What did you discover today while playing the sims?

[AlexandraSpears]

I just discovered snow days on Seasons.
Seriously. I've had that expansion for like a year now and I only found out about snow days now!
Must be because most of the sims I play with don't have families.

Also, if you have a child in private school and one in public, one may have to go to school and the other stays home. You'll know which one stays home--the one who cheers. ;) If you miss which one gets to stay home, you'll find that you won't be able to put that child on the bus. (Kind of dumb, considering they ride the same bus.)

At least you're warned ahead of time, so if you have both parents working, they can arrange for a nanny or one can take a vacation day or call off.

[simsamu]

I just discovered using the spy career reward can net you 200 simoleans I always thought it was pretty useless before but my wee fortune sim was very pleased as had just plunged a load of simoleans into an ailing business.

[AlexandraSpears]

Cow mascots do not show up in the college directory. Kind of a no-brainer there, I know, since they're supposed to be from a rival school.

[LuvNstuff]

I just discovered that Bella Goth and Don Lothario don't match. Today I resurrected her and they had a pre-relationship of 40. Though it's weird because they were poking and shoving each other but it wasn't actually an option. Weird?

[AlexandraSpears]

I just discovered that Bella Goth and Don Lothario don't match. Today I resurrected her and they had a pre-relationship of 40. Though it's weird because they were poking and shoving each other but it wasn't actually an option. Weird?

Maybe she blames him for her alien abduction...? :giggler:

[zauberlinda12]

Also, if you have a child in private school and one in public, one may have to go to school and the other stays home. You'll know which one stays home--the one who cheers. ;) If you miss which one gets to stay home, you'll find that you won't be able to put that child on the bus. (Kind of dumb, considering they ride the same bus.)

At least you're warned ahead of time, so if you have both parents working, they can arrange for a nanny or one can take a vacation day or call off.

The Roth kids just had their (and my) first snow day in my game! I was scrolled over in another part of the house when I started hearing all of this cheering.

I quickly scrolled back to the family to investigate. It was such a cozy scene: Dad made pancakes and the family was gathered all cozy in the dining room enjoying each other's company and the day off. Then Dad and kids made snow angels and snowmen all day and warmed up with hot chocolate (mom had to go to work). Reminded me of my RL snow days as a kid. :bunny:

[AlexandraSpears]

More proof that the Roths (Riverblossom Hills) are knock-offs of the Goths:

Morty, Sandra, and Xander have the same personalities as Mortimer, Cassandra, and Alexander, respectively. Like Alexander Goth, Xander Roth has the exact same personality as his father.

Sandra originally had the exact same personality as Cassandra, but you can tell that she's been encouraged to be sloppy and outgoing, where Cassandra is neat and shy.

[SusannaG]

I discovered today that sims can't keep jobs because they teleport home as soon as they get to work. And then get the "John did not go to work today..." message.

Going to clean out my downloads file and see what's causing it.

[AlexandraSpears]

It seems to me that the Roth house is basically a madeover version of the Goth house (like the Cordial sisters' house in Belladonna Cove and the Pleasants' house). Heh.

[MsScribble]

I learnt that sometimes when trees catch fire they don't always go out and will occassionaly burn down to a small pile of ash, even when the fireman is called. Of course it happened to my founding sims, who couldn't afford another tree! lol.

[tyto astrum]

I discovered that the butler will call the fire department when anything catches fire, and if it's put out or goes out before they get there, they fine you. :C Even though there was no way to control or cancel that call.

[AlexandraSpears]

I found out that if Sandra Roth has her hair down, she's a dead ringer for Dina Caliente.

[Hwes]

I learnt that there is a LOT of crime in Riverblossom Hills. My first house there has been robbed four (five?) times in two and a half years (10 seasons). And they've never taken anything, knock on wood.

[Aegagropilon]

Cow mascots do not show up in the college directory. Kind of a no-brainer there, I know, since they're supposed to be from a rival school.

I just wish they appeared in the regular phone directory. This one absolute jerk of a uni student in my game is friends with several cow mascots and it'd be nice if she could have her friends over more often. They're the only sims she gets along with!

[AlexandraSpears]

I just wish they appeared in the regular phone directory. This one absolute jerk of a uni student in my game is friends with several cow mascots and it'd be nice if she could have her friends over more often. They're the only sims she gets along with!

Oh, they'll appear in your Sim's "phone book," but not in the college directory--the one that lists all the students at the college (dormies/townies).

[zauberlinda12]

I learnt that sometimes when trees catch fire they don't always go out and will occassionaly burn down to a small pile of ash, even when the fireman is called. Of course it happened to my founding sims, who couldn't afford another tree! lol.

Gosh when I called the fire dept the fireman read my sim the riot act for several minutes...chastising her for calling them when it wasn't an emergency and charged her $500....while the tree continued to burn! :faceslap:

[simsamu]

Gosh when I called the fire dept the fireman read my sim the riot act for several minutes...chastising her for calling them when it wasn't an emergency and charged her $500....while the tree continued to burn! :faceslap:
If that was the breadfruit tree, it is glitched and will continue to burn indefinitely after the fire is out, which is a pity as it is a very pretty tree.

[Peni Griffin]

I learned that if you pick up the phone while somebody's already on it, you can join in the conversation. This is handy, as it's not unusual for sims to call the "wrong" member of the household; now I can just get the "right" member on the extension and improve the relationship with each simultaneously.

Also - sims with low nice points who live in apartments will pick fights with their neighbors repeatedly when you're playing another family in the building. Especially during the landlord's weekend get-together. If you have a party, you can't invite your neighbor in the building - so poor Ben Gay didn't go to his frat brother's wedding and in fact showed up to complain about the noise! :( I knew he disapproved of the match (since he doesn't know I changed Heartbreak Heather's aspiration to Family he's naturally skeptical that the baby is Kevin's), but I didn't think he was that hard-nosed about it. And what if you want to marry your downstairs neighbor and have a wedding party to introduce her to your friends? You can't invite the bride? That's dumb. But at a weekend wedding,the landlord's get-together will crash your party relentlessly. I had the happy couple turn the interlopers out before they went upstairs to consummate, and when they came back down in their underwear, relative strangers were watching the game on the big-screen, eating spoiled food off the buffet, and picking fights with each other in the living room. They were almost as hard to get rid of as the pep squad.

[tyto astrum]

I discovered that toddlers can get genie lamps from the gypsy. I was playing a fairly large family, and both parents have reached life time wants, so I assumed the lamp was for one of them when I noticed the gypsy dropping it on my porch. No memory of receiving it in either of them. Nor the teen older sister in platinum, or the teen brother in gold, or even any of the children. It was the toddler boy playing quietly in the doll house who'd gotten it. I'm not even sure he can use it. :0

[TaliaKirana]

A shame that nobody's found a way to fix that glitch with the breadfruit tree.

[Cheese678]

I've discovered that YOU CAN'T KEEP THE SAME FACE YOU'VE HAD WHEN YOU'RE A TEEN! Or at least that's what happened to me...

[AlexandraSpears]

If you have FreeTime, studying things from the Education career reward (that bookcase) can increase a Sim's interest in certain hobbies.

If your Sim studies Charisma skill, it builds interest in Film & Literature. If they study Logic skill, it builds interest in Science (interestingly enough, the toddler's Shape, Rattle and Roll pegs--logic--also builds interest in Science).

I love that bookcase...shy Sims tend to build Charisma more quickly from that. In fact I'm starting to do unlockcareerrewards so I can put that bookcase in dorms!

[frannetteski]

I learned that the water in ALL my sims' neighborhoods are completely blue..not shiny at all. Even though I have all the graphic settings on high.
This sucks. :(

this happened to me too and i have no idea how to change it :(
it makes my seaside/lakeside hoods look unrealistic...

[Cheese678]

this happened to me too and i have no idea how to change it :(
it makes my seaside/lakeside hoods look unrealistic...


That's just how Maxis' cartoon style rolls. :lol:

[AlexandraSpears]

If you have FreeTime, studying things from the Education career reward (that bookcase) can increase a Sim's interest in certain hobbies.

If your Sim studies Charisma skill, it builds interest in Film & Literature. If they study Logic skill, it builds interest in Science (interestingly enough, the toddler's Shape, Rattle and Roll pegs--logic--also builds interest in Science).

I love that bookcase...shy Sims tend to build Charisma more quickly from that. In fact I'm starting to do unlockcareerrewards so I can put that bookcase in dorms!

I paid closer attention when my Sims studied skills. Here's a rundown of skill studied and enthusiasm increased in which hobby:

Cooking--Cuisine

Body--Sports
Charisma--Film & Literature
Mechanical--Tinkering

Creativity--Arts & Crafts

Logic--Science
Cleaning--Nature

[funcioná!!!]

I discovered how to read sims biographies, after 5 years of playing the game. Olive Specter's biography got my attention.
http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/bb400/crazyokapi455/SerialKiller.jpg
What came to my mind:
Collecting mushrooms: to poison her victims.
Sharpening sticks: to stab them if the poison doesn't work.
Excavating her yard: burying the bodies.

[Lavaster]

I discovered how to read sims biographies, after 5 years of playing the game. Olive Specter's biography got my attention.
http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/bb400/crazyokapi455/SerialKiller.jpg
What came to my mind:
Collecting mushrooms: to poison her victims.
Sharpening sticks: to stab them if the poison doesn't work.
Excavating her yard: burying the bodies.
Nice observation... I love reading bios but always always always forget to, also because it's boring how some maxis-made Sims have no bios, I believe.

[funcioná!!!]

I will read some other biographies to see if I find more suggestions.

[Aegagropilon]

I discovered how to read sims biographies, after 5 years of playing the game. Olive Specter's biography got my attention.
http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/bb400/crazyokapi455/SerialKiller.jpg
What came to my mind:
Collecting mushrooms: to poison her victims.
Sharpening sticks: to stab them if the poison doesn't work.
Excavating her yard: burying the bodies.

I also like that her occupation is "Professional Party Guest." She's like the 13th Fairy in Sleeping Beauty: nobody wants to invite her, but they're afraid of what would happen if they didn't (and it probably involves Olive excavating her lawn afterwards).

[rubberduck3y6]

this happened to me too and i have no idea how to change it :(
it makes my seaside/lakeside hoods look unrealistic...If you mean in the neighbourhood view then try putting in the sail boats neighbourhood decoration (under effects I think).

[lauratje86]

I discovered that if you have 2 adult sims and 1 baby on a lot and you place both adults on Magisplay trays to pose them for a picture, the baby gets taken by social services because the game sees them as both being off the lot at the same time and hence leaving the baby "alone" :-(

And I hadn't saved since before she was born, either! Bye bye Jacqueline Brumfield #1. And now that I've replayed the lot for a little while after I exited without saving, welcome to Pleasantview Bay, Jacqueline Brumfield #2. You don't look much like #1 - she had black hair and (I think) my default replacement for Maxis skintone 2, you have brown hair and (I think) my default replacement for Maxistone skin 3. You both had/have custom dark brown eyes though - not surprising given that I changed the genetic values for eye colour in my game to make both the Maxis and the custom browns dominant over everything else! I shall try not to get you taken by social services #2, so don't worry! :-D

[Maranatah]

I noticed just now, that the expensive BG floor tv has a shelf.

[funcioná!!!]

I discovered that a column form Pets has 3 shelves, when I loaded the Kim family and saw flower vases on the columns.

[zauberlinda12]

I've had Pets EP for awhile and had a new action I've never had before: Family was eating dinner and the Mom performed the action: "share food" with the dog. She picked up a piece of food from her plate and tossed it toward the dog. It fell on the floor and the dog ate it.

I also discovered that no matter how many dog beds you place in your sim's homes some dogs will not use them...they will only sleep on the floor. :wtf:

[Peni Griffin]

That isn't necessarily true. I only have 4 pets but they all use the beds most of the time. When they don't it's because they went too low on energy to get as far as one; access to the bed was blocked; a toddler fell asleep on it; or they aren't well-trained yet.

Look in your sims' "praise" interactions periodically and praise them for sleeping in pet beds every chance you get, even if they haven't done it. They'll learn.

[zauberlinda12]

That isn't necessarily true. I only have 4 pets but they all use the beds most of the time. When they don't it's because they went too low on energy to get as far as one; access to the bed was blocked; a toddler fell asleep on it; or they aren't well-trained yet.

Look in your sims' "praise" interactions periodically and praise them for sleeping in pet beds every chance you get, even if they haven't done it. They'll learn.

All of my other households with pets don't have this issue. I noted that "some" dogs won't use the beds.
This one dog was purchased with a high "Stays off beds" learned behavior. He never gets so tired that he can't make it to the bed. Also, he doesn't have a "Lazy" personality trait....he must just like to sleep on the floor :)

[aaries16]

I discovered that my sims who live in apartment can teach their neighbor's toddlers to walk and talk. This works out perfectly for a man who had a secret love-child with his neighbor (and his wife's best friend). When she went off to work, he went over to the woman's apartment and played with the toddler for a while, he even had the choice to teach the baby to walk and talk.

[maybesomethingdunno]

The base looks suspiciously like the actual sign... :rolleyes:
http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/50/screenshot021ir.png
I don't think this what the SimCity contractors meant when they ordered double-sided stop signs.

[Hwes]

Plantsims don't have LTWs. And it's not like they're challenging enough without 'em. One plantsim, one plantbaby, and I'm bored with them already.

[zauberlinda12]

Plantsims don't have LTWs. And it's not like they're challenging enough without 'em. One plantsim, one plantbaby, and I'm bored with them already.

I feel exactly the same way.

[Selly_2009]

Plantsims don't have LTWs. And it's not like they're challenging enough without 'em. One plantsim, one plantbaby, and I'm bored with them already.They don't? :blink:

I've never noticed that - as far as I saw the one plantbaby I had in-game grew up, got his adult aspiration and LTW to go with it once his wants re-rolled at 7am...

[Hwes]

They don't? :blink:

I've never noticed that - as far as I saw the one plantbaby I had in-game grew up, got his adult aspiration and LTW to go with it once his wants re-rolled at 7am...
Okay then, today I learned not to quit in disgust quite so soon :lol: I think I'll move her out anyway and cure my self-sim, unless I've missed something else (wouldn't put it past me) plant sims are still boring.

[AlexandraSpears]

I've noticed that after fulfilling several LTWs some Sims don't roll anymore.

[aaries16]

I've noticed that adult sims can play with the kids playing on that spinning thing on the playground. I thought the only thing they could do something with the kids on the playground was the swing.

[Peni Griffin]

It's called a merry-go-round.

Hmmm....Mary Goround - another Romance sim name...

[Bellasaurus]

Not exactly discovered whilst playing, but yesterday on my way to work, Meadow Thayer was on my bus. It was spooky - there she was: A teenager, heart shaped face, dodgy skirt, bad tan and bleached blonde hair. I looked at her so strangely she must have thought I was insane!

[AlexandraSpears]

It's called a merry-go-round.

Hmmm....Mary Goround - another Romance sim name...

Very appropriate...everyone gets a ride! :jest:

[Nissun]

I had never noticed how when daydreaming sims "catch" a fly. You hear the buzzing, and they rise their hand in the air and make a picking gesture. It's very cute.

Happened in the hammock, not sure if they do that while daydreaming in bed too.

[AlexandraSpears]

I've found that Art is about the only class at college that increases Fun. No surprise there.

[Kailacat]

My alien's eyes are so huge, they don't close completely while he sleeps. (He's a kid). He was so butt-ugly before - this was AFTER the plastic surgery.

[kustirider2]

Not exactly discovered whilst playing, but yesterday on my way to work, Meadow Thayer was on my bus. It was spooky - there she was: A teenager, heart shaped face, dodgy skirt, bad tan and bleached blonde hair. I looked at her so strangely she must have thought I was insane!

I've never, ever noticed other sims in my carpools/buses, but I always see it in pictures. Anyone know why?

[smorbie1]

I've learned that I am REALLY dependent on the wonderful Mailbox Hack. Recently I had an "incident" where some stupid person who lives in my house and has access to my computer and knows all my passwords (okay, it was me), made a serious mistake and deleted the mailbox. It was very challenging and frustrating to play in my usual manner. Needless to say, it's back in my game and my simmies are very very happy.

[Kailacat]

The "Ruin Painting" option. Funnily enough I've never seen it before, no idea why it appeared or what caused it.

[simsamu]

The "Ruin Painting" option. Funnily enough I've never seen it before, no idea why it appeared or what caused it.
I think sims with low nice points who are in a bad mood can get the ruin painting option occasionally I very rarely see it in my game.

[Pegasys2]

That the spell "Tabula Rasa" -- which erases all memories and sets relationship scores to zero -- CANNOT be removed with the spell "Purgomagus", even though there is a guide copied around the 'net which say it can be removed. No... it's permanent. Poor Justin Cleveland.

[MsScribble]

What does the mailbox hack do?
I learnt that when your simmies are on vacation they can't cook the fish they eat on the bbq - they have to eat the usual horrible hotdogs - that if you turn the trashcans around the wrong way against a wall your campsite will soon be filled with smelly green plates, that outside showers aren't a good idea because all the other campers will go 'Arrrraaahh!' every three seconds, that if you hide community phones at the back of the lot you simmie has to walk all the way there before doing anything fun, and that the tour guide will hang out there as well. (I also learnt that it was a good idea to make a 'professional travelling' sim who can test all the custom vacation places you're making as you go.)

[Kailacat]

I think sims with low nice points who are in a bad mood can get the ruin painting option occasionally I very rarely see it in my game.
Just checked, and I don't think it's low nice points. My sim who ruined a painting has 6 Grouchy/Nice points. The option only appears when clicking on the easel (not the painting itself).
Also, once painting has been ruined, the sim can paint it as if it were their own (even if it wasn't before).

[Peni Griffin]

I once had a character going into aspiration failure who autonomously ruined a painting his sister was working on.

[simsamu]

Just checked, and I don't think it's low nice points. My sim who ruined a painting has 6 Grouchy/Nice points. The option only appears when clicking on the easel (not the painting itself).
Also, once painting has been ruined, the sim can paint it as if it were their own (even if it wasn't before).
Well that's interesting, you learn something new everyday. I am now off to see if I can get one of my sims to ruin a painting, sounds like something Bronston Stein would do I am aiming for him to be my first sim with a bad reputation.

[Tempscire]

I learnt that when your simmies are on vacation they can't cook the fish they eat on the bbq - they have to eat the usual horrible hotdogs
Can't they? I just had a family go to Three Lakes, and one night one of them grilled up some fish they had caught in the lake. The only downside was that I had no way of recovering the leftovers.

[MsScribble]

Did you use the cheap griller? That's what i use and they only had the hotdog option. My poor starvin' simmies! lol.

[Tempscire]

I suppose it was the cheap one... the black one that looks like the kind you find in public parks? Just a black box with a grated top on a pole? It was on one of the default campsites, as well. Can't remember what it was called, but it's the one that's primarily tents on one side of a pond, and on the other side the restrooms and a food stand. They caught the fish from the pond, then were able to grill them up.

[SusannaG]

That a pregnant sim, if the toilets are all occupied, will throw up in them remotely. I had one do that last night.

[Maranatah]

If your sim is dining out and orders "chef's choice", they'll get the meal they are thinking about while looking at the menu.

And... that kids can throw up after spinning in merry-go-round.

[lg135]

That I have a serial Vampiress :( I was running one of my business at night and she swept in and proceeded to bite 2 townie customers, the evil witch, Mrs Crumplebottom(!!) and my other controllable sim (who kept queuing to bite my business owner at 6:30am - nooo do you not sense the coming danger of the rising sun?? We have a business to run!).

Crumplebottom seems to have reset herself, but the evil witch seems to still be one.. she still shows up unwanted day and night, but she's a different shade of green, and does the vampire animations after cursing my lots with rain and roaches. >:(

[smorbie1]

[QUOTE=MsScribble]What does the mailbox hack do?

It keeps you from having to boolprop the things you click on the mailbox for. It can max motives (which is what I mostly use it for). You can also use it to force walkbys or visitors. You can use it to get a new newspaper (my sims tend to get theirs stolen). You can teleport to it, which is handy in those apartments where people keep blocking the path to the stairs. You can use it to set pregnancy or romance relations. There are lots of other things, but those are the only ones I remember right now. It's a handy hack, the first one I ever used actually. I usually use it to max motives right before work or school.

[abrtx]

for s3 inappropriate sims do sound like they're cussing or saying things like 'douche' when you send them off on certain tasks.

[my4monkeys25]

I never saw a sim have the action "there's weather in my house" till today. I don't know why he even said it... there's a perfectly good roof over his head. Except that there's a hot tub on it, on of the in-ground kind. Would that mess the roof up?

Also, when a sim has a baby, a message pops up telling you that you're given an extra 3 days off to care for the baby but then a couple hours later the car pool comes. What gives?

[Aegagropilon]

I discovered that there's an alternate version of "console" for sims that are related, but have low interaction scores.

Olive had her son and his two child-aged daughters Difficult and Grimuara over and, since neither girl was her Favorite Grandchild, proceeded to be rather grouchy and standoffish at them. Olive then started arguing with Nervous, which sent both girls running outside. Nervous ran after them and started consoling ultra-Daddy's-girl Difficult, while Olive walked over to Grimuara and autonomously did the "kiss kiss darling" interaction, which Grimuara responded with a "tough handshake."

I thought it was a cute touch, especially since Grimuara's interaction scores with her grandmother were in the negatives at that point.

[lauratje86]

Also, when a sim has a baby, a message pops up telling you that you're given an extra 3 days off to care for the baby but then a couple hours later the car pool comes. What gives?

The carpool still comes because you don't have to take the three days off straight away. If you look at the tab that shows their career/skills info, you'll see that they have 3 more vacation days than they did before the baby was born. If you want them to take time off, just make them miss the carpool, and later in the day a popup will come up that says "You used a day's vacation today" or something similar and one of your vacation days will be deducted.

If you want to, you can use the vacation days later on. I often use them when the baby becomes a toddler, because then my sim can use the time to teach them to walk etc instead of staying at home just to feed them and cuddle them occasionally!

[my4monkeys25]

Thank you so much! I never realized they had those vacation days. I'll have to check it out when I start my game again. :) Makes sense.

[Peni Griffin]

Okay, that's good to know. I thought my parents weren't getting their vacation time because of a disconnect - I don't have BV but I do have later EPs, so I figured the vacation days were an illusion like the secondary aspiration meter that doesn't do anything because I don't have FT. I've been having parents I didn't want to lose their jobs call in sick.

[SusannaG]

That if two sims who are gossiping don't know anyone else to talk about, then they will gossip about the toilet.

[Peni Griffin]

Apparently sims will get mad on behalf of their relatives. At least the only reason I can think of for high Nice Minnie Skirt to be so mad at Jimmy Phoenix and Lora Wolosenko is that she views them as having cheated on her sister Georgette - never mind that Georgette deliberately kissed Clovis Point right in front of Jimmy (and another old flame; she's clearing her decks before graduating) so that he'd get over her and go back to Lora, who dated him first. This happened at a party Minnie was attending, so I reckon she thinks Georgette was being selflessly noble (that's certainly how Georgette spins it) but now everyone's saying she's a slut and it's Lora and Jimmy's fault. But of course Georgette's a Romance sim and any reputation she has is one she's come by honestly.

I wonder if they can get mad on behalf of their friends, too?

[AlexandraSpears]

Peni--I've seen that happen.

Like once when playing Belladonna Cove, I had Jessica Peterson falling in love with all these guys, and one of them was Geoff Rutherford. She was on a date with another guy and Geoff's sister, Marissa Cleveland, was there, and she was getting REALLY ticked at Jessica!

I've had Sims who've witnessed infidelity and as a result were furious at both parties.

Another thing I found out, thought it was cute:

Xander Roth (Riverblossom Hills) and Jeanette O'Mackey (younger daughter of Gabe and Alexandra) dated, fell in love, and went steady as teens, but Xander is nine Sim days older.

So--I was having him wait for her. Once she started college, he asked her out on a date. His aspiration is Fortune/Family and hers is Family, and both rolled a Want for Fall in Love with the other Sim. Which was no problem--all it took was a flirt! It was so cute...like "we were in love before, now we want to fall in love again!"

(He also has a Want for Marry a Rich Sim, no problem...he's going to marry into the O'Mackey family.)

[2cheese]

i found out sometimes it takes forever for pets to have puppies sometimes

[iCad]

I have discovered that the genie laughs at burps and farts. He happened to be activated, with his lamp in the eat-in kitchen, when the family in question, consisting mostly of very sloppy Sims, was having dinner and...

I have also discovered that it is very amusing to watch two Sims with 0 nice points play catch with each other. All they do is whack each other with the ball and yell and glare at each other for it. Yet, they build a positive relationship all the while. I guess mutual meanness is fun.

[Kailacat]

I have discovered that the genie laughs at burps and farts. He happened to be activated, with his lamp in the eat-in kitchen, when the family in question, consisting mostly of very sloppy Sims, was having dinner and...
Not only that but sims can have chemistry for the genie and the hearts appear around their thought bubbles when they walk into the room with a genie. :D

[Aegagropilon]

I discovered that if two sims are mad at the same sim, the "bad mouth" interaction results in a positive relationship boost.

I also discovered that extremely shy female sims show up to toga parties dressed as cheerleaders:
http://i52.tinypic.com/n2h5sm.jpg

[DigitalSympathies]

A condo in Pleasantview has the price of $11,337.

;)

[Peni Griffin]

Apparently, if your sim is in a Group with another sim in the same apartment complex but a different apartment, and you arrange an outing with that group, and this member agrees to go, he will nevertheless remain inaccessible inside his apartment while you sit in the taxi and the game hangs up completely.

It shouldn't be as hard as it is to go out with your neighbors, dammit.

[aaries16]

Apparently, if your sim is in a Group with another sim in the same apartment complex but a different apartment, and you arrange an outing with that group, and this member agrees to go, he will nevertheless remain inaccessible inside his apartment while you sit in the taxi and the game hangs up completely.

It shouldn't be as hard as it is to go out with your neighbors, dammit.

I found that out last weekend too. I wanted my sim to get married on a community lot. Her best friend lives in the apartment right across the hall from her. When the taxi came, her friend went from the common area pool to her own apartment and stayed there while my sim sat in the taxi waiting forever. I exited without saving and when I tried again, her best friend wasn't invited.

[Peni Griffin]

That and not being able to invite your apartment neighbor to non-building parties are a pain. And if you hold the party and invite the neighbor over, if it's a wedding he won't be dressed right, and in any case he'll tend to wander back to his own apartment the moment you pay attention to anyone else. The only way I've managed to get a decent amount of party participation from a neighbor has been to Influence other guests to interact with him, which has to be timed just right or the guest will have to follow the neighbor to the other apartment and you'll have lost two guests; which in the reduced capacity of apartment parties can be a big percentage.

For the outing, I had to quit the game, have Susana take Luis off the group list, call the outing, and then put him back into the group when she got back so they'll both be invitable when I play another member. Which took away part of the point of having the outing at all, since Susana is better friends with other group members than Luis is, and I wanted him to build up his relationship score with them. If he calls the outing, most of them won't come while if one of them calls the outing he probably won't come. His big sister just aged out of the teen group to go to University, so now the most efficient thing will be to take up some of her time holding a party for her old friends.

[angieshade]

I discovered that if you click on the spendy asymmetrical bookcase, you get a "Discuss" option. None of my other bookcases do that! :O

[TUL]

Today, I discovered that ACR + Group Outings = Disaster. The leader of the group was making out with her best friend's fiance on the dancefloor, and the leader's parents had run off to have woohoo in a phonebooth somewhere...it's going to be a while for me to clean all this up. O.O;

[lg135]

When dancing around other sims, extremely shy sims' dancing can be really subdued. However, when they're alone, they might actually let loose! But when someone walks in they almost instantly turn themselves back down (I'm like that xD).

[Peni Griffin]

Personally I think any wedding in which the bride's parents get it on in a photo booth is a great wedding...ACR might not be entirely to blame for that. I've never had a wedding with a photo booth, but at the wedding I just did this morning, the groom's parents (one of whom was pregnant) were dry humping on the front porch without any encouragement from me or any hacks.

The groom's best friend's fiance thinks the groom is really hot (she even puts up wants to flirt with him, though he's never given her the slightest encouragement and Best Friend does his best to keep her satisfied) and so do half the girls they went to college with; so not having ACR was in everybody's best interests at this particular wedding. I can see where it would really up the drama quotient and it'd be a lot harder to do one- and two-bolt marriages.

[angieshade]

I found out I have to monitor darts games -- my teens were playing with the dartboard together all brotherly-like, and the next thing I knew they were furious with each other. Red haze and everything. /facepalm

[MilkyChoco52]

Yesterday while playing University for the first time I realized that if you have roof toggle on and someone upstairs is using the dorm shower you can see them unblurred from a certain angle.

[Aserette]

I discovered that you can now lock doors on your houses and/or fences. You can limit whether only you can unlock the door, or whether you and household members only can unlock the door, or whether you, friends, etc. can. I think this is a really neat addition and I'm assuming it came with the new pets expansion. I've noticed that the animals can go in an out of the house as they please and assume that this lock was made so that you can prevent strays from coming in when you don't want them to. If you pet or feed a stray (get friendly with it), it automatically can then come in your house and wander around your lot freely, therefore, the locking ability makes sense, if you want to keep them out of your house.

This is also useful if you get tired of friends coming home from work with your sim and you don't want them to automatically be able to walk in the house and do what they please. I don't like it sometimes when they come home from work with you, because a lot of the time it seems to be at an inconvenient time that disrupts something you're trying to get your Sim to accomplish.

I have also discovered that I absolute love this new expansion pack!!! I really didn't think I would when I first heard about it, but now I just love it!

:P Pretty sure it comes with the Open for Business exp pack but it might with Pets aswell :P Cause you can also choose to allow employees and such to go through the doors :) It's really awesome and I use it all the time. Pets is also a really great expansion pack :) Sometimes i drop what i'm doing with a family and create a new one just to breed pets. It's really fun :)

[Aserette]

I never saw a sim have the action "there's weather in my house" till today. I don't know why he even said it... there's a perfectly good roof over his head. Except that there's a hot tub on it, on of the in-ground kind. Would that mess the roof up?

Also, when a sim has a baby, a message pops up telling you that you're given an extra 3 days off to care for the baby but then a couple hours later the car pool comes. What gives?

This means you have the option of going to work or not, you use the vacation days if you don't go to work but you'll keep them if you go so like, hire a nanny or something or have an adult/teen sim at home while the mum's at work :P

[Aserette]

I discovered that if you click on the spendy asymmetrical bookcase, you get a "Discuss" option. None of my other bookcases do that! :O

:P All sims who are high in the Literature hobby will be able to do this :)
Pretty sure with normal bookcases too. :turtle:

[AlexandraSpears]

Remember that list about skills studied and hobby enthsiasm?

It seems that studying Body increases sports AND fitness enthusiasm, and studying creativity increases arts & crafts AND music and dance! I watched my Sims for a while as they studied the books out of the Education bookcase.

[angieshade]

:P All sims who are high in the Literature hobby will be able to do this :)
Pretty sure with normal bookcases too. :turtle:

nope, it's only on that one, and I don't have Freetime.

[smorbie1]

You know what I rediscovered today? I really, really love this game! I play almost every day, but sometimes I forget to marvel at what a really great game it is!

[Peni Griffin]

Dogs will freak out over their reflections in full-length mirrors.

You can get heat stroke sleeping in the attic.

[simsamu]

nope, it's only on that one, and I don't have Freetime.
In my game at least this option is only available to sims within a household where someone has written a book.

[angieshade]

In my game at least this option is only available to sims within a household where someone has written a book.

Can't write books, either, even though they keep rolling wants about it. :| Very annoying.

[Aegagropilon]

I discovered that you can use the "throw party" option to invite over the Leader of the Pack (and any strays)!

[aaries16]

Can't write books, either, even though they keep rolling wants about it. :| Very annoying.

Writing novels has always been a part of the game since the base game I believe. It was just enhanced in FT to allow you to choose a cover and plot points of the novel. I'm not entirely sure the delivery of the book, once it was complete, was always a part of the game or the FT addition.

[TUL]

Today, I learned that a woohoo with the headmaster counts as a woohoo with a service Sim. O.o

[AlexandraSpears]

Family Sims who are widowed before they reach Elder have a Fear of growing old with never having been married.

Sandra (Roth) McGreggor's husband Leod died, she required a visit from the Sim Shrink, and she immediately rolled Wants for Get Married, Marry a Rich Sim (her secondary is Fortune), Have a Baby (she's not too old), Fall in Love...lots of power wants.

(I don't plan on having her remarry, though. Tough break, kid.)

[Bellasaurus]

Writing novels has always been a part of the game since the base game I believe. It was just enhanced in FT to allow you to choose a cover and plot points of the novel. I'm not entirely sure the delivery of the book, once it was complete, was always a part of the game or the FT addition.

Deliveries were not in the basegame, they arrived with the choosing of covers & content (which seems to have no bearing on the success of the book - that it still based solely on Creativity skill)

[lizard49]

I discovered that Grand Vampires can also be members of Aspiration Labs (science hobby society). I think they even sometimes visit there in the daytime!

[esmesqualor]

I honestly did not know - before today- that simkids pee in the pool. ewwwww.

[smorbie1]

I didn't know that either. Is there any effect other than their bladder motive turning green?

BTW, human children often do that too.

[angieshade]

Writing novels has always been a part of the game since the base game I believe.

Well, it isn't in mine. :|

Today I learned that if the game glitches during a honeymoon, it glitches but GOOD. Had to exit without saving. :P

[Peni Griffin]

If you put your leftovers away smoking hot, they'll still be smoking hot months later when you take them out of the refrigerator.

[Peni Griffin]

If you put your leftovers away smoking hot, they'll still be smoking hot months later when you take them out of the refrigerator.

[esmesqualor]

I didn't know that either. Is there any effect other than their bladder motive turning green?

No. Born-in-game Broke's bathroom need was getting low. I sent Beau off to do something, but when I got back to Born-in-game... well, he was still in the pool but no longer had that need.

BTW, human children often do that too.

Well, obviously -- but sometimes there's too much realism in this game ;)

[Peni Griffin]

If there's a kitchen fire with a baby in the house, Mom runs and fetches it outside till the firemen leave. This is good; I wasn't sure they were given that much basic sense.

Dad just ran outside, though. At least they weren't getting in each others way, the way they often are at feeding or changing time. And he didn't make any fuss about me marching him back inside to put the fire out.

[iCad]

This is a stupid thing. But I discovered that cats dream of rocking chairs. This is funny to me because one of my grandmother's favorite sayings when I was growing up in the Dark Ages was declaring that someone was "more nervous than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs." I have no idea if this is a common or widespread saying, but when I saw that cat twitching a bit and dreaming of rocking chairs, it made me laugh out loud.

[AlexandraSpears]

If there's a kitchen fire with a baby in the house, Mom runs and fetches it outside till the firemen leave. This is good; I wasn't sure they were given that much basic sense.

Dad just ran outside, though. At least they weren't getting in each others way, the way they often are at feeding or changing time. And he didn't make any fuss about me marching him back inside to put the fire out.

I've had it where a toddler was in the kitchen when a fire broke out, the father grabbed her, put her outside, then promptly ran back in to do the panic dance.

At least with apartments they have more sense...they grab babies and toddlers and run to the mailbox and wait until the fire is put out.

[Kailacat]

Today, I learned that a woohoo with the headmaster counts as a woohoo with a service Sim. O.o
Same with the burglar lol.
Does this count towards the private school "Schmoozing?"
Of course mostly the sims who put their kids in private schools are parents who both have Family aspiration and are obsessed with their children's grades and success.

[Hwes]

I learned today that the Social Bunny can inherit insurance money when a Sim dies. Erm, maybe I should have been making more effort to keep her in touch with her friends?

[zauberlinda12]

That all that Danny Crittur (dog) thinks about are boxer gloves = fighting. I know he's a boxer breed...but come on!

[jrhk72]

I discovered (last night actually) that you can build your social reputation at home? I thought that was only on community lots? Well, my housewife is no longer an average cabbage...HEHE

[TUL]

I learned that some Sims will mime a machine gun(or at least, some kind of rapid fire gun) while talking. That's just adorable.

[Bellasaurus]

I discovered (last night actually) that you can build your social reputation at home? I thought that was only on community lots? Well, my housewife is no longer an average cabbage...HEHE

What interaction was it that increased the reputation?

[jrhk72]

What interaction was it that increased the reputation?

I was just chatting with her. I had invited my sims 1 friend over and this chick tagged along. Later that evening I was chatting with her & a box came up that said something about my reputation being on the rise (or something to that effect). I was like...huh? But I looked at the reputation bar & sure enough it was up!

[AlexandraSpears]

Toddlers dance not only to the radio, but to the DJ booth and an instrument if someone else is playing it.

[AmphyPrincess]

I learned the parrot can ride on your shoulder just like a pirate's parrot! So cute.

[lauratje86]

I was just chatting with her. I had invited my sims 1 friend over and this chick tagged along. Later that evening I was chatting with her & a box came up that said something about my reputation being on the rise (or something to that effect). I was like...huh? But I looked at the reputation bar & sure enough it was up!

I think it's not because of a specific interaction as such, it's one of those pop-ups/occurences that sometimes happen when you reach a certain short-term relationship with a townie. I'm thinking 20, maybe 30 points? And you get a popup offering you an above-the lowest-level job, or giving you money off future Buy Mode purchases. The reputation thing is one of those, I think.

As is the "Would you like me to set you up on a blind date right now" one. I wish EA had thought to set that up so that it didn't happen to married sims! My happily married Jared Brookes really would've preferred money off furniture or increased reputation to being offered a blind date.... especially given that his wife was stood next to him! Awkward much?!

[jrhk72]

I discovered that Dirk Dreamer & Lilith Pleasant make really gorgeous kids! She's got twins w/ Dustin Broke (long story) and they're not nearly as cute.

[Aegagropilon]

As is the "Would you like me to set you up on a blind date right now" one. I wish EA had thought to set that up so that it didn't happen to married sims! My happily married Jared Brookes really would've preferred money off furniture or increased reputation to being offered a blind date.... especially given that his wife was stood next to him! Awkward much?!

That can be really funny when it happens, though, under the right circumstances. Like when a social townie in my game walked up to happily-married Frieda Subject while she watched Nervous fight with Loki and offered to set her up on a blind date :lol:

[Babahara]

A while ago I discovered that sims can burn to death from the fireplace. My sim was going to have a kid soon, and as she stood near the fireplace I gave her a "poke" command to poke it. At that moment she started giving birth. After the child appeared and I gave it the name, my sim was shown on fire, and extinguisher supposedly doesn't work on oneself, well either way it didn't work for her. She was jumping and screaming, fire on her legs, and nobody else was at home to help.

[jrhk72]

A while ago I discovered that sims can burn to death from the fireplace. My sim was going to have a kid soon, and as she stood near the fireplace I gave her a "poke" command to poke it. At that moment she started giving birth. After the child appeared and I gave it the name, my sim was shown on fire, and extinguisher supposedly doesn't work on oneself, well either way it didn't work for her. She was jumping and screaming, fire on her legs, and nobody else was at home to help.


I make sure to put a sprinkler above every fireplace! (Those came with Uni I believe) They're in misc...misc. Because I've had this problem. I also had a couple catch fire while having a romantic dance by the fire...needless to say, that was not a perfect date...uggh!

I discovered that teenagers have a thing for playing (swinging) on the fridge door! It's cute & annoying at the same time.

[Nalia]

A while ago I discovered that sims can burn to death from the fireplace. My sim was going to have a kid soon, and as she stood near the fireplace I gave her a "poke" command to poke it. At that moment she started giving birth. After the child appeared and I gave it the name, my sim was shown on fire, and extinguisher supposedly doesn't work on oneself, well either way it didn't work for her. She was jumping and screaming, fire on her legs, and nobody else was at home to help.
:( It reminded me of one of my families. It was winter, the fireplace lit and suddenly one of the children gets on fire (just because he was playing too close to it), the other starts jumping and yielding and, well, he catches fire too. Two parents and one uncle were unable to extinguish the flames in time, and one of the children turns into ashes. I would had felt really depressed if the parent was unable to beat Grim Ripper and have the child back. After that every fireplace I build goes with an ugly sprinkler above.

I discovered that teenagers have a thing for playing (swinging) on the fridge door! It's cute & annoying at the same time.
They are probably Playful Sims.

[AlexandraSpears]

Nice Sims can be extremely helpful.

(Background: I'm playing two versions of Riverblossom Hills, just switching files around)

At any rate, Jason O'Mackey and his new wife Jennifer have an issue with his ex-wife Rose knocking over the trash can (I'd changed her aspiration to Romance and you can guess what happened next). Jason is in the Gamer career track, so he brought Andrew Martin home with him one evening, and Gabe came over to visit.

Andrew took the spilled trash to the compost bin, and I was pleased to see him and Gabe breaking out their cans of Raid (or whatever they use) and start spraying. Jason and Jennifer had a toddler daughter at that point, and Jennifer was pregnant with their son, so it was a huge help.

Which led me to another discovery--when I went into Gabe and Alexandra's house, I found that the poor guy had caught the flu! (Of course, I gave them both Family as secondary aspiration, so he was able to whip up some Grandma's Comfort Soup.) He'd been exhibiting the symptoms while at his brother's house, after spraying the roaches.


Another thing I found out: If your Sims get married on a date on a community lot, via Propose Marriage, the Sim moving in just brings in cash on hand.

However--if they use a wedding arch on a community lot, they bring their entire value (as in they sold their house and belongings). I had Jason O'Mackey get remarried in a chapel I set up, and I had Gabe and Alexandra O'Mackey get remarried to each other in that same chapel, and both times, that's how it worked. (I have Apartment Life and I found out that I don't need any hacks to get the Celebration arch to work on a community lot.) With Jason and Jennifer it was while on a date; with Gabe and Alexandra, I had him and Jules head to the chapel, and Gabe used a cellphone to invite Alexandra to the lot, and the wedding proceeded from there. The nice part is, even if your Sims cut the cake, the lot resets after they leave.

[Babahara]

After that every fireplace I build goes with an ugly sprinklet above.
Doesn't the sprinkler burn? It never occured to me placing it above the fireplace, because I always thought that anything that's close to it might burn. Although I didn't know that it included living sims.

I remembered what else I was strongly surprised with a while ago... One of dogs my sims had was constantly barking at the infant who slept in the crib. The dog actually had all negative numbers in relationship with the infant, lol. I never saw such a dog reaction to an infant before, maybe he disliked chlidren or was jealous :D .

[aaries16]

I just found out you can make "custom" clothes at the sewing machine. I thought you were only able to just make what's already in the catalog, but apparently you can mix and match swatches to make a new outfit.

[katya_stevens]

Doesn't the sprinkler burn? It never occured to me placing it above the fireplace, because I always thought that anything that's close to it might burn. Although I didn't know that it included living sims.

I always put sprinklers above fireplaces (and, in uni lots, above the dorm cooker -- stops the cow mascot from pranking it) and I've never had them catch fire.

[FauxFaye]

I found out what its like to lose a sim due to watching clouds. I left the space junk on the lot just for prosperity's sake. :(

[Aegagropilon]

I discovered that playable sims trapped on other lots won't die from starvation/exhaustion, but they WILL be -100/-100 furious at the homeowners when they're finally let go with the batbox. Whoops.

[Nalia]

Doesn't the sprinkler burn? It never occured to me placing it above the fireplace, because I always thought that anything that's close to it might burn. Although I didn't know that it included living sims.
The sprinkler works just fine, and I can assure you it is the only thing that will stay intact once a fire breaks out.

[Peni Griffin]

I knew there was a random element to who won fights because my grouchier sims may have several memories in a row of losing and winning fights with the same people (if you move a grouchy sim into an apartment they immediately set out to make enemies while you're playing the other apartments), but assumed that this meant the two sims in question were of roughly equivalent fitness and body points, and thought it also might have to do with aspiration levels and/or experience in fighting. But Clovis, an athlete at the top of his game (one more body point and he'll be maxed, and his fitness stays at the top of the bar constantly) just got his ass handed to him by the overweight, sedentary little brother of one of his many, many, many girlfriends, who saw him romancing someone other than his sister and then ran into him at a party. Harris has never even been in a fight before (though he once poked a cow mascot who tried to hit on his girlfriend). I wonder if you get bonus points for awareness that your cause is just?

It isn't really, because his sister dates around as much as Clovis does, but sims don't take that sort of thing into account much. Maybe Clovis let him win because he didn't want to have to explain to his girlfriend how he came to give her favorite little brother a black eye?

[AlexandraSpears]

When cutting the wedding cake, Sims who are more Playful are more likely to shove a piece of cake in their spouse's face rather than just feeding them the cake.

Also, when a Sim makes a toast to the newlyweds (rather than just Toast With), Sims bang spoons against their glasses and the newlyweds kiss. (And any teenagers present get grossed out.)

EDIT: Another thing I found out:

While Sims will often choose to sit near their spouse when they study skills, if there's a Sim they don't like, the opposite is true.

For example: In my Riverblossom Hills, Patricia Wan was pretty honked off at Gabe for getting back with Alexandra. So there was the usual paper swiping and can-tipping...and one time Jules invited her in to save the can from getting more of a beating, and Patricia was watching TV.

Gabe went to study a skill, and instead of heading for the nearest chair, which happened to be near the TV, he took the book and went to the other side of the room and sat at the chess board!

Speaking of paper-swiping--another thing I found out. The paper carrier was yelling at Stella Roth for swiping the O'Mackeys' paper. See, Jules had asked Jacob on a date (while he was going steady with Sandra), and Stella happened to be at the community lot, as well as Sandra...and well, Stella isn't too happy with either of them! :lol: (Come on, doesn't seem to me that Jules would take someone stealing her boyfriend sitting down!)

[Peni Griffin]

Hey, relaxing sims can autonomously ask people go join them! I only noticed this when my cursor brought up the script "ask to join" instead of "relax" or "sleep" as I moved it to cancel the bed icon and tell the sim to do something constructive. Her husband was upstairs relaxing, and she seems to have gotten his telepathic vibes.

They'd just been on a date ending in a Night of Passion the night before, and she still had a couple of hours till work, so I figured I could let them have a little more married people time. Then I got mischievous and had them "try for baby." They're only six days away from aging up if I don't pour some Elixir down them, and their late-life baby (it took them like ten tries to get him!) just aged up to teen, so this is a little mean, but I reckon they'll be okay with it. Their teen, who'll get saddled with the extra work and have to share his room, however..!

[cheshirekat]

I discovered that my sims love throwing me off kilter.

While playing one of my business lots, I had one of the playables run to a different part of the store, then "call over" a townie so I could have the sim "show item" to the customer. Well, as soon as the sim had run to the spot I directed her to, I noticed she instantly became naked.

What the ...?!

I looked up at the action queue to see that all my commands had been stomped and replaced with my sim enjoying her naked self.

Well, the customer had been called over before the queue was stomped. So she was standing in front of the naked sim wondering what was up for a few moments. Then she began to laugh hysterically and tease my sim. Of course, my sim was very shy, so she got all embarrassed and what should have taken about 5 game minutes ended up taking over an hour before my sim was done with herself and done hanging her head in shame because she was naked in public.

No adult content in this shop so I assume my sim's nakedness must have been either hidden code or something global from one of the mods I installed. (I have seen my sims get naked when they first wake up or when they are alone in their bedrooms. But never have I seen my sims do that in a public place.) So, I guess my sim was telling me that she wanted to spend more time at community lots to find a mate.

So they went to a community lot to hangout after closing the shop and getting refreshed (toilet, shower, pepper punch) at home. The entire time, the sim either played chess or was glued to her chair at the bar. I think it is crystal ball time for this sim. Odd that none of her wants have ever been about relationships or woohoo (knowledge sim), except for some infrequent simple interactions with her roomie, even while in Uni. Although she does have just as many friends and best friends as her popularity roommate/business partner. I've never even seen her react to romance sims.

[DrowningFishy]

Recently I discovered you have:
1. Absolutely no control over yours Sims. Try to kill em one way, they die in a way that makes you go WTF?
2. You can talk to a baby while another is holding it.
3. If the social worker comes to take your kids and they disapear from your screen, if they grow into a teen before they reach the car you will have control of them again. Even if it is because the last parent is dead.
4.Elder males can still try for babies even near death with a adult female. 0_o

[LoonehWannabe]

Today I discovered that swings = Sims crack.

[lauratje86]

I discoveredc that there are special witches/warlocks only community lots! :-) How did I not know that?!

[zauberlinda12]

I found out what its like to lose a sim due to watching clouds. I left the space junk on the lot just for prosperity's sake. :(

That's only happened in my game once. It happened to a woman who I guess "deserved" it based on the way she lived her life. Either way it was cool and I wish it would happen again!

[aaries16]

I discovered that woohooing in the closet and sitting in the car in the garage are just like you left the lot entirely. I got a warning from social services when a single mother sim was woohooing a neighbor in the closet - they said "it's not a good idea to leave Noelle home alone". And another time the same mother sat in the car, wanting to woohoo and her lover wouldn't get in the car because he said he didn't want to leave the little ones alone.

[Garambola]

I discovered that rainwater flows down the roofs. It looks pretty. I guess that shows how little I play with roof tops showing, as we've had Seasons since day 1 of simming.

[AlexandraSpears]

I discovered that woohooing in the closet and sitting in the car in the garage are just like you left the lot entirely. I got a warning from social services when a single mother sim was woohooing a neighbor in the closet - they said "it's not a good idea to leave Noelle home alone". And another time the same mother sat in the car, wanting to woohoo and her lover wouldn't get in the car because he said he didn't want to leave the little ones alone.

On a similar note, my Sims, including a child, will walk to a community lot, the child is the last one to leave the home lot, and I get that same warning, "it's not a good idea to leave [name] home alone." Yet the child shows up at the community lot with Mom and Dad and it's all good.

[wackogirl]

I just learned last night that adults can sit and watch toddlers play with toddler toys. So cute.

[AlexandraSpears]

If you put a toddler in the high chair, click on the high chair, and "Serve [Toddler] Food" doesn't come up, that means the fridge is pretty well empty. However, you can still click on the fridge and select "Feed [Toddler]". There seems to always be toddler mush or a bottle available for the little tots.

[DrowningFishy]

I discovered two things.

boolprop snapobjectstogrid true/false

And I discovered the sims will actually still use these items moved with this cheat.

[SmallMizz]

I discovered last night my sim doesn't recgnise his sister as family, she's just some random sim to him. She knows that he's her brother though..Confuzzled :? Alexander and Cass Goth btw :L

[doublethinker]

Probably a glitch. Would be simple to fix in SimPE. :)

[a_az13_a]

Today I played TS2 for the first time in ages, (it's so boring now compared to TS3) and it reminded me of just how stupid TS2 Sims can be sometimes.
I took my teenage sim out shopping and invited her boyfriend. While she was there she became best friends with a girl she met there. Eventually, she started flirting with this other girl, and they ended up making out on a bench while her boyfriend was standing RIGHT BEHIND HER, yet surprisingly he never did a thing. WTF? o.O But then when she went to go make out with her boyfriend the girl came over and slapped her! So then I got her to make out with the girl instead, her boyfriend slapped her, I got her to make out with the boyfriend, the girl slapped her etc. This went on for a while before they eventually started rejecting her! >.<
It was actually quite funny, as it reminded me of just how stupid Sims are sometimes with the whole, "OMG you cheated on me! I hate you!" "Um, yeah, sorry about that. Hey, wanna make out?" "Sure!" :lol:

[AlexandraSpears]

Today I played TS2 for the first time in ages, (it's so boring now compared to TS3) and it reminded me of just how stupid TS2 Sims can be sometimes.
I took my teenage sim out shopping and invited her boyfriend. While she was there she became best friends with a girl she met there. Eventually, she started flirting with this other girl, and they ended up making out on a bench while her boyfriend was standing RIGHT BEHIND HER, yet surprisingly he never did a thing. WTF? o.O But then when she went to go make out with her boyfriend the girl came over and slapped her! So then I got her to make out with the girl instead, her boyfriend slapped her, I got her to make out with the boyfriend, the girl slapped her etc. This went on for a while before they eventually started rejecting her! >.<
It was actually quite funny, as it reminded me of just how stupid Sims are sometimes with the whole, "OMG you cheated on me! I hate you!" "Um, yeah, sorry about that. Hey, wanna make out?" "Sure!" :lol:

I had something *like* that happen...I had a Sim on a date with Armand DeBateau, and she didn't bat an eyelash when one of the Cordial sisters came up and kissed him. He got a Kissed (I think it was Samantha) for the First Time memory.

It ended in a dream date, but I was thinking, if she does that again...can you say Rodney's Death Creator? :P

[Peni Griffin]

I believe there are certain types of kisses that don't count. When my romance sim Clovis brought a date back to his residence, I didn't realize that another of his girlfriends had dropped by and was downstairs studying with his housemates. I was still getting him and the date into position for him to lose his virginity when she came up and romantically kissed him good-by, and the date kept chilling out on the bed; but later, when the girlfriend was the active sim on an outing consisting almost entirely of Clovis's girlfriends, and slow-danced with him, this same woman was one of those lining up to slap him.

The "violent smooch of greeting" on the other hand triggers jealousy reactions on every occasion I can recall; and making out certainly should. Though Mrs. Crumplebottom doesn't object to making out - you'd think she would.

[AlexandraSpears]

If you have a toasting set, make sure there's a bathroom nearby!

[doublethinker]

The "violent smooch of greeting" on the other hand triggers jealousy reactions on every occasion I can recall; and making out certainly should. Though Mrs. Crumplebottom doesn't object to making out - you'd think she would.

Making out isn't actually a romantic interaction in that if a sim's lifetime relationship score with another sim is 70 and they make out, the sim doesn't actually fall in love. Maybe that's why she doesn't mind.

[zauberlinda12]

I just discovered, after years of playing the game, that when you click on the "memories" thumbnails there's a cute little comment from the sim relating to the memory.

[AlexandraSpears]

When a toddler starts to sing a nursery rhyme, first the little tot sucks his/her thumb while it looks like he/she is trying to remember how it went.

[zauberlinda12]

When a toddler starts to sing a nursery rhyme, first the little tot sucks his/her thumb while it looks like he/she is trying to remember how it went.

That sounds darling! What EP do you need for toddlers to do this? I have NL, Pets and Seasons installed currently & have not seen this.

[katya_stevens]

The nursery rhyme interaction came with FreeTime.

[AlexandraSpears]

I like that nursery rhyme thing. Plus when a Sim (child or older) teaches the toddler a nursery rhyme, the toddler gets Charisma skill points. When the toddler sings the nursery rhyme, that can earn them a Charisma skill point as well.

I also found out that they roll wants for Sing Nursery Rhyme with whoever taught them.

[Maranatah]

The snowman that comes with Happy Holiday Stuff (the snowman construction set) is animated: when you click on it, it changes face and hat, and dances.

[Bwinney43]

The snowman that comes with Happy Holiday Stuff (the snowman construction set) is animated: when you click on it, it changes face and hat, and dances.

I had no idea! I've had this SP since it was released and have never messed around with the snowman construction set. How nifty, I must try this out :)

[FemGamerPlayer]

I know the title of this thread is What did you discover TODAY while playing the sims (and this is something I didn't discover today), but I didn't know where else to post this. Anyway, perhaps one of the biggest things I've discovered while playing TS2 is that the most beautiful sims don't always produce the most beautiful kids! In particular, if you breed two breath-takingly beautiful sims, you'll be lucky if their kids come out looking anywhere near beautiful. I like to download what I call "realistic" sims, that is, sims with realistic looking skin, eyes, etc. (as opposed to the Maxis defaults). They are usually quite beautiful as well. But when I breed one of those couples in CAS (I always "test" breed downloaded sims in CAS before putting them in the game, thank goodness!), I usually get super-fugly kids! In particular toddlers. This is like the normal TS2 fugly toddler syndrome times at least 10. I've gotten toddlers with no eyes, toddlers with microscopic noses, you name it.

I don't normally alter sim kids I've bred in CAS, but I make an exception for toddlers of "beautiful" sims. I tweak them a bit so they look like normal toddlers rather than something from another planet! I also have a no in-game breeding between "beautiful" sims who make super-fugly toddlers policy!

[Gingerxyz]

Just now I discovered that it can be a very bad idea to click random when you have the triplets and quads hack. My couple, who were going to be struggling with a new baby anyway, given the many mortgage shrubs they needed to afford their house and their recently started home business, are now going to banished to financial doom for the rest of their lives. And it was three boys and a girl. I wanted at least two girls dammit! But I promised myself I would accept the outcome, whatever it was so...yep, I'm doomed.

And now he wants ten kids :help: He had no baby wants until they were born and now he wants ten!? She was the one who wanted the kid!

[Peni Griffin]

That ten kids want will cycle out naturally when the endorphins wear off, unless you lock it. Which I don't recommend at this stage.

Now is the time to rise to the challenge!

Or you can move in a relative with lots of cash.

[Gingerxyz]

Yeah, a second later I discovered she also rolled the ten kids want. I let both cycle out. Then just now, my game crashed. I hadn't saved since they were born :faceslap:

And I was actually doing well! The business was doing okay, they'd both gotten at least two talent badges, the babies were being looked after, every one was happy and the debts were being paid off!

So, RIP Daniel, Sam, Ella and Alex. I should be happy that the crisis is averted, but somehow I grew attached to them in the roughly two hours since they were born :(

[Peni Griffin]

Oh, too bad! I always try to remember to save right after a birth (or buying furniture, or - well, anything significant), just for these occasions.

You can always go for another set of triplets but no, it won't be the same. :(

[mangaroo]

Ghosts can tease the cowplant with food. (This ghost happened to have been cowplanted, so the interaction may be limited to those killed by the cowplant.)

[sofiaaasman]

Today one of my grandfather sims, that I had not instructed to anything at that moment, took a book from the bookshelf and went into his grandson's bedroom, his grandson, a teen, was asleep and in bed. Gramps then sat down on the floor and "Read to sleep." When he was done, their relationship was better and the teen had improved hobby enthusiasm in film and litterature. He also has two teen sisters, who both had a better relationship with their granddad, and who were also asleep in their room.

This was the first and only time that ever happened to me.

[Peni Griffin]

Babies can want to hug pets!

At least, that's how I interpret a grayed-out "hug" interaction waiting in the queue of the cat standing next to the crib. Maybe the cat is wanting to hug the baby.

[SimMegaptera]

@Peni, is it 'be hugged' or is it 'hug'? If it's 'hug' it means the cat is trying to hug the baby, not the other way around. I have never seen a pet go and hug a kid, but hey.

[AlexandraSpears]

I've seen "Cuddle" suddenly appear in a toddler's action queue, along with a picture of a pet. I think pets ask for cuddles from toddlers.

[Peni Griffin]

It says "hug," which is exactly what it says when the cat is waiting for an adult to hug her. The cat's social stays consistently pretty high, but I think I need to have sims hug her more.

Fortunately, the baby just aged to toddler, so she can start bonding with the pet.

[SimMegaptera]

I stand corrected.

Toddlers cuddling cats = hilarious. The cat flails as it gets pulled over backwards, and then it relaxes and purrs.

[Peni Griffin]

Pets are great with toddlers. They never scratch or bite and tend to be awake when the parents are dead on their feet. And the cuddling is adorable. In truly disorganized households (with, for instance, twins and a pregnant mom) toddlers can sleep on their beds and eat their kibble. One thing I don't understand: As far as I can tell, pets will never groom toddlers the way they will in real life. This should be possible and should affect the hygiene score; though an argument could be made for either direction.

[LittleFallenAngel]

I discovered sims can apparently NOT like the rain and express disgust over this. My teen sim went to the window to "look at rain" (or whatever the action is) and she peeked outside, sighed and shook her head in disgust.

This never happened to me before now. I thought they just checked it out.

[Peni Griffin]

If you live in a dorm and call a Greek house in the middle of the night, they'll come over and hang out where you can see them instead of invading rooms and vanishing. Saves a lot of time pledging!

[lg135]

Pets are great with toddlers. They never scratch or bite and tend to be awake when the parents are dead on their feet. And the cuddling is adorable.

I spam 'cuddle' way too much in the toddler stage. By the time the kid grows up, the pet has a higher relationship with them than their siblings! :L


I just learned that the ceiling lights can become the victims of a major fire as well. Had a teen light the fireplace in her (wood floored :faceslap: ) dining room before settling down there to read, when promptly the floor, table, all chairs, and the teen caught on fire. It was until the flames were out that I realized the 2 ceiling lights burned with the rest of the stuff.

Another thing was that even though the teen was on fire, she walked calming through the living room, lighting everything (including her father) on fire to set the book on the coffee table. Priorities!

[AlexandraSpears]

If you live in a dorm and call a Greek house in the middle of the night, they'll come over and hang out where you can see them instead of invading rooms and vanishing. Saves a lot of time pledging!

Also, if you use the College Directory, it'll tell you where each playable Sim is living, so you know who's in the Greek houses. And if your Popularity Sim has his/her aspiration benefit of 3-way calling, plus make friends faster, they can call two Greek house members at the same time.

I've done that before, so by the time my Sim was ready to pledge, she only had to establish a relationship with only one more sorority sister.

On that note, I found out that it only costs 20 simoleons to apply for a Greek charter. (I had Tara DeBateau and Sally Riley found Academie le Tour's first sorority.) I also found out that once the house hits level 2, the members start autonomously visiting campus (an interaction that can be cancelled--there are term papers to be done!).

[Aegagropilon]

That a college student can call another college student before 7am. I had one of my students call a friend at 5am and they chatted without that "Thanks for waking me up. Jerk :|"-type textbox popping up.

I also discovered that elders don't have access to the "classic dance" interaction.

[Peni Griffin]

That's very sad about the elders! They should be classic dancing all over the place.

"Visiting Campus" sucks! If you don't watch out it'll even pop up in the middle of a queue - I caught a frat boy heading to campus between his trip to the bathroom and making lunch! Since they're going to campus for pizza (and there's noplace on campus to buy pizza...for the longest time I thought there must be a pizza parlor on the secret society lot, but I finally pledged and got access to a secret society member and nope) this annoys me quite a lot. Back when I first started playing the frat and wasn't alert to this people were always drifting off to buy pizza and then never cleaning them up, so there'd be four or five spoiled pizzas stinking up the place and giving people food poisoning.

This behavior gets less troublesome once you get everybody's cooking and cleaning scores up, but it never entirely goes away.

Oddly, when the frat boys actually call for pizza, the pizza delivery never comes to the door. The car parks across the street at Tri-Var house, the delivery person wanders up and down for awhile presenting no interactions no matter how often I click, and then the pizza gets left at the curb. Presumably this is a glitch.

[mangaroo]

I also discovered that elders don't have access to the "classic dance" interaction.

Yes, that makes me so sad, since who better to classic dance than my golden couples?

[Garambola]

Yes, that makes me so sad, since who better to classic dance than my golden couples?

This enables it for Elders http://www.ancienthighway.net/smf/index.php?topic=56.0

(Warning, the elder lady did not like her gentleman friend dancing with his daughter. It caused a jealousy reaction.)

[dieKristina]

(Warning, the elder lady did not like her gentleman friend dancing with his daughter. It caused a jealousy reaction.)

:faceslap: How stupid can sims be!?

[cheshirekat]

If you make a sim drop the entire pizza, it can be put in their inventory to be used at another time. Also, if there are already pizzas on the lot, when the delivery sim drops off the pizza, put the box in their inventory. Next time a bunch of sims show up, it can be taken out of inventory like it was freshly made.

More Awesome Than You has a mod (antivisitcampus.package) that will keep your sims from constantly leaving the greek society lot to get pizzas. It means that your sims can't bring back other goodies either. My sims never returned from campus with anything other than pizza, but they can bring back other stuff.

I had a sim cook a meal. After the meal was cooked and served, the sim took a few bites of food until their hunger meter was full. Then the sim got up from the table. I assumed the sim was going to "clean up" their plate. But when I looked at their action queue as they were walking away from the table, I saw the sim was going to campus. I hoped they were bringing back something other than a pizza. The sim returned with a still-full hunger meter with a pizza. This happened several times before I decided to use the MATY mod. Without that mod, my sims would never get their gardens and other stuff done.

I discovered that it is really fun to add a bunch of new cc makeup and hairstyles. I made myself get rid of a bunch of hairs I never/rarely use, and replaced them with new ones or new colors of old ones. So having new ones made visiting my lots to give makeovers a lot of fun.

[Vampirelion]

Do not make out with your significent other in front of Mrs. Crumplebottom..she hates that,ha..gaah,she's annoying!

[Peni Griffin]

I've never had Mrs. Crumplebottom chastise my sims for making out (which is odd, since I tend to let them dry-hump each other frantically right in front of the phone booth while waiting for the taxi to take them back home to woohoo); just for wearing a swimsuit in public and woohooing in the photo booth.

I actually haven't had much problem with Mrs. Crumplebottom. She's outnumbered by sims who wholeheartedly approve of PDA, and it's seldom she sneaks onto a lot without my noticing her.

I don't think I need a mod for Visit Campus, unless I let my Greeks get bigger than they have been. I can usually track up to six people well enough to keep it from becoming a problem, especially since at any given time one or two is likely to be in class. Any idea what else they might bring back besides pizza?

[SimMegaptera]

I discovered that everybody in the vacation neighbourhoods dresses the same. Everyone in the mountains wears plaid flannel and big boots. The Unsavoury Charlatan wears that outfit with his top hat and monocle. :)

[Aegagropilon]

This enables it for Elders http://www.ancienthighway.net/smf/index.php?topic=56.0

(Warning, the elder lady did not like her gentleman friend dancing with his daughter. It caused a jealousy reaction.)

Awesome. Thanks!

(And what sort of things trigger jealousy with this? My game has a set of twins that practically live in each other's pockets and will autonomously give each other backrubs just for the hell of it. Would they trigger jealousy with their significant others if they classic-danced together?)

[iCad]

The other day, I discovered that there are actual shooting stars in the sky at night. I was taking pics in a house at night in cameraman mode, and my mouse slipped and I ended up with a straight-up view of the sky. Lo and behold, several shooting stars streaked across the sky. It was very cool! Now I have a habit, while the household is asleep, of going out of ultra-speed mode and instead aiming my view up at the sky and watching for shooting stars while the family sleeps. Just like real life in the summertime. :)

...I still haven't managed to ever get a Sim to see a shooting star, though. That's one want I've never been able to fulfill.

[AlexandraSpears]

Mrs. Crumplebottom is not without a sense of humor. If someone puts soap in a fountain, she laughs at the suds!

Another thing I found out: at parties, other Sims will use your Sims' bathtubs and beds! Armand DeBateau had a wedding party, Tara had someone she brought home from school, and the teen townie was taking a bath, and when the party was over, I saw him get out of Armand and Francine's bed--he'd been sleeping!

(Not that I mind, but come on, they hadn't even broken it in yet! LOL)

[dieKristina]

That a college student can call another college student before 7am. I had one of my students call a friend at 5am and they chatted without that "Thanks for waking me up. Jerk :|"-type textbox popping up.

Really? That doesn´t work for me. I tried that and the college student I called got angry like all other sims.

[dieKristina]

During spring sims use to roll the want to kiss someone. I allways thought this had to be a romantic kiss, but today i discovered that the want is satisfied even with just a family kiss.

[Aegagropilon]

Really? That doesn´t work for me. I tried that and the college student I called got angry like all other sims.

Huh. That's really weird. The student she was calling is her best friend/ex-boyfriend, so maybe that had something to do with it?

[TUL]

I discovered to be more careful when emptying my trash bin on my desktop...I accidently pressed "restore" for all the deleted items...it tried to restore three previous backups, and I canceled it, thinking everything would go back to normal...unfortunately, it corrupted my neighborhoods beyond playability. :cry: It corrupted my backups, too!

[anothereyjana]

On the bad side, I discovered that my in-game graphics problems can't be fixed by sorting through the CC or even by a re-install, which means that I either have something on my comp which my current anti-virus can't detect, or there's something up with either my memory or even graphics card. :cry:

On the plus side (well, sort of, depends on how you look at it), I discovered that a smiting via Batbox satisfies the "get struck by lightning" want. Not really sure that I should be encouraging that kind of behavior thou...
Aw, who am I kidding, most of the things are stupid to the point of being near-suicidal anyhow. :faceslap:

[dieKristina]

Huh. That's really weird. The student she was calling is her best friend/ex-boyfriend, so maybe that had something to do with it?

Yea that would be logical... The student my sim tried to call was someone he had never met before. I used the campus catalogue (by the way that´s a great thing in Uni, you can become big man on campus without even leaving your house, thanks to this catalogue) since he needed some new friends and was in the mood to talk a little. But like you sad, the reaction of the sim you call is perhaps based on their relationship. Will try it again with some best friend instead.

[Peni Griffin]

I got the "Dance...Classical" option between kids for the first time yesterday evening. It was very "Aaaaawww" until he stepped on her foot, and aspiration points went up on both of them as they became friends in the middle of it. If these two have lightning when they turn teen it's going to be hard to resist pairing them up from the git-go.

[AlexandraSpears]

I got the "Dance...Classical" option between kids for the first time yesterday evening. It was very "Aaaaawww" until he stepped on her foot, and aspiration points went up on both of them as they became friends in the middle of it. If these two have lightning when they turn teen it's going to be hard to resist pairing them up from the git-go.

I noticed that a while back and was surprised! Kids classical dancing? :lol:

[Peni Griffin]

There are certain subcultures (mostly WASP, at least in America) in which ballroom dance classes are imposed on children at a certain age, and many children outside that subculture will learn to waltz as toddlers, with the parent putting the tot's feet on top of theirs. Some elementary school gym classes will deal with bad-weather days on which girls and boys have to be combined by giving dance lessons, though in my schools the coaches tended to prefer to teach square dancing. And if the parents dance together it's becomes part of their children's repertoire of behaviors toward the opposite sex.

Or possibly the designers (the same ones who deleted it from the potential list for seniors? Seems unlikely.) just thought it was cute. Which it totally is.

[lizard49]

A newly married couple moved into a house whose previous owners had died. All of their stuff, including career rewards, their own paintings & a bubble blower, was still there! The ghost of the deceased man wandered through the house & didn't cause any trouble that I noticed. I didn't think his wife would do any haunting, as the hula girls appeared to escort her to the afterlife when she died. But I was wrong about that. :cry:

I also discovered that one shouldn't wait too long to throw a graduation party. If there are just a few hours left on campus the graduation party option disappears.

[Croutonian]

I found out that cats don't just sit on kitchen counters, but will also sleep on them! Tis cute :)

[Peni Griffin]

Yeah, I really hate to scold sims cats for getting on the furniture, as that's one rule I've never bothered to impose in real life. Cats get chased off food surfaces when food is in the offing and removed from computer equipment that is in use. Otherwise, they go where they like. It's totally unfair that a sim couple can't sleep in a double bed with the cat on their feet. And I don't know how sims ever get well when they can't have a proper cat-packing treatment.

[AlexandraSpears]

One thing I found out: If your Sims are on a date and they goose each other, nearby Sims will act embarrassed.

Like this picture here. Gabe and Alexandra O'Mackey were on a date, Alexandra was feeling frisky and she goosed Gabe, and Morty Roth had this look like, "Please, you guys, GET A ROOM!"

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/af292/alexandrasims2/snapshot_5263874b_1a920f52.jpg

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/af292/alexandrasims2/snapshot_5263874b_9a920f93.jpg

[aaries16]

I found out that after an anniversary party the spouse who did not throw the party will get a bottle of champagne out of no where. Or at least that's what I think happened. A family had the anniversary party (the wife threw the party), they already had champagne and they were toasting away - luckily no one's bladder got too full, they resorted to dancing and chatting with each other after the 3rd toast. The party was great and the happy elderly couple went to bed to woohoo and fall asleep. In the middle of the night when I thought everyone was asleep I realized the husband was out of his bed out in the front yard. I stopped whatever he was doing and told him to clean up from the party, then do some gardening. Later I saw a champagne bottle in the front yard, and I know I didn't put that there.

[Vampirelion]

This might be an obvious thing to some of you,but as I was playing with one of my sims,I randomly started to have her meditate {was bored} and I let her sit there and do that for days while playing with her husband. {ooh that sounds wrong,lol} And after she began to float,I still had her meditate,then after another two sims days passed,I started randomly clicking things on the screen,and I found out you can have your sim teleport..it's the coolest thing ever,lol,well maybe it's just me..I'm a nerd,so little things usually excite me. :) Lol..that sounds wrong too. But yes,I had already known about the floating concept,it's the teleporting I never saw.

[Aegagropilon]

One thing I found out: If your Sims are on a date and they goose each other, nearby Sims will act embarrassed.

Like this picture here. Gabe and Alexandra O'Mackey were on a date, Alexandra was feeling frisky and she goosed Gabe, and Morty Roth had this look like, "Please, you guys, GET A ROOM!"



It's not just dates -- that can happen anytime a sim is goosed in public.

It's even better/worse when the witnesses are the goosed sim's parents (http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj202/aegagropilon/IfLooksCouldKill.jpg) XD

[AlexandraSpears]

Well, typically they're on a date when they do such activities.

I had them WooHooing in a tent while on a vacation (Three Lakes) and a child townie kept running away!

[Peni Griffin]

I had no idea you could levitate while meditating! The only time I ever had anyone do that it didn't seem to accomplish anything, so I never tried again.

I'll experiment with the townie teens I import to keep the populations of the Greeks from bunching up. It always takes awhile to get interested in them anyway.

[coko]

Well, yesterday I discovered Damian Marley can sing in simlish. I heard his Sims 2 version of Welcome to Jamrock for the first time when my sim was listening to the reggae station. At first I was stunned :blink: , then I was cracking up especially when he said "Rastafari sturgs alurg".

Jah Rastafari! :D

[AlexandraSpears]

You can make Sims lose a crush without trashing relationships.

For example--My college Sim managed to snap up Castor Nova, and all the sorority girls have a crush on him. Tiffany Sampson caught him "cheating," then proceeded to bad mouth about him to Brittany Upsnott and Heather Huffington. Both girls lost the crush, but I didn't notice the relationship numbers take a dive.

[Peni Griffin]

When one of a married couple ages to elder first, he gains the "Encourage" option with his spouse, as if she were a child or teen relative. Which seems mighty condescending of him, so I haven't had him do it. I suppose the criterion for "encourage" is that you can do it to a relative in a younger age category, and the nature of the relationship isn't limited. I had already noticed that in-laws can Encourage teens and children to whom they are only related through their spouses.

[FranH]

I found that playable sims, when they've visited a store or shop in the neighborhood owned by another playable, have the items they bought in their inventory-and I have a store that carries gold bullion bars, at about $1,800 a pop. Wonder how many of them bought those?

[iCad]

I discovered two things, though not necessarily today. :)

1) I discovered that frantically channel-surfing Sims annoy me as much as frantically channel-surfing real people. This Sim of mine was watching TV, and he was changing channels every two seconds. Make up your freakin' mind, already! I guess it's a good thing I don't give my Sims TVs too often. :lol:

2) I have a "no social worker" hack in my game, partly so that my kids don't get taken away if both their parents are off-lot when they arrive home from school but mostly because I want to have my kids get F grades in school, dammit, if that's what they freakin' earn, the lazy little twits.

But it has an unexpected benefit. In one of my 'hoods, it's Plague Week. In one of my households, a married couple with a child-age daughter who just transitioned from toddler, both of the parents were taken out by the plague. The child was spared because she has a naturally immune "trait." Usually, I teleport such orphan children to a relative's lot and move them in with that family via the Tombstone of Life and Death. But this kid had no living relatives, so I was going to let the social worker take her, and her "story" would be that she was adopted by out-of-town adoptive parents. But I forgot about that hack, and the social worker never came.

So, now I have a household of a lone child...and it's actually rather fun to play her, I've found. There are plenty of leftovers in the fridge, enough to last until she becomes a teen, and she has a cat to keep her company. She sells lemonade for a little extra money, but really she has enough left from her parents to sustain her until she can get a job. The only thing I've found that she can't do, at least so far, is pay bills, since she can't interact with the mailbox. But when the Repo Man shows up, I'll just delete him and deduct the bills from her money. She's fun enough that it almost makes me wish that childhood lasted longer.

Anyway, I know it's a "discovery" as a result of a hack, but it's given me ideas. I now have grand visions of a group of homeless street urchins squatting on a vacant city lot, and then turning aging off so they stay children longer...

[AlexandraSpears]

iCad--If you have the automatic bill/rent payer from Sims Wardrobe that might help (of course you need a teen or older to turn it on before they kick off).

Also--I want to throw in, if you want to score points with the Garden Club when trying to get a membership, use the flowerbox windows (I think it's called "Just Visiting") that came with Seasons. Do NOT have a flamingo around, or they'll consider that as trash lying around! (Put it in your Sims' inventory while the Garden Club is prowling around your lot.)

[Vampirelion]

I discovered that if you're out dining sometimes,you'll see random townies fart while chowing down..lol. Either that,or it's just me?

[FranH]

I've also been watching for clues as to customer purchases at a shop-and found that if you look at the "shopping" bags the customers carry, the simoleons indicated on the bag are approximately the value of their purchases. The more expensive items will also go into a gold bag and it usually has 3 simoleon figures on it..the cheap stuff goes into a plain blue or light yellow bag with 1-2 figures on it.
Nice to know the game almost gives it all away. Sims love the cheap stuff to buy, but not for you to buy for them!

[Peni Griffin]

This is only half-learned, because I don't know what prompted it. Sims can "buy off" sims who are in romantic entanglements with their relatives!

The thing is - I was playing from the POV of Ben, whose sister Leslie, a lesbian, is the single most ruthless romance sim in the game. His husband Greg is BFF with Sadie Hawkins, a straight Romance sim for whom dating is a hobby to relieve the hard work of her sports career. They were living in the same apartment building and Leslie made a concerted effort to seduce Sadie, getting her to red heart level, but then Sadie saw her on a community lot with another lady and got furious. Leslie still had her red heart, but then she saw Sadie bringing a male date home and got furious, too. Which was damned unreasonable of both of them, but hey, sims, whachugunnado?

So Greg invites Sadie to a party at their house, and when I had Ben active and clicked Sadie I got the interaction: "Buy off for $50." So is he to buy her off because Leslie "cheated" on her, or because she "cheated" on Leslie? And would that cause her to stay away from Leslie, or would she take the money and do as she pleased? It would have been impractical to stay away from her while they were still living in the same building, but I'd just had Sadie buy a small house more suitable for parties and outings, and with room for a hot tub; so would the option have come up had she still been in the building?

I thought $50 was an insultingly low buy-off price, and that it'd be really rude to do this at a party, so I didn't select it.

[lazzybum]

I discovered my hood has many restaurant.. but it is ALWAYS the same host at each venue. His name is Chuck Knight and hes an elderly fellow with... braids... I cannot escape him. He somehow is capable of working as a host in all the restaurants (except sim owned) *scared*

[Peni Griffin]

I came from Sims1 too recently for this to bother me. I have two hosts, male and female, both elders, and two waitstaff, male and female, both adult.

Tell yourself it reduces your overpopulation problem by #of restaurants -1 and try to be zen about it.

[lizard49]

I learned that it is not a good idea to resurrect a dead Sim when your wife is about to have a baby ...

So I moved the zombie out of the house & into the family bin!!!

[AlexandraSpears]

While going on a hike, your Sim can meet a townie from a vacation spot...and it doesn't matter if you've loaded up that vacation site or not! (Just how far do these guys hike, anyway?)

[SingleClawDesigns]

This is only half-learned, because I don't know what prompted it. Sims can "buy off" sims who are in romantic entanglements with their relatives!

The thing is - I was playing from the POV of Ben, whose sister Leslie, a lesbian, is the single most ruthless romance sim in the game. His husband Greg is BFF with Sadie Hawkins, a straight Romance sim for whom dating is a hobby to relieve the hard work of her sports career. They were living in the same apartment building and Leslie made a concerted effort to seduce Sadie, getting her to red heart level, but then Sadie saw her on a community lot with another lady and got furious. Leslie still had her red heart, but then she saw Sadie bringing a male date home and got furious, too. Which was damned unreasonable of both of them, but hey, sims, whachugunnado?

So Greg invites Sadie to a party at their house, and when I had Ben active and clicked Sadie I got the interaction: "Buy off for $50." So is he to buy her off because Leslie "cheated" on her, or because she "cheated" on Leslie? And would that cause her to stay away from Leslie, or would she take the money and do as she pleased? It would have been impractical to stay away from her while they were still living in the same building, but I'd just had Sadie buy a small house more suitable for parties and outings, and with room for a hot tub; so would the option have come up had she still been in the building?

I thought $50 was an insultingly low buy-off price, and that it'd be really rude to do this at a party, so I didn't select it.


Actually I thought Buy off was for sims with enemies. I've had Daniel Pleasant buy off Dustin Broke and the two hate each other but their relationship gradually improved when i did it.

I learned about rolling the dice during pregnancy I had heard about it before but never quite understood what it meant (i was assuming u just rolled an actual die hehe)

[lilyandsnuggles2]

That plantsim babies have daisy heads. Oh, and that I can play without cheats!!! Yeay! : D

[alicefishy]

That I can build six house in two hours. New record for me. LOL

[MsScribble]

I can't build ONE house in two hours.

I learnt that ghosts change into outwear in winter! My bride ghost is wafting about in slacks and a polo necked sweater!

[AlexandraSpears]

If your Sim is spying with the telescope, sell the telescope right before the offended Sim shows up on the lot. That seems to keep them from shoving anyone, but I'm not 100% sure on this.

I did this scenario twice when I wanted a college student to meet (and eventually marry) Gabriel Green in Belladonna Cove (he's the first Sim listed for BC so he's the one who gets mad about being spied on...he's a very Nice Sim, so he acts reluctant to shove anyone). Right before he came running up, I sold the telescope (my Sims had bought it with their own household funds), and he didn't shove her...in fact, she was actually able to greet him and start flirting with him!

Also--If your Sim has reached maximum Music & Dance enthusiasm, when they play the piano they'll be dressed in formal wear. If they get tipped, then when they're done playing, you hear the sound of applause.

[lauratje86]

Ghost cats can "use" the bathtub..... Or fill it with bubbles, anyway. Bizarre!

Also, I used the action that a sim gets from learning Couples Counselling for the first time. The sim using it was trying to save his sister and brother-in-law's marriage after she'd become pregnant with another Orlando Centowski's baby (I have a hack which makes the significant other's relationship with their girlfriend/wife drop, and they become furious, if she conceives a baby with another man). It worked, for a while - until poor Joshua caught his wife Bonnie kissing Goopy Gilscarbo! They got divorced. It's probably for the best.

[omglo]

It wasn't today, but a few days ago, I found out pregnant sims can fight.* Lilith, and Angela got pregnant around the same time, and live in the same apartment complex. I was playing Lilith in the common area, when Angela walked out of her apartment, saw Lilith, and attacked her. They were both heavily pregnant, and rolling around on the floor in the dust cloud.

I just saw a post asking for a hack to let pregnant sims fight though, so maybe it was a glitch? I won't have anymore pregnant sims for awhile, so I can't retest it.

[doublethinker]

Chemistry really makes a big difference!

So I'm currently playing through all the stealth families and trying to be nice to them etc just so I don't have them clogging my bin. I decided Cyd Roseland ought to get married, because I was bored with it just being man + 3 dogs (I merged the Roselands with the Critturs, and yes, I knew Sarah was pregnant). The first townie I met was a girl who he had a crossed out bolt with. I decided to build up their relationship anyway. He proposed to her, she said yes, they were both deeply in love... and yet she left him at the altar.

A few simhours later, I brought him to a community lot where, lo and behold, was a witch with whom he had to bolts. I went through exactly the same process as I did with the townie and yet she married him without a second thought. I'd never realised that chemistry could make a difference like that.

[Peni Griffin]

I've always found chemistry crucial and I pay attention to it, as it can change during the game. Since skills can be used as turn-offs and turn-ons, as can employment status, I've found that it's good to hang on to that potion for those occasions when the career path and the marriage collide.

Yesterday I found that the autonomous kiss good-by doesn't count as a romantic interaction, regardless of lusciousness.

[Way too much background] Pigeon Hawkins went to school a semester ahead of her high school steady, Ezekial Gavigan, partly because of the way the ages fell out and also so she could have a good look around campus before he showed up, in case somebody more compatible came along. Zeke has been full-on fighting with Pigeon's little sister, so she has a story reason to be mad at him. I didn't want her falling in love until he got to campus and I could observe them together awhile, though, because they've been together through high school, and Ezekial, who only has one nice point, behaves better toward her than toward anyone else in the game. So she declared that she wasn't going to have anything to do with boys before sophomore year. This is an in-character thing for her to do, and gave me some time to sort out how best to handle her love life. I was a little disturbed to see her, on a visit home, exchanging back-rubs with one of her housemates who, in story but not as far as the game is concerned, is her first cousin; as far as the game is concerned, he's a two-bolt best friend who is also best friends with Zeke. If she got together with him, Zeke would pretty much have to give in to the dark side and turn villain, which I'm not ready for as a player. So Oliver is off-limits; but Pigeon, being a Hawkins, still has a number of viable candidates on campus. [/Way too much background]

Last night Ezekial went to college, where, now that they're the same age again, he and Pigeon share two bolts. His best friend Oliver invited Ezekial's household over to Alma Mater House for the evening. Pigeon greeted Zeke by waving and had wants to dance and flirt with him, the first of which I satisfied, the second of which I did not, but made note of. She also influenced him to clean, and he docilely did. When the hour got late I told Pigeon to choose the "Say Good-bye...Everyone" interaction with Ezekial. She delivered what looked to me like a red-heart kiss:
http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee238/PeniG/Simshots/snapshot_999917fa_da9d1d31.jpg
But no heart went up and he departed quietly. Obviously, respecting that "no boys freshman year" rule even when she's ready to break it. Well-played, Ezekial!
(He is such a jerk to everybody but her and Oliver though! At a story level it's way too perfect to resist - she may make him jump through a few more hoops, and I'm going to have to force him to make up with her sister, but it's pretty much a done deal now.)

[esmesqualor]

I'm fairly new to Pets - still, I had no idea the leader of the pack would roll in my dog's pee puddle. ewwww.

[emilyhwithlove]

I discovered that if your Sim is poor enough or has objects that aren't very expensive, when a burglar comes they won't steal anything! LOL!(: I was playing my Poverty challenge Sim and a burglar came running onto the lot, then KEPT running and just disappeared! My mouth was hanging open haha(: But the Sims on the lot still get the bad memory, though.

Still, I felt like sharing(:

[zauberlinda12]

I discovered that the penguin loves to have long one sided conversations with snowmen. :wtf:

[Peni Griffin]

You can get into the Greek House even if one of the members is still furious with you.

Susana Casa came intending to pledge Tri-Var, but before she had even met any of the girls one of the frat boys wolf whistled at her at the pool. He hadn't noticed, and might not have cared if he had, that a sorority girl with a crush on him was also at the pool. She slapped them both and came to Susana's residence to kick over the trash can in the wee hours of Susana's session. Her housemate, who has friends at Tri-Var, invited them over and that was the first inkling Susana had that the girl who got mad at her for no reason was part of the house she wanted to pledge. So she apologized and joked with her. On the next Tri-Var session, Susana's high school friend who was already in asked her to pledge and the girl who was mad at her apologized and spent a long time with her in the hot tub. She was still pretty mad, but the top score was up to 8 and most of the red was gone. Susana's score with the other three girls in the house was in the friend zone, so she called to ask to join during her next session, expecting to have to spend a good portion of her six hours erasing the red from that one; but instead she got in before she had time to respond to speak to anybody.

The angry one was the most junior member, which seems to have a bearing on how high the score has to be; still, I wouldn't have though 8 would have done it. Usually the minimum is 10.

[cheshirekat]

I don't think a sim needs to have high relationship scores with all the sims in the greek house. I think the scores needed are based on the amount of sims in the household. I thought the game told you what was needed when the request for acceptance into the greek house is made.

I never liked the idea of sending my sims to the pre-made greek houses as they were too much like the dorms - they way they were built. I built my own greek house, which is much more fun to play. (Because you all know by now I am a control freak, yes?) And it is easier to get my sims into the greek house. I would simply just wait until there was only one sim that hadn't graduated left living in the greek house. Any sim I wanted to join the greek house then only had to meet and get a relationship with that one sim.

If I wanted more sims to move into the greek house, then I would have the sims I wanted to join the greek house be roommates. They would then meet one of the greek house members at a community lot or when they walked by. Then invite the entire greek household over. The roommates would invite them over early enough to have some fun, a meal, and then some more fun maybe a water balloon fight. The next day, since they were best friends with the greek house members, they each were accepted as new greek house member when they asked.

[Peni Griffin]

The game does display your target scores, yes, so you can tell which one you need to work on. If you already have a high enough score with each member, you never get the display. The lowest number I've ever seen needed was 10. I knew Susana had high enough scores with Georgia, Natalie, and Beverly, and planned to do the school cheer and Appreciate Tosha to get her from 8 to 10, and then I'd be in.

I use the Greeks as connecting devices. There's no point to them if they don't have at least three members. It's annoying to realize you're about to have all the members graduate within a couple of days of each other and have to rush to get a viable number of pledges all at once, who will then all graduate about the same time, so I'm trying to pledge one freshman about once every school year. This has meant growing up some townie teens, choosing those with the highest relationships with existing playables, and even pledging one dormie, which risks leaving me with sims I don't care about on graduation; so part of the challenge of playing the Greeks right now is to get to care about them, and keep them balanced vis-a-vis the rest of the game.

It is a lot easier if you meet the Greeks before asking to join, but once in awhile you want a challenge. I thought I was getting one when Tosha got so angry (over nothing; she doesn't even have lightning with that boy; it's just the I've had him flirting everybody he sees trying to get him to have lightning with somebody, and she happened to be friends with him), but it was almost too simple.

[AlexandraSpears]

I discovered that the penguin loves to have long one sided conversations with snowmen. :wtf:

And scarecrows.

[RuthStar]

Sims have nightmares, I was watching Angela Pleasent sleep and she moved erratically in her bed with a memory above her head with a red cross over it. I've never noticed that before...I've just gotten back into playing the sims 2 again and discovering new things is always fun.

[Nepheris]

I discovered that the descriptions of the community lots in Veronaville rhyme :p

[zauberlinda12]

Sims have nightmares, I was watching Angela Pleasent sleep and she moved erratically in her bed with a memory above her head with a red cross over it. I've never noticed that before...I've just gotten back into playing the sims 2 again and discovering new things is always fun.

Whenever sims had nightmares/erratic sleep in my game it usually meant that their needs and aspirations were consistently so low that they were all out of sorts.

[Astraea Nevermore]

I discovered that sims that are holding a baby also have an interaction that allows 'em to let another sim hold the baby, without the need to put the newborn on the floor and let another person pick him/her. I noticed it only 'cos my sim did it spontaneously today. :blink:

...First time I noticed it in five years of playing the game D:

[Peni Griffin]

Unfortunately, you can only do it with members of your household, and you can't force the action on someone else. So if the baby's howling you have to wait for Gramma or Uncle Sylvester to put her down before you can change her diaper.

Even more unfortunately, the baby doesn't remember Gramma from being held as an infant.

[AlexandraSpears]

Your Sims can sleep at hobby lots. Sometimes I'll have a Sim worn out from participating in dance contests, and they'll sleep on the couch afterward.

[alicefishy]

That the child sims don't have different facial features from male/female. I was in CAS and used the create a baby option, made it and child and while switching from male to female, I noticed that their face didn't change at all! Never new that.

[Owfin]

I discovered that you can have lights on outside during the day: they are just a lot fainter. If you put them close to a subject though, they can be useful for filling in shadows.

[AlexandraSpears]

Unfortunately, you can only do it with members of your household, and you can't force the action on someone else. So if the baby's howling you have to wait for Gramma or Uncle Sylvester to put her down before you can change her diaper.

Even more unfortunately, the baby doesn't remember Gramma from being held as an infant.

What you do if a non-household Sim is holding the baby, direct your Sim to talk to that Sim (or whatever) and just cancel the action when they put the baby down.

[SimMegaptera]

I learned that if I want to build a community lot where sims are supposed to perform certain activities, don't put a TV on it! They'll just crowd around the TV. I built an indoor sports facility with soccer, basketball, and rollerskating. (Tip for getting those outdoor-only things to be inside a building: make the room with a gap in the wall so that it's technically 'outdoors', then put the outdoor object inside the room, then finish building the wall.) There's also a room that has a Nutritious Noodles stand and a TV, so that people can relax and eat in between exercising. But nobody wants to exercise. I got William, my playable at the time, to play soccer with a buddy he met there. And I saw Rose Greenman autonomously rollerskating. Other than that nobody used the sports facilities at all.

[anna220]

Such great tips here and many I did not know as well ! Mine would be that even in a neighbourhood with the seasons all set to summer Mr Penguin still shows up and takes a pee at the edge of the lot :faceslap: