What did you discover today while playing the sims?

[longdaysend]

you can force a family sim to think like a romance sim...my family sim lady has all woohoo/romance related wants now after forcing her to fall in love with three seperate guys...even has a "have baby" fear now...ahhh the life of a god..hehe

[SofieAmalieN]

you can force a family sim to think like a romance sim...my family sim lady has all woohoo/romance related wants now after forcing her to fall in love with three seperate guys...even has a "have baby" fear now...ahhh the life of a god..hehe

Lol, that's great!

[Reiki~]

I have 20 pets with the same name in the same neighborhood. Yeah.

[p$ycho$immer]

Really neat sims don't have to spend that much time making the bed. Its all whoosh, then they're done! I thought it was only for the glamour life bed, but it works on all beds (at least for one of my sims it does) :D Also that regular interior/exterior doors can't be placed on driveways. :smash:

Ciao,
~M~

[Ghanima Atreides]

That kids can have fights too. Only among eachother though, not with older sims.

[desimonkey442]

that there is a lifetime want of raising 20 puppies.

[SpacemanHPSpiff]

that there is a lifetime want of raising 20 puppies.
Oy vey! That's a lot of puppies... What aspiration is that?

I realized that when you look to see what your dog is doing, the icons are in black and white. Which makes sense, seeing as dogs are color-blind. I think it's the same for cats...

[rome_raven]

It's a family aspiration. My sim just got it...I wasn't planning on putting pets in the family

[autumnwish]

Oy vey! That's a lot of puppies... What aspiration is that?

I realized that when you look to see what your dog is doing, the icons are in black and white. Which makes sense, seeing as dogs are color-blind. I think it's the same for cats...


I believe that the black and white is there to signify that you can't cancel their actions. When using the cheat that enables you to cancel a pet's actions, their action icons are in color.

[tlynnjpeg]

There is an autonomous action of "ruin painting". I was playing the Capp house and Consort, Tybalt, and a townie were watching TV. I was dealing with Consort and the townie when all of a sudden, Tybalt started "throwing a fit" (another new one for me), then got up and started to head upstairs. It had the little easel icon, so I figured he was going to go paint, but when I hovered over it, it said "ruin painting". I almost cancelled it, but wanted to see what happened. He made motions that looked like he was throwing paint at it. Very strange. Funny thing was, it was his painting. I though maybe it was Consort's, and he was doing it to exact some sort of revenge for his trying to flirt with the townie, but nope. He threw a fit, then ruined his own painting. Very odd. The painting's not done yet, so I'm not sure if it will affect the final picture or not, or the selling price.

-Jpeg

[XSilver]

That having a sim go though college sometimes isn't as boring as I thought it was(my sim is now in his sophomore year and got engaged as a freshman-to a woman who wasn't aging before I got control of her,when they moved out of the dorms!-) but it still is very annoying and takes a looong time.

The counterfeit maker catches on fire if you use it for too long without stopping.

Sims can get engaged in college but not marry until they're out of college.

Sims can take a sponge bath even if they aren't sloppy(she is half way inbetween neat and sloppy),she future husband was using the shower.

[Menaceman44]

Also if you print counterfeit money for too long the police may come and fine you for it and stop the machine from being usable. (Do the sims pay the fine with the counterfeited money? lol)

[alia-shiri]

I discovered sims can get paid for tutoring (helping sims with assignments) in university. I think this option popped up after OFB was installed..

[longdaysend]

ive never seen the ruin painting one before..ill keep a sharp eye on my warring families to see if it happens!

mine today is..if a couple (married in this case) live together and get into a fight on a community lot (on an outing in this case) when you send them home the loading family picture will have the couple standing with thier backs to each other,arms folded and glaring over thier shoulder at thier mate. i sent a sim on an outing,didnt realise hubby came along and she did a flirt or something with a friend to try and bost the outing score, he saw slapped her etc...and i lost my temper and said "thjats it! everyone goes home right now!" and when the loading screen came up they were clearly ****** at each other..lol

[Brook_Lynn_Marie]

ive never seen the ruin painting one before..ill keep a sharp eye on my warring families to see if it happens!

mine today is..if a couple (married in this case) live together and get into a fight on a community lot (on an outing in this case) when you send them home the loading family picture will have the couple standing with thier backs to each other,arms folded and glaring over thier shoulder at thier mate. i sent a sim on an outing,didnt realise hubby came along and she did a flirt or something with a friend to try and bost the outing score, he saw slapped her etc...and i lost my temper and said "thjats it! everyone goes home right now!" and when the loading screen came up they were clearly ****** at each other..lol


Thats so funny! I wanna see that. I never seen the ruin painting I would really like to see that.

[chickcasa]

if a child sees a parent woo-hooing, their relationship points go down to -100! It may just be because she was woo-hooing with someone who wasn't his father but the relationships went to -100 for both mom and the guy she was woo-hooing with.

I also found out that a teen sim can want to sneak out with a friend. I haven't been able to get them to DO it yet though.

~Katy

[Brook_Lynn_Marie]

if a child sees a parent woo-hooing, their relationship points go down to -100! It may just be because she was woo-hooing with someone who wasn't his father but the relationships went to -100 for both mom and the guy she was woo-hooing with.



~Katy

I remember when a kid saw there parent kissing another women besides the mom and they hated the dad for a while the little girl even cried. i wonder if the kids can like tell on there mom or dad for cheating.

[stephness]

I had a child tell on one of their parents for cheating, but the other parent was on the lot so maybe that has something to do with it. It was a while ago though, so I don't really remember.

Today, I finally unlocked the camera career reward, but I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with it. Like, I figured out how to take pictures and how to get other sims to pose, but can sims pose with each other rather than NEXT to each other? Does that make any sense?

[p$ycho$immer]

I was playing downtown, and found that Jan Tellerman is REALLY good at the electro-dance sphere thingy. She stayed on for 5 hours while my sim was there, never fell or got off! That just surprised me. And I had my first encounter with Mrs. Crumplepants. Horrible looking old lady. >< She started lecturing another sim on the lot, and then followed my sim to a bowling alley, but I cancelled the action before she could hit my sim with her purse. Evil *****. Sorry, pardon my foul language! :D

Ciao,
~M~

[Ghost sdoj]

I discovered sims can get paid for tutoring (helping sims with assignments) in university. I think this option popped up after OFB was installed..
No, we had it with just Uni and NL. You need a higher GPA than the student you tutor to get the option at all. (Which means you need to be past the first semester to have a GPA).

I think you may need to use move objects to position the sims with the camera.
Sometimes they figure it out on their own, but not often. (It also depends on which poses you select.) Remember to have one sim as the photographer.
You can also zoom in and check the side of the camera when you take a picture. You will see the picture come out of the camera so you can put it on a wall or table if you want to keep it.

The Hula and More hack by squinge will allow lots of extra poses. And the camera just takes the picture, so it doesn't care if you use the poses that came specifically with it or not. I don't bother to pose them with the camera anymore, just the hula hack.

[Branwen_SC]

I discovered Bodyshop and i discovered it has more options than CAS :dumbfunny


Well... what can I say... Im blonde :D

[gamestress]

I discovered that sometimes a Pig will fly over your neighborhood, and I didn't put him there. :O

[CajunBelle0731]

The Pleasants seem to be featured on a "pizza" commercial on the tv.


If you hack your grades in college with too low logic points the cops come and bust you.You not only get a lecture and fine from the cop,he also takes away your computer. :busted:

[criobien]

That Version 2.2 of the lightmod and bumpmapping make my graphics orgasmic.

[vanillacreme]

That my sim had post-pregnancy contractions. o_o
I think it was because i downloaded inTeen.

[HannuhFOfannuh06]

That "Veronaville" is supposed to be like Verona, Italy
& Romeo "Monty" is supposed to be like "Montague"
& Juliet "Capp" is suppsed to be like "Capulet"
..While the familys hate eachother, and the teens are in love!


hahaha

Wow. I am SLOW and I'm sure alot of you already knew this, but i was so excited that i figured it out I had to post it! :]

[Proxian_girl]

If you use InSIM to age a child Townie to a teen, they automatically get an after-school job.
If you age that teen to an adult via InSIM later, they still have never had their first kiss.

The game can make Townies after you've started playing a town, and will use downloaded custom content to do so. One of my 'hoods has three Marylena Hamiltons: the grocery lady, the Townie, and a randomly generated Townie with pink hair.

The game also takes liberty with binned custom hairs when generating orphans for adoption. I have a family that has adopted almost ten kids, and NONE of them had Maxis default hair when the social worker dropped them off.

[XSilver]

I actually found this out yesterday, not today:
If they have no living parents a child sim wont get taken by the social worker as long as there is a teenage sim there with the child. I thought I'd try this out after doing some challenges where you kill off the parent(s) and a teenage sim lives alone,except this time it wasn't for a challenges and there was a younger sister on the lot. Very neat,that wouldn't happen in real life heh.

[C-chan]

You know when some sims use the toilet they read the newspaper? Well I just found out that another sim can take that newspaper. XD

[SofieAmalieN]

2 werewolf at one lot at the same time! my FUTURE werewolf sim was busy that night :D

[era506]

My sim was having a party in his dorm and then a limo came to the lot, a man came down of it and arrested my sim, I was shocked!!, then the game loaded a secret society, but there was so many sims in the lot that my game was SO slowly, it took me like an hour to get him out of there.
By the way, what is the point of a secret society in the game? is it like a greek house?

PD: I bought University this week, so, I don't know much of this EP.

[mokado]

Not likely, it's a secret society, with expensive objects, career reward objects etc.

It's cool!

EDIT: That Version 2.2 of the lightmod and bumpmapping make my graphics orgasmic.

What's that? I've searched for it in MTS2 and didn't find anything :confused:

[criobien]

What's that? I've searched for it in MTS2 and didn't find anything :confused:
I actually found it on these forums. I'll go look for the thread and give you link to see how to activate it.
Here it is (http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=43273)

[Peace]

I found out that if you have a sim marry a bus driver, he can click on other sims but they cant click on him!! At first I thought it was a glitch but ummm NO! It was not. He is sooooo cute I just had to marry them! And yes it is a pain in the but.


I moved an adult sim and his wife out of his parents house on a wed. When I moved them into the new house it was thurs...????? Normally when i move a sim to a lot or another house its always Mon???????

[Brook_Lynn_Marie]

I moved an adult sim and his wife out of his parents house on a wed. When I moved them into the new house it was thurs...????? Normally when i move a sim to a lot or another house its always Mon???????


I think its only on Mondays when you first take them out of CAS but then if you decide to move them once their in a house then it will stay the same day or maybe the next day from the day that it was in the house when they left.

[Proxian_girl]

... Don't use InSIM to make the nanny selectable before the last parent leaves the house for work. Otherwise the game treats her as a Townie on the lot instead of as the nanny, and the parent won't want to leave their child alone with her.

Brandi LeTourneau's chubby cheeks and pouty make for adorable toddlers in a Legacy. Hence the darling that is Manda Millions, whom I've been spamming just everywhere, poor thing.

Ben Long's nose and lack of upper lip don't. Hence why I don't spam Julian Little anywhere.

[CajunBelle0731]

That the burglar will show up even when your sims are awake. I have always had houses burglarized before but it was always when my sims were asleep. I was playing the Calliente house the other day, and Nina was in the kitchen eating,Dina was taking a bath.The burglar showed up and I had forgotten to put an alarm up. I got Nina to calm down to call the police but the burglar took the exercise machine and the hot tub(which was funny because Mortimer was in it at the time). The cops came and arrested him and luckily they got insurance money. :shrug:

[cappyboy]

I got Nina to calm down to call the police but the burglar took the exercise machine and the hot tub(which was funny because Mortimer was in it at the time). The cops came and arrested him and luckily they got insurance money. :shrug:

That's what I call a brazen burglar. Who steals a hot tub while there's a mostly naked old man in it? :kami:

[onsenmark]

On one of my residential, non-dorm, University lots, people show up unannounced for no apparent reason, no ringing on the doorbell or anything. My Sims prolly get annoyed by a schmuck in a cow suit in their living room... O_o

[stephness]

Recently I discovered that my newest sim couple literally cannot and will not keep their hands off each other. Even before I installed Pets, before I even had the chemistry aspect of the game. It's weird, I've never had a sim couple be quite so head over heels before. They'll completely ignore their motives (and their child!) to make out with each other for extended periods of time.

[Urbanique]

Recently I discovered that my newest sim couple literally cannot and will not keep their hands off each other. Even before I installed Pets, before I even had the chemistry aspect of the game. It's weird, I've never had a sim couple be quite so head over heels before. They'll completely ignore their motives (and their child!) to make out with each other for extended periods of time.

Talk about some steamy romance! lol Poor kid ^^

[oniella]

LOL @ Stehpness...

Welll I just recently found out that dogs can eat flowers :lol: .... i'm slow :p

[NikonSnow]

I discovered if you accidently delete your only adult sim using the move_objects cheat, the game treats it like a death and sends the social worker out for the babies. It's not *my* fault she got stuck in the hot tub. :sulk:

[violet kazoo]

I discovered that adopted Sims, if you didn't create them yourself, only ever have the default face templates, which explains why most of them are not that great looking.

Maybe I'm slow for not realizing that but I'm still disappointed by the lack of variety. I had two good looking adopted kids and I thought they were unique. But it turns out that they just have the first and second template faces.

[Derange]

I finally realized just how cute Sims are when they do the gorilla Therapist animation (you know what I'm talking about, right?)

I mean, come on! This is the cutest face ever.

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f8/doctorderange/Sims%202%20screenshots/robert_8.jpg

[Tigress_SC]

I realized that whenever townie children come home with other kids from school, random people come and pick them up.

Example: The kid Orlando had this woman come and pick him up and she wasn't related to him.

Kidnapping! :D

[simsample]

I finally realized just how cute Sims are when they do the gorilla Therapist animation (you know what I'm talking about, right?)

I mean, come on! This is the cutest face ever.


Wow, in my game they just make this face:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Bluefunk/Therapistface.jpg

[Menaceman44]

I think Derange's picture is DURING therapy whereas your looks like it's BEFORE therapy, just after they collapse.

[Derange]

Mhm. Mine was taken when he was imitating the gorilla.

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f8/doctorderange/Sims%202%20screenshots/robert_9.jpg

[sketchy]

I discovered how intuitive my game is. In an effort to improve my neighbourhood's fauna (because just having skunks and wolves is no fun despite being adorable creatures), I've been downloading/creating other animals to be strays. I DLed a fox and deer from MTS2 and used InSIM to "release them into the wild." But they seldom show up. Except for a house neer a wooded area. In that Sim's home, the deer is a frequent visitor! And in a trailer park near another wooded area, the foxes are all over the place and usually come out at night, like real foxes! Weird, yet amazing! Don't know what's causing it, but I like it! :D

[Proxian_girl]

I finally realized just how cute Sims are when they do the gorilla Therapist animation (you know what I'm talking about, right?)

I mean, come on! This is the cutest face ever.

Makes me wish I'd gotten some better screencaps of my Kingdom Hearts Vexen sim doing the chicken-dance Therapist animation. One of the most UPPITY characters in the KH series, doing the CHICKEN DANCE... I WAS rolling on the floor laughing my rear off. He was ADORABLE.

Um, yes... what I learned:

Brandi Broke looks distinctly Asian. I'm starting to wonder if that's because of the defaults I installed, all the girls are starting to look distinctly Asian.

Mary-Sue Pleasant is the ADOPTED daughter of Herb and Coral Oldie. Whut?

QUESTION: If a single sim gets married to another sim who has kids, ON the single sim's lot, how do they handle that??? Do the kids move in, too? Or what?

[Loco]

I discovered that adopted Sims, if you didn't create them yourself, only ever have the default face templates, which explains why most of them are not that great looking.

Maybe I'm slow for not realizing that but I'm still disappointed by the lack of variety. I had two good looking adopted kids and I thought they were unique. But it turns out that they just have the first and second template faces.

I agree (about the lack of variety), it really sucks. One family I have has 5 adopted kids and 5... not adopted, and none of the adopted ones turned out fantastically, poor things.

Derange... that's so adorable! :D

Hm. What did I learn? Oh, uni sims don't like pixie girls. Evil people. Then again, said pixie girl is a bit of a psycho, so that's semi-understandable...

[inhalingrainbow]

That my sims can breastfeed... might have something to do with insim.

[gyrobot]

That you never use Dr.Vu's cosmetic surgeon without gold aspiration.

[liquidpie2]

That my sims can breastfeed... might have something to do with insim.

Yeah, that's a hack thing.

[p$ycho$immer]

I know that a lot of people have probably had this happen, but I got a kick out of watching Coral Oldie fall asleep in her food! :laugh: It just cracked me up! :laugh: :laugh: I don't know why, but it did. :lol: Sorry if I sound dumb by saying that. :)

Ciao,
~M~

[Peace]

The game doesnt recognize 2nd cousins. Does that make sense? I wanted to get all of the 4th generation together so i can make them all best friends, blah blah. Well the game only labeled them as family if there fathers/mothers were brothers/sisters. Which made no sense because they were all Ajay Loner's great grandchilden.

I guess you can only take a game so far! lol

[negneg189]

That toddlers can eat pet food! If you play a toddler and click on a filled pet bowl, they crwal over and eat it!

[PennyTheCorgi]

Makes me wish I'd gotten some better screencaps of my Kingdom Hearts Vexen sim doing the chicken-dance Therapist animation. One of the most UPPITY characters in the KH series, doing the CHICKEN DANCE... I WAS rolling on the floor laughing my rear off. He was ADORABLE.

Um, yes... what I learned:

Brandi Broke looks distinctly Asian. I'm starting to wonder if that's because of the defaults I installed, all the girls are starting to look distinctly Asian.

Mary-Sue Pleasant is the ADOPTED daughter of Herb and Coral Oldie. Whut?

QUESTION: If a single sim gets married to another sim who has kids, ON the single sim's lot, how do they handle that??? Do the kids move in, too? Or what?


LOL, I love that chicken dance! :rofl: And to answer your question, Yes. If a single sim marries a sim with kids then the kids come walking up the street afew minutes after the marriage or move in interaction.

[Proxian_girl]

LOL, I love that chicken dance! :rofl: And to answer your question, Yes. If a single sim marries a sim with kids then the kids come walking up the street afew minutes after the marriage or move in interaction.
Thank you very much for answering my question!

[stephness]

That you never use Dr.Vu's cosmetic surgeon without gold aspiration.

What exactly happens? I've always wondered, but I like my sims' faces too much to try it.

[moonluck9]

What exactly happens? I've always wondered, but I like my sims' faces too much to try it.

The faces get really screwed up, but its not under gold aspiration unless you have a hack, by twojeffs maybe (?), to make it like that. With out the hack, it will happen randomly.

[Shadow_Sora]

My sims like to play with fire :flamer: smash each others urns :smash: and act stupid:dumbfunny and act like demons :muffy:

and my sims like to see people ghost before they died... i think he likes to poke bodies to:stick: weird right

[ultimatelegend5]

I learned that some sims are cowards. Their was a fight one day and the sim left my lot. Then he came by to knock over the trash can. My other sim crossed his arms and looked at him and the sim ran away.

[longdaysend]

i have to dis agree about the kids moving in part..in pleseantveiw i made brandi move in with one of my families..it gave me the option to have just her move in (the 'which sims are moving in with brandi' box) i only chose her and only she moved in..BUT when i went to play her house shes still there,sans make-over. sam as when she died on my lot and was brought back as a zombie..she joined the family with no kids..although that might have had to do with her being dead and all.

[Proxian_girl]

i have to dis agree about the kids moving in part..in pleseantveiw i made brandi move in with one of my families..it gave me the option to have just her move in (the 'which sims are moving in with brandi' box) i only chose her and only she moved in..BUT when i went to play her house shes still there,sans make-over. sam as when she died on my lot and was brought back as a zombie..she joined the family with no kids..although that might have had to do with her being dead and all.
That's probably because Dustin IS old enough to pay the bills and take care of Beau himself. Teenagers are allowed to do that stuff. It's when even the teens are gone that the Social Worker comes to get you. I have no idea why she'd regenerate at her own house, though, one would think there were memories of "Brandi moved out" or whatever.

My question was more along the lines of "CAN the kids be moved into a household when their parent marries into it", and your anecdote shows that the answer is still "yes, they can".

[NikonSnow]

Yeah, that's a hack thing.

No it isn't, but it's been unlocked so you can see it and direct your sims to do it. If you remove all your hacks and have a baby in a house without a refrigerator the baby can be breast fed.

[Chinchillagirl6]

Vampires can turn into bats! :) I never knew that. I think I need to add a new vamp to my game. :)

[Ghost sdoj]

Get a vampire to go shopping in bat form. It's funny to watch the bat flying by with a shopping bag trailing after it!

[Menaceman44]

How do you get vampires to keep their bat form? As soon as they get to their "Fly here" destination they change back for me.

[Chinchillagirl6]

I didn't know that they could stay in bat form! LOL How fun!

[Ghost sdoj]

They don't stay in bat form, but once they have a shopping bag the "fly here" has the bag following the bat.

Here's a picture I managed to grab.
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/4870/snapshot51e227099279f30cj9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Menaceman44]

Heheh! I get ya. Does look kinda weird.

[carapetty]

my sim had a nightmare! :rofl: she was pregnant at the time so dunno if that has anything to do with it but it was really funny she suddenly sat up in bed all scared then went back to sleep again lol :clap:

[iunplugthings]

Reading this thread everyday always makes me smile. I love the sims. Such a joy they bring.

[AtropaMandragora]

I just had a weird thing happen. (long story)
I have Don Lothario married to Nina Caliente, but before that marriage he was married to a CAS sim of mine, Tess. They had several kids; two who are teenagers, two toddlers and one baby (which isn't Don's really, but anyway...). I had Don call up his teenage son, and invite the whole household over. In the box where you choose what family members to invite, everyone came up, including the toddlers and the baby. So I invited everyone. The toddlers didn't show up, but the baby did. He appeared on the ground, and his teenage sister picked him up.
When it was time to leave, she had put him down on the ground again, and everyone left, but the baby stayed behind. I waited a while to see if he'd disappear, but he didn't, and he was also unselectable. :wtf2:

[mokado]

No it isn't, but it's been unlocked so you can see it and direct your sims to do it. If you remove all your hacks and have a baby in a house without a refrigerator the baby can be breast fed.

You're kidding!! I've never noticed that!

[simsample]

You're kidding!! I've never noticed that!

Wow, me neither! When did that happen? I've had the hack in since OFB.

[Proxian_girl]

Sim babies, when they do sleep, sleep HARD. I've had at least two now who have had their birthday sequences with Z's floating out of their heads. But then they're awake as soon as they turn into toddlers.

[Thrior]

That my stupid sims didn't recognize their relatives.
My sim, Patrick, had a child who then grew up to an adult AND Patrick was still an adult himself (because he lived in another house and because back then he was really dear to me so I used aging off).
Then Patrick's son had a child, Roy, who also grew to an adult. Then Patrick met his grandson and SURPRISE... they didn't recognize each other as relatives. I had flirting, kissing and all those options so if I had wanted to, I could have made them go married and have adopted children and so on. Yup... dirty. Roy could have had a love affair with his grandfather XDDD.

I think that maybe this had something to do with the fact that Patrick was still alive and well AND an adult like his grandson. Maybe the game assumed that Patrick should have been dead but that's just stupid because this could still be possible even without using aging off. Simply move your sim to another house and don't play with him so he won't age.

[VitaNuova85]

I just discovered that kids can actually tease a toddler. It's not on the pie menu, but I saw it happened. The child actually took the toy boat from the toddler and laugh while the toddler was trying to get his toy back!

[x-Sims-luver-x]

I was just wondering how do you make your own forum on this website can someone please tell me... I'm not very good at figuring things out Hehe! ♥

[Ghost sdoj]

Forum? Or topic thread? A new forum would need to be set up by Delphy. A new TOPIC is easier. Go to the main page and hit the "new thread" button at the bottom or the top of the page. (the top one is just above the stickied announcements, and the bottom one is just below the last topic.) Either way, that question really doesn't belong HERE, now does it?

[Lunarsea]

I've discovered that real life would be a lot more fun if it was more like the Sims 2 :D
Have a little social interactions menu look and think "Yeah, I think I'll try and impress someone using bust a move" :lol:

Am I weird? :giggler:

[longdaysend]

only as strange as me lunarsea..which isnt really a prmoising thing come to think of it..lol.

i discovered that the premade familes have pop-ups that tell you what to do when you play them the first time..i never played them before (except when they married one of my cas families or something) and last night i decided to check them out and ws suprised to see a pop-up telling me what thier goals were...i exited without saving after experimenting with a few families because i didnt want to lose those little 'cue cards' :P

[CajunBelle0731]

That when someone is "bleh bleh" 'd by a vampire, they pee on the floor :haha:
Lucy Burb was on a date at Crypt O Nite and I saw a Vampire Countess. I never dealt with vampires before as I was always afraid of them :sprint: I would have my sims avoid them or leave the lot.
I decided to put on boolprop and made the vampire selective. I made her "bleh bleu" Denise Jaquet about 5 times and it made her pee on the floor each time. I loved it! :rofl:
Also the repairmen don't like to be called for just a clogged toilet. I was playing Nina Calliente's house and her toilet clogged. I would have normally just had her unclog it but she was very pregnant and had a toddler and plus two other boys. So I had her call the repairman and she went down for a nap.Well Arcadia ( the haggy woman) showed up. Do you know she looked right at me and shook her fist and pointed at me while chewing me out. Not Nina,ME. :naughty: Arcadia really needs to get over herself.

[AtropaMandragora]

You know how some sims that walk by your sim's house will steal their newspaper?
Well, I just had a walk-by steal the paper right out of my sim's hand. Never seen that before.

[KOlaurenRN]

It's not in-game, but in that...preview thing before the game starts, when all the teens are dancing, the girl behind the couple is doing what sims do when there's a fire. It made me giggle:)

[CajunBelle0731]

You know how some sims that walk by your sim's house will steal their newspaper?
Well, I just had a walk-by steal the paper right out of my sim's hand. Never seen that before.

That happened in my game in my old computer. Lillith Pleasant and Melodie Tinker were major enemies. They were always fighting. One day Lillith was sitting outside her little house at University reading the paper. Melodie come stalking by,walking rubbing her hands, walks right up to Lillith and takes the paper right out of her hands. She ran off and Lillith started yelling,jumping up and down. It was quite funny.

[rebekah_SC]

I discovered that when Nervous Subject (Strangetown) uses the shower, he also empties his bladder - always!

Is that a by-product of growing up badly, perhaps?

[yamikuronue]

I discovered that when Nervous Subject (Strangetown) uses the shower, he also empties his bladder - always!

Is that a by-product of growing up badly, perhaps?

it's a by-product of being sloppy

[rebekah_SC]

Ahhh, now I feel like a total newbie ;)

[Menaceman44]

That happened in my game in my old computer. Lillith Pleasant and Melodie Tinker were major enemies. They were always fighting. One day Lillith was sitting outside her little house at University reading the paper. Melodie come stalking by,walking rubbing her hands, walks right up to Lillith and takes the paper right out of her hands. She ran off and Lillith started yelling,jumping up and down. It was quite funny.

I had that happen once but I think it was a glitch in my game. My Sim picked the paper up off the floor to read it and a walkby appeared. As my Sim was reading, the visiting one walked to where the paper WAS and acted as though they were picking an invisible paper up. When they went to run off they suddenly were holding a paper and my Sim hadn't got one any more.

[Proxian_girl]

I have learned that there is absolutely no way to keep the Dreamer guys straight. I'll keep calling Darren by Dirk's name, and vice versa.

[tlynnjpeg]

I have learned that there is absolutely no way to keep the Dreamer guys straight. I'll keep calling Darren by Dirk's name, and vice versa.


I have that same problem. They're now Dreamer Big and Dreamer Little, or whatever variant of that pops into my head (sometimes Sr. and Jr., but it's usually Big and Little).

-Jpeg

[Lunarsea]

I learnt that you can change your pets appearance in the mirror, I had no idea. :lol: I should have guessed really, but it's a discovery for me :D

And I discovered that when your sim is sleeping under the stars, and you have a pet sleeping on the floor, having a visit from Stinky Skunk is at best undesirable!! :laugh:

EDIT: I also realised that if they're selected, cats will sometimes try to play with their plumbob. :D

[ooshinaynay]

I learned that you can put a monorail in your neighborhoods! How dashingly smashing is that?

Such a nerd, I am.

[olomaya]

I learned that you can put a love note (and I'm assuming, a Don't Call Me note) on a counter or table and it changes into a small open card with your date's picture on it. Very cute.

[fadedt0uch]

I learned that you can put a love note (and I'm assuming, a Don't Call Me note) on a counter or table and it changes into a small open card with your date's picture on it. Very cute.

how do you do that?

[olomaya]

When your Sim gets one in the mail, take it out of their inventory and place it on a desk or counter or table.

ETA: Of course, you need Nightlife for this.

[onsenmark]

Whenever there's a baby or toddler in the house, every Sim who is Teen or above must drop everything and hold. That. BABY.

EVERYONE.

FOR NO APPARENT REASON.

[Quinctia]

I learned that a Sim with full clean points likes to clean up a birthday cake before anyone's taken any of it to eat!

[Ghost sdoj]

Whenever there's a baby or toddler in the house, every Sim who is Teen or above must drop everything and hold. That. BABY.

EVERYONE.

FOR NO APPARENT REASON.
And then they HAVE to hide that baby behind a piece of furniature so you have no idea where it is, and clicking the crib to tell them to put the baby in it will have them complaining that there is an obstacle or that the path is blocked.

[Bad Kay]

When children relax on their bed, they make the same move as toddlers do when they're in their crib. Here's a pic


http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p312/Kaatje_album/Story/Bas6.jpg

[Magic And Pancakes]

I don't know if this has been mentioned already (and I don't feel like reading through 15 pages...) but I found out today that sims can lounge on the couch and watch tv. I knew they could sit on the couch and watch it....but not lounge. I've had Sims 2 since the day it came out, and I never noticed this until today....... :dunce:

[AzrielParasiel]

LOL, I found out that if you have a sim play with a toddler several times in a row with the "toss in air" interaction, the puke all over the sim!

[rome_raven]

It doesn't have to be several times in a row. They'll do it if you toss them in the air right after they've finished eating.

[onsenmark]

It doesn't have to be several times in a row. They'll do it if you toss them in the air right after they've finished eating.

Yeah, but sometimes you don't even HAVE to feed them and they'll hurl. XD

Edit: Also, Adult and Teen Sims MUST bathe the baby... even if Hygiene is at max. What th'?

[longdaysend]

if you happen to pause during the very start of the make out on couch interaction..the sim jumping on top looks like a demented joker..i wouldn't kiss them after seeing that :D

[Ghost sdoj]

If you are playing with a vampire who can meditate, they can stay out in the sunlight meditating rather than going into a coffin. (useful on community lots when the sun rises before you can get the picture that you were looking for or when you move to a new lot at 10:00 in the morning and still need to build and furnish the house.)

[xXharp_babyXx]

I discovered that there's a special events video-thingy for the sims first woo-hoo in a hot tub :lol:
I'm more suprised that in the three-ish months I've had my new computer, I haven't had any sims woo-hoo in the hot tub.

[deanna12]

Just when I thought I've seen all there is to see in my game, I find out yesterday while playing that if you send a sim to relax on a bed that has a stereo in the same room they will autonomously "Listen to stereo". It's so cute, they bob their heads up and down to the beat. I guess I never noticed before because I never put stereos in my sims bedrooms.

[Menaceman44]

You can direct them to do it as well. They can also watch TV from beds too!

[missinickib_SC]

And from the toilet!

[simbu]

Toilet tv...how my son would be envious!

I discovered that "My Self" sim (thats her name) has much better thighs than I do.

[CajunBelle0731]

I discovered that when Nervous Subject (Strangetown) uses the shower, he also empties his bladder - always!

Is that a by-product of growing up badly, perhaps?


Don Lothario and Jared Starchild(from Sim State University) do this as well. I have heard that sloppy male sims will also pee on bushes outside. I'm still waiting to see that.

[dragon_tfm]

Yeah, but sometimes you don't even HAVE to feed them and they'll hurl. XD

Edit: Also, Adult and Teen Sims MUST bathe the baby... even if Hygiene is at max. What th'?
ugh i know same with toddlers why cant they just let the darn kid sleep..yet when the baby actually does need to get changed and given a bath they wont wth

[simsample]

Toilet tv...how my son would be envious!

I discovered that "My Self" sim (thats her name) has much better thighs than I do.

Hehe, that was the first thing I discovered... even Mort Goth has better thighs than I do!

[stephness]

I discovered (actually, I discovered this a long time ago..) that all my female sims turn out to be lesbians. I know how the whole preferance thing works and all, but for some reason it keeps happening to me even if I don't direct them to flirt with females. I can seriously leave my computer and my game running for a short while, come back, and my sim's room mates will be all making out with each other. I'm thinking perhaps this is a result of me just not having many male sims in the game. *scratches head*

I have one sim that's engaged to one of my few male sims, and even though their relationship is just fine on both sides, she STILL refuses to marry him. I've had to quit without saving so many times because I'll work on building their relationship, and then try to marry them off and she won't do it. Yet she has a want that pops up now and then to get engaged to this female sim she used to be involved with, even though I haven't let her interact with that sim in ages. Craziness, I tell you.

I also discovered that for some reason, the running with scissors playset refuses to work since I've installed Pets. This makes me sad, as I enjoyed watching my sim self run around like a maniac with a giant pair of scissors.

[ultimatelegend5]

I discovered that some sims like to do skil building. If they do then they will earn skills alot faster.

[Sizza]

I discovered (actually, I discovered this a long time ago..) that all my female sims turn out to be lesbians. I know how the whole preferance thing works and all, but for some reason it keeps happening to me even if I don't direct them to flirt with females. I can seriously leave my computer and my game running for a short while, come back, and my sim's room mates will be all making out with each other. I'm thinking perhaps this is a result of me just not having many male sims in the game. *scratches head*

I have one sim that's engaged to one of my few male sims, and even though their relationship is just fine on both sides, she STILL refuses to marry him. I've had to quit without saving so many times because I'll work on building their relationship, and then try to marry them off and she won't do it. Yet she has a want that pops up now and then to get engaged to this female sim she used to be involved with, even though I haven't let her interact with that sim in ages. Craziness, I tell you.

I also discovered that for some reason, the running with scissors playset refuses to work since I've installed Pets. This makes me sad, as I enjoyed watching my sim self run around like a maniac with a giant pair of scissors.


Having ONE f*cking gay sims(I've nothing agains homosexuals but this is so annoying!) who "checks out" another sims automaticly turns the checked out sim into a gay sim. I had on e lesbian sim who managed to turn half of townies in Pleasanviwe into lesbians. I'm so annoyed by that. Maby I don't WANT the whole 'hood to like the sam sex!

[Ghost sdoj]

Get a pair of male romance sims to start running through the lesbian population. That will straighten them out eventually.

[rebekah_SC]

Get a pair of male romance sims to start running through the lesbian population. That will straighten them out eventually.

LOL - good call! Probably would work *laughs*

[Sizza]

Get a pair of male romance sims to start running through the lesbian population. That will straighten them out eventually.

DUH! :einstein I didn't even think of that! :lol:

[Proxian_girl]

I have many more problems with male Romance sims than I do with lesbians. This has resulted in the -ahem- TRAGIC death of Don Lothario and the subsequent Aspiration hacking of Daniel Pleasant to Popularity (like his daughters). However, I'm just fine with female Romance sims... *raises eyebrows*

If you have child sims in multiple households and are playing one of said households, child sims from the other households will make a point of walking past the one you are playing about five times a day on weekends.

Ricky Cormier is a Romance sim. :einstein:

[RedSresnedi21]

i hve discovered that toddlers can eat pet foods :D eheh it seems to be funny for me :p

[SofieAmalieN]

I discovered that you can use , and . to turn neighbourhoods objects aswell! (I think it's the < and > on american keyboards...)

[Katattack]

I just noticed that there is a new pet show on my sims tele.

[lilhan12_SC]

I noticed that social bunnies can poke and slap other social bunnies.

I'm not a bad player... I just left the sims running and came back to see social bunnies picking fights and a random invisible sim juggling dolls... :confused:

[Tigress_SC]

I noticed that Sims can "worry." I've never seen this before, but my toddler Sim passed out and the mother came up to it and "worried."

[tlynnjpeg]

I noticed that Sims can "worry." I've never seen this before, but my toddler Sim passed out and the mother came up to it and "worried."


I hate the worrying action. My sims do it all the time, over little things. I had one sim who worried every time anyone in the house had a drop in relationship score. It was most annoying when she did it just because they disagreed on the conversation topic. And she'd continue to worry long after the fact.

-Jpeg

[Quinctia]

I learned yesterday that you can't make a sim see a ghost, I guess the ghost has to actually pop out at them.

I have a knowledge sim who really wants to see her parents' ghosts, and when mom popped out into the front yard, I sent the sim out there, and they even looked at each other in passing like they would if both were alive, but that didn't count as "seeing" the ghost. BAH.

[Ghost sdoj]

Chase the ghost. Keep running your sim to the spot where the ghost is standing or floating to. Eventually the ghost gets fed up and scares your sim so your sim can see it.

[Proxian_girl]

What if the ghost is just a no-show?
I've had this tombstone/urn around twenty-five sim days, the deceased's daughter mourns every day and several nights, I've rearranged almost all of the furniture AND the tombstone/urn, and the ghost hasn't showed ONCE.

Vidcund Curious is familiar with Erin Singles. I know this because I gave Erin a "Paris Hilton"-esque makeover, and did a double-take when "Paris" popped up in one of Viddie's daydreams.

Alien children can have eyes bigger than the rest of their face-- and when they do, it's extremely hard to find a hairstyle that will cover up the out-sticking corners without looking weird.

[AtropaMandragora]

What if the ghost is just a no-show?
I've had this tombstone/urn around twenty-five sim days, the deceased's daughter mourns every day and several nights, I've rearranged almost all of the furniture AND the tombstone/urn, and the ghost hasn't showed ONCE.

I've found that as long as you have them mourn, the ghost won't show. When no one's mourned for a few days, that's when the ghost appears. In my game, at least.

[Aquarian2886]

If a toodler is playing the xylophone adult can come over and play with. I found out when a visitor was over and I'm like wait how did they do that!? Its like the tuck in thing becuase you can't make them do it they do it on their own. ( the adult that is )


i can make my sims tuck their kids in. wierd

[Proxian_girl]

Okay, the ghost finally showed.

If a sim has a piece of very sheer clothing in life, then their ghost will look like it's not wearing that item. As a result, multiple sims on one of my lots have been spooked by a ghost who looks like she's parading around in her underwear. D< PUT SOME CLOTHES ON!!!

If there is a custom item on a lot, ALL of the sims will drop whatever they're doing to play with it, 24/7. Even if someone else is already USING it.

I swear sims choose their transition outfits DELIBREATELY to annoy me. If it's not the aggravating Maxis default stuff, then the goth-y child I've carefully raised with an interest in ghosts... will transition into a teen in the SKIMPIEST WHITE CUSTOM SWIMSUIT I HAVE.

[Menaceman44]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Brook_Lynn_Marie
If a toodler is playing the xylophone adult can come over and play with. I found out when a visitor was over and I'm like wait how did they do that!? Its like the tuck in thing becuase you can't make them do it they do it on their own. ( the adult that is )




i can make my sims tuck their kids in. wierd


Do you have a hack for it? I think Squinge created one that allows players to direct autonomous actions.

[yamikuronue]

I can make them play with their toddlers when the toddlers are using things... click on the toy, it lets you "watch" or "play with" I think, but only if the toddler is using it.

[TheDuecedFaerie_SC]

I discovered that cats consisting of only a head and a tail (and nothing inbetween) are much fun to watch - hillarious actually! Will post pics later. :D

[Magic And Pancakes]

I discovered that the sims "fun" level goes up much faster when they watch that lady dying on the yummy channel.

:blink: That is just wrong on so many levels. :lol:

I recently discovered this because I rarely (if ever) play the pre-made families. Why is Romeo Monty a romance sim? It seems that he should be a family sim or something. You know, with wants to get engaged and/or marry Juliet. For crying out loud, their relationship has enough problems without Romeo wanting to go out and be romantic with other female simmies. :shrug:

Well, I guess he did kind of ditch Rosaline for Juliet. (Those of you familiar with the play know what I'm talking about.) :)

[onsenmark]

Do you have a hack for it? I think Squinge created one that allows players to direct autonomous actions.

You can tuck in babies and toddlers, if i remember right. Tucking in kids is more spontaneous, I think.

[AtropaMandragora]

I hate the worrying action. My sims do it all the time, over little things. I had one sim who worried every time anyone in the house had a drop in relationship score. It was most annoying when she did it just because they disagreed on the conversation topic. And she'd continue to worry long after the fact.

-Jpeg


Speaking about worrying... The mother in my legacy family came home from work and instantly fell asleep standing up, on the sidewalk. Her teenage son walked over, and I though he was going to do the "worry" action, but instead, he started laughing out loud at her. *s*

[rebekah_SC]

I discovered that cats consisting of only a head and a tail (and nothing inbetween) are much fun to watch - hillarious actually! Will post pics later. :D

Ooh, I have a ghost dog consisting of only a head and a tail! It's weird, hey? :D

[Loco]

I discovered my cat likes sims. :lol: Either that or he really doesn't - he walked all over the keyboard and managed to minimise it, so it took ages to open again... before that, he put his front paws up on my knee (he's never done that before!) and watched the screen, then he started chasing the cursor... not good. Heh, sorry, that wasn't really sims-related... but it was very cute!

[lemonboleyn]

I discovered my cat likes sims. :lol: Either that or he really doesn't - he walked all over the keyboard and managed to minimise it, so it took ages to open again... before that, he put his front paws up on my knee (he's never done that before!) and watched the screen, then he started chasing the cursor... not good. Heh, sorry, that wasn't really sims-related... but it was very cute!
Heh, that's cute! Once my cat came and stood on the shift key to wallpaper a room for me.

I discovered you can put curtains on the inside of a door. I'm probably one of the last people to figure this out, but I thought it was sorta neat. Mainly because we have a backdoor with a window, and we put curtains on it. :P
*...Is now wondering if the curtains move with the door when opened*

[Proxian_girl]

Heh, that's cute! Once my cat came and stood on the shift key to wallpaper a room for me.

I discovered you can put curtains on the inside of a door. I'm probably one of the last people to figure this out, but I thought it was sorta neat. Mainly because we have a backdoor with a window, and we put curtains on it. :P
*...Is now wondering if the curtains move with the door when opened*
Call me slow. I've never even THOUGHT of curtaining a door!

[Menaceman44]

In Strangetown, the Spectre house has curtains over two indoor archways. I found out that they had been placed on the wrong side of the door because after I installed an expansion pack the archways didn't show so Olive ended up walking through a solid wall!

[Wintermute]

Okay, technically I discovered this two days ago, but that's beside the point.

I saw a Sim do something no other Sim has ever done since I began playing. She literally ran from where she was standing in the house all the way to the end of the lot--because her pregnant partner (who happens to be a Self-Sim) had just come back from class--to talk to her girlfriend's belly. I had initially thought that the first Sim had to run to class, but her class was actually several hours later, so she didn't have a reason to be running out of the house. I was all :lovestruc because it was the cutest and most beautiful thing I'd ever seen any Sim do, ever.

This is why I leave Free Will on at all times :).

[Proxian_girl]

I think that Vidcund Curious is completely incapable of having truly ugly alien brats, despite his own less-than-attractive visage (which... did I mention I gave him a makeover that makes him look totally gay?). I'm actually getting pretty fond of him (doesn't help when he spends half a pregnancy with his face in the toilet puking his poor guts out, but the kids just turn out so INTERESTING...).

Also, I thought personality traits were genetic, but Viddie's latest alien-spawn, Einstein Curious (duh) apparently disproves that. The only thing they have in common is an unhealthy interest in cleanliness.
Vidcund: Scorpio, 10/1/7/4/3
Einstein: Capricorn, 10/8/1/10/6

[onsenmark]

Also, something I've noticed before: Sim!babies are IMMORTAL. Sim!toddlers, less so. It's possible for them to die, just really, REALLY hard. :|

[ultimatelegend5]

I discovered that you cant make realistic sims without custom content.

[PennyTheCorgi]

That Insiminator has miscarriage... :(

[GummiBears]

I don't know if this has been posted or not but I wasn't aware of the fear "Fish Dying in Fish Tank" or something. I just noticed it today when my legacy toddler Aidan, had it as a fear. I guess its because I hardly ever use the fish tank.

[ultimatelegend5]

I don't know if this has been posted or not but I wasn't aware of the fear "Fish Dying in Fish Tank" or something. I just noticed it today when my legacy toddler Aidan, had it as a fear. I guess its because I hardly ever use the fish tank.
Yeah i didnt know that for awile. It hasnt happened to me but its funny.

[Proxian_girl]

That the really gorgeous "Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children" adult sims I'd downloaded... make for really hideous toddlers. Loz (http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i54/Yui_hime/My%20Sims/strangetown/hairproblemloz.jpg) is the most photogenic of them, as long as you don't look for a profile! Kadaj is definitely the worst, his face stops at the mouth-- no lower jaw at all. Yazoo's okay, but still uglier than most tots I'd had until today. I feel sorry for their mother.

That in-game born sims can be extremely realistic and pretty. I got this one (http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i54/Yui_hime/My%20Sims/strangetown/mama.jpg) (whom I'm just spamming everywhere) today in CAS by rolling babies for a self sim and a "random" guy.

[missaaliyah]

That Insiminator has miscarriage... :(

I always thought it had about only.

It was Inteenimater which had "have miscarriage".

I found some sims are born gay, with male sims, with turn ons like "Facial hair" and "cologne".

[Menaceman44]

I don't know if this has been posted or not but I wasn't aware of the fear "Fish Dying in Fish Tank" or something. I just noticed it today when my legacy toddler Aidan, had it as a fear. I guess its because I hardly ever use the fish tank.

I discovered the want: Watch Fish. I'd not seen that until I installed Pets.

[Nicola__x_SC]

Today I discovered that its really hard to play the sims2 when you share it on the computer with 2 sisters:(

I also discovered that there are so many things I was oblivious to - such as Zombies!


I found some sims are born gay, with male sims, with turn ons like "Facial hair" and "cologne".

That doesn't make them gay.

[AxelValentine]

I just found out the other day that a sim lounging on the couch can watch TV while lounging! I've never clicked on the TV while they were laying there, but when I did I saw the little bulls-eye mark and lo-and-behold they laid there and watched TV.

[yamikuronue]

That doesn't make them gay.

No, but some sims ARE born gay. If you look in SimPE you can see how attracted they are to males and females.

[Diego Varen_SC]

I discovered, while playing with Nervous Subject, Circe Beaker and their child, Test Subject, that if I moved Circe and Test out of the house into another, then used Nervous to break up with Circe in his house, Circe would move out of her house and leave Test to be taken away by the Social Worker. Luckily, I got Circe to adopt Test, before she remarried Loki Beaker.

Did anyone understand that post?

[ultimatelegend5]

No, but some sims ARE born gay. If you look in SimPE you can see how attracted they are to males and females.
You can also see it using insiminator, {I think} Also, I found most sims are born bi-sexual.

[Hollowtear]

ok i have Marc who is a teen in love with 3 different girls. (Lara, Leena, Emmy) Anyway Emmy called Marc and asked him out downtown so i decided to risk it and took him downtown. While they were ordering their food (all very innocent) Leena's mom showed up and started "watching" Marc on his date. I checked her relationship with Marc and it was like he cheated on her. When the date ended, Marc kissed Emmy and three different Adults got the double negative over their head. So i learned that the family members will act like you cheated on them when cheating on the kids. Did that make sense?

PS i have pictures

[simbu]

Oh yeah! Some sims ARE born gay. I made two beautiful women of equal attributes and both with romance aspirations. I moved them into the same house.
Normally , even if you choose them to be roomies only, two new sims, of similar personality traits, will fall for one another rather quickly.
And this happened with my two women as well. BUT where one of them was very interested romantically in the other, the other wanted nothing to do with flirting and hugging etc. Even though they had similar daily and lifetime scores in their relationship panel.
She didnt show any romantic inclinations until she had a male walk by.

I find this really interesting because sims are born "neutral" meaning they have no preference until they are encouraged toward one sex or the other. So, theoretically, my sim should have been receptive to romance with her roommate.

[Brook_Lynn_Marie]

ok i have Marc who is a teen in love with 3 different girls. (Lara, Leena, Emmy) Anyway Emmy called Marc and asked him out downtown so i decided to risk it and took him downtown. While they were ordering their food (all very innocent) Leena's mom showed up and started "watching" Marc on his date. I checked her relationship with Marc and it was like he cheated on her. When the date ended, Marc kissed Emmy and three different Adults got the double negative over their head. So i learned that the family members will act like you cheated on them when cheating on the kids. Did that make sense?

PS i have pictures

Hmm I'd like to see those photos. I know that when kids see their parents cheat the get big negatives and tend to hate that parent but I've never seen that.

[Menaceman44]

I discovered that I find the game very boring once a Sim has filled all of their skills and reached permanent platinum aspiration. There's nothing for them to do anymore. I guess I'll have to find her a lover and try and raise some kids..... Which will have to be adopted seeing as how she is a Servo.

[rebekah_SC]

... So i learned that the family members will act like you cheated on them when cheating on the kids. Did that make sense?..

That happened to me recently, only the son found a new girlfriend after his previous partner died! Both parents got the "double negative" and were furious at their son and his new girlfriend for almost 3 sim days! :P

I also learnt today that downloading new foods for my Sims to eat on MTS2 isn't the best thing to do when you're feeling hungry yourself! *laughs*

[Sizza]

That the Oldie's great-grandchild has no relations to their adopted kids(no family icon in relationship panel)

[Panthera_SC]

I found out, that sometimes sims come to visit other sims at deep night 2 -3 in the morning, and they creep silently around the house, and stay when your sim is awake and invites them in, otherwise they creep away.

I ´ve never seen this and I´ve been playing for ages!

[Ghost sdoj]

If you see someone sneaking around your house after you have had a great date or outing with them, they may have been leaving a present.

[AtropaMandragora]

I know that townies may have alot of stuff in their inventory, but this was the first time I experienced it myself. Sure, I've moved in townies that have had one or two expensive items, but one of my legacy sims just married a townie that had one DJ booth, two large telescopes, one dance sphere, one Soma 44(?) TV, one fishtank, one potted palm tree, one floor lamp and one (pretty cheap) vase. And no, she didn't buy them on a community lot, because I don't have any businesses that sell that sort of stuff.

[rebekah_SC]

LOL! Atropa, that's hilarious :D

[Proxian_girl]

My self-sim makes a pretty hideous man if I gender-bender her in CAS.

[ultimatelegend5]

[QUOTE=Atropa]I know that townies may have alot of stuff in their inventory, but this was the first time I experienced it myself. Sure, I've moved in townies that have had one or two expensive items, but one of my legacy sims just married a townie that had one DJ booth, two large telescopes, one dance sphere, one Soma 44(?) TV, one fishtank, one potted palm tree, one floor lamp and one (pretty cheap) vase. And no, she didn't buy them on a community lot, because I don't have any businesses that sell that sort of stuff.[/Q
I don't have any townies in my hood so I wouldnt no if that happens in my game.

[Ghost sdoj]

It happens all the time in my game. The only sim who DIDN'T have a bunch of stuff was the Grand Vampire who had a cheap sofa and a bubble blower. (I suppose that makes sense for a pleasure sim. Those are the two items he loves to use the most. Blow bubbles, then bounce on the sofa, then watch tv or play the guitar, then start the whole cycle over again with breaks for trying to bite one of your roomies.)

[Nuit_SC]

I discovered that pets will follow ghosts. My legacy family dog followed the founders ghost around all night last night. lol!

[tonesofsilver]

the other day I saw the "Pay off for $50" interaction for the first time ever. it was for a sim's ex wife, so it makes sense, although I don't see how I've never noticed it.

I also installed the sims on my laptop, but couldn't find the base game and had to buy a new one which was in a different package than when I first bought the game. Anyway, long story short, a lot of the interactions are different (to me, anyway) on the newer edition. One that sticks out for instance is the make out interaction. On my old game it was a lot, well...hot, heavy, and humpy and now it's very "PG."

what can I say? I like my Sims raunchy.

p.s. my townie's never have stuff in their inventory and it makes me jealous to hear about everyone's, lol

[Benny Boy_SC]

Last night, very late I was playing The Sims 2 and a fire broke out in one of my pretty stupid Sims' kitchens. I have learned NOT to have a lazy/tired Sim try and put out a fire.

...he is now dead

[rome_raven]

I discovered the "Cheer Up" interaction. I had my Sim on her first date with her boyfriend. And after a few rounds of chess (to get the DR up), I was following their wants and the lightening bolts and the interaction to "Cheer Up" popped up.

[Elspeth_SC]

I discovered how difficult it is to have a sim born with blond hair. One brunette in the family - no matter how many generations back and how many other blondes and the children always have brown hair.

[EdieBird]

I discovered that despite OFB "fixing" it so the dead of Pleasantview (Micheal Bachelor, etc) were not resurrectable, after I moved Micheal's grave to a community lot, Cassandra and Alexander remembered his death and could resurrect him.

Now he's remarried to Dina, raising Mortimer's twin children.

I also discovered that no matter WHAT their original haircolor, in my game, if I age an elder down to adult, they'll become blondes. (I created the black-haired sim I tried this on, myself!)

[Nadita_pt]

I found out a new University option related to the computer. I clicked on the computer for a sim to make the semester's assignment, and, to my surprise, besides the "change major" option, I had an option to change the grades!

[ultimatelegend5]

I found out a new University option related to the computer. I clicked on the computer for a sim to make the semester's assignment, and, to my surprise, besides the "change major" option, I had an option to change the grades!
Yeah you get that when your in the secret society.

[Nadita_pt]

I didn't know you got that when you were in the secret society. But he wasn't in the secret society in the first place oO

[Quinctia]

I discovered how difficult it is to have a sim born with blond hair. One brunette in the family - no matter how many generations back and how many other blondes and the children always have brown hair.

Wow, that's kinda funny. I had two sims with black hair have kids. The woman had a mother with red hair and a father with black, and the man had a mother with blonde hair and a father with black, and their first kid?

Blonde. I was floored.

[Stasis Field]

ok i have Marc who is a teen in love with 3 different girls. (Lara, Leena, Emmy) Anyway Emmy called Marc and asked him out downtown so i decided to risk it and took him downtown. While they were ordering their food (all very innocent) Leena's mom showed up and started "watching" Marc on his date. I checked her relationship with Marc and it was like he cheated on her. When the date ended, Marc kissed Emmy and three different Adults got the double negative over their head. So i learned that the family members will act like you cheated on them when cheating on the kids. Did that make sense?

PS i have pictures


Ohh, yup!

I had similar with a family of mine - two sisters and their mum. One of the sisters still lived with her mother, but decided to have an affair with her sister's fiance. The mum's lifetime score with her to-be-son-in-law was at 100, but as soon as she spotted her daughter kissing her other daughter's fiance, it dropped immediately down to 0.

She also, from that day onwards, would attack her daughter, and the fiance - but her other daughter (who, til this day is still oblivious to the fact that her now-husband is the father of her nephew), she was fine with.

[KBC]

Today i learned not to take Don up on going downtown, he brings ALL his "friends" and the funny thing is, I was just playing along as one of his lovers (i just graduated her and i wanted to play her for abit, she feel in love with him when he popped by college ><;;) And then outta the blue, Don goes and kisses Dina, in front of 6, 6! of his lovers, they ALL got furious, including my sim, and all got a chance and slapping him and Dina before leaving LOL, it was really funny to watch him. He lives alone now...

[Hollowtear]

Hmm I'd like to see those photos. I know that when kids see their parents cheat the get big negatives and tend to hate that parent but I've never seen that.


ok i posted them in the pictures forum.

http://forums.sims2community.com/showpost.php?p=753544&postcount=391

[SarahTheS]

Hmm... I learned today that messy sims can roll the fear "Clean Up A Mess" ...

Never seen that one before.

[onsenmark]

Sim parents always seems to leave empty/used baby bottles on the floor.

[AtropaMandragora]

Sim parents always seems to leave empty/used baby bottles on the floor.

There's a hack that prevents that. Instead they go directly to the trash bin after feeding the baby. I'm not one to use hacks very often, but this one is great.

[NH1]

I learned again why I never hire a nanny. My sims had to go away (to work) and hired a nanny... the toddler needed to sleep and he also needed food. What did the nanny do? Well she took him away from his toys and put him in bed, took him out IMMEDEATLY and put him down in the high chair (so he could eat normally), took him out immedeatly again and put him in bed, to take him out to put him in the ... (and so on and on and on....)... 40 sim minutes later the toddler still needed food and a bed... So I decided to use 'MaxMotives'

My sims decided to have quads (I use the triplets & quads hack, it allows your sims to have 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 babys). Believe me 4 baby's is hard working... and gives a dirty kitchen... and no help of nanny. After 1 or 2 hours she was so tired that she put herself for the tv and didn't do anything anymore, well she took a bath... and made herself some food and went to the tv again!

And no matter how much I dismiss the nanny, she keeps coming back...

[Menaceman44]

To get rid of her for good you will have to use the "fire" option, not "dismiss". "Dismiss" just makes them leave for that day.

[PunkyBreester]

Even when I "fire" / "end services" my nannies, they ALWAYS come back the next day. I think I was finally able to get rid of her when I called on the phone to "end services".

[photo]

I discovered that Mary-Sue Pleasent is adopted. If you look through the Oldies memories it says "Adopted Mary-Sue". Kinda odd fact.

[NH1]

To get rid of her for good you will have to use the "fire" option, not "dismiss". "Dismiss" just makes them leave for that day.
I tried that too, didn't work! She just came back the next day! I wish I never installed pets, before pets I didn't have this problem! - sigh -

Even when I "fire" / "end services" my nannies, they ALWAYS come back the next day. I think I was finally able to get rid of her when I called on the phone to "end services".
Thanks for phone-tip. I'll try the phone tomorrow when I have time.

[Alantra]

I have NEVER seen this before.... when an event is happening a little window pops up... I just uninstalled pets and that is when it started happening.

Does anyone know what I am talking about?

Lori

[yamikuronue]

I have NEVER seen this before.... when an event is happening a little window pops up... I just uninstalled pets and that is when it started happening.

Does anyone know what I am talking about?

Lori

Yup, it's under the options, either game or video I think. Event Camera? Something like that.

[longdaysend]

when there is one room that has a private bath and the door to the room only unlocks for one sim,EVERY single sim on the lot will want to use that bathroom..and will yell at me when they cant get in the door....:) except the owner of the room of course..they yell because there is a crowd around thier door and they cant get through.

[yamikuronue]

I have an account at TSR O.O I don't subscribe there, I'm anti-paysite, but... must have been when I downloaded their sim challenge thing. Or something.

[TheDuecedFaerie_SC]

I discovered that apparently there's a rumour going around Pleasantview that one of my Sims had something to do with another's death. How? Well, I spotted two Sims gossipping and zoomed in and the first picture was of a Sims of mine named Ophelia Immortal, the second was a grave, and the third one of my elder Sims, Mort. Now, since Ophelia and Mort is in no way related and didn't even know of eachother's existense, I find it rather strange that they would be associated with eachother in this way. And darn that maid who started the strange rumour! ;p

[AtropaMandragora]

I discovered sims can roll the want to counterfeit money, and to be a personal trainer. Never saw those before.

[onsenmark]

Every game hint you get emailed to you from EA when you register one of the TS2 games is usually something you pretty much know already.

edit: Also, I just had to get Nightlife on a day when MTS2 is offline for maintenance. I wanna download mopeds! :weep:

[Menaceman44]

I discovered that I must have one of the most bug and glitch filled installation of this game! I have everything up to date yet still find problems that have been "fixed" and if I manage to solve them another new problem comes along as soon as.
I think it's time for a total re-install.

[dream_operator23]

Zombies have a hard time standing still. If you make them stand in one place for more than a moment, their heads will start to roll back on their necks and they sway unsteadily on their feet. Poor zombies!

Dream

[ultimatelegend5]

I discovered that apparently there's a rumour going around Pleasantview that one of my Sims had something to do with another's death. How? Well, I spotted two Sims gossipping and zoomed in and the first picture was of a Sims of mine named Ophelia Immortal, the second was a grave, and the third one of my elder Sims, Mort. Now, since Ophelia and Mort is in no way related and didn't even know of eachother's existense, I find it rather strange that they would be associated with eachother in this way. And darn that maid who started the strange rumour! ;p
It may also be random. I dont know I dont usually pay attention to gossip.

[RosalindP]

Kids don't bring home any homework on Fridays, apparently. (teens do, though! mean old high school teachers ;P)

[Ghost sdoj]

You know those little cars which drive around on the neighborhood screen? I saw two cars approach a T intersection at the same time from different directions. When they got to the intersection, they were both in the same spot in the same lane at the same time. Then they both vanished.

The neighborhood screen has car crashes!

[Toffee9994]

One of my sims rolled a want on a date for the other person they were dating to be stinky. Never seen it before! lol

[Brook_Lynn_Marie]

Kids don't bring home any homework on Fridays, apparently. (teens do, though! mean old high school teachers ;P)

Really all my kids always get homework.

[dream_operator23]

One of my sims rolled a want on a date for the other person they were dating to be stinky. Never seen it before! lol

LOL indeed! I've never seen that one before either, though I have often seen the fear of a stinky date! Was the sim with the stinky date want really sloppy? Or maybe they are turned-on by stink. I almost always make stink a turn-off, so that is probably why I see that fear quite often.

Dream

[RosalindP]

Really all my kids always get homework.

That's strange.. what are their grades, generally? I overwork them to get an A+ so maybe it has to do with that.. or maybe I just can't find their homework, LOL

[Brook_Lynn_Marie]

Yea mine usually get A+ as well

[moonluck9]

Kids don't bring home any homework on Fridays, apparently. (teens do, though! mean old high school teachers ;P)

You have a hack, by twojeffs mabie?

[purplestarz2006]

Usually my kids bring home homework every day, but occasionally, especially on lots with a lot of kids, one will have a random day without bringing home homework. I think it's a glitch. For example, I have a lot where, for one day, there were 6 kids at the same time and they all went to school. But that evening there were only 5 homework notebooks in the house.

[sketchy]

I discovered that adopted Sims still remember their birth parents.

I don't adopt much, but when I do, I use that special trick so I don't end up with an ugly Sim: create a toddler or child Sim in CAS, give them a parent, move them into a house, kill the parent and social services will come and whisk the kid away. Then go play the Sim you want to be the foster parent's house and have him/her call the adoption agency and select the age of Sim kid you created and then THAT will be the kid that is brought to you.

Anywho, I did that, kid grew up, and I wanted her to resurrect a Sim with the Resurrect-o-Nomitron and when the box of deceased Sims to resurrect came up, her birth mother showed up as an option! Totally unexpected! I thought all memories and previous affiliations adopted kids had were erased once they joined a new household. Guess not!

[NH1]

- That 2 of my NPC, just hate eachother, on every single lot where the one sees the other they start fighting, when the fight is done, they start a new one immeadly. They only leave the lot again, when their stats are getting too low...

[Branwen_SC]

I discovered that i can't bring Vincent (Dina or Nina's late husband) back from the dead :blink:

I also dicovered that my game has a weird sense of humor. I have my own music in the game, and when i loaded Dina and Nina's house; the first song to be played was "Smack my B*tch up" by The prodigy :handbag:

[Proxian_girl]

Okay, I found this out a long time ago, but... if a sim couple's kid is getting married, and the parents start kissing/making out in the middle of the wedding, the bride and groom will get embarrassed. It's adorable!

[longdaysend]

i learned that some stereotypes will not die! i made a japanese teen girl and when she and her family moved into thier house/club, she made a bee-line for the kareoke(sp?) machine and sang until she was about to wet herself :P

also, when i parent/teen encourages a child, the child will walk away from the sim they are talking to with a "practice niceness/cleanliness/etc" icon, demonstrate the attribute they are being encouraged to be then return to the 'teaching' sim and gain relationship points ..it was really cute to see Emmy leave mom to go and hug her dad then go back to mom and get praised..hehe

[rebekah_SC]

Also, when i parent/teen encourages a child, the child will walk away from the sim they are talking to with a "practice niceness/cleanliness/etc" icon, demonstrate the attribute they are being encouraged to be then return to the 'teaching' sim and gain relationship points ...

Yeah, and they gain .2 of a point towards the attribute the parents are encouraging :)

[Proxian_girl]

also, when i parent/teen encourages a child, the child will walk away from the sim they are talking to with a "practice niceness/cleanliness/etc" icon, demonstrate the attribute they are being encouraged to be then return to the 'teaching' sim and gain relationship points ..it was really cute to see Emmy leave mom to go and hug her dad then go back to mom and get praised..hehe
Except when the "teaching" sim takes that moment to go to the bathroom... :egg

[sayyadina_SC]

I discovered that its really, really funny when a sim is teaching a dog to play dead. Thats probably the first time ever I just laughed at the game.

[PennyTheCorgi]

That sometimes when you play toss with a cat they throw up just like a toddler.

[Proxian_girl]

That sims on autopilot can cook lobster thermidor better than I can cook a piece of chicken. I didn't even realize what she was fixing until it came out of the oven...

[Ghost sdoj]

That sims on a custom restaurant lot which I built will go into the kitchen to begin preparing Lobster Thermidor, get upset that the chef won't let them use the stove, drop the ingredients on the floor, and go back to the refrigerator to get out some more lobsters to drop on the floor. And he wasn't even hungry! I guess he was in the mood to kill something, and settled for slaughtering 48 lobsters before I got him to stop that and call for the taxi he was SUPPOSED to be calling before he started killing lobsters.

[longdaysend]

sims who have 0 nice & Active points will yell at me more offen then those with even a few of each attribute...don't yell at me that you have to pee, just go do it! dang...

[xXharp_babyXx]

I discovered that, if your sim has the fear of seeing a wolf, and a wolf turns up on the lot, the sim doesn't actually even need to be at home for that want to be fulfilled -_-''

[~Squash-buddy-ven~]

I discovered that Sims throw fits when you delete an object they liked.. I had this Sim kid, Scott, and he had just used the easel to paint a portrait of himself and when he was done I deleted the easel and after I entered Live Mode he threw three fits in a row because I had deleted the easel..!
BTW, it's a funny animation.. :D

[Tommy Vercetti]

I found out that you shouldn't try and recreate the LS story with normal Sims, Thats just a giant Catastrophe now.....

[TheDuecedFaerie_SC]

I discovered that if you kill off a family who has a pet (not that I would ever do that! Oh, no, not me, not even this week ;p), the pet will stay in the house for a while, before being taken away for adoption, and you can move it out with the family funds and move it into a new household.

Also, I discovered that pets eat flowers - it's so cute.

And, that death is close to becoming an elder, unless he's a teen, in which case he would be close to becoming an adult ;p. After killing off a Sim family, Grimmy arrived, of course and stayed to watch a bit of tv, then that "*name* only has two days before his birthday, fulfill his wants, etc" block pops up for Grimmy! A glitch, maybe? Who knows. But it's still funny. :D

[x-Sims-luver-x]

I found out that if you invited a work mate home after work you could pay him off with $50 to stop him anoying you!

[HCAC]

The bride left in the middle of the wedding! I had one of my sims marry the rich downtown woman with the black hair and long gown. She moved in and they got engaged. They had the wedding at their home, with lots and lots of her friends (she is quite popular). In the middle of the wedding she gave him a hot tub (for a great date??) and disappeared.

The rest of the wedding was a hit, the guy went on his honeymoon alone and her icon disappeared until I saved and reloaded the house.


It was strange.

[x-Sims-luver-x]

I also found out that sim children can die in a fire!

[Menaceman44]

I discovered today that if you have Pets when you look at a pet's learned behaviors you get two different descriptions for each, one good and one bad, depending on where you hover the mouse.
Hover over the top half of a behavior icon and you get the good description. The lower half gives you the bad description.

[LilacBaby]

I learned the exact same thing as Menaceman44.

[mechaprincess]

I learned that it isn't smart to leave the Triplets and Quads hack on in a Legacy.
I started on my second generation today, and I selected "random" for the number of babies. Guess what? I GOT QUADS. And the odds were only 5%. My founder is going to die. rofl

[Proxian_girl]

I discovered that a sim teen can ask her older (adult) sister for permission to go out.

I also discovered that if you have Twojeff's Trips and Quads in, Insim becomes that much less accurate in how many kids a sim is pregnant with-- I was promised one and got twins. :anime: Good thing it was the Legacy's third generation and the mother has a Family sim sister (the teen in the above discovery).

[rebekah_SC]

I learnt from reading this thread that sometimes it is best to play Sims2 without hacks ;)

[tlynnjpeg]

I was having fun torturing a test sim I had made to get a neighbourhood started earlier today. I rarely, if ever, let anything bad happen to my sims. I'm way too nice.

So after a while, for only the second time ever, I had a Social Bunny come to visit. I wasn't surprised. I also wasn't very surprised when they started fighting since Miss Unfortunate Test had no nice points on top of being sick, lonely, hungry, tired, uncomfortable, and smelly. What did surprise me is that the paper girl came and started cheering while they were fighting. Apparently Social Bunnies are visible during fights. Or maybe it's just the hubbub that attracted her attention.

-Jpeg

[SofieAmalieN]

It was iyesterday but nvm. I got my first werewolf (I'm slow, I know..) But he has custome skin so he doesn't have hair all over the place at night. He's pretty cool looking with the new hair and icon image at night - and good for taking care of baby Edeline.

[Lethe_s]

I found out that, since nightlife, simmies can do the 'date' things (hold hands, feed each other) when having a normal meal at the kitchen table.
What!? I just never tried that before.

[iunplugthings]

You know, I still haven't had a werewolf or vampire yet. I feel like such an inadequate Sims player.

[Ghost sdoj]

I found out that, since nightlife, simmies can do the 'date' things (hold hands, feed each other) when having a normal meal at the kitchen table.
What!? I just never tried that before.

Only when they are sitting next to each other or EXACTLY across the table. And it's funny to watch a kid's reaction to that. (Of course the "kid in question was one of my kids by the Grim reaper who realized when she became a teen that the really hot man who happens to be married to mom is not actually a relative, so she may have other reasons for disliking that. )

[KismetRose]

I discovered last night that I feel a certain sadness when my Sims grow old, especially since I decided not to prolong their lives any more than absolutely necessary. Most of my Sims now only get their normal allotment of days, and I grow really fond of them in the meantime. For the first time last night, I saw a Sim that had been born in-game grow old, at the same time as his wife, and though it made me a bit sad I didn't stop the process. They had been the same for such a long time, and I know that they'll only get so many days before they're gone. It's hard to imagine what their neighborhood will be like without them. Sigh.

[PunkyBreester]

I found out a couple days ago that a shy sim who is writing in their diary will pull it up and hide it on their chest and make a scared/suprised look when another sim walks in the room. xD I thought it was adorable... the funny thing is she still hides her diary from her husband now that she's an adult! :)

[rebekah_SC]

I found out a couple days ago that a shy sim who is writing in their diary will pull it up and hide it on their chest and make a scared/suprised look when another sim walks in the room. xD I thought it was adorable... the funny thing is she still hides her diary from her husband now that she's an adult! :)

Aww, I had a sim that would constantly write in her diary. I thought it was adorable that moments after giving birth, she put the baby down to go and write in her diary about children's toys. A true sim-blogger! ;)

[weanu]

how the heck do you get them to go on a honeymoon? i've never been able to.

[Tusnelda7]

Weanu: You have to make them have a party by getting one over the phone when it's daytime.