What did you discover today while playing the sims?

[I_Love_Simming]

Babys can sometimes be born inheriting thier grandparents features rather then thier parents. Last night I had a baby born, i got a bit of a shock when he came out a bit darker skinned when his parents are both light skinned. I realised he must of got his grandmothers skin tone. Also he didnt have the same eyes as any of his parents, he had his grandfathers. AND both his parents are brown haired, and when he turned into a toddler, he had blonde hair...he must of got that from his other grandmother who is the only one with blonde hair. Wierd...but kind of cool.

[charlie-chan_SC]

Sim can whistle! Not just the flirting wolf whilste. My sim can whistle tunes - it's so cute when she does it in the morning. I think it might be because she's into Music and Dance.

My sims do that and they whistle some scary tunes.

I discovered this (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v228/serenicevanescence/Sims%202/sims2screencapprivateschool.png) as well:

If you cook a good meal e.g. salmon then a dessert, you get 55 food points or more from the private school headmaster.

Woot woot. These sims are the first lot I've managed to get into private school ^.^

[Ghost sdoj]

if you are very happy with an easel painting, you can go into the main storytelling folder and find the (very distorted) image there. All you need to do is re-size it.

Example:http://forums.sims2community.com/showpost.php?p=1189375&postcount=237

(My space pirate.)

[elekanahmen]

You shouldn't rush to change the facial structure of an ugly toddler, my male toddler got a female custom skin (the dad's was maxis) and so his face was distorted, but I just let him be. He seemed to get uglier as a child, but magically when he was an adult--he was suddenly good-looking!

[SIMposiast_SC]

That sims get glazed-looking eyes when they kiss. You have to zoom in really close which is why I never noticed it before but the pupils disappear when they Smooch or Make Out. Also when they Scope Room.

Also, I don't know if it was a one-off or not, but Pascal Curious came waddling by my CAS sim's house. I sent the sim out to talk to him, changed the topic to Sci-fi, and when the icons for the aliens and the spaceships showed up in their speech bubbles, Pascal grimaced and began to rub his butt during that conversation. He didn't stop until the chat interaction ended.

[Fernweather]

That the secret society on my custom neighborhood's university was too secret.

I use a homegrown university without any Maxis students (I have empty templates in the Uni neighborhood folders). Unfortunately, when the game generated the students for the university it only created two secret society members, making for a secret society that would have been impossible to get in to. :wtf2:

Thanks to SimPE, however, I was able to add secret society tokens to a few more Sims.

[LegolianM]

Also, I don't know if it was a one-off or not, but Pascal Curious came waddling by my CAS sim's house. I sent the sim out to talk to him, changed the topic to Sci-fi, and when the icons for the aliens and the spaceships showed up in their speech bubbles, Pascal grimaced and began to rub his butt during that conversation. He didn't stop until the chat interaction ended.
That's hilarious. :lol:

I discovered that once a zombie - always a zombie. I had a random townie die, and one of my Sims, Edward, brought him back as a zombie. He then died again (Edward only brought him back so he could drink him with his cowplant) and later I noticed a different one of my Sims wanting to resurrect him again, since they'd been friends. So I let him, and paid the full amount, but the guy is still a zombie. XD He didn't set off any "So-and-so is a zombie" fears though so everyone else seems to think he's normal.

[Menaceman44]

I suppose thats because he has been brought back in the state he died in which must count as success.

Sims can belch back at the Cow mascot in uni and get a relationship boost.
I also saw this message for the first time:
http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/723/foodnuancesyo8.jpg

It appeared after he gained his third cooking skill and he emmediately gained his fourth straight away. He hasn't been gaining any other points any faster though.

[Willow's Tara]

I love Simming- That defiently explains how everytime Samantha Ottomas' twins are born and they end up having Dora Ottomas's eyes.

[PlasticBarbie.]

Wealth sims cry when they sell a painting worth less that 100 simbucks.

[Mihura]

Strange message Menaceman44. He's a knowledge Sim but it's new for me. Have you developed his cuisine enthusiasm ? :)

[musiquefille_SC]

The message has to do with a Lifetime Aspiration Benefit for Knowledge sims (it is called Eureka!). It helps them sporadically earn skill points faster.

[Ghost sdoj]

I just got Free Time installed this morning, and discovered I hate the rubik's cube that the woman in my test family has. I'm almost mad enough to take her telescope away from her! She's on a date with a guy that she has 3 lightning bolts with. It's spring. Her wants panel is filled with make-out and woohoo wants. You would think she could find something better to fiddle around with than a stupid puzzle!

[stariscool]

Today, I realised that if you tweak a sims aspiration with inSIM it borks their secondary apspiration up =/ I changed a family sim into a romance sim, forgetting that romance was her secondary aspiration, and so everything's gone pear shaped for her. Nevermind.

Also, is it me, or have fires got weaker since the base game? While a great big fire would normally wipe out an entire family of 8 back in the days and destroy everything in the house, these days a fire just doesn't cause as much damage and death to my sims. Still fun though =]

[Willow's Tara]

I diiscovered something about fire, you know that train set that came with FT? Well sometimes it can be set on fire! I lost Surresh Rawaswami that way, he went to operate and a minute later the set was on fire and he was on fire too. Sanjay Rawamswami tried saving him with a existugher or whatever you called it while Neerasha (His daughter) tried to call for help, by the time the fire was gone so was Surresh.

I also discovered if you leave a lot with a NPC or a playable sim or of any kind and go play thier house, and when you gropw them up they will be just like that when you return to the other one. Like with Samantha Ottomas, I kmade her have sex with Priya Rawaswami, but then I went to play Priya's house (Which is how Surresh died) and I didn't stop playing until she became an elder, went back to Sam's house and Priya was standing next to the bed as an elder. That has to be a shock for Samantha, she has sex with a beautiful woman and comes out with an elder of that woman.

Also with NPC, I moved the maid Geninisis or whatever into the Ramaswami house after the oldest Richard decided to marry her (This is when both Priya and Sanjay are dead). After I left I went to check something in the Free family and saw the exact maid in the house, she was Giles Free's maid until she moved into the Rawamswami and got pregnant, so now she is just a sim in the house, her maid car disappeared and another maid came immeditely and took over.

[PlasticBarbie.]

This glitch:
http://i29.tinypic.com/5b4itg.jpg

..and this chance card thing.
http://i26.tinypic.com/69lw05.jpg

[Menaceman44]

How is the first picture a glitch? I've had Sims have sick days before.

[PlasticBarbie.]

I think its a glitch because it shows that he was his own boss. Even though he doesn't own a buisness and hes on the first level of his job. :P

Usually the boss person shows up in the little [picture]

Plus, they go together. I pushed that he was sick and his car came anyways.. then when I tried to make him leave the chancecard thing popped up.

[kustirider2]

haha :lol: @ plasticbarbie

[mieley]

i discovered that in the start up neighborhood screen with a chance to pick pleasantview, strangetown, veronaville, ect.you can edit the name of the towns. if you click the box under the picture that has the name of the town, it turns out to be a text box!

[AxelValentine]

That little 'chance card' you found is so stupid. I clicked 'Nevermind' once and my sim went to work despite my 'x-ing' out the action. The kids then got taken away. It's supposed to be for when you have kids to warn you. I liked the one that said "I have other responsibilities" and they just stayed home.

I have a hack that keeps my game from making un-needed NPCs and once I installed that my sim's picture started showing up when they called in sick. It might be that.

[Ani May]

Apparently sims can get skill points from dates:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y119/LadyAnime14/Sims%202/TidyDate.png

[xliverbeanx]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v12/liverbean/Smithson%20Legacy/snapshot_753e0e17_954e02e4.jpg

That neat freak sims like mine can clean windows. You can't tell them to do it, it's not an active action, but they just do it randomly.

[abel_SC]

..and this chance card thing.
http://i26.tinypic.com/69lw05.jpg[/CENTER]

This is not a chance card. It is one of pescado´s hacks, that modifies how the social worker. It is designed to let you leave for work, when a nanny is running late or another household member will be back any minute. It´s called sshack.

This is from the readme:
FEATURES:
This hack makes the Social Worker behave more reasonably. The Social Worker
will only be summoned for child abandonment if a child-aged sim is left
unattended for extended period of time, such as if all adults are very dead,
or if the unattended sim is a toddler and therefore should not realistically
be left home alone at all. The bizarre metric of "child-hours" has been
eliminated.

The social worker will not be summoned for a child receiving bad grades unless
the number of bad children outnumbers the number of passing children: No more
adopted bad child causing all your good children to be taken away because he
came with a failing grade from when he was taken away before.

The Social Worker will continue to be summoned if you intentionally abuse your
children by starving or neglecting them, so you can still get kids taken away
to fill the adoption pool if you want.

Parents will also no longer be physically prevented from going to work if
children are present on the lot. No more having to miss work because the stupid
nanny refused to show up until 15 minutes afterwards.

Heat/Cold failure and warnings no longer random and useless: Will no longer
receive spurious warning followed immediately by "sudden death mode" SS visit.



So it is not much of a chance card. If you leave a toddler unattentend the social worker will still always take him away. It´s very useful for the nanny being late or a glitch where none of the parents are allowed to go to work otherwise.

Additionally you can let the parents woohoo in a car, which is in the driveway without needing a babysitter.

[Willow's Tara]

I keep forgetting to mention this but I discovered that the one of the shows on Kidztube seems to bwe a verison of Rugrats, if you look closely you can even see a child playing with something that looks like that dinosaur they love.

[Thestrialqueen]

I found out that if a teenage sim has nothing better to do they can "ride" the refrigerator door.

[charlie-chan_SC]

I found that my sims like to die after coming home from work.

[I_Love_Simming]

Some kids have the interaction with their toddler sibling to either Play-Tickle or Play-Tease. Obviously i think its to do with thier nice points...However i hadnt seen the tease option till last night.

[ani_]

I had two friends go out for lunch, the waiter dropped the salad on top of one of the ladies. Later, the other lady who didn't get salad on her head talked about it to her husband. I'v never seen the dropping salad icon before :)

[PinkLily]

I had two friends go out for lunch, the waiter dropped the salad on top of one of the ladies. Later, the other lady who didn't get salad on her head talked about it to her husband. I'v never seen the dropping salad icon before :)

that is awesome!

[princesshaichu]

I discovered why toddlers sneeze--springtime allergies! I wonder if it's sim-specific, like it would be in reality (I have no allergies, but my poor best friend is a mess outdoors in spring).

[Ghost sdoj]

I just got Free Tme. Is it just me, or are the recommendations for what you can do to improve your Lifetime Aspiration score a bit off? It was recommending to an adult with 7 kids that he have a first kiss, and recommending to a kid who is already a child that he learn to talk or be potty-trained. (He was taught all 3 on his first day as a toddler thanks to Smart Milk.)

And how in the world can someone who sticks his fingers in his ears every time someone mentions Sports have Sports as a pre-destined Hobby?! (I made a beeline for Paladin's Hobby changer.)

[longdaysend]

last night i discovered that who ever built the BV/FT (not sure which the icons are so small) house 'bonny bungalow' built a sims 1 house. the rooms are too big, it's basically a big box with WAY too much empty space and a huge ugly roof...it's like they quit trying.

also making a romance sim have quads is more fun than drowning puppies or setting fire to a movie theater :P

(i so hope everyone gets the joke there, i do not condone animal cruelty or arson for the record :))

[Menaceman44]

Today I discovered that dogs can 'Growl At' and 'Watch' piles of rubbish and that they can also 'Play With' broken robots which basically involves chasing them and barking at them.

[Willow's Tara]

I just realized, once you become best friends with Bigfoot you can ask him to move in with you! I didn't know that

[Turning_Turning]

I don't know if it's just me-but in BV, when the Sims accidently hit a pipe when digging for treasure, they do the same dance for it as they do for fire.

[ASOLOA]

[QUOTE=Nikiangelz]This is not technically a discovery. But today on msn, I was talking to my friend about re-creating my teacher as a sim, and thinking of all the differnet ways I could torture him. Then I realized, THERES A LOT!

I always enjoyed torturing my simmies, but until today I hadn't realized just how much you can do. Those people must really have fun putting together all those acts of un-civilty![/QUOTE I did the same thing to my boss. I got to say that was the best time I ever had playing the sims.

[crocobaura]

I've just noticed this recently. Playable sims who are employed in a playable sim's business will go to work and come back, but they will not earn any money. :blink:

[longdaysend]

really Croc? does they're work/skills panel say unemployed still or does it say they have a job i wonder. thats a bit of a useless job if it pays zero,lol

[crocobaura]

Their job description says that they are unemployed, but they go to the job regularly. On the pop-up screen that comes up when the car comes for them, it says that they are employed in a small business. (or somethign like that). I had this happen with two sims, a teenager and an adult. It's annoying because it pays zero and they still go away to work and I had to cancel the plans made for them.

[longdaysend]

well then, today i discovered not to employ playble sims at sim owned businesses :P

[coltraz]

well then, today i discovered not to employ playble sims at sim owned businesses :P

Why not? I have Mrs. Roth from Riverblossom working at one of my lots.

[crocobaura]

It's because of some sort of glitch I have in my game, where sims employed in playable sims businesses, go to work but they bring no money when they come home. :)

[coltraz]

Really? Hmm, I never noticed. But I don't play the Roth family much. Too glitchy, it seems.

[ani_]

It's because of some sort of glitch I have in my game, where sims employed in playable sims businesses, go to work but they bring no money when they come home. :) I had that one too - but it only happened when I had the employee move in with the owner. I thought her moving in would automatically cut the employment, but no, every day she went to work - and brought no money back - even thou she was living at her job. She actually had to call her job and quit:)

[princesshaichu]

If you've got the nanny in the house and the gardener's parked outside, and you direct the nanny to get in the gardener's truck... she will.

[Menaceman44]

I discovered that Plantsims and Servos can't sleep in the BV tents! Someone make a hack to allow them, please!

I also discovered since installing FreeTime, the BV hotel maids are pointless. I know they weren't great to begin with but now they do nothing at all! They arrive, stand near the check-in desk and thats it.

[Ghost sdoj]

I actually discovered this a while ago, but it still works. If you have a home ticket business and you invite a sim over, they go through the check in routine if you haven't granted them free access. If you then move them in, they keep paying, even though they live there now.

[AxelValentine]

I just now discovered that by holding the control button and clicking on a want it automatically is fulfilled and replaced, even giving the sim the aspiration points even though they didn't do it.

[Menaceman44]

I just now discovered that by holding the control button and clicking on a want it automatically is fulfilled and replaced, even giving the sim the aspiration points even though they didn't do it.

That should only work when the game is in debug mode.

[Henry Crun]

I discovered that Plantsims and Servos can't sleep in the BV tents! Someone make a hack to allow them, please!

I also discovered since installing FreeTime, the BV hotel maids are pointless. I know they weren't great to begin with but now they do nothing at all! They arrive, stand near the check-in desk and thats it.

Paladin at Simwardrobe has improved the performance of the bellhops and the maids:
http://www.simwardrobe.com/
Go via: Sims2-Fixes-Bon Voyage Fixes-Service NPC Fixes to get to the right link (It isn't possible to provide a direct link)

[Menaceman44]

Thanks very much. I'll give it a try and see if it works.

[IceAngel12891]

I was playing today and noticed that the house that I built last night was for sale for -23,000 (approx.), so I went into the house and put some furniture in and when I exited it was -12,000 or so. I moved a sim in and sure enough, he got credited the 12000, lol. I'm not sure why it did that, but oh well, lol.

[Valerie_SC]

Long story-short: I always do this to my sims and just now I noticed that the poor little girl and boy were crying 24/7 because of their new father; :einstein

Long story: I had a beautiful woman and got her a husband who works for the exterminator people [Ew] He looks really ugly, and made 2 ugly babies [Twins] :D!

This isn't the usual me, all about looks and blah but she was really my second generation woman and I loved her! She deserved a pretty son/daughter. I had them argue, and break up. The children cried, and cried.... I thought, "Oh I can just get them a new father :D" As I brought a new father, had the mother LOOOVE him [of course he was a total hottie.] The children continued to cry, the Ex-Father visited, and had me pay fines, Knocked over my trash, stole my newspaper. Ugh, more fines and fines reaching up to $200? He'd even bargin my door and talk to his children, I didn't mind but leave my family alonee D:. The new baby had no idea why this family was crazy, it all turned out good after be-friending the ex.

Phew >:

[Squid_SC]

I've discovered that thieving neighbors go insane when you put the gnome on the roof. It was a happy day in my Legacy neighborhood. :jig:

[On a different note, I managed to get a Spawned Plantsim today that was NOT ugly as sin. I'm debating whether or not to cure her of Plantsimism, seeing as she's awfully pretty and her lifetime would be cut short if she were to remain a cabbage. Buuuttt... that's just me.]

[longdaysend]

parents and children can 'snuggle' on the couch. its so adorable and i never knew they could until an autonomous action today.

also sims get annoyed with others for messing with the tv while they watch it.
i had 2 kids sitting watching tv, Sherbet got up and she turned off the tv before going to do something else. Pickle glares at her when she turns it off and as she walked away Pickle got a bubble over his head with Sherbets picture and a big red X through it. nice touch of realism.

[Menaceman44]

Paladin at Simwardrobe has improved the performance of the bellhops and the maids:
http://www.simwardrobe.com/
Go via: Sims2-Fixes-Bon Voyage Fixes-Service NPC Fixes to get to the right link (It isn't possible to provide a direct link)

Well now that I have that fix in my game the maids are at least attempting to clean things. They do seem to get stuck sometimes and I'm having to use debug mode to force error them out of it but otherwise they are ok.

I have since discovered though that it is pointless to order single servings of food from room service as they don't seem to be edible, but group meals are. I think it might have something to do with the rotation of the tables because I know I've had a Sim successfully eat a single serving before.

[aibiki]

I found out through the control pets cheat, that pets can mourn dead sims. ((Even if they didn't know them. o.o))

[melethana]

I have a sim who maxed out in 2 careers (culinary and law enforcement) so I'm not sure where the clothes came from, but she has lots of extra everyday outfits. I did not download them, and they are not available in CAS or the downtown stores. She has some Chinese looking outfits, tops with mandarin collars, and toggles, with pants of the same color (one with a dragon print, tiger, and something else) She also has some futuristic looking uniforms in assorted colors (think Judge Dredd, but rainbow colored!)

[melethana]

How do you merge families? I dont have University.
the only EP I have is Nightlife, and I can take Sims from the family bin and move them into whatever occupied house I like. It prompts you with something like "really join the Grainger family?" I don't think the new sim will automatically take the last name of the household though.

[SIMposiast_SC]

No, the new sim(s) keep their original surnames. The christianlov lastnamechanger can fix that easily enough though.

What I learned a couple of days ago: a sim can "meet" another sim through badmouthing! I had no idea. Loki was furious with Vidcund and when he went to see his sister Erin, he kept badmouthing Vidcund. All of a sudden, Erin gets 1000 aspiration points, and I check her memories panel to see what happened. She had just "met" Vidcund (I know he wasn't in her relationship panel before).

[Menaceman44]

I have a sim who maxed out in 2 careers (culinary and law enforcement) so I'm not sure where the clothes came from, but she has lots of extra everyday outfits. I did not download them, and they are not available in CAS or the downtown stores. She has some Chinese looking outfits, tops with mandarin collars, and toggles, with pants of the same color (one with a dragon print, tiger, and something else) She also has some futuristic looking uniforms in assorted colors (think Judge Dredd, but rainbow colored!)

They are the job outfits from the mentioned careers. Every uniform that a Sim wears for work gets added to their wardrobe as everyday wear.

[Squid_SC]

:D

I learned that the mini-fridge that came with University can be placed under counters. Whoo!

[melethana]

They are the job outfits from the mentioned careers. Every uniform that a Sim wears for work gets added to their wardrobe as everyday wear.

But that's the thing! These bonus clothes in question were never worn to work as uniforms! I think they might be alternate uniforms that I never had her change into? But the dresser doesn't have a "plan outfit for work" option.

[JacobEdward]

That if you flush the toilet while another sim is taking a shower in the same room, lots of steam will come out of the shower and the wet, angry, hygiene-deprived sim will start yelling at whoever flushed the toilet!

And I also learned that toddlers can lead themselves to the tinkle trainer if it's empty and they can walk.

[mangaroo]

And I also learned that toddlers can lead themselves to the tinkle trainer if it's empty and they can walk.

Potty-trained toddlers can go to the potty autonomously whether or not they have learned to walk and whether or not the potty is empty. However, if a toddler is playing with a toy s/he might not take a potty break until s/he's ready to burst.

[coltraz]

that you can make juice on the juicer out of a boot. haha

[Agnes940_SC]

Today when my sim came home from work a box in the upper right corner popped up, it said something like "This week was awesome!" (I don't know the exact words 'cause I play in Swedish).

[kustirider2]

Hehe Really coltraz? that is just Ewwww!

[Lunatic Asylum]

that you can make juice on the juicer out of a boot. haha

yeah I read that it makes your sim act weird lol

[Willow's Tara]

I have a sim who maxed out in 2 careers (culinary and law enforcement) so I'm not sure where the clothes came from, but she has lots of extra everyday outfits. I did not download them, and they are not available in CAS or the downtown stores. She has some Chinese looking outfits, tops with mandarin collars, and toggles, with pants of the same color (one with a dragon print, tiger, and something else) She also has some futuristic looking uniforms in assorted colors (think Judge Dredd, but rainbow colored!)

The tiger dress? That should be in the CAS, I believe it came with the basegame, I love that dress because it looks good on my pretty sims.

I am not sure about the others, but I do know this, even after going through it a million times, I see there's some clothwes I don't actually notice until now, probably because I usually know what I want my sims to wear.

[Ghost sdoj]

I discovered that I hadn't wasted all that time I spent trying to figure out placements when I wanted to put fake picture frames on wallpaper so my easel paintings wouldn't be so bare. I had a friend who wanted wallpaper with fake basement windows, and I got the windows right on my first try!

[melethana]

The tiger dress? That should be in the CAS, I believe it came with the basegame, I love that dress because it looks good on my pretty sims.

I am not sure about the others, but I do know this, even after going through it a million times, I see there's some clothwes I don't actually notice until now, probably because I usually know what I want my sims to wear.

No! Not the tiger dress! These are Asian looking jackets and pants. The weird thing about them is, they do not appear in CAS, I did not download them from MTS2, my sim did not go downtown to purchase them, they were never worn as uniforms (yes, I know that all uniforms will appear in the dresser under "everyday") It's as if the clothing gnomes snuck in and left extra outfits in my dresser. :clap: (will post pics as soon as I get home early enough to actually play!)

and another thing: my husband thinks that the reason all the posters on Yahoo! Answers want free base game downloads is that they are all kids without jobs or money, and that I am absolutely the oldest simmer. Say it ain't so! I'm only 26, and that is NOT old!

[Ferret II]

Today when my sim came home from work a box in the upper right corner popped up, it said something like "This week was awesome!" (I don't know the exact words 'cause I play in Swedish).

Yep, since Free Time sims can have good weeks or bad weeks. Its kinda cute, nice to think what they think about their lives!

[Menaceman44]

melethana: could you take a picture of said clothes and post it here so we can see? Much easier than trying to describe them.

[Ghost sdoj]

My husband has a very grouchy and slobby sim who is still obsessed with taking a shower. He even flushed the toilet autonomously to get his very dirty wife out of the shower so he could have one, even though he still had his hygiene at a nearly full level!

[Ghost sdoj]

and another thing: my husband thinks that the reason all the posters on Yahoo! Answers want free base game downloads is that they are all kids without jobs or money, and that I am absolutely the oldest simmer. Say it ain't so! I'm only 26, and that is NOT old!

My birthday is Nov.6, 1958. I stopped counting when I was 21, and I don't do math if I can avoid it, so as far as I'm concerned my age is "over 21".
But I'm pretty sure I am also over 26. :)

If your age bothers you, just have birthdays. Don't count them.

(Getting older is better than the altrnative, isn't it?)

[awesomepuppy]

By playing the sims I found out that if you move the bars on someone, leave and apply a nose setting, then come back, you can tamper with the genitecs to make them look fugly, and even have fuglier children that have heads that are gigantic..... I'm pretty sure that's possible in real life.... lol

[Henry Crun]

My birthday is Nov.6, 1958. I stopped counting when I was 21, and I don't do math if I can avoid it, so as far as I'm concerned my age is "over 21".
But I'm pretty sure I am also over 26. :)

If your age bothers you, just have birthdays. Don't count them.

(Getting older is better than the altrnative, isn't it?)

Hey, you're still younger than me but you're right - don't count the blasted things. They only seem to be important to those who want to pigeon hole you.
My grandmother always said she still felt she was the same 17 year old girl inside and she lived until her 80s. My mother on the other hand was born middle aged and grew older from that point on - she is a "the glass is half empty and has a dirty big crack in it" sort of person :Slap:

p.s. it is my birthday tomorrow so 'virtual' cake all round :D

[tizerist_]

I found out that there IS actually a high-school stage between kid and whatever stage it is you go to college. I'm a bit confused, because my newly created sim looks a bit younger and scrawny than my uni-goers, yet he can join uni at any time now. So would I be correct in thinking the stages go like this:

Toddler
Kid
Teenager (High school stage)
Tennager (University stage)
Adult

I hope he looks a bit older when he goes to college cause otherwise hes going to be a 13 year looking college goer. :(

[treeag]

It's actually :

toddler
kid
teenager
young adult (college kids)
adult
elder

So don't worry, your teen will transition to young adult as soon as he arrived at Uni ;)

[tizerist_]

thats good thanks. :)

[melethana]

melethana: could you take a picture of said clothes and post it here so we can see? Much easier than trying to describe them.

She is married, but none of these clothes were ever worn to work as uniforms, they just appeared! I'm not sure when though, because I really love her everyday outfit. It's a Free Time to base game conversion that migamoo did. Thanks migamoo!

military looking ones, they also have a floral (?) pattern on the back.
I really ought to take these pics at a higher resolution :dunce:

http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/5376/militaryoutfitjr5.jpg

and the Aisan ones

http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/7041/aisanoutfitsug5.jpg

[Lunatic Asylum]

Melethana this clothes come with the chef career... I now they're not used as uniform but it's like that.. I never understood why they have so much clothes for that career if they don't even use it

[melethana]

Melethana this clothes come with the chef career... I now they're not used as uniform but it's like that.. I never understood why they have so much clothes for that career if they don't even use it

And what is even stranger is my other sims who have topped out only one career do not have bonus clothes, I checked all their dressers! (political, science and sports careers)
Anyone know if other careers will create spontaneously appearing extra clothes?

[treeag]

Are you sure about the clothes not being used as uniform? I'm pretty sure my super chef wear one of those outfits to work...

[Tzigone]

I've definitely seen the purple and white one as a uniform (celebrity chef, I think). I'm pretty sure I've seen the red and white one, too. Not positive about the rest, but I almost never notice their work clothes.

[coltraz]

I've definitely seen the purple and white one as a uniform (celebrity chef, I think). I'm pretty sure I've seen the red and white one, too. Not positive about the rest, but I almost never notice their work clothes.

I'm pretty positive the blackish grey orange one on the right is the celebrity chef attire.

[Ferret II]

- That asylums are bloody brilliant to play
- That ACR strikes at the most annoying times
- That watching sims karaoke is the FUNNIEST THING EVER. Especially when they duet and sound like two cats being strangled!

[Robo-KAI]

I've definitely seen the purple and white one as a uniform (celebrity chef, I think). I'm pretty sure I've seen the red and white one, too. Not positive about the rest, but I almost never notice their work clothes.
I'm pretty positive the blackish grey orange one on the right is the celebrity chef attire.
Huh, I've only had one celebrity chef to date, so I never realized there were alternate uniforms for that job. (He wears that yellow Asian looking one.)

[Ghost sdoj]

p.s. it is my birthday tomorrow so 'virtual' cake all round :D

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/963/happybirthdayha4.gif


I just discovered that if you have a sim on an unowned community lot with a cell phone he can use the cell phone to buy the lot he is on. But he still leaves in order to make the purchase, which kind of defeated the purpose of having him buy it so I could add the door I forgot to put in.

[Ferret II]

I discovered that if you go into debug mode in CAS, you get all kinds of jewlery, including nose studs, eyebrow piercing, lip piercings... and I don't have BV, only FT!

[psivampyr]

[QUOTE=sidneydoj]http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/963/happybirthdayha4.gif

Happy Birthday! sorry its a bit late. Hope the cake was yummy and the presents were plenty. :)


As for what I discovered in Sims 2- Dustin Broke came to Piper Persnickety's home (shes my messy lot challenger) and he I guess was bored so he was playing with the fridge. He opened the doors (the freezer and fridge doors simaltaniously) really fast and swung on the fridge side door a few times. It really flipped me out! I had to show my hubby who was also shocked.
I've never seen any sims do anything with the fridge besides get food.

[Ferret II]

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As for what I discovered in Sims 2- Dustin Broke came to Piper Persnickety's home (shes my messy lot challenger) and he I guess was bored so he was playing with the fridge. He opened the doors (the freezer and fridge doors simaltaniously) really fast and swung on the fridge side door a few times. It really flipped me out! I had to show my hubby who was also shocked.
I've never seen any sims do anything with the fridge besides get food.

I *think* they do it when they have low aspiration. I've only ever had a sim child do it once, and she was in red aspiration.

[Menaceman44]

From what others have just said I'm guessing that the culinary career has several uniforms at some levels and that the game can randomly choose a uniform from those available that your Sim will actually wear to work and the others are just dropped in cos they are bundled together.

[AelTheSim]

._. I discovered that cats will SING along with a violin. I was so amazed. I almost never play with pets but this was my sister's house and the cat just started singing while a simmy was practicin'. It was so cute!

[SofieAmalieN]

- That ACR strikes at the most annoying times

You don't say...

Take a look of what ACR did to my poor YA couple: Here (http://forums.sims2community.com/showpost.php?p=1201086&postcount=465)

[Charley-x]

i discovered that malcolm who came with ofb has very bad genes when you put him and brandi broke together!
the toddler was ok apart from its nose it was flat and tiny.

[eruwenfuin]

My sim, Dilligio Amor, keeps on picture framing everything. He's just standing around and making these picture frame hands.
It's really really strange.

[longdaysend]

sims with high interest in arts n crafts do that constantly. not sure if they have to max it or not but, it is related to that hobby. i noticed if after my girl hit max enthusiasm, which is why i'm not sure if they do it before they max out.

[charlie-chan_SC]

sims with high interest in arts n crafts do that constantly. not sure if they have to max it or not but, it is related to that hobby. i noticed if after my girl hit max enthusiasm, which is why i'm not sure if they do it before they max out.

I have had my sims do it while their enthusiasm was half full. It's strange.

[eruwenfuin]

I have had my sims do it while their enthusiasm was half full. It's strange.

mine did it before he even had enthusiasm..conflicting hacks ? :P

[Menaceman44]

I've come to a conclusion today rather than a discovery. Sims were originally intended to wear face makeup as part of their job uniforms. If you look at the files in SimPE the blue and red masks are labeled as hero and villian and they match the superhero and supervillian uniforms. There is also a burglar mask and the clown uniform from FT has facepaint but they don't wear it. The camoflage facepaint could be worn by Sims in the army career as well.
I'd love to see someone create a hack which enabled the wearing of job campatable facepaint.

[Sigma22]

I've come to a conclusion today rather than a discovery. Sims were originally intended to wear face makeup as part of their job uniforms. If you look at the files in SimPE the blue and red masks are labeled as hero and villian and they match the superhero and supervillian uniforms. There is also a burglar mask and the clown uniform from FT has facepaint but they don't wear it. The camoflage facepaint could be worn by Sims in the army career as well.
I'd love to see someone create a hack which enabled the wearing of job campatable facepaint.

Wow! I never knew that. Thanks for the help. I may try it, although as you stated, a hack to put them together would be awesome!

[Sigma22]

I have discovered that I HATE playing Plantsims and want them all to die. I mean, its like you don't get a break becasue they don't sleep. Who thought of that crap?!

[heavenzdvl987_SC]

I know a long time ago someone said they discovered shooting stars, and although I've still never seen one, I discovered that it's a Want :) I'm going to try to get my Sim to see one.

[Anebrd]

What I discovered today...

ACR is a great hack.
Using the Ramaswami couple to test to see if it is working... perhaps not such a great idea.

"Oh look they are kissing! It's working?"

ACR is a romance hack that makes your sims flirt, kiss and woo hoo on their own. Ramaswami did two of the three already. :D

[Zzz!]

I *think* they do it when they have low aspiration. I've only ever had a sim child do it once, and she was in red aspiration.I thought it was the playful sims who do it when their fun is low.

[Ghost sdoj]

One of my first sims had that red face paint, and I liked the way it looked when he got to Criminal Mastermind. But I never knew until now that Maxis actually seemed to have intended them to be together...

I just had a perma-plat pleasure sim playing with the refrigerator, so it is definitely not aspiration related. His Playfulness is 10, though. (As is his Outgoing. With 1 Nice point he is not very nice to be around!)

[tanner1002_SC]

I discovered that when your Sim is hunting for bugs, one of the beetles is called a "Ringo beetle".

[kustirider2]

Sidney: i think the fridge thing is when playful sims fun level is low?

[Ghost sdoj]

It depends on what you qualify as low... He thinks "low" is 75%. He's willing to let energy go to the point of dropping from exhaustion, but he seems to feel it is vital to keep his fun maxed out at all times.

(That's one reason I made him a Pleasure sim.)

[Menaceman44]

I've just discovered one of Luis Aspir's memories (he came with Free Time) is wrong. He apparently remembers teaching his own father to walk! lol.

Also, Sims sat on a couch can join in a conversation with Sims who are "hanging out" in the same room.

[SofieAmalieN]

That my new Knowlegde sim has the LTW to woohoo 20 different sims. That's not going to happen! I can't wait till he's in college soi I get a change to change his aspiration!

[Menaceman44]

The new FreeTime wall phone has the wrong ringing sound effect. It "rings" as though it is laying on a table instead.

Sims can autonomously decide to "float on back" in a swimming pool.... and drown of their own accord even if there are ladders. I had a house with no bed so my tired Sim never decided to get out even though she did shout a lot about being tired. She never even got out to collapse.

[cardsfan29]

While glancing through a Sim's memories last night, I discovered that red memories include death, cheating, breakups...and food platters dropped while eating out.

'Cause I would totally rank that experience with a relative or close family member passing away, too... :blink:

[melethana]

all alien babies look the same (all people babies probably look the same too)
I had Chloe Singles get pregnant by a pointy-eared boyfriend I made for her in the attempt to get a born in-game, pointy-eared, green baby.
1st baby, green, pitch black eyes, rounded ears, absolutely adorable.
then I Rolled the Pacifier
2nd baby, green, pitch black eyes, rounded ears, absolutely adorable.
then I turned aging back on to let them grow up together
Baby 1 kept all the same facial features when she turned toddler.
Baby 2 grew pointy ears just like her father when she turned toddler.
Then there was Pascal Curious' baby
As an infant, green, pitch black eyes, rounded ears, absolutely adorable.
As a toddler, long narrow face, eyes are so huge they sometimes look like they are hanging off the side of his head, hideous!
As a child, STILL very hideous with way too big eyes. I was going to breed him with Chloe's children, but they might get his face! I think I'll have to make aliens in CAS with a green skin I downloaded.
Sims are STUPID! In my Asylum, with the exception of the sim I am controlling, everyone else ALWAYS sleeps in their underwear. And then since they never get dressed, unless they take a shower, and the don't take a shower until they get a cloud of green stink following them, they spend 80% or more of the time in their underwear. My Popularity sim has no family friends and spends half the time dancing with a lampshade on her head (in her underwear) Another one (I think he is very lazy) is always waving at me about a hunger desperation. I wave back and say "look in the kitchen! there is a whole plate of sandwiches!" I know he can't hear me, but sometimes he will go and get a sandwich after I tell him too.
:dumbfunny

[Menaceman44]

The texture on the shoes of the burglar outfit doesn't match up properly. (I'm very picky and detail obsessed). I tried to fix it but failed. I may give it another go.

[PuX- 80's]

I learned that you need to build stairs to a house on foundations!
AND
Doors would be good to have installed.

[gamegrl66]

I learned that teenage sims can chill on the swing. Now, I wonder if that's always been there and I just never noticed? lol

[Henry Crun]

I learned that teenage sims can chill on the swing. Now, I wonder if that's always been there and I just never noticed? lol

Yes, that came with the original game.

[ryukenvy]

For some bizarre reason, my legacy founder has a bad memory of getting proposed to, even though she's a knowledge sim and she wanted the proposal in the first place! :confused:

So I guess I found out that sometimes these things are completely random then... :P

[treeag]

I think it's a glitch...

[Ghost sdoj]

I'm trying to find out which piece(s?) of CC are causing my game to crash, so I discovered that one of my sims looks really ugly without her custom hair, skin, eyes, dress, and makeup. (But I tried her in CAS and she does make nice kids with any guy who has that frog-faced look. Her narrow face balances out his cheekbones and chin rather nicely.)

ETA:

And I just discovered that it was the CEP Extras that were crashing my game!

[Ferret II]

While glancing through a Sim's memories last night, I discovered that red memories include death, cheating, breakups...and food platters dropped while eating out.

'Cause I would totally rank that experience with a relative or close family member passing away, too... :blink:

:laugh: Too true!

[melethana]

first: I love this thread!
second: If a home is built on a lot with sloping ground, the lot is then packaged to be moved to another neighborhood, you cannot alter the slope on the outer-most squares of that lot. I built a house in Veronaville, and it had to have a slope on the left hand side to fit the neighborhood terrain. Now that I have put the house in Strangetown, the left edge of the lot slopes down, a lot! and makes it look like there is a huge ditch. :dunce:
What I have learned: build house on lots that are already flat! Package them, then alter the terrain after they are placed in the new neighborhood. I think that I shall have to make a completely flat neighborhood just for house building.

[Menaceman44]

If you have FreeTime installed, melethana, then you could always use the "modifyneighborhoodterrain on" cheat to at least try to make it look more natural.

[zambilici]

I discovered that if the social metter of ur sims is empty a social bunny comes to you..and u can talk,,,,hug and allk that things with him!!:)

[ElZorro]

I learned that if your sim gets too hot in the jacuzzi, it can burst into flames.

My sim actually died and I had to have his girlfriend plead with death to resurrect him.

[Ghost sdoj]

I had one of my sims fighting with the social bunny. The other sims were watching the fight and enjoying seeing the sim they all hated getting beaten up by a figment of his imagination. They were cheering for the social bunny.

[Elspeth73]

I had Dina Caliente adopt a child after Mortimer died (they were married). However, the new baby's family tree has Dina's first husband Michael Bachelor as his father even though he was dead when the baby was adopted.

[zambilici]

i discover that if you have a teenager girl sims .....who has a boyfriend...and yur sim grows up in an adult her boyfriend doesn't grow and they can't still be lovers!!omg...tthat make me so saaad...and i moved the girl out of my house ..:P:P

[Menaceman44]

I can't remember where it is but there is a hack that allows Sims to keep their love status when one of them ages. You can't use romantic interactions until the other Sim ages but they still remember they love each other.

[happycowlover]

Inteen lets you keep the relationship when one sim grows up and it also lets the couple having romantic interactions too.

[Anebrd]

I learn that "roof slope angle" will probably have me producing more of my own houses. I used to hate making houses because they always had that oversized roof.

I wish I learned about this cheat earlier.

[Moonstream27]

I learned that if your sim gets too hot in the jacuzzi, it can burst into flames.

that's kinda funny...in a sick and twisted way...(i say while watching csi...)

i learned that if you drown someone (Brandi Upsnott, because her last name annoyed me) their ghost comes back and leaves puddles everywhere. it was actually kindof annoying, brought the environment meters right down.

also, one of my show business sims came home from work as a commercial actor one day with this huge fry hat. he was my first show biz sim, so i wasn't expecting it. I didn't notice it at first, but his face was wearing it in the pie menu, and it ran over some of the bars, it was especially funny because he looked PISSED! lol. i laughed for a good ten minutes :D

o, and one annoying thing, i noticed that with inteen, although u can have more than 8 people in the house, there is a limit. shucks.

and with inteen, when a teenage mom moves out of the house with her newborn twins, a blue teleport thing takes the twins, and they don't appear in the household pic when it's loading, only the mom appears. But the babies show up again when they actually move into the house. kindof expected that though.

and along those lines, i don't use the cars much, but when the same single mom went to sit in it with her bf...the comp said no, she couldn't go anywhere and leave the kids alone. which i knew, but i didn't think sitting in the car would count...shrug, again, slightly annoying.

[kustirider2]

If You Want More Than 8 Sims With Inteen Download A Hack That Lets You.

[ElZorro]

I have never been successful, except for the Curious House in Strangetown, at getting my sims abducted. When I want a sim to have an alien baby, I have been using the Tombstone of L and D, but I hate using cheats. So I tried an idea today: I had an alien hybrid become a plantsim, produce a spore baby, and then have the grown up baby take the cure. I hoped a spore baby would copy the parent's alien skin.

It didn't work. I ended up with a female sim with a normal human skin tone. Also, this is the first time I have ever made a spore baby and it turned out to be the opposite gender from the parent. In other words, I have never had a male spore baby.

[ElZorro]

i learned that if you drown someone (Brandi Upsnott, because her last name annoyed me) their ghost comes back and leaves puddles everywhere. it was actually kindof annoying, brought the environment meters right down.

There's a hack or a cheat some place I know I have seen before so that you can posthumously change the type of death the ghost has, in case you want to keep the ghost but avoid the puddles.

I hate to admit it, but I sort of liked the name Upsnott because it game me an instant picture of how the people who made her thought of her.

[Menaceman44]

Who's Brandi Upsnott? I only know Brandi Broke and Brandi Leturnou (spelling?)

As to spore babies, I think I've only ever had one male spore baby out of about 8 spawned so far.

[musiquefille_SC]

That even robots get wedding rings if they wed. Also that when a spouse passes away, the sim keeps its ring.

[AgentMango]

Earlier I found out that Alvin the Bigfoot wears a little bowler hat and a stylish, snug-fitting blue vest to go to work.

It's very amusing. :O

[PearlRose]

I discovered that my child sim was really enamored with his older sister. His sister was a fair bit older than him and when she got the two days before her Adult birthday warning, she left for college right then, which was just after after his child birthday party.

Every single day, I think every time his wants re-rolled, he seemed to want to call his sister.

I've seen sims want to interact with relatives, but not usually that far into the child stage, not quite that obsessively, and definitely not for a relative living outside of the home.

I didn't know kids could want to call up people to chat. I usually get my Pops wanting to invite people over instead.

[love247_jo]

Hi....

I discovered when a toddler is sitting on a high chair, and a sim serves a meal to a table near to the toddler, the sim serve the toddler too...

[Ry_an_24]

I discovered that it's not a good idea to remove the ladder when someone's swimming and then leaving the game running to go get a drink... :smash:

[simsample]

Hi....

I discovered when a toddler is sitting on a high chair, and a sim serves a meal to a table near to the toddler, the sim serve the toddler too...

I think that's only if you have a certain hack in game though, unless they changed this and I missed it!

[Moonstream27]

Actually, I think it's Brittany, she's a Uni sorority character.

o yeah, you're right, lol...i guess you know you have too many sims when? lol

lol, definitely, ElZorro, some of the names crack me up, it's like, "what were these crazy people thinking?"

[seva13]

Hola, today I discovered that on the Espresso counter, you can buy a drink for someone.

[kustirider2]

Simsample: its in game not a hack

[simsample]

Simsample: its in game not a hack


Ooh good- when did they change that? I'm glad they did as it makes more sense! I think it was Dizzy's smart serve I was thinking of.

[Cinamun]

Okay so yeah um...

Exactly how long has the day/night toggle been availiable in neighborhood view?

http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/9739/ummr3.jpg




:blink: :blink:

I suck...

[androfire]

Exactly how long has the day/night toggle been availiable in neighborhood view?



There was a day/night toggle in neighborhood view??!?!?!
Just when I thought I knew everything :duck:

[Cinamun]

A HA!! So i'm not the only one LOL! I swear i've been playing forevereverever and never noticed that... wonder if it came with BV.. thats the latest EP I have installed.

[treeag]

The button has always been there for as long as I can remember... ;)

[coltraz]

I think it might have come with Night Life, but might have been there in the base game, too.

[Cinamun]

:blink: I definitely need to pay more attention... lol

[Hiss]

While one of my sims was watching television, he crossed his ankles. O_o Never knew they could do that. Always thought it was the standard sit down with hands on knees thing.

[androfire]

:blink: I definitely need to pay more attention... lol

Lol, me two.

[WorkYourMagic]

Earlier I found out that Alvin the Bigfoot wears a little bowler hat and a stylish, snug-fitting blue vest to go to work.

It's very amusing. :O

yeah =)) bigfoot looks funny with that costume

[idtaminger]

That rain pours down the ceiling tiles when it rains.

[ElZorro]

:blink: I definitely need to pay more attention... lol

I never noticed the day/night toggle either so I guess that's part of what I learned about the game today.

Let's see, what else have I learned lately. I was fussing about with the premade families in University and I noticed that the Brights are, in a sense, anti-Greek. I decided to make Allegra join the sorority anyway. :blink:

[melethana]

If you have FreeTime installed, melethana, then you could always use the "modifyneighborhoodterrain on" cheat to at least try to make it look more natural.
wow! I just got FreeTime yesterday, I'll have to try that.

I discovered that Sims wear the wedding rings on the middle finger, not the ring finger, even though they have 5 fingers. The Sims who is proposed to, regradless of the genders involved, is the one who gets the ring.
Also, for the first time, I had a toddler get a max out a skill Want. Yeah, he already had a Logic of 9. I really like toddlers, and I refuse to let my sims become elders, so I have an anti-aging controller.
Third, FreeTime is awesome (posted more in which EP is the best thread)

[Menaceman44]

I think it might have come with Night Life, but might have been there in the base game, too.

The day/night toggle button did come with Nightlife to enable players to have downtown hoods look more downtowny by setting them to night. The decorative neighbourhood spotlights that came with Nightlife only function when the hood is set to night.

[ElZorro]

The day/night toggle button did come with Nightlife to enable players to have downtown hoods look more downtowny by setting them to night.

Apparently the game designers must only go downtown for a fancy night out rather than for work or jury duty or other daytime stuff.

[Avaluna]

When Sims bladder is really low and they go swimming they can pee in the pool. :')

(Discovered this when I was playing with my Asylum ^^'.)

[Moonstream27]

I realized, from reading posts here, that you can get your kids back from the social worker. I had tried to do this in the past but there always popped up a message that was like, 'we've taken kids from you before, so no.'

so then, i tried it again the other day from a house where they'd just taken kids from, and they were like, 'sure!' anyone know if that comes with an expansion pack or something?

[charlie-chan_SC]

On Free Time, if you have the Family aspiration and have used your lifetime aspiration points, you can get the "Plead with Social Worker" benefit.

I think its the option below the twins one.

[Tina9340]

I learned that most children you adopt in game are ugly...

[LegolianM]

When Sims bladder is really low and they go swimming they can pee in the pool. :')

(Discovered this when I was playing with my Asylum ^^'.)
Whoa, really? Were they really messy, like a sim who would pee in the shower? The couple of times I've had a sim drown their bladder hit the bottom and just stayed there until they died... nasty as it may be, I'd always wished they would just pee in the pool.

[jingxia]

I finally learned that you can easily get rid of butterflies (since I often wait a while before I start building a house, and then I can't place a wall because the darn butterflies are in the way) by setting the hour to night-time ._.

It took some time for me to realise... but yay!

[omgshsarah]

I didn't know sims could pet their animals through fences/gates!

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l101/yaymammasita/snapshot_350a87bb_756c1190.jpg

(sorry for the bad quality)

[androfire]

omgshsarah
I didn't know that either!
That is so awesome :o

[Avaluna]

Whoa, really? Were they really messy, like a sim who would pee in the shower? The couple of times I've had a sim drown their bladder hit the bottom and just stayed there until they died... nasty as it may be, I'd always wished they would just pee in the pool.

I don't know, I do think so though. Can they pee in the shower then? :o

My Sim jumped in the pool and then suddenly the water below him was a lot darker. :P That slowly faded away and his bladder was all full again. :anime:

[Ranta]

omgshsara, that is so cute. :lovestruc:

[Moonstream27]

On Free Time, if you have the Family aspiration and have used your lifetime aspiration points, you can get the "Plead with Social Worker" benefit.


that's cool! i was wondering why they had never set up that option...

[InfamousInPleasantview]

I don't know, I do think so though. Can they pee in the shower then? :o

My Sim jumped in the pool and then suddenly the water below him was a lot darker. :P That slowly faded away and his bladder was all full again. :anime:

Yep, Sims who are sloppy [I think like 3 points or lower] will pee in the shower.

[LegolianM]

My Sim jumped in the pool and then suddenly the water below him was a lot darker. :P That slowly faded away and his bladder was all full again. :anime:
:lol: That's amazing. I'm going to have to try that now.


Edit: I discovered that both of the female grand vampires are apparently brunettes in disguise. I was checking them out in SimPE trying to find out their natural eye colors and noticed that.

[androfire]

I learned that Sims can lose their jobs from chance cards :(
My sim was in the Criminal career, his LTW was to get to the top of it.
He was one promotion away from fulfilling his LTW :(

At least I didn't save :D
But I lost some important data I wanted from that family :c

[treeag]

I learned that like the other newer SPs, IKEA stuff doesn't come with a new splash music.....

[Moonstream27]

i don't play with pets a lot, and today i gave my family two cats, so i learned a lot about them!
1. they can jump onto counters
2. they sing along to the piano
3. they don't age at six o'clock, unlike the sims
4. they appear to be territorial, i swear i had one adult cat that would always stay upstairs and one adult cat that would always stay downstairs. it was very strange.
5. *random* but pregnant sims can't clean the cat box, it appears as unclickable when you scroll over it (i only had two sims in the house and they were both pregnant, the cat box got really dirty...)

[savemykissesx]

haha..

I realized that sims leave an hour before class or work, but come home right on their scheduled time, like if they work 4 to 10, they leave at 3 but are home for 10 on the dot, funny.

and why do your sims have to pay the bills for the household when they're in college? Like, theres 13 other people living in my dormatory, but I have to pay the bill.. ridiculous haha.

[Montridge]

*cries* I discovered that you never send a simmie off to college alone!!!!
I sent my Legacy heir to stay at a dorm. (The smallest 5 room one in the game.)
On his first day, he went right to class and while he was gone a lightening storm hit a tree just right by the end of the screen. While his classmates jump around it, he jumps right in right in the middle and burns up.
I could have not saved, but was curious about what a haunted dorm would be like. At least I already had his portrait painted to go along with his urn.

[savemykissesx]

wow! that's a wicked bummer.

this is where people say they wish the Sims had more of a brain.

[Moonstream27]

wow! that's a wicked bummer.

this is where people say they wish the Sims had more of a brain.

haha, yeah. i had this one sim who had food poisoning, but had four toddlers to take care of, and she would be holding one and put it down to go throw up...but everytime she put it down, she put it in the wrong crib, and it was always the crib the farthest away. i got so mad at her, lol.

[ElZorro]

Like, theres 13 other people living in my dormatory, but I have to pay the bill.. ridiculous haha.

I am sure mine used to be like that, but it seems to have changed since I loaded Seasons. Now only the college students in private homes have to pay bills. Or maybe there is some other glitch or corrupted file or something in my version of the game.

[JavaJulie]

I am sure mine used to be like that, but it seems to have changed since I loaded Seasons. Now only the college students in private homes have to pay bills. Or maybe there is some other glitch or corrupted file or something in my version of the game.
The only time my uni students have had to pay bills is when they either lived in a private house or hired a maid.

Of course, you can always "balance it out" by selling some of the furniture belonging to those slacker dormies ;)

[Menaceman44]

...
5. *random* but pregnant sims can't clean the cat box, it appears as unclickable when you scroll over it (i only had two sims in the house and they were both pregnant, the cat box got really dirty...)

People who are pregnant in real life aren't supposed to clean cat litter boxes. Something to do with the cat waste so this is a case of Sims actually being realistic.

[ElZorro]

People who are pregnant in real life aren't supposed to clean cat litter boxes. Something to do with the cat waste so this is a case of Sims actually being realistic.


Yes, toxoplasmosis.

http://www.cat-pregnancy-report.com/pregnancy-and-cat-litter.html

[savemykissesx]

I actually just found out right this second that when you have a job already and you want a new one, they do not start you off at the bottom of that new job you choose, instead they skip you a few promotions. sounds good to me:)

Also, I'm so shallow with last names and the way people look that my poor Legacy founder is growing old before she finds a man.. I know this isnt going to be the right spot to ask this question, but you might have an answer anyways; When a sim is married and you're flirting with them, it would just ask to move in for proposing, no engagement, correct?

Also, in response to above, I lived in a 14 room dormatory and had to pay the bills, now granted they were only 124ish, i still had to. hopefully its not a glitch in my game, lol

[JavaJulie]

I actually just found out right this second that when you have a job already and you want a new one, they do not start you off at the bottom of that new job you choose, instead they skip you a few promotions. sounds good to me:)

Also, I'm so shallow with last names and the way people look that my poor Legacy founder is growing old before she finds a man.. I know this isnt going to be the right spot to ask this question, but you might have an answer anyways; When a sim is married and you're flirting with them, it would just ask to move in for proposing, no engagement, correct?
Correct - Sims cannot get engaged to married (or already engaged) Sims.

[savemykissesx]

I know that, but I was wondering if the way you found out is if there is no engagement option but theres a move in one, cause I know you can ask a married sim to move in.

[PuX- 80's]

One of my sims was in the middle of a "photoshoot" and started jumping around because, the sand was hot!
:D

[Fernweather]

Also, in response to above, I lived in a 14 room dormatory and had to pay the bills, now granted they were only 124ish, i still had to. hopefully its not a glitch in my game, lol

It's not a glitch. Sims in dorms have to pay bills once a semester. The amount of the bill is based on the value of the lot divided by the number of students living there. In most cases, this means that the dorms with more students tend to be a little bit cheaper.

I've discovered that the FreeTime basketball court provides probably the best ratio of body gain to energy and hygiene loss of any exercise object in the game. In fact, Sims with really active personalities gain body freakishly fast while playing H-O-R-S-E.

[savemykissesx]

Fern -- Good to know, thank you.

I just found out that your pregnany sim can be ordered to go on bedrest for the rest of her pregnancy. Weird.

[SofieAmalieN]

Fern -- Good to know, thank you.

I just found out that your pregnany sim can be ordered to go on bedrest for the rest of her pregnancy. Weird.

That's not a game thing. I think it's a hack thing - maybe inTeen?

[savemykissesx]

I've never had it happen to me before.. it could be in freetime? or .. i dont know, I guess it could be Inteen

[kustirider2]

Yes it was inteen, i get that message all the time.

[PlasticBarbie.]

Sims that drink alot of espresso shake for hours! Its so cute!

[Sta_r_obin]

If your Sim slowdances with someone, they might step on their feet!

[FlyingKiwi]

I noticed the following:

- Kids can do a funny dance with their parents where they stand on their parent's feet. I saw Dina Caliente and her son Carlos doing that earlier today.

- Pizza has a huge negative effect on your sim's fitness if they eat it when their hunger need is full - seems to be more so than doing the same thing with other foods, especially considering that pizza doesn't normally fill the hunger bar very much.

- Daydreaming while a sim relaxes on a bed causes a reasonably significant increase in social need. (I'm sure everyone else figured that out ages ago - it's amazing what things I'm still noticing after all these years!)

- A stray dog that invited itself in to the Broke household started chewing on Beau's homework - a literal case of the dog eating the homework perhaps? :)

[LegolianM]

A sim who has no house won't automatically change into outerwear when it gets cold. My poor homeless sim has been my test subject for Seasons, and he'll happily hang out in his shorts in the snow unless I make him change. XD

That automatic abduction at the Curious house seems to only work when they stargaze on their own, or at least that's how it worked for me. I tried all night to get someone abducted there and finally ended up using a hacked telescope; next night he went and stargazed by himself with the normal one and was instantly abducted.

[simsample]

A sim who has no house won't automatically change into outerwear when it gets cold. My poor homeless sim has been my test subject for Seasons, and he'll happily hang out in his shorts in the snow unless I make him change. XD

They usually change when they exit to outside through a portal- so, if they live outside, they have no doors so will not change clothes.
The outerwear actually makes no difference to body temperature for the sims anyway- they freeze at the same rate in their outerwear as they do in their underwear.

[I_Love_Simming]

When a sims sterio is on, it will continousily keep changing songs when a ghost goes past it.

[Moonstream27]

i just got freetime, so i discovered lots of things :D

when one of my sims went out to catch bugs, he caught one, and then this huge swarm started pursuing him. he ran around the lot like a chicken with its head chopped off for a good hour. good stuff

when one of my fitness enthusiast sims got out of bed, i didn't get back to him quick enough, so he was idling, and while he was doing nothing, he started stretching his hamstrings. i thought it was so weird!

also, i really like that new best friends relationship status. i've always wanted the people they've grown up with to be more important than ppl they've only known a few days.

i'm so happy i got free time! now my sims have stuff to do, lol!

[PlasticBarbie.]

Sims can wash windows! I've never noticed that before. :D

[Moonstream27]

Sims can wash windows! I've never noticed that before. :D

seriously? wat EP is that?!

[JavaJulie]

seriously? wat EP is that?!
I think it came in the base game - it's something they do autonomously when they have nothing else to do.

[Lenoba]

In my Megahood BELLA GOTH just phoned Cassandra... And she has the family mark on her!
I invinted her over "voodooed" her to Cassandra's best friend and moved her in, then aged to elder and moved out :)

http://shrani.si/f/2c/cx/2hXGmtox/2/omfg.jpg

[Nissun_]

Uninstalling an expansion pack will delete your downloads folder.

I discovered it the hard way.

Well, the first hours after that were very depressing, but then I realised that my folder was a mess anyways and that I could start now and keep everything organized.

Too bad I can't play seasons by now. Sinanda, my custom neighbourhood, is the only one I usually play. I had a very recent backup of it, don't know why I didn't backup the downloads folder too. I must be stupid.

Gah. I'll download the basic bodyshop content I need for the whole sinanda cast (specially my beloved robots) and then the cc for my favorite homes only.

[WorkYourMagic]

i discovered that this thread has 139 pages omg...
oh yeah, and i discovered that stuff packs are not worth it, while playing sims

[Ferret II]

seriously? wat EP is that?!

If you do 'boolprop testingcheatsenabled true' then shift-click on a window, the option comes up to wash them :D Also to look out of them.

[longdaysend]

i discovered that some teens are more vain than others. my current household is a single teen girl on her own. before school everyday she stops at the mirror before going to the bus to 'check self out', as well as before she goes to work...I've never seen a sim do this action so much autonomously :D

[Anebrd]

What I learned today is that there was butterflies in the Original game. You can't catch them but still pretty cool fluttering around the plants.

[WorkYourMagic]

i discovered that downtown is cooler then it seems

[Gigi]

My sim likes to kiss basically every sim she meets for the first time, when she says good-bye to them. And since they just met, of course the relationship scores are low. I dunno... I guess she just has good chemistry with EVERYBODY. It's so weird, haha. I've never had a sim this... umm... friendly before.

[Menaceman44]

That the FT (?) wall phone has the wrong ringing effect:
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/7452/wrongringeriz9.jpg

[Anebrd]

I learned the cheat delete all characters means all characters. /sigh. I thought they would be safe in the family bin. /sob

[LegolianM]

Kids can get an A+ on their very first day of school. I've had a few kids now who've done that; I'm thinking it might be connected to them coming home from school with other kids when I've played other houses. Somehow the game thinks they've been going to school so they get a good grade? I don't know.

I've also noticed that a lot of my Sims who are in relationships are getting obsessive about their partners. Originally they were just relaxing in bed next to them as they slept, which is cute, but now it's getting to where they'll find any excuse at all to be in the same room as them, such as viewing the artwork on the walls or washing the windows, or deciding the clean toilet needs to be scrubbed while their partner is in the bath.

Oh yes, and Plantsims are ridiculously adorable and I love them.

[psivampyr]

If you live on a beach lot and have ghosts- the human ghosts will swim in the ocean and occasionally swim around your home if they are stuck in swim mode.
If your dog died and hated the stereo in his live state he will turn it off as a ghost as soon as you turn it on.
Sims make the most interesting faces when reading a book.
Vampires can call you during the day, but if you call them during day light hours, they tell you the sun is burning and they don't have time to hang out. I got one that is constantly calling my married sim.
Loki looks incredibly evil as a vampire :)

[Fantasyrogue]

I briefly tried an Asylum Challenge last week (Argh, such chaos!). I learned through it that when a sim falls asleep on the floor, some sims will worry over them. But some other sims will actually laugh at them. I had never seen that before until one of the sims was standing over other sims' sleeping bodies and actually sniggering!

[Fernweather]

My sim likes to kiss basically every sim she meets for the first time, when she says good-bye to them. And since they just met, of course the relationship scores are low. I dunno... I guess she just has good chemistry with EVERYBODY. It's so weird, haha. I've never had a sim this... umm... friendly before.
I have a romance Sim that is always doing this. I have also noticed some other Sims that kiss when they say good-bye even though they don't have a crush or romantic relationship. As far as I've been able to figure out, using any flirt interaction (even Check Out Sim) seems to trigger this even if the crush flag is not set by the interaction. (Edit: I believe there also has to be a certain level of chemistry/attraction between the Sims as well.)

This results in some interesting Sim behavior. For example, if Sim A and Sim B are romantically involved and Sim C flirts with Sim A, then Sim B will become angry with Sim A for receiving the flirt. But if Sim A says good-bye to Sim C by initiating a long wet kiss, Sim B couldn't care less.

ETA: I discovered this weekend that Sims will call looking for a dead Sim.

One of my university Sims (Auberon Fernweather, the Sim in my avatar pic) set himself on fire while burning leaves and died. He was living in a dorm and all the dormies came out and did the fire panic dance but nobody bothered to try to extinguish him or call the fire department (I guess they've all been drinking from too may fruit punch barrels and using the bubble blower too much). Anyways, Grimmy came and took him away (and then watched a movie on the dorm's TV). I then moved a new Sim into the dorm, and shortly after he moved in, Titania Stormwatch, Auberon's girlfriend, called the dorm looking for Auberon :(.

Fortunately, the story has a happy ending. Titania is a member of the Anabel Strange Society, and she was able to go the society's secret headquarters and ring up Grimmy and pay him to bring Auberon back to life using secret society funds. :banana:

[FlyingKiwi]

I love when the Grim Reaper watches the TV, I can't help but laugh out loud every time I see him do it. He just looks so casual relaxing on the sofa with his scythe and black robes while everyone else in the house is crying their eyes out.

[Anebrd]

Pascal Curious wears female only glasses.

Olive Specter woohoo the grim reaper. I think she was also the original black widow.

Teenages -even lazy ones- run to answer the phone.

[SofieAmalieN]

That sim sand can burn. Not burn as in being hit. But burn as is flames. I saw this after a tree fire gone wild.

[psivampyr]

That sims like to look out of the window. I started a Uni group the other night and they all seemed to enjoy going to the windows and looking out.
That no matter what exercise equipment you have out- they ALL flock to the bike! I have had several sims die in my asylums due to the bike.
You can put sprinklers in your house instead of a fire alarm- which is less annoying cuz I use headphone and that noise is deafening.
Oh and if a toddler is crying long enough in thier crib they will get out on thier own (not sure if its some hack I have or they do it on thier own though- but was nice since the nanny just wanted to play the guitar instead of caring for my twins)

[Fernweather]

Oh and if a toddler is crying long enough in thier crib they will get out on thier own (not sure if its some hack I have or they do it on thier own though- but was nice since the nanny just wanted to play the guitar instead of caring for my twins)
Any toddler that knows how to walk can climb out of a crib. But some toddlers seem to do it a lot more than others, so there might be a personality component to it as well.

[psivampyr]

I had no idea- thanks for letting me know. I had never seen it.

Also I realized today Puck Summerdream has terrible luck with ghosts scaring him. They did it so much one night he died cuz of the <<<<< of green before I could catch it. I quickly got his girlfriend to get him "pleaded" for and the funniest thing happened. His ghost arose from his body and pleaded for his own life. He won over the Reaper and was rezzed. I took pictures but they are on my other puter and not sure if they saved as I am having issues with pictures saving. :(

[tankochan]

I have a romance Sim that is always doing this. I have also noticed some other Sims that kiss when they say good-bye even though they don't have a crush or romantic relationship.

Yeah, it was really amusing first time I saw this one. And my sim was a money or knowledge sim if I remember well. He was pretty outgoing, guess it matters too.

About the teen-fridge interaction mentioned before, I remember I saw it a couple of times (if we're talking about playing with the fridge's door...) I think he was a pleasure sim and I don't remember any particular reason for him to do it. When an adult pleasure sim is in aspiration failure, he'll play inside of the bathtube. XD

I discovered with a hardcore poverty challenge that the sim can just die from overheat and that bathing will only make them HOTTER! Guess you need a roof...

now I must discover how much of a roof is enough to shelter them from weather.

[PunkyBreester]

Its a good thing that I usually play teeny lots, because my compy can't handle even the Maxis "small" ones for very long :(

tankochan - The last time I played a really poor sim, only the bathroom had walls and a roof. I put a chair in there so that the sim would spend time in there to cool off, lol.. Of course after she could afford a sink, she just used it to cool off instead.

[charlie-chan_SC]

I discovered today that my child sims seem to bring home other NPCs that they end up dating when they are teenagers ...

Coincidence? Possibly not lol.

[xcherryxsherryx]

That at the CAF screen, there's something called "Make A Baby" that combines the parents' genes together...and I've had this game for about a year now. I am so ashamed of myself. xD I always thought that it was the same as creating a sim, but I guess not. ;P

[Jadore]

I discovered today how to make my own sims using all custom content and boy is it a lot of work! I'm really 'simmed' out lol and I need a break from the game for at least a day or two. My eyes are tired from looking at the computer screen for so long.

[savemykissesx]

When my sim went to a community lot her husband was there when he was really supposed to be at work! Weiiird.

[FlyingKiwi]

Haha, I've had that happen before. I've also had someone talk on the phone to a sim who had just arrived on their lot and was standing next to them.

I discovered today that when a waiter/waitress brings food to a table they can spill it over your sim, and it shows up as a bad memory. Erik Swain had this happen three times during one evening out today!

[WorkYourMagic]

heya, the cuisine job reward can leave brown puddles on the ground 0.0 cool

[Henry Crun]

Is that the candy maker? If so and your toddlers get at the chocolate puddle they get a sugar rush and get hyper - wandering around then sitting whining and crying. :D [unless a later EP has done away with that of course]

[Lemon&Lime]

I've discovered that Sims can watch TV while lounging on the sofa. Never noticed it before.

[Ferret II]

Cowplants only eat townies and non-playable sims.

[Powerslave]

That the Hulas from the Platinum Death, looks strangely like Bella Goth in a Hula Outfit.

[charlie-chan_SC]

Maybe the Grim works hand in hand with the Poll. Technician?

When Bella disappeared that night from Don's apartment, the Poll Technician cloned her and now Grim keeps her (or them) as his hula dancers for eternity!

That's my wacky idea anyways :P

I discovered today that if the bed is a long distance from the living room, e.g. you have to go up in the lift and get to the room, the sims forget what they are doing lol.

[Gigi]

When my sims grabbed a table with a booth, my female sim was the first to sit down and my male sim sorta "jumped" over her, so that he could sit next to the wall. Maybe it was a glitch, but the animation looked really smooth.

[crocobaura]

When my sims grabbed a table with a booth, my female sim was the first to sit down and my male sim sorta "jumped" over her, so that he could sit next to the wall. Maybe it was a glitch, but the animation looked really smooth.

That happens in my game a lot when they don't have enough space to move around.

[ElZorro]

Maybe the Grim works hand in hand with the Poll. Technician?

When Bella disappeared that night from Don's apartment, the Poll Technician cloned her and now Grim keeps her (or them) as his hula dancers for eternity!

That's my wacky idea anyways :P

I like it. Although it may also be that Grim got the clones after they had died; he doesn't really need to be working with the aliens. Great thinking!

[melethana]

you can delete terrain paint. Yes I know holding ctrl will let get rid of most the other build mode items, but I never tried to get rid of paint by deleting it before. I downloaded a very nice 3bdrm house, with grey paint outlining where the driveway would go if you had NL, but then there was a little line of stray grey paint 2 squares away. I put flowers over it so I couldn't see it, but it still bugged me because I KNEW it was there.
I discovered the deleting terrain paint while building one of bienchen83's sandboxes.

[EDIT]
also the Exchange and the new EA Sims store are horrible! You can't search by keyword, or have it show only downloads compatible with your EPs, you need to download a download manager before downloading the downloads. Bleh! it should be more like MTS2. I know, I know, that's why we don't go to the Exchange anyway, but I got an e-mail saying I got 6 free downloads, but they're ugly and not even worth the trouble!

[Robo-KAI]

The Grim Reaper can use the toilet.

[ElZorro]

The Grim Reaper can use the toilet.

Do you do something special to make him do that?

The Grim Reaper I get is all business. He collects his soul and goes. The most he ever does is to look at a clipboard or make a call on his cell or give a tropical drink to a permanent platinum ghost. Then it's back to the netherworld with him (her?).

[Robo-KAI]

It happened when I killed off the only sim (human, at least; the cat was still around) living on the lot, so that might be why.

[psivampyr]

Yea he came and took Nef when poor Nef decided to repair a computer with a 2 mech skill. He sizzled and fell and Grimmy came and took him and then sat down and watched TV.
I got the prompt- You can exit without saving and recover your sim OR you can save and move in another family. But what would happen to the cat?

[charlie-chan_SC]

I discovered that my Broke family's third generation children are consistantly blonde..

I also discovered that my lift likes to plummet with unsuspecting sims in lol. It did shock Dina Broke as she woohooed with Dustin. Maybe it had a Crumplebottom moment?

[Robo-KAI]

But what would happen to the cat?

The police lady that transports newly adopted pets in my neighborhood came and took the cat away shortly afterwards. I imagine he's in a better place now (the adoption pool).