieve themselves in the shower! LOL

[DrowningFishy]

There are two Skip Brokes, the one with green eyes and the one with dark blue. It is commonly thought that the one with dark blue is the one that Brandi married and is Dustin and Beau's father because of Dustin and Beau having dark blue eyes.

Why doesn't someone revive him that has university and see waht eyes he has. It's not that hard... Well unless he actually isn't the father. It would explain the suspicious pool latter accident.

[Peni Griffin]

Because Skip, having shipped with the base game, doesn't have complete character data and resurrecting him without prepwork, which would involve choosing which Skip you wanted to use, can do a major number on your neighborhood.

It's not as if there's an "objective reality" to match up with here, y'all. We all sort out the inconsistencies to our own satisfaction.

[Orilon]

Why doesn't someone revive him that has university and see waht eyes he has. It's not that hard... Well unless he actually isn't the father. It would explain the suspicious pool latter accident.

I've read that Sim Wikkia that one is resurrectable and one is isn't because of character data. There's no way to tell if the one that is resurrectable is the actual father of the boys.
Resurrecting the pre dead premades is a good way to make your game glitchy.

I've done it and wouldn't recommend it.

[Peni Griffin]

I learned that if you start the gussy up mod I downloaded (which allows you to temporarily add a sim to your household, buy some new clothes, and change appearance, then return him to his usual status) too close to leaving a community lot, the sim is added to the household for real! I've been using it to change the appearance of sims who appear often enough that I'm sick of their look, and along comes the Gilscarbo dude while Dominic Moiselle is phoning for the taxi to come home after. I don't have a problem with Goopy's face or hair but am really sick of those plaid shorts, so I clicked him - but the taxi came before the game froze to give me a selection of clothes, so I thought it had aborted. Until I got home, and there was Gilscarbo (I renamed him Gary in SimPE, but I understand I need to change him under boolprop to make the first name change fully operational) heading for the door and with an icon on the side!

There's no way to add him to this family in any way that makes sense, so I changed his clothes and moved him out. I have an apartment where a former roommate, who I made playable shortly before the storyline I'd intended to use him for got replaced with Something Better by random chance in the game, is languishing alone waiting for me to figure out what to do with him. I figure I'll stick the Gilscarbo dude in there and change them both back to townies once I study up how to do that. I should wait a rotation or two till I've got all the townies and dormies I want to gussy up taken care of, in case of future accidents, so I can do them all at once. Or maybe I'll think of something cool to do with them.

Actually, I did just have an idea...

[fruitsymphony]

I figure I'll stick the Gilscarbo dude in there and change them both back to townies once I study up how to do that. ..

I was tired of some of my playables, I got a teleport shrub, and used it to make them into townies. It did not seem to cause any trouble. But then, when I again moved them in with someone, with gameplay, their earlier memories was erased and they only hade the standard "Townie" memories of how they met Mystery Sim etc.

But if I added the townie to the household with the teleport shrub, their memory was not erased.

[AlexandraSpears]

If you have a visitor on your lot and you make them selectable, and they're still selectable at 6 pm, they'll age another day.

[lazzybum]

I discovered that toddlers can sit and watch a sim interact with the jack in the box. Adele watched her sister while she kept waving her arms and laughing. So cute!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v343/lazzybum/Sims2EP92011-12-0801-02-54-60.jpg

[RebaLynnTS]

If you have the hack that let's you fight the burgler, you might get your stuff back.

[eldavis]

I've discovered that toddlers can steal bottles from each other. My sim was pregnant with one child and gave birth to a boy. I exited without saving so I could have her give birth again, hopefully a girl. Well, turns out she decided to have freaking quads. I legit had the likelihood set on 1 percent. I wanted to scream. :faceslap: So, I aged up all up to toddlers and potty trained them (using cheats). I had the father grab a bottle from the fridge and give it to Ian, his son. The other three were hungry as well. So Lola decided to crawl on over into the kitchen and yanked that bottle straight out of her brothers hands and shove it in her mouth. So, he sat their crying and waving his arms around. I almost died. :lovestruc

[Selly_2009]

I've found that even when you don't tinker with the settings on Trips & Quads you usually end up with the bigger multiples at JUST the wrong time... try Calista Fuchs having quads in a tiny one bedroom bungalow, a matter of DAYS after she gives birth to TWINS! :faceslap:

Anyway, toddlers stealing bottles - happens to me all the time! The number of times I'm like "no, don't go and steal that bottle, Mum/Dad/Auntie Flo (delete as applicable) is just getting you one!" is ridiculous. Of course knowing my luck, if I wanted them to do it as part of a story, I'd probably be risking the social worker arriving :lol:

[AlexandraSpears]

You know that you can make one toddler selectable, click on the toddler with a bottle, and "Steal Bottle" shows up? Saw that while playing Life Stories...which doesn't have high chairs, or toddler mush.

[eldavis]

I found out that Jill Smith doesn't carry the gene for alien skin, which is odd considering her father is an alien. I didn't want green children, so I don't have any problems with this. I just found it interesting how messed up some of the DNA of the Strangetown characters is. I can't make sense of SimPE so even if I wanted to, I couldn't go about fixing it. Someone at MATY posted a 54 page document that goes in-depth on fixing the DNA.

[Peni Griffin]

Toddlers are already selectable.

I hardly ever see these bottle interactions, because I find it easier to put the toddlers into high chairs and serve them mush; also, mush-eating animation! Yes, I have to put toddler in and take toddler out, and clean up the bowl (unless the household has a maid), but toddlers tend to leave bottles either immediately in front of the fridge, blocking the path, or between two objects that block the sight lines, and that's worse. Also, putting the toddler in and out of the chair involves extra parental interactions that generally fill toddler wants and give me photo ops (since I can't, or won't take time to, figure out how to get the camera angle way down on the floor, I only get decent pictures of toddlers in chairs or held). Instead of "take toddler out" when it's time to free the kid, I'll tell the parent to snuggle or play with the kid.

A household that's too chaotic to take the time to put toddlers in and out of the chairs, generally has a pet and the twins are helping themselves to pet food before I can get to them. Sometimes I'll take baby bottles saved up from the infant phase and put them right next to the hungry toddler, but the most common reason for one twin to be neglected enough to do that is, that the other twin is even hungrier and only one caretaker is available, so still no bottle stealing.

BTW, you can put things in the toddler's inventory, so if you don't want to click back and forth among your grownups to see who's got a bottle at a time of crisis, you can find a lull shortly after the toddler ages up, take all the bottles out, and put them in toddler inventory, so the toddlers can feed themselves! This might be a good way to make the teddy bear worthwhile - take it out when you want to see the toddler play with it, and then put it away again so nobody blocks the fridge with it.

[Darby]

I found out that Jill Smith doesn't carry the gene for alien skin, which is odd considering her father is an alien.

Lots of the premade kids aren't genetically related to the parents. Easy to tell with Johnny Smith too. He's waaaaay to pretty to be a product of PT9. I've had PT9 and Jenny have lots more kids (part of an alien bloodline development project), and they're... rather unattractive aliens. They always have blond or red hair, though, which is awesome.

The premades really are a mess of messed up genetics and broken family ties. There are some very well done replacement neighborhood templates here (http://meetme2theriver.livejournal.com/63030.html#cutid1) in which a great deal of that nonsense has been fixed, and a whole lot of junk cleaned out. As a result, the 'hoods load faster, run better, and have a much longer projected lifespan, barring VBTs on the part of the player. They can also be used to custom-create a merged 'hood in various configurations. I highly recommend them for everyone!

[Orilon]

I found out that Jill Smith doesn't carry the gene for alien skin, which is odd considering her father is an alien. I didn't want green children, so I don't have any problems with this. I just found it interesting how messed up some of the DNA of the Strangetown characters is. I can't make sense of SimPE so even if I wanted to, I couldn't go about fixing it. Someone at MATY posted a 54 page document that goes in-depth on fixing the DNA.

It was talked about on the Simbology board that it seems like the pre-mades were made in CAS and then family ties were set (and sometimes not set correctly in some cases). One example of this is Jill. I uninstalled SimPE after I had to remove The Sims 2 so I can't remember if she has alien skintone as recessive or not at all. 97% of the Strangetown characters are missing the skintone value and if you go to Sim Description in Sim PE and then to go the last box in their description there is an DNA option if you open that it will show you the Sim's genetics, and use the thread at MATY to show you how to read their genetics, and copy and paste to fix them ( or make them the way you want them to be).

[AlexandraSpears]

I found out that if you accept a work friend's offer of a blind date, your Sim doesn't have to go on the date.

I had a Sim's coworker offer her a blind date, so I was like okay, since she was single and looking for someone. Out of the sky dropped a vampire--and I do NOT like vampires (or any other supernaturals, for that matter). I immediately canceled the "Ask Out On Date" interaction and had her bid the vampire goodbye--and there were no hard feelings.

[eldavis]

Toddlers can chase fireflies.

[Peni Griffin]

I've had a toddler crawl outside to chase butterflies. When I got Freetime she turned out to have a Nature OTH.

[RebaLynnTS]

That tree toddlers can be alseep in the nursery, and know when their dad walks by the room.

[Aegagropilon]

That tree toddlers can be alseep in the nursery, and know when their dad walks by the room.

Their dad is a Popularity sim, isn't he :)

[Peni Griffin]

Animal ghosts can indeed interact with people. I'm not sure of the motivation. Kestrel Hawkins was very young when Lady died - baby or toddler - and Lady growled at her on the front porch. Possibly not recognizing her as belonging to the house? It was sad. :(

[Selly_2009]

You know that you can make one toddler selectable, click on the toddler with a bottle, and "Steal Bottle" shows up?Believe it or not, I noticed that just this afternoon! :lol:

[aaries16]

I found out that sims don't like big empty rooms. I have a vacation home for a sim, and since it's a lifelong investment he had purchased it without enough money to fully furnish it. His environment score would tank everytime he walked through the big "open floorplan" room on the main floor.

[Darby]

His environment score would tank everytime he walked through the big "open floorplan" room on the main floor.

Is the floor bamboo, by chance? If so, that's the problem - not the size of the room. The bamboo floor is glitched and tanks environment score.

I think there's a fix for it, but if there is, I can't remember who made it, unfortunately.

[AlexandraSpears]

For me, one of the wallpapers that came with Seasons (one of the Tikki ones) tanks Environment score. As in, a nice bright red.

[Darby]

I was thinking there might be another glitched floor (not sure), but I wasn't aware that one of the wallpapers is glitched too. Ugh.

[AlexandraSpears]

Interestingly enough I'd used that wallpaper with a bamboo floor in a community lot, I narrowed it down to the wallpaper. I can't remember what the name of it is offhand but it's in the Tikki collection--not one of the bamboo walls.

[Liv Lukas]

That the penguin will dance to the stereo!

http://livlukas.tumblr.com/post/14088363195/fuckyeahsimsmeme-i-have-seasons-installed-for

[smorbie1]

Interestingly enough I'd used that wallpaper with a bamboo floor in a community lot, I narrowed it down to the wallpaper. I can't remember what the name of it is offhand but it's in the Tikki collection--not one of the bamboo walls.

Ahh, man! I like that wallpaper, too!

[katya_stevens]

Toddlers can get upset over parents breaking up. I knew children could do, but when the youngest started crying and flailing, she had "parents break up" in her queue.

[Darby]

That the penguin will dance to the stereo!

OH MY, I have to see that in my game! How cute!

[Sunbee]

Is the floor bamboo, by chance? If so, that's the problem - not the size of the room. The bamboo floor is glitched and tanks environment score.

I think there's a fix for it, but if there is, I can't remember who made it, unfortunately.
The light bamboo, the fix is at MATY, and it's by Marhis.

[Peni Griffin]

I thought adopting a toddler would fill the "have a baby" want. I was wrong. It filled the "adopt a baby" want for the Aeriuses...I guess for a straight couple it has to be an actual baby. Which is a bummer because so far I've only seeded the pool with toddlers.

Plus, I could swear that when the Aeriuses adopted, John Amos only had two days of toddlerhood left, reflecting the fact that he'd been taken by the social worker after two days of neglect by the haplass John Thomas Orphan. I guess I misremembered, or BV or FT changed the way adoption worked a little.

I had forgotten how adorable I'd made those toddlers I seeded the adoption pool with. Mary Ann Hawkins is absolutely squeelicious!

[AlexandraSpears]

That reminds me...typically when your Sim adopts a child they're at 8 days from teen.

I had the Goodies adopt a child...the child was LESS than 8 days from teen...I checked SimPE and the last Goodie standing was due to die after their child became a teen. It's like the game looked at the days left and adjusted the child's age accordingly. Strange.

[RebaLynnTS]

"Adopting" can not satify the "Have" want.

[Peni Griffin]

It did for Greg and Ben, but they were a same-sex couple. I presume that's where the difference lies. However, if even adopting a baby as opposed to a toddler wouldn't satisfy the "have" want in a heterosexual couple, I call shenanigans! Plenty of couples that want babies satisfy that want by adopting IRL.

[Darby]

Peni, TwoJeffs has two mods you may be interested in - Have/Adopt Child Want Fix and Have Child Not Adopt Wants Fix - both found here (http://www.simbology.com/smf/index.php?topic=14.0).

[omglo]

I'm a little surprised that Greg and Ben rolled the want to have a baby. My same sex couples always wish to adopt. Sims needing to get their baby a specific way for the aspiration points annoyed me enough to download the fix from simbiology.

I got the Pets/Mansion and garden pack just for the building materials and have discovered that simulated pets are more fun than I thought they'd be. Sims teaching their pets to play dead was unexpectedly very funny. So dramatic.

[Aegagropilon]

I discovered that toddlers can watch other toddlers play with the jack in the box. I wondered why Heat Ray was giggling while her sister Death Ray played with the toy!

[Peni Griffin]

Maybe it was "adopt a baby" Greg and Ben had; it was a long time ago. Well, shoot. If "adopt" and "have" aren't interchangeable, then artificial insemination as a means of preserving the genes of homoerotic sims is less satisfactory...I guess I better look at those mods this afternoon.

[VioletPadfoot]

@Aegagropilon: your toddler's names made me giggle. May I ask what their parents are named?

And my discovery: there's a closet lesbian in the dorm I'm currently playing. She has yet to target anyone with ACR and ALWAYS makes a point of looking her shower neighbor up and down. I'm debating about moving a "friend" for her into the dorms, but with my luck she'd be the one to give up her room and move out. of course one of my playable girls is as of yet unattached, and I can always change her story... I'm off to go play some more! (And to think that Uni usually bores me...) ~VP

[Aegagropilon]

@Aegagropilon: your toddler's names made me giggle. May I ask what their parents are named?

They're part of a legacy I'm running in Pleasantview that started with an alien founder. The parents are quarter-alien Medical Probe and social townie Craig Ray, and I had fun naming their twins :lol:

[Bellasaurus]

Not discovered whilst playing, but discovered whilst organising downloads folder:

It is such a good feeling knowing you have cut down on loading times by cleaning out unused CC. Not, you know, a lot, but probably a good minute or two. I went from 1.76GB to 1.44GB. I'm quite chuffed.

(An even better feeling now that I have been super organised and searched through all the hairs I have and matched them up to pictures - so I now have pics of every hair in my downloads folder. It didn't take as long as I thought so I'm thinking of doing the same for all my clothes too.)

[WooHoo31]

I noticed how when you order pizza, you can actually choose which slice of the pizza you want your sim to eat. Nice detail. :)