What did you discover today while playing the sims?

[Menaceman44]

The box was build by a very nice sim - at least in my game its black with flame patterns. He doesn't make them any more - and they are too poor to buy the station to build them right now - so I cant check is that colour always for the evil box. For sure he did build some good ones too.

The evil jack-in-a-boxes are always black with flames.

The kites that always electrocute a Sim look sort of torn and have an evil looking pair of eyes painted on.

[Count Four]

The evil jack-in-the-box seems to turn up when the motives of the sim making it have dropped to low. Try sending a sim to make boxes when they're very tired, hungry and uncomfortable to get an evil jack-in-the-box.

This can also happen with Snapdragons--some of them are "evil" Snapdragons and will deplete motives, instead of boosting them.

[Blake_SC]

Don't most teenage boys have that fear? :lol:
Yes, yes they do. :p
^I know that from experience. ::fears cleaning::

:p

I didn't really learn anything today; and if I did, it would be on the build forum @MTS2. :p

[Toffee9994]

Ok so I was playing a sim in the Music Career and she had got the chance card about messing up the song to make her rival sound bad or playing it as planned. I chose to play the song as planned and got $32,000. Then my sim got the memory "Received a big bonus."

I've been playing for a few years and received money from chance cards before, but I never noticed the memory!

[fway]

I found out that when sims play "Marco Polo" they say "Tim LeTourneau" but more like "Timlat tourneau." Listen closely.

Example: Here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROny-PBVzVw) (Not Mine)

[Simsgirl_SC]

I've been playing this game since it came out. I had my first twins without cheats, hacks and cheesecake last week.

[crocobaura]

I noticed you can place food on one corner of the chess table. :)

[I_Love_Simming]

My sim invited his friend over, but when he came ove thier agressive dog started chasing him round the house and growling at him. In the end he ended up being chased home xD never seen that before

[Menaceman44]

I discovered today that after a Sim has been working out on a treadmill and they wipe their forehead, they actually wipe sweat off. Here is a picture as proof:
http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/7694/sweathy8.jpg

[innoscenteyes]

i found out that you can adjust the sims motives by click on the motive bar and pulling it the way you want, and the same thing with skills. well at least I can do that in my game.

[Ark_Sky]

Since the last thread was deleted in the purge, I figured I'd start a new one. ^_^

Today I encountered the coach for the first time. My sim wasn't even that out of shape! Weird.I discovered that it's a bad idea to use the sim modder all the time for relationships...because one of my sims ended up wanting to talk to himself and feared losing himself as a best friend- it's really a glitch,and it's not REALLY entirely game related,but yeah...i learned my lesson XD

[I_Love_Simming]

i found out that you can adjust the sims motives by click on the motive bar and pulling it the way you want, and the same thing with skills. well at least I can do that in my game.

Thats with the boolprop cheat on

[Simsgirl_SC]

I found out "be trainer" option yesterday. My sim was doing an exercise and I clicked one sim whose body skill is high. Here we have "be trainer" option"

At the end he trained my sim and he earned 68 simoleon. I decide to make a sim whose body skill is high enough then I will make him to open a gym. A new way to make a money.

[ani_]

I found out "be trainer" option yesterday. My sim was doing an exercise and I clicked one sim whose body skill is high. Here we have "be trainer" option"

At the end he trained my sim and he earned 68 simoleon. I decide to make a sim whose body skill is high enough then I will make him to open a gym. A new way to make a money.


Wow - thats new to me - I have to open a gym now too :)

[Purplepaws]

That's cool, Simsgirl! Do you think maybe that came with uni, along with "tutor" and "work as barista?"

[Simsgirl_SC]

That's cool, Simsgirl! Do you think maybe that came with uni, along with "tutor" and "work as barista?"

Yes I think it came with university EP. That's one of the resons I like this game. You find out something different everyday :D

[1306]

I noticed how quick you can get enemies and how making best friends isn't as quick as making enemies.
For example, You can get enemies fast by pranking them to death. But it takes a little more time to make someone to be you sim's best friend. I had my sim make an enemy once by pranking a visitor--and later, they had the slap interaction ready.

[treeag]

I noticed how quick you can get enemies and how making best friends isn't as quick as making enemies.
For example, You can get enemies fast by pranking them to death. But it takes a little more time to make someone to be you sim's best friend.
Isn't it like that in real life? :P

[tschick0373045]

That's cool, Simsgirl! Do you think maybe that came with uni, along with "tutor" and "work as barista?"

"Tutor"? How do you do that?! :blink:

[Menaceman44]

"Tutor"? How do you do that?! :blink:

If you click on a Sims' assignment then you can get the options to do it for them, help them with it or tutor them for Simoleans.

[claireishness]

that is, tschick, after a few semesters and your GPA has to be over a certain grade I THINK before you can tutor

I finally found the make-over table that's shown.. somewhere.. can't remember.. in the uni leaflet or something? lol! well.. with the table and mirror, anyway

(go on to the desks section in buy mode and click.. those three circles or whatever it is- the one that shows random things? that's the only place you can get it, I SCOURED that table section for it, I know :lol:)

[musiquefille_SC]

i didn't discover this today, but it just happened and reminded me. when you unpause the game in view of a toilet, water splashes out. i wonder why that is? kind of gross if you ask me...

[ani_]

i didn't discover this today, but it just happened and reminded me. when you unpause the game in view of a toilet, water splashes out. i wonder why that is? kind of gross if you ask me...

You know what's even more groce? when a sim is unclocking the toilet and the splash happens straight to their face :X I was trying to take a pic of this a few days before but it happens quite fast.

[agneee]

Yesterday, I clicked on the bath tub with one of my female sims and saw that there is an option to clean it, though I sent that sim to bed, hoping to make her husband to clean it. And now the strange part begins. He had no "clean" option. :einstein
I suppose that this has got something to do with neatness points. :anime:

[xliverbeanx]

I realized that Lily Allen and the Pussycat Dolls play on my sims boombox. Totally unexpected to me, because I normally hate having the stereos...(Keeps my sims up all night if its in their room, then they forget to shut it off if it's anywhere else...)

[ani_]

The social bunny doesn't leave you alone even after filling your social meter.

[IrishGrace]

Yesterday, I clicked on the bath tub with one of my female sims and saw that there is an option to clean it, though I sent that sim to bed, hoping to make her husband to clean it. And now the strange part begins. He had no "clean" option. :einstein
I suppose that this has got something to do with neatness points. :anime:

This happens to me occasionally... if one sim has mega neatness points, they'll have the "clean" option a lot more often than sims with lesser neatness points.

[Thrior]

One of the boxes with a clown is actually very evil - it will make toddlers and kids cry and adults have a hart attack.

Oh... for some reason my adults were only clapping like: "Whee! This toy is so fun."
Maybe it has something to do with how mean they are. Both of those adults who were playing with that toy were mean.

[Menaceman44]

Was it the evil clown-in-a-box though? They laugh along at the normal ones.

[Thrior]

^
Yes it was that evil one. Black box and flames. My sims are strange then O_o

[Menaceman44]

They certainly are. I've seen the pictures in the blooper thread.

[IrishGrace]

I'm sure this is old news to most, but I've discovered that my male child sim who used the xylaphone as a toddler now makes music when he pees. Kinda creepy and I'm really hoping it doesn't continue through the teen years and later.

Also discovered that not only can trees get struck by lightening/catch fire (I've had this happen several times), apparently flowers in the flowerbeds can as well.

[moo_beebi]

I'm sure this is old news to most, but I've discovered that my male child sim who used the xylaphone as a toddler now makes music when he pees. Kinda creepy and I'm really hoping it doesn't continue through the teen years and later.

Also discovered that not only can trees get struck by lightening/catch fire (I've had this happen several times), apparently flowers in the flowerbeds can as well.

it's just a little boy thing. maxis made a joke about boys tinkle instead of pee or something..

[IrishGrace]

Thank God for that LOL

[Ghost sdoj]

Tutor can happen after you have had at least one semester and have a GPA higher than the sim you are tutoring. (Which is easy for a dormie, they don't have one.)

You can also ask a fellow student to help with your assignments, and actually "Learn to study" from it. (It takes approximately 2 whole assignments to do it, though.) And if you help or tutor other students, you can teach them to study and they get their assignments done faster too.

[ani_]

I discovered the scavenge (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/aniradeth/snapshot_143ce90f_345cb562.jpg) option. She found a toilet brush (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/aniradeth/snapshot_143ce90f_b45cb589.jpg) and got 2 simoleans when she sold it. The best part is that the only thing she ever put in the garbage was her dishes (she doesn't have a sink yet) and one old newspaper.

[IrishGrace]

wow I've never seen that before. Granted I almost never use the little trash cans and opt for the garbage disposal thingy.

[fway]

I discovered the scavenge (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/aniradeth/snapshot_143ce90f_345cb562.jpg) option. She found a toilet brush (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/aniradeth/snapshot_143ce90f_b45cb589.jpg) and got 2 simoleans when she sold it. The best part is that the only thing she ever put in the garbage was her dishes (she doesn't have a sink yet) and one old newspaper.

how many neat points does she have? because I believe if your sim has only one neat or zero points, the option can occur

[ani_]

She has 0 neatness points - and the option is Salvage - not scavenge as I first said.
She's also the first one to start shaking or doing the throw up emotion every time I ask her to mop the floor.

[fway]

I just found out that there's a do homework want

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/8322/dohomeworkwantxu6.jpg (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1174)

[linn_91]

That when two rich sims dies, and their children already have moved out, the children only inherit a tiny part of the fortune.

Like this: My sims Lilith & Jack Verzilo's capital was like 299.000 simoleons when they died. And their three children did only inherit like 10.000 $ each.

What's really weird is that the most of the money was left with the cat, the only one who lived in that house when the parents had died. So when I moved out the cat and moved it into another household, he brought like 260.000 $ with him.

[IrishGrace]

That's one rich cat LOL

[Sizza]

I just found out that there's a do homework want

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/8322/dohomeworkwantxu6.jpg (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1174)
My sim kids CONSTANTLY have this want.
:lol: at the rich cat

[fway]

My sim kids CONSTANTLY have this want.
:lol: at the rich cat

how come I've never noticed this before?! it seems so... new or something... :blink: weirdness... and yeah, the rich cat thing sims pretty ... HILARIOUS! :laugh:

[Ghost sdoj]

My sim kids often have that want as well. I had one kid who kept re-rolling the want to do homework so after she did her own homework and the homework for her older brother and sister who were at work she got to do some homework from the homework table from Simlogical. Her second day of school she was an A+ student! (And had racked up over 5000 aspiration points.) I think it takes a serious sim to want to do homework. Or a knowledge teen, since I seem to get that from them a lot as well.

I just found out that if you put a refrigerator on a community lot, your sim will pay for any food a townie takes out to cook.

[fway]

I just found out that if you put a refrigerator on a community lot, your sim will pay for any food a townie takes out to cook.

That's why it's always a good idea to put a door and walls up if you're running a restaurant. I tested out my reception hall with the Pleasants, and some townie decided she must cook a TV dinner while Mary-Sue is cooking and she nearly burnt down the kitchen! Then she gives the reception hall a negative star, well it's like "hey it's not our fault you wanted to burn down our kitchen" :blink:

And you also have to pay for the food you cook on a community lot. Sims 1 memories. XD

[Menaceman44]

I've never noticed that the cost a Townie pays at a fridge is taken from your Sim's funds. I've watched my Sim's funds before when it happens and although the kaching noise is made and the amount displays over the Townie's head my Sim's funds don't go down.

[fway]

I discovered that there's a "Page" option on sim phones. (When your cordless phone is missing you press a button and it makes noise.) I noticed the phone was off the hook, my sim walks up to the phone and a loud ringing noise goes off, and the phone goes back on the hook in another room. I found that quite cool.

I've never noticed that the cost a Townie pays at a fridge is taken from your Sim's funds. I've watched my Sim's funds before when it happens and although the kaching noise is made and the amount displays over the Townie's head my Sim's funds don't go down.

Maybe it's the townie's funds then.

[Ghost sdoj]

My sim was paying for the stuff the townies took out of a fridge. His cash was dropping. (I had put a stove and a fridge on a community lot, but I had deliberately made it the wrong kind of stove to get a chef because I didn't want a restaurant there.)

[fway]

(I had put a stove and a fridge on a community lot, but I had deliberately made it the wrong kind of stove to get a chef because I didn't want a restaurant there.)

If you didn't want to run a restaurant you still could have used the industrial stove, because in order for the business to be a restaurant you need a host/hostess podium.

[boombands]

If a sim is using the shower and another sim flushes the toilet the water gets cold and the showering sim gets out and yells at the sim who flushed.

[IrishGrace]

Apparently some Sims get really mad when stuff breaks and they lecture whoever it was that broke it! Had a Sim yell at his very pregnant wife the other day because she happened to be watching TV when it broke. :rolleyes:

[Ghost sdoj]

If you didn't want to run a restaurant you still could have used the industrial stove, because in order for the business to be a restaurant you need a host/hostess podium.

I also didn't want a chef and the industrial stove spawns them for me unless I have an owner for the lot. Without a podium he just stands there and won't let anybody else use the stove.

[fway]

I also didn't want a chef and the industrial stove spawns them for me unless I have an owner for the lot. Without a podium he just stands there and won't let anybody else use the stove.

A chef won't spawn at all if the community lot is owned. And if you're doing a home restaurant you just use moveobjects and delete it. But if you don't have OFB I can see where you're getting at.

[Elspeth_SC]

I discovered that if you place the statue that is the career reward for the adventurer career in a bedroom, then all needs are replenished while the sims sleep.

It comes in very handy when you have tired and hungry sims. Just send them to sleep and they wake up not hungry any more!

[musiquefille_SC]

so that's what that does!!!

[ani_]

I discovered that there's a new meal if you have a microwave. First time I had a microwave since the game came out three years ago. Not too late to try out new stuff :D

[ame.kiri.yuki]

Apparently, if you bug up the Master Wolf using Insim and then end up adopting him, his genes play no part in breeding. Suzi (beautiful dog, by the way, grown up) had three carbon copies of herself with him, and two more pups which I now suspect will also be copies.

[Harmonish]

I discovered that there's a new meal if you have a microwave. First time I had a microwave since the game came out three years ago. Not too late to try out new stuff

Really? What is the new meal?

[ani_]

Really? What is the new meal?

It was called something like - cup'O something - but I'll check it out next time I play. It looked like a bowl with a sponge in it.

---edit---- found the pic I took about it yesterday
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/aniradeth/snapshot_3466edd3_b468927c.jpg

[fway]

It was called something like - cup'O something - but I'll check it out next time I play. It looked like a bowl with a sponge in it.

---edit---- found the pic I took about it yesterday
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/aniradeth/snapshot_3466edd3_b468927c.jpg

Cup O' Ramen ani_ is what it's called. It comes with uni :)

[JavaJulie]

It was called something like - cup'O something - but I'll check it out next time I play. It looked like a bowl with a sponge in it.
Hah, that's about what Ramen tastes like too ;)

[Harmonish]

Ohh! I've never noticed it before.. I want some Ramen now, lol

[claireishness]

lol, the Ramen looks better in the boxes when you order some! and yes, Harmonish, it does make you want Ramen :lol: that's why I'm not longer a fan of it XD
but if you eat Super Noodles.. that's exactly what they look like when you take them out of the packet ;)

[photo]

i had no idea that the counter islands would connect around a corner and you could make it look connected with a fridge inbetween the island and the regular counter :D... yes, i'm slow. :D lol, but really!

[ChihoSan]

i had no idea that the counter islands would connect around a corner and you could make it look connected with a fridge inbetween the island and the regular counter :D... yes, i'm slow. :D lol, but really!

I'm not entirely sure what you mean but I'll have to check it out.

[fway]

i had no idea that the counter islands would connect around a corner and you could make it look connected with a fridge inbetween the island and the regular counter :D... yes, i'm slow. :D lol, but really!

you can also do this with stoves just to let you know :D but you can't really interconnect an Island with a counter which stinks, unless you snap objects off. :shrug:

[garnetwolf]

I don't think I could possibly read through all 103 pages of this thread, but while I was putting a house in Strangetown last night, I noticed movement out of the corner of my eye by the remains of the spaceship. So I moved my mouse over a little and there were two little flying saucers just zooming around the one on the ground and then they just flew off into space! I have never seen this before, don't know if anyone else has seen it, I don't believe it's a bug or anything like that, cause I really wasn't playing the game, just putting a house on a lot. I have all the expansions and all the stuff packs for the game and I've played Strangetown a lot (I kind of like it there...lol) but I have never seen the spaceships before. I tried recreating the scene a few times, but they never flew back. Has anyone else seen this?

[Daisie]

I discovered that there is a "Check Collar" option on visiting owned dogs. Cute. :)

[fway]

... That Giving the Remote Controlled car (NPC) a makeover with insim can crash your game :blink:

[jenny]

I discovered that there is a "Check Collar" option on visiting owned dogs. Cute. :)


I noticed that the other day, thought it was cute as well:)

[ani_]

If your family is too poor to buy a tub or a changing table - you shouldn't teach your toddlers to use the potty. Changing diapers increases hygiene - but once they are potty trained - you loose the option to change diapers.

[Ghost sdoj]

You can still change their diaper if they have a bladder failure.

[cherrinkim]

Today I found out that some guests love to clean up. One teenager that came along raked up all the leaves. I didn't even notice it until she left.

[Slytherin-Girl]

It was a few days ago, but that you can pick up cleaning points from dates if they're tidy o.0 Weird

[ani_]

If you are in the sports career - you go to work in a buss. Never had anybody in the sports career beond team mascot before.

If your sims brings a friend from work who's in the same level as you. Then gets promoted - and brings the same person again - they will be again on the same job level. Never noticed this before.

[Menaceman44]

I don't think I could possibly read through all 103 pages of this thread, but while I was putting a house in Strangetown last night, I noticed movement out of the corner of my eye by the remains of the spaceship. So I moved my mouse over a little and there were two little flying saucers just zooming around the one on the ground and then they just flew off into space! I have never seen this before, don't know if anyone else has seen it, I don't believe it's a bug or anything like that, cause I really wasn't playing the game, just putting a house on a lot. I have all the expansions and all the stuff packs for the game and I've played Strangetown a lot (I kind of like it there...lol) but I have never seen the spaceships before. I tried recreating the scene a few times, but they never flew back. Has anyone else seen this?

I think it was Pets that this came with. They visit some of the other neighbourhood decorations as well like the stone circle and the powerplant chimneys. Its not just in Strangetown either.

[I_Love_Simming]

Either my games seriously messed up or...brothers and sisters have the 'flirt-steal a bite/feed a bite' option when eating together :blink:. Although when you press it they don't fall in love or anything thank god :blink:

[ani_]

If a sim is lounging on the couch - and another sim is sitting in the same room - they can still talk. My sims have been too busy to lounge untill reacently :)

[AxelValentine]

I, on complete accident, found out that if the cursor in still in the cheat widow and you hit tab it will bring up cheats.
And there was something else that baffled me, but I can't remember what now.

[babolat85]

Playing in my university today, my self sim arrived home from class, and I was wondering why his fiance was running up to him, clicked on him and the action "Squeeze" was in his Queue. I thought it was really cute, now every time my self-sim arrives home from class, his fiance will drop everything and run over to "squeeze" or "kiss lightly".

[Cinamun]

I think it was Pets that this came with. They visit some of the other neighbourhood decorations as well like the stone circle and the powerplant chimneys. Its not just in Strangetown either.

Yep, I just saw that wicked spaceship while in neighborhood view in Riverblossom Hills, it was hovering over the powerplant chimney then flew away LOL Pretty cool..

[blackivy]

Maybe I'm just sick and perverted but I discovered that the little pink rabbit toy which toddlers use for charisma points actually says something like chmar...which on Croatian means a**hole o.O
and that when a sim is talking on the phone and you speed up the time you can sometimes hear like they're saying "heroin"...weird

[Cinamun]

LMFAO!! Wow

[Menaceman44]

I discovered yesterday that the original Sims 2 logo (the one before the game was released) is on the simoleons that Sims pay at cash registers with.

[ani_]

I discovered yesterday that the original Sims 2 logo (the one before the game was released) is on the simoleons that Sims pay at cash registers with.
oh - have to check the notes the next time somebody pays - that's a good one thou

[Ghost sdoj]

We just got Seasons as an early Christmas present. I've been discovering all kinds of things. Like leaves on the ground interfere with fishing, and sims will rake leaves even when you want them to let the leaves stay all over the yard, and neighbors can find the paper to steal it even when it is buried in so much snow that you can't see it, and I apparently have a bedroom that is outside even though it does have a roof over it, and people will come home from work with 5 "It's snowing!" actions lined up, and....

Seasons is fun.

[MooreSpino]

Dude, I discovered how to make the Snowman Constructon Set from the Sims 2 Holiday Edition "dance!"

You put the little guy together, then have an active sim click on the bottom part. Select 'Switch Dance.' It'll start changing between all the available options for the hat, head, and middle. It's kinda freaky... And you have to delete it to make it stop.

[Thrior]

Maybe I'm just sick and perverted but I discovered that the little pink rabbit toy which toddlers use for charisma points actually says something like chmar...which on Croatian means a**hole o.O

Heh! I always heard like it was saying something like "paska" which on finnish means sh*t XDD
That's one nasty toy.

[Chinchillagirl6]

people will come home from work with 5 "It's snowing!" actions lined up, and....

Seasons is fun.

:) I love Seasons too. It sounds like you need a trip to MATY. I know Pescado made a hack to limit the "It's Snowing/Raining/Hailing" interactions from happening over and over and over. :)

[AxelValentine]

When you come home from a vacation and choose the special bonuses you can hover the cursor over the face-icons of the sims on that vacation and it tells you how long until the bonus expires.

[ghibli-love]

One of the dog houses outside my Sim's house was dirty... It got dirty the night before but she didn't have time to clean it. The next morning another Sim (not a friend, another Sim I created in a separate family) was walking by and bent down to clean it, then went on the dance sphere for awhile and then left the lot.

[happycowlover]

That sims are embarassed if someone reacts negetively to their painting. It was pretty funny when one of my sims Noah booed at his sister-in-law's painting and she covered her face. :frying:

[Menaceman44]

I discovered that Sims who know werewolves can want to see them howl at the moon.

[fway]

I Discovered that Bigfoot Has Gold Talent Badges in Everything AND Maxed Out Skills... I Guess if you need a good business man, you gotta find Bigfoot first!

[Pinoy]

I discovered that alarm clocks actually tell the actual Sim time.

[Elven Moon]

If you play one house long enough, it can get so buggy somebody can pick up a baby from across the room, get into a car in the house, and be "shocked" over absolutely nothing.

[cherrinkim]

Today I found out sims are absolutely nuts. Today, Dina went to Nina's house (Nina was married to that other guy), and slapped Nina's husband, for no apparent reason. They were best friends before that. Really funny thing was, Dina was pregnant. Kind of funny to see a pregnant woman RUNNING just to slap someone. After she was done, she just calmly walked off the lot.

[littlesunshine123xx]

I noticed that if your kids catch you cheating then they get upset. Or as the action says have a fit (rofl made me laugh)

[Ghost sdoj]

That sims are embarassed if someone reacts negetively to their painting. It was pretty funny when one of my sims Noah booed at his sister-in-law's painting and she covered her face. :frying:

A super grouchy sim can even get angry over that. At least I suppose it was over that; I didn't see anything else that could cause a sudden furious state for no reason. (And yes, I know about the "sore loser" phenomenon. Never let a grouchy sim play any games on a date or a timed outing.)

[Elspeth_SC]

I noticed that if your kids catch you cheating then they get upset. Or as the action says have a fit (rofl made me laugh)

I have a father and daughter who are currently enemies because she caught him cheating one too many times. They now try and attack each other all the time.

[ani_]

I found the quit job want - also fear of being fined. I suppoe that could only happen if you answer wrong on a chanse card.

[angelthatishonest]

Okay, let me start from the beginning. My legacy sim met a townie and they got married, only later did I find out she was having a relationship with another girl....They were lez! Well, when throwing this party my legacy sim and wife woohooed. Her lez lover comes in, slaps his wife, and leaves. One sim day later, the lez lover came back, and their 3rd child, Anna, lectures her and the lez leaves.

[Menaceman44]

I found the quit job want - also fear of being fined. I suppoe that could only happen if you answer wrong on a chanse card.

My Sims are constantly wanting to quit their jobs.

You can also get fined if you use the money printing machine too often or if a young adult sets off too many security alerts while hacking grades on a computer at Uni.

[ani_]

You can also get fined if you use the money printing machine too often or if a young adult sets off too many security alerts while hacking grades on a computer at Uni.

How many times is too often? I tried using it with bad aspiration and just set it on fire.

[bookworm_duo]

i discovered a fear without description!

Be an unjoined elder(hourglass with 2 rings tied in the corner with a cross over them and the yellow-green star behinf) and description <Be an unjoined elder>, -5k aspiration points and a bug in nl that gives you a lot of money(make a sim freestile for tips, buy a lot of stuff so you have 0§ and keeep making another sim tip 100$. No money lost, but when he ends freestiling, you will get them ^^)

[Ghost sdoj]

It also works with "Perform" on Uni instruments, and is especially effective on a community lot where other sims can get into the donating as well.

[IceAngel12891]

Today I found out sims are absolutely nuts. Today, Dina went to Nina's house (Nina was married to that other guy), and slapped Nina's husband, for no apparent reason. They were best friends before that. Really funny thing was, Dina was pregnant. Kind of funny to see a pregnant woman RUNNING just to slap someone. After she was done, she just calmly walked off the lot.

Was Nina's husband looking through the telescope during the day? If he was, then that is probably why..she caught him looking through the telescope at her.

[~Squash-buddy-ven~]

I found out that when sims go rollerblading then there's two different kinds of Rollerblades, the normal ones and the in liners. I'm not sure when you get which kind though..

[Menaceman44]

How many times is too often? I tried using it with bad aspiration and just set it on fire.

Oops. I should have said for "too long" not "too often". If as Sim uses it for too long then they can get fined.
Sims can also get fined if they call out the police or fire brigade for no reason.

[AxelValentine]

I've been discovering just how blinding snow is in the sim-verse. Ye-ouch.

[ExWhyZee]

Like amvalvo said, the "Watch Out" interaction is when a Sim is trying to avoid a car. I was annoyed to find they will do it even with a stationary car not in use. Thankfully I found a hack that means Sims only try to avoid cars with another Sim actually using it.

Where would I be able to find that?
That gets so annoying to me. @___@

[Henry Crun]

There is one here:

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,2680.0.html

[1306]

-Your sleeping sim will wake up even if someone's just jumping on a sofa inside the bedroom.
-If you have a hot tub in your lot, watch out: It's almost a habit that visitors to your lot will get in the tub. Sometimes, they can stay there overnight without you knowing it.
-How proud sims are with the Crepes Suzette.

[IrishGrace]

This may just be in my game, but the only way for a woman to get pregnant is if she is the one who initiates the Try for Baby option. If the man does it, there's no baby chimes.

[Cinamun]

^^ I noticed that too recently. I wonder whats up with that. Everytime my male sims initiate it no baby chimes..

[mearii]

I learned that when Sims 'meditate,' their motives stay static for as long as they do this. =3

[IrishGrace]

I learned that when Sims 'meditate,' their motives stay static for as long as they do this. =3

Good to know! Think I'm gonna do this with my pregnant Sims LOL

[ashleyd43]

I noticed that when an enemy of your sim dies, you get an option to kick their tombstone. :rip:

[ethyrdude]

I found out that I can add my own Sim to the NPC students without using Simpe. If anyone is interested, here is how it is done:

Create a new student in Uni CAS or pick an existing one that you can play and control. Before doing this remember, they will be the same as the other npc students and their appearance will be unpredictable. They will also be students forever, unless you bring them back or move them in with other playable students. All their previous semesters will be gone and they will have to start over, so be warned.

Place controllable student into dorm, make sure they are the only playable Sim in building. Use alt ctrl c and use boolprop testingcheatsenabled true. Click on an uncontrollable Sim with right button and MAKE SELLECTABLE. Have that sim go to the computer and Find Own Place.

When the van comes to pick him or her up, your controllable Sim will go with him or her. Save and enter the campus view. Your sim is gone (He or she is in the student section, with all the other npc students). The npc student is now playable, if you want.

[hel0rz]

I learned:
- That Servo wants to hire a maid.
- If you play a lot for too long, sims believe that the pet wolves smell, no matter how many times you bathe them.
- Everytime bigfoot gets a promotion at work, he brings items into the house.
- Bigfoot is extremely useful as a maid, and he doesn't complain.
- Bigfoot is also quite happy to sleep in a tent whilst the rest of the family are in beds.

And also, Landgraab children get uglier with every generation. No matter how beautiful their non-landgraab parent is.

[smellincoffee]

I noticed that Sims don't care if the cow-plant eats someone: they're completely unfazed. One of my Sims was eaten by the cowplant and her husband and child didn't even get a "Death" memory.

[ExWhyZee]

My sim got an invitation to go downtown with a friend, and she accepted.
I learned that if the group leader invites a toddler to go (that isn't yours), then you're in deep crap.
I had to quit the game without saving, the damned plantbaby wouldn't get in the taxi. >:C

[Starfish of Terror]

I discovered that no matter how good looking two adult Sims look, they will never have even remotely nice looking kids. xD I don't know what it is, but I get the same ugly kids whether I'm having children ingame or am just rolling the dice in CAS. Every. Single. Time. It's aggravating. D;

[Ghost sdoj]

I learned that your sims do not need to be asleep to have Santa come. Everybody was wide awake and he came anyway. The first few times that happened I thought it was just because the sims were a vampire and two servos, but it just happened with a normal family belonging to my husband as well.

[SimAddict_SC]

I learned that sims can stay around after the social worker comes. Well, actually I am a little confused about this. I always thought when the social worker visted then the kid is taken away from the house. And your sims never see the kid again. However, yesterday my sim got taken away, and after getting in the car the sim showed back up at my house. (I just couldn't control her.) She ate, slept, went to school etc. just like before.... the only difference is I can't control the sim. The sim also shows up in the household picture.

I don't have any hacks installed (I deleted them all) but I have all the games installed. It's been a really long time since I had a child taken away in the game so maybe things just changed... :p

EDIT: I loaded my game to play and now I can control the sim again. How odd. How did this happen? I don't have any hacks or anything installed so I don't understand how my sim came back.

[the_unnoticed]

i learned the the nuclear family that came with pets are EXTREMELY loving toward one another. i just started playing with them today for the first time...just never bothered before, and i usually have free will on and let them do as they please a lot of the time. robert and justin spent about 5 hours dancing, hugging and talking, then justin went to play with the dog for awhile, while the mum (can't remember her name) and robert went about hugging and kissing and all that gooey stuff. every time i leave them alone, they interact with each other. it's very sweet :)

[ghibli-love]

I discovered that you can have a house in which dogs run the place. I had a house with a mom, a toddler and about five or six dogs. I had the controlpets cheat on but I don't know if it made a difference. The mom accidentally caught fire while she was raking up leaves, and died. The social worker came to take the kid away, and ta da! The dogs ruled the roost.

The other thing I discovered was that ghost dogs will bathe themselves. I have a bathtub outside for dog-washing (since the bathroom is too small and they all just keep circling around the tub and stamping their feet at each other) and a couple of dog graves, and in the middle of the night one dog comes out to haunt and jumps into the tub to bathe itself.

[gamegrl66]

Wow, ghibli-love, that sounds cool. I didn't know it could happen like that. Whenever a pet is mistreated in my game it either runs away or the pet police picks it up.

I discovered that you can only have so many objects in one lot. After a while when you add more objects others start to disappear! lol

[ghibli-love]

gamegrl66 - I don't know if the pet police would've come to pick them up after their Hunger got too low. With so many dogs on the lot I had my Sim set out like ten dog bowls because I was sick of filling them so often, and I quit without saving before I could see the food run out because I wanted my Sim back. :D

[Menaceman44]

I learned that sims can stay around after the social worker comes. Well, actually I am a little confused about this. I always thought when the social worker visted then the kid is taken away from the house. And your sims never see the kid again. However, yesterday my sim got taken away, and after getting in the car the sim showed back up at my house. (I just couldn't control her.) She ate, slept, went to school etc. just like before.... the only difference is I can't control the sim. The sim also shows up in the household picture.

I don't have any hacks installed (I deleted them all) but I have all the games installed. It's been a really long time since I had a child taken away in the game so maybe things just changed... :p

EDIT: I loaded my game to play and now I can control the sim again. How odd. How did this happen? I don't have any hacks or anything installed so I don't understand how my sim came back.

This happened in my game once in Veronaville. I think its a glitch since it happened before I had expansion packs. A boy was taken away but immediately walked back onto the lot where he started mopping up puddles. I do think I had debug mode turned on at the time though.

[fway]

I learned that sims can stay around after the social worker comes. Well, actually I am a little confused about this. I always thought when the social worker visted then the kid is taken away from the house. And your sims never see the kid again. However, yesterday my sim got taken away, and after getting in the car the sim showed back up at my house. (I just couldn't control her.) She ate, slept, went to school etc. just like before.... the only difference is I can't control the sim. The sim also shows up in the household picture.

I don't have any hacks installed (I deleted them all) but I have all the games installed. It's been a really long time since I had a child taken away in the game so maybe things just changed... :p

EDIT: I loaded my game to play and now I can control the sim again. How odd. How did this happen? I don't have any hacks or anything installed so I don't understand how my sim came back.

Either Menaceman is correct OR the situation works out like a form of supervised custody? XD

[Ferret]

I learnt that sims want to clean cages:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v259/mozzow/cleancage.jpg

She's not even a very neat sim, only 3 points. Maybe she just loves Spanky :D

[Banzai_Kitten]

I discovered something that's hard to describe. I just had my first set of twins after installing Seasons. Before I installed Seasons, I had barely any problems with babies or twins (aside from the extra amount of bottles on the ground) but now these twins just won't shut up. They cry all the time. Even after I changed them and fed them and put them in their cribs, they still won't shut up. Maybe you can say it is more realistic but whatever.

[Cinamun]

I had that same problem with screaming babies and Seasons when I first installed, had to turn the volume off and watch their little icon to turn yellow in order to change them and feed them. The patch fixes it perfectly though :)

[littlesunshine123xx]

That in seasons the scarecrows scarf blows like the weather is windy. Was amazed :O

[crocobaura]

You can get instant tasty vegetables and fruits, even in winter, if you activate the testing cheats. :D

[JavaJulie]

That somewhere along the line (either Bon Voyage or Teen Stuff, though I imagine it's the former), they *finally* gave multiple inventory items a single box with a number in the corner. No more flipping through page after page of bouquets and vegetables!

[Ghost sdoj]

Seasons did it for me, but the version we got appeared to have the patch (es?) included on the disc because our game was still up to date after we installed it and went to get the patch.

[ghibli-love]

That in seasons the scarecrows scarf blows like the weather is windy. Was amazed :O

Where is this scarecrow?

I could've sworn I posted this before, but it hasn't shown up...I discovered that when you have a household with a cat and a womrat in it, sometimes the cat will go up to the womrat cage and 'Watch' it. The cat will crouch down like it is about to pounce on the cage, and the womrat inside the cage will run madly in circles all around with a thought bubble of the cat's face with a cross over it.

[Menaceman44]

I could've sworn I posted this before, but it hasn't shown up...I discovered that when you have a household with a cat and a womrat in it, sometimes the cat will go up to the womrat cage and 'Watch' it. The cat will crouch down like it is about to pounce on the cage, and the womrat inside the cage will run madly in circles all around with a thought bubble of the cat's face with a cross over it.

That happened to me the other day but with a random stray dog. It let itself into the house, went upstairs and started snarling at my womrat.

[SimAddict_SC]

This happened in my game once in Veronaville. I think its a glitch since it happened before I had expansion packs. A boy was taken away but immediately walked back onto the lot where he started mopping up puddles. I do think I had debug mode turned on at the time though.

It must be a bug then because afterwards the child sim grew up to a teen. Then I made her attend college, and after all that hard work she graduated. Then she disappeared from the game. Like, not in any of the family bins anything. It's like the sim never existed. She's not even on the family tree anymore. After sims graduate they usually go back to where you can select a family, but not this sim. :( I loved her too. She had almost every skill point. And she had just gotten a new talent badge.

Is there anything I can do to keep this from happening again? Are there any patches?

[X-Lea-X]

I discovered that toddlers can walk out of their crib!!:lovestruc First my toddler looked if anyone was watching her then she started to put her foot over the crib, then she landed on the floor!!I think it has something to do with the logic points.She had 8 logic points!

[1306]

I discovered the really witty names that Maxis used for some of the objects in Build and Buy Mode, like:
-"Rave Against The Machine" standing lamp
-"The 'No Man is an Island' Island counter"
-"Mr. Arms Comfortitude Chair" (a side note in that, read the description of that object carefully--the last statement says, "Note: Couches will not pick you up or throw you. Couches can't do that. They're furniture." :laugh:)
-"Booooring Linoleum, Now In Extra Tacky!" floor tile
-"Hey Jute" Carpet (Someone in Maxis must've been a Beatles fan)
I think there are more...

[Avaluna]

I discovered that toddlers can walk out of their crib!!:lovestruc First my toddler looked if anyone was watching her then she started to put her foot over the crib, then she landed on the floor!!I think it has something to do with the logic points.She had 8 logic points!

I discovered the same thing yesterday! I never had that in my game before, so I was quite shocked. :P

[Menaceman44]

While looking at the game files in SimPE I discovered that when a Sim writes in their diary it was originally intended to alter the book cover depending on who was writing. It would turn blue for a boy or pink for a girl.
I tried to re-enable the function but don't really know what I'm doing. The colours still exist if you use the redesign tool on any book though. Might be useful for picture taking.

[JadeEliott]

Menaceman, I am going to try that. Useful!

[I_Love_Simming]

When a sim goes in a changing booth, the little camera at the top actually moves down to look at the sim in there..and when the sim comes back out, it goes back to normal. Pervy sims!

[musiquefille_SC]

When a sim goes in a changing booth, the little camera at the top actually moves down to look at the sim in there..and when the sim comes back out, it goes back to normal. Pervy sims!

I know! I noticed that when I got BV. Seems they can't woohoo in those booths.. for better or worse.

[Aijux]

That you can't buy kittens or puppies in the pet shop. I'm so late. XD

[Spiderchi]

I discovered that if a sim is in the shower and someone flushes the toilet they run out of the shower screaming XD

[Menaceman44]

I discovered today what Neighbourhood item you have to place to get the flying pig blimp to show up if you have Pets. You need to have a water tower! As soon as I selected one the pig blimp showed up and it moved around with the tower while I was placing it.

I also discovered the ability for male Sims to use a hedge to pee in! I'd heard about it before but never seen it and I've had the game since it was released. I think it happened this time because there were no toilets on the lot but lots of hedges. I didn't realise it was a clickable option. The option went though after his bladder was partly filled.

Something else to add now.
The OfB robots, not Servos, can sneeze during winter! I've just played a winter lot with a Clean-o-matic and my only Sim is female. While she left the lot I kept hearing a male voice sneezing. The only "Sim" on the lot was the robot.

[YamLin]

I discovered that fountains freeze over and have icicles when it snows.

[Cinamun]

Sims can pee in hedges? :blink: Oh I am SO trying that...

[Katattack]

Sorry if it's been mentioned, but I noticed today that Sim children can relax in the hot spring spas that came with Bon Voyage :)

[IrishGrace]

This isn't a new discovery but it is new to my game (even though I've had Seasons since the day it came out): today was the first time any of my Sim kids had a snow day! And it was perfect timing because by the time he finished his homework the night before, he had zero energy and zero fun... so he had to go to bed very grouchy... spent all day watching TV and stuff LOL

Also just discovered something else, also having to do with Seasons. If a Sim builds a snowman in the backyard, the penguin will come in through the house to get to the backyard (assuming there's a back door), even if there's a gate on the fence, which would be the more direct and logical route.
Picture (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v131/LilTxAngl83/Penguin.jpg)

[fway]

Those are some late discoveries XD. Well I discovered that, while Idle a pregnant sim will rub their tummy.

[IrishGrace]

In my defense :P I had been playing all-autumn neighborhoods for awhile now, so I haven't had snow in my game LOL Just started a 4-seasons neighborhood again a couple of days ago.

[maven2379]

My daughter is 7 and wanted to play so I made her a neighborhood, she made a sim and started playing, well first of all I discovered how unhappy and not taken care of sims can get and still live :anime: Second she didn't pay her bills.... well she calls me over because the repo man showed up and she didn't know what was happening, well he walked over to her hamster cage, opened it and sucked up the hamster! She was alittle upset, I thought it was very funny!

[blackivy]

I discovered that the lifetime relationship increases with time even if the two sims don't have any social interactions. Weird.

[Ferret]

I discovered the same thing yesterday! I never had that in my game before, so I was quite shocked. :P

:lol: One of mine did that the other day too!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v259/mozzow/emilyincrib2.jpg

[Ghost sdoj]

It must be a bug then because afterwards the child sim grew up to a teen. Then I made her attend college, and after all that hard work she graduated. Then she disappeared from the game. Like, not in any of the family bins anything. It's like the sim never existed. She's not even on the family tree anymore. After sims graduate they usually go back to where you can select a family, but not this sim. :( I loved her too. She had almost every skill point. And she had just gotten a new talent badge.

Is there anything I can do to keep this from happening again? Are there any patches?

If you make backups of the neighborhood and make a note of the character number of your favorite sims, you can use SimPe to pull a character file out of the backed up neighborhood to replace a sim who was eaten by a glitch or a bad download. I don't know about patches.

It seems to be active toddlers with high logic that have learned to walk who get out of the crib. I had one who managed it every time, but I had created him to be in pictures so he had been fully trained and had maxed out his logic while I got everybody else posed. (I keep forgetting to turn free will off. It's amazing how long it takes to get 6 sims into position with free will turned on.)

[stephness]

If you make backups of the neighborhood and make a note of the character number of your favorite sims, you can use SimPe to pull a character file out of the backed up neighborhood to replace a sim who was eaten by a glitch or a bad download. I don't know about patches.

It seems to be active toddlers with high logic that have learned to walk who get out of the crib. I had one who managed it every time, but I had created him to be in pictures so he had been fully trained and had maxed out his logic while I got everybody else posed. (I keep forgetting to turn free will off. It's amazing how long it takes to get 6 sims into position with free will turned on.)


How do you find out what the sim's character number is? I've been wondering this for a while so I can back up my self sim, just in case.

[musiquefille_SC]

That a sim can buy off another sim they had a relationship with not to tell their spouse for $50.

My sim was getting married and another had a fit when he saw the sim and his new wife cuddling in the hot tub together after the wedding. My sim jumped out and I noticed the option to "Buy Off for $50" and when I had him do it, the angry sim said something like "Fine, I guess I'll leave you along... for now."

[Ferret]

That a sim can buy off another sim they had a relationship with not to tell their spouse for $50.

My sim was getting married and another had a fit when he saw the sim and his new wife cuddling in the hot tub together after the wedding. My sim jumped out and I noticed the option to "Buy Off for $50" and when I had him do it, the angry sim said something like "Fine, I guess I'll leave you along... for now."

I've had that happen to me too. A mum and daughter were furious with each other, so the mum bought her daughter off for £50. :lol:

[Ghost sdoj]

If you load the sim browser in the new SimPe, you will see a column for filename. It used to just be called Number, but it's the same thing. It will be something like Nxx_Userxxxxx that you are looking for. That is the file for the character. Relationships and memories are stored in separate files from the character, though.

[fway]

Is it me or are one of the outfits (sets) from TSS a little too revealing?

See?
http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/4898/sims2ep6458hx0.jpg


Maybe it's the angling... I have no idea I noticed it. Oh and the pattern is broken if you can see the pattern.

[Oasis]

fway-that's awkward...maxis has a side that we never knew about...

Maybe they're just trying to make it more realistic??

[LegolianM]

I discovered that I'm completely addicted to this thread. XD I seriously spent like the last week reading the whole thing, I learned a lot!

I also discovered that even when a Sim catches their spouse cheating, slaps him around, and cries about it, he won't necessarily break up with him. I wound up breaking them up anyways because they would've been miserable together, but now I wonder if they could've patched things up if I'd left them alone...

[Ghost sdoj]

Probably. I have a black widow who has twice autonomously patched things up with the husband she is supposed to be fighting with so she can kill him.

[aryannaface]

I discovered that your sims have to have a certain amount of money to adopt a child.
=o

[fway]

I discovered that sims can "rotate" the garden plots that come with seasons. Except Sims can't garden with diagonal plots.

[Alek]

I've discovered that the Pleasant Family has an own TV programme on the TVs of the Sims (I don't know which channel). It looked very stupid, I was playing with the Pleasant family and Lilith was looking how she was fighting with Angela. :P

[Oasis]

I discovered when you watch the Weather Channel, the weather guy sometimes says stuff about himself! He says stuff about his childhood, and just sometimes random things!
It gets annoying after awhile though.

[SIMposiast_SC]

That if a sim is going into labor and her mother is around, the mother will come running and then do this kind of "breathe.... breathe.... breathe...." puckering and gesturing like she's trying to remind her daughter to use Lamaze. It's hard to explain but I hope you get the idea.

[1306]

Sorry if it's not new, but...
I discovered that some visitors to your sim's house will randomly pick up the newspaper and read it. Hmm...Maybe that's the reason why I think all my sim's neighbors are out to steal her newspaper.

[ambnumber11]

I found out yesterday that some (male) Sims can pee standing up into a toilet like most men actually do. xD

Also, while on vacation, my Romance sim was flirting with another Sim and his wife was sitting in one of those springs that came with BV facing him and looking at him and she didn't come up to slap him. So, he was doing all of these romance actions, including 'goose' and 'make out' and she didn't even notice him. But then we he and the NPC started to WooHoo in a hammock, she finally came over and slapped him. :blink:

[LegolianM]

I love it when they pee standing up. XD I'm not sure why, maybe just because it's realistic. That and you can actually hear it, which seems gross but I find I like that better than them silently doing their business sitting down.

I've discovered though that my transsexual man never pees standing up... all of my men do it but him! It's nice because he's not supposed to anyways. It's probably because I used SimPE to fool the game into thinking he's female, so he talks and acts like one even though he's a man.

I've also discovered that, despite how awesome it is to have the option of teen/adult relationships, I'm not sure I like it so much anymore... I have an adult man who's married to a teen, and they even have children together, but he never has any wants involving her - instead, he wants to flirt with the other girl in the house who IS an adult! I just let his wife age to see if it would fix the problem, but it didn't, she keeps having wants to move out while he keeps wanting the other girl. I've checked everything I can think of to make sure they're definitely married, and they are... they just don't seem to realize it.

[StupidityKills]

Eww, I hate it when boys go pee and they kind of tinkle a tune. Gross!

I found out today that I :heart: Meadow Thayer, she's such a goof, her husband was starting to paint a portrait of her and she walked over to pose for it and pulled this nasty goofy face then laughed and smiled normally. By the time I realised she'd done it deliberately (I thought it was a glitch!) she'd stopped so I couldn't get a pic. :(

Also, when her husband got up and out of bed before her, she woke up with a start, panicking cos he wasn't there next to her. Twice! Awww bless :giggler:

[Lemon&Lime]

I discovered that my werewolf Sim, Cyd Roseland, has a permenant glitch.

"What, me?"
http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff142/Tangodancer17/snapshot_94704f4e_34705916.jpg


Anyone know why this is happening? In the phonebook, Cyd has a werewolf face template but a sim-skin neck. Just wondering.

[ChihoSan]

Figgi, usually when I have a sim do that, I instruct them to change their appearance, hit okay and they reset.

[_geeky]

When playing the Sims, I discovered that I have no life. *cry*

But really, I discovered that the Sim's original skin tone doesn't come back after they've been vampirized. :l (Not sure if it's been said before...)

And Stupidity, I hate that, too! It took me a while to figure out where the noise was coming from, but when I did I was a bit grossed out. It was still pretty funny though. :P

[Menaceman44]

I discovered that with "move_objects on" you can pick all of the individual chess pieces off of the chesstable and put them on the floor or other tables.

[fway]

I discovered that with "move_objects on" you can pick all of the individual chess pieces off of the chesstable and put them on the floor or other tables.

You could also put them in your inventory, they make nice gifts :lol:

I discovred that my game loaded in under a minute with 2 gigs of CC, but most if it are in subfolders. And I had relatively a similar amount outside of subfolders and the game was so slow. I guess the game is a neat-freak.

[Lemon&Lime]

You could also put them in your inventory, they make nice gifts :lol:

I discovred that my game loaded in under a minute with 2 gigs of CC, but most if it are in subfolders. And I had relatively a similar amount outside of subfolders and the game was so slow. I guess the game is a neat-freak.

Hehe that made me laugh at the end.

I discovered that the glitches that are troubling my game at the moment are still there, and that even though I posted a thread on MTS2 - no one has replyed yet, when people who posted after me have had replies :(. My problem must be unsolvable.

[clark72]

Hehe that made me laugh at the end.

I discovered that the glitches that are troubling my game at the moment are still there, and that even though I posted a thread on MTS2 - no one has replyed yet, when people who posted after me have had replies :(. My problem must be unsolvable.


that was funny

[Oasis]

A couple days ago, I had my sim study cooking. When she'd turn the page, she'd read it and the page would flip back, she'd turn the page and read it! I thought it was funny, I'd didn't get a picture but I got a video capture!

[Slytherin-Girl]

I kew it was there, but I saw "Bella" in the balloon in Pleasantview!

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a286/hikari-schezar-bloom/bella.jpg

[LegolianM]

I discovered that I really, really want to be able to change their voice. >_< I made two Sims last night with pretty different personalities and tastes, and they wound up having voices that should be swapped. My tough tomboyish girl has the softer sweet voice, while my sweet girlish girl has the deeper butchy voice. They sound like they stole each other's voices!

[AnnetteL]

I kew it was there, but I saw "Bella" in the balloon in Pleasantview!

Wow, the first time I've actually seen her! Every time I look, it's only Mr. Blue Shirt. Feels like "Where's Waldo?"! lol

[YamLin]

I discovered that cats in Pets sometimes roll around on the carpet for no real reason, just like cats in real life! I already knew that they sometimes chase flies, but this was a new one to me.

[thebes]

Pets like to watch Sims cook food. :blink:

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/3535/beinwatchedth9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[LegolianM]

Both of my alien children, born into completely different families in different neighborhoods, have the same personality. o_O Makes me wonder what the Pollination Technician is like.

I'm curious though... if you have a single adult raising a baby, if they get abducted, will the baby get taken away from being left alone...? My girl has already been abducted once but she really wants to meet aliens again, however I'm afraid to let it happen and have her baby left all alone... though I noticed the last time she was abducted, time never sped up, as if she was still on the lot, so maybe it'd be okay...?

[Ghost sdoj]

Save first. If the baby is taken you can quit without saving. But I had someone standing on the front porch waiting to have a pillow fight with someone who was off in a flying saucer, so they possibly do count as still being there.

[Menaceman44]

I guess it might still count that they are using the telescope.

[LegolianM]

Yeah, if I try it I'll definitely save first. She seems to have become smitten with the Pollination Technician with all these constant wants to get abducted, she's even been dreaming about him...!

I discovered that whenever I make Sims that are based off of RPG or anime characters, they always wind up doing things eerily similar to the character without my even telling them to. It's like the game just KNOWS.

[Menaceman44]

I discovered two new things today.

The fear of having an accident at a party.
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/5168/partypeefearpt8.jpg

That headmasters wont visit if your kid has less than a C grade.
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/3730/headmasterwb4.jpg

[Lemon&Lime]

I discovered that the game deletes babies for no reason whatsoever :(

I even have a picture of my sim with her arms as if holding a baby but no baby there. My sim even has the memory of having a baby. I quitted not long after little Adelaide was born, and now the memory says "Had $Subject!" and the mother with her arms cradling air and the father halfway through cheering the arrival.

[Catherine_SC]

That sims can have a lifetime aspiration of having a golden anniversary! I didn't even know that existed...

[Ghost sdoj]

Golden anniversary is hard to do, though. They have to be an Elder with no memory of cheating. (Even being flirted with by a cow mascot counts as cheating.) They also need to have been married a while, and have an Anniversary party.

[afinefrenzy]

Golden anniversary is probably only one of two lifetime wants I actually fullfilled. I thought it was kind of easy. They did die right after it though... :lol:

[cappyboy]

Here's my most recent one. Suppose you're playing Brandi Broke from a restart. Then you don't tend to Beau and he get taken away by Social Services before the child Brandi starts the new game pregnant with is born. Once Brandi gives birth to the new baby, she will then revert back to being pregnant again.

[AnnetteL]

I had no clue that you could earn a skill point from a date! My sim earned a cleaning point after having a dream date with a neat freak.

[photo]

Here's my most recent one. Suppose you're playing Brandi Broke from a restart. Then you don't tend to Beau and he get taken away by Social Services before the child Brandi starts the new game pregnant with is born. Once Brandi gives birth to the new baby, she will then revert back to being pregnant again.

how weird is that? is it a glitch?

[JavaJulie]

I caught one of my teen Sims playing with the fridge for the first time. I knew they could juggle bottles from the fridge, but this one was opening and closing the doors, standing on one of the door's shelves and swinging, and just having a generally good time. Of course, I tend to miss a lot of little things because I fast forward so much.

[livingstonekat]

*ignores bookworm*

I caught one of my teen Sims playing with the fridge for the first time. I knew they could juggle bottles from the fridge, but this one was opening and closing the doors, standing on one of the door's shelves and swinging, and just having a generally good time. Of course, I tend to miss a lot of little things because I fast forward so much.


I fastforward way too much too. Mostly because there's not always enough time to play and I want to get certain things done in game as fast as possible :einstein

[Sneakyonfoota_SC]

Just a few minutes ago I discovered this dress...
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f149/Darkbootie/nakedbabydress.jpg

Smiling naked babies :blink:

[Cinamun]

:rofl: :blink: What dress is that????

[happycowlover]

I also noticed the design on that dress some days ago when one of the college roomates had that on. I always thought they were flowers or something before I actually looked at it. Maxis has a very odd sense of humor. :blink:

[Menaceman44]

I discovered that the game doesn't create werewolf memories correctly! I had one Sim get cured but he remembered a WINDOW getting cured instead and today I had a Servo become a werewolf and he has a memory of it being his neighbour! I have another werewolf too so I'm off to check her memories as well.

[I_Love_Simming]

Children can prank by giving a static shock.

If a sims parents break up, they dont even have a memory of it.

[photo]

omg that dress makes me laugh....

[Anathema]

That dress is hilarious, and creepy at the same time. xD

I discovered if your sims are good dancers (uni) they can "bust a move" as an entertain thing. ^^ The other sim looks kinda scared when they do it, but lots of relationship points anyways.
Mean sims, or maybe just the kids, will hit the other sim with the snowball or ball when they play catch or snowball fight. I find this hilarious. xD
I noticed the top of the natural science career clothes (which btw pays like, ten thousand a day OO) are just leaves over the required parts. xD
And I noticed the cutest interaction the other day- if a parent and child sim are sitting on a couch together, they can "snuggle". It's adorable!
When you play marco polo in the pool, one of the sims will sneak out of the pool when the other's eyes are closed. This is my basic real life strategy, I love how the sims do it too. =)
Yeah, found a lot of stuff. This thread is awesome.

[Avaluna]

When you have Seasons and there's a lot of snow, your children can get snow-free! :)

But the funny thing was, that girls mother is a teacher, but she had to go to work. :P

[Ghost sdoj]

Grouchy sims, when asked to play "Punch Me Punch You", will happily leave a bruise on the other sim's arm. This results in a relationship hit for the bruised sim, but not enough to keep them from wanting to play again. And again... (At least until you get a hack to prevent that silly game from ever happening.)

Grouchy sims also love to cheat at chess and get angry over losing a game of any kind.

[~!Sasha!~]

When two sims fight, there's a wacky tune that plays. My toddler influenced the nanny to fight with the maid. Maid kicked her tail. lol

[LegolianM]

I discovered a want - 'Defeat The Grim Reaper'.

I've been going through my neighborhoods and killing off that annoying little Marsha because she's finally gotten on my last nerve. I was in a different mood last night and decided to go visit a house I hadn't been to in ages, and lo and behold, the man there suddenly had popped up that want, as well as a want to resurrect Marsha.

I totally forgot he'd made friends with her when he was a kid...! Well as I'd never seen those wants before, I couldn't help but let him do it... and thus I've somehow found myself with Marsha back in the neighborhood. Sigh. At least she's a pretty adult, and she actually has a rather nice personality... I may keep her around a bit and see if she hits it off with one of my guys, since she IS rather pretty. But sigh. Curse you, Marsha. You'd better have pretty kids.

[Menaceman44]

I discovered that, if left idle, Bigfoot will pick fleas and ticks out of his fur and then eat them. He'll sometimes scratch as well.
If you let his needs drop to a certain point then he will also throw a big tantrum and scream a lot while wanting to stomp on any flowers on the lot and scare any Sims.

[Mimoo]

I discovered that if you're in a dorm rather than a house, you still have to clean up after it...

Darn lazy NPCs.

[AxelValentine]

Mimoo - I also learned a while ago that no matter how long toilets/showers/sinks/etc. stay dirty they never break in a dorm.

[Ghost sdoj]

Pizza can be put into a sim's inventory when they are a child, then pulled out just before they are ready to die as an Elder, and it is still hot and edible!

[Menaceman44]

I just remembered that plantsims can't wear lipstick but they can wear eye-shadow, eye-liner and blush. Full face make up as well.

[Annette_SC]

My first time seeing this one - fear of having food dropped on you!

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/9108/fooddropbe3.jpg

I had no clue that they deliberately dropped food on you! Here I thought it was just a mistake but, nope, I must have pissed off Joe Waiter.

[fway]

Yep, I was looking at the Wants/fears in SimPE and it seems to be "Outdated" now. No idea why though. I think it'd be hilarious though if "Get food dropped on" was a want.

[Sneakyonfoota_SC]

Someone else may have seen this but it totally creeped me out.

Under the house of fallen trees there is a pit, it is a place a sim can't normally reach, but in this pit are two empty coffins sitting side by side.

[Ghost sdoj]

Actually a sim can get down there. Which is annoying if you wanted them to sleep in a bed, not one of the coffins.

[LegolianM]

I discovered that Sims will do the most amusing things sometimes if you leave them alone and let them do whatever they want...! I'm usually a control freak so they don't often get to just do whatever.

[Zzelda16]

I know this is kind of stupid, but I found out how to harvest plants. I haven't had Seasons for more than a month.

[LegolianM]

I discovered last night that Pascal Curious is adorable. I've never played the Maxis families before, I always play in my own neighborhood, but I had a random urge to check out Strangetown and now I may have to export him so I can put him in my neighborhood.

[Tzigone]

I discovered last night that Pascal Curious is adorable. You know, he made a beautiful daughter with Nancy the gardener in mine. She was a perfectly okay-looking kid, but then she hit teen yesterday and wow, she is very pretty.

[KacoshiAjewl]

I found out haveing a plant sim around is reeealy helpfull for skilling YAY spores of happiness!!! I locked one of my male plantsims his wife and child in the nersury for a nighttime skilling lesson for the kid there motives never dropped below green thanks to spores of happiness I had the plantsim giving off.

[LegolianM]

You know, he made a beautiful daughter with Nancy the gardener in mine. She was a perfectly okay-looking kid, but then she hit teen yesterday and wow, she is very pretty.
Really? That's good to know. I just exported him and Lazlo and put them in my neighborhood, and I already have someone in mind for Pascal; here's hoping they make good looking kids...!

[Haughtysims]

Today I discovered that my Generation 9 legacy had all vanished into a stuck limo, missed school and all of their afterschool jobs and one of the elders had died off lot. I think I fixed it. Terrible glitch.

[LegolianM]

Real unhacked alien abductions happen whenever I DON'T want it. First my self-Sim, and now a Sim who was based off of a medieval anime character. I hadn't thought the old fashioned telescope I downloaded would cause abductions since it looks like the cheap telescope, but I now know otherwise.

The sad thing is, I know I can stop the pregnancy with Insim, but actual real abductions are so rare that I know I'm going to leave it alone and let him have the baby, and then there will be an alien with my medieval family. Ah well, stranger things have happened, I suppose. The anime he's from has a lot of demons and creatures, so I can just pretend one of them 'infected' him and he had a demon child.

[JavaJulie]

I found out that either there's a glitch in my game* or Kent Downie is "loaded". I had one of my Sims propose and move him in. His inventory was loaded with things - and several of each, at that. He had a statue worth ~3k, three DJ booths, 3 of those gyro exercise things, and a ton of other stuff. I sold off all of it and it turned out to be worth over 50k simoleons!

*I figure it's probably a glitch, because before he moved in, he claimed to be a mascot, but once he was playable, he jumped up to Hall of Famer - without any of the requisite skills or relationships. It probably all ties into the fact that my game keeps crashing, and this particular Sim and lot crashed about four times without any saves. The maid that she had a relationship with in an unsaved crash game (and a disastrous wedding, marriage, adoption and divorce with) is still furious with her even though neither of them has any memory of each other.

[1306]

I just discovered how a lazy sim reacts to getting thin. Somehow, with all my other sims, they react the same, as in they put both arms up like a bodybuilder and show off. But with a lazy sim that's different. When he/she get thin, he/she look at both his/her arms and his/her body, and then just shrugs.

Has anyone had this happened to them?

[musiquefille_SC]

I found out that either there's a glitch in my game* or Kent Downie is "loaded". I had one of my Sims propose and move him in. His inventory was loaded with things - and several of each, at that. He had a statue worth ~3k, three DJ booths, 3 of those gyro exercise things, and a ton of other stuff. I sold off all of it and it turned out to be worth over 50k simoleons!

Maybe he bought that stuff in a playable lot if you have OFB and a store that sells that stuff? Otherwise he sounds kind of like a jackpot sim if you ask me.

[Annette_SC]

I once had my Sim marry a Townie and they were loaded too - you wouldn't believe all the stuff they had with them.

[PenChris_SC]

I found out that Housekeeping in BV is worse than the average Nanny. A shame you can't drown them by removing the ladders. ;)

[fway]

I found out that either there's a glitch in my game* or Kent Downie is "loaded". I had one of my Sims propose and move him in. His inventory was loaded with things - and several of each, at that. He had a statue worth ~3k, three DJ booths, 3 of those gyro exercise things, and a ton of other stuff. I sold off all of it and it turned out to be worth over 50k simoleons!

*I figure it's probably a glitch, because before he moved in, he claimed to be a mascot, but once he was playable, he jumped up to Hall of Famer - without any of the requisite skills or relationships. It probably all ties into the fact that my game keeps crashing, and this particular Sim and lot crashed about four times without any saves. The maid that she had a relationship with in an unsaved crash game (and a disastrous wedding, marriage, adoption and divorce with) is still furious with her even though neither of them has any memory of each other.


I think after Nightlife, they loaded the townie's inventory on purpose, in my opinion it would be used as date gifts, if you think about it.


Well, I discovered that if your Sims go on a date first, then you use "Ask for Permission to go out" (well it was one of Stevie's wants.) If you asked the person you had a date with to go out with you, the dated Sim will bring flowers (or other objects) to your door. :wtf: I laughed my butt off when I saw her walking up the steps with a giant bouquet of roses :lol:

[starseedsim]

First time posting, sorry if I'm doing it wrong.

I discovered that my single biology major (female) is pregnant.

She's been seen around Strangeville and the college campus with a mad scientist.

A female mad scientist. :blink:

How the heck did that happen? :laugh:

[Yakumo-dono]

I discovered that when a mean sim is playing catch, they will smirk and throw the ball hard at the other sim.

[ViciousBleu]

That even after two sims have left the photo booth from a public woo-hoo...other sims will still run over there and cheer at the empty booth. And maybe it was a glitch but half of them were cheering for somebody who wasn't ever even in the booth, just happened to be standing nearby.

[JavaJulie]

I discovered that Gina Shaw (teen Townie that my Sims tend to bring home from school a lot) has quite the interesting family tree. I moved her to Uni so she could stay with her childhood sweetheart and decided to look and see if she had any sort of background.

Turns out she's got about 6 siblings (I didn't count), all with different last names. Strangely enough, she's part of the Tricou family that someone just mentioned a few posts ago, with a zillion dead relatives and all kinds of weird and wild family relationships.

Now I'm wondering if she wasn't perhaps actually living on a lot, and I just didn't realize it - I had just assumed she was a regular Townie, and don't remember seeing the plumbob next to her name that indicates she lives in a house.

ETA: Whoops, I guess I read about the Tricou family in a different thread; I usually only check this one so I assumed it was here. What I read in the other thread is that there is a single occupied lot in Downtown whose residents have lots of dead relatives.

[chihuahuas22]

I Just found out if u get love letters in the mailbox from a date you can put them on your sims dresser they have a picture and everything lol ^-^

[AxelValentine]

That cats can sleep on counters and just how fun it is to have a werewolf loping around the house for a day.

[Axe Gaijin]

I found out there's writing on the Bamboo canes. I can make out a B, R, E, U & T.

*shrugs*

[Game Shark]

I discovered how difficult it is to make Angela and Lillith friends. Geeze, I had finally got their relationship into positive, when Angela attacked Lillith while I was busy with Dirk and Dustin. After roughly the same thing happened, I decided to cheat and use the Insiminator.

I also discovered that fires are apparently bad things to happen during a date.

Finally, I just discovered that there was a penguin that came with Seasons. I had never seen it before and was a little curious to why there was a penguin running around the front of my lot.

[LegolianM]

I discovered that, when there is no fire alarm or sprinkler or phone to call the fireman, Sims take FOREVER to put out the fire themselves. They managed to do it, but it took way longer than it should have.

[FlyingKiwi]

I discovered that Vidcund Curious gets along strangely well with Pascal's alien daughter, given that usually he's about the most antisocial sim imaginable.