What did you discover today while playing the sims?

[LegolianM]

Vidcund's like that in my game too...! He took care of her a whole lot more than Pascal did when she was a baby, and he's still always going over to play with her or see what she's up to. I thought it was cute. XD

[JavaJulie]

I found that Sims are apparently quite willing to commute long distances for pissant jobs. My Sim recently hired someone via phone and he turned out to be a Twikii local - if she calls him on the phone, the option to Invite as Houseguest is present and all.

[FlyingKiwi]

Vidcund's like that in my game too...!

I'm trying to get Vidcund impregnated as well now so he can have his own child!

[A-chana]

I learned that even if you kill off the girl who is best friends with all seven of her roommates and all thirteen partygoers in the last 45 seconds of a party, it will still retain a good score, and may even increase to Roof Raiser if there's time (I got that with fifteen seconds left). It's too bad she was the one hosting the party, so the 'Great Party' memory went to no one.

[Annette_SC]

I learned that even if you kill off the girl who is best friends with all seven of her roommates and all thirteen partygoers in the last 45 seconds of a party, it will still retain a good score, and may even increase to Roof Raiser if there's time (I got that with fifteen seconds left). It's too bad she was the one hosting the party, so the 'Great Party' memory went to no one.

Wow... guess they weren't best friends after all!

[Thrior]

I found out couple days ago that the teddy bear toy decreases their social bar. Not when a kid is playing with it alone but when the other sim is fooling around with the toy and playing like it would talk to some other sim. It will make their social bar drop quite a bit.
Pretty idiotic if you ask me.

[AxelValentine]

Thrior - Maybe it makes them realize just how lonely they really are.

[Thrior]

^
Yeah , I thought that too but it's still pretty idiotic. Mother was playing with the teddy to amuse her toddler son and it caused them both to drop their social needs =P

[LegolianM]

I discovered that a dead Sim's needs still drop while the Reaper is there. o_O Poor Bryan got hit by a satellite last night (I always save before a stargaze though so I got him back) and his needs kept getting lower while Grimmy was filling out his papers.

[KacoshiAjewl]

lol thats kinda funny I have yet to get death by sattilite naturaly yet although abductions happen all the time and I don't have an incressed odds hack. Granted I don't want them becuse the kids that come from them are uuuugly ><

[LegolianM]

The first death I ever had was death by satellite. XD This is the second time I've had it, and both of them were totally natural and unexpected. I sorta wish I could've kept the satellite wreckage, but ah well.

[TamaPATCHI]

I discovered I wasn't such a bad party thrower as I thought I was! :p

[FlyingKiwi]

I discovered that wedding parties don't go too well when the bride decides to leave halfway through to take her kid brother home. (Cassandra Goth the bride in question)

[angelthatishonest]

I discovered that certain sims wander up and water ur flowers for no apparent reason...and then leave...

[Ghost sdoj]

Make sure you plant all your crops at the same time. Or keep track of which ones your sim skipped the last time you used "Water Many". I overwatered plants several times by selecting one that had the option of "water many" but wasn't one of the many that actually needed watering!

[Sim Simmer]

If your sim doesn't have time to take a shower (ex: they would be late for work or miss school) then just repeatedly wash their hands about 8 times or so.

[Annette_SC]

If your maid leaves half of your home uncleaned before s/he leaves, it usually means that their Neatness scale isn't too high. If you have the ability to select them and change their neatness to as high as possible, you won't have this problem anymore.

[Valerie_SC]

I discovered something, HUZZAH!

If your child has homework and asks for help, they will learn to study. And from there on they can do it faster. :smash:

Valerie :duck:

[LegolianM]

I discovered that I probably have some sort of conflict going on with default eyes.... one of my alien children became a teen, and he suddenly had normal grey eyes! I immediately closed and went and deleted the custom alien eyes I had, but that didn't help.

At least he doesn't have the typical huge alien eyes, that would be freaky...!

[Garrity828]

I have no idea what the 'Encourage...' interaction does. :(

[musiquefille_SC]

it encourages a younger sim to change their personality in the way you choose from the pie menu. Encouraging Niceness will eventually make the sim gain nice points, Laziness, laziness points, etc.

[JavaJulie]

it encourages a younger sim to change their personality in the way you choose from the pie menu. Encouraging Niceness will eventually make the sim gain nice points, Laziness, laziness points, etc.
Also, I think the greater the age difference between the Encourager and the Encouragee, and the bigger the disparity between the selected personality points, the less time it takes to raise the points. So an extremely neat elder encouraging a very mess child to be tidy will take less time than a moderately neat adult encouraging a somewhat messy teen.

[the_unnoticed]

i discovered that sims can watch tv while lounging on the couch. never saw that happen before...i was under the impression you could do one or the other :P

[captapollo75]

I discovered that its a good idea to get a car alarm installed on your cars. Especially when your sim had a $30,000 Porsche sitting in his driveway. I didnt see when exactly it disappeared, but i assume it was stolen.

[LegolianM]

I discovered that ghosts can apparently break things, and tombstones can vanish...? o_O

I have this one house that has been haunted every night lately, which seems odd to me as they only have 3 graves, while another house I have has 5 and I rarely see ghosts at it. The last night it happened, two of the three ghosts were about... I didn't see what happened as everyone was asleep and it was on fastfoward, but when they woke up I suddenly had a broken lamp, and the tombstone of the one ghost who hadn't showed up was gone. I have no idea where it went.

[Alexilibra_SC]

I discovered that a sim can share their food with their dog if the dog is hungry . And the sim throws it and the dog eats it from the floor .

[FlyingKiwi]

This isn't much of a discovery, but I "discovered" that when a sim is abducted by aliens their needs fluctuate wildly while they're away from the lot, but return to normal once their back. I'm sure every one else knew that already, but I don't have many abductions.

[crazybender_SC]

hi! yesterday i was playin a new family ...and was broke at some point...so i sell of their tv. and then i hit the live mode again and they were running at the spot where the tv had been, and started to get angry with me! they were like, very pissed that their beloved box had gone and exclaiming "Where did it go???!! Grrr"! lol i've never seen that before...

sorry if anyone had stated this...but this incident surprised me hahaha :)

[heavenzdvl987_SC]

I discovered that sims with very few neat points will sit in chairs at an angle rather than properly straight forward.

[LegolianM]

hi! yesterday i was playin a new family ...and was broke at some point...so i sell of their tv. and then i hit the live mode again and they were running at the spot where the tv had been, and started to get angry with me! they were like, very pissed that their beloved box had gone and exclaiming "Where did it go???!! Grrr"! lol i've never seen that before...

sorry if anyone had stated this...but this incident surprised me hahaha :)
Haha, I had something like that happen once before too, except it was even more bizarre... I had a toddler age up to child, and I went and deleted his toddler toys, and when I unpaused the game he was furious with me for getting rid of them! It's not like he'd be able to use them anymore! XD

[claireishness]

Haha, I had something like that happen once before too, except it was even more bizarre... I had a toddler age up to child, and I went and deleted his toddler toys, and when I unpaused the game he was furious with me for getting rid of them! It's not like he'd be able to use them anymore! XD
haha, it's annoying but funny!
I think it's because they had a want for this object at one point, they might've lost aspiration points too because you deleted it

[LegolianM]

Yeah, I've seen them lose aspiration points for getting rid of something that they wanted, but the child getting angry over losing his xylophone was just like "wtf?". It was definitely amusing though.

[Ghost sdoj]

I discovered that when we installed Seasons sims who were in the sim bin or in the first couple of hours of the first day on a new lot had their LTW re-roll. But my teen who had formerly wanted to become a Criminal Mastermind (until he left for college) apparently has lingering criminal desires because I also discovered a new want: Counterfeit Simoleons! Fortunately he was kidnapped into the Secret Society that night, so he got his counterfeiting done hassle-free.

[Annette_SC]

This isn't much of a discovery, but I "discovered" that when a sim is abducted by aliens their needs fluctuate wildly while they're away from the lot, but return to normal once their back. I'm sure every one else knew that already, but I don't have many abductions.

I noticed that too! I showed my husband (who doesn't play) and he said that's what happens when you're getting anal-probed. :lol:

[The CLaw]

Tired of the same old junk when your sim turns on his/her sterio? Well be anoyed no longer. Now you can hear your own music coming out of their sterio.

HOW DO I DO THAT?:
In your Sims 2 game file there should be a folder named 'music' (or somthing of the like). Open it. In any of the foldiers withing 'music' you should be able to delete the music that is already there, then it willl appear in-game.

NOTE: all files must be either WAVs or MP3s

[Birgitte Heuschkel]

I discovered that my hyperactive neatness freak vampire sim loves nothing so much as washing windows.

[crazybender_SC]

Haha, I had something like that happen once before too, except it was even more bizarre... I had a toddler age up to child, and I went and deleted his toddler toys, and when I unpaused the game he was furious with me for getting rid of them! It's not like he'd be able to use them anymore! XD

haha yeah your case is more bizarre....maybe the xylophone has some old memories to the child, lol that's why he's pissed off!

[sugaplum1]

i discovered that my sim kept having twins and when they got to kids became angry and fought all the time.... lol

[urt31]

I discovered that one of my sims seems to think that the best way to avoid fire is to run straight through it.

[carolobrien]

I found my child sim floating on his back in the pool. nearly had heart failure - thought he was drowning or something but when you click on the active sim in the pool they can float on back. way cool.

[Jadzia7667]

One: I've really, really missed playing the game. My puter was old and lame so I stopped playing for about a year and a half. New puter plus new EP's equals a happy Jadzia.

Two: You can lock gates, as well as doors. The doors I knew about, but locking gates was a surprise. M'not sure how useful it'll be, but if it keeps out the mailman, it's all good.

Three: I have Uni and Pets...and I desperately want the rest of the EP's.

Four: Two and a half gigs of custom content, newly dl'd and installed (nothing old except my beloved hacks), seems excessive, but really isn't. I NEED all that stuff, really I do...

Five: Dogs knock over the trashcan, which is kinda cute to watch. I want to be able to adopt puppies, as that's what many real life people do. Dogs doing the whoo-hoo thing is unutterably cute...but I'm glad they do it in the doghouse, you know? The sparks and rocking are quite enough for me - lol.

Six: Cats singing along with the stereo is totally realistic. My own cats do this regularly.

That's it for now. I'm just now getting back into the socializing that goes along with the game.

[1306]

This was really weird. I made my sim play at the poker table, but she doesn't want to. There's a speech bubble with money behind a big red "X". Strange thing is, they have tons of money.

Maybe a new diescovery? Or are my sims not hustlers?

Edit: Yay! Post #2800!

[Ghost sdoj]

I believe that Poker is played with personal funds, not family money. (Wouldn't it be nice if it always worked like that in Real Life?) Tips (and I believe profits from paintings and the like) will contribute to the amount of money a sim feels they can spend on things like poker and ticket businesses.

[StupidityKills]

Snow settles on glasses :)
Also: I'm actually stalling on a bunch of families cos I want to play them with Free Time. This is good for my studies, not so much after this weekend! :s

Jadzia - Locking gates can be useful for keeping stray or neighbourhood pets out of your back garden / yard. Also, keeping yours in. :)

[Aloony]

o.o I actually discovered something today that surprised me: When it's raining, you can see water sliding down the roofs tiles. I was like: Woah!

:3 Thought it was cool, anyways.

[Ghost sdoj]

Always check to make sure you know what all your sims are up to before saving. And never save just as a sim autonomously answers a phone you didn't realize was ringing. :(

I also discovered a weird graphics glitch which caused a half-invisible townie to wander onto the lot, buy a ticket, then head over to the treadmill. Then the sim completely vanished and my game died. Again.

[Menaceman44]

1306, maybe your Sim was just worried about losing money. A lot of my Fortune Sims fear the repo man quite often.

[Garrity828]

I discovered there was a loading bar during the screen that has those rotating messages like 'Reticulating Splines'.

[1306]

Menaceman44 - She didn't have a fear of losing money. But the repo man...was a staple fear.
sidneydoj - Really? I thought that they do play poker with family funds! Now I'll have my sims paint more...That might explain why they were able to play poker after playing with the household members.

I also discovered something:
While some sims cover their head when it's hailing, some don't! Methinks those sims have metal plated heads. :D

[Yakumo-dono]

I discovered that the hotel service sims are lazy as heck. They don't clean a thing, had a family go on vacation after one left and the rooms they used were still dirty, beds unmade, toilets spewing green, and the dirty dishes were still where they left them.

[Ineedalife]

^^ I noticed that too recently. I wonder whats up with that. Everytime my male sims initiate it no baby chimes..
Maybe its trying to give the effect htat the woman is making the decision or something? lol
I realized that Brandi almost always has boys!

[LegolianM]

I discovered that at least two townies have no phones.... o_O It's odd. Usually when you meet a townie or an NPC you can always call them, but Damon's tried calling two recently and both of them gave me the "So-and-so has no phone!" message.

[Cinamun]

I discovered theres a Simlish version of "dontcha wish ya girlfriend was hot like me" that plays in that Lucky bar downtown :blink:

[fway]

I discovered theres a Simlish version of "dontcha wish ya girlfriend was hot like me" that plays in that Lucky bar downtown :blink:

You didn't know that!? You're so late Cin. :p That came with Pets.


I discovered that at least two townies have no phones.... o_O It's odd. Usually when you meet a townie or an NPC you can always call them, but Damon's tried calling two recently and both of them gave me the "So-and-so has no phone!" message.



Are the townies in the Family Bin? That's possibly one of the reasons why you can't call them.

[Fede_SC]

I discovered theres a Simlish version of "dontcha wish ya girlfriend was hot like me" that plays in that Lucky bar downtown :blink:

Hey ! I Love This Song, I Don't Know About That ! I Need This Song In Simlish Now ! Lol !

Bye ;)

[Cinamun]

:rofl: Hey! I've only had Pets for a few months now LOL

[PenChris_SC]

It's probably stupid, but I just realized my sims could add soap to the fountains. I never tried to interact with a fountain before. I don't know why. I just assumed they were purely decorative. They look so cute sneaking up to the fountain to be mischievous.

[fway]

Paintings/Sculptures/Etc. now have View many... as a pie menu option! Thank goodness.

With FreeTime of Course.

[LegolianM]

Are the townies in the Family Bin? That's possibly one of the reasons why you can't call them.
Nope, they're just normal townies that were wandering around. Oddly enough, one of them just called him...! She can call him but he can't call her? Weird....

[JavaJulie]

Nope, they're just normal townies that were wandering around. Oddly enough, one of them just called him...! She can call him but he can't call her? Weird....
What's really frustrating is when your Sim finds a three-lighting bolt match in a Townie, and goes through all the motions of starting a relationship, getting a dream date, etc, only to find out that the Townie has no phone. I made the mistake of getting one Sim engaged to a Townie (with the help of the Voodoo doll) before realizing she had no way of calling him!

Anyway, I discovered that wedding attendees sometimes clap after the ceremony. I have had many Sim marriages over the years, but the last one was the first time I ever saw someone stand up and clap at the end.

[LegolianM]

^ That is frustrating. >_< I'll just have to try and track them down at a community lot again, though that's always so random. If it comes down to it I can just spawn them at his house with Insim - instant visitor! XD

I discovered that my Sims seem to have a thing about elders, especially this one adult male I have, whenever he goes out he starts swooning over them. I had another one swoon over Crumplebottom! O_O WTF.

[Ghost sdoj]

I discovered that at least two townies have no phones.... o_O It's odd. Usually when you meet a townie or an NPC you can always call them, but Damon's tried calling two recently and both of them gave me the "So-and-so has no phone!" message.

They are probably some of the descendants of the Tricou family that came with Downtown. I think you are supposed to get frustrated with them and move one in so that you can find out about the whole Tricou thing.

[LegolianM]

Oh, really? I didn't know about that...! I might have to check that out now....

[Laughy]

This was actually a while ago,but i discovered that when a toddler's parent comes home sometimes they'll run out to greet them,it almost happened to me but my sim's daughter was asleep so i couldn't see it.

[PenChris_SC]

This was actually a while ago,but i discovered that when a toddler's parent comes home sometimes they'll run out to greet them,it almost happened to me but my sim's daughter was asleep so i couldn't see it.

This happens with kids too, but I think the relationship has to be high with child and parent because one of my kids will always greet their mother and the other (who is not the nicest child on the block) tends to ignore 'mom' coming home.

[Laughy]

hmm,good to know ,i'm going to try that and see if it happens,i bet it's really cute :)

[vita4all]

I learned a long time ago that it pays to back up your game before doing an install, including the EA Games folder in your program files, and after running into problems today, boy am I glad I did!

[flashbangg]

I found out that if a sim is chatting to someone they have a good relationship with on the computer, they get the option to invite them over. Probably obvious, but it's the first time I've seen it...

[Menaceman44]

I noticed today that in Free Time the logo in the options panel for the credits is no longer the MAXIS logo. Its a plumbob now instead.

[AxelValentine]

One thing I remember, if two sims go on their honeymoon but one is a college student and doesn't live with their now husband/wife they'll appear as a selectable sim on an off-shoot branch like pets do and even if freewill is off they'll do whatever they want.

[Menaceman44]

I've also just discovered that the Sims team don't seem to actually play the lots they create before shipping the game! I've just been to My Muse II only to be attacked numerous times by Sims trying to talk to me through teddybears and the male shower can't be used because its too close to the wall! I don't even know if I can fix all this because of the lot being in a secret hood.

[I_Love_Simming]

I've also just discovered that the Sims team don't seem to actually play the lots they create before shipping the game! I've just been to My Muse II only to be attacked numerous times by Sims trying to talk to me through teddybears and the male shower can't be used because its too close to the wall! I don't even know if I can fix all this because of the lot being in a secret hood.

Mine did that too lol. Its like, go away with that freakin teddybear im trying to Draw :|

[musiquefille_SC]

I learned the same thing on a BV vacation lot, either in Twiikii or Takemizu - They put the wrong doors on the bathrooms and the women's had only one toilet and a urinal which none of them could use, so there was always a line. The men's, however, had more than enough bathrooms. I could fix it but I keep forgetting which lot it is.

[LegolianM]

I discovered how sad miscarriages are. >_< Realistic, but sad. Poor girl, I felt so sorry for her.

[Menaceman44]

I learned the same thing on a BV vacation lot, either in Twiikii or Takemizu - They put the wrong doors on the bathrooms and the women's had only one toilet and a urinal which none of them could use, so there was always a line. The men's, however, had more than enough bathrooms. I could fix it but I keep forgetting which lot it is.

Oh yeah I had that too. I went and corrected that as soon as I could.

I've discovered loads more errors and mistakes since my last post. It seems Free Time may have been rushed just a little too much.

[GreenTea]

I discovered how sad miscarriages are. >_< Realistic, but sad. Poor girl, I felt so sorry for her.

Is that a cheat/mod/hack, or is it a new feature?? :blink:

[kooziledrawde]

I discovered that I get really attached to Sim's pets and actually miss them when they die :(

[LegolianM]

Is that a cheat/mod/hack, or is it a new feature?? :blink:
The InTeenimator makes miscarriage possible. I've since then downloaded the flavor pack that stops them from happening, 'cause I didn't like that very much.

[Ghost sdoj]

Watering tomatoes builds Gardening badge points. Watering flowers takes just as long but does nothing. Neither does trimming a bush.

Getting Seasons made my game load a little bit faster. Except for the very first time on a lot I have shaved about 2 minutes off the average load time. I may start going to community lots again!

My flower beds are now getting sprinklers.

[crocobaura]

I found out that if a sim is chatting to someone they have a good relationship with on the computer, they get the option to invite them over. Probably obvious, but it's the first time I've seen it...


I got that option too once with a guy from Takemizu village. Useless to say that he arrived on a snowy day when my sim was at work and after waiting for some time during the blizzard he decided to leave. Kind of wish they'd say when they're going to arrive so sims could plan their schedule.

[MongoLuehring]

When you have a sim play the violin (with the Freetime expansion pack), they sometimes play part of the cadenza from the first movement of Tchiakovsky's Violin Concerto in D. It's played well, too, though the tuning tends to drift sharp (but that could just be the result of hearing it through computer speakers). Since that's one of my all time favorite pieces of music, I thought it was a pretty sweet thing to have Maxis include!

[Game Shark]

I just discovered you can sneak out without paying the bill.

[fway]

Funny thing I discovered. Well, I guess while sims are sleeping they build enthusiasm towards their hobby. :blink:

[Zavi]

I discovered that managers, while on a community lot business with the owner, are SUCH a pain! He kept trying to reassign jobs!

[Menaceman44]

I discovered that Sims can catch bugs for their collection whilst hiking.

EDIT: And that toddlers oddly seem to gain body points from singing nursery rhymes on their own.

[Zavi]

I discovered that when a sim is blocking the TV, he can be shooed by other sims. Just like in real life...

[Valerie_SC]

I discovered that I get really attached to Sim's pets and actually miss them when they die :(

Tell me about it :/ I almost teared up when I saw it gently flying around the house... :weep:

Valerie :duck:

[OMGNicole_SC]

I discovered that Big Foot cant get romantic :(! I wanted to see little hairy babies running around x] x[!!

[Ferret II]

Today when Macey was telling a dirty joke to Jean-Pierre, part of the joke involved snow. When she was talking about snow she like shivered and did the actions! I thought it was quite cute :D

[Sinthe]

I've discovered that some Sims can't stargaze or watch clouds. Anyone know why?

[PearlRose]

The family that you desperately wanted to only have one sim-baby would ultimately, without fail, provide your first set of natural twins in the game.

[LegolianM]

I have a set of twins, and I sent the brother off to uni and kept the sister at home (old fashioned family, she doesn't get college) however I forgot he still had some unfinished homework. I was controlling their father and clicked on it, and got "Help Shui With Homework"... but Shui is the sister....! o_O Somehow her brother's homework became hers when he left!

I also discovered that when you move a gravestone to a graveyard, the ghost of the Sim will appear briefly and wave goodbye at the house. It's sweet and sad at the same time.

[Sinthe]

I was pleasantly surprised to see the cinematic for when a YA moves into their house/dorm at college. I really liked it! I just wondered why it was always their dad... Hmm.

[Laughy]

I was pleasantly surprised to see the cinematic for when a YA moves into their house/dorm at college. I really liked it! I just wondered why it was always their dad... Hmm.
No it actually depends,for example if you send alexander goth to uni you get bella or cassandra,don't remember,but i think it's random.

[kustirider2]

i descovered by turning move_objects on that you can make it look like a car is on a wall.

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t185/kustirider2/snapshot_94d9dbd0_d4d9e4b4.jpg

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t185/kustirider2/snapshot_94d9dbd0_34d9e4ba.jpg

[AxelValentine]

Sinthe: The parent seeing them off is the one they have a higher relationship with I read once. I'd have to test it out, but I believe it.
Legolian: I think it's more of how siblings can do each other's homework. If, as Shui, had clicked on her brother's homework you would have gotten the same results as if you had clicked on her homework. Parents don't seem to realize whose homework is whose.

[Menaceman44]

I've discovered that some Sims can't stargaze or watch clouds. Anyone know why?

I think it has something to do with if they are knowledge Sims or not and how high there logic skill is. I may be completely wrong but its usually personality or skill that effects that sort of thing.

[Ghost sdoj]

It's partially random on which parent sees them off. I had a son of the Grim Reaper get seen off by his "dad". Quite interesting, even if the game did crash afterwards.

[LegolianM]

Legolian: I think it's more of how siblings can do each other's homework. If, as Shui, had clicked on her brother's homework you would have gotten the same results as if you had clicked on her homework. Parents don't seem to realize whose homework is whose.
Ah yeah, I guess that makes sense. I thought it was kinda cruel, he leaves and suddenly his sister has to do his work for him!

It's partially random on which parent sees them off. I had a son of the Grim Reaper get seen off by his "dad". Quite interesting, even if the game did crash afterwards.
o__o Really...? Wow, I'm glad I've turned my animations off then. I just had a Grim Reaper child go to college; would've been amusing to see but not with a game crash.

[I_Love_Simming]

Makes me laugh when i think about it, but i thought i was going a little crazy when i was playing different lots and i kept hearing someone whistle. I kept looking round each lot to see what it was but i could never figure it out. I only heard it now and again but as i have my speakers quite loud it became really noticeable. Today i discovered its free time that makes my sims whistle! The music and dance sims mainly. They just whistle randomly xD :lol:

I also discovered that some pregnant sims make this action like their back is aching

http://i27.tinypic.com/2m5o2mw.jpg

[Bree2kool8]

The family that you desperately wanted to only have one sim-baby would ultimately, without fail, provide your first set of natural twins in the game.

That's hilarious.

I never knew how many boolprop cheats there were. It almost eliminates the need for The Insimenator. I thought I'd be lost without it ever since I got BV, but I'm managing quite nicely.

[Sinthe]

I think it has something to do with if they are knowledge Sims or not and how high there logic skill is. I may be completely wrong but its usually personality or skill that effects that sort of thing.

Ah! That makes sense. I fiddled with their personalities, and it didn't work. I'll have to try messing with the logic skill and aspirations. Thank you!

[Ferret II]

I discovered that:

Gilbert Jacqet from OFB is a natural blond, he has blond eyebrows but dyes his hair black; when bred to my blond sim the baby was blond too

Toddlers can watch fish in a tank

[coltraz]

- You can sell a crate of mouthwatering peppers for almost 1000 dollars.
- You can go in "The Zone" while dreaming about your hobby.
- You can step on the foot of your dancing party when simply dancing slow with another Sim. Is that new since FT?

[LegolianM]

I discovered that fate seems to have decided that I'm not allowed to have any hacks that allow me to kill Sims. Not a single one of them works in my game, it's very frustrating.

Guess that good ol' cowplant is gonna continue to be well fed...

[Menaceman44]

- You can sell a crate of mouthwatering peppers for almost 1000 dollars.
- You can go in "The Zone" while dreaming about your hobby.
- You can step on the foot of your dancing party when simply dancing slow with another Sim. Is that new since FT?

Toe stepping has been in the game since slow dancing was first introduced. It can only happen though if the Sims AREN'T dancing close to each other which they usually do.

[coltraz]

Toe stepping has been in the game since slow dancing was first introduced. It can only happen though if the Sims AREN'T dancing close to each other which they usually do.

Oh, ok. I don't think I ever noticed it before. I figured it was an addition to make the dance/music hobby a bit more "complex".

[Peace]

Sim kids can die?!?!?!? Poor Teagan..........

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k122/Maiviastorm/ghostTeagan.jpg

[LegolianM]

I had a pleasure Sim who wanted to earn a skill point, so I put him in front of the TV to work out since he didn't have any body points yet. He did ONE lousy push up before getting up, turning the TV off, and leaving to go goof off! XD

I don't know if that's a pleasure thing or not since I'm still pretty new to that aspiration, but it really amused me. It was like, "Screw this, I'm gonna go play!".

[PearlRose]

Originally Posted by PearlRose
The family that you desperately wanted to only have one sim-baby would ultimately, without fail, provide your first set of natural twins in the game.
That's hilarious.

I've decided to punish them for ruining my carefully crafted storyline plans by making them have lots of children. Insane numbers.

I discovered that vampires that don't want to be vampires are suicidal. My knowledge-aspiration vampire gets in the coffin with little trouble in the morning. I had to cure my pleasure-aspiration vampire, though, because he WOULD NOT stay in the coffin. I was like...okay, fine. Have it YOUR WAY.

[abitha]

Either FreeTime or a patch has added a 'are you sure you want to adopt a child?' popup after you call the adoption service. I'm so glad! I will confess I have killed off several children after accidentally adopting them.

[Valerie_SC]

I discovered that my sim just keeps having girls ._. Where is my boy!? :eviltongu

Valerie :duck:

[Ferret II]

I discovered that my sim just keeps having girls ._. Where is my boy!? :eviltongu

Valerie :duck:

:lol: Pirate McSkittles had 6 girls before he had a boy in my game. There is hope!

[Menaceman44]

Sims that have been hiking can be followed home by the skunk!

[ani_]

If a visiter is sick, it doesn't matter how many locked doors you have between them and the toilet, they'll always find their way in.

[Lunanethe_SC]

If your Sims are playing at the cards table, either their cards or their fiches are highlighted, indicating which Sims are having their turn. Oh, and there is a plumbob on the backside of the cards.

[lazzybum]

My father sim was pranked by someone a neighbor who he didnt know. While it happened, his daughter was just gettin back from school. When she entered the room, they were poking each other. Right away, the daughter left the homework where she stood and ran up stairs crying!

I paused and looked for her and she was in her room sobbing like hell with her dad's bubble. I think it was because he was fighting and that she had 10 nice points? I dunno lol

[gamegrl66]

I discovered that if you right click on your sims' thumbnail pic you'll a a yellow target icon and the screen will follow them wherever they go. Was this feature always there or since FT?

[ani_]

If you click on the info button when you are selecting a house to play, it will give all your sims some title indigating their state. Like Tosha is town mother, Freddy big Cheese :D and Marv something about pleasure seeking.

[Emmy-chan]

Hehehehe... These are all pretty funny. Umm.. A few days back I discovered that the grim reaper is a Taurus who doesn't like fancy cars. Oh.. he also likes women on plae horses and double dating with the other four horseman. I got that message after my one sims died (i killed her... basically... so I could have a teen only family.) and her son (the only member of the household left) Ran away. I got that message.. but I could't play as him. This ever happen to anyone else?

[Emmy-chan]

Oh... yeah That feature. It really made me mad one day when I accidently kept doing that. I had only base game at the time so the right click and follow thing has alwaysbeen there.

[Ghost sdoj]

Reminder to myself after "discovering" it yet again: NEVER have more than one active, playful Pleasure sim in the same house! Unless you don't care about keeping them happy.

[Menaceman44]

Today I found out the water swirls in the toilet when it is flushed and that Sims can find new stars when stargazing with the telescope.

[coltraz]

That playing soccer zaps a Sims energy so bad that you might as well not even bother playing it, unless you want them to wake up in the morning, play some soccer, then go to bed for the night.

[MajorMercedes]

That you can make your mail lady look like a supermodel with InSim, but no matter what hairstyle you assign, she'll always be wearing that stupid hat. :P

[FlyingKiwi]

I discovered that playing "Punch U Punch Me" with General Buzz Grunt is not a smart idea...

[Menaceman44]

I discovered that if you get a pregnant Sim to find a new job then instead of the message that says "Great! The carpool will arrive at such-a-time." You get one that says the Sim thinks they should wait a few days before going to work because of the baby.

[Laughy]

That Jennifer Burb is really hard to get pregnant,she and john have tried twice and it's a no go.

[Montridge]

I didn't see anyone had this, but I skimmed 116 pages, LOL.
I discovered that even with free will off, if there is a pet in the house, my sims will still drop what they are supposed to be doing and do what ever the @#$%! dog wants them too.
It was really irritating setting up snap shots. The dog's free will was still on. I had to keep repositioning her.
One of my characters kept twirling into a coat to 'Play Fetch' (RRRRR!)
I had people keep getting up that were supposed to be sitting, because they were summoned by the dog.
To top it all off, the dog peed on the floor, ruining what would have otherwise been a perfect shot. (All faces in sync with text...Doesn't happen often.)
I still like Pets. It's just hard to do a story with a pet around.

[ani_]

When you open the glass fridge in a grocory store, it will steam up.
If sims don't have enough money they will tap their pockets and tell you they are just browsing. I'v had them browsing before, but never noticed the pocket thing.

[thelittleone]

I just noticed that if one sim is active and you right-click on another sim, it switches to the sim you clicked on!

[rosieposiepudnpie]

I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but while digging for treasures your sim can hit a pipe and cause water to shoot up out of the ground. They kind of act like a small fire and jump around and get all worked up until you fill the hole back up. :)

[AxelValentine]

That deleting custom content in CAS is really tedious.

But, neatest thing ever to me, you can zoom in on sims in CAS by using the wheel on a mouse! Not by much, but you can do it.

[♥Oriana♥]

That sims can have the want to streak even when they have graduated uni.

[LegolianM]

I discovered that my vampire apparently has a death wish. >_< Idiot keeps going to steal his father's newspaper in the middle of the day, and then running away like "Omfg sun!". Well DUH, it's 2 in the afternoon!

I also discovered that I'm not as phased by ghosts as I used to be. XD I think I've seen enough of them now, they don't make me panic anymore when they show up. Now it's like.... oh, okay. Another ghost.

[Fantasyrogue]

My vampire has a death wish too :P He keeps going out through the front door to get to the garage, despite the garage being attached to the house and having a door leading there from inside. I'm starting to wonder if he's trying to see how fast he can run to his car without bursting into flames.

I've discovered that my adult werewolves cannot turn their teenaged son into a werewolf. This has me pretty bummed.

[Tzigone]

The cool shades are very useful in getting your Sim kids into private school. I had mom put on the shades and then offer to give a tour and I got 60 shmooze points.

[Menaceman44]

Fantasyrogue, there is a hack somewhere abouts that changes that so that adults and elders can bite teens and vice-verca. I think its over at MATY.

[LegolianM]

I just discovered that, with Insim, you can make ghosts selectable. o_O I saved before I did it just in case it made the game explode, but so far I haven't had problems...

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/LegolianM/Sims/ghostwtf03.jpg

I'm tempted to play around with him now, but I won't press my luck. XD;

[Willow's Tara]

I discovered Ninja teleporting is cool:) Seriously, better then Insim Teleporting (No offense guys, it just the way they do it), I have a grandmother named Isabella and her two children Amber (Adult) and Amber-Kate (Teenager just now) teleporting everywhwere. I even had Amber and Isabella teleporting at the same time, they were inside the house they were living at and at the same time they teleported then appeared outside near some lawn chairs, they looked like a team.

Also discovered that your sim can also look like an Assassin with that move when they wear black Ninja clothes

Edit: Also again, I learned that you can get your child sim to Influnce someone to flirt/kiss with another time (When Amber-Kate was a child, I got her to get her sister's husband, Maclom Landgraab IV, to flirt/kiss with Cythia Kim)

[FlyingKiwi]

I discovered that watching fish in the aquarium is a surprisingly effective method of improving fun.

[Ghost sdoj]

On the topic of vampires with a death wish, putting them to bed at 6:45 am means that they will be climbing back out of the coffin to go watch the sun rise because they aren't tired. And if you don't have the vampire sleep caller you are likely to next see them as a pile of ashes next to a dropped book!

[LegolianM]

I keep a very close eye on my vampire, he usually goes to bed somewhere between 7 and 7:30 and I check on him every so often during the day to make sure he's still asleep.

I also discovered that if he's in the middle of doing something - like playing chess - at sunrise, he'll continue to do that and his needs won't start going down until he stops. He stayed up juggling until about 9:30 one morning when he was still in college, before I finally had to make him stop because the cafeteria guy couldn't get to the stove. XD

[Fantasyrogue]

Menaceman, thank you. I've located the hack so I'll test it out in a bit. Can't have a family of werewolves with their kids not being werewolves, that's just wrong.

I had the strangest thing happen the other day. I was playing my werewolf family when one of their neighbours, Igor (who is a zombie), shambled by the house.... followed by a ninja. It was really weird, Igor turned around to look behind him and the ninja did his teleport and disappeared. I'm still not convinced I wasn't dreaming when that happened it was so random.

I've only now discovered that sims angry at other sims will kick over their trash bins. I know, old news, but I don't usually have my sims angry at eachother.

[princesshaichu]

I discovered that... when teen sims put down their homework, it's upside-down.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a329/QueenofStripes/snapshot_f48ba270_14ebc714.jpg
Without fail.

Bland, I know, but that's what I discovered!

[Menaceman44]

I've discovered that no matter what aspiration a Sim has, being turned into and cured of being a werewolf always seems to show as a bad memory. I had a pleasure plantsim who wanted curing. I did and they got the positive aspiration points and the want fulfilled but the memory is red. So was the memory of being turned into a werewolf.

[Azuhra_SC]

I discovered that Sims with a love interest (even if there is nothing more to the relationship) can pop in randomly to your Sims house at about 10:30- 11:00pm and scoop the TV for a few hours before telling you how late it is and that they should be going home...

Even though they were uninvited that day anyhow.

[Menaceman44]

I've just discovered that for whatever reason Sims don't seem to be able to eat single servings of food delivered to their hotel room by room service. A group meal is fine though.

[Allison_SC]

I just discovered that, with Insim, you can make ghosts selectable. o_O I saved before I did it just in case it made the game explode, but so far I haven't had problems...
I find it interesting that your ghost has all wants and fears related to death and zombies, even though his aspiration is Popularity. Makes sense, I suppose, since he's dead himself...

[ani_]

LegolianM: pretty cool the ghost player

I can't belive I'm going to say this, but I discovered on sunday that the plumbob rotates. 4 years and I never bothered to notice :doh

[LegolianM]

I find it interesting that your ghost has all wants and fears related to death and zombies, even though his aspiration is Popularity. Makes sense, I suppose, since he's dead himself...
I think it's actually more because he's one of the Tricou's (the dead family downtown); all of his wants are to resurrect the rest of his family. I made one of my own ghosts selectable after that, and the only want she had was to be best friends with someone. o_O The other three slots were blank.

I discovered that personalities are so unpredictable! I have a Sim who has zero nice and 10 neatness, and he has a son with a little more nice and a little less neatness, and now that son just had a son.... who is totally maxed out with nice and has no neatness? I can already see the clashing of grandpa and grandson coming.... XD

[Willow's Tara]

Azuhra- I discovered that too, although one of them were just best friends and came up and knokced on the door thought, but I didn't know they did that.

There's something else I discovered but I forgot

[crocobaura]

I've discovered that kids can do headstands, and sommersaults, and cartwheels. They looked so sweet. :)

[lazzybum]

I discovered that if two simmies have 0 relationship, but have the 3 chemistry sign, they wont reject dance together, which i think is cool because you wouldnt say no to dancing with a hottie in rl!

[Tigress74]

I don't know if this is new. But couple I made for Freetime had a baby. Well she was giving the husband a good by kiss before he went off to work. Then she went into labor. So I stopped him from going to work until after the baby.

So baby comes blah blah. I go to send him to work I get the message I know I got responsibilities but I can't leave the little one. But I designated that the mother would stay home with the baby. Well anyway he would not go to go work until the baby was a toddler. So I guess he took FMLA.. hehe

[musiquefille_SC]

I found out that sims can cheat at darts. It was really cute because the sim who was cheating pointed away from the dart board so the other player turned around. then she ran up and put her dart on the bullseye. when the other sim turned around she made this whole pretend surprise action and he believed her!

[wintergirl1223]

Today, I finally figured out how to use the 'smooth terrain' tool to make non-square paths. After 3 and a half years of playing the Sims 2. Pitiful...

[Blue-Bot]

I checked the memories of Isaac Howitzer to find that he had made a BFF, the strange thing was, it was his dead mother.

So, today, I found out that you can become BFF with a dead sim.

[coltraz]

That you can buy off a Sim who's furious with you. Costs you 50 bucks. I didn't know you could do that. It stopped the annoying trash-knocking over though, so it's perfect.

[lazzybum]

That you can buy off a Sim who's furious with you. Costs you 50 bucks. I didn't know you could do that. It stopped the annoying trash-knocking over though, so it's perfect.

how does that work? :O Ive never seen that option.

[thelittleone]

I found out that sims can cheat at darts. It was really cute because the sim who was cheating pointed away from the dart board so the other player turned around. then she ran up and put her dart on the bullseye. when the other sim turned around she made this whole pretend surprise action and he believed her!

Whoa! That's really neat. Is that an option or just a random thing sims do sometimes? I've never seen that before!!

[musiquefille_SC]

it's an option when you have two sims playing together.

[coltraz]

how does that work? :O Ive never seen that option.

Yeah, me either. It must be a free time thing. Could be a reward for popularity Sims or something? I'll have to check. But the furious Sim said, "Alright, alright. I'll leave you alone. For now..." And presumably the furious status was lifted.
lol

[musiquefille_SC]

It's not a Freetime thing because I wrote about it 2 months ago in this thread: http://forums.sims2community.com/showpost.php?p=1102695&postcount=2672

[thelittleone]

OMG- I was just playing a new household and I went down to the unfurnished basement to see if I could fit a bedroom down there...

and I find Herb Oldie passed out with almost all his needs completely drained!! It scared the heck out of me because he just looked like some random dead body in my basement! I have no idea how he got there - I don't remember him visiting and there are no doors or entrances into the part of the basement he was in... :confused:

[FlyingKiwi]

I discovered that some sims have the option to "salvage" from the trash can which gives them a small amount of money. I *think* it's probably sims with a very low "neat" value from what I can see. Again, I'm sure everyone else found this out years ago but it was new to me.

[LegolianM]

I discovered that some babies attract flies when their diaper is dirty.... I wonder if that also has to do with the low neatness, because he has like, none. I didn't leave him alone for a while either, the flies came -immediately- after he was dirty.

[psivampyr]

I realized lastnight on a group outing you can "ask to join" for fishing! I never knew that before. It was kinda neet to have Morty and his wife fishing with my self sim- and at the end of the outing they said they had a great time and the only things we did were roller skate and fish.

[Ghost sdoj]

To buy off a furious sim you need to have the sim they are furious with click on them.

Grouchy sims autonomously cheat at chess and darts, with a relationship hit if they get caught. I'm not sure, but I think they also cheat in bowling by changing scores.) And they get furious with their partner if they lose the game, especially if either side cheated. Of course they also get furious at losing a video game or a game of bowling, so their dates and outings tend to be in places like the grocery store or the cemetary in my game...

[♥Oriana♥]

I discovered that toddlers can eat dog food. :)

[Lunanethe_SC]

Sidneydoj,

They won't smash your gravestones in a cemetary? Mine tend to do that quite often.

[shinyknightinarmor]

Here are a few I picked up and/or discovered...

1. This one comes in handy in an Asylum challenge (or anywhere with uncontrollable Sims) - you can start Doing Yoga and Ask others to Join Yoga, and they will! They won't get Body points, but they will gain Fitness. That came in useful when dealing with chubby inmates in my asylum. :)

2. This one may be because of the new "Family awareness" in FreeTime... Here's the story:

Dirk Dreamer (still a teen) gets a crush on Angela Pleasant's daughter Terry. Terry does not have a crush on Dirk.

Terry goes on a date with someone else. Dirk Dreamer shows up, and gets jealous/Furious with her.

Back at Terry's house, not only does Dirk come by, Furious with Terry, kicking garbage cans, and stealing the paper, but do did Darren; who also witnessed Terry "cheating". Not only that, Darren would show the Furious animation, with HIMSELF in his thought bubble.

3. Alexander Goth (a teenager) is attracted to Angela's other daughter, Samantha. I had him visit a community lot where Angela was there. They were talking over burgers, when he "told" Angela he was attracted to Sam, and she got the speech bubble with her daughter's face and the attraction hearts too... I think when that happens, the Sim isn't attracted to their offspring; they're just discussing the memory.

[Proxian_girl]

The "Conjure Grilled Cheese" power Grilled Cheese sims can get in Free Time satisfies the "eat grilled cheese sandwiches" want-- and counts towards the "200 grilled cheese sandwiches" LTW!

[Elspeth73]

I can't believe it took me 2 years, but I just discovered that sims can cuddle and make out on a couch

Doh!

[PearDrops]

I discovered that some babies attract flies when their diaper is dirty.... I wonder if that also has to do with the low neatness, because he has like, none. I didn't leave him alone for a while either, the flies came -immediately- after he was dirty.

I noticed that too the other day I thought it was my game being glitchy, lol. I felt kinda sorry for the baby attracting flies and all ... ewwwwwie.

[Ferret II]

That if you press F10 the UI bar disappears.

[Claire]

I found out that in the bonfire from University, Mr. BerryButts and some bear is inside all the rubbage waiting to be burned! Poor Mr. BearryButts

[GoLlamas]

I discovered that in Buy/Build mode if you press 'T' you get a brilliant plan view of your house. Make building and decorating alot easier.

[ani_]

I discovered that in Buy/Build mode if you press 'T' you get a brilliant plan view of your house. Make building and decorating alot easier.

I didn't understand anything you said after pressing T but I must try that out.

I don't know what is it with garden genomes, but even the nicest sims get all evil and start stealing them. Anyhow, once my sim got the genome icon, I cancelled it, because I thought it was view or something, but then I paused and put the cursor on top of it, and it was "Steal Genome back" - but I don't know how you steal it back as I cancelled it. Now i'm spending way too much money on Genomes hoping the action would come back.

[PennyTheCorgi]

I didn't understand anything you said after pressing T but I must try that out.

I think it's like the houseplan view, staring straight down at the house like from the sky. It's great for decorating. :)

[ani_]

I think it's like the houseplan view, staring straight down at the house like from the sky. It's great for decorating. :)

Ohkey - then I understand, have been using it for ages, but always pressing the icon itself.

[AxelValentine]

That sims will get pregnant at the worst times.
And a lot of my sims seem to go through a fertile period after having kids and end up having ten more at the same time.

[shinyknightinarmor]

That sims will get pregnant at the worst times.
And a lot of my sims seem to go through a fertile period after having kids and end up having ten more at the same time.

How can a Sim get pregnant at the wrong time? :D Without hacks, you have to specifically "Try For Baby"; and with hacks, wouldn't most have a pregnancy setting? :D

I don't use any kind of ACR, so all my Sims' kids exist because I specifically wanted them to. :)

Just saying. :)

[AxelValentine]

Risky WooHoo...but it just goes with the fact they have kids one after another.
Sometimes I have ones who don't get pregnant though - which is what I learned today.

While some of my sims are uber-fertile others can try for babies for four/five days and get zilch. All the more realistic I think.

[Ghost sdoj]

Sidneydoj,

They won't smash your gravestones in a cemetary? Mine tend to do that quite often.
They kick gravestones of sims they didn't like, but they never met any of the Triicou family so they don't do anything with them at all. (Except look at me funny and shrug if I try to get them to mourn...) It's only urns that I've seen get smashed to pieces, anyway. Stones are hardier.

What I just discovered:

There is a "car" on MTS2 that is a horse. I've usually only used it for a single person, but yesterday I got curious and didn't buy the horse and carriage that I usually use for multiple sims. Yes, you can put more than one person on the horse. And yes, all the options are there and they do all work.

But the Rocking/levitating car animation, combined with the fact that you have to click on the actual horse to get the "woohoo" option can leave you with (How to say this delicately...) An Odd impression...

[musiquefille_SC]

I found out today that if two sims submit the same food to a cooking contest, the second slaps their head in embarrassment.

[coltraz]

- That you can now FRAME custom paintings!!!! yay!

- And you can get love letters in the mail from dates.

- You can discover stars with the telescope that have not been discovered, and earn $500 for it!

- A terribly, horribly, and I mean DISGUSTING toddler can turn into a really cute child.

[musiquefille_SC]

That a sim can get in the zone just by dreaming about his or her hobby while sleeping!

[AtropaMandragora]

I just discovered that there is a blinking red light on top of the water tower in the neighbour hood view of Pleasantview (among others). Like it would in real life. Never noticed that before.

[Menaceman44]

I discovered that the plumbob is not reflected in mirrors but the glow from inside it is! Speech bubbles get reflected but are blank and aspiration point values get reflected but aren't mirrored so they still read forward.

[Tigress74]

I just figured out you can expand the memories panel up the same way you can with stuff in buy or build mode.

I've been playing this game since it was released. *sigh*

[lazzybum]

That sims cant cheat with their sister/brother in law. Or at least it happened to me o_o My romantic male sim is married and hes BBF with his wife's sister. One day I thought ill devil it up by making them fall in love as well, but all i saw was family kiss and no flirt lol...

[1306]

-That even if the door is wide open, and if you locked it, it will remain open. Weirder yet, sims won't be able to enter that open-locked door.
-That you can shake the ant farm. Listen for some squeaky voices when your sim shakes the ant farm!

[Ghost sdoj]

That sims cant cheat with their sister/brother in law. Or at least it happened to me o_o My romantic male sim is married and hes BBF with his wife's sister. One day I thought ill devil it up by making them fall in love as well, but all i saw was family kiss and no flirt lol...

But the "family" relationship doesn't extend much farther out. I had 4 sims. Two were brother and sister, and the other two were spouses. The brother's wife was falling in love with the sister's husband. It got so bad I had to make them brother and sister as well.

I also have one sim who thinks his uncle's wife is hot, and another one who has just figured out that the really hot man married to her mom is not actually family. (He changed your diaper! Stop rolling wants to flirt with him!)

[Trissle_SC]

That sims can greet visitors by waving at them when they first appear at the edge of the lot

[HelloColdBlooded]

A sim can drive their kids to school. It's kind of a hassle though because she school bus still comes and I don't think they can pick them up, but I still think it's really cute.

[LegolianM]

I discovered that when I actually WANT someone to get caught cheating, ACR will decide that their partner's personality is alright with it and they won't care about their lover making out with someone else in front of them. It's slightly annoying, though good to know for future affairs with that particular Sim!

[normawilahmina]

A sim can drive their kids to school. It's kind of a hassle though because she school bus still comes and I don't think they can pick them up, but I still think it's really cute.

I like to use this feature if the kids sleep in and miss the bus.

[Rorf_SC]

I found that if a sim doesn't have a high enough body skill while he's on the spinning dance thing, he'll occasionally vomit after he falls out of it.

Momicajack: the door-locking options came with OFB.
The locking option also came with pets

[Ferret II]

That with Free Time, your sims can be BFFs (best friends 4eva!!!) with others. It made me :laugh: haha!

[victoriacat1973]

I resurrected the Tricou family using Insimenator, and I always wondered where they were from. I always thought Maxis made them and than scrapped them however, I discovered today while finally doing something with DT area that the old mansion has them all in it as ghosts, and they come out a lot. I never knew that they were actually used in the game before today other than me resurrecting them in previous neighborhoods.

[andru]

That there's a foundation tool especially for interior design! Now I can create split level rooms easily, yay. :)

[lazzybum]

- that you can get a FT membership cards from a job chance card!
- One of my simmie married the townie, Ivy Copur. Shes top of the business career with lots of friends. I played this family for 15 sim days now and I just looked into her inventory. zomg.... she had like 10 expensive items like poker table, the elctric dance sphere, hot tub, etc.

-to never go afk for 3 mins while leaving sims unpaused with 2 speed. Although it seemed like they could take care of themselves, i come back to see one of my sims passed out on the ground underneath coachroaches (which was never there before) and the master bed had been distroyed. They had no pets nor did i remember having them greet any. UGH lol

[tairourou]

I discovered a beautiful split level home that came with Teen Style Stuff! It's lovely, and I've really enjoyed it.

But even cooler than that: I just tinkered with my game so that I would have new townies with my new facial templates. Cool stuff, but that's not even the amazing part. My brand new legacy founder brought a friend home from work, and it was a pregnant townie! I made her selectable, and I found that she has three children, a husband, and a friendship with her mother-in-law! I didn't think townies usually had such complex histories, and I had never seen a pregnant townie before. I was very pleasantly surprised, and she's kind of a pretty townie anyway. It made me happy. :)

[musiquefille_SC]

My brand new legacy founder brought a friend home from work, and it was a pregnant townie! I made her selectable, and I found that she has three children, a husband, and a friendship with her mother-in-law! I didn't think townies usually had such complex histories, and I had never seen a pregnant townie before. I was very pleasantly surprised, and she's kind of a pretty townie anyway. It made me happy. :)

That's because she's not a townie. She's part of a playable family (Ottomas) that came with Seasons. They are in the sim bin. Make sure you have the seasons patch before you play them though.

[tairourou]

That's because she's not a townie. She's part of a playable family (Ottomas) that came with Seasons. They are in the sim bin. Make sure you have the seasons patch before you play them though.
Ohhhh. I feel dumb. Well that's odd that she was there! I thought I had cleaned out my templates, but then I also saw Goopy, Marisa Bendett, etc. There were some new custom townies around, but also some of the old stand-bys. I don't think I did it right.

[Ferret II]

I got this pop-up for the first time:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v259/mozzow/wtf2.jpg

[Kayla]

I instructed one of my Music & Dance sims to play the piano. Before she sat down to play, she changed into her formal outfit and then there was a sound of applause. The applause comes on again when she stops playing. I thought it was pretty cool, lol.

[*roxette]

One of my sim daddies taught his toddler a nursery rhyme! It was so cute!

And now the toddler can sing it with his daddy, or to himself... adorable!

[musiquefille_SC]

I instructed one of my Music & Dance sims to play the piano. Before she sat down to play, she changed into her formal outfit and then there was a sound of applause. The applause comes on again when she stops playing. I thought it was pretty cool, lol.

Your sim was in the zone! Good for her.

That happens when a sim fills up their enthusiasm bar in a hobby.

[1306]

-That sims can be chased by bees, even at night. But I've never had my sim getting chased by bees when it's raining. Maybe it's the fact that bees can sense humidity and run for cover once it's raining.
-That studying cleaning can increase interest for the "Nature" hobby.

[Ghost sdoj]

I had a sim who had two bad chance cards in a row and now has wants to stay home from work and fears of going to work. Fortunately she also has 6 vacation days and a toddler who needs her. (Stupid nanny: You do not need to pull a kid off the potty to feed it if the hunger bar is nearly full and the bladder is near desperation. No wonder the high chair needed cleaning afterwards.)

[LegolianM]

I've discovered this before but I always forget about it until I see it again - children of parents that can never be met (ie. Pollination Technician, Grim Reaper, etc) have dreams about that parent occasionally. I've caught all of my aliens dreaming about the Polli Tech at least once, and Arel dreams about Grimmy occasionally. It's cute that they think about them. ^^

Oh and speaking of Grimmy and children - I was poking around in SimPE and opened up his memories, and he actually had memories of Arel going to college and graduating! Nice.

I also discovered that a Sim can leave a toddler alone to go steal back a stolen gnome! Or at least he can half of the time; Edward had two gnomes stolen in one day and went to go get them both, and I didn't get any warning message until he left the second time.

[Valentine!]

There's a Punisher t-shirt Sims version in the game - the black t-shirt with the skull smiley and the red plumbbob. And I've had this game how long and never noticed? Just about three years since it came out.

I actually went and dressed my Frank Castle sim in it.

[Ghost sdoj]

I've seen sims related to Grimmy gossip about him, too. I even have a screenshot of it on my other computer.

[coltraz]

That with Free Time, Sims now whistle (one of) the neighbourhood theme songs. :):)

[afinefrenzy]

I learned that my game doesn't want me to be happy, so it lags a lot when I put Free Time in it for the first time today. *cries* :(

[lazzybum]

-That sims can be chased by bees, even at night. But I've never had my sim getting chased by bees when it's raining. Maybe it's the fact that bees can sense humidity and run for cover once it's raining.
-That studying cleaning can increase interest for the "Nature" hobby.

Ive had a sim get chased by bees in heavy rain ;o! So I think its just random

[HCAC]

I'm sure others have posted these but they were new for me (I have Bon Voyage and below for eps).

*A criminal showed up (thief) and I think he was attempting to steal the family's car. An alarm went off (car alarm). The cop showed up, they had a fight, and the cop LOST. The thief ran off (empty handed) and the cop went sadly into the family's house, up to the sleeping owners and said, "I guess I'm not the cop I used to be?" And he left...

Another thing was that during breakfast a bubble came up saying something like "Since there was so much snow lately, you get a snow day to catch up with homework."

(Too realistic...I live in Vermont!! :) ) Cute, though..nice surprises for me.

[Ferret II]

I found out that kids can play with the fridge:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v259/mozzow/Spencer%20Legacy/one%20point%20one/19.jpg

HCAC: wow, I never knew that the cops could loose!

[Ghost sdoj]

I was totally surprised yesterday. My cop actually WON!
Even Nice sims can bad-mouth sims they are furious with. This is a lovely way from keeping my family from deciding to be best friends with the guy who broke into their house and tried to steal the kid's potty chair. (Which needed emptying, so maybe the burglar really was doing them a favor.)

I also discovered that the guy from the garden club is lucky that my sims can't kill an NPC. One of my sims with 0 Nice points was having bad conversations with the garden club guy while the garden club guy was constantly stopping and admiring my sim's wife. Then the garden club guy tried to hug the wife right in front of her husband. (It was Spring, and there was some strong chemistry there.) She rejected him, my sim slapped him, and a few minutes later they were fighting. My sim finally called the garden club guy to the roof where the telescope was and then trapped him there. The garden club guy wet himself 3 times, complained about being hungry, and finally passed out after doing the motions they usually give just as they are dying of starvation. (Knowledge sims like to be saved from death, so I do a lot of starving sims so they can be saved.)

The garden club guy was still alive the next morning when the paper boy came by, so he was released. I made him selectable as he was leaving, and the only motive which wasn't completely red was Bladder.

[coltraz]

I'm just wondering if anyone else has noticed this:
That with Free Time, Sims now whistle (one of) the neighbourhood theme songs.

[LegolianM]

Having a Popularity Sim around turns every other Sim in that area into a stalker! They do nothing but think about them! I dislike Popularity Sims and only have like one of them (I used to have more but I've changed their aspirations since then) so it took me a while to realize that's what was causing everyone to constantly think about that person.

[PennyTheCorgi]

- That with Freetime, kids don't always get homework! It's really nice to have a kid come home and not have to get right to homework.

[musiquefille_SC]

I'm just wondering if anyone else has noticed this:

I have. I think it's music and dance sims. Whistling seems to be their idle activity.

[Willow's Tara]

PTC- Don't have FT but finally! Children don't get HW every night in rl so they don't need to in the game.

I discovered that when you take like a TV away sometimes Sims can turn and go "Where did it go?", I did this and one of the sims had an icon that asked where the TV went.

There is something else I recently discovered....I really can't remeber it thought.

[Emmy-chan]

Um... these are old but yeah.... I know this isn't a photo thread but... I think they deserve a image.. There fairly small anywho. :)
http://static3.filefront.com/images/personal/e/emechan/127442/euyuwyawqy.jpg http://static3.filefront.com/images/personal/e/emechan/127442/huywoezevx.jpg

[FlyingKiwi]

I found out that kids can play with the fridge:

HCAC: wow, I never knew that the cops could loose!



I found out today that adults can play with the fridge as well!

My cops almost never win fights with the burglar, it's very annoying, I think they need some serious work on their body skill.

[Ghost sdoj]

I apparently play the game in my sleep. I had a dream that one of my sims escaped from the game. When I woke up the game was running and my sim was missing.

[Webster54]

sidney, that's creepy. i dream about the sims sometimes too, but that's just . . .creepy.

[coltraz]

-that Sims (possibly with low(est) neat points), can pee in the shower!! yuck! LOL.
-Maybe its to do with university, but I had a Sim invite a girl from his dorm into a tent and she stayed there all night and well into the next day. By the time she finally got out, she was almost frozen to death. lol.
-Not only can we play TS3 on the computers, but there is a distinctive TS3 icon on their desktop. :)

[Candy_Land2012]

I found out that sims that are active run everywhere!

[LegolianM]

I discovered that while it's cute to see a child play in the bathtub, it's really hilarious to see an adult do the same thing. XD

[ketemose]

I started playing the Jocque family (FT) and when the daughter Violet was playing games on the computer the game she was playing was The Sims 3. Weird...I didn't check to see if anyone else had posted this yet..so if it's old news sorry!

[Menaceman44]

I discovered that Nature Sims can take other Sims hiking with them and that they can meet new Sims while out.
I also got this message:
http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/8138/vacationmessagebq3.jpg

I dunno what my Sims were doing to cause it but I've never seen it before. I rebooked the shuttle and it turned up fine.

[AxelValentine]

Not today, but Menaceman's post reminded me.
Bad idea to accidently book a vacation while a sim is at work. The shuttle will take both, but upon return will automatically show up again.
I think it stopped after the second time though.

[Menaceman44]

Maybe that was what caused the message. One of the Sims was preparing to go to work as the shuttle was due to arrive.

[Webster54]

i figured out that a sim can talk to a baby that another sim is holding. I also learned that another sim can talk to a pregnant sims belly.

[Menaceman44]

I was poking around in SimPE the other day and found the textures for the hobby magazines.
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/3874/simsportmagazinepl2.jpg
Can anybody else read it? I see the left panel as "Got Milk?" and the title of the mag as "Play Ball".

[Candy_Land2012]

I discovered that when one sim has the cold or the flu...it spreads through the whole neigborhood :gonemad: like that!! I am mad cuz one person got the flu and now every single one of my sims have it!!!

[Stasisesque_SC]

I discovered that Brandi Broke is Betty and Bob Newbie's daughter! Yes, I realise I'm about 3 years late. :D

[princesshaichu]

I discovered that asian toddlers are never the lookers. D:

[LOZOTRON]

i discovered that when a sim gets out the pool they sometimes slap there head trying to un-pop their ears. might be a feature with bon voyage/free time. i'd never seen that action until i installed them.

[Ghost sdoj]

You can build a working fishpond in a basement.

[coltraz]

I discovered that when one sim has the cold or the flu...it spreads through the whole neigborhood :gonemad: like that!! I am mad cuz one person got the flu and now every single one of my sims have it!!!

I hate that! If I find a Sim who's got the flu I play with them til they're over it or I ask them to leave immediately. It's the worst having a sick Sim who won't stop hacking up a lung.

[princesshaichu]

I discovered that if you pair higher-waisted jeans with the emo hoodies on mts2 (so that there's no indecent gap) on teen boys, the hood takes on the texture of the shoe!

[Emina_SC]

That's probably a bug.

[LegolianM]

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/LegolianM/Sims/zombiewtf-1.jpg

Why is that want even POSSIBLE for a zombie to have?

[ChaoticNeutral]

It has been a few days since I noticed this but... Since I installed FT, two Sims can have table interactions while sitting beside each other (not only across the table like it was before). Also, FT seemed to have improved other interactions as well in the same way, making them more adaptable - that game that came with the EP, where they kick a small ball to each other, is surprisingly tolerant of the Sims' positions (and also the number of Sims interacting).

[Ferret II]

I discovered that OCD neat sims gain fun while cleaning:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v259/mozzow/Spencer%20Legacy/one%20point%20two/cleanfun.jpg

She has 10 neat points O_o