What did you discover today while playing the sims?

[Peni Griffin]

Wow. Gracie Hawkins was visiting her cousin Annie today, and backed up the commode when she used the restroom. Whereupon she immediately got up and fixed it!

Just - wow. What a great guest! I'm inviting her everywhere!

The only thing I can think of is, I've always played her father Cooper as the kind of dad who, when you say, "The sink's broken" hands you a wrench and says; "Don't think of it as a broken sink; think of it as a learning opportunity!" Absent looming needs failure, and with the exception of mom Ginger (for whom looming needs or aspiration failure has been the default state for most of her life), whoever breaks something in their house fixes it, and doesn't stop till finished. I guess the training took.

I'm sure Cooper is very proud.

[sushigal007]

I always knew sims could nap on the couch, but I never knew they could snooze in armchairs until last night.

[Saturnfly]

Today I discovered the 'console' interaction while a married couple started arguing in front of their young son. The boy ran to his room and cried, and the mother followed shortly afterwards and hugged him and rubbed his head, I almost died. >:

I also discovered that child sims can produce fears of being kissed by their Grandparents, lol!

[VioletPadfoot]

I discovered that when you're in the neighborhood view and click on the little icon for pets, it barks! I had to close the popup and click it again to make sure that's what i heard. ~VP

[Peni Griffin]

Apparently sims can nap on hobby lots. I don't know whether it's spontaneous-only, but Julien Cooke got an outing call from Ty Bubbler, my highest culinary-track sim, when he was tired from committing adultery with Tina Traveller, and I figured there was a) no way he would turn down that call and b) nowhere to go but the hobby lot. But his energy ran into deep orange, and after the outing ended and he called the taxi to go home he autonomously went inside and lay down on a couch to nap.

[smorbie1]

I realized that sims can't use the drawers of a counter that has an appliance tucked into it. makes sense; I can't believe I wondered all these years why sometimes they wouldn't cook.

[Fivey]

Today I discovered the 'console' interaction while a married couple started arguing in front of their young son. The boy ran to his room and cried, and the mother followed shortly afterwards and hugged him and rubbed his head, I almost died. >:

I also discovered that child sims can produce fears of being kissed by their Grandparents, lol!

I've never seen that interaction in my game before! I've heard of it, and seen it in other people's sim videos, but never in my game. The requirements for that interaction seem to be very slim to pick out, and I can't look it up online without getting results for the Sims console games. There are a lot of consolable moments in my game, but it never appears. There should be a mod for it.

[nikel23]

I've never seen that interaction in my game before! I've heard of it, and seen it in other people's sim videos, but never in my game. The requirements for that interaction seem to be very slim to pick out, and I can't look it up online without getting results for the Sims console games. There are a lot of consolable moments in my game, but it never appears. There should be a mod for it.
That interaction is autonomously only. Unless you're using allmenus cheat of course. And I thought such behavior came with FreeTime, because I heard that FreeTime "added" some behaviors such as children will be grossed out when they see their parents making out or such, so I think this one counts too. Well, I'm not really sure.

[Orilon]

I've seen the console action very rarely. Mostly when Pascal Curious would console his half alien child after the child saw him arguing with Vidcund.

The "grossed out" action I've seen a lot more, since teen Sims always get grossed out whenever their parents show any kind of affection if they are in the same room as the teen.

[nikel23]

Oh, wait. What I know is that my kids always run away and cry in their room when their parents are arguing, but I didn't really pay attention if the parents console them. But I did remember they have consoled them several times.

I discovered that the Breadfruit Tree will burn everlastingly, even if you extinguish the tree. The tree will be fine after you put out the fire, but the fire effect will stay there, and will never disappear even if you sell the tree. O.o Good thing that only happened in my test hood...

[SusannaG]

I *think* I've seen "console" about once or twice - very sweet, isn't it?

[frankokomando]

I've only seen it once when the grandpa decided to be mean to his grandson and the grandson was consoled by his mother. It was an 'aww' moment. :)

[DigitalSympathies]

On Paul's reaction tester, there is a "do consolable cry" option that makes any sim cry with the ability for somebody close to them to try and console them. Great for machinima means!

I discovered that cats can greet their "mine" sims when they come home from school! It raced out, sniffed at her a bit, and followed her inside!

Also, the damn dog won't let my sim use the toilet!

[Honeywell]

Looking out the window raises a sims comfort. I couldn't figure out why they kept looking out the window when there wasn't any weather when I finally realized their comfort was low--they were looking out the window to raise it since there weren't any chairs on my test lot. It's such a stupid little thing but I like that it makes it seem like my sims are aware they're inside a comfortable house and gain comfort from that (if you ignore the fact it was a box with no chairs or a door to the outside that is).

[omglo]

That interaction is autonomously only. Unless you're using allmenus cheat of course. And I thought such behavior came with FreeTime, because I heard that FreeTime "added" some behaviors such as children will be grossed out when they see their parents making out or such, so I think this one counts too. Well, I'm not really sure.I've seen the option to console on the menu without using the allmenus cheat. The kid running away crying isn't enough. It only comes up as an option for the player to choose when the child really starts bawling their eyes out for several sim minutes straight.

[Bwinney43]

I discovered that there are shooting stars in the sky! I happen to have my camera on the backyard of the Smith family in Strangetown. It was night time and I was watching some garden when a shooting star was seen in the reflection of the pool! I went back the next night hoping for another one so I could get a picture but to no avail. :c

[margonaute]

http://i411.photobucket.com/albums/pp198/mswn/ts2/6%20McKim/ScreenShot065.jpg
I discovered that cats will dream of cheeseburgers, which is especially funny since not even sims get to eat them in-game. No one can haz!

[omglo]

I discovered that there are shooting stars in the sky! I happen to have my camera on the backyard of the Smith family in Strangetown. It was night time and I was watching some garden when a shooting star was seen in the reflection of the pool! I went back the next night hoping for another one so I could get a picture but to no avail. :cThat seems to happen really rarely. One of my Sims has had the want to see a shooting star locked forever. I don't think he's going to get his wish.

I saw a fear of getting caught two timing today. It rolled while a Sim was on a date on a community lot and is apparently different than getting caught cheating, in some way, since it's a different fear. IDK.

[Saturnfly]

I discovered that you can put any and all neighbourhood deco on lots, without the need for cheats/ hacks!

Just put some down where your lot will be, use the undo button to remove it all, put down the lot size, go back to the deco tab and press redo.

I've only really been using it for bustops, though, and for putting clumps of trees close to the edge of lots.

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Another thing, I didn't really discover anything but was just a witnessed something different scenario, lol.
My newly widowed sim walked her three children to the school bus one morning, and walked out to greet them when they came home. ^.^

[FreezerBunny]

Another thing, I didn't really discover anything but was just a witnessed something different scenario, lol.
My newly widowed sim walked her three children to the school bus one morning, and walked out to greet them when they came home. ^.^

Adorable! I love all the little cute things in TS2. It makes it more realistic. The lack of that kinda stuff in TS3 is what made my quit TS3.

[rogue_55]

I was just recently playing with one of my families that I created. I noticed that Mike Davis doesn't put the toilet seat down after he pees. Not that I often pay attention to sims peeing, but I thought it was funny. He only has 3 neat points. I'm guessing that has something to do with it, but I'm not sure.

There's one other thing I wanted to mention since there was some discussion about burning things. Mike's wife, Melissa actually burned the Grandmas comfort soup that she made for him. Her cooking skill is maxed too. Maybe it was her way of getting back at him for leaving the toilet seat up. lol

[frankokomando]

Since I don't play sim children that much, today I discovered that a child can tease a toddler by acting like they're going to give the toddler a toy and then hiding it behind their back when the toddler reaches for the toy. Then the toddler cries. :D

[SusannaG]

Since I don't play sim children that much, today I discovered that a child can tease a toddler by acting like they're going to give the toddler a toy and then hiding it behind their back when the toddler reaches for the toy. Then the toddler cries. :D

Bet the child didn't have many nice points!

[Aegagropilon]

I can't believe I didn't notice this earlier but very Playful sims, when watching a chess game, will make a dismissive hand motion and "nyeh" sound right before they stop watching.

Difficult -- who has 10 playful points -- keeps autonomously watching her dad Nervous and her boyfriend Gozer play chess...then keeps going "nyeh," before she starts watching the game again. Poor Difficult: she's drawn to the game because those two are her two most favorite guys in the whole wide world, but she still thinks that chess is deadly boring (even with all the cheating going on in it).

EDIT: Maybe this is just part of the normal "watch" loops? I plunked the chess table down in a last ditch effort to avoid complete Armageddon and get the two grumps getting along better; Difficult is due to graduate soon, which means that Gozer is going to be visiting her at her parents' house. (And I don't want a Howitzer-level nightmare when he eventually moves in. Nervous is now sort-of friends with Howitzer -- meaning that he constantly slugs him in the arm under the pretense of playing that punching game -- but Frieda remains rather standoffish towards him.)

[Alijah]

I might be the only person who never realized this before, but the in-game movie decorations, like the movie poster and cutout, are based on the movies your sims can watch on the TV! I feel so stupid for never noticing before!

[joandsarah77]

Today I discovered sim children can with luck on their side get themselves into private school. I'm playing the independent child challenge found on the challenge board here and because the kids have quite a posh house I thought I would try and invite the headmaster. I used a tip I heard of only recently to use as many of those special greet interactions (I think they came with Free Time) Lined up eight of those and gave him a tour. Tried to call for dinner to the pizza one of the kids had ordered-no go he wouldn't come for that. They were still short on points at 82 so I had another child talk to him and as I could see they got along (wonders never cease) I had them chat for the rest of the visit and they got in with 47 for the tour and 50 on the schamooze. He then went to the mother sleeping in the hibernating chamber to welcome the kids in to private school.

I think he's grinning more at seeing her naked in the hibernator then her children getting into the school. :rofl: I like that she gained 8,000 points while she was asleep.

[AlexandraSpears]

I discovered that a couple will still woohoo even if their toddler is in the room eeek! :wtf:

Hm. My toddlers typically get shooed from the room by their parents. Unless they toddle on in while things are going on.

[VioletPadfoot]

Hm. My toddlers typically get shooed from the room by their parents. Unless they toddle on in while things are going on. Mine don't. I'm playing the Test of Time Challenge and there have been quite a few toddlers who sat for the whole show without getting shooed. The older siblings get shooed. Even when a set of teens were getting busy, the child and teen siblings got shooed, as did the parents, but the toddler sister was left to sit next to the bed. ~VP

[DigitalSympathies]

They use TS2 music in one of the trailers for The Dictator! o_o

[Yazoo]

They use TS2 music in one of the trailers for The Dictator! o_o

I noticed that too! I was like whoa. TS2 is so cool its in trailers for movies. And even a commercial for this new kind of wood, that even animals can't scratch up *nods*

As for me, I learned that Alexander Goth cries a lot when he watched Mortimer and Bella fight. *eye twitches* I was like:

"Dude, Mortimer moved on from his wife and went to Dina, get over it. And get used to the fact Dina Caliente will soon be your evil step mother!" Muahahah

I don't know...Have a reverse effect from Cinderella. I am weird, but yeah. I already have a plan, Dina will not be a Goth, teehee. But Brandi will be. No more being broke. From the rags to the riches, woot woot :D

[Alijah]

I don't know...Have a reverse effect from Cinderella. I am weird, but yeah. I already have a plan, Dina will not be a Goth, teehee. But Brandi will be. No more being broke. From the rags to the riches, woot woot :D

Haha, I had the same idea! Well, Mortimer and Bella were reunited, but Brandi Broke ended up with Armand DeBateau. They've got a full house, too, between her 3 boys, his daughter, and Brandi has a bun in the oven, too. Just the way those family sims like it! :)

[NiallHoranIsMine]

OK, this seems lame, but I realized that if your sim is listening to music and you switch it to the Pop station, Katy Perry's Hot N Cold will sometimes play in simlish

[FreezerBunny]

OK, this seems lame, but I realized that if your sim is listening to music and you switch it to the Pop station, Katy Perry's Hot N Cold will sometimes play in simlish

I realized that a week or two ago. I was looking at TS2 videos on youtube, until I came across KP's Hot and Cold in Simlish. I kept flipping through the pop station until I found it :P

[Yazoo]

Haha, I had the same idea! Well, Mortimer and Bella were reunited, but Brandi Broke ended up with Armand DeBateau. They've got a full house, too, between her 3 boys, his daughter, and Brandi has a bun in the oven, too. Just the way those family sims like it! :)


I never got how Brandi was preggers when her husband was dead o.O Just freaking weird. And nah, no Mortimer and Bella. Then have been together for far too long! Time for some different things... :P Besides I have a huge story in for all of them .-.

[Alijah]

I never got how Brandi was preggers when her husband was dead o.O Just freaking weird. And nah, no Mortimer and Bella. Then have been together for far too long! Time for some different things... :P Besides I have a huge story in for all of them .-.

Ah, I use meetme2theriver's cleaned up neighborhood, so the memories are properly arranged in my game ^^. And her third child (the one she is preggers with when the game starts) actually has a mix of her and Skip's genes, rather than just being a clone.

And I loved Mortimer and Bella from the very first time I played them in Sims 1, so when I popped in Sims 2 for the first time and saw Bella missing, the first thing I did was learn how to bring her back!

[AlexandraSpears]

You must have a megahood going, Alijah. Imagine Dustin and Tara.

Once I married Brandi off to Mortimer Goth. He died right after their son was born. Dustin Broke had Alexander Goth for a stepbrother, and believe me, being a Fortune Sim, he enjoyed living it up in the Goth mansion!

[Alijah]

You must have a megahood going, Alijah. Imagine Dustin and Tara.

Once I married Brandi off to Mortimer Goth. He died right after their son was born. Dustin Broke had Alexander Goth for a stepbrother, and believe me, being a Fortune Sim, he enjoyed living it up in the Goth mansion!

My first megahood, and I love it! I'm mixing all kinds of stuff up!

I played the Cordial sisters for the first time today and learned how much fun WITCHES are! They cackle! I love em!

I usually never play with supernatural elements (the zombies and mpreg just freak me out and the vampires are annoying, BLEH!), but I am having a blast with them. And they're actually quite pretty with some proper clothes and hairstyles!

[Fivey]

I feel like the only one who isn't bothered by alien pregnancies. I'm biased though. That kind of happens when your favorite, most memorable sim is abducted and impregnated twice. One of those times being before the day of his joined union. He spent his wedding running to the toilet and barfing. Heh.

I discovered that goodbye kisses aren't counted as first kisses by the game. Erik Swain and Casper Fleurada clearly locked lips, but it still technically wasn't Casp's first kiss. Weird.

[Orilon]

You can't be bothered by alien pregnancies when you've played the Curious house as much as I have. It's not so much the alien aspect that bugs me but the extra kid sometimes. I try to keep my Sim families small because Sim Parents don't know how to take care of the kids most of the time.

[Alijah]

I think my disdain for the alien pregnancies has a lot to do with my parents allowing me to watch Alien when I was little. Watching that chestburster scene when you're 4 years old, it'll do stuff to you.

I did have the same sex pregnancy mod for a little while and that bothered me less, so I think it is really more an alien-bias rather than mpreg-bias, for me. I did remove the mod though because some of the kids were coming out hideous. Malcolm Landgrabb and his husband had a daughter and she looked like a man in a wig. Just way too many male facial features going on there.

[Fivey]

I think my disdain for the alien pregnancies has a lot to do with my parents allowing me to watch Alien when I was little. Watching that chestburster scene when you're 4 years old, it'll do stuff to you.

I did have the same sex pregnancy mod for a little while and that bothered me less, so I think it is really more an alien-bias rather than mpreg-bias, for me. I did remove the mod though because some of the kids were coming out hideous. Malcolm Landgrabb and his husband had a daughter and she looked like a man in a wig. Just way too many male facial features going on there.

It's Malcolm Landgraab, whatdya expect? :P

[Alijah]

It's Malcolm Landgraab, whatdya expect? :P

Touche, he is not what I would call genetically blessed. Still, I wish I had a picture of this kid. She was really something special.

[Yazoo]

I discovered a long time ago, but I thought I would just share it with everyone.

When at a shop, such as "Cold Issue Clothing" or what not. And you have a male Sim if you listen very very carefully he sounds like he is saying "Thank you" but it may come off as:

"Dank You."

[Liv Lukas]

I discovered that you can put any and all neighbourhood deco on lots, without the need for cheats/ hacks!

Just put some down where your lot will be, use the undo button to remove it all, put down the lot size, go back to the deco tab and press redo.

I've only really been using it for bustops, though, and for putting clumps of trees close to the edge of lots.

WOW! Thanks for that tip! I will show it at my next livestreaming tutorial (and give you mucho credit, of course.)

[sushigal007]

Today I discovered that sloppy sims can pee in the shower. XD I'm playing Don Lothario and sent him for a shower and commanded him to use the toilet afterwards. Then I noticed his bladder bar going up while he was in there.

[Darby]

Multitasking ftw! :lol:

[FreezerBunny]

Today I discovered that sloppy sims can pee in the shower. XD I'm playing Don Lothario and sent him for a shower and commanded him to use the toilet afterwards. Then I noticed his bladder bar going up while he was in there.

:rofl:

So very funny.....

[Fivey]

Today I discovered that sloppy sims can pee in the shower. XD I'm playing Don Lothario and sent him for a shower and commanded him to use the toilet afterwards. Then I noticed his bladder bar going up while he was in there.

I noticed that a while back. That's why they make puddles in the shower. Try cleaning that liquid up with a straight face now.

[Peni Griffin]

I always send them to the commode first, but if they're free-ranging at all they'll always head for the shower without stopping first. It just seems more efficient to them.

[Aegagropilon]

Today I discovered that sloppy sims can pee in the shower. XD I'm playing Don Lothario and sent him for a shower and commanded him to use the toilet afterwards. Then I noticed his bladder bar going up while he was in there.

Just wait 'til you've had enough Sloppy sims that you find yourself going "You need to bathe and pee? Okey-dokey! To the shower!" instead of "Oh god, eww D:". Though the bathrooms do get horrific when you have a family composed of nothing but Sloppy sims. (Like the Pilferson/Roque household. Oh god. I'm hoping that the kid Jessie is currently pregnant with has more than two neat points. SOMEONE needs to clean that bathroom since they had to fire the very angry housecleaner Xavier.)

...What? Sloppy sims' bladder and hygiene bars go down at the same rate! Multitasking!

[Alijah]

I've heard that sims can also pee on bushes, but I've never seen it happen. :(

Today I finally got around to really looking through the buy mode catalog and I found that EAxis is surprisingly clever! I never really paid much attention to some of the names and descriptions of the items, but some of them are just laugh out loud funny.

[margonaute]

I learned for the first time today that you can enter a subhood directly from the main neighborhood chooser screen! When I start my game, I always just double-click the neighborhood I want to play to go into it without getting that description screen and the extra button you have to click; but today I was too slow and it popped up. Then I noticed way at the bottom of that screen, below the Play button, are little icons for the BV/Uni/etc. subhoods! So I was able to get straight into my Twikii Island building project without loading my main hood first. I never knew you could do that!

[Alijah]

I just learned that my game is sentient because how else would it know to crash RIGHT AFTER I finished decorating the Goodie's new home and JUST BEFORE I hit the save button!

[AlexandraSpears]

I've heard that sims can also pee on bushes, but I've never seen it happen. :(

Today I finally got around to really looking through the buy mode catalog and I found that EAxis is surprisingly clever! I never really paid much attention to some of the names and descriptions of the items, but some of them are just laugh out loud funny.

I've seen a cow mascot water some shrubs...they're outgoing, sloppy, and lazy.

[nikel23]

Additionally, sloppy and outgoing Sims can pee on campfire and the hydroponic garden

[sushigal007]

I've heard that sims can also pee on bushes, but I've never seen it happen. :(

I've seen that one before, at Bigfoot's cabin. He doesn't have a toilet, so my sim just peed on the bushes. XD I love these little details so much!

[JDacapo]

I feel like the only one who isn't bothered by alien pregnancies. I'm biased though. That kind of happens when your favorite, most memorable sim is abducted and impregnated twice. One of those times being before the day of his joined union. He spent his wedding running to the toilet and barfing. Heh.

I discovered that goodbye kisses aren't counted as first kisses by the game. Erik Swain and Casper Fleurada clearly locked lips, but it still technically wasn't Casp's first kiss. Weird.

I sure as hell ain't bothered by alien pregnancies either - it's nice to see the men actually *having* the babies instead of just doing the fun part. Plus, the birthing cutscene is just plain CUTE!

Also, apparently, customers will complain about employed werewolves. I've had a couple customers complaining about my two werewolf students, and I can't think of anything they had done to displease them. Hella weird.

[nikel23]

When rummaging through thesims2 site, I found the interview about the datarock video made in The Sims 2 in here (http://thesims2.ea.com/community/interview_datarockvideo.php). One of the screenshot shows a scene in the video. Look closely at the lower right corner of the image. It says "Entertainment career reward". Well, clearly it's the different reward it's talking about. Is that thing scrapped or something? It looks like a mirror to me.
http://thesims2.ea.com/images/community/fan_interview/datarockvideo_3_big.jpg

ETA: Oh, wait. I think it's a bit out of the title. But still, I discovered something and I don't feel like starting a new thread.

[kittcat92]

I discovered that sims can be shocked by a naked baby even if the sim is the baby's parent and they just finished changing the baby's twin O_o
http://i1110.photobucket.com/albums/h453/kittcat92/snapshot_7cb9758e_dcc16e81.jpg

[Bwinney43]

I discovered that sims can be shocked by a naked baby even if the sim is the baby's parent and they just finished changing the baby's twin O_o

Sometimes they'll even lecture the baby for pooping in its diaper...

[kittcat92]

Sometimes they'll even lecture the baby for pooping in its diaper...
Yeah I found that out yesterday, I was like "what is wrong with you, why are you lecturing him? He didn't do anything wrong" It was really bad for little Leofrick because he got a double lecturing both from his mother Juilian and Ursula (his fathers second wife, his father Bartholomew is a vampire and has three wives, Julian who is head wife, Ursula, and Cecilia who is the lowest wife so she is not allowed to be a vampire by the head wife because Bartholomew favors her)

[JDacapo]

Sometimes they'll even lecture the baby for pooping in its diaper...

There's a mod called antibabylecture from More Awesome Than You that will curb that. Get that mod and noautotalkthru, and of course nobabyharassment.

[Orilon]

I personally prefer BoilingOil's No Lecture Baby http://www.leefish.nl/mybb/thread-2752.html

Pescado's only stops the adult from lecturing if they have something else in their queue, but BoilingOil's stops lecturing completing.

[Peni Griffin]

Only really inexperienced parents lecture the baby; not worth getting a mod for that. I just cancel the action and tell them to go change the diaper like sensible sims, and they never do it again.

[Fivey]

Only really inexperienced parents lecture the baby; not worth getting a mod for that. I just cancel the action and tell them to go change the diaper like sensible sims, and they never do it again.

My super serious sims always insist on lecturing. My sim Reginald has raised four babies (his alien kid, his ex-wife's illegitimate child with Don Lothario, and his twin daughters with his current wife) and he still lectures babies. I can understand his current wife lecturing (she's also super serious), but not clearly-experienced Reginald.

[VioletPadfoot]

Only really inexperienced parents lecture the baby; not worth getting a mod for that. I just cancel the action and tell them to go change the diaper like sensible sims, and they never do it again. I just had a sim who was on I think it was around her sixth child lecture a baby. The baby's older brother who had minutes before turned into a child was lecturing her as well. In fact it is his aging up picture, him lecturing the baby with his mother in the background doing the same thing. ~VP

[Peni Griffin]

I stand corrected. Maybe I'm just more johnny-on-the-spot telling them to change diapers and mine never get time to.

[MOOKIEBLAYLOCK]

I'm sure to be in the minority , but I love the lecturing. I have Squinges lecture anyone anytime mod and find it quite character enhancing. Baby crapped itself? Lecture it. Paperboy leaves your paper in an annoying place? Lecture him. Mail delivery woman didn't bring you the restaurant coupons you expected? Lecture her. Someone that can't walk and chew gum at the same time insists on dancing? Sounds like a lecture is in order. You have B.O. that would gag a maggot and your going to watch tv? Not on my watch. You ordered a double and the bartender serves you something weak? Hey buddy , I got something for you, no it's not a tip, it's a lecture!

[Darby]

I'm kind of in the middle. My sims don't often lecture babies, whether due to vigilance on my part or some other reason, but if it does happen occasionally before I catch and cancel it, it's just not that big a deal. Haven't paid close enough attention to know for sure, but I don't think it affects the relationship. I don't think the baby even knows it's being lectured. Always seems like a one-sided (non)interaction.

So, antibabylecture is one hack I actually don't use. Partly because it's not a big issue in my game, but mostly because I'm reluctant to use hacks that squash behaviours. I like for my sims to have as many behavioural options as possible available to them, even the ones I'm prone to canceling. ;)

[Josepina]

I discovered Simslice's toddler party stereo. It's a dancing baby on top of a stereo and when it's turned on all the toddler's in the neighbourhood are teleported in and they start dancing to the music. Awww. Then when the party is over the parents come to pick them up. Except witch's toddlers. They have to crawl home while the mum flies. Must be a lesson in discipline as it's an austere road to becoming a witch.

[Yazoo]

I gotta question about "lecturing"

The other day when I was playing, Spencer's grandmother (Yes, started a new family) anyway, she lectured Spencer after she worked out and lost all of her weight. Now, is it possible for a, not very active Sim to lecture someone that is active?

I know its not a glitch or what not. I am just asking, because I want to know what causes "lecturing" or what causes Sims to lecture over not so important stuff. o.O

[Vladora]

Was she working out on a machine that broke after she was finished with it? Parents will lecture their children when they break stuff.

[Yazoo]

Vladora....yeah I think it was actually. So that would make sense seeing one time the piano needed to be tuned and the father lectured his daughter.

[NiallHoranIsMine]

I realized that a week or two ago. I was looking at TS2 videos on youtube, until I came across KP's Hot and Cold in Simlish. I kept flipping through the pop station until I found it :P

Lol. Well I have a sim who really likes Pop music. She was dancing to it pretty much all night and then the song came on, and even in Simlish I recognized it. It made me crack up. Now I've been trying to search for any other songs I know that're in Simlish. So far, I've found none.

[Orilon]

I keep hearing the Simlish version of Ludo's Love Me Dead when my Sims are on vacation in Three Lakes.


I learned tonight that babies can inherit money when a relative dies. Mortimer Goth died of old age several hours after Alexander's daughter Isabel was born. Isabel was listed among the Sims that inherited money from Mortimer.

[Liv Lukas]

Tonight in my Livestream we all learned that if you turn moveobjects on and then click on the road with the eyedropper, all the maxis road tiles show up for you to remove/add crosswalks, make a corner, etc.

I had placed a lot with LotAdjuster and the road in front was a bit borked. So we all got to learn how to fix it together. Cool!

[Aegagropilon]

Once again, I discovered how the little moments in the game never fail to make me smile:

When Joshua's only child Freya boarded the cab to La Fiesta Tech, Joshua stood at the window and looked out -- watching the cab get farther and farther away, I imagine, since Freya kept popping up in his thought bubble -- until Genesis (who is Joshua's ex-girlfriend and Freya's mom) gave him a friendly hug.

[Fivey]

I discovered that using the 'BLEH!!!' interaction on another vampire causes one of two things to happen.

http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/img/7/1/8/6/1/6/4/MTS_Fivey-1295026-snapshot_fcc42fb7_dcc42fc2.jpg

1. The target will BLEH!!! back in approval.

http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/img/7/1/8/6/1/6/4/MTS_Fivey-1295025-snapshot_fcc42fb7_1cc42fba.jpg

2. The target will shake his or her head in utter disapproval, BLEH!!! back, then give a short lecture/instruction, as if demonstrating the proper BLEH!!!ing technique.

[kristie91]

That you can actually delete walls more then one at a time by pressing shift and control at the same time. It makes me a happy bear.

[Josepina]

You only need the control button. Shift to make a square room. Shift+Control will remove flooring and wallpaper per room. Shift to cover a room with wallpaper and flooring (if you only want one wall done place a wallpaper at either end of the wall and shift to fill in the rest). Control to delete one tile.

Control or shift when making diagonal floor tiles. Sledgehammer will delete the entire square. Control will remove the half you want deleted. Shift is flaky and sometimes works with diagonals. Of course you must place a diagonal wall or fence first to make diagonal floor tiles.

[kristie91]

Yeah you can actually just press control to delete multiple walls. Thanks for the info Josepina!
When you delete walls you can delete them even if there is windows, doors, wall covering (wallpaper, paint,etc), and wall hangings on them. It deletes all of them along with the wall.

[Josepina]

I'm thinking you don't get the money back for it though. When building with familyfunds I move or delete stuff on walls including wallpaper. I'll have to double check that.

[Orilon]

Pregnant Sims can play in the bathtub:

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

Alison is a Sim I made in CAS and is married to Beau Broke (that's not the hair I made her with, dang pregnancy hair change) I saw a shower icon in her queue when I clicked on it, it said "play with". Its rare that my adults play in the tub, and I didn't know that pregnant Sims could play in the tub.

[Kristin76]

I was playing the Burbs house today and John and Jennifer were *slow dancing* .... Jennifer twirled John ... I have been playing on and off since Sims2 came out ... never have seen that!

[JDacapo]

Pregnant Sims can play in the bathtub:

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

Alison is a Sim I made in CAS and is married to Beau Broke (that's not the hair I made her with, dang pregnancy hair change) I saw a shower icon in her queue when I clicked on it, it said "play with". Its rare that my adults play in the tub, and I didn't know that pregnant Sims could play in the tub.

That's weird... does hair change for most pregnant sims, or just for certain styles? 'Cause I've had pregnant sims and they have never changed their hairstyles *is confused*

[Orilon]

It seems to be certain styles. About 98% of the time my Sims will keep the same hair when pregnant, but other Sims like Lilith Pleasant, Lucy Burb and Alison (like showed above) change hair styles when they are in their pregnancy clothes.

[Kristin76]

That's weird... does hair change for most pregnant sims, or just for certain styles? 'Cause I've had pregnant sims and they have never changed their hairstyles *is confused*

For some outfits, different hairstyles have been assigned. You can modify that when you *change appearance* in a mirror. I am not sure which expansion pack it started with.

[Alijah]

For some outfits, different hairstyles have been assigned. You can modify that when you *change appearance* in a mirror. I am not sure which expansion pack it started with.

That started with Seasons

[zauberlinda12]

If someone is using the shower and a pregnant sim needs to throw up the sim will still run to the bathroom then stop abruptly at the bathroom door. The toilet will appear as if someone threw up in it....all grungy....even though the sim never did. I noticed that today when Vidcund had morning sickness.

[Kristin76]

Another thing I just noticed:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/kristinmj/Sims/LucyShocks.jpg

I have never seen someone shock another ... it was funny, Lucy shuffled her feet on the floor and walked right up to her dad. And they have a great relationship, so not sure what prompted that.
(Thats Jade Fuchs in the background ... she seemed to have found it funny? )

Apparently John liked it as their relationship just got even better, they are best friends now.
:lol:

[Peni Griffin]

Technically the one with the twirling is classic dancing. Slow dancing is hugging to music (including music in their heads; you don't need music on the lot to get the option) and includes suboptions - head on shoulder, lower hands, and smooch. Elders lose the ability to be choose the classic dance interaction, but continue to roll wants for it and sometimes do it autonomously.

Which I love.

[Kristin76]

Technically the one with the twirling is classic dancing. Slow dancing is hugging to music (including music in their heads; you don't need music on the lot to get the option) and includes suboptions - head on shoulder, lower hands, and smooch. Elders lose the ability to be choose the classic dance interaction, but continue to roll wants for it and sometimes do it autonomously.

Which I love.

They were slow dancing for sure ... I didnt see an option for classic dancing. They still had the option to head on shoulder, lower hands and smooch. Next time if it happens I will try and get a picture.

[Darby]

If someone is using the shower and a pregnant sim needs to throw up the sim will still run to the bathroom then stop abruptly at the bathroom door. The toilet will appear as if someone threw up in it....all grungy....even though the sim never did. I noticed that today when Vidcund had morning sickness.

If timed just right (or wrong, depending on how you look at it), a pregnant sim already in the bathroom will also ignore the fact that someone's already on the toilet and throw up in it anyway. I'll leave what that must look like to your imagination. :giggler:

[Alijah]

I'm fairly certain they still twirl while slow dancing at arms length. That is, before you use the suboption to "dance close".

[lg135]

Yeah^ I used to be confused when people would talk about their sims twirling while slow dancing until I realized that most of my sims autonomously "dance close" at the beginning of the dance which omits the twirl actions.

[Saturnfly]

Today I discovered that sims who can't get out of bed (because of someone blocking their way) will sit up in bed, then shoo away the sims with their hands and go back to sleep. xD

[IChoseThisName]

That I don't like the maxis graphics, I haven't found any I like to download on MTS yet, and my body shop is not working at all, period. -headdesk- I just wanted a skintone.

[JDacapo]

That it's a flippin' PAIN IN THE ASS to interact with an employee who isn't working at a crafting station or the register. OMIGOD. I kept on trying to get to this one employee and it was like playing tag! By the time my sim got to where the employee was, the command had disappeared.

:faceslap: :faceslap: :faceslap:

And I wanted to be able to change the guy's wages and give him a different assignment so he could earn some badges. Finally was able to do it but oh man it was a HASSLE!

Any mods that would make employees stay put when the employer is attempting to interact with them?

[LittleMrs]

I was playing a sorority for the first time last night, and I discovered that sims will autonomously 'visit campus' and come back bringing pizza. All the time. Seriously, every surface/floor space in the kitchen is littered with pizza boxes! One girl awoke at 4am (!!!) to go get more bloody pizza while there was already four untouched boxes already in the house. Oh well, at least it means they never have to cook!

[Peni Griffin]

And never get any cooking points, but are constantly cleaning, and visitors get food poisoning eating the pizza...

Keep alert and you can cancel the action most of the time. Once your Greek goes up in ranks they'll start bringing home random objects from the buy catalog, which will be a help furnishing the place, can be sold for cash, or placed in inventory to use when they graduate. Mine usually bring back surfaces - end tables and desks - or sofas, but I've also known them to bring electric cars, game rigs, stereos, and TVs.

I've always wondered where the pizza comes from. It's not like there's a pizzaria on campus.

I've discovered that Nervous is a great party guest. I was playing the Singles, and Erin wanted to throw a party, so she invited all the playables she knew - Loki, Pascal, Nervous, Nathan Gavigan, Dora Ottomas, the Traveller adults, and PT9. Despite her frantic schmoozing, Pascal and Loki losing their enemy flags over Lola's apparently mellowing lunch meat sandwiches, and my attempts to wrangle her roommates (except Kristen, who was away holding down the only job in the household) into interacting with the guests instead sitting on the floor hugging their diaries, the party was still a snoozer three hours in, at which point Nervous suddenly started pranking people right and left - water balloons, ventrilofarts, joybuzzers - he was like a cow mascot who didn't know how to flirt! And the party score started going up. Lola finally cut out Dora Ottomas from vamping her dad and settled in to talk to PT9. Chloe cornered Pascal. Kristen came home and made chocolate strawberry sundaes. And the party score went up and up and up, and I don't have to worry about Erin's aspiration for a little while.

For an anti-social fun-hating grouch he sure knows how to break the ice.

[JDacapo]

And never get any cooking points, but are constantly cleaning, and visitors get food poisoning eating the pizza...

Keep alert and you can cancel the action most of the time. Once your Greek goes up in ranks they'll start bringing home random objects from the buy catalog, which will be a help furnishing the place, can be sold for cash, or placed in inventory to use when they graduate. Mine usually bring back surfaces - end tables and desks - or sofas, but I've also known them to bring electric cars, game rigs, stereos, and TVs.

I've always wondered where the pizza comes from. It's not like there's a pizzaria on campus.

I've discovered that Nervous is a great party guest. I was playing the Singles, and Erin wanted to throw a party, so she invited all the playables she knew - Loki, Pascal, Nervous, Nathan Gavigan, Dora Ottomas, the Traveller adults, and PT9. Despite her frantic schmoozing, Pascal and Loki losing their enemy flags over Lola's apparently mellowing lunch meat sandwiches, and my attempts to wrangle her roommates (except Kristen, who was away holding down the only job in the household) into interacting with the guests instead sitting on the floor hugging their diaries, the party was still a snoozer three hours in, at which point Nervous suddenly started pranking people right and left - water balloons, ventrilofarts, joybuzzers - he was like a cow mascot who didn't know how to flirt! And the party score started going up. Lola finally cut out Dora Ottomas from vamping her dad and settled in to talk to PT9. Chloe cornered Pascal. Kristen came home and made chocolate strawberry sundaes. And the party score went up and up and up, and I don't have to worry about Erin's aspiration for a little while.

For an anti-social fun-hating grouch he sure knows how to break the ice.

Well, Nervous is full of mysteries and surprises. When I directed him to ventrillo-fart, oddly-enough, he'd have that 'reaction' as if I had just told him to expose himself on the Six O-Clock News.

[AlexandraSpears]

Well, Nervous is full of mysteries and surprises. When I directed him to ventrillo-fart, oddly-enough, he'd have that 'reaction' as if I had just told him to expose himself on the Six O-Clock News.

Probably because he has no playful points. Serious Sims aren't into pranks.

[Peni Griffin]

Which is why it's so weird to see him do it voluntarily, Ms. Speares. The boy has serious Issues and I think in order to get the full flavor of Nervous you have to let him free range a lot.

I'm not keeping up with writing the story as much in Strangetown as I do in my main hood, but when I do write dialog for Nervous, he stutters.

[Aegagropilon]

Which is why it's so weird to see him do it voluntarily, Ms. Speares. The boy has serious Issues and I think in order to get the full flavor of Nervous you have to let him free range a lot.

I'm not keeping up with writing the story as much in Strangetown as I do in my main hood, but when I do write dialog for Nervous, he stutters.

Nervous is definitely one of my favorite sims to watch, especially when he's a visitor on community lots (where I don't have the ability to go "Hey! Don't do that! D:" and click something out of his queue). He pulls a lot of pranks in my game, too, and tends to gangfart other sims with the help of Difficult, Grimhild, and sometimes Grimm or Joshua. First he'll ventrilofart the target, then one of the kids'll ventrilofart the same sim (and sometimes their dad as well). He also uses the ventrilofart like an octopus uses ink: if another sim threatens him in some way (and this can include merely acting friendly with too much chemistry), he'll ventrilofart them and either start a fight or walk off. His main fight-starting moves are the water balloon (for neat sims) and the joy buzzer (for just about everyone else).

He's also my game's town babysitter. When he's at a household with a toddler, he's usually seen carrying said toddler around, getting bottles for them, and putting them in their crib when they're tired. He's also very patient with and friendly towards any kids in a household, even if he doesn't -- and this is usually the case; he doesn't get along with most of his wife Frieda's friends, and he has Issues with Pascal's wife Bella -- like either one or both of the parents.

Nervous has mellowed out a lot over the time that I've played Strangetown, but he's still the ultimate wild card and frequently funny (and adorable with his family). I also imagine him having a bit of a stutter along with some tics, though those are much less pronounced now that he's no longer being experimented on. I play his household as being a safe space for him, especially with Frieda's calming, stabilizing influence (it still amazes me that he has never, ever argued with her; he argues with everyone, even Pascal). He's definitely a different sim when he's at home or with family versus when he's at other houses or on community lots.

[rogue_55]

I was playing a sorority for the first time last night, and I discovered that sims will autonomously 'visit campus' and come back bringing pizza. All the time. Seriously, every surface/floor space in the kitchen is littered with pizza boxes! One girl awoke at 4am (!!!) to go get more bloody pizza while there was already four untouched boxes already in the house. Oh well, at least it means they never have to cook!

Someone else will probably say this, but you can put the pizzas in the sim's inventory. That way they won't spoil. I know it makes no sense that they don't spoil, but it works, so why not. I think some of my sims who have graduated still have pizzas in their inventory. :rofl:
As others have mentioned, you can also cancel the action if you notice a sim is trying to visit campus.

[AlexandraSpears]

I hate Nervous. Whenever I play Strangetown, he, the Curious brothers (sometimes), the Specters, and the Smith family and their relations fall victim to Theo's deleter.

(I move Lyla Grunt's grave to a community lot, though, so Buzz and the boys get memories of her death.)

[DigitalSympathies]

That when updating a graphics driver, make sure that your game isn't running in the background if you value your life. *headdesks*

[JDacapo]

I hate Nervous. Whenever I play Strangetown, he, the Curious brothers (sometimes), the Specters, and the Smith family and their relations fall victim to Theo's deleter.

(I move Lyla Grunt's grave to a community lot, though, so Buzz and the boys get memories of her death.)

You dunno what you're missing... Nervous is one of the best daddies in Strangetown.

[VioletPadfoot]

I discovered that hitting save, THEN exit, as opposed to exit then, "yes I want to save" keeps me from having to delete my .cache files every time I open my game. I kept wondering why I kept having to delete them and decided it was something I had to live with. Then, in the interests of preserving a challenge neighborhood i started hitting save then exit and began wondering why i wasn't needing to delete them anymore. Today i was playing around in my test hood and hit exit then save. Why does Maxis have to give us options that don't work right? ~VP

Also: it really weird to see your self-sim (mine lives in my test hood currently) heart-farting over a girl when you definitely like boys... Obviously I haven't played my self sim very much.

[Peni Griffin]

I discovered that it's possible for a sim to be selective about who he gets mad at when he sees one of his relative's lovers out and about with somebody else.

I had the frat down at the University Way Shops cheering themselves up after Gerry graduated (the frat consists of three Pleasure sims now - gotta get somebody more stable in there, fast!) and Emilio Casa saw Lily Pond, who was waiting for Tommy Ottomas to finish what he was doing. Emilio went over to her, greeted her, apologized for getting mad over nothing, and squeezed her. Tommy, who is friends with Lily but hasn't told her that his little sister Theodora has been seeing Emilio, got the standard horrified reaction. When I played his lot, I looked in his relationship bar and he was -40 with Emilio, but still had a high score and was best friends with Lily.

This makes a lot of sense, actually. It would indicate that he blames Emilio for the situation (which makes sense, since he's older than Theodora and should be able to resist her charms, or at least be honest with Lily about things) and recognizes Lily's entire innocence in the matter.

Re: Nervous, I find it difficult to fathom that anyone can regard him without overwhelming compassion, given the backstory he's saddled with. You can't expect an abused child, kept in a basement, subjected to painful experimentation, and milked for skill points, to grow up well-socialized.

[nikel23]

Tonight in my Livestream we all learned that if you turn moveobjects on and then click on the road with the eyedropper, all the maxis road tiles show up for you to remove/add crosswalks, make a corner, etc.
Am I the only one who can't do this? Because until now, I can't eyedrop the road tile, even with moveobjects on, of course.

Did you know the snowman sculptures that can be stacked together from the Happy Holiday Stuff? I never used it because it's only a sculpture and will never melt, making it unrealistic for my Summer, and since Seasons, I don't need them because there are real snowmen. But I just learned that you can click on each part of the snowman to change its hat, head, body, and if all's stacked together, make it "dance".

[Liv Lukas]

Am I the only one who can't do this? Because until now, I can't eyedrop the road tile, even with moveobjects on, of course.

Did you know the snowman sculptures that can be stacked together from the Happy Holiday Stuff? I never used it because it's only a sculpture and will never melt, making it unrealistic for my Summer, and since Seasons, I don't need them because there are real snowmen. But I just learned that you can click on each part of the snowman to change it's hat, head, body, and if all's stacked together, make it "dance".

That's a neat trick with the snowman!

And yeah, that trick with the road tiles never worked for me before either, so when a viewer pointed it out, I was really surprised. I am glad I got it on air, so there's proof I am not making it up! But I do not know why it is working in my game and not in yours. Perhaps because it was a lot that had been lot adjusted?

[Mootilda]

Perhaps they have CC which unlocks the road tiles?

[Yazoo]

I discovered that there is a "Cheer Up" choice. Because of last night:

Spencer invited her Vampire lover (Yes, they are now slowly blurring together.) Anyway, the Countessa seemed a little upset, so when Spencer went to "Appreciate" her, there was the cheer up. And I got to say, the Cheer up Action was pretty cute. But in a way I thought Spencer would be saying:

"Don't worry baby, I am not going to hurt you, because I love you." <---Way to lie Spencer -.-"

[nikel23]

I think it appears if the Sim is in low mood or low aspiration. But most of the time, I got rejected for cheering them up... :/

[Peni Griffin]

It's like any other action - if the relationship is low, the interaction gets rejected. Which I actually understand. People who you don't believe are really invested in you and who clearly don't understand your situation mindlessly trying to cheer you up when you're down are annoying as heck.

My husband, the pessimist, has a t-shirt that says: "Oh, crap, you're going to try to cheer me up, aren't you?"

[AlexandraSpears]

From what I can tell, if Sims had been taught to study, they complete college assignments faster.

[Orilon]

Alexandra, I've seen that too. For example, in Veronaville when I sent Romeo Monty and Juliette Capp to college, Romeo usually finishes his college homework assignments faster because I usually had either Isabella or Patrizio teach him how to study before he went. Because Juliette's house is glitched, I usually sent her and her siblings to college right away and she didn't get a chance to learn how to study.

[Yazoo]

From what I can tell, if Sims had been taught to study, they complete college assignments faster.

And writing their term papers faster as well. But I think it depends on who teaches who. Spencer was taught to study by her mother, and Aria by her grandfather. Spencer can get her term papers done faster than her sister.

So, it all depends on who teaches who, I would suppose. I think parents really get it drilled into their kids heads better though opposed to grandparents teaching.

[katya_stevens]

It might also depends on a sim's serious/playful scale: if Spencer is more serious than her sister Aria, that might also be another factor.

[Yazoo]

I am not sure because Spencer and Aria are very playful Sims, they never stop playfully hitting the air, or swaying back and forth as if they are lost in a beautiful time and nothing can stop them, or they are looking at a pretty butterfly and is just dumb founded by it. Too playful and nice -.-"

[omglo]

I found out that toddlers cry if they see someone smashing their doll house.

[frankokomando]

Sloppy sims are great when you don't have enough money for a refrigerator because when they get really hungry they'll dig in the garbage for food. :D

[zauberlinda12]

That a Sim can play fetch the stick with their dog indoors. *edit* it was autonomous....I did not and don't think I can direct them to do that. It was a guest that was playing Razzle with Porthos and then switched to "fetch the stick" while in the house. Granted, they had just moved into the house so it was fairly empty...lot's of room to play...so that may have been why they were able to do that...?

[nikel23]

Because Juliette's house is glitched, I usually sent her and her siblings to college right away and she didn't get a chance to learn how to study.
In my experience, college students who are helped with their college assignments by other students will also get the memory of being taught to study, so it's not too late to study. :p

[Saturnfly]

Today I discovered (completely by mistake) that you can make a wall-height lattice on top of foundation and against walls by pressing shit while placing it. :DD And for so long, I've been searching for a lattice fence.

[Fivey]

That lamps can shatter for some strange reason.

[Gcgb53191]

You can gain skills if you hang out with a certain group or person or something like that, still not sure what happened but I took my sims out for a date at Londoste and as they were leaving one gained a skill because of hanging out with 'techie' people and the other a charisma skill for being around 'charismatic' people.

[Orilon]

In my experience, college students who are helped with their college assignments by other students will also get the memory of being taught to study, so it's not too late to study. :p

So she could learn from Romeo? Never knew that, thanks for the info. I've only seen a do assignment option, how do college students get someone to help them?


Fivey, shattered lamps are usually destroyed by angry ghosts.

[Peni Griffin]

They can't initiate the action (I don't think; never had it come up), but an active sim sometimes has the option of "tutoring for simoleans."

[Yazoo]

Well, on the subject of studying. If a parent or grandparent is too busy, an older sibling can teach their younger sibling how to study. I did this with Tegan and Esther.

Tegan was the older sister to Esther, and seeing their mother was busy cooking. And their grandparents were to busy reading themselves. Tegan took it upon herself, and taught Esther are to study. Of course after, I made them hug :)

[Fivey]

So she could learn from Romeo? Never knew that, thanks for the info. I've only seen a do assignment option, how do college students get someone to help them?


Fivey, shattered lamps are usually destroyed by angry ghosts.

That explains it.

I was playing a household, fell asleep while playing, and woke up to find that everyone starved to death. Eheheh.

I rez'd them later, since one of the dead had a ressurectowhatinater in her career rewards box.

[frankokomando]

I just learned that if your sim goes to work in a really bad mood, they can get fired for 'poor work performance'. -.-

[Aegagropilon]

That this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd2qsC-PuJQ) would be right at home in the game. It practically begs to be smustled along to :D

[kateisl33t]

:blink: That you can report the pickpocketer from BV for foul play, using the community phone

[Darby]

I have heard this, and I've seen pics of it from others' games, but I never see the option in my own game. Anyone know the specific criteria for getting the option to report the UC for nefarious activity?

[JDacapo]

Nope... though I do know you can get the option for 'fisticuffs' if he robs you.

[Darby]

Haven't seen that one either, darn it.

[JDacapo]

Haven't seen that one either, darn it.

I have - it was when I made a townie temporarily selectable after she had been robbed. I clicked on the Unsavory Charlatan, and the option for 'Fisticuffs' came up.

[Orilon]

I have heard this, and I've seen pics of it from others' games, but I never see the option in my own game. Anyone know the specific criteria for getting the option to report the UC for nefarious activity?

I've only seen the "report foul play" option on the phone the Sims use to call the taxi on community lot come up right after after he actually robs someone.

[JDacapo]

Have you guys ever noticed that when a sim that has around six or more nice points is chatting with a totally grouchy sim, that the grouchy sim has a higher opinion of the nice sim than the nice sim has of the grouchy one? I have an infallibly good playable warlock college student who happens to also be a werewolf(got a mod to prevent complete personality change) and an alien, and he's chatting with an atrociously evil head witch. I made her selectable a few times and right now when I look in her relationships tab, it shows her relationship with my student to be 42/-10 while his relationship with her is 30/-13.

Do you see this as her being extremely vain, or maybe lonely? She doesn't have that many friends, and she has very few personality points... possibly almost a zombie-personality. I'd like to have someone move her in and possibly break her out of her shell. She may be a total surly slob and a grouch, but she's still a sim. Heck... can't really bring myself to cowplant anyone(except to resurrect with the resurrectonomicron and just pay a little lower than perfect to bring back a sim with a less-stunted personality).

[AlexandraSpears]

I have - it was when I made a townie temporarily selectable after she had been robbed. I clicked on the Unsavory Charlatan, and the option for 'Fisticuffs' came up.

And when a Sim does mix it up with him, you should hear the music. :)

[zauberlinda12]

A party guest will autonomously spray bug spray on cockroaches. Vidcund Curios was a guest at the Smith's son's birthday party. I noticed that Johnny Smith was by the garbage can sobbing and stomping on the the bugs. After I had him pick up the garbage can and the garbage Vidcund walked over and started spraying the bugs....I thought that was nice of him :)

[Bellasaurus]

They can't initiate the action (I don't think; never had it come up), but an active sim sometimes has the option of "tutoring for simoleans."

I thought this was only available to high logic sims? All my logical uni sims make quite a bit from tutoring the dormies (if they can manage to actually complete a whole assignment!).

[Orilon]

Elder Sims can still Classic Dance.

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

Darren Dreamer and Cassandra Goth are now Elders. Cassandra rolled the want to Classic Dance with Darren, and I thought I would try. She still could and filled the want.

[Peni Griffin]

Wait, you could direct it? Goz and Kitty are always wanting to classic dance each other, but they can only do it spontaneously; I can't tell them to. No fair!

I haven't tried it since the recent crash; I wonder if maybe that limitation was corrected in M&G?

[Orilon]

I have Apartment Life (patched) and Mansions and Gardens (no patch available) and use the Mansions and Gardens disc to play the game. I don't know if that makes a difference. I was able to direct it the same way as when they were adults.

[frankokomando]

I had a sim roll a fear of his own death. I've had that happen before. But then again, I've never played a sim who is constantly starving to death.

[AlexandraSpears]

I actually had a teen Sim roll a want to win the Undead scholarship. I blinked and was like, "what? Excuse me?"

Never had zombies in my game. Once they're dead--that's it.

[Fivey]

I actually had a teen Sim roll a want to win the Undead scholarship. I blinked and was like, "what? Excuse me?"

Never had zombies in my game. Once they're dead--that's it.

Vampires?

I usually don't make zombies unless it's for gits and shiggles.

[Alijah]

I thought this was only available to high logic sims? All my logical uni sims make quite a bit from tutoring the dormies (if they can manage to actually complete a whole assignment!).

Tutoring for sims is actually grade dependent, I think

[Aegagropilon]

I discovered that sims with high body points have the option of doing yoga on coffee tables:
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj202/aegagropilon/HowitzerYogas.jpg


It can also lead to some awkward situations:
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj202/aegagropilon/HowsTheViewHowie.jpg

[AlexandraSpears]

Vampires?

I usually don't make zombies unless it's for gits and shiggles.

I don't do supernaturals. I don't mind Servos, but I consider them robots, almost like Data from Star Trek Next Generation--they THINK they're Sims. :)

[JDacapo]

I love quite a few of the supernaturals, and it's kinda hard to imagine someone not liking at the very least the good witches because they can be so beneficial to other sims. Besides that, if I had those kinds of powers I could just study all night and be refreshed every morning for school - I've had a hard life, and a break like that would be so welcome. Besides that I'd love it if I could have a boyfriend who would get probeded and understand what it's like for a woman.

[Fivey]

I love quite a few of the supernaturals, and it's kinda hard to imagine someone not liking at the very least the good witches because they can be so beneficial to other sims. Besides that, if I had those kinds of powers I could just study all night and be refreshed every morning for school - I've had a hard life, and a break like that would be so welcome. Besides that I'd love it if I could have a boyfriend who would get probeded and understand what it's like for a woman.

Personally, I never saw alien abduction in the Sims game as a punishment for anything. Might be a personal bias for it, but I always saw it as a blessing. It is a rare chance of being picked up, and being chosen to host an extraterrestrial fetus out of anyone else that night seems to be an honor.

Like I said, I'm biased.

[McChoclatey]

Two Sims can't marry/get engaged to each other if one of their parents were to marry the other's parent. :(
Is it because they became step siblings as soon as their parent's joined? It's not like they're related by blood all of a sudden.

My Sims still have three bolts for each other, but for some reason, they can't flirt, kiss or date each other. Only friendly interactions, no intimate ones. They don't even have the "family member" mark in their relationship thumbnails!

[Carolyns-Mewmix]

Two Sims can't marry/get engaged to each other if one of their parents were to marry the other's parent. :(
Is it because they became step siblings as soon as their parent's joined? It's not like they're related by blood all of a sudden.

My Sims still have three bolts for each other, but for some reason, they can't flirt, kiss or date each other. Only friendly interactions, no intimate ones. They don't even have the "family member" mark in their relationship thumbnails!

While I haven't used this mod yet, I still have it in my game for situations like these.
http://www.leefish.nl/mybb/thread-918.html
I think it's silly that people wouldn't romance because their parents are married.

[nikel23]

I have heard this, and I've seen pics of it from others' games, but I never see the option in my own game. Anyone know the specific criteria for getting the option to report the UC for nefarious activity?
When Unsavory Charlatan has pickpocketed someone, the option will become available in the phone. I have no idea what it actually does. But I just do that whenever he is up to no good to the lot visitors.

Tutoring for sims is actually grade dependent, I think
I suppose only students who are more senior can tutor their juniors. So fresh freshmen can't tutor other freshmen.

I discovered that sims with high body points have the option of doing yoga on coffee tables:
Really? I can only do that when my Sims are really active. That is, 10 active points. But not body skill. :/

[Gcgb53191]

Really? I can only do that when my Sims are really active. That is, 10 active points. But not body skill. :/


Wait, so which sims can do yoga? I just noticed in my game that the option to do it doesn't show up for everyone. At first I thought it was because there wasn't enough space around but even when I did it wouldnt come up.

[KaiRuh]

You should get the option to do yoga when a Sim has 3+ body skill.

[JDacapo]

Personally, I never saw alien abduction in the Sims game as a punishment for anything. Might be a personal bias for it, but I always saw it as a blessing. It is a rare chance of being picked up, and being chosen to host an extraterrestrial fetus out of anyone else that night seems to be an honor.

Like I said, I'm biased.

In a way, I do as well... but it is kinda funny to have a somewhat realistic response to the abduction - even the biggest eggheads probably would cry after being abducted and subjected to a probing. Was thinking of doing that to Daniel Pleasant... but I'd do it AFTER I age him back a little.

I'm biased as well and just cannot for the life of me fathom not being attracted to the cooler paranormal sims. For me, 'normal' families are boring.

[larky]

Personally, I never saw alien abduction in the Sims game as a punishment for anything. Might be a personal bias for it, but I always saw it as a blessing. It is a rare chance of being picked up, and being chosen to host an extraterrestrial fetus out of anyone else that night seems to be an honor.

Like I said, I'm biased.

I like alien babies, too, and sims don't seem to be particularly upset by it, but I don't think I'd feel particularly honored if someone kidnapped and forcibly impregnated me no matter how rarely they did it or how special the kid was supposed to be.

[JDacapo]

I like alien babies, too, and sims don't seem to be particularly upset by it, but I don't think I'd feel particularly honored if someone kidnapped and forcibly impregnated me no matter how rarely they did it or how special the kid was supposed to be.

It'd be funny though, to see a male family sim with no secondary knowledge aspiration rolling the want to be abducted. It'd be realistic in a neighbourhood where lots of men get abducted and preggers XD

[Gcgb53191]

I'm biased as well and just cannot for the life of me fathom not being attracted to the cooler paranormal sims. For me, 'normal' families are boring.


I feel the same way but towards the paranormal xD I'm just not into sci-fi/witch stuff, maybe its because I'm getting older and just lost interest in it or I find the Maxis kind too cartoony and I just prefer a more realistic way of playing but I do like aliens :D

But I'm glad that we at least have the option for those who enjoy them :)

[Orilon]

It'd be funny though, to see a male family sim with no secondary knowledge aspiration rolling the want to be abducted. It'd be realistic in a neighbourhood where lots of men get abducted and preggers XD

Male Family Sims without a Knowledge secondary constantly drop queue to cry about being abducted.

A long time ago Bianca Monty married a male Family Sim. He got abducted by aliens and would not stop crying about it for several days.

Knowledge Sims don't cry about it, but every other aspiration seems to cry about it.

[JDacapo]

Male Family Sims without a Knowledge secondary constantly drop queue to cry about being abducted.

A long time ago Bianca Monty married a male Family Sim. He got abducted by aliens and would not stop crying about it for several days.

Knowledge Sims don't cry about it, but every other aspiration seems to cry about it.

Oh I know. Well... with my sims, they usually don't cry for very long. I didn't know they would cry about it for several days. Weird. Mine usually just cry about it for a few hours and then start sighing. It can be quite funny to watch them cry about getting probeded. At least they get a positive memory out of the whole experience.

I feel the same way but towards the paranormal xD I'm just not into sci-fi/witch stuff, maybe its because I'm getting older and just lost interest in it or I find the Maxis kind too cartoony and I just prefer a more realistic way of playing but I do like aliens :D

But I'm glad that we at least have the option for those who enjoy them :)

I'm pretty old myself - 31. Maybe I'm into all that sci-fi and witchy stuff because I'm down on my luck right now. Heh.

[Aegagropilon]

Oh I know. Well... with my sims, they usually don't cry for very long. I didn't know they would cry about it for several days. Weird.

I remember Grilled Cheese sim Guinea Pig crying for a while after she got abducted, which made me feel bad about it happening, especially since Guinea is just so innocent: she was engineered by the Beakers using samples from Circe's workplace, has no actual parents, is completely asexual (negative attraction to both genders), and suddenly found herself pregnant by artificial means with absolutely no concept of how babies are made. I had a similar twinge of guilt when Family sim Tara Kat got abducted, though she took her abduction far better and seems pretty tickled with her small litter of space-kittens; she even rolled the "have a baby" want while she was pregnant with them.

All but one of my male abductees have been Knowledge sims, and the one that wasn't -- Romance sim Gilbert Jacquet -- seemed far more distressed by how much his girlfriend and her daughter made fun of him than the actual abduction.

Edit: Derp, I forgot about the OTHER non-Knowledge male abductee in my game: Family sim Elwood Valley. He cried for a few days afterwards and had a very sour, mopey pregnancy that he didn't roll the "have a baby" want during. He was a really crappy dad to his resulting daughter Uncanny, too, though he didn't do much better with his other two non-alien daughters Silicon and Ruby.

[Peni Griffin]

My three alien fathers in Drama Acres are none of them knowledge sims and they haven't cried much about it. The first one never did at all - probably because Ernest didn't really get abducted. I couldn't get a hacked abduction to work, didn't have Freetime so couldn't summon aliens, and finally had to get him pregnant via the Tombstone of L&D. He wanted a baby anyway, and due to the backstory I'd saddled him with this was the only way he could do it. So he's always been very mellow about the whole thing, went platinum at the birth, and for story purposes has no memory of the event and regards it as a miracle. He went out of his way to be encouraging to the other two abductees.

The first real abduction happened to a Romance sim, on the day he found out he'd gotten a girlfriend pregnant - it couldn't have worked out better if I'd planned it. He never rolled a fear of having a baby, and though he was pretty upset when he landed on his face, his general mood was pretty high and even with marrying the girlfriend and having two kids in rapid succession, plus all those break-ups (and he's not done yet!) he never did much crying. For story purposes he regards the event as a rape, was blindsided by the emotional connection he felt to the kid, and has changed his whole attitude toward women.

The second real abduction happened to a Fortune sim on the verge of elderhood, who is a bit of a grouch and hard to keep happy; but even he hasn't cried much about it. He works as a scientist and was able to use that to detach from the experience, I think.

Personal idiosyncracy rules.

[Fivey]

Two big alien dads stick in my mind right now. Both were Knowledge sims, so they were both okay with it. Probably explains my bias.

Grzegorz Zarek just had his sister move out (she married Malcolm Landgraab and had okay looking kids), and was living on his own. He was abducted one night after work (he was in the early Medical field, so it was like 2am). He found the process fascinating. He soon gave birth to a baby boy named Emil. He struggled to take care of the little alien, since he was a lone single male. He had his occasional dates with a Romance sim, but spent most of his time attempting to raise Emil as well as he can on a single paycheck. He had struggles with the nanny, but he remained devoted. When Emil went onto college, Grzegorz met Heath while scoping out for friends (he needed them for a promotion). He mindlessly flirted with Heath, so Heath started spamming him with 'want to go on a date' calls (he was a downtownie). He finally took the offer after finding the Romance sim cheating on him, it being the third time he called for a date. It worked out reeeally well for them. The day before their union, Grzegorz rode the EDS that he had at home, and was abducted from that. He spent his wedding barfing. Heath didn't mind the pregnancy, since he was a Family sim. They had Celina, a girl.

That family is long gone now, but it was lovely to play.

The other abducted male was from a challenge I spat up. He was Flint Hunter, local psychopath. He spent most of his life killing random innocents and skill building, then was abducted by aliens one night. He had twins Artemis and Apollo. He was crazy, so...his kids are rather unmoved by death now. Kind of like how the kids of Alexander Goth and Nina Caliente don't care about them beating the crap out of each other.

[JDacapo]

Two big alien dads stick in my mind right now. Both were Knowledge sims, so they were both okay with it. Probably explains my bias.

Grzegorz Zarek just had his sister move out (she married Malcolm Landgraab and had okay looking kids), and was living on his own. He was abducted one night after work (he was in the early Medical field, so it was like 2am). He found the process fascinating. He soon gave birth to a baby boy named Emil. He struggled to take care of the little alien, since he was a lone single male. He had his occasional dates with a Romance sim, but spent most of his time attempting to raise Emil as well as he can on a single paycheck. He had struggles with the nanny, but he remained devoted. When Emil went onto college, Grzegorz met Heath while scoping out for friends (he needed them for a promotion). He mindlessly flirted with Heath, so Heath started spamming him with 'want to go on a date' calls (he was a downtownie). He finally took the offer after finding the Romance sim cheating on him, it being the third time he called for a date. It worked out reeeally well for them. The day before their union, Grzegorz rode the EDS that he had at home, and was abducted from that. He spent his wedding barfing. Heath didn't mind the pregnancy, since he was a Family sim. They had Celina, a girl.

That family is long gone now, but it was lovely to play.

The other abducted male was from a challenge I spat up. He was Flint Hunter, local psychopath. He spent most of his life killing random innocents and skill building, then was abducted by aliens one night. He had twins Artemis and Apollo. He was crazy, so...his kids are rather unmoved by death now. Kind of like how the kids of Alexander Goth and Nina Caliente don't care about them beating the crap out of each other.

Pretty awesome story! I wonder if Flint Hunter had the twin pregnancy modifier or something. I think a townie I moved in with one of my graduates has it, and I am pretty sure that one of my early graduates, Marcus Coles, has the modifier as well... I didn't have him eat any cheesecake, and since he is a warlock, he usually doesn't need to eat at all when I'm playing him. He had two sets of twins, and he doesn't have any family sim perks(he's a Popularity/fortune sim). Also had him buy a community lot and set up a business while he was expecting Patrick and Leonard - he looked quite cute in his green manternity shirt XD

[Fivey]

Pretty awesome story! I wonder if Flint Hunter had the twin pregnancy modifier or something. I think a townie I moved in with one of my graduates has it, and I am pretty sure that one of my early graduates, Marcus Coles, has the modifier as well... I didn't have him eat any cheesecake, and since he is a warlock, he usually doesn't need to eat at all when I'm playing him. He had two sets of twins, and he doesn't have any family sim perks(he's a Popularity/fortune sim). Also had him buy a community lot and set up a business while he was expecting Patrick and Leonard - he looked quite cute in his green manternity shirt XD

Nah, Flint just had dumb luck. Raising two kids on no paycheck is no easy task.

[nikel23]

Wait, so which sims can do yoga? I just noticed in my game that the option to do it doesn't show up for everyone. At first I thought it was because there wasn't enough space around but even when I did it wouldnt come up.
Sims with 3+ body skills can do yoga, but only very active Sims can do yoga on the coffee table. Even Sims without body skills can do it.

[JDacapo]

Nah, Flint just had dumb luck. Raising two kids on no paycheck is no easy task.

Marcus must've had double dumb luck then, having twins twice! And Sinjin... he might have the modifier as well. Will hafta find out.

Also, ever notice how, in custom hoods, Kaylynn Langarak isn't always so nice? In Calopsita, she has only two nice points. Does the game randomize the personalities of some of the service sims in custom hoods?

[Aegagropilon]

...Apparently shower puddles are connected to their originators.

I moved Barnum into a campus house that used to be occupied by Tank and Uncanny. I didn't have them clean the place before they left, so there was still one of Uncanny's shower puddles left in the bathroom. Barnum mopped it up and got the memory "Met Uncanny."

[saskganesh]

Count Sam was gathering compostable material. And really getting into it. After the third pile of leaves was binned, I swear I saw him bend on one knee and do a single arm fist pump, like he had scored a winning touchdown in the football game of life.

[Kristin76]

Nervous Subject and his girlfriend Annie Rusewicz got robbed last night (thankfully they got their insurance to cover the sofa ... you would have thought the burgler would have gone for the tv, is there a black market for sofas? ) ... anyhoo they are making breakfast and the gypsy lady appeared and went around to the back. She opened a bag and I thought *oh great, now they are being robbed by the gypsy lady, I didnt even know she did that! * LOL Nooo she was there to drop off the genie lamp!

[Peni Griffin]

Last night I had a kid in Hans' Trapdoor Company, which I have fitted with elevators, and saw a fear icon in his panel I hadn't seen before - a snapped rope. The tag on mouseover was "plummet in elevator."

[frankokomando]

Amber Lame tried to gossip with this Andrea chick and Andrea didn't want to hear the gossip so she crossed her arms and turned her back to Amber. The next thing I know Amber is shoving Andrea's back like she was saying 'Hey, don't ignore me.' I've never seen this happen before. My ISBI challenge is definitely letting me see some things I've never seen before.

[katya_stevens]

Apparently the Repo Man can see Rebecah's farm animals (http://www.affinitysims.com/forum/index.php/board,25.0.html) as repoable objects: I swear I just saw him take a chick from the pen outside the Marshalls house.

Edit: Yup, looked in my sim's memory and the repo man did take a chicken. See attached image.

[Yazoo]

I discovered that if your watching the SBN channel on the TV, actually, increases your enthusiasm in "Film and Literature"

Also, one of Aria's friends has gotten really annoying. He keeps calling wanting go on an outing. So what did I do? I turned off the phone, no calls at all. So its not ringing off the hook by this one guy. I am like:

"Dude, Aria is a lesbian and MARRIED. So stop calling, because she doesn't want to go out on an outing with you!"

-.-"

[Gcgb53191]

I discovered that if your watching the SBN channel on the TV, actually, increases your enthusiasm in "Film and Literature"

Also, one of Aria's friends has gotten really annoying. He keeps calling wanting go on an outing. So what did I do? I turned off the phone, no calls at all. So its not ringing off the hook by this one guy. I am like:

"Dude, Aria is a lesbian and MARRIED. So stop calling, because she doesn't want to go out on an outing with you!"

-.-"

"But we could just be friends!"

[Peni Griffin]

Why not go out on an outing? It's not a date, and he wants to get to know his friend's SO and introduce his other friends to her. Marriage should expand your social circle, not contract it. I always accept these unless there's something problematic (like, a cheating situation) or there's just too much going on.

[Yazoo]

"But we could just be friends!"

I highly doubt he wants that. He totally wants Aria. And I really don't think he understand the word: "No." I try to hang up on him, but yeah, never works. Aria can be a bitch. And do I love it :P I guess that's why Jenna will take after Aria, only the biotchy ways...Jenna the stuck up snob -.-"


@Peni Griffin: The problem going on an outing, is because for some reason this guy REALLY likes Aria. I know this because, when she first met him. The began to talk and yada yada, when their friendship got up there, he tried flirting with her, and she was like:

"Dude, back off."

He doesn't stop calling, I wouldn't mind her going on that outing, just Aria is faithful, and I do not need some stupid "Had Affair with..." And on top of that, Aria is busy working and raising her twin daughters with her wife, Nina. So, priorities come first. Maybe when all things are done, and her daughters are teens she will.


Just ughness, Aria is going to bring friends herself, just you know, not Spencer. Because god only knows that Spencer will run into a lover, and I'll be stuck having an affair in the memory panel. Spencer has changed her ways, to show that she is faithful to Dina, sure like all Romance Sims, they have wandering eyes, but Spencer has changed a lot. She has a full time job, along with Dina now. And their teenage kids stay home, and man the home.

I am just weary of this outing. Truthfully.

[Orilon]

I've seen "Outings" turn into dates when the Sims got downtown (the date timer came up not the outing timer), so not accepting is probably a good idea. I have a mod to stop "outing" calls, because to me they are a waste of time http://drupal.cyjon.net/node/110

[DigitalSympathies]

I've rekindled my joy in making lots! Oh, and I found my FIRST NEIGHBOURHOOD!

[esmesqualor]

You know how Sims go around congratulating each other? I just saw Nina congratulate Don on his broken engagement.

[Yazoo]

I've seen "Outings" turn into dates when the Sims got downtown (the date timer came up not the outing timer), so not accepting is probably a good idea. I have a mod to stop "outing" calls, because to me they are a waste of time http://drupal.cyjon.net/node/110

*points to what Orilon said*

See! I am not the only one. Yeah Aria is the loyal one between the twins. Spencer just has a lot of...Ambition? o.O I am going to check this out, thank you Orilon. Honestly, I hate outings as well.

A good way to make an outing awesome, and everyone has a blast. Have a lover go with you. Make out, and do all that lovey dovey crap, and bam, awesome time. Just time consuming -.-"

[Peni Griffin]

The only times I've ever seen one of those outings turn into a date is when the Romance sim friend of a Romance sim calls a Romance sim of the appropriate gender - in which case they are very far from a waste of time! A male friend of Spencer's wife's isn't going to call Spencer for a date.

Post-good-date outings are only a waste of time for those of us who like to play social circles if a) the members consist only of townies with no connections to anybody and b)the sim called isn't a Romance sim in need of new blood (and what Romance sim isn't on the lookout for new blood?) What generally happens is you get friends and family members of the original date who want to look you over. One of my favorite outings was the one where teen Ezekial Gavigan, who had just succeeded in going steady with Pigeon Hawkins, was called by YA Garret Newson, who had been her first kiss. Garret showed up with his sister Ginger (married to Pigeon's big brother), his sister Gabriella (married to another big brother), his sister Georgia (heavily dating and not yet quite engaged to third big brother). The message was very clear: don't date a Hawkins if you don't really mean it! And don't forget you've got competition - Pigeon was going to college before Zeke, and Garret was by no means out of the running. Normally when you date a Hawkins you get an assortment of Hawkinses, vetting you and probably finding you wanting, but I thought that particular one worked even better storywise.

What annoys me is when you get an outing call and a date call on the heels of one another and aren't quite sure which one you're going on. It makes it harder to pick the venue.

[Orilon]

To me dates serve a purpose, but outings are a waste of time.

Back on topic:

If a player uses a Multi PT mod, Johnny Smith can get pregnant from being abducted by aliens.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/Orilon/Sims2ep92012-05-2915-37-27-50.jpg

I'm using BoilingOil's Multi PT#8 mod (Syrianna Impregnanta is one of the 8 PTs that BoilingOil made and included in his mod), so this is going to be interesting to see what the baby will look like when he/she is born.

[omglo]

You know how Sims go around congratulating each other? I just saw Nina congratulate Don on his broken engagement.I love that it was another romance Sim congratulating him. He must have been glad to talk to someone who understood. :)

[Saturnfly]

I recently discovered that the "View" option on a fireplace that has been lit, will result in the sim going to sit on a sofa/ chair that's in front of the fire, and watching it.
I always assumed sims would just stand there rubbing their chins as they do with artwork and sculptures. :giggler:

[Orilon]

Related to my previous discovery, Johnny Smith shares his pregnancy wear with his Uncle Pascal.

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

[Yazoo]

The only times I've ever seen one of those outings turn into a date is when the Romance sim friend of a Romance sim calls a Romance sim of the appropriate gender - in which case they are very far from a waste of time! A male friend of Spencer's wife's isn't going to call Spencer for a date.

Aria is actually Spencer's twin sister. And Aria likes having Spencer around, they are that close. But I was just saying, at one point Spencer was a Romance Sim, so she had 12 lovers, including Dina. But Spencer doesn't really have much to do with her other lovers, she is now devoted to Dina. However, if Aria did invite Spencer out on the outing, say Aria started the outing and was nice and invited the guy who keeps on calling. Spencer could easily run into an old flame, and she would flirt with Spencer would gladly accept, and bam, Spencer the bimbo >.<

As for Aria she is just too busy. I mean I wouldn't mind an outing, but dear lord. Once you have an amazing outing, that person you had an outing with, has a friend that calls and wants to have an outing, then their friend, then their friend. Believe me, in one night of going on an outing, my Sim got a call. Then I decided what they hey, why not. She went on that outing, had a rockin time. Then their friend called her. I was like:

"Alright this is getting tedious. I am done."

Its the same with having a Dream Date, their friend wants to go on an outing. Just...Like...I dunno.


I discovered with Ian and Ezra that twins can have be a hassle, but not as female twins (then again it could of have been just me). I have no clue, why bu Jenna and Melissa needed extra time. I swear Jenna and Melissa took longer to potty train, even with the Smart Milk. I was like:

"Dear lord! LEARN TO USE THE POTTY! FOR THE LOVE OF PETE! JUST LEARN! Pretty please, I'll be your best friend. And not like make you stand outside, and get struck down by lightning....!"

[JDacapo]

Related to my previous discovery, Johnny Smith shares his pregnancy wear with his Uncle Pascal.

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

Did his aspiration get changed in college? Or did Johnny cry after getting probeded?

[Orilon]

I used SimPE to change his Aspiration to Knowledge before I started playing Strangetown. So, no he didn't cry when he got probed. I changed Ophelia's Aspiration to Knowledge at the same time, so they both got good memories when he "met aliens".

[FreezerBunny]

I discovered that when a parents comes home from work their children will hug them.

[Peni Griffin]

For the very first time, after all the dating my sims have done, I got the cuddle/love talk/hot smooch options in a restaurant booth! Normally my sims get up from eating too fast; plus a lot of the time they're not seated in booths.

[Fivey]

For the very first time, after all the dating my sims have done, I got the cuddle/love talk/hot smooch options in a restaurant booth! Normally my sims get up from eating too fast; plus a lot of the time they're not seated in booths.

I've never gotten those options, no matter how long they've been in the booths! Unfair, man.

[Charmful]

I discovered today while a guy was writing in his diary in the dorm common area, he would stop and hold the book to his chest when someone walked by he didn't like and have them in a thought bubble with an 'x' over them and wouldn't write until they left the room.

[Aegagropilon]

I discovered that the eyes on the evil Water Wiggler toy glow in the dark:
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj202/aegagropilon/TheEYES.jpg

[JDacapo]

I used SimPE to change his Aspiration to Knowledge before I started playing Strangetown. So, no he didn't cry when he got probed. I changed Ophelia's Aspiration to Knowledge at the same time, so they both got good memories when he "met aliens".

Well that's awesome in its own way! Wonder what P.T. #9 and Jenny though of it though... and what's Jill's aspiration?

[Peni Griffin]

I've never gotten those options, no matter how long they've been in the booths! Unfair, man.I don't think it has to do with how long they sit in the booths per se, but how long they sit there and what you do with them after they finish eating. You know how once the plates are clean they'll just sit there and you have to cancel the menu icon before they'll get up and do their other queued actions? Well, I fumbled on my way to do that (everything's harder with bursitis) and clicked Jessie Pilferson instead of Mickey Dosser's menu icon, and lo and behold, there were seated options I'd never seen before!

[Orilon]

Since I left PT #9 and Jenny's Aspiration as Family, they got bad memories of Johnny being abducted. I made Jill a Knowledge Sim when she became a teen, so she has a good memory of him "meeting aliens."

[JDacapo]

Since I left PT #9 and Jenny's Aspiration as Family, they got bad memories of Johnny being abducted. I made Jill a Knowledge Sim when she became a teen, so she has a good memory of him "meeting aliens."

Knowledge sims can be quite fun, can't they? Only problem I have is, they want to turn into every creature in existence lol! Fulfilling 'meet aliens' wants is cool though, and double-pregnancies are awesome! Is there a way to expand the maternity and manternity wardrobes, while still keeping the EAxis originals? The fathers-to-be look so cute in those outfits, but I'd like to have more than just three. I think that if there can be multiple pollination technicians, then it could be possible to expand the default set of maternity/manternity clothes XD

[Orilon]

Knowledge Sims are fun, but the constant want to get abducted and for a family member to get abducted once an abduction occurs gets annoying. Jill keeps rolling the want for Johnny to meet aliens again and her parents keep rolling the fears of him being abducted again. I don't used the summon aliens Free Time benefit or other cheats so all abductions in my game are "natural".

There may be custom maternity wear for the males that come back pregnant, but I haven't looked for it because custom content doesn't work in my game. I have to use Maxis defaults. I never have understood why mods will work in my game but default skins and custom hair and clothes won't.

[Yazoo]

For the very first time, after all the dating my sims have done, I got the cuddle/love talk/hot smooch options in a restaurant booth! Normally my sims get up from eating too fast; plus a lot of the time they're not seated in booths.

I have never gotten this option either. GAH! Lamage -.-"

I have discovered a VERY serious Sim will get their skills up faster. o.O Like way faster.

[Darby]

I have discovered a VERY serious Sim will get their skills up faster. o.O Like way faster.

That's not actually true. Serious sims like to skill, lose less fun while studying, and can therefore study longer without a break, but they're not smarter than other sims and don't actually build skill faster.

Some personality traits can give sims a boost for particular skills, though. For instance, super neat sims build Cleaning skill faster, and highly active sims skill Body faster.

If you're seeing a ridiculously fast skilling rate in a particular sim, as in maxing a skill completely out within a couple sim hours, it's probably due to the Physiology glitch.

The way the Physiology "skill" was supposed to work was to give sims who studied it a modest boost in the rate at which they'd gain Body skill. But what actually ended up happening is that sims who study Physiology get an insanely huge boost in the rate at which they gain ALL skills.

This glitch was never fixed in a patch, but Pescado fixed it in his unofficial AL patch called alfixes. Of course, some people happily exploit the glitch. Others don't care for it, but don't want alfixes either. For the latter, the only solution is to ignore the Physiology skill.

[Orilon]

The Physiology glitch was fixed in the AL patch. I don't have alfixes, but I do have the AL patch and I don't have the "Physiology glitch" where they gain all skills faster, they just gain body skill really fast after they get done studying Physiology.

[kithri]

Ahhh, this was happening to me yesterday in game, couldn't figure out why my sim was racking up the Body points from a 10 second jump rope session. Turns out, she had just recently studied physiology. My game is fully patched and I have all EPs. So this is a "feature" then? ;)

[sushigal007]

I discovered today while a guy was writing in his diary in the dorm common area, he would stop and hold the book to his chest when someone walked by he didn't like and have them in a thought bubble with an 'x' over them and wouldn't write until they left the room.

You know what's interesting? Sims will stop writing and hide their diary is there's a ghost in the room too!

[JDacapo]

Knowledge Sims are fun, but the constant want to get abducted and for a family member to get abducted once an abduction occurs gets annoying. Jill keeps rolling the want for Johnny to meet aliens again and her parents keep rolling the fears of him being abducted again. I don't used the summon aliens Free Time benefit or other cheats so all abductions in my game are "natural".

There may be custom maternity wear for the males that come back pregnant, but I haven't looked for it because custom content doesn't work in my game. I have to use Maxis defaults. I never have understood why mods will work in my game but default skins and custom hair and clothes won't.

Right now I just use a hack that makes abductions more likely, so other sims will get the memory of a friend or family member getting abducted or meeting aliens, and while the victim is waiting to be abducted, he or she can gain skills. I hope Johnny gets abducted again, 'cause he looks so cute with the baby bump!

[Aegagropilon]

I'm glad you posted those pictures of Johnny in his paternity duds; I'd been curious as to which ones he'd preg into :lol:

I would have had Johnny get abducted in my game if he had rolled the want to have another kid. His wife Ophelia had a monumentally horrible pregnancy with Juniper -- so bad that she's rolled "have a baby" as a fear every single day since their now-college-aged daughter was born -- so if there were to be any other kids in the house, it was clear that she wasn't going to be the one carrying them! (I felt so bad for Ophelia during her first trimester. She threw up constantly; I haven't even seen sims with food poisoning throw up as much as she did. Every time she kissed or touched Johnny (or whenever he kissed or touched her), she'd throw up. And with ACR active and their triple bolts? There was a LOT of vomit.)

[Orilon]

I thought he would change into the green one like most males, so I was kind of happy to see he changed into that one.

So it isn't just my game that Ophelia has brutal morning sickness. The minute after they got married, they ACR tried for baby and she got pregnant. I never seen a Sim have so much morning sickness. Johnny had a few bouts of throwing up, but not nearly as much as his wife. Since I changed her Aspiration she hasn't rolled the fear of having a baby, but it will be interesting to see if they have any more children.

[Yazoo]

That's not actually true. Serious sims like to skill, lose less fun while studying, and can therefore study longer without a break, but they're not smarter than other sims and don't actually build skill faster.

Some personality traits can give sims a boost for particular skills, though. For instance, super neat sims build Cleaning skill faster, and highly active sims skill Body faster.

If you're seeing a ridiculously fast skilling rate in a particular sim, as in maxing a skill completely out within a couple sim hours, it's probably due to the Physiology glitch.

The way the Physiology "skill" was supposed to work was to give sims who studied it a modest boost in the rate at which they'd gain Body skill. But what actually ended up happening is that sims who study Physiology get an insanely huge boost in the rate at which they gain ALL skills.

This glitch was never fixed in a patch, but Pescado fixed it in his unofficial AL patch called alfixes. Of course, some people happily exploit the glitch. Others don't care for it, but don't want alfixes either. For the latter, the only solution is to ignore the Physiology skill.

It wasn't two hours faster. Or what not. Caleb was just gaining skill points fast. And so did Jenna and Ian just got their skill pints up just as fast. Just like with a VERY Shy Sim it happens too, just with books. Because shy Sims rather have their nose in the book. Hannah gained her skill points up fast too, just with reading though. Same with Outgoing Sims with the Mirror they gain Charisma skill points faster over Shy Sims.

And my Sims didn't study "Physiology". It was just their personality I guess you can say. Because I've actually seen this before, and with not my Sims. My friend had a very serious Sim and her skill points went up rather fast. It all depends on the Sim and and their personality. Because Lucian he is a VERY Sloppy Sim, did his skill points go up as fast as his cousins or siblings? Oh no. Not at all. He was more or less we can say behind the rest of them.

That as you said with their personality. But dear lord...Lazy Sims take forever to get their Activity up. I do believe that is Ian as well. Got very outgoing Sims, and yet lazy, or sloppy, and for one very shy.

[AlexandraSpears]

If they were given Smart Milk as toddlers, there could be lasting effects.

[Yazoo]

If they were given Smart Milk as toddlers, there could be lasting effects.

Really? Hmm, I never thought that could be possible, actually. They all had smart milk when they were toddlers. o.O

[katya_stevens]

Yup, sometimes the smart milk effect gets stuck: if you have MATY's Lot Debugger you can click on Info -> Test IQ and it'll show you a readout. Normal intelligence is 100, Smart Milk Stick is 300 (I have gotten one sim who had an IQ of 400 but that went away rather quickly after he became a child) -- it can stay around a while depending on the sim. In my game sims only go down to an IQ of 100 when they move in to a new house (largely when they go off to university).

[JDacapo]

I thought he would change into the green one like most males, so I was kind of happy to see he changed into that one.

So it isn't just my game that Ophelia has brutal morning sickness. The minute after they got married, they ACR tried for baby and she got pregnant. I never seen a Sim have so much morning sickness. Johnny had a few bouts of throwing up, but not nearly as much as his wife. Since I changed her Aspiration she hasn't rolled the fear of having a baby, but it will be interesting to see if they have any more children.

I wonder if it's how EAxis made her... or maybe it's her missing genetic information. Will you have them use the elixir of life?

Also, even my Romance sims usually don't roll fears of having babies all that often. It's weird, though I have them do a lot of stuff and I am trying to learn to not always avoid their fears. As I played the Coles household, at first, when two of his sons were turned into werewolves, he rolled wants for them to be cured, but later they rolled away and it seemed like he accepted that they wouldn't change. He did roll fears of some of his friends turning though - luckily he never rolled a want for being cured of witchery. Other sims have also never seemed to fear anyone but themselves becoming a witch, possibly because all the witch-memories save those of the high evil witches were good.

I've read that Pescado's creature-fix apparently makes it so evil witches with the Knowledge aspiration will have good memories of turning, but also it may give non-knowledge witches bad memories even if they became good witches. I dunno if I like that idea because honestly, I like how they get good memories of becoming good witches, regardless of aspiration - sort of the way even Romance sims who fear having kids will still have good memories of having babies, and even fulfill their wants of meeting someone new when the babies are born. Another thing I like is how Romance sims will even autonomously care for babies, cuddle and play with them, and tuck in children, regardless of whether or not they are even relatives. It was just so precious watching Antimony, one of my Romance sims, dancing with one of her live-in lover's sons even though they weren't related. She had rolled the fear of having a baby, but she loved her kids and her boyfriend's kids as well. Plus, having kids has given Antimony the excuse to have parties :D

[Yazoo]

Yup, sometimes the smart milk effect gets stuck: if you have MATY's Lot Debugger you can click on Info -> Test IQ and it'll show you a readout. Normal intelligence is 100, Smart Milk Stick is 300 (I have gotten one sim who had an IQ of 400 but that went away rather quickly after he became a child) -- it can stay around a while depending on the sim. In my game sims only go down to an IQ of 100 when they move in to a new house (largely when they go off to university).

I learned something new today. :D WOOT :P

Also another way to build skills. Is if you are a Knowledge Sim OR with any other Aspiration, and have enough points to use Knowledge as the second aspiration. You can put all of your points up to something of right or left brain, I can not remember. But you will see them say:

"EUREKA!" blah blah

And you go up a skill point then another ten seconds later, another skill point :)

[Liv Lukas]

In my LiveSim session last night someone in chat, I think it was skellington and lovelyxwow, taught me that if you f3 then right click, you can zoom in to your Sim very close! It was so cool to learn after all these years.

There are several hot keys in The Sims 2 Body Shop that help you preview your Sims. Many of these can be used in combination to get a precise view of your Sim.

F3 -- Toggles between “free camera” and “set camera” modes. In free camera, you can use the following mouse controls to rotate the camera in all dimensions:

* Click and drag the Left Mouse Button -- Orbits the camera around the Sim’s head.

* Click and drag the Right Mouse Button -- Controls the camera zoom. Move the mouse away from you to zoom out. Move the mouse toward you to zoom in.

* Click and drag Left and Right mouse buttons together -- Changes the center point the camera is looking at.

F5 -- Toggles the 3D room off and on. If there is a bitmap graphic named “userBkg.bmp” in the “\EA Games\The Sims 2\” folder in My Documents, the image will be displayed as a backdrop.

F6 -- Displays the Sim in the “bind pose,” with arms held straight out. This is helpful for viewing parts of the Sim that may be hidden by the normal pose. To return the Sim to the normal pose, click on any Sim thumbnail or content thumbnail.

F7 -- While in “set camera” mode, displays the Sim at the far zoom position.

F8 -- While in “set camera” mode, displays the Sim at the near zoom position.

F9 -- Toggles the UI off and on.

< and > -- Rotates the Sim. (Also shown on the keyboard as the comma “,” and period “.” keys.)

Display Options:
Pressing ALT+ENTER will toggle The Sims 2 Body Shop between windowed mode (default) and full-screen.

[Orilon]

I wonder if it's how EAxis made her... or maybe it's her missing genetic information. Will you have them use the elixir of life?

I fixed her missing genetic information in SimPE before I started playing Strangetown. Before I play any hood, I fix all of the missing DNA in the pre-mades, so I think that's just the way she's made. She and Johnny are 22 days away from Elder, so I don't need to give them elixir, I just meant with the rough pregnancy she had, would they ACR try for baby again.

[sushigal007]

Ah, I remember discovering full screen Bodyshop.

I walked into my room and the cat was sprawled over the laptop and had somehow made it fullscreen. I had no clue how to fix it and all my button-mashing failed. Happily the internet was able to help. XD

[DigitalSympathies]

That if you have a breastfeeding mod installed, locking the door of the nursery room against the father will stop him from trying to take them to get bottles from the refrigerator. So now my hipster family can raise their new triplets in peace!

[Fivey]

Yup, sometimes the smart milk effect gets stuck: if you have MATY's Lot Debugger you can click on Info -> Test IQ and it'll show you a readout. Normal intelligence is 100, Smart Milk Stick is 300 (I have gotten one sim who had an IQ of 400 but that went away rather quickly after he became a child) -- it can stay around a while depending on the sim. In my game sims only go down to an IQ of 100 when they move in to a new house (largely when they go off to university).

I love that glitch. My sim Brenda Larson just entered adulthood and she had almost all of her skills maxed out by her teens. She didn't have to read a single book in college. Her LTW is to max out seven skills, so she's close to perma-plat already.

[JDacapo]

I've discovered that hiring elders for businesses can be very expensive - the required wage starts out small, but then you get this message saying that the elder employee is very unhappy. When you check their wages, it says they are ridiculously underpaid, and you have to raise their pay to around 84 simoleons per hour, seriously tanking your profit. Then later on, when they earn some badges and you check their wages again, it says they are ridiculously overpaid. Then when you try to change their wages after they earn some more badges, it shows the maximum wage as lower than what you had set it previously, and if you press the 'accept' button, it acts as though you cut their wages, even though it's at max and they are STILL ridiculously overpaid. WTF???

I really hated cutting Faith Goodie's wages, because she's such a nice sim, and she and Herbert need the money in order to pay the bills and care for the Newsons that they had adopted. Luckily, I was able to mitigate some of the damage to her relationship with Willard since he had learned to bow, thanks to one of my controllable employees being a Far East local.

[VioletPadfoot]

On the subject of morning sickness, Plantims who get pregnant have horrible morning sickness. In my Test of Time challenge, a few of my mothers got turned into plantsims and I continued to get them pregnant per challenge rules. And OMG the running to the toilet was awful! I know it wasn't just the sims b/c they all had "normal" or no morning sickness in previous pregnancies (and in the case where i cured her in subsequent pregnancies too) But every plantsim who has gotten pregnant this far has had THE WORST morning sickness. ~VP

[CherryFlight]

I learned (or rather, my poor frustrated sim did) that woohoo only works if the sims involved are mutually in love. Or if the initiator is, I'm not sure which. Can you tell this is my first Romance sim?

[Peni Griffin]

You don't even get the option till your sim is in love, and you sure won't get accepted if it's not reciprocated. If you find this too confining to your sim's style, there's a mod called ACR (Autonomous Casual Romance) that's looking for you.

However, I recommend that you learn how it all works in the vanilla game first, so that when you read the manual and decide how to implement it in your game, you'll have a good idea of what you do and don't want to mess with. I recommend that with all mods, actually, but it's particularly necessary with something as big and complex as ACR, which will change the most basic dynamics of your game.

[Orilon]

Marriage, Engagement and woohoo are all interactions that require a high long term relationship (the bottom number) on both Sims to be accepted.

I learned that teens can cuddle, and if one of the teens has a Science true hobby, they discover that.

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

In my Strangetown, Buck Grunt and Jill Smith are teens and I sent them on a date, they autonomously cuddled, and Buck discovered Science as his true hobby.

[Saturnfly]

Today I discovered the 'douse' interaction when my sim had gotten heatstroke (from sitting in the hot-tub in summer in the desert). I was expecting another sim to come up to him and gently dab at his forehead with a cool wash cloth, but no she comes up and pours a glass of water on his head.
Of course she had to laugh at him before stopping his brain from melting. But then that was the same sim who laughed at her dying father, so... -.-

[CherryFlight]

You don't even get the option till your sim is in love, and you sure won't get accepted if it's not reciprocated. If you find this too confining to your sim's style, there's a mod called ACR (Autonomous Casual Romance) that's looking for you.

However, I recommend that you learn how it all works in the vanilla game first, so that when you read the manual and decide how to implement it in your game, you'll have a good idea of what you do and don't want to mess with. I recommend that with all mods, actually, but it's particularly necessary with something as big and complex as ACR, which will change the most basic dynamics of your game.

Thanks for the suggestion, but it's fine! I'm sure he can adjust. I like the game dynamics as they are. Sims seem at least semi-aware of the fourth wall anyway, so he can just yell at the numbers in the meantime, haha.

[nikel23]

I found that other than annoying, Rod Humble can be destructive too. If you move in an apartment and linger without renting one until 10 am, that is, at the time when Rod will deliver his package, you will get a constant error message and the only way to stop it is to choose "Delete". If you don't play with testingcheatsenabled true, your game will just hang, with the only way to stop it is to exit to neighborhood. I think it's because Rod cannot find a valid home to deliver the package, and he just HAS to give you that damned package! However, I just don't want a mod to prevent Rod Humble because... he exists and I don't want to lose his existence in the game no matter how annoying he is.

[JDacapo]

I just discovered that even neat sims will autonomously fart when their aspiration gets into the red. ROFL. I dunno if they have to be teenagers in order to do it but this selectable employee who did it is a Knowledge sim, neat, shy, serious and has five nice points. Frikkin' weird.

[nikel23]

I just discovered that even neat sims will autonomously fart when their aspiration gets into the red. ROFL. I dunno if they have to be teenagers in order to do it but this selectable employee who did it is a Knowledge sim, neat, shy, serious and has five nice points. Frikkin' weird.
Why, sure. If they don't fart, their stomach will go boom. XD

[Yazoo]

Not sure if this has happened to anyone else.

I discovered that if your relationship with a baby is in the negative, and that said Sim brings the baby to the cake, to help blow out the candles. Instead of aging up, they will literally crap themselves instead. I noticed this last night, when Jenna brought Toby to the cake, and he denied it, and crapped himself. So Aria had to bring Toby to the cake herself...

Seriously...I was like oh shit.

[Peni Griffin]

It may not be anything to do with the relationship level. Babies can't age up if their motives are low. I would interpret that sequence as, baby as bladder motive too low to age; nobody can do anything about this till baby fills his diaper; once diaper is changed, motives are high enough for the cake to be effective.

I can't rule out the relationship score entirely - I've never had a baby aged by anyone in the family they had a low relationship score with; it usually sneaks up on me because I suck at tracking time, and if I didn't remember to make a note of which day the baby's supposed to age up, since there's likely to be a month between days, most of the time a parent or sibling is trying to help the baby grow up before I remember it's transition day. But low motives have always been the culprit, as far as I can tell, when my babies have trouble growing up.

[Yazoo]

It may not be anything to do with the relationship level. Babies can't age up if their motives are low. I would interpret that sequence as, baby as bladder motive too low to age; nobody can do anything about this till baby fills his diaper; once diaper is changed, motives are high enough for the cake to be effective.

I can't rule out the relationship score entirely - I've never had a baby aged by anyone in the family they had a low relationship score with; it usually sneaks up on me because I suck at tracking time, and if I didn't remember to make a note of which day the baby's supposed to age up, since there's likely to be a month between days, most of the time a parent or sibling is trying to help the baby grow up before I remember it's transition day. But low motives have always been the culprit, as far as I can tell, when my babies have trouble growing up.

Ah, that could have been it too. I am sort of glad I am not the only one. But you could be right, it could have been the low motive. But I am with you, losing track of time, and all that jazz. Thank goodness, I have those wonderful pop ups that tell me when they are going to age up. Because if I didn't...I would be seriously screwed -.-"

[dieKristina]

I discovered that if your relationship with a baby is in the negative, and that said Sim brings the baby to the cake, to help blow out the candles. Instead of aging up, they will literally crap themselves instead.

I´m curious: How did you manage to get that sim having a negative relationship to the baby?

[JDacapo]

I´m curious: How did you manage to get that sim having a negative relationship to the baby?

Might be randomized, or the sim in question lectured the baby.

[MissMercury1973]

I discovered that MY KIDS WOULD NOT DO THEIR HOMEWORK!! :(

Badly designed house...my bad I guess...

[katya_stevens]

dieKristina: it seems to be random, I've noticed that some sims (most commonly children) will have a negative STR with the new family member when they're born. It's normally between the ranges of -2 and -15, with the LTR is usually at +20. As I've only seen it with children I attribute it to game-coded jealousy of a new sibling coming along and taking attention away from them.

[Peni Griffin]

Miss 1973 - it usually is our bad if our sims adamantly refuse to do what we ask them to do. We've usually made it impossible or let their motives decay to the point where they can't cope, given the mechanics. But what exactly happened? No child will spontaneously do homework, and all children will refuse to do it if their fun or other motives are too low. Some sim children are very clever at hiding their homework so you can't find it to make them do it once their motives are up; there's hacks for this, and also if you go into buy mode and take a top view you can usually find the hiding place.

Re negative relationships to newborns: I frequently get that with siblings. In one case, she's a full-grown sibling. She moved back in with her parents to help them out after her father got alien pregnant on the verge of elderhood, and she clearly resents it. She's interacted with him enough that his scores toward her are 80 or higher now that he's a toddler; yet she's still barely cracked double digits toward him, and she started at -10.

It may be possible for a baby to have a high negative score toward a parent - if, for example, Mom's lover visited while Dad was at work - and it is certainly possible with toddlers, who can be furious with their parents just like older children.

[dieKristina]

katya_stevens : Yes, I have noticed that the relationship between siblings can start as negative. I only assumed that Jenna was a parent to Toby, and at least in my game the relationship between a parent and their child always start pretty high. But if Jenna was a sibling to Toby that explains a lot.

[Yazoo]

katya_stevens : Yes, I have noticed that the relationship between siblings can start as negative. I only assumed that Jenna was a parent to Toby, and at least in my game the relationship between a parent and their child always start pretty high. But if Jenna was a sibling to Toby that explains a lot.


Basically, here it is. For some reason, I have three, THREE Pisces in one house. Toby being the new born, he is a Pisces, and his older sisters: Melissa and Jenna, are as well. So, it could be very well their personalities clashing hardcore. Seeing that, Melissa, Toby and Jenna are the most serious people you will ever meet. But that could be one reason.

Honestly, I can't even explain why I have so many Sims that are Pisces. Let me think here. Jenna, Melissa, Toby and Hannah are all Pisces. Were as: Ian, Lucian, and Caleb are Libra's. The only one that actually does NOT share a star sign is Ezra he is a Taurus.

So, with that said, I would say its the conflict of having the same personality -.-"

[Peni Griffin]

If they all have the same personality point spread, that sounds like Firstborn Syndrome. Are you rolling the pacifier? Otherwise, it'll just be a statistical cluster, like a preponderance of one gender or another in a string of births.

Although in real life people who are too much alike often don't get along, in sims having similar personalities makes it easier for them to get along. My guess is you're not giving them enough interaction time. The more time sims spend together, all other things being equal, the better they'll get along.

[CherryFlight]

I discovered that autonomous bedroom segregation by sex is ignored if the two sims in question are best friends. Suddenly a male sim slept beside a female housemate where before he always chose the bed with his male housemate. Difference? Friendship status!

(I noticed age segregation at work too in another household, I wonder if that will be ignored as well)

[Aegagropilon]

Basically, here it is. For some reason, I have three, THREE Pisces in one house. Toby being the new born, he is a Pisces, and his older sisters: Melissa and Jenna, are as well. So, it could be very well their personalities clashing hardcore. Seeing that, Melissa, Toby and Jenna are the most serious people you will ever meet. But that could be one reason.

Honestly, I can't even explain why I have so many Sims that are Pisces. Let me think here. Jenna, Melissa, Toby and Hannah are all Pisces. Were as: Ian, Lucian, and Caleb are Libra's. The only one that actually does NOT share a star sign is Ezra he is a Taurus.

So, with that said, I would say its the conflict of having the same personality -.-"


You said that they all have the same starsign, but do they have the same personality point spread?

Four of Frieda and Nervous's six kids in my game are Sagittariuses, but each one has a different personality point spread:
Grimm is 4/1/10/8/10
Grimhild is 1/0/10/7/8 (currently 0/0/10/7/8)
Difficult is 3/6/10/10/6 (currently 0/6/10/10/6)
Grimuara is 7/2/10/10/6

Grimm and Grimhild used to be best friends as children, but started drifting apart when they each became teens and Grimhild discovered how to tell her annihilatingly bad dirty jokes; their problem is more a difference of conversational interests than both being Sagittariuses.

[Yazoo]

I was wrong, Melissa is NOT a Pisces she is the Libra. Uhm...As for Jenna and Caleb do have the EXACT points. And as for Toby he has NO points on Playful, were as Caleb and Jenna have one point, that's it. So, yeah...They are super serious, and I can only imagine why. Nina was one serious Sim, then again, so is Aria. Just tweaked them a little bit. But still supa serious -.-" At least they are supa neat, nice, outgoing and active. I guess that is a plus

[nikel23]

I once forgot to buy another souvenir and only ended up with 4 when I got home from a vacation. Then I figured out that souvenirs can simply be duplicated by shift+clicking it. It's not a cheat. It's a feature to buy the same objects over and over. You still pay for it, but now I know I don't have to buy 5 from a souvenir rack. Now I can open a souvenir shop!

[LittleMrs]

Today I discovered that you can see rain pouring off the roof when it's raining. I can't believe I never noticed before!