Mod The Sims - What did you discover today while playing the sims?

Gingerxyz

23rd Jan 2010, 4:29 PM

Brandi/Beau/Unborn Baby(Which i named Kyle)- In my head, Skip and Brandi had trouble conceiving, so they had IVF, they spent all their money on the hope of being parents, (which in my head is the reason they're poor). So the unborn baby in my head can be Skips if she had her eggs harvested if that makes sense.
That's a good one. I've been avoiding playing them until I decided what was happening. I'd use it, but I already have my own reasoning for them being poor. And my version gives me a reason for Dustin being a criminal.

Prosthetics

24th Jan 2010, 12:02 AM

I discovered toddlers sleeping in doghouses. Darn the servo!

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/ComaB/TS2/inthedoghouse.jpg

somethingelse

24th Jan 2010, 12:26 AM

i'd buy a doghouse just for my toddlers if thats autonomous. i'd be even more thrilled if i could make my toddlers do that.

i never play with servos, do i HAVE to get a servo to get my toddlers to do that?

i used to play in my dogs house growing up, i think it's "normal".

Prosthetics

24th Jan 2010, 1:45 AM

It is autonomous, you can't make the toddler do it.

You don't have to have a servo, I just blame the servo for not putting the child to bed properly.

I didn't have a dog growing up, so maybe it is "normal." ;]

Invertin

24th Jan 2010, 5:06 AM

This might be common knowledge as far as I can tell, but I didn't know until recently that ghosts stop haunting the place at about 6 or 6.30

It also turns out that when Sims are stuck in a room together for a while, they start getting angry at each other for no reason.

...No, I didn't lock someone in a closet.

I locked a bunch of people in the attic. :D

Oh, and apparently the neat/slobby meter effects the speed of Sim's eating. One clean Sim is friends with a slobby Sim and the slob ate his food in the time it took for the clean Sim to get a plate for himself, while the neat Sim took about a minute/simhour

I've also found out that with the right technique, there is no limit to the face of a Sim or a Sim's pet. My Dog has one eye, a horn, no ears, no cheeks and no nose.

darkwarrior5558

24th Jan 2010, 2:57 PM

Um.... a devil dog? Its very unlike for a dog to be that scrwed up. Unless you scrwed him up, but thats another thread.

Invertin

24th Jan 2010, 4:49 PM

Unless you scrwed him up, but thats another thread.
Oh right, didn't know about that thread.

I'm just hoping to breed one of them and see what happens when dog and demon genes mix. For science.

darkwarrior5558

24th Jan 2010, 8:45 PM

You like science? I'm into it, it was my my major class in highschool and middleschool.
Also, i hope your experiment is a success, I'd like to hear your outcome. ( No, I'm not a scientist either, its just science is fun! :P )

somethingelse

24th Jan 2010, 10:12 PM

my husband makes mutants. like no eyes, HUGE chin, weird hooky nose... he does some serious "line" breeding to do this.

i usually just get "tweaky" with cas faces.

darkwarrior5558

24th Jan 2010, 11:07 PM

Hm... "tweaky" huh? Getting creative is my best policy. My old teachers said I was perfect to be a graphics designer or sketch artist.

somethingelse

25th Jan 2010, 7:56 AM

he somehow makes them look all...odd, not even human, i would cross the street to stay away from his creations.

KittyKuba

25th Jan 2010, 8:36 AM

Two kids can jump on a bed at the same time.

Maranatah

25th Jan 2010, 9:09 AM

Bellasaurus

25th Jan 2010, 7:01 PM

That I'm in the need of vacation from TS2. I spend last night and even this morning trying to decide, what to do with couple of my challenge-hoods. Or which one to continue playing. I'm bored with both of them but don't just want to delete them. I have just too many projects going on the same time. Annoying!

If you're not doing an Asylum in either 'hood - try one; they're pretty quick once you get to the playing, and really quite funny as a change from trying to keep everysim doing what you want them to.

Maranatah

25th Jan 2010, 9:33 PM

If you're not doing an Asylum in either 'hood - try one; they're pretty quick once you get to the playing, and really quite funny as a change from trying to keep everysim doing what you want them to.

I had two Asylum's already, although not in those hoods. And I finished them :) These are the hoods where I started the storyline challenge. Anyhow, I decided to continue with Strangetown.

I discovered that sims can indeed be very strange... You know, that when your spouse dies in your livingroom, the first reaction is usually to go and watch tv!

katya_stevens

25th Jan 2010, 9:51 PM

That toddler sims can and do freak out if a sim they have a low relationship score attempts to play peek-a-boo with them. I originally attempted the interaction to get some nice pictures of Luke and his aunt Samantha playing -- instead I get some of Samantha trying to interact and Luke in tears.

Invertin

28th Jan 2010, 3:11 AM

Huh. That was interesting.

One of my Sims is a literal Mad Scientist, who walks around wearing a blue Social Bunny head and a lab coat. Recently he got a low social score, and met the social bunny...

...And hilariously enough started talking to him as if they'd met a hundred times before.

Heh. I'm starting to wonder if the Sim is actually wearing a social bunny head or if he's just that crazy that he thinks he his.

I've also noticed that one of the Ghosts in my Serial Killer challenge home is Red. I don't know why, there's nothing in that room to cause a fire, and I definitely don't remember burning down. I guess he just died of... Uh...

...Bad tan?

sing4love44

28th Jan 2010, 12:20 PM

i discovered that two female sims can get each other pregnant.
possibly this is because of a mod, but i had two female sims woohoo, and they each got pregnant with twins, both with the other sim listed as the "father"

charlie-chan

30th Jan 2010, 6:45 PM

I discovered that, after installing M & G, that sims can have the want for "green energy sources."

SweetAsLemons

31st Jan 2010, 6:12 PM

When a guest sim wets themselves in a neat sims home, the neat sim because furious at the peeing sim xD

Bellasaurus

2nd Feb 2010, 10:01 AM

I discovered that, after installing M & G, that sims can have the want for "green energy sources."

I noticed that too, and bought the solar panels to fulfill the want. And Hey Presto! the bills went down - pretty cool. Don't buy too many though - I did that once and the lot went all screwy - I think because the large number of solar panels caused the bills to go so low they would have been negative. Each time the postman came the game crashed. Whoops!

Croutonian

2nd Feb 2010, 5:45 PM

The bills don't go negative...you get money back instead!

lg135

2nd Feb 2010, 7:25 PM

When a guest sim wets themselves in a neat sims home, the neat sim because furious at the peeing sim xD

This happened with my maid! She's furious at the son because he couldn't make it to the toilet because *she* was cleaning it!

I just discovered how furious my godsis was when she found her her sim husband was sleeping with the roommate (and she only realized after moving the roomie in and discovering who her baby's daddy was). It's kinda silly, but when my newly grown teen girl brought home this ugly popularity sim, he didn't interact with her for the whole afternoon - just flirted with her twin. Then randomly, he decides to go back to her to make-out, and then try to get her to woohoo with him.

I dunno, I know it's consensual, but the first thing that came to my mind was "AAAAH how dare you!! You were sitting there flirting with her sister, but when she wouldn't put out, you went straight to Tara for sex!!" I mean, he only had one bolt for her >_<

I channeled my anger through her father though, and kicked him out x)

Odd thing though, was that even though I cancelled the woo-hoo interaction, he still got a memory of doing her, while she didn't. What a creep >:(

Bellasaurus

3rd Feb 2010, 4:12 PM

The bills don't go negative...you get money back instead!

Dammit - I think because I built the house with all the panels on it first, then moved my sim in, the game wasn't happy.

When a guest sim wets themselves in a neat sims home, the neat sim because furious at the peeing sim xD

I noticed a similar thing in my dorm - one of the dormies clearly has no neat points at all because whenever he showers, puddles end up everywhere. My sim is only one neat point off maximum, and even though she'd never met the guy before (Chaz Whippler - what a name!), she was furious with him, and relationship went down to around -15daily/-10lifetime! I let her mop up a coupla times 'cause she likes it so much, but ended up getting bored so I would just influence Chaz to do it instead. He doesn't have much fun in that dorm :rofl:

wlionrjl

5th Feb 2010, 2:36 PM

I discovered that the wormrat can be afraid of the cat! The wormrat will make scared squeaky noises while the cat meows at him. I've always assumed that cats and dogs can't interact with the other "deco" animals.. though I can't remember if cats can watch an aquarium...

Amairani

6th Feb 2010, 6:39 PM

Kailacat

6th Feb 2010, 8:43 PM

That sims will randomly hold their leg behind them. What is this, is this another random FreeTime thing?

tlynnjpeg

6th Feb 2010, 11:05 PM

I discovered that Sims can Be Appreciated by townies/downtownies. As far as I understand it's an autonomous interaction, like Look through Windows - you can't make Sims do that. I found it cute and it gives a boost to their relationship.
Are you sure it's not "Be Admired"? Because that's something that can be done autonomously, and it's under the "appreciate" menu. I've never seen "Be Appreciated"...or it may have come about with an EP I don't have.

That sims will randomly hold their leg behind them. What is this, is this another random FreeTime thing?
Yeah. It's the fitness idle animation.

Amairani

7th Feb 2010, 8:51 AM

Are you sure it's not "Be Admired"? Because that's something that can be done autonomously, and it's under the "appreciate" menu. I've never seen "Be Appreciated"...or it may have come about with an EP I don't have.

Nope, it was Be Appreciated in actions' queue when some townie started to behave funny, like if she was giving compliments to my Sim and he acted all shy and modest as if not believing all that :rofl: It was cute. And didn't look like what they do when being admired.
I also have all EPs and SPs and it was the first time I saw this interaction. I noticed it started after my Sim greeted that townie girl and talked to her alittle, she said something like "oh you're so cool, some good things will come along your way" and then started appreciating him. Next came that Grand Vampire Count Whatever, first thing he did to my Sim was appreciating him. Maybe Mansion and Garden added this interaction? I installed this SP a couple of weeks ago and yesterday it was the first time I saw that happenning.

katya_stevens

7th Feb 2010, 12:16 PM

Nope, it was Be Appreciated in actions' queue when some townie started to behave funny, like if she was giving compliments to my Sim and he acted all shy and modest as if not believing all that :rofl: It was cute. And didn't look like what they do when being admired.

Did it look like these two images: image one (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v203/Katya_Stevens/Angelos%20Town/1254.jpg), image two (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v203/Katya_Stevens/Angelos%20Town/1255.jpg)? If so, it happened to my sim when she got a good reputation from Apartment Life.

Amairani

7th Feb 2010, 3:03 PM

I can't tell, unfortunately, but it's very possible. It looked to me like a prolonged version of admiration, yet with more animation, talking; I even thought for a moment that was a new flirting interaction. I also had AL for some time and many many Sims of mine had good/highest reputation score, yet never they were appreciated, that's why I thought it came with M&G. And you can tell if your Sims is being appreciated from the icon in his/her action queue.

Nalia

7th Feb 2010, 3:31 PM

Today I saw --for first, mind you-- one of my Sim students cleaning the window with a sponge. I thought he was bored or something, but the next [Sim] day he did it again. Great! I've got my first window cleaner. lol

lg135

7th Feb 2010, 5:50 PM

I've noticed the "Be appreciated" action as well. I have all the EPs except Pets and BV, so I figured it was a FT or AL thing... sounds like it's AL from though. I love it, it's like the sim is pouring their heart about how wonderful my sim is - and if they're outgoing they take it in like, "Yeah, I know I am just THAT awesome!!" Shy sims don't seem to believe that they're really talking about them.

As for me, I finally used the "Hot Smooch" and "Love Talk" options from NL. What can I say, I never use those booth chairs ^^;

^Oh yeah, my sims are more likely to clean or look out the windows when I don't have enough entertainment items for them.

tlynnjpeg

8th Feb 2010, 1:48 AM

Well how 'bout that? The last EP I have is Freetime, so I'm guessing maybe AL, or I've just missed it everytime it's happened (or perhaps it just coincidentally never happened).

And I just played with the booths too...how long have I had NL now?

I discovered that when sims go hiking, they can find things and bring them back and meet people! This want is far less obnoxious now.

Invertin

8th Feb 2010, 2:54 AM

I've discovered the fun of genetics. That sim plus that sim equals a facial structure similar to this one, allowing me to add this sim and give a facial structure more like this...

Basically I'm trying to work my way to creating a custom sim without ever entering the editor.

At least until I get bored of that and go back to robots, werewolves and regular mad science. :D

Squirrel

12th Feb 2010, 11:20 AM

That when a sim digs for treasure they can hit a water main!
So funny. And when the water started shooting into the air my sim just tried to run away! Oh no you don't, you get back there and fill in that hole Mrs Irresponsible!

ashleiighbabes_ox

12th Feb 2010, 12:31 PM

that i'm not very good at carrying legacies on, and get bored after about 4 generations & all the kids start to look the same :/

Ghost sdoj

12th Feb 2010, 2:57 PM

If all the kids are looking the same, find a townie with some different genetics to spice things up. I'm not suggesting one of the super-uglies, (although they might balance your family well) but find one with a facial feature that is somewhat different from your family.

(And don't forget to roll the pacifier)

Prosthetics

12th Feb 2010, 3:09 PM

I always marry in an Ivy Copur type. That always sets off the genetics within my families, and then I have fun getting them to look "normal" (i suppose that's the word I'm looking for...) Of course, you could always go for disorder by filling the household with lots of people. (I would say pets also, but it doesn't appear that you own it..)

There are LTW's to fill, careers to top, or not. Let your families drop back into poverty (because mine are always filthy rich by the second generation, soooo not realistic) Have them try something new (there's always new stuff...)

Bellasaurus

13th Feb 2010, 11:45 AM

(because mine are always filthy rich by the second generation, soooo not realistic)

That always happens to me too... I always find myself setting their money back to zero, even then, it only takes a few days to get quite high again.

Maranatah

13th Feb 2010, 4:15 PM

^ I use a mod that makes sims inherit a really, really small amount of money after someone dies. So money won't fall from the sky :)

Prosthetics

13th Feb 2010, 4:56 PM

All the inheritence that my sims receive ends up paying for the passing sims funeral costs, usually they pay 10,000 simoleons to bury them at the graveyard, and 50,000 or so for the funeral. It's still unnatural how the sims get so rich so quickly! XD

BL00DIEDHELL

14th Feb 2010, 2:55 AM

I used to be able to create bloody massssiveeee houses for my Sims and their 34565746473534 kids and still have a shitton of Simoleons left over. I hope that happens again this time >.>;;;

cheshirekat

14th Feb 2010, 5:37 AM

I think I must be too much of a liberal or something because I find it difficult to make my sims filthy rich - to the point where several generations can sit on their hands. I have been trying without changing my habits too much. For me, it is always the same - once they reach about 600,000, they get involved in enough activities and projects that they don't get to pocket millions of ever-growing simoleons.

I did find that it is easy to spend/waste a lot of money for a wealthy sim with a business lot. All I had to do was remodel and change the purpose of the business lot. In one lot, I sold clothing for a couple days, changed it to a pay site, remodeled, went back to selling clothing and a few more items, took a few days to goof off and make toys, remodeled, hired some unnecessary but useful employees just to keep the customers happy to have both a retail and pay lot.

What I have to keep in mind with my rich sims is the price of stuff. Most of the maxis stuff I don't like. But the majority of cc I have downloaded is very cheap and inexpensive, but I love love love the way they look. I can't use too much of the stuff I love when my sims get rich if I aim to have them use up the money they earned. This means my lots never look great to me, they just look good enough because I avoided the great -looking cc when decorating. Using the expensive decor makes all my houses and lots look the same.

It is not rocket science to make money, but I still find it very easy to get rid of money so my sims don't get overly rich without using taxation for the entire hood. My sims provided the seed money to start a women's center for the retail employees as one of their do-good activities to get rid of money this week. Next week, some other community need will be addressed.

From my end, Utopia seems very possible without boredom.

stygia2002

14th Feb 2010, 10:24 PM

Cheshirekat I know what you mean...the game gets boring without my sims having something to work towards...alot like real life actually. ;) I'm getting back into playing the Sims 2 after a long stint of World of Warcraft. I discovered today that it's really hard to "relocate" and "reinvent" an existing family. I moved one of my main families into a "homestead" and they boo everything :D apparently they keep their high standards. So much for teaching my sims to simplify. :)

SimMegaptera

15th Feb 2010, 12:18 AM

I discovered sunburns! Or rather, James discovered sunburns on the last day of his family's vacation. He now has a rather painful-looking red overlay.

I_Love_Simming

16th Feb 2010, 3:16 PM

Yesterday, i was playing some sims that live in a mansion. They were throwing a double birthday party, so i thought, hey..i could put some of them things that spurt of fire like the ones the have at "P.U.R.E", too make it look cool, and theres plenty of room...so i found the 'Hottcorp Burning 8-R Series Fire Jet' as its called, in the catalog (under decorative/misc if your wondering..) and placed four in the house for the party. NOT A GOOD IDEA. Turns out, they are not meant for inside, and each one caused a massive fire. The party mostly consisted of sims screaming about and doing the 'omg fire' dance. So thats one thing i discovered, to NOT put them things in a house.

And also, it has an amusing description:

http://i47.tinypic.com/63suuv.jpg

Each one has a baby dragon inside it :lol:

Second thing ive just discovered, also includes fire, is that the tinkering train set can catch fire if operated for to long..

http://i48.tinypic.com/2mmko7.jpg

This was so unexpected, i had no idea this could happen. I just watched in shock as it burned away, and incidentaly a sim (in the picture) that came home from work with one of my sims ended up burning to death in it. Damn. Bet he didn't see that coming when being invited over for dinner..

KittyKuba

16th Feb 2010, 4:03 PM

All of the above is too hilarious. :rofl:

AlexandraSpears

16th Feb 2010, 4:30 PM

I've found out that when you put an active Sim on the workout machine, their Fun meter goes towards green--a lazy Sim, it'll go towards red, because to them it's a chore. Likewise, neat Sims' Fun meters go towards green when they're cleaning.

Outgoing Sims go naked in the hot tub. I once had two Outgoing Sims married to each other, so you can imagine the fun in the hot tub! (Pixelated, of course.)

Grouchy Sims have the Crank Call option. (Lock your doors BEFORE calling!)

Fun-loving Sims (direct opposite of Serious) have the option of Play With in the bathtub.

Active Sims eat more. Good thing I have the option of putting huge-capacity refrigerators in their homes!

If you mouse over Skills, etc., it'll tell you that nice, outgoing Sims have an easier time building Charisma points, Active Sims are better at building Body points, etc. So I choose their aspiration/career based on their personality, that way they have a better chance at reaching the top. No way would I have a lazy Sim pursue an Athletic or Military career.

One thing I learned months ago when I had just Sims Life Stories--Social Workers take away children when they don't do their homework. I had just been starting out in the game, and didn't it make sense to keep the child home while he's sick with the flu? Social worker came and took him AND his baby sister. Oh well. Some things you learn the hard way.

(Meanwhile, in the real world, in my son's school district, a child has to be fever-free for 24 hours before attending school. Heh.)

zauberlinda12

17th Feb 2010, 12:35 AM

Kat Warrior

17th Feb 2010, 12:55 AM

I'm pretty slow on the uptake; I've had this game for at least three years and just today discovered "Secondary Aspirations" and how to choose them. Of course, I also made the mistake of choosing "grilled cheese sandwich" aspiration for one, so now all her wants are completely stupid. :| I hope they change to something not sandwich related at some point.

Ghost sdoj

17th Feb 2010, 1:49 AM

Grilled cheese wants are all sandwich related. Sorry.

You can get her aspiration score to platinum and use the renu-yu senso orb to change aspirations to something better.

tlynnjpeg

17th Feb 2010, 7:03 AM

If it's just a secondary aspiration, I've noticed they tend to alternate between all being sandwich wants to being all related to whatever the primary aspiration is. It'd be nice if EAxis gave us that happy medium and actually blended the primary and secondary aspiration wants.

Ketinka

17th Feb 2010, 1:07 PM

I've only relatively recently discovered that the "Mac 'n' Cheese" the sims make is not, as I originally thought, a Big Mac with cheese a la McDonalds. I did wonder why they were making them in bowls - I thought perhaps burgers are served in bowls in America :-p

P.S. I may have posted this before; if so, sorry. The thought of trawling through 213 pages to check...

ginrouken

17th Feb 2010, 1:10 PM

That you CAN leave a child home alone for awhile.

His parents just got job promotions which changed their work hours. The earliest Mom got home was 4pm... 1 hour after he got home from school.

The only "reprimand" I got was a message that said "its not a good idea to leave your child home alone for any length of time" or something like that. I thought the social worker would show up.

Be careful that if you keep getting this message every sim day, the social worker will come eventually. These warnings are like "strikes" counting against you before they come.

Pescado has the sshack mod at MATY that makes the social worker come only if the kid's left alone for too long (in case of dead parents) or being abused (left hungry forever, etc). It's a real life saver for these cases when the parents' work hours don't match the kid's, but don't justify a nanny. ;)

Menaceman44

17th Feb 2010, 6:33 PM

999rozes

17th Feb 2010, 11:48 PM

I found an alien spaceship when playing Distertia Valley... then I see the rubbled heap of a space ship LOL this was at Neighbourhood Mode btw

zauberlinda12

18th Feb 2010, 12:02 AM

Be careful that if you keep getting this message every sim day, the social worker will come eventually. These warnings are like "strikes" counting against you before they come.

Pescado has the sshack mod at MATY that makes the social worker come only if the kid's left alone for too long (in case of dead parents) or being abused (left hungry forever, etc). It's a real life saver for these cases when the parents' work hours don't match the kid's, but don't justify a nanny. ;)

Thanks for the tip. I try to never use the nanny in my games. She's more trouble than help imo.

Liminal

18th Feb 2010, 1:01 AM

I learned today that resurrecting old sims isn't exactly the greatest idea. My elder sim hit 100 days old so I thought..hey lets resurrect his wife..few minutes later the place is on fire. Seems like his wife isn't exactly technologically friendly and managed to light the model train set on fire. =]

Kailacat

18th Feb 2010, 2:11 AM

For nannies I just lock them in a room with no doors and motivedecay off while the baby sleeps, that way she won't bother the baby and won't light the house on fire or anything.

Amtram

18th Feb 2010, 3:24 AM

Bellasaurus

18th Feb 2010, 7:17 PM

I had two sims on a date, and they were flirting/caressing hands when the food arrived. The waitress had to stand there for a bit, then suddenly lost her balance and dropped the tray, and food went flying!

That happened to me too - only the waitress didn't actually have to wait for anything, just came up and spilled the food. My sim got a bad memory from it too - 'Had food spilled over me' or something to that effect.

zauberlinda12

19th Feb 2010, 1:12 AM

I hope this doesn't sound age-ist because it is not intended to but for the first time I had an adult male sim (Nervous Subject) that was attracted to an elder female sim (2 lightning bolts!) that he saw at a nightclub.

They are both family sims and they immediately adopted a child after they got married and are living happily and woo-hoo-ing all the time :lovestruc

AlexandraSpears

19th Feb 2010, 2:37 PM

I've had Adult Sims be attracted to Elder Sims of the opposite sex, whether it's Adult male and Elder female, and vice-versa.

Guess your Nervous likes those older women, huh...? :)

stygia2002

20th Feb 2010, 1:12 AM

Ah yes...the cougar fad has invaded our game :D I should make a Hugh Hefner sim to even things out :)

nuc001

20th Feb 2010, 2:19 AM

I didn't realise that sims can hand over babies directly to and from one another without having to put them on the ground first...guess I don't play lots with babies often enough lol.

Evanlee

20th Feb 2010, 2:30 AM

All the CAS adults in my game are swingers. Seriously. They all are happily married, and all have at least one bolt for every other adult sim in the game, and none of them are Romance!
It. Is. Ridiculous. I foresee lots of slapfights in my future >.<

Amairani

20th Feb 2010, 9:30 AM

Kids can slide down the spiral stairs! I've never seen this before. Looks unsafe, but Sim parents don't seem to care :D

Maranatah

22nd Feb 2010, 5:21 PM

a "Gussy Up"-want... :D And that Xander Roth is actually really cute as a teen!

Amairani

23rd Feb 2010, 9:42 AM

All Sims are left-handed! Just watch them writing in diary.

Selly_2009

23rd Feb 2010, 12:55 PM

All Sims are left-handed! Just watch them writing in diary.

I think they're actually ambidextrous! Watch the kids and teens (and YAs if you have Uni) doing their homework - they use the RIGHT hand for that!

I've noticed the left-handed diary entries though...

Amairani

23rd Feb 2010, 8:34 PM

our Sims are full of wonders :D I will go and look at them doing their homework now.

I noticed a little violent behaviour today or at least it was imposed as one, when kids were playing Cops and Robbers. If one of the kids falls down (as if being shot), the other comes up and kicks the laying kid with a foot! The foot does not actually touch the laying kid, but there's a "thud" sound as if it does, and the foot goes rather close to the face area, as if the kid intended to kick in the face. I didn't believe my eyes. More than four years and TS2 still surprises me...

broo

28th Feb 2010, 12:33 AM

That if you make a sim hold a toddler he or she has good relationship with the todd might give them a little peck on a cheek :) It's so cute!

Prosthetics

28th Feb 2010, 12:51 AM

That's adorable to see when it happens! ^_^

Chaser26

28th Feb 2010, 2:53 PM

That if a sim is woohooing in a hot tub they can get struck by a bolt of lightning, haha I dont think they were expecting that. . .

And has anyone ever noticed this because I just thought of it, there isnt ever a garbage truck. You always have to put all your trash in the can outside but it never even gets picked up.

AlexandraSpears

28th Feb 2010, 6:02 PM

I just got Pets (my birthday was yesterday and I managed, through birthday money, to get 3 EPs over this weekend) and it seems cats are more low-maintenance. I had a Sim family adopt a kitten, and it already knew to use the litter box--for which my Sims praised it.

Boy, do those kittens look so lost in those huge pet beds!

zauberlinda12

28th Feb 2010, 9:47 PM

This is new to me: A sim (who just ate) went back to the fridge before I could stop the action. He (a young adult) opened the fridge door and instead of getting something out of the fridge he hung from the door and started swinging from it yelling "weee!".

Prosthetics

28th Feb 2010, 10:03 PM

Yeah, really playful sims will "play" with the fridge.

AlexandraSpears

1st Mar 2010, 10:31 AM

Yeah, really playful sims will "play" with the fridge.

Mine do that if their Aspiration meter is low.

Menaceman44

2nd Mar 2010, 7:50 PM

I discovered that when I play my Sims 2 games on my Windows 7 machine a duplicate EA Games folder is generated in My Documents but it's empty. I'm thinking of setting its properties to hidden because even if I delete it a new one gets created the next time I play.

Amairani

3rd Mar 2010, 8:53 AM

I found a glitch which concerns a headmaster, it happened twice already.

An elder Sim greeted a headmaster in both cases, proceeded with shmoozing, earned some points and once the clock striked 6pm, died of old age. Grief in the family blahbla. Okay, immediately I commanded other Sim in the family to continue with getting into a private school. Fail! Not only all the points earned by the elder have dissapeared, the headmaster could not be made to do anything, he wouldn't follow the house tour, he would just stand there, he wouldn't eat, the sims couldn't talk to him - all interactions' options on the headmaster are clickable, but nothing happens. So the time runs out, headmaster says the household sucks.
When it happened the first time, I thought it was a one time glitch, but now I know not to make a Sim that is set to die the evening the headmaster comes to have any point-earning interactions with him.

Ghost sdoj

3rd Mar 2010, 8:36 PM

Another glitch with the headmaster: DO NOT have snapdragons in the room when you call him to dinner. Mine let off their pink cloud, and the tiny motive boost apparently counted as the dinner instead of the nice meal that was waiting. So I got 2 points for food. :(

aaries16

4th Mar 2010, 12:06 AM

I learned that sims, no matter what age, will always get pissed off at their mother for making out with a new boyfriend even if the sim has never even met their biological father. I understand being grossed out, but don't hate her for it.

Amairani

7th Mar 2010, 6:14 PM

o_O

It happened a moment ago. I wasn't actually playing the sims but decorating my custom downtown for Strangetown. I spent quite a time in neigbourhood view, placing stuff all over the downtown and in the end I begun placing big rocks around cooling towers, when an UFO appeared out of nowhere, hovered above one of the cooling towers, sent its beam of light as if planning to suck up the cooling tower's workers and remained in that position for few seconds; then the beam dissapeared and UFO was gone as well.

I'm still sitting here with "huh?" expression on my face.

Chaser26

7th Mar 2010, 7:20 PM

I was watching the pet commercials on the sims tv, and i found out on the one commercial where they are barking at the little girl, that she is actually doing the pee dance. :-)

ginrouken

7th Mar 2010, 7:32 PM

....an UFO appeared out of nowhere....

UFOs will appear on any neighborhood with a crash site. :D If you want UFOs in your other 'hoods, just put the crash site anywhere and stay idle in hood view for a while, eventually the UFO will come inspect it. :cylon:

Amairani

7th Mar 2010, 9:34 PM

UFOs will appear on any neighborhood with a crash site. :D If you want UFOs in your other 'hoods, just put the crash site anywhere and stay idle in hood view for a while, eventually the UFO will come inspect it. :cylon:

Awesome, I didn't know that :lol:

Ghost sdoj

8th Mar 2010, 12:57 PM

Ufos also seem to like that stonehenge decoration a bit. I had one investigate that too.

Amairani

8th Mar 2010, 1:41 PM

I'm tempted now to stay idle in Strangetown's neighbourhood view and wait for the UFO to visit again. In my case they were interested in cooling towers, funny aliens.

Menaceman44

8th Mar 2010, 7:51 PM

The neighbourhood UFOs were added with Pets and will scan crash sites, water towers and Sim Henge that I know of.

lg135

9th Mar 2010, 4:46 AM

I learned the "Gestures" that came with Apartment Life can be used as a greeting and as a parting farewell. My sim has a neighbor who always uses "Fake Out" when he's trying to leave. Very interesting :3

AlexandraSpears

9th Mar 2010, 12:11 PM

I just got Apartment Life yesterday and while I have yet to have Sims rent an apartment, I'm enjoying the increased number of options.

(Suck Face option for kissing? BWAhahahaha!)

AlexandraSpears

9th Mar 2010, 3:35 PM

I just discovered something about the age cheat.

When you age a Sim down to Teen or Child, their grade starts out as an F.

If you age down to Child, quickly save the game and use SimPE or whatever to set the grade to C (which is what they automatically start with when they age-transition from Toddler to Child). Otherwise the Social Worker comes to take them. (Good thing I'd saved the game! I'm having twin orphans cared for by some guy but I don't want them to be adopted.) I also had to change their aspiration back to Grow Up using SimPE, and now I have to erase memories of first kiss.

I also had their foster father use the van to drive them to school to be on the safe side--when you first move in, it's Monday morning, after 8 am, and the bus seldom if ever comes at that point. There have been a few instances where the bus comes the minute the family moves in, but for me 99% of the time it doesn't show up. Either the kids get a free day off, or Mom or Dad can drive them, and they come home on the bus.

(Speaking of days off, once I had a Teen Sim who got to stay home due to a snow day. He was cheering.)

I_Love_Simming

11th Mar 2010, 3:42 PM

Ive just discovered a couple of interactions i never knew existed. A romance sim was on a date, and they were sat in a booth dining. And when i clicked on his date while they were still in the booth there was a "Love Talk" option and a "Hot Smooch" option to do in the booth. This is probably just for romance sims, but i carnt believe ive never seen them before after over 3 years of playing...

AlexandraSpears

11th Mar 2010, 4:29 PM

tlynnjpeg

11th Mar 2010, 5:12 PM

I think it's the booths, regardless of aspiration. I just discovered them not too long ago as well.

I_Love_Simming

11th Mar 2010, 7:16 PM

Teen, Young Adult, or Adult?

I'll have to give that a try. I hardly ever play Romance Sims myself.

I did it with teens, but im sure it works with all ages :) And like the person above said, it might just be the booths and not just romance sims, ill have to try that out.

Prosthetics

13th Mar 2010, 4:28 AM

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/ComaB/1.jpg

lol

AlexandraSpears

13th Mar 2010, 7:23 PM

I did it with teens, but im sure it works with all ages :) And like the person above said, it might just be the booths and not just romance sims, ill have to try that out.

Not just Romance. I just did this with a Family and a Fortune Sim.

Basically there has to be the Dining action in the queue, not Eat. Your Sims can do this before they eat, when they're dining, or when they're finished eating, before someone pays the tab.

I tried this in the booth.

zauberlinda12

13th Mar 2010, 8:08 PM

This occurred in my game for the first time...

Sim's wife was on the toilet. He walked into the bathroom to take a shower. He just stepped under the water when his wife finished and flushed the toilet.

It shocked me when he started yelling and sim-swearing in the shower. He jumps out of the shower, quickly walks over to her and starts yelling and pointing his finger at her...she had her back to him because she was choosing an outfit to wear for the day so it looked like she could give a sh** :lol:

AlexandraSpears

13th Mar 2010, 9:23 PM

Menaceman44

13th Mar 2010, 9:41 PM

Prosthetics, I don't get it. :/

ginrouken

13th Mar 2010, 9:42 PM

^ Tyler Durden is the protagonist of Fight Club (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club). "Tiler" (because it's a tile, get it?) Durden is typical EAxian humor. :lol:

Prosthetics

13th Mar 2010, 10:07 PM

I couldn't stop grinning when I saw it, so I posted it in hopes that someone would get it. xp

ginrouken

13th Mar 2010, 10:29 PM

I have stopped in the middle of building a lot just to read all the titles/descriptions on the items and laugh my head off, so I get where you're coming from :lol:

Maranatah

13th Mar 2010, 10:34 PM

Probably because when you flush, it hogs up the cold water, and the poor schlub taking a shower becomes lobster thermidor.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Well said! :lol:

I discovered, that with a little bit of imagination you can make something fine with Base Game. :) And that creating lots is... addicting...!!!

lg135

13th Mar 2010, 11:58 PM

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Well said! :lol:

I discovered, that with a little bit of imagination you can make something fine with Base Game. :) And that creating lots is... addicting...!!!

One of my favorite homes ever from MTS is base game, no CC. And it's a MANSION =D

Menaceman44

14th Mar 2010, 12:08 PM

^ Tyler Durden is the protagonist of Fight Club (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club). "Tiler" (because it's a tile, get it?) Durden is typical EAxian humor. :lol:

Now that you've explained that, the description makes so much more sense and I actually get it!
I have seen Fight Club but I have a terrible mind for names. Especially character names.

AlexandraSpears

14th Mar 2010, 2:56 PM

^ Tyler Durden is the protagonist of Fight Club (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club). "Tiler" (because it's a tile, get it?) Durden is typical EAxian humor. :lol:

My husband named our son after Tyler Durden.

AlexandraSpears

14th Mar 2010, 3:00 PM

One thing I have noticed...the game acknowledges relationships no further than first cousin. First cousin once removed, it doesn't list that relative as family (the child of your first cousin is your first cousin once removed). I even had second cousins marry and have children once.

It does not acknowledge grandaunt/uncle as family either. I don't know if it would acknowledge great-grandparents...I have yet to see a Sim live to see a great-grandchild without not playing them and leaving them in a kind of "limbo" (closest I got, they died the day before the great-grandchild was born).

zauberlinda12

14th Mar 2010, 3:14 PM

Probably because when you flush, it hogs up the cold water, and the poor schlub taking a shower becomes lobster thermidor.

Yes - I know why he did it. I just meant it had never occurred in my game before. :)

ginrouken

14th Mar 2010, 3:22 PM

My husband named our son after Tyler Durden.

lol your husband is awesome :up:

About family ties, no the game doesn't recognize great-grandparents, removed cousins or anything past two steps of distance as family. You still have the relatives show up in the genealogical tree if you go back, but the two sims don't recognize each other as family. It's kinda sad when you're playing legacy style and the kids don't have the option to family kiss their great grannies.

AlexandraSpears

14th Mar 2010, 3:30 PM

Yes - I know why he did it. I just meant it had never occurred in my game before. :)

Heehee....sounds pretty funny. Too bad you weren't able to get a video capture.

tlynnjpeg

14th Mar 2010, 7:29 PM

lol your husband is awesome :up:

About family ties, no the game doesn't recognize great-grandparents, removed cousins or anything past two steps of distance as family. You still have the relatives show up in the genealogical tree if you go back, but the two sims don't recognize each other as family. It's kinda sad when you're playing legacy style and the kids don't have the option to family kiss their great grannies.
For legacies, I usually go in to SimPE and put up the Family flag, but just leave it as an unspecified relation. Helps keep me from accidentally marrying those third cousins fourth removed that I lose track of in the later generations.

AlexandraSpears

15th Mar 2010, 12:55 AM

I also found out that going elsewhere on a college campus is not exactly the same as being on a community lot--if you have to be at class at 5 pm, you start walking from the student union (or wherever you happen to be) at 4 pm.

If you want to go on a date during college, don't go anywhere on campus. That clock is ticking. (Yet you still come back to your dorm or house the same time you left, how weird is that?)

Ghost sdoj

15th Mar 2010, 2:13 AM

don't stay in your dorm for a date either, or your date will wander into one of the other rooms never to be seen again.

ginrouken

15th Mar 2010, 2:18 AM

For legacies, I usually go in to SimPE and put up the Family flag, but just leave it as an unspecified relation. Helps keep me from accidentally marrying those third cousins fourth removed that I lose track of in the later generations.

I do that in SimPE too, but since SimPE actually takes longer to load for me than the game itself (5 minutes for SimPE, 2 for the game), I don't feel like playing with it too often. I just make them Hug/Friendly for the caps if I need some family loving.

(Yet you still come back to your dorm or house the same time you left, how weird is that?)

The engine works like that because if you're controlling more than one YA in the dorm/house, if the clock continued ticking, by the time you came back from the date/outing, your other YA would have missed their classes.

AlexandraSpears

15th Mar 2010, 1:53 PM

I found out that adult Sims age at 6 pm on college campus.

This is because one of my Sims married her professor...and every time they WooHoo she's doing better in class....

aaries16

17th Mar 2010, 4:05 AM

I just found out that the New Age station is full of music from Sims 1. I thought the shopping station was the only one with Sims 1 music. And the New Age one has the better Sims 1 music too.

Gethsemani

17th Mar 2010, 6:09 AM

Today I learned more about using CCs n_n
I can totally change my sims face ;B and I got some cute contacts so they dont have that FUGLY maxis eye color :)
I also discovered that Im kinda bored of my legacy :( the wheelers and I started playing with one of my first chars, a college version of me, she had a romance aspiration and well... she liked to get around, but I just decided that I wanted her to date her college bff (they already had the crush status) and it was easy, I kinda like having a girl-girl relationship.... and they adopted a kid :B Never done a lesbian couple and I discovered that instead of Propose- Marriage its Propose - Joined Union.

AlexandraSpears

18th Mar 2010, 4:24 AM

If you have married Sims on campus, when one transitions to Adult and leaves, the left-behind spouse starts sobbing. :(

But their relationship scores remain what they were.

Maranatah

19th Mar 2010, 9:37 PM

I discovered something few days ago... This:
http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww35/Maranatah/ScreenShot194_2.jpg
I was in CAS and clicked one time the dice to generate random sim. And this was the result! I had no idea that an alien-faced sim could be generated! So my jaw really dropped... I can't stand that default alien look!

psivampyr

20th Mar 2010, 7:46 AM

I discovered that if you don't have all of the expansions and you install a house, the game doesn't remove all the CC or the expansion items. I loaded up the house in build mode it looked fine, I added a family and the sky was streaked red, white and black and blue and had words all over it... So I guess if I really want that house I used to play before I lost my expansions, then well, I need to rebuild it again... Uhg, that took me a long time in the first place.

AlexandraSpears

20th Mar 2010, 1:24 PM

One thing I discovered a while back with twin toddlers--they Huggle. It's cute!

ginrouken

20th Mar 2010, 2:42 PM

The huggling came with Apartment Life. It's the cutest thing :lovestruc

AlexandraSpears

20th Mar 2010, 6:02 PM

Hm. I had them Huggling before I even had Apartment Life. Then again, most of my EPs came along with Stuff Packs....

Sims2Storywriter

20th Mar 2010, 6:08 PM

Prosthetics

20th Mar 2010, 7:38 PM

Hm. I had them Huggling before I even had Apartment Life. Then again, most of my EPs came along with Stuff Packs....

Not too long ago I only had the game up to Seasons, and toddlers were huggling then too? :|

TheSimhouse

20th Mar 2010, 7:47 PM

Today I discovered that I can make custom content, I have already made a blue dress :D And, I discovered I can do a really good music video if I put effort to it and never loose motivaton. =)

Exxy

20th Mar 2010, 9:20 PM

I'm sure that huggling came with AL. I re-installed it today, and found the option.

ginrouken

20th Mar 2010, 9:26 PM

Huggling definitely came with AL. But it also comes with Mansion & Garden (same engine), so if you had MG before installing AL you'd have it. If you didn't have either and your toddlers were huggling... I don't know, your game is magical? ;)

ForeverCamp

21st Mar 2010, 1:03 AM

I don't think we could actually solicite huggling before AL. I think it was one of those autonomous actions - like fighting over the bottle.

AlexandraSpears

21st Mar 2010, 2:42 AM

I had Mansion and Garden included with an EP before getting AL. Maybe that's it.

psivampyr

21st Mar 2010, 2:49 AM

I was building a house and I was placing trees, my mouse jumped and the tree planted itself on the roof O_o I did not have move_objects on, I even checked, I tried placing trees in the house and elsewhere. How come I can place a tree on the roof?? I only have Double Deluxe with Celebrations, M&G and BV. It totally blew my mind seeing a tree chilling on the roof.

AlexandraSpears

21st Mar 2010, 3:17 AM

One thing I discovered just now: Sims get Creativity skill points while building a sand castle.

aaries16

21st Mar 2010, 6:22 AM

I just discovered that sims don't have to be in love to woohoo in the photobooth. They just have to like each other.

Menaceman44

21st Mar 2010, 3:33 PM

Maranatah

22nd Mar 2010, 1:59 PM

I noticed a school bus driving in the neighborhood view. How slow am I? ;)

fthomas

22nd Mar 2010, 9:55 PM

^ Lol! (:

Today on the Sims 2, I noticed a vampire downtown. Woah; it was cool! I have never seen one there before! (:

cshada97

22nd Mar 2010, 11:27 PM

I discovered that the way to solve the problem with vampires and windows is to make an underground home, However the Foundation which makes up the walls, is not considered a wall on the game :|

somethingelse

23rd Mar 2010, 12:54 AM

for some reason my children sims seem to grow up gay... is it something i'm doing to them, or is it random? will it effect their pixelated psyche if i change their turnons to something more "straight"? i mean honestly gay sims arrent a problem, but it'd be nice if i could get 1 nice "normal" family going. just to be different...

XTigerBite86

23rd Mar 2010, 1:11 AM

After downloading some custom contents for this game (mainly from this site) and putting them in that Download folder, the game would crash at the Sims 2 loading title. The title right after the video. It would stop loading right in the middle.

Prosthetics

23rd Mar 2010, 1:27 AM

cshada97 - You need to build walls. The foundation is just that: a foundation.

somethingelse - it's an effect based on how you play them. They don't develop preferences until you direct them to do so, by participating in any romantic action.

XTigerBite86 - You downloaded too much, every computer has their limits. Find your balance.

KyleTheArtist

23rd Mar 2010, 2:59 AM

I discovered that sims throw tantrums if you switch a channel on them.

Also, if sim A loses to sim B in games, he gets furious at sim A. If sim A kisses them afterwards, sims furiousness is half gone o_O things you learn.

AlexandraSpears

24th Mar 2010, 6:19 AM

I've noticed that children/teens who live in apartments don't ride the bus to school--at least, when I'm playing a family in an apartment, there is no notice that a bus will show up. I just click on the child/teen at 8 am and select Walk To School.

Yet they come home on the bus.

Menaceman44

24th Mar 2010, 12:57 PM

Yeah that's a known bug/glitch/annoyance with apartment lots.

aaries16

24th Mar 2010, 1:36 PM

Actually I don't get that glitch and I play apartment lots alot. The school bus will show up for the sims who have children, if I'm currently playing that lot, but if I'm not, the kid will just walk off the lot around 8AM. But I do love the option to walk to school. This is great for the kids who are busy doing something when the bus arrives and they miss the bus.

AlexandraSpears

24th Mar 2010, 1:46 PM

I don't mind them walking to school, so long as they go.

I have noticed that when you move into a new place, it's Monday at a little after 8. Your Sims don't get penalized for missing work or school because no bus or car pool showed up, but I still have children and teens walk to school--sure, their Hunger is down some, but they'll eat at school, no biggie.

If it's not too late, I also have any adults walk or drive to work.

AlexandraSpears

28th Mar 2010, 9:43 PM

You can find treasure right in your own back yard.

I had a Sim that was getting a bit short on funds and he and his family had a beachfront lot. He was always digging in the back yard, and he uncovered two maps and a chest of gold. He sold them.

miniaturestar

31st Mar 2010, 5:14 AM

I discovered that the foundation has bootprints on it.

AlexandraSpears

31st Mar 2010, 1:26 PM

Sims will eat lunch at work/school if their Hunger is more than halfway depleted while they're there. I find this useful for Children--make sure they eat at school, so you don't have to feed them at home and cut into homework and fun time, since I've found that Children's Energy decays a bit more rapidly than that of Teens. Also useful for Teens who have after-school jobs.

Eran of Arcadia

3rd Apr 2010, 2:52 PM

I noticed a couple of things:

One, the description for the windmill advises you not to use it as a fan, because windmills "do not work that way". Good night, Linda!

Two, unlike real dogs, my sim dog can't use the bathroom in the backyard. He was fully housetrained according to his info, but he would till pee on the floor, and when I took him outside and told him to pee he whined because he had no access to the front yard (there was a locked gate).

Maranatah

4th Apr 2010, 12:12 PM

I was packing up the pre-made sims from UNI yesterday and noticed, that there's actually quite nice looking sims in the UNI SimBin's. I usually never play them, but now I'm going to. :)

Kailacat

4th Apr 2010, 4:57 PM

AlexandraSpears

5th Apr 2010, 5:50 AM

Haha, I aged kids down to Child once and couldn't for the life of me figure out why the Social Worker kept coming every time I restarted. Eventually I glanced at their grade and was like, "Ohhhhhh!"

Yep, and I've had a time where I aged a Sim down to teen, they started out with an F, went to school, got a D-, and got depressed over it!

Why? That's an improvement! LOL

Prosthetics

5th Apr 2010, 5:58 AM

I learned that more than one date cannot be going on at the same time (what a crock!)

Exxy

5th Apr 2010, 10:11 AM

Prosthetics: I'm pretty sure I've had two dates going on at once, as I had teen twins that I made ask their love interests on a date at the same time.

Prosthetics

5th Apr 2010, 3:27 PM

And I had the matchmaker drop 7 dates on my front lawn for 7 different individuals, only one of them had a date meter.

Maranatah

6th Apr 2010, 4:43 PM

My teen got cought, when he was trying to sneak out. His mom woke up in the middle of the night because of pregnancy and she ran to give him a lecture :D Then two or three notes came up..."Oh my goodness! ...How could you violate my trust like this?!" This was the first time ever that happened in my game.

EDIT// and another thing... I just discovered that besides cheese cake, also eating berry pie will make sim have twins :o I thought it was just the cheese cake.

tlynnjpeg

6th Apr 2010, 6:51 PM

I discovered you can take visitors on hikes. Their names show up in the list of people you want to go with the selected sim, at least.

Exxy

7th Apr 2010, 1:52 PM

EDIT// and another thing... I just discovered that besides cheese cake, also eating berry pie will make sim have twins :o I thought it was just the cheese cake.

Could just be a coincidence. ;)

Selly_2009

7th Apr 2010, 3:55 PM

Could just be a coincidence. ;)

Well, since I learnt (after shovelling cheesecake down a sim's throat all pregnancy and STILL only having ONE child) that un-hacked cheesecake does nothing to induce twins I'm inclined to agree. Maxis borked the code from what I heard :rolleyes:

I've since added TJ's mod to induce twins 50% of the time when eaten... some chance is better than none :)

Maranatah

7th Apr 2010, 8:43 PM

Well, since I learnt (after shovelling cheesecake down a sim's throat all pregnancy and STILL only having ONE child) that un-hacked cheesecake does nothing to induce twins I'm inclined to agree. Maxis borked the code from what I heard :rolleyes:

That's strange... I've had twins every time after using cheese cake. And that was before I loaded a hack to increase multible births. Also I know that someone else have also had twins after eating berry pie. Weird... ;P

feefifofum

7th Apr 2010, 9:09 PM

Today I learned...

1. I can actually survive without cheats! I impress myself.

2. It seems that when sims are asleep, they can gain enthusiasm about things (Freetime) by DREAMING about them!

3. When both parents are pregnant in your household, the game's NOT FUN.

4. Nannies will try to to burn you in your sleep by putting lobster in the oven and leaving before it's done.

AlexandraSpears

7th Apr 2010, 9:47 PM

I think nannies can be hazardous to your Sims' health.

AlexandraSpears

8th Apr 2010, 3:54 AM

Aworldruledbymuffins

8th Apr 2010, 4:05 PM

Well, yesterday I learned that you can give townies makeovers and they actually keep them. Now I'm doing them all a favor by making them beautiful and easier to look at. :P

feefifofum

8th Apr 2010, 7:08 PM

I learned that if the death of your mother is not in your fears, you couldn't care less if she dies right in front of you.

feefifofum

8th Apr 2010, 7:18 PM

Oh! I just went to the art gallery Downtown and saw the awesome flaming toilet in the middle of the garden.
CHECK IT OUT.
Seriously.

Selly_2009

8th Apr 2010, 9:31 PM

I have noticed that toddlers respect privacy. One of my twins had to use the potty, which was in the bathroom, but his mom was in the shower, so he sat there and waited. When she was out, he went.

I've noticed that too. However, this doesn't work the other way - parents will use a bathroom while their toddler is on the potty and the child won't bat an eyelid!

So if your toddler needs the potty, get them in the bathroom first, THEN allow the parents to have a bath/shower. Or have separate bathrooms like you originally said :lol:

Maranatah

8th Apr 2010, 9:48 PM

I discovered that if you hold Shift down while using a wall- or fence tool, you can make a box. And of course this came by accident ;)

InsamePsychoRabbit

9th Apr 2010, 1:11 AM

Unlike real dogs, my sim dog can't use the bathroom in the backyard. He was fully housetrained according to his info, but he would still pee on the floor, and when I took him outside and told him to pee he whined because he had no access to the front yard (there was a locked gate).
You might be able to solve this if you put a couple of shrubs in the backyard. Dogs will autonomously pee on shrubs.

AlexandraSpears

9th Apr 2010, 4:26 AM

I've noticed that too. However, this doesn't work the other way - parents will use a bathroom while their toddler is on the potty and the child won't bat an eyelid!

So if your toddler needs the potty, get them in the bathroom first, THEN allow the parents to have a bath/shower. Or have separate bathrooms like you originally said :lol:

I noticed that too, about the toddler just sitting there when the parent comes in.

I typically have the nursery adjacent to the bathroom, so sometimes I put the potty right next to the bathroom door. That's if there are a lot of Sims on the lot. Currently in Riverblossom Hills, I literally have a full house.

Maranatah

9th Apr 2010, 1:44 PM

This may have been said already, but to me it's new: the scarecrow from SNS is animated- when sim views it, it really scares them randomly :D It was the first time for me to use it.

aaries16

10th Apr 2010, 12:27 AM

Oh! I just went to the art gallery Downtown and saw the awesome flaming toilet in the middle of the garden.
CHECK IT OUT.
Seriously.

I made a sim use a flaming toilet. Of course he did died. But it was an interesting death.

aaries16

10th Apr 2010, 12:29 AM

Well, yesterday I learned that you can give townies makeovers and they actually keep them. Now I'm doing them all a favor by making them beautiful and easier to look at. :P

That's actually one of the best things about OFB. I've given several makeovers to townies, I've forgotten what they originally looked like. And they are so much more stylist now.

feefifofum

10th Apr 2010, 11:03 AM

I made a sim use a flaming toilet. Of course he did died. But it was an interesting death.

I'm going to build a death fortress or something now with FLAMING TOILETS in every bathroom.

I'm cruel, but I'm sure it's better to be cruel to pixels than to people.

Kailacat

10th Apr 2010, 2:52 PM

I learned that the sethour cheat is a REALLY useful cheat.

LittleFallenAngel

10th Apr 2010, 4:34 PM

I discovered that penguins come out earlier than Winter. I never knew that. I always thought they only came out during winter season. XD

Nenya

11th Apr 2010, 12:55 AM

I discovered that vampires will bite you when you invite them over to woohoo >.>

katya_stevens

11th Apr 2010, 10:48 AM

I discovered that penguins come out earlier than Winter. I never knew that. I always thought they only came out during winter season. XD

I once had a penguin walk by in summer...in Twikki Island ¬_¬

AlexandraSpears

11th Apr 2010, 2:19 PM

In college neighborhoods, if you go elsewhere on the campus, you return the same time you left, but the countdown clock to finals never stops winding down. If your final was to be at noon, and you spend 4 hours at a campus lot, your final is now at 8 am.

However, if you visit Downtown, or Bluewater Village, the countdown clock freezes.

PolterGeist44

11th Apr 2010, 3:02 PM

crocobaura

11th Apr 2010, 3:51 PM

Yesterday I got my first plantsim ever. :D It occured naturally, no hacks or anything. It had a baby (kind of let's see what does this option do). :) Well I figured the best way to care for the toddler was to allow it to play in the toilet and hang one of those greenhouse lights on the ceiling. It got sunlight, water, and fun. :lol: Bathing fulfills the water needs for the adult plantsim too.

Clashfan

11th Apr 2010, 6:56 PM

Crocobaura: What a great idea on the toddler playing in the toilet! I hadn't thought of that one I had the adult bathing my baby plant frequently. For the adult he spends a lot of time in the pool. :D

AlexandraSpears

11th Apr 2010, 8:08 PM

I learned that townies are easy key into reaching into top level in some career. If they move in and have friends, you won't need friends for promotion :D

I've always hated anyway how you need friends for promotion.

If you get the black-haired Sim that's dressed really sharp, they're Professional Party Guests with a ton of friends. Not only that, if you make friends with some of those townies, it suddenly turns out they're your boss' cousin, and instant promotion.

Selly_2009

12th Apr 2010, 2:39 AM

I've worked out my own method of caring for Plantsims. I simply give them a large garden (plenty of fruit trees and vegetable plots), easy access to a shower and make sure there's a sunlamp in the living room! That way they can get sunlight and love during the day, and study whatever I want them to during the night. That way the only need I have to manage is the water one. :)
The only thing I don't like about plantsims is once their mood goes into red it takes a lot longer to go green again compared to other sims. But if I can keep them happy overnight then the daylight hours are easy!

Maranatah

12th Apr 2010, 3:11 PM

I discovered the Flaming Bag of Poo for the first time :D I had Jessica Peterson go on a blind date with Gilbert Jaquet and they had the worst time ever. Of course I had to help them a little, as I really wanted for her to have a smelly package. I also have first female werewolf.

EDIT// I also noticed, that you can tell if a baby is going to be sloppy when they grow up. There's flies flying around them when they need diaper changed. I have a hack that makes babies selectable, and it confirmed that Jessica's baby has one neat point.

LittleFallenAngel

12th Apr 2010, 9:19 PM

The daughter from a family I created in CAS but haven't yet moved onto a lot followed my currently played family's son home from school the other day. I knew other sims to have done this from the sim bin, but not ones I've created myself.

AlexandraSpears

13th Apr 2010, 2:49 AM

EDIT// I also noticed, that you can tell if a baby is going to be sloppy when they grow up. There's flies flying around them when they need diaper changed. I have a hack that makes babies selectable, and it confirmed that Jessica's baby has one neat point.

I had wondered about that! Why some babies had that happen, and others didn't.

You can use boolProp to make babies selectable.

piratemiya

13th Apr 2010, 2:49 AM

I noticed that sims make the best faces when being hit by a pillow.

AlexandraSpears

13th Apr 2010, 2:52 AM

I discovered a long time ago that cow mascots and coaches provide free maid and gardening services.

Maranatah

13th Apr 2010, 11:10 AM

I had wondered about that! Why some babies had that happen, and others didn't.

You can use boolProp to make babies selectable.

I first thought that there's garbage somewhere when I heard the flies but then I noticed those came from the crib :lol:
Yeah, I know about testingcheats. I just looove hacks so much ;)

I discovered that playing with werewolf can give a new spin to gameplay. I had avoided that because I didn't like the idea of hairy sims running around but this time I wanted to test it out and it was hilarious to look Jessica lope around the house... while carrying her baby :lol: They really are more fun that I thought. I also experienced the first time the "savage" interaction, so now there's two werewolves running around Megahood. Jessica Peterson and Jenny Smith :lol: Oh, and another thing. I saw, how other sims in the hood behave towards a sim that has bad reputation. They make faces like she/he smells bad :rofl:

Eran of Arcadia

13th Apr 2010, 9:15 PM

You might be able to solve this if you put a couple of shrubs in the backyard. Dogs will autonomously pee on shrubs.

Whaddya know, worked like a charm. Thanks!

AlexandraSpears

14th Apr 2010, 12:33 AM

I found out that Teens don't mind giving Toddlers a ride down the stairs.

Dustin Broke and his two brothers live with their mother and stepfather in a nice house. Dustin was bringing his toddler brother Brandon down the spiral stairs--and he rode the banister with Brandon in his arms! My eyes went wide!

Elfinirish

19th Apr 2010, 1:36 AM

I love how you can throw your cat up and down and then the cat will vomit all over your shoes when you put him back down.

Amtram

19th Apr 2010, 2:01 AM

On Twikii Island South Beach, there's a ghost of a pirate in the Captain's Cabin. He can teach you a sea shanty. Also, on the same lot, the urinal is in the ladies' room.

AlexandraSpears

19th Apr 2010, 6:11 AM

If you have an outgoing Teen who goes naked in the hot tub, they will not get in with an adult, nor will the adult join them. Same if the adult is outgoing--they won't go in with a teen.

Maranatah

21st Apr 2010, 8:34 PM

Sims can invite their guests to go hiking. And guests can be attacked by bees there :lol:

AlexandraSpears

24th Apr 2010, 11:35 AM

I don't know if I mentioned this, but I found out that if a fire breaks out in an apartment, everyone heads outside and meets at the mailbox (and takes any babies/toddlers with them) instead of doing the panic dance.

Maranatah

24th Apr 2010, 2:47 PM

I just noticed, that butlers can order groceries autonomously! I was going to send one of my sims to call the store but butler went first. :) that was a nice surprise.

AlexandraSpears

24th Apr 2010, 5:21 PM

Hmmm...maybe I ought to give having a butler a second chance.

noobkiller138

25th Apr 2010, 1:57 PM

I discovered that on the kid channel, the show with the giant robot is actually footage of 10 story robot for simcity 4!

aaries16

25th Apr 2010, 2:15 PM

Apartment sims are richer than homeowning sims. I just had a wedding between an apartment sim who had about $6000 in his bank account and a sim who was living with her friend in a house with about $9000 in their bank account. The apartment sim did not get a memory of marrying a rich sim, but the other sim did.

Astraea Nevermore

25th Apr 2010, 2:28 PM

I discovered that pre-made houses do *NOT* have lamps included. That means that I left my sims in the dark for more than five years of playing. :lol: I noticed that only after installing GunMod's Radiance Light System, seeing that all my sims' houses were completely dark at night o.O

Maranatah

25th Apr 2010, 7:38 PM

^ That's funny :lol: I think some pre-made houses do have lights, but not enough of course.

I discovered throwing tantrum (or whatever), yelling if someone turns the tv off when one sim is watching it and that maxis eyes actually have quite great expressions sometimes :D I think it's because those have so much that white area...

Yesterday I laughed my eyes out, when I discovered that my sim was not best friends with Santa anymore. There actually came a note saying that, you know... Friends do appreciate keeping in touch ;)

Oh, and that nannies are drawn to cowplants. Autonomously. :lol:

Astraea Nevermore

26th Apr 2010, 1:33 AM

Aaaww, nannies... such strange, silly creatures XD

^ That's funny :lol: I think some pre-made houses do have lights, but not enough of course.

Yep... now I have to control all of my other sims' houses to see how many of them had to suffer at night :lol:

Ok, another thing I discovered recently: sims that woohoo in a public place get entire crowds applauding the couple... and complimenting them when they finish o_____O :rofl: the first time I tried that, half of the female sims in the crowd also got a crush on the guy who was woohooing in the photo-boot, right after seeing him XD

yasmine0615

26th Apr 2010, 3:53 AM

Well I discovered Bon Voyage secret places - and maps!
Shhh! It's a secrert x)

yasmine0615

26th Apr 2010, 3:56 AM

Whaddya know, worked like a charm. Thanks!

Wow.. I should've done that xD
I always used trees! :lol:

AlexandraSpears

26th Apr 2010, 11:22 AM

Ok, another thing I discovered recently: sims that woohoo in a public place get entire crowds applauding the couple... and complimenting them when they finish o_____O :rofl: the first time I tried that, half of the female sims in the crowd also got a crush on the guy who was woohooing in the photo-boot, right after seeing him XD

I wonder why in the world the Sim going to join his lover in the booth acts really sneaky about it.

One time, though, two of my Sims had a party in the fitting room and no one showed up...weird....

katya_stevens

26th Apr 2010, 3:32 PM

That sim-cats can watch someone who's dancing along to the radio. Also, even with an inaccessible bed mod, pets can't sleep on a bed if the empty side is next to the wall.

PolterGeist44

26th Apr 2010, 4:14 PM

I discovered that my CAS female sim has an unused hairstyle (which seems to be a beta version of another hairstyle)
Picture here. (http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/7990/betahairstyle2.png)

Menaceman44

26th Apr 2010, 7:46 PM

That's a hairstyle from the stand alone Bodyshop that was released before the game. Like Beau Broke's hairstyle. They still function in game but just aren't as polished looking.

Garambola

26th Apr 2010, 8:16 PM

Kailacat

26th Apr 2010, 9:12 PM

I discovered that teens can get acne. I thought it was some mod I downloaded, lol.

Maranatah

26th Apr 2010, 10:05 PM

I discovered that teens can get acne. I thought it was some mod I downloaded, lol.

I saw that in my game for the first time not too long ago aswell. They get acne when hygiene is below half way for couple of days or so. There is also then an option in the mirror to put acne cream :)

Selly_2009

27th Apr 2010, 3:15 AM

My poor teens seem to get acne regardless of hygiene levels. I don't think I've had one yet who's escaped, and all of them shower on a regular basis.

AlexandraSpears

27th Apr 2010, 4:01 AM

You can turn aging off if you have an adult move onto a college campus.

I had a college freshman marry the Professional Party Guest downtownie using InTeeminater. I turned the aging off. The downtownie still goes by days and days of the week; the college student by semesters.

However, I won't have college students have children because the young adult age is a detour--a pocket of time, if you will. And I'll turn aging back on when she's in the last half of her senior year, make him a few "days" older than she.

I'd been wondering if I could do that...so I figured I'd give it a try.

smellincoffee

27th Apr 2010, 5:02 AM

I chanced to see one of my Sims (Michael Goth, Cassandra's great-great-great-grandson) kneeling beside his son, who was bawling his eyes out. (I don't know why.) Michael was "consoling" him, and it looked adorable. I've got a picture somewhere..

Apparently if you have your Sims tend and spray gardens constantly, they'll thrive without the "Talk..." interaction. I'm playing a 'Royal Kingdom' variant and my peasants have nothing to do but garden, so they actually have pretty good gardens. In normal play I send Sims to tend the garden whenever it's convenient, so they barely manage 'healthy' unless I've got a gold-badger on the lot.

Restorable cars won't "restore" if they're not on a driveway. I had some of my peasants on a tiny (1x3) lot use the road to work on a car. They could work on it fine, but I ended up having to plunk a driveway extension on the roof and have them work on cars up there for the car to be sell-able.

AlexandraSpears

27th Apr 2010, 10:28 AM

PolterGeist44

27th Apr 2010, 12:15 PM

We discovered that a sim can have a stack of books stuck to his hand. The poor guy looks especially hilarious when he talks on his cell phone and the books go through his head...
Maybe it was because of this that he got so interested in Literature.

The books don't seem to hinder him in any way, they just look very strange. I had same problem with Ripp Grunt, I couldn't get it off from his hand D: That's a hairstyle from the stand alone Bodyshop that was released before the game. Like Beau Broke's hairstyle. They still function in game but just aren't as polished looking. Yea I know. I wish though you it would be possible access the Mortimer Goth hairstyle he wore in The Sims. I wonder why that got cut.

AlexandraSpears

1st May 2010, 2:22 AM

Savalara

1st May 2010, 3:34 AM

That CC is really, really, REALLY awesome. :)

Menaceman44

1st May 2010, 10:04 PM

Having a bedroom in a dormer isn't the best idea during the summer. I had a Child Sim with a dormer bedroom, poor kid kept getting hot (not overheated) and I'd have him get up and drink water. Good thing it was during a weekend. Finally I said, this is enough, and moved his bedroom downstairs and did a bit of remodeling.

Was this in a prebuilt home? A lot of them aren't weather proof. I used one of the prebuilt homes and had to remodel the roof entirely as it snowed indoors on all floors!

devilscrayon

1st May 2010, 11:49 PM

If a sloppy sim is very hungry he will eat out of the rubbish bin. It disturbed me quite a bit...

Maranatah

2nd May 2010, 11:21 AM

If a sloppy sim is very hungry he will eat out of the rubbish bin. It disturbed me quite a bit...

In my Megahood, there's a nanny who eats from the garbage bin every day :lol: I think that's the only sim I really don't mind eating outdoors :rofl:

AlexandraSpears

2nd May 2010, 9:10 PM

Was this in a prebuilt home? A lot of them aren't weather proof. I used one of the prebuilt homes and had to remodel the roof entirely as it snowed indoors on all floors!

One I'd built. Funny thing is, I was able to put a fan in one dormer room (I had 4, 2 in front and 2 in back), but not the others.

If a sloppy sim is very hungry he will eat out of the rubbish bin. It disturbed me quite a bit...

The cow mascots do this all the time when you lock them out. They also water your shrubs.... :blink:

AlexandraSpears

2nd May 2010, 9:24 PM

I found out that if a playable is struck by lightning, their picture shows up as "black-face" until you actually play them and have them take a shower.

For example--My Sim threw a party and invited the Caliente sisters and Darren Dreamer. They were in the hot tub when it started to rain. My Sim wisely got out and headed inside...the others just stayed there, and Nina and Darren got struck by lightning, and Nina wet herself.

So when my Sim would roll wants for Be Friends With (Nina or Darren) their picture would show up blackened (from the lightning strike). I wasn't going to play the Dreamers or the Calientes...but I did just enough to get them to take showers...and find out that poor Nina had the "Had Accident At Party" memory.

EDIT: I think this is with FreeTime--you don't have to fulfill a LTW to go permaplat. If you fill up that one meter (the skinny one to the left of your Sim's Mood meter), your Sim is platinum for the rest of their life. Just satisfy enough of their Wants.

I also found out that Have a Baby is 8000 points for a Sim whose primary OR secondary aspiration is Family. Everyone else, just 5000.

ALSO: More ways for college Sims to make money:

Stargaze with telescope. You may discover an unnamed star and the Astronomy Club will award you 500 Simoleons. This also works for any Sim.

Dig for treasure (requires Bon Voyage EP). Those old bones and everything--they add up. Maps go for 400 apiece if you find those.

Eran of Arcadia

5th May 2010, 12:17 PM

If you Scope Room (at least at a community lot) you will immediately roll a want to talk to whomever you found hot. This was quite handy for my poor teenage Wealth Sim, who was slipping into Aspiration Failure until I got a bunch of wants for her to talk to other Sims she found hot.

ForeverCamp

5th May 2010, 1:13 PM

I discovered that when a Sim combs for seashells on the beach, they can get their finger bitten by a crab:

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff316/ForeverCamp/Pleasantview/tsnapshot_78eb18e6_b8eb58ab.jpg

^^ See? Not a word of a lie!

jodemilo

5th May 2010, 2:14 PM

Discovered yesterday that sims can plummet in an elevator. I have an apartment block I built with two elevators, just so happens that both of them broke at the same time - a pregnant sim and her son who live on the 2nd floor both plummeted. Fortunately they survived.

I thought it was a bit mean of the game to break two elevators at the same time, especially with a pregnant sim. It's like sometimes the game ENJOYS trying to kill off vulnerable sims.

Maranatah

5th May 2010, 8:53 PM

I discovered quarter tile placement-cheat (M&G) and I'm NOT going to play without it anymore :lol: It's awesome!

Eran of Arcadia

5th May 2010, 11:37 PM

I discovered quarter tile placement-cheat (M&G) and I'm NOT going to play without it anymore :lol: It's awesome!

What is it?

AlexandraSpears

6th May 2010, 10:46 AM

Toddlers have a Steal Bottle interaction. I had twin toddlers get into a tug-of-war with a bottle.

Maranatah

6th May 2010, 10:47 AM

What is it?

set QuarterTilePlacement on/off, it lets you place objects to 1/4 tiles, like when you have 2-tiled window and you want to put there 1-tile curtain, you can place it in the center. It activates when you push ctrl+F.

Squirrel

7th May 2010, 4:16 PM

I discoverd a tucan statue in the buyables - i have never seen this ornament before!! *Runs off to purchase spectacles.

Maranatah

7th May 2010, 6:11 PM

...that if you don't want your sim to get a crush on someone they rollerskate with, do NOT make them twirl together... Ethan Barrett was checking their business, a skating park and he ask Alvin Futa to join skating (they were friends and I was planning on making Ethan adopt Alvin) and I tried the twirl-interaction (never done that before, obviously). All of the sudden there were hearts flying everywhere! Well, at least I got a good laugh about it. :lol:

AlexandraSpears

15th May 2010, 1:08 PM

Your Sim needs to watch who they honk off on a community lot. Jessica Peterson just got her rent raised. LOL

PolterGeist44

15th May 2010, 5:25 PM

I discovered that toddlers can go crazy if they play xylophone and have 4 or more creative points. I guess it won't hurt for lil' Mickey Smith (Pollination Technician 9#'s 5th child, if we count adoption of Ripp and Buck)

AlexandraSpears

15th May 2010, 8:28 PM

Maranatah

25th May 2010, 11:46 AM

Sims can get fears about being enemies with their babies :o

I also discovered for the first time SimPE's sim surgery-option ;) Now my darn-so-ugly-royal family looks GOOD! And if they spawn some more, no more ugly babies. B)

AlexandraSpears

25th May 2010, 12:11 PM

Sims can get fears about being enemies with their babies :o

I've found that that's more likely with Popularity Sims. They want to make friends and hate having enemies. They also roll Fears for Death of [name friend here].

Nalia

25th May 2010, 12:29 PM

After all these years playing my Sims, last night I watched one of my Sim students hitting his forehead with his empty fruit cup and laughing hysterically. I think he was drunk! :rofl:

Maranatah

25th May 2010, 4:47 PM

I've found that that's more likely with Popularity Sims. They want to make friends and hate having enemies. They also roll Fears for Death of [name friend here].

Yes, she was a Popularity sim. She also had a fear for death of her toddler :P

I_Love_Simming

27th May 2010, 1:25 PM

Yesterday i found of that if a sim with high creativity plays the guitar or violin, after they've stopped playing there is a sound of a crowd cheering.

Hippo

27th May 2010, 2:09 PM

I discovered how much fun Asylum Challenges are :D

I_Love_Simming

27th May 2010, 5:43 PM

And also just discovered that sims can 'snooze' on a bench (sleep whilst sitting down, rather then lying down)

AlexandraSpears

28th May 2010, 1:18 PM

If you live in an apartment and you're a complete slob, your fellow tenants will complain to you about the smell.

Jessica Peterson has a bad reputation around town, plus she's a slob...so people are leaving bags of flaming poo on her door step and knocking over the trash can.... LOL

Bellasaurus

28th May 2010, 5:37 PM