What did you discover today while playing the sims?

[Gemmareno_SC]

FR, we all know Castor's a Family sim in disguise. ;) That's interesting that he's a Pleasure sim though. All my sims with that asp break down as soon as they have kids because they aren't fulfilling any kiddie-related wants, and generally ignore their sproglets. For shame.

[Fantasyrogue]

Pleasure/Knowledge to be precise. So technically not a family sim in there, but he still acts like one sometimes :P Heck, he rolls wants to go learn parenting skills and things like that (and frequently rolls wants for puppies and kittens, he's just a bit softie).

No about the only thing is that he doesn't like changing diapers, he rolls fears for those. But then, who does? :P

[lovingmonday]

Sims can do woohoo inside the dresser that came with AL. Not so new I guess.

[FuryFanFiction]

Sims can do woohoo inside the dresser that came with AL. Not so new I guess.

It's a closet, but yeah, I figured that out when AL first came out. So it's not so new.... but it is pretty cool.

[lovingmonday]

It's a closet, but yeah, I figured that out when AL first came out. So it's not so new.... but it is pretty cool.

It looks like more a dresser to me than a closet. lol Does it make sense? I think it's just the same. Yea it's really cool and hilarious. The sounds they make when they do that always crack me up.

[w_sims]

It's easier to win a community lot cookery competition rather than the one on the Secret Hobby Lot.

I entered the same dish in both, but I lost to the Hobby Leader at the Clubhouse. I stormed the Community Lot one, though!

[evilbarbie]

If you have a lot of skills you can get a better job on the computer/newspaper.. been playing sims since it came out, but just realized, lol.

[Eat_ToAst]

evilbarbie, I didn't know that :lol:

[tlynnjpeg]

I believe (though could be wrong) that the newspaper will always give you the base level job in the field, but the computer takes the skills into account and offers one lower than the sim is qualified for.

[Ella In Stilettos]

I realized how unrealistic the female bodies are in Sims.

I always kinda knew since they're all the same size and shape, lol. But today I went into CAS, and, on a whim, decided to look at the fat morphs on all my custom clothes. I was very pleasantly surprised. Many of them were identical to the normal shape only with a slightly larger waist and hips (making them more realistic), but some were very voluptuous, with large bust, waist, and hips, but still very nice. I then looked back at the normal meshes and they looked almost skeletal in comparison. I'm seriously tempted to make all my female sims fat from now on.

I have no idea if it's the same for the males, I plan on looking at them later today.

[meggie272]

^^

Yes, when I started playing the Sims I made them all skinny etc. Then I was in CAS and I made one of my girls fat, expecting to see a genuinely overweight person...and I saw a lady with rounder breasts, more voluptious (sp?) waist and hips, and not really fat at all, just not skinny!

Hmmm. That is definitely shying away from reality, EA.

[Ella In Stilettos]

I like how different creators make their meshes differently- it makes for a lot more variety in body types. Just opened up sims, I wonder how the males will fare...

[Ghost sdoj]

Check out Marvine's bodybuilder meshes.... Males fare very nicely with those.

Otherwise the women tend to get the best stuff.

[lg135]

-I discovered that adults can lecture teens when they wet themselves. I've seen them lecture babies (which is real wtfery), but never anyone older.

-The firetruck will still come to an apartment complex even if there isn't a fire alarm. Attentive neighbors?

-My sims all evacuated the burning apartment instead of dancing around it!! And no one knew fire safety!! There was like 7 sims on the spiral staircase, lol. Oh, and people from the floors below left the building as well. How... normal!!

[Skuld Lunrix]

I learned that Joe Carr just happens to be at the top of the Politics career and has over $10,000 stored in cash and items. My legacy foundress made a better husband choice than I thought. o__o

[punchlines!]

I noticed that sims wear different rings when they're engaged. The engagement one has a diamond on it.

[tlynnjpeg]

The trainset from FreeTime can EXPLODE!

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y286/tlynnjpeg/Other/snapshot_5685ed12_b691a8d6.jpg

Little Sterling Futa (came home with my childSim from school) was quietly playing with the trains when suddenly, BAM! Then, my teenSim brought a friend home from work that evening, who immediately beelined for the trains, and it exploded again!

I've never seen this, and it highly confuses me. It's a trainset for Pete's sake!

[Ghost sdoj]

This goes with sims bursting into flames in a hot tub, or a fountain in the middle of a pool catching fire. (Are we -sure- water in the sims is really water?)

[Petchy]

Ghost; that was fixed by the Seasons Patch, I'd advice on getting it as it fixed a LOT of bugs :)

Tlynmjpeg; I reacll that either being fixed by a hack OR it was in the patches.. I just can't remember :lol:

[Nissun_]

The keyhole for (at least) one of the doors is actually a hole! I discovered it while remaking Don Lothario's bedroom. I'll snap some pics later.

(Voyeur? Me? No!) xD

[lovingmonday]

I believe I saw someone in an air balloon in the neighborhood view.

[Ghost sdoj]

My game is patched. But fountains surrounded by water can still catch fire! (And it didn't even have soap in it!)

I also seem to remember in Sims 1 having my swimming pool burn up thanks to a baby dragon, which is why I sometimes wonder about Sim water.)

[tlynnjpeg]

Tlynmjpeg; I reacll that either being fixed by a hack OR it was in the patches.. I just can't remember :lol:

Well, I have the patch, so it either isn't working, or it wasn't fixed with it. I'll check around for a hack, because this could get ugly really quick. Thanks.

[FuryFanFiction]

I believe I saw someone in an air balloon in the neighborhood view.

You did... It's Bella and someone else... not sure who.

[kustirider2]

Its Bella and Mortimer

[lovingmonday]

You did... It's Bella and someone else... not sure who.

Yea, I looked up again and the other one seems to be Mortimer like kustirider2 said.

[Lycoris_SC]

This is rather silly, but so sweet...lol

On the Beaker lot, if Olive stops by for an unannounced visit, Nervous will run to the door, arms outstretched for a hug from his mother. Olive will throw her hands out in greeting and rush into his arms, before giving him a friendly kiss on the cheek. lol

This was so cute...lol

[HCAC]

I have all the EPs (not packs).

One of my sims met some NPC who she started to talk with. He said something like you are a cool person, here is a free sample for you to mess around with..

He gave her a really cool computer!

I have had others offer my Sims jobs, discounts and promotions.

If only this happened to me in REAL LIFE!! :)

[SofieAmalieN]

A UFO just flew across my hood. It scanned the crash site I had just added and then flew off again! SO cool! I've never seen that before!! So cool!

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m126/SofieAmalieN/Screenshot.jpg

[LouBarratt88_SC]

That you can now have a commited relationship before getting engaged etc and also break up soooo much more easily when in this relationship! Ace!

[Ghost sdoj]

MoveObjects on, moveObjects on, Moveobjects on, moveobjects on, Move_objects on, move_objects on, and move_Objects on -all- work in my game! And I haven't created an alias.

[meggie272]

OMG Sofie!
That's so awesome!

[Menaceman44]

The UFO will come and scan the stone henge decoration as well. I think Pets introduced the flying UFO.

[lg135]

That even when sims learn anger management and don't get furious with other sims... that doesn't stop them from shoving them every other minute ):0

[Elspeth73]

I discovered that when a sim does Tai Chi, their energy and comfort actually increases.

[Dreamydre]

How complicated it is to have nine sims living under one roof :lol:

[lovingmonday]

Sims can do high five when they greet other sims. lol I just kinda discovered it a while ago. It's so fun seeing them doing it.

[Anebrd]

If you have the university, it is better to just buy the game boy, cell phone and mp3 player for your teen right off the bat. Otherwise they clog up the want panel.

[lg135]

If you have the university, it is better to just buy the game boy, cell phone and mp3 player for your teen right off the bat. Otherwise they clog up the want panel.

Very very true :meh: And just to add something here... childhood doesn't feel the same without Seasons >_< I've to get again...

[lovingmonday]

Toddler/child sims can cuddle dogs! It's just so cute!

[LouBarratt88_SC]

I don't know what the hell is going on, whether its a hack I accidently downloaded or what but I discovered sims can now have miscarriages?!?!?!?! I was shell shocked when my fave sim lost her baby earlier :( :( .

[tlynnjpeg]

I don't know what the hell is going on, whether its a hack I accidently downloaded or what but I discovered sims can now have miscarriages?!?!?!?! I was shell shocked when my fave sim lost her baby earlier :( :( .

Yeah, that's an inteen side effect. There's a flavor pak (with the later versions) that removes that feature.

[thatsfancy]

When you teach a dog to 'come here' you can command them to eat their food and go inside. I've never really bothered teaching a dog all the commands, but I'm really enjoying it.

[LouBarratt88_SC]

Yeah, that's an inteen side effect. There's a flavor pak (with the later versions) that removes that feature.

Ohhh, were do you get that? Because I want to keep the inteen thing so my teens still have the option of pregnancy but I can't be doing with the miscarriages :(

[tlynnjpeg]

Same place as inteenimater: here (http://www.simbology.com/mods/index.php?dir=inteen/inteenimater/&sort=date&order=desc). Depending on what expansion packs you have, and hence, what version you have, flavor paks are listed as a separate zip file. The earliest versions don't have them.

[melethana]

Maxis programmers do not pay close attention to detail. Well I already knew that. I was having issues with the Goth house, so I decided to move the family to another lot. I didn't want to take the tombstones with me, so I moved them all to a cemetery I made on a community lot. As soon as I moved them, all these messages popped up with "Cornelia has died on another lot" etc. and Mortimer got a second memory of his parents dying, and just walked around weeping for about a day. You would think that moving remains to a cemetery would not be as bad as the person dying! But then having food dropped on you also results in a red memory, so who knows...

[seriouscookie]

melethana - I learned that the hard way a few days ago, too! My poor sims that inhabit my nursing home are repeated traumatized.

Elders seem to have an open invitation to just wander onto my lots and start using the ballet bar or the chess board. My husband seems to think that it's Maxis way of simulating senility. (If that's the case, I think it's kind of mean.)

[CalicoSkies_SC]

apparently, if one wants to enjoy the last few hours of college after graduation one should *wait* for the grad part. Woops. Still Horray for getting my first group graduated!

[seraphime]

well apparently my daddy sim doesnt like babies because now that he and his wife have had their 5th he continues to lecture them right up till they are toddlers then walks around rubbing his hands together thinking about babies on the phone.. kinda funny.. i think im gonna get him impregnated by some aliens and see if that changes his mind.. :D

[JavaJulie]

well apparently my daddy sim doesnt like babies because now that he and his wife have had their 5th he continues to lecture them right up till they are toddlers then walks around rubbing his hands together thinking about babies on the phone.. kinda funny.. i think im gonna get him impregnated by some aliens and see if that changes his mind.. :D
Thinking about "babies on the phone" is usually a sign that they are thinking about adopting. So maybe he's more baby-crazy than you think ;)

[seraphime]

haha i didnt know that! and i just got him impregnated poor guy oh well maybe after he gives birth if hes still thinking about "babies on the phone" i'll adopt one.. well soon as the oldest moves out and he can chug down an elixir..

[ced1106]

Elders seem to have an open invitation to just wander onto my lots and start using the ballet bar or the chess board. My husband seems to think that it's Maxis way of simulating senility. (If that's the case, I think it's kind of mean.)

Don't read too much into what the Sims do.

*Every* Sim in my households, including Uni, uses that ballet barre. Why? It barely restores Fun, and my stupid Sims will keep using it until their other Needs go into Yellow! I should take these ballet barres and throw them into the bonfire! Stupid Sims! Go play pool!

[Ghost sdoj]

The shower in the men's room on the Arts and Crafts Hobby lot is positioned in such a way as to be completely unusable. And it's a secret lot, so I can't go in and fix it.

[lovingmonday]

I was playing my sim in a university (the one in my avatar) when he was taken by force into a secret society named Landgrabb or something like that. I was totally amazed with the limo and the lot itself. It was so cool. Though he already graduated and headed back to Belladonna Cove.

[Menaceman44]

He should be able to use a secret handhsake on other Sims now as well. Only other secret members will know how to react.

[craziidaisii]

I learned that sims can tune the piano. I didn't know it could break.

[EmilyJud]

I learned that my sims are sick! I have freetime and right after woohooing, a bubble popped up that said "I'm glad I tried that Nature hobby, that was a lot of fun." What's wrong with them?

[Menaceman44]

Yeah Woohoo seems to have that effect if the Sims haven't already discovered their chosen hobby. I've seen pictures of the Sports hobby or Fitness hobby popping up after Woohoo as well.

[lizzylovebird]

I realized that I hate playing popularity sims. Thank god for MATY's phone hack!

[Anebrd]

This is something that I have noticed while playing sims 2 is that the sweetest of knowledge sims... the ones that are super nice... all seem to want to have the life time want to be a master of crime.

Anyone else notice this in their games?

[Purplepaws]

That sims can "smell" flowers. Has that been there since the base game?

[Ghost sdoj]

No. Smelling flowers is new. I first noticed it with Free Time. And yes, I've noticed that Criminal Mastermind is the most common LTW for a knowledge sim in my game as well. (Max out 7 skills comes in second.)

[Gemmareno_SC]

I thought smelling flowers was Mansion & Garden. :)

[Menaceman44]

Smelling flowers was definately introduced with Mansion and Gardens.

[anhellica_SC]

I learned that sim illness, left untreated, can spread like a... uh... virus through countless families in 3 linked neighborhoods, and that the only way to stop hearing a chorus of hacks, gasps and coughs everytime I play one of my home businesses is to load each one by one and nurse each sim back to health.

[JavaJulie]

I learned that sim illness, left untreated, can spread like a... uh... virus through countless families in 3 linked neighborhoods, and that the only way to stop hearing a chorus of hacks, gasps and coughs everytime I play one of my home businesses is to load each one by one and nurse each sim back to health.
If you have Free Time, and a Sim with "Family" aspiration (and the ability to make Grandma's Comfort Soup), you can invite people over for a Grandma's Comfort Soup party. Serve a meal of the soup, and choose the "Call to Meal... Houseguests" and most, if not all, of them will sit down and be cured as soon as they eat some.

ETA: THere's not actually a "Grandma's Comfort Soup Party" option, just in case that was confusing. Just invite people over, or throw a party, whichever, in the normal way then serve the soup.

[anhellica_SC]

If you have Free Time, and a Sim with "Family" aspiration (and the ability to make Grandma's Comfort Soup), you can invite people over for a Grandma's Comfort Soup party. Serve a meal of the soup, and choose the "Call to Meal... Houseguests" and most, if not all, of them will sit down and be cured as soon as they eat some.

ETA: THere's not actually a "Grandma's Comfort Soup Party" option, just in case that was confusing. Just invite people over, or throw a party, whichever, in the normal way then serve the soup.


Good to know! That sounds kinda fun too. I have it, but it's not installed... I'm still rockin' OFB for the moment (I bought all the expansions extremely cheaply recently, but I'm installing them super slowly) - but it's something to look forward to!

[KyleTheArtist]

discovered that the eyes i downloaded look like my sisms have no eyes at all...or have to giant black eyes.

[Lycoris_SC]

This probably doesn't count but...

I discovered that some hacks actually can the player feel a twinge of guilt for their Sims...not in a horrible, angsty way of course. From a link posted somewhere on this site, I found this absolutely brilliant child support hack from Monique over at MTS2 and decided to try to use it.

Imagine my guilt and amusement when I used it at the Subject household and by the end of the toddler stage (I used aging off for a while there), Circe had paid out nearly $2,000 in child support payments (Her and Nervous have twin girls and since the girls live with him, she had to pay.) LOL

[lg135]

I learned that sims can serenade to other sims while they (the other sim) sit. It was sweet :)

[akksgurl_SC]

I learned that if two cats are enemies, when one dies the other will hiss at it. :lol:

[KyleTheArtist]

learbed that vampires aren't as easy as i thought they are >_>

[HCAC]

I learned where Sue's Secret Kitchen is and how to enter a cooking contest. My sim lost. :( Guess when you put bacon and eggs up against lobster you're doomed!

[tlynnjpeg]

I learned where Sue's Secret Kitchen is and how to enter a cooking contest. My sim lost. :( Guess when you put bacon and eggs up against lobster you're doomed!
Not necessarily. I won with grilled cheese sandwiches one time. She lost her first one, though, even though she made something big and fancy (I forget what...baked alaska, maybe?). I haven't seen any system to whether they win or lose (aside from not burning the food)...anyone know if there's some sort of criteria, or if it's random?

[HCAC]

Not necessarily. I won with grilled cheese sandwiches one time. She lost her first one, though, even though she made something big and fancy (I forget what...baked alaska, maybe?). I haven't seen any system to whether they win or lose (aside from not burning the food)...anyone know if there's some sort of criteria, or if it's random?

Good to know..I'd like advice about this, too...

[Ghost sdoj]

Store Edition also had smelling flowers. And since I got Store edition when I re-installed Free Time.....

Now that I have Store Edition gone the smelling flowers is gone too. And the ceilings. And the handy dialog for how big the room/floor/wall is. And all the SimPe glitches...

I still call it a good trade.

[KyleTheArtist]

I learned where Sue's Secret Kitchen is and how to enter a cooking contest. My sim lost. :( Guess when you put bacon and eggs up against lobster you're doomed!
Brandi Broke, when i played with her won with a berry pie or cheesecake against lobster turkey and Borsch(Russian soup) and soup against other in my opinion is a bad choice xD

On the subject: Discovered that male(even female but in my case it was male_ Sim better never check on a sleeping Vampire even if that sleeping vampire is his potential Fiancé. lol
EDIT:I discovered this ages ago. If you sit in the hot tub for to long it goes on fire. I had no clue about that and thats why NPC dorm mates died so often. :D

Discovered that just now. You can woohoo in sauna o_O its not impresive though >_>

[funkeymonkey22003]

I think my sim won the cooking contest with a turkey, but I made him go to the teacher there to get some direction and tips (lessons) before he entered the competition.

[Menaceman44]

Magical Sims can autonomously perform the Creatum Nutrimens spell if they are really hungry and have the regents in their inventory.

[Chrissi]

I just found out my sim is a lesbian - she's never had a crush, never kissed anyone, never had woo-hoo, never been in love, never married/join, not attracted to anyone, nobody flirts with her and she's never flirted with anyone, never even gone on a date! And she has a want right now to "get joined". :D Haha. I love it. I have to find her a hottie to join with.

[Tigga07_SC]

That with Free Time and PEts, if one of your sims is a Fitness Enthusiast when they gain enough fitness to "Go Jogging" and the menu pops up for who they would like to accompany them, they can bring THEIR SIM DOG!! My Sim's Dog loves going jogging with his Master in the morning!

[Menaceman44]

I've discovered my game can only read the first two cheats entered in my UserStartup cheat file. :(

[Thestrialqueen]

I learned that sim children can slide down stair bannisters, it's really cute.

[LegolianM]

My evil warlock's spectral assistant decided to help herself to a glass of water after winning a fight. The water went straight through her onto the floor. :lol:

[KyriaT]

I discovered (or finally figured out) that it makes a difference for how some fences looks, depending on whether you move the mouse from left to right, or from right to left. Yippiiii!

[tlynnjpeg]

I've discovered my game can only read the first two cheats entered in my UserStartup cheat file. :(

It's possible that whatever the third one is either is entered wrong or may not be able to be used in userstartup. If so, it'll stop reading the rest, even if they're valid.

There's some commentary about it here (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=7859.0) and here (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,13473.0.html) over at MATY.

[longdaysend]

that i have no clue what to do with most of the space on a 5x6 lot. i get the feeling it's gonna be fairly empty for generations to come.

[Menaceman44]

Thanks for the info, tlynnjpeg. I'll have a look at what I have in my file again and see if I can figure out the problem cheat.

[Crescentcloud]

I discovered that when you add an apartment, a fire, and a heavily pregnant Sim together, the result can be hilarious.

My Sim was very pregnant and living in an apartment, and her husband was making something in their oven when he turned around to flirt with her. Then the oven catches on fire because the husband is an idiot, they run out of the apartment, and my Sim goes into labor. Chaos ensues.

[tlynnjpeg]

I think there's game coding that makes Mary-Sue catch Daniel cheating...even if he isn't...

I recently started with a fresh install and am now playing all the Pleasantview familes rotationally. I wanted to keep the Pleasants all happy-like. As always happens when I play their first day, Mary-Sue gets fired so she comes home early. Kaylynn was, in fact, in the house. But she was in the upstairs bathroom while Daniel was watching TV, and all of a sudden I hear the >boing< noise of someone getting caught cheating. Mary-Sue had been home for probably half an hour by then. There was NOTHING that could have been construed as cheating, unless she somehow developed mind-reading powers.

So weird, but now I have a furious couple that I don't want to split up. Stupid Maxis coding...

Of course, I guess there are two ways I could avoid this: not let Kaylynn stay when she's finished cleaning and/or ignoring Mary-Sue's chance card. But I'm sure it'd >boing< anyway, somehow.

[Darkladyknight]

I'm not sure if this is new or not, I loaded apartment life at christmas time when I got it and then free time in late feburary when I recived it for my birthday. But I had one sim that every once and a while would be standing there and doing something, I could never figure it out, it looked almost like when they'd play the little hand held game, but when I paused the game and finally got around to where I could see, it looked as if he was playing with a round rubix, but it's not in his invintory nor does it show that he's doing anything.

[tlynnjpeg]

It's one of the hobby-associated idle animations that came with FreeTime. I believe that one's for science.

My favourite's the film/literature animation: walking around with their nose in a book...I've so been there. :)

[IceAngel12891]

It's one of the hobby-associated idle animations that came with FreeTime. I believe that one's for science.

My favourite's the film/literature animation: walking around with their nose in a book...I've so been there. :)

Whenever I have the headmaster come over my sims do this while giving them a tour, I find it humorous haha.

[Darkladyknight]

well, that clears that up and I wondered about that, I caught one that looked like she was reading while walking down the stairs but then it was gone. Its good to know, and it is humorus.

[savemykissesx]

I found out today that Sim Ghost Pets can be out during the day... wooooah

[musiquefille_SC]

i just learned that sims can now walk to school/work if they miss the bus or carpool. yay!

[lg135]

I thought I was crazy, but this has happened four times - so Mercury Newson (The oldest female Newson's kid in Belladonna) is in college and his kid sister calls him at a pretty late hour for a kid (usually between 10:30 and 11:30pm). And they end up talking for a pretty short period, and right when it ends his MOM shows up! It's like she's warning him or something because apparently their mum can come in without greeting and all she does is bug Mercury - hug, play, chat, congratulate, repeat, repeat, repeat until 3-4 am.

I thought it was a coincidence, but 4 times? They didn't happen all at once either, the first 3 were during freshman year, and then the fourth in Junior year, right after he declared a major.

Has this ever happened before to anyone else???

[peanutsinspace]

Everyone else probably knew long ago lol but I learned that to avoid having my newspaper or trash can kicked over, was to go and greet the Sim about to do it. Then they leave shortly after. Saved me a lot of trash pick-up lol

[Ghost sdoj]

If you greet a random walkby you have never met and have no interest in, then immediately influence them to write your term paper, they will finish it before telling you that you have been a bad host and they are packing their bags and leaving early. That's not early. Leaving before the term paper was finished would have been early!

[Menaceman44]

lg135, I think that happens because the game treats the phoning kid as though he is on the lot so the parent is sent to take them home. When they arrive there is no child to collect so they end up staying.

[tlynnjpeg]

With Mary-Sue furious with both Daniel and Kaylynn (though making serious headway back to HappyLand with Daniel), the Pleasant house it...tense...right now.

I had Mary-Sue and Daniel pleasantly sleeping in bed...actually sleeping, nothing going on, when Kaylynn shows up for her daily cleaning. And suddenly the >boing< goes off and Kaylynn feels she's being cheated on. Stupid sims.

Anyway. I was getting tired of this, so I was going to have Mary-Sue fire Kaylynn, but I noticed a new option on the pie menu: Buy off for §50. When I chose it, Mary-Sue went over and gave Kaylynn the money and a message popped up from Kaylynn saying something like "Okay, okay, I'll leave you alone. For now." And she went away.

It was...odd.

[Sydlet]

i just learned that sims can now walk to school/work if they miss the bus or carpool. yay!

THEY CAN??
So....when my twins Rioben and Marche miss the bus, they could have walked all this time? I wonder why they never do it.

[simstate]

THEY CAN??
So....when my twins Rioben and Marche miss the bus, they could have walked all this time? I wonder why they never do it.

They won't do it autonomously, you have to click on them and "walk to work/school"

[tlynnjpeg]

I think you also need AL for it to show up.

[charlie-chan_SC]

I have OfB and there is also an option for the parent to drive them to school.

[Anebrd]

That SIM BLENDER is great for story telling.

[Darkladyknight]

last night while playing I noticed my cat was sitting outside among the fireflys, he chased them, it was really cute. I learned too, that cats can chase butterflys also.

[KyleTheArtist]

I discovered yesterday you can have se....I mean you can woo hoo in the car :D and I had Night life for how long?>_> :lol:

I don't think it's an actual code in the game. When I played the Pleasant family for the first time (that is, 2007), I made Kaylynn stay, and being a beginner, I made Daniel flirt and kiss Kaylynn. Mary Sue came home and got mad at Daniel and slapped him repeatedly. So, I made Daniel kiss and make up with Mary Sue, but that caused Kaylynn to become angry and slap him too. :( So, I left the game unsaved. The second time I played the Pleasant family, I made a different choice: I dismissed Kaylynn the maid. She caused too much trouble, and she would be better off with Don Lothario, the other guy who loved her. From the start, I knew the family was in bad shape, so I made Daniel and Mary Sue have a third child and hopefully this child will have good relationships with EVERYONE. The third child did!
When window appeared saying what M-S should do at work?I clicked ignore, this way she stayed at work. Daniel and Kayleen Woohoo'd in peice she left. When M-S came home they woohoo'd as well. I was planing on 3rd child aswell to be honest >_> never got around about it.

[Loyal Fangs]

I discovered how to remove those things in the screen to make better screenshots with "Print Screen" (yeah, I just clicked 'Tab'...)

...

And I play Sims for how long???

LOL

[charlie-chan_SC]

I found today that every time my sims walk past gravestones they have thought bubbles of "urns"

[KyleTheArtist]

I discovered how to remove those things in the screen to make better screenshots with "Print Screen" (yeah, I just clicked 'Tab'...)

...

And I play Sims for how long???

LOL
or click F10

[theSilverSuzi]

I discovered that if you have a toddler in the high chair while someone is serving food, they'll serve a dish to the toddler. I thought the high chairs were kinda useless and a waste of time, but now I know even the little ones can be included at family dinner! =D

[cavilez]

I discovered that if you have a toddler in the high chair while someone is serving food, they'll serve a dish to the toddler. I thought the high chairs were kinda useless and a waste of time, but now I know even the little ones can be included at family dinner! =D

Remember to put the kid in the highchair before (or have someone, that's not cooking, do it) or you will end up having to give the kid a bottle. ;)

[Loyal Fangs]

or click F10

... *HUGE facepalm*

One more time, thanks! :anime:

[KyleTheArtist]

... *HUGE facepalm*

One more time, thanks! :anime:
No problem :D

[Svartenfügel]

Today I found out about the most funniest thing you could to on The Sims 2. One of my sims was practicing on how to talk infront of a mirror. I wanted it to go faster so I pushed the "3" button. Suddenly she started talking really fast with a helium voice. She sounded like this animated little squirrel. *Laughs*

[KyleTheArtist]

Today I found out about the most funniest thing you could to on The Sims 2. One of my sims was practicing on how to talk infront of a mirror. I wanted it to go faster so I pushed the "3" button. Suddenly she started talking really fast with a helium voice. She sounded like this animated little squirrel. *Laughs*
Sounds like she says aphee(acchoo) doesn't it?xD

[rosesforme17]

I noticed a sim swinging and playing with the fridge on my business lot. At first I was shocked since I had never actually seen any sim do that. Then I was PO'd because she was playing with my appliances rather than spending her money.

[uchuujin_SC]

Errr last night I discovered that you can disintegrate the grim-reaper(with Paladin's ray gun thingy)... and not mess up your game!! It took a lot of fast clicking and cheats, but my precious game survived!

(Warning: Do NOT try this at home, folks!)

No, seriously, I was this close to having to re-install. Again. :blink:

[-Chica]

I learned that when you have 7 sims in a household and *all* of them are jam packed in the 4x5 kitchen, things get preeeety crammed in there, especially when daddy is trying to throw a dirt diaper away.

[KyleTheArtist]

When you jhave 8 students its a pain. <_< You tell them to do one thing they do the other >_>

[Amairani]

I learned that it's not permanent when some townie gets angry at your Sim and poor thing has to pay extra for his furniture purchases:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v493/Amairani/forgave-1.jpg

I only wish they'd decide to call it off BEFORE I spent few thousands on decorating the house :/

[Ghost sdoj]

If you build your own secret society lot, delete the mailbox before using "changeLotZoning". My newest SS lot crashes, and the only thing I did differently was to forget to delete the mailbox.

[melethana]

Maxis furniture is not as ugly as I previously thought, or maybe I just really like the OfB items. I wanted to build a "clean" house so I loaded up using the Any Game Starter, and some of the furniture is really nice! For some reason I really like the table lamps :blink:

[HCAC]

I never fully explored Pets so now I have a few of them in my game some odd stuff has been happening. A toddler went into a dog's basket and fell asleep. This same kid ate some dog food and it looked like (later on) she was throwing it up..I was not quick enough to get a photo....is this what can happen?

[uchuujin_SC]

If you build your own secret society lot, delete the mailbox before using "changeLotZoning". My newest SS lot crashes, and the only thing I did differently was to forget to delete the mailbox.

SERIOUSLY? So will the new lot replace the old? I've been trying to find out about making secret lots and such, but haven't had much luck....


EDIT: actually, that does happen in pets. It's pretty funny... but I usually cancel those actions when the toddler tries it.

[rosesforme17]

I learned that it's not permanent when some townie gets angry at your Sim and poor thing has to pay extra for his furniture purchases:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v493/Amairani/forgave-1.jpg

I only wish they'd decide to call it off BEFORE I spent few thousands on decorating the house :/


I just learned from your post that you can lose your wholesale discount if having relationship troubles with the contact who offered it. That's kind of cool.

[DigitalMonster]

I never fully explored Pets so now I have a few of them in my game some odd stuff has been happening. A toddler went into a dog's basket and fell asleep. This same kid ate some dog food and it looked like (later on) she was throwing it up..I was not quick enough to get a photo....is this what can happen?

Ha that just happened to me today too so it must be normal. I couldn't find one of my toddlers and finally she ended up being in the dog bed! I clicked on the dog bed and the option sleep came up so it must be normal. I've had Pets since it first came out and only just noticed that.

[lizzylovebird]

I didn't discover this recently, but I remember learning that messy sims pee while they're taking a shower! :lol:

[phasha18]

I found this hilarious last night. I only got Pets last week, anyway, last night one family had a puppy and I discovered that if the puppy is had on the second floor then it won't leave the second floor until it's adult. (found out the hard way cause the family neglected to feed the pup).

[rosesforme17]

The puppy can't use the stairs on it's own without a hack phasha18. But you could always have your sim pick up the puppy and take it downstairs/upstairs.

[simstate]

I didn't discover this recently, but I remember learning that messy sims pee while they're taking a shower! :lol:

Ha ha - yes - I remember observing this with Don Lothario (in my hood) - I was surprised to see both the hygiene and the bladder bars going up while he was showering!

[kustirider2]

Ha that just happened to me today too so it must be normal. I couldn't find one of my toddlers and finally she ended up being in the dog bed! I clicked on the dog bed and the option sleep came up so it must be normal. I've had Pets since it first came out and only just noticed that.

Yep, i get that too. It actually came with Apartment Life or Freetime (I cannot remember) thats probably why you didnt notice before.

[HCAC]

I discovered sims that are just in your 'hold box' (you know on the main screen, waiting to get put in the game?) can appear in the game, even though they don't have a house yet.

I was playing one of my families, and the son, Edmund brought a friend home from school. I was hoping it was one of my gals from another family (I have eventual plans to get them together as adults). Nope, it was the daughter of a family I made just to mess around with the genetics...(the family was in the family box on the main neighborhood screen).

Weird, I never knew this could happen..

[icingtiara]

I learned you can take the pictures of the activity table for toddlers that they drew and could hang them on the wall. I learned completely by accident. I was going to move the whole table but the drawings came off so now all the sim's house is covered in toddler drawings.

[Menaceman44]

I think family bin Sims started showing up with Seasons. Families in the family bin never used to show up in game in the base game.

[uchuujin_SC]

I think that started happening with Seasons. Families in the family bin never used to show up in game in the base game.

I just discovered that too!! I was happily surprised. Beforehand I had a ton of sim-made photos/paintings, and even more so now. ;)

[tlynnjpeg]

I think they also can only come home with a sim from school or work. They won't do walk-bys or show up at community lots (or at least, they never have for me).

[melethana]

Child sims in the adoption pool can also be the friend brought home from school. They have no house, are not in the sim bin, and yet they still have to go to school! :D
I don't recall if I've ever seen them do a walk-by

[ceegamus_SC]

I learned you can take the pictures of the activity table for toddlers that they drew and could hang them on the wall. I learned completely by accident. I was going to move the whole table but the drawings came off so now all the sim's house is covered in toddler drawings.

Haha, that's awesome. I always decorate my Sim's bedroom with his "art" from the easel. Now I can decorate my toddle's room!

I learned that holding ctrl + alt allows you to put more than one picture on a wall.

[novemberlove_SC]

If a sim grabs the cake from a cowplant's mouth, they can push the cowplant away and avoid being eaten.

[Menaceman44]

I wonder what determines whether they do that or not?

[Gemmareno_SC]

Logic points? :D

[novemberlove_SC]

Logic points? :D

The 2 sims that avoided being eaten were newly created in CAS and were visiting my lot. They have no skill points or talent badges. So maybe it's because they're playables and not townies?

[Gemmareno_SC]

Quite possibly. I've never had a cowplant so I have no idea who or what their limits are for victims! XD

[LegolianM]

I have noticed my cowplant victims getting smarter since I installed AL. It's quite frustrating when the entire reason I've invited them over is for them to be eaten, and the darn thing just sniffs at them and then leaves them alone. The only way I can get it to work now is to cheat and make them selectable and actually TELL them to take the cake, and then leave them selectable while they do it. It doesn't seem to want to eat unselectable visitors anymore.

[Gemmareno_SC]

Maybe you're not letting it go hungry enough?

[LegolianM]

^ Oh it's hungry. Before now the only thing that would prevent it from eating anyone was low hygeine, now it won't eat anyone I don't have selected.

[Ghost sdoj]

Cowplants won't eat a sim whose hygiene is too low. I put a hot tub out near the cowplant, so its victims will get themselves nice and clean for it. I don't know if that is the only factor.


I wonder if AL adjusted the cowplant to avoid eating unselectable sims to protect the roommates? I know if you put a gate in the SS lot all the SS members happily feed themselves to the cowplant.

[chnnature]

This has probably been said but... Huggles! OMG Too cute!

I had twins then adopted one soon after so I basically had triplets (cause I'm crazy) and 2 of them got up and just hugged each other. Cutest toddler moment ever!

[HCAC]

This has probably been said but... Huggles! OMG Too cute!

I had twins then adopted one soon after so I basically had triplets (cause I'm crazy) and 2 of them got up and just hugged each other. Cutest toddler moment ever!

Oh, yes, the huggle thing is very cute! I love having all my toddlers do it!

[melethana]

Huggles? Is that EP specific? I almost always raise infants / toddlers in pairs, but I have never seen them hug.

[Katya Stevens]

Huggles? Is that EP specific? I almost always raise infants / toddlers in pairs, but I have never seen them hug.

It came in Apartment Life.

[Ghost sdoj]

You can't get pictures fast enough to make a gif animation with the ingame camera.

(Slowmotion 9 might help, though....)

I also discovered that a vampire aging up an infant has a very evil looking animation for it. I missed the first kid, but I have two pictures of him looking like he is planning to kill the baby.

[Anebrd]

I think I would like to see that sidneydoj.

What I learn today was if a sim is in a hammock and daydreaming, if they start daydreaming about someone they don't care for, they wave their hand in the air as if to pop that particular thought bubble.

[Ghost sdoj]

Ok, I posted the pics here:

http://forums.sims-community.com/showpost.php?p=1329863&postcount=467

[ceegamus_SC]

I'unno if it's one of my hacks, but apparently preggers women can get pre-term cramps?

[simstate]

I'unno if it's one of my hacks, but apparently preggers women can get pre-term cramps?

Maybe you have Inteen? Sims can miscarry with that in.

[ceegamus_SC]

Yeah, I have Inteen. Is that what did it? Today was the first time I saw it.

[Katya Stevens]

Yeah, I have Inteen. Is that what did it?

Yup. There's a no miscarriages flavor pack available if you don't want the option.

[McNum_SC]

I discovered that somewhere along the line I must have installed an EP that allows Community Lot Weddings. I thought only Bon Voyage and Celebration Stuff could do that. I suspect the culprit here is FreeTime.

Of course, I used this new discovery and built me an outdoor wedding chapel as part of my standard issue lots for new neighborhoods. (Yes, I have a collection of lots that I install in every new neighborhood.)

Named the chapel "Ever After". I thought that was a decent name for it. :)

[ani_]

That the furiosity bug has been fixed. Sims no longer have their relationship on the plus side, after being furious is over, even thou it was on the minus before.

[OldestManOnMySpace_SC]

When you get a skill point as a reward for an outing, and it maxes the skill, you don't get a memory for it.

[ani_]

When you move out of an apartment, even the furniture that were there when you moved in is sold, thus you get more money than you should.

[simstate]

When you move out of an apartment, even the furniture that were there when you moved in is sold, thus you get more money than you should.

And that is why I got Pescado's hack from MATY. I can't stand it when money drops out the sky for the sims ...

[ani_]

And that is why I got Pescado's hack from MATY. I can't stand it when money drops out the sky for the sims ...

thanks, I went on a search and found it :) I just used to put all furniture into the sims inventory before moving them out so this wouldn't happen.

[Gemmareno_SC]

If your sim is very lazy there is a random chance for them to turn off the alarmclock and go back to sleep. XD

[Menaceman44]

If you take a pet to a community lot other strays are allowed to show up.

I found this yesterday after building a new park and getting a family to test it out. I got them to take their dog along and as soon as they arrived two stray cats appeared. I thought something was broken as I know the code was changed to stop strays on comm lots. By the time they left there were 3 cats and 4 dogs on the lot and everyone was interacting with them.
If I visit comm lots without pets though no strays turn up.

A side effect of not expecting strays meant that a lot of the flowers got eaten!

[simstate]

If your sim is very lazy there is a random chance for them to turn off the alarmclock and go back to sleep. XD

That's cute - I had no idea they had that animation.

[Gemmareno_SC]

That's cute - I had no idea they had that animation.

Me neither. It was on Snooty Sims and it surprised me so much that I had to post it - even though it's never happened to me. I'm going to give everyone alarmclocks now! :D

[Goofy125_SC]

I discovered that I have holiday pack without knowing :S:SS:S:S:S:S:S lol

[Thestrialqueen]

I discovered that you can the turn the ceiling fans off and on.

[tyana]

I learned that your sim can cheat death... I never knew that nor had it done... Does it mean he will never die or will die one day later?

[Anebrd]

I learned that your sim can cheat death... I never knew that nor had it done... Does it mean he will never die or will die one day later?

He will die eventually hopefully of old age. The cheat death is when your sim does something foolish like repairing a computer with one mechanical point or starving in front of the fridge. the Grim Reaper comes and a loved one can plead for their lives. Knowledge sims adore this want and are often invited by serial killers to their partys.

[hwayunhae]

I discovered that if you send a sim to college, and accidentally put them in the wrong sim bin household, whatever you do, DO NOT DELETE THE HOUSEHOLD. You'll never get them back.

T.T

There goes my founder.

[jarod95]

i knew there is a badge juicer(cheat) that can get any badge to gold easily...
i make 9 of the badge gold...sweet!!

[KyleTheArtist]

Just saw my husband simified tuck my self sim in. I had no clue YA do that o_O

[tyana]

He will die eventually hopefully of old age. The cheat death is when your sim does something foolish like repairing a computer with one mechanical point or starving in front of the fridge. the Grim Reaper comes and a loved one can plead for their lives. Knowledge sims adore this want and are often invited by serial killers to their partys.

but no one pleaded for him he like choose a hand from behind the grim reaper and chose the correct one.... and i didn't even control it. Plus that's why the reaper was there it was his last day technically...

[MacHeadMandi]

Did you wish for "cheat death" from the genie? I think that's what it does. I haven't been with Freetime long enough to play with all of the features, so I'm not quite sure.

[tyana]

Did you wish for "cheat death" from the genie? I think that's what it does. I haven't been with Freetime long enough to play with all of the features, so I'm not quite sure.

hmm... that's possible.... usually i go with money with those things but he is already rich so that's possible.....never even thought of that lol

[tree4me]

I discovered, the hard way, that you can't have two default skinsets in your downloads folder. :anime:

[lizzylovebird]

I learned to always remember your foundation before you start building the perfect sim version of your house. ;-;

[psivampyr]

Even if you do NOT have the multiple birth hack in your game you still could have more then 2 kids born at the same time. I wanted my sim to have one more baby before she got too old and when she gave birth she had FIVE! 4 girls and 1 boy- Gilly, Jorja, Jewel, Ginger and Gregory. I checked my dl folder and I do have the largerhousehold mod but do not have multibirths. Oh well, if it gets too maddening I will just have the mom's brother take a few to his house and when they become kids they can come back to the main house.

[JavaJulie]

Even if you do NOT have the multiple birth hack in your game you still could have more then 2 kids born at the same time. I wanted my sim to have one more baby before she got too old and when she gave birth she had FIVE! 4 girls and 1 boy- Gilly, Jorja, Jewel, Ginger and Gregory. I checked my dl folder and I do have the largerhousehold mod but do not have multibirths. Oh well, if it gets too maddening I will just have the mom's brother take a few to his house and when they become kids they can come back to the main house.
You must still have a lingering hack somewhere - there is no way to get more than twins in the unmodified game.

[KyleTheArtist]

I knew that all along, but it still amazes me. When husband walks in on his wife, while she is in the shower, he scream in shock( visa versa applies) They are married andhave not seen each other naked? WOW! :blink:

[tlynnjpeg]

You must still have a lingering hack somewhere - there is no way to get more than twins in the unmodified game.

No, it can glitch that way too. Way back when I just had the base game, and didn't use custom content at all I had two incidences. Once, the mother just kept giving birth. Singles after singles after singles. I had to forcefully shut the game down to make it stop. The other time I wound up with quadruplets when it spawned twins twice. Having lived through those convinced me never to download the triplets and quads hack (those of you with it: you people are nuts!).

So it's not supposed to (and it doesn't rule out a hack), but you never know what glitches will do to your game. :)

[Bronzie_SC]

I discovered that toddlers have teeth (i had a crap-tastic video card until now) and listened to a very simlish 'pocket full of sunshine'.

and that mirrors and lakes have reflections!

[lizzylovebird]

No, it can glitch that way too. Way back when I just had the base game, and didn't use custom content at all I had two incidences. Once, the mother just kept giving birth. Singles after singles after singles. I had to forcefully shut the game down to make it stop.

Confirmed: this happened to me once when the Curious brother had his alien baby! I had dozens of little green infants lying on the ground outside their house. :P

[tlynnjpeg]

You can click on the UFO when it returns the abductee and it'll give you the option to "Welcome Home!" Which was nice since my sims are stupid and instead of using the second staircase when the first was full, that I built for just this purpose, they stood at the top whining and dropped the action from the queue. And I actually wanted her to go welcome her husband home (she'd just been abducted two nights earlier and had to congratulate him on joining the ranks...yay knowledge sims!).

[tree4me]

If you build a house too small, the roof looks like crap, especially if it's two floors.

[ani_]

That you cannot interact with your neighbor's toddlers. I have two ladies living next to each other, and I wanted them to be friends. And if you visit your friend's house and theres a baby, of course you go and cuddle it, but the lady had no interactions with the toddler. She only had the possibility to join when the toddler was dancing to the radio.

[HCAC]

I found out that if a toddler is playing with the xylophone, his sibling (kid age) can join in.

[nadsy01_SC]

I found that in a rainstorm, lamps can get struck by lightning and cause a fire. I discovered that twice.

[xoxSugah]

I learned that simcats don't like to hold still for pictures.

[honeynutcows_SC]

i learned that sims slide can slide down bannisters. This i never knew. i also found out sims can set themselves on fire while preparing baked alaska

[Menaceman44]

The sliding down stair railings came with Mansions & Gardens.

[MattBrancher_SC]

I just noticed my sims cat was watching them slow dancing! Awww, cuteness. :)

[simstate]

I found out that if a toddler is playing with the xylophone, his sibling (kid age) can join in.

Oh that is too cute - thanks for this tip - I'm gonna try that in my game!

[ani_]

If you set your employees the uniform, but only set the clothing, and don't touch the hair. They will not get the default face template.

[KrazyKat81]

I learned that a very tired toddler will climb into the cat's bed if knackered enough - its adorable!

[Insane Serini]

I learned that everything looks better turned 45 degrees.

[sims3king]

I just found out that, if you have a hungry toddler, and a bowl of pet food, both the pet and the toddler can eat out of it, at the same time.

[sophieacd_SC]

I discovered thst ghosts can use elevators!

[ani_]

After visiting two secret hobby lots, I discovered how boring and useless they are and how I'm going to ignore them from now on.

[HCAC]

After visiting two secret hobby lots, I discovered how boring and useless they are and how I'm going to ignore them from now on.

Yeah, well, I guess the novelty wears off. I had one sim go to the dance and music secret lot..he was in a dance contest...someone else won. Other than that, the lot was boring.

Same for the cooking one.

[iLollipop_SC]

I discovered that some of my downloaded objects from XMSims preventing my Sims some going to community lots. That's just so great.
I also discovered that it's really easy to get a gold talent badge in gardening =D

[Ghost sdoj]

The secret hobby lots can become quite amusing, though. I discovered there were two Drama professors who were members at a music and dance lot. And a married couple with 3 lightning bolts for each other were also randomly there. I had my sim meditate in a corner and watch the ensuing drama with avid interest. The couple would make out, get slapped by the professors, argue with them, go make out again, and eventually started fighting them. And winning. It got really interesting when my sim influenced one of the professors to flirt with the guy's wife...

If they show up to kick the trash can or steal the paper, they are going to be in for a nasty surprise.

[Nalia]

Today I discovered that a Sim kid can be fried to death!
Maybe it's old news to many of you, but I am still in terrible shock. An hour ago little Kojima was sitting on the couch studying cooking with his brother and his uncle sitting next to him. There was fire lit (it was snowing outside) and next moment the couch is on fire, the kids screaming terrified, the uncle and both parents trying to extinguish the fire but some sparkle seems to follow poor Kojima when he run away (as I directed him to do). To make it short, the little kid was literally fried. Fortunatelly, one of his parents was able to plead for his life and beat Grim Reaper. I couldn't believe it! :(

[Babynerd_16_SC]

I just found out that, if you have a hungry toddler, and a bowl of pet food, both the pet and the toddler can eat out of it, at the same time.

i found that out yesterday but didn't have time to post it...lol.....Well here is my weird thing of the day ......Well i had this couple....(It was Dina and Lucien) and they had just got married......Lucien being like his dad (Who including lucien had 22 kids....) loves kids and didn't mind Dina having four kids by a now dead mortimer.....So dina was like "I want to adopt a poor little child that needs a already crowded house" so i called and adopted.....Next day comes and My new little girl is here. Here name is Lucy. I was so excited to finally have a pretty child sim.....So i was like "Let's just see how i am doing with my family tree" I look at my family tree and guess what? Lucy aint related to Lucien....So i was like "WTF?!?!?!?!" I check out who the father is and it is Dina's first husband Micheal.......Can anyone tell me how this is? I have been playing dina on and off since i got the game. I aint mad just wondering if anyone else has had this happen to them at all so I will know i aint alone in this abnormality :confused:

[Ghost sdoj]

The same carpool driver takes the Criminal Mastermind and the Chief of Police to work.

(Crooked cop, anyone?)

[blackdaisies]

I've had OFB since it came out and I had not realized that if you put the makeover chair on a non-owned community lot that the game will generate NPC stylists for you. I wouldn't have known until i downloaded a community lot with one and played it.

[boombands]

Today while playing the poverty challenge I learned that if there is nothing for a visitor to do they will open your fridge and swing on the door. I had never seen this before.

[simstate]

Today while playing the poverty challenge I learned that if there is nothing for a visitor to do they will open your fridge and swing on the door. I had never seen this before.

A sim needs to have high playfullness to do that

[KyleTheArtist]

I discovered that best friends stick up for each other. When Diana was being pushed around by Britney, Tybalt came and slapped Britney without me ordering to do so..Suhweet!

[ani_]

I discovered that best friends stick up for each other. When Diana was being pushed around by Britney, Tybalt came and slapped Britney without me ordering to do so..Suhweet!

That's adorable <3
But did Tybalt also have a negative relationship with Britney before he slapped her? I'v had one of my guy's best friend come and bitchslap his girlfriend, and he did nothing.

[Nalia]

I discovered that best friends stick up for each other. When Diana was being pushed around by Britney, Tybalt came and slapped Britney without me ordering to do so..Suhweet!

The same happens with brothers and sisters who love and care for each other. Once I had two teens and when the boy's girlfriend asked him to break up, his sister went mad, her relation with the girl dropped below zero right away and she started poking her. Before that, the two girl's relation was near 100.

[KyleTheArtist]

That's adorable <3
But did Tybalt also have a negative relationship with Britney before he slapped her? I'v had one of my guy's best friend come and bitchslap his girlfriend, and he did nothing.

They were at just met relationship. like mayb3-5 and 0. I was kinda amazed to honest. o_O

[blackdaisies]

I was surprised when something like that happened to my Sims too. One of my university students caught her boyfriend cheating at her grad party. Her entire family was at the party and all of them were furious with the guy. No slapping or anything, but they did certainly hate him.

[Crayola_SC]

i discovered that sims are left handed when writing diaries.
That's pretty neat! I'm a lefty anyways! :)

[KyleTheArtist]

I discovered that sims step over the objects such as lamps and newspapers. Also discovered fridges have sparks..

[captainzaza]

That if a sims hygiene drops near a sink they will take a sponge bath. I was shocked when one sim was making dinner and the other was naked cleaning himself.
http://i335.photobucket.com/albums/m450/thecoloredge/Sims/venkat.jpg

[kustirider2]

That those column's (Pets space age) can have things put onto them, Like flowers!

[Jor'gha]

This will tell everyone how much attention I don't pay...I discovered the grilled cheese aspiration yesterday....

All because my husband asked me a dumb question, "Have you ever completed a Sim game?" Took me a few minutes to sort out that he meant actually play a sim through a life cycle. He's convinced that all I do is mean things to them and kill them off. That question was followed by "Do you have a sim you haven't killed off yet?"

~ I spend more time building things than I do playing the game.
~ I like putting together music videos using the sims.
~ I like setting up weird things to happen where I can write tabloid like stories about it all.

Oh, and then there was that entire thing a couple years ago with me creating a sim of Myspace Tom Anderson just to kill him off, make a video of it, and post it to myspace. I made several of those and Tom started posting bulletins through it all stating that he wasn't dead. Strangely those bulletins stopped when my videos stopped. Coincidence?

Anyway, none of these things requires me to play a sim through a life cycle. So, I decided to finally take the Legacy Challenge and I discovered the grilled cheese aspiration.

My husband found the rules of the Legacy Challenged printed out on my desk, picked them up and said "This is good. All you needed for your game was a little direction since you didn't know what to do with your sims."

WTH??

There are so many things that can be done with the sims...he is so clueless.

[Jor'gha]

I should have taken a picture of this. I was remodeling a community lot and the electronic ticket thing had a "under construction" sign on it while I was doing the modifications.

[ani_]

I discovered that sim teens have a ncie reactions when seeing adults do romantic interactions.

[aba23_SC]

I discovered that some Sim parents do care about bad behaviour. When my Teen Sim attempted to sneak out (as she does at least 3-4 times a week) her Dad must have had a minute of 'Huh I should be a parent'. He ran after her and told her (text did pop up on the screen) that such a behaviour was not appropriate and how she could misuse his trust so much and that she should put herself into bed right now.

I never had that happen, parents usually only wave towards their teens, I was surprised..

[KyleTheArtist]

I discovered that sims laugh at pain xD

I had a self sim being bullied by llama mascot. My husband sims, run up to him and beat a crap out of him. I wass atnding laughing(both real life and sims)

[Emma,]

I made a two-person family, husband and wife and I used BoolProp etc. to test so I made them into vampires and the wife wanted her husband to be cured, and the husband wanted his wife to be cured.

They care for each other.

[rosesforme17]

I discovered that toddlers will pick their nose while in the crib.

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m252/rosesforme17/Sim%20Stuff/snapshot_15d81ece_36efae38.jpg

[KyleTheArtist]

Discovered this while ago but I didn't post it for some reason xD
best friends can cuddle under the clouds together :D

[fayola]

I really should have taken a screen shot of this becaus it's never happened to me before and it was quite interesting. My sim was hanging out with a friend and when they said goodbye, the skill bar came up above my sims head and filled up really quick and a pop-up came up and said something along the lines of "gettting fit is easy when you've got athletic friends to hang with! Nerina (my sim) picked up a body skill point." I had NO IDEA that could even happen! Has that happened to anyone before? It's really cool.

[Ghost sdoj]

I've had it happen after a date. My sim got a Cleaning skill point from hanging around with neat sims. Ironically, both he and his date had neatness scores of 2!

I suspect it is related to the skill level, not the personality trait.

[Gemmareno_SC]

That happened to me the other day too, I think mine was for body, where a sim with low body skills picked up one from her mum who has maxed body skill. It was really weird - it's the only time it's ever happened. :D

[lg135]

I discovered that sims can go into aspiration failure in that opening clip you see when a sim moves to a new house. I believe she was going into aspiration failure the last time I saved in the old house but didn't finish, so she went through it again at the new house ^^;
Oh yeah, she was also holding a kid: http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/3740/aspirationfailure.jpg (http://img18.imageshack.us/my.php?image=aspirationfailure.jpg)


Also discovered that Sims can roll wants to talk to their kids about something... even if they're babies:http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/2975/grilledcheese.jpg (http://img18.imageshack.us/my.php?image=grilledcheese.jpg)


Last thing I discovered was that butlers can kiss toddlers! I just thought it was a little weird, since I've never even seen a nanny do it before - hugs and snuggles, but never family kisses.

[SofieAmalieN]

That a lot of the premade UNI sims look the same! I've been going through the three premade unis, to give the sims a makeover, and that way I discovered that a lot of the sims, especially the male sims, look alike.

[Nalia]

When my Teen Sim attempted to sneak out (as she does at least 3-4 times a week) her Dad must have had a minute of 'Huh I should be a parent'. He ran after her and told her (text did pop up on the screen) that such a behaviour was not appropriate and how she could misuse his trust so much and that she should put herself into bed right now.

Exactly the same did one my teens' mother the other day. Surprisingly enough she didn't react that way when his other son, Daisuke, sneaked out. I tested her reactions thrice, and she kept going after Fujio and only. :rolleyes:

Now that was not nice of her, because Fujio kept rolling wishes for sneaking out with his friends for 3-4 days and couldn't make it. LOL

[VincentAlliath]

The werewolf dog appeared outside my house. Usually, in other lots it would appear at the front door and stuff. At this lot, it comes to the right side, around the pond and barks at the window. I put a fence around it because I was busy, but in between the fence-putting and morning, it disappeared... =C

Also, in Riverblossom Hills in my Legacy Family, one of my wives somehow had the memory of having an affair with her mother-in-law. =S Creepy.

[melethana]

I just had a party, and one of the guests decided to take a bath right after dinner. He was still in the tub when the party ended, so he just got out of the tub, and walked home, sans clothes! My own sims always get dressed after they bathe, weird. I did take a pic, but my game is no longer T for Teen ::ahem::

[EmilyJud]

I discovered that when sims read, they read the book from the end to the beginning :confused: As in, when they turn the page, it's the left page :dumbfunny At least when their relaxing on a bed.

[Nalia]

I discovered that when sims read, they read the book from the end to the beginning :confused: As in, when they turn the page, it's the left page :dumbfunny
A fact? I haven't experienced that. Yet. :rofl:

[KyleTheArtist]

That a lot of the premade UNI sims look the same! I've been going through the three premade unis, to give the sims a makeover, and that way I discovered that a lot of the sims, especially the male sims, look alike.
I discovered same in Veronaville. Downtownies look like twins o_O

[Blue Spruce]

I discovered that if there are no level ground tiles in the area around a tree, the leaves in fall drop but don't stay on the ground and don't need to be raked.

[melethana]

one of my servos has a death wish! He went out and bought a shower! Silly robot, you'll run amok!

[sophieacd_SC]

When you resurrect someone with the Genie lamp, it will come back as a zombie if the sim who summons the genie has the aspiration meter in red.

[EmilyJud]

A ghost will get mad if you sell its old stuff. I deleted my ghosts old bed because i wasn't using it and the ghost got mad. It was floating around outside and it kept looking up at the camera and waving its arms and cracking its fists while thinking about the bed i deleted.

[kriske]

look at this picture.... I never ever saw this in my game before.
LOL I think she never actually met the penguin. There's no winter in her town; he's not in her memory anyway.

[Ghost sdoj]

A ghost will get mad if you sell its old stuff. I deleted my ghosts old bed because i wasn't using it and the ghost got mad. It was floating around outside and it kept looking up at the camera and waving its arms and cracking its fists while thinking about the bed i deleted.

Yes, they are fond of their beds. If they didn't have a bed they were attached to they get mad if you upgrade the toilet.

[71michelle]

That you can turn the little apartment heaters on, and use them as, um, heaters. lol!
Also i think i've found out that dogs cant use elevators. Well guess who moved her sims with dog into an apartment with elevators! :-(

[ani_]

How buggy al is - but I suppose that's not a discovery, more of a statement.

[71michelle]

That you can gain charisma points by teaching a parrot to talk! lol