What did you discover today while playing the sims?

[VioletPadfoot]

I just noticed that on the Neighborhood Selection screen, the plumbob above the "i" in "sims" is spinning.

[Peni Griffin]

I found out that an adult Sim can spontaneously change lifetime aspirations. My self-Sim used to want to max out seven skills, now she wants to become a Mad Scientist.

Unless she just went permaplatt or changed aspirations, that's a glitch; and in my game it was connected to a Really Bad Glitch that randomly reset a lot of University graduates to 4 wants, 1 lock and lost all the locked wants/fears. In my glitch, I was also getting impossible new LTWs - Pleasure sims wanting to be Criminal Masterminds, for example. And the wants rolled were often things that made no sense, like a fortune sim wanting to teach an NPC she'd never met how to study. I never have figured out what caused it and yours may be different, but be alert.

If you want the original LTW back, the ffs lotdebugger or batbox has a "cycle LTW" that will let you cycle through the available LTWs until you find the one you want, or you can set it through boolprop. You can also use the batbox's "fix wants" to get your six wants, 2 locks back, but it isn't a perfect fix as the sim then has wants like those of a brand-new sim out of CAS, not like the fully-developed character you've been playing for a year, and you have to train him to be himself again. This is particularly distressing with pregnant sims.

[DasRabennest]

I just discovered (and yes, I know I'm late) that dogs can watch the neighbourhood through a bay window. Never used this window before and was quite surprised when I saw the lab use it! :D Cute!

DasRabennest

[lizard49]

Unless she just went permaplatt or changed aspirations, that's a glitch; and in my game it was connected to a Really Bad Glitch that randomly reset a lot of University graduates to 4 wants, 1 lock and lost all the locked wants/fears. In my glitch, I was also getting impossible new LTWs - Pleasure sims wanting to be Criminal Masterminds, for example. And the wants rolled were often things that made no sense, like a fortune sim wanting to teach an NPC she'd never met how to study. I never have figured out what caused it and yours may be different, but be alert.

If you want the original LTW back, the ffs lotdebugger or batbox has a "cycle LTW" that will let you cycle through the available LTWs until you find the one you want, or you can set it through boolprop. You can also use the batbox's "fix wants" to get your six wants, 2 locks back, but it isn't a perfect fix as the sim then has wants like those of a brand-new sim out of CAS, not like the fully-developed character you've been playing for a year, and you have to train him to be himself again. This is particularly distressing with pregnant sims.

I think it's because she's always worked in one aspect of science or another & is a member of Aspiration Labs. She's been going there almost every night to look through the telescope. This is my self-Sim & it seems like something I'd do in real life.

[lazzybum]

I discovered today that servos can't potty train toddlers. I'm not even sure why.

I also discovered that your butler will repo you when you don't have enough money to pay him that day. My butler snags their son's bed into a burglar baggie >_> At least their son is in college... haha.

[VioletPadfoot]

I discovered that when an elevator opens, you can hear elevator music. Even when the game is set to mute all music.

[Ailey]

I discovered how weird it can look when the toy rocket gets stuck to a toddler's hand. O.o'

[lizard49]

On the 5th or 6th floor of Freya's Raiments in Belladonna Cove, there's a diner.

[AlexandraSpears]

Drinking too much water will make a Plantsim fat.

(I normally don't play Plantsims; I was just messing around with it. LOL)

[smorbie1]

Just like in real life!

[saskganesh]

once one Sim gets infected with vampirism, it gets trendy in some social sets (I NOW haff a NEED to become a vampire...ssss... you know, just like Mike!).

Anyhow, to offset this development, I now have a designated Buffy.

[Bellasaurus]

I also discovered that your butler will repo you when you don't have enough money to pay him that day. My butler snags their son's bed into a burglar baggie >_> At least their son is in college... haha.

Nannies will repo stuff too - I'm guessing all house help will do this if you can't afford to pay them.

[lucyv]

I just discovered (and yes, I know I'm late) that dogs can watch the neighbourhood through a bay window. Never used this window before and was quite surprised when I saw the lab use it! :D Cute!

DasRabennest

I reinstalled Pets for the first time in a long time and discovered that dogs will bark at their reflections in the mirror! So funny.

[Willow's Tara]

Anyone who requires you to pay them and if you can't, will Repo anything you have . Firefighters and Cops do it as well if you call them when there's no emergency and you got not money.

[charlie-chan]

I had a maid repo the cat litter tray!

I love how dogs and cats can watch the television.

[Botdf-xx]

that when you have a guy hold somthing and it gets stuck in the wrong place it looks funny

[DrowningFishy]

Having one sim be crazy in a house is amusing, having two sims in a house being crazy is halarious.

Also if someone spins around a child for to long the child will hurl... Of course after said hurling is done the child will thusly ask big sister to start spinning her again. Children feel no shame or embarrusment.

[aqua.writer.rain]

Mr. Big and Diva have 3 bolts of chemistry, even though they don't have the turn-ons for each other. I know it's probably the zodiac sign and stuff, but it's still kind of cool.

And they're butt-ugly. I'm guessing their kids will be the same.

Another thing is that when one person jumps on the couch and another person is sitting beside the person jumping, they will bounce a little bit. :anime:
it's so cute. also they make really awesome faces while watching tv. I'll post pics later.

[aaries16]

Sim kids just want their parent to be with whoever they were with when they were born (not necessarily their other biological parent). I had a sim, Naomi, whose LTW was to woohoo 20 sims, she accomplished it, but while she was still working on that goal she had a baby, Noelle. Naomi must've for some reason started going steady with some guy in her building at the time (I have the hack to allow adults to go steady - and I don't remember making them go steady). Naomi's strongest attraction was for Noelle's father, but when they kissed in front of Noelle, she would either throw a tantrum or cry softly and her relationship with her mother was plummeting. And I assume this is a glitch with the hack, but I was able to get Naomi and Noelle's father married while Naomi was still technically going steady with the other guy and Noelle would still cry about it. So then I was finally able to have Naomi break up with the other guy after a few arguments, but I don't think Naomi and Noelle are going to be good terms again.

[lizard49]

In the case of my self-Sim and her baby daddy (not her husband-to-be), the first time they were in bed together they wouldn't woohoo or try for a baby. At the time, each of them had one lightning bolt & a strong friendship, but no hearts. They only kissed & cuddled. Later, when they fell in love, they woohooed & she got pregnant. The baby is due in about 20 hours of game time!

[DrowningFishy]

Well just now I learned that when a Sim serves dinner he or she serves dinner not only at the nearest table, but to any table a sim might be sitting at.

-Nervous served 2 out of 6 seats at the dineing room table then walked up stairs and delievered dinner to his wife who was studying at the table on the balcony. 0_o I thought they just served one table unless it was full.

[Josepina]

That's annoying how in Apartment life the Sims want to serve the entire building. I found that out today too. I think the only way you can stop that is manually.

[DrowningFishy]

Make a game of it, have your pregnant sim going critical and see how far he/she can waddle before she/he has to abort the action due a red need. YEAH, I think my sims are wishing I never discovered this. And considering I have apartment life XD you gave me something else to play with Josepina.

[lizard49]

I discovered that when a Sim is chatting on the computer with a Sim they already know, if the two have high relationship numbers & lightning bolts, there is an option to invite that person over.

[lizard49]

Some really smart Sims can figure out on their own that they can spray roaches, instead of stomping them!

[Peni Griffin]

I learned that flaming bags of dog mess don't set newspapers on fire and don't go out on their own. Which is pretty weird, but I guess the designers thought the chance of burning the whole house down was too extreme a reaction to a bad date, but if you could just sleep through it and not have to stomp it out the effect was lost.

First ever bad date. Maybe I should have dated more when I was single, as opposed to all the hanging out I did, as I appear to be good at it...Personally, if I'd been her, and my date had been interrupted at the outset by one of his other flings showing up to tell him she's pregnant, I'd've written it off as a lucky escape. But sims don't think like that.

[lizard49]

LOL Peni. I remember when somebody left a bag of flaming dog poop at my Sim's house. I thought the fire would burn itself out, but it didn't! I finally had the Sim stomp it out after it had burned for several days & I couldn't stand it any more.

[aqua.writer.rain]

Peni_Griffin: the first time I ever got that (years ago) I freaked out and called the fire department. They ran right over it, then fined me. Only then did I realize I could stomp it out.

[Peni Griffin]

Surprisingly, it had no effect on the hygiene score.

Continuing with my discoveries about my neighborhood's Wicked Witch: she wears granny panties and in underwear mode her hair switches from a psyche knot to a flirty pony tail. When you invite her back to your place and go relax on the bed, she runs down to the mailbox to draw lightning and vermin before she joins you.

Next up with this guy, who never wants to woohoo anybody twice: Finding out what the Wicked Witch does when you cheat on her. Because she shows up at restaurants A LOT and she's bound to catch him sooner rather than later.

Also: If your stereo is right next to your bed, when you relax you can turn it on without getting up and lie there listening to music. Not your regular station, either; it's the quiet drifting music you get in neighborhood view.

[Aserette]

You can do many things while relaxing on the bed. Apart from intimacy with other sims, aslong as you have these items in your bedroom you can watch TV and listen to music but I was saddened when I realised you can't play the SSX while relaxing D=!

[lazzybum]

I discovered I have two of every EA lots that came with the game O_o? Doubled the space! Does anyone know why?

[Nalia]

If you have moved your files to your laptop this is probably the reason you have duplicated lots. Just delete them.

[lazzybum]

This was on my main computer & haven't moved files to laptop yet. But yea I deleted, just wondered why xP

[Amairani]

I discovered that Noelle Dennis' interest in hobby is actually Cuisine. In game, Noelle is the hobby instructor Sim for Music and Dance...

[cheshirekat]

This was on my main computer & haven't moved files to laptop yet. But yea I deleted, just wondered why xP

Sometimes if you have a hood reset, the maxis bin lots will be duplicated. That is what happens in my game and has ever since I first installed it. I've even started new hoods several times and still that happens.

I intentionally delete all the maxis lots because I will never ever use them. Keeping them just makes the lot bin slow, slow, painfully slow. But each time my hood resets, I have to go delete all those maxis lots, which I have done over and over and over and over again. Quite irritating. If I don't delete all those lots, then the next reset will cause generated duplicates each and every time.

I wonder if maybe the startup file could be modified to delete all maxis lots from the lot bin. Without deleting any of the lots I created, of course. I only use the lot bin to temporarily hold lots I plan to copy over to my Houses neighborhood where I store a few of the houses I have created so I can easily backup that entire hood of my custom houses.

[lg135]

I learned that if a sim-owned business closes, a playable sim working there can get the memory of being 'fired'.

I've never had that happen to me before. Usually I just load the lot and their either unemployed or "employed" but with no salary and no location, but this time the sim drove in and instantly got the memory. She was so sad :0

[LuvSims2011]

i found out my sim mom wont let her newborn baby alone.

[LuvSims2011]

I learned that if a sim-owned business closes, a playable sim working there can get the memory of being 'fired'.

I've never had that happen to me before. Usually I just load the lot and their either unemployed or "employed" but with no salary and no location, but this time the sim drove in and instantly got the memory. She was so sad :0

that's strange...:)

[VioletPadfoot]

Aside from learning that my hack to squelch the "Oh look it raining!" every five minutes has stopped working, I also learned that toddlers will refuse to be potty trained unless they are in a good mood.

EDIT: On the weather hack issue, it seems I accidentally pulled it out in my recent quest for Download folder organization. Thankfully I didn't delete it. Now to get that toddler potty trained before 6 o'clock game time.

[TUL]

Today I discovered how to place elevators so they work. All this time of having AL and all I had to do was put some flooring in between the elevators. -.-
Still have no idea what the "elevator shaft" is for, though.
Does it show that I'm not a builder?

[katya_stevens]

TUL, the elevator shafts are for placement on floors where you don't want sims getting on or off. For example, if you had a six-storey apartment building where all the apartments were over two floors, you might only want the elevator stopping at floors 1, 3, and 5, and not 2, 4, or 6, thus you'd need to put the elevator shafts on the even-numbered floors (to allow the sims to go higher than floor 1).

[Liv Lukas]

I learned that when your sim is at his business lot you can click shift+F1 to open and close the business info in the top right corner.

[Peni Griffin]

I discovered that an itty-tiny short-haired white puppy can grow up to be a ginormous shaggy sheep dog! Who looks really funny when you put the collar on her.

[MsScribble]

I found out that no sim is safe in a resturant or cafe when Jennifer Burb is around - she will steal their meals from under thier noses, calmly eat it and leave them with the bill. lol.

http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o297/shellpic/PLEASANTVIEW/snapshot_6dae6a73_db0597cb.jpg

[animalgrrl]

I found out My poor little hammy can escape from his cage :( tear tear

[Amairani]

At first I thought I was mistaken, but yes, it's true as proven in multiple households - Garden Club membership's benefits (cheaper seeds) apply only for the Sim who asked for the membership. It does not apply to the lot along with all Sims living there!!
I honestly don't get the logic >_< A family member asks for garden's inspection, get an approval and a membership, but his family members can't use it!

[Clashfan]

I'm almost embarrassed to admit what I discovered today.

My Sims tend to date frequently certainly when they are teens and YA's they go on lot's of dates, 95% of which tend to be dream dates. Sort of easy to do if you match them up based on chemistry and once you figure out the basic pattern of which wants to meet. I have always used the the "Ask" option and asked "what do you want" in order to figure out the dates wants. You get a plus score for the action anyway.

Well last night I looked at the icon at the bottom of the scenario timer and thought to myself "hmmm I wonder what that little arrow is for?" So I clicked on it and low and behold it opens a screen that shows you the dates wants and fears.

In the words of Homer Simpson "D'oh!". :faceslap:

[Peni Griffin]

Look on the bright side - it's clever of you to get such a high rate of dream dates without the date display. By not having this bit of information, you acquired a level of skill most of us lack.

I tend to voluntarily leave that display closed for certain sims - non-Hawkins teens on their first few dates, certain kinds of natural social bumblers, self-centered characters who aren't interested in what the date wants - the kinds of people who shouldn't be able to or who won't bother to read their partner well. I've done so many dates that they still tend to do pretty well most of the time. Only one bad date ever; and that wasn't the sim's fault, exactly. There's only so many ways to salvage a date interrupted by a third party's hysterical "Damn you I'm pregnant!" announcement.

[cheshirekat]

I have to admit that I have not a clue about the arrow you are talking about. In my game, I just do the ask interaction as well. With adults, I have a few adult mods and clubs that help get the date more fun, or sometimes I will make the date temporarily selectable to see what the wants are. My sims always get dream dates when they go on dates, but I haven't sent a sim on a date in a while. I will have to look for an arrow if I remember next time.

[Peni Griffin]

It's easy to find. I don't even think of it as an arrow. Under the date meter there's the date's aspiration symbol; click the symbol and you're in. Asking what they want is comparatively cumbersome, since you only get one want at a time and it's not likely to be the most useful one: i.e., if the sim wants to play with you, tickle you, talk to you, and earn a skill point, there's a one-in-four chance he'll say "I want to gain a skill point," which you can't do a damn thing about. Whereas when you see that array, you know the next thing to do is "tickle," which will fulfill two wants for the price of one.

Sometimes I wish you could also see their motive bars, but that would make it way too easy.

[lazzybum]

I never knew of the hidden wants/fears panel either. But.. I actually like asking the sim rather than being psychic. Although I find it hilarious when the teen dates always tell you "I want to go to college" during their date xD

[Peni Griffin]

At some point, though, you start reading your date and know that now's the time to press on or back off. Experienced Romance sims (unless he's one of those selfish guys who succeeds best by picking up girls as easy as him) and people who are dating each other after being BFF their whole lives I wouldn't consider running with the panel closed. It's good to have both options.

[my4monkeys25]

I discovered today that toddlers follow ghosts! Crazy lol

[Peni Griffin]

I should have noticed this before, but the position of the character in the intro picture, the one you get in the loading screen when you enter the household, changes when an adult ages to elder. The result is that Kitty Hawkins is no longer kissing her husband! She's been kissing him in every screen in which she's not actually holding a baby or toddler since I started the game, and now they're on opposite ends of picture! Wah!

Does this mean that when Red and Livva Ann Onions age up in a couple of rotations, he won't be making bunny ears over her head anymore? :(

[lazzybum]

I discovered how incredibly gorgeous it is when a your sims visit a park during Fall season when it is surround with trees!!

[lg135]

I never knew of the hidden wants/fears panel either. But.. I actually like asking the sim rather than being psychic. Although I find it hilarious when the teen dates always tell you "I want to go to college" during their date xD

And that always happens -- "So what do want to do?" "I want to go to college!" "Um... I mean, what do you want to do...right now? "I WANNA GO TO COLLEGE!" "....what do... you want to do...with me...right now?" "Oh, I want you to tell me a joke! And then GO TO COLLEGE!"

I found out that playing a farmer's market is pretty fun. But the mods I need to make employees work in the gardens were @ the Sims Wardrobe...which is gone now :faceslap:

[TUL]

TUL, the elevator shafts are for placement on floors where you don't want sims getting on or off. For example, if you had a six-storey apartment building where all the apartments were over two floors, you might only want the elevator stopping at floors 1, 3, and 5, and not 2, 4, or 6, thus you'd need to put the elevator shafts on the even-numbered floors (to allow the sims to go higher than floor 1).

That's kind of what I started to think later on, but thanks for clearing that up completely for me!


Today, I discovered that children can teach their toddler siblings nursery rhymes. The child sim was on the verge of passing out when I realized they could, so I don't know what it looks like. ^^

[AlexandraSpears]

Sims can worry about their children/younger siblings.

My Sim was trying to potty-train her toddler before he went to bed...and the kid fell asleep sitting up on the floor. She started that Worry thing...and her aspiration score was high enough...then I saw a picture of her child in the action queue.

A little later, in another family, I had a toddler transition to child and a child transition to teen at the same time. The child was pretty tired after his transition and fell asleep standing up. Both his mother and older brother started worrying about him!

[TUL]

Sims can worry about their children/younger siblings.

My Sim was trying to potty-train her toddler before he went to bed...and the kid fell asleep sitting up on the floor. She started that Worry thing...and her aspiration score was high enough...then I saw a picture of her child in the action queue.

A little later, in another family, I had a toddler transition to child and a child transition to teen at the same time. The child was pretty tired after his transition and fell asleep standing up. Both his mother and older brother started worrying about him!

From what I've seen, it's not just family, either. I've had a Sim pass out on the sidewalk and random walk-bys would stop and worry about her.


I discovered today that vampire pregnancies are the easiest ever. Normally I'm having a hard time keeping up with their needs, but vampires' needs freeze at night and in coffins...it's amazing!

[lg135]

^Your avatar is how I imagine your expression for your discovery :D

[Peni Griffin]

Okay, I haven't actually learned this for a fact, but it appears that the paper carriers are created with absurdly high skill points. I just brought my second one to University and found him, like my first, as near maxed out as makes no never mind. I guess delivering papers is highly educational.

[VioletPadfoot]

perhaps the paper carriers read the newspapers before they deliver them? and on the subject of the newspaper carriers, anyone else find it odd that a teen delivers the paper at a time when all teens are supposed to be in school?

[TUL]

Maybe the paper carriers are young geniuses that graduated school early?


Also, I discovered that the Grim Reaper is a Taurus and enjoys long walks on the beach...that's what came up in a pop up when all the Sims in one of my houses died(accidentally, I forgot to press pause while I went to make lunch. -.-)

And lg135, that was my reaction to the discovery. xD

[Peni Griffin]

Sims can approve of the behavior of other sims.

Sparrow Hawkins went to college today, moving in with her friend Oliver, her big sister Pigeon, and Pigeon's fiance Ezekial. Now, the thing is this: She adores Pigeon, but she and Ezekial do not get along at all. They went so far as to have a fistfight at the party Oliver threw the night before he left for college. I didn't see how it started, but it was almost certainly Zeke's fault. He only has one nice point and, if I don't watch him every second, will make a beeline toward someone else Pigeon likes and insult him or her. The only people he's spontaneously nice to are his old bud Oliver, his little cloned sister, and his beloved Pigeon, whom he has treated as the goddess of his idolatry since that incident in grade school when she pinned his ears back for him. But her favorite little sister moves in and what do I catch him doing the first time he spots her? Why, making a beeline with "insult" in his queue! (The guy's got issues.) I quickly canceled that and told him to tell her a joke, instead. With great labor and cunning, I got them all the way up to positive 14 with each other, a new record.

So, the whole household is standing around after her welcoming party and I'm letting them behave autonomously while I think about what they need to do next, when Ezekial grabs Pigeon and starts making out with her. This is a standard leisure activity for them - and also for the Hawkins parents, who didn't get nine kids by keeping their hands to themselves. I happened to have Sparrow active at that moment, and saw Ezekial's picture appear above her head and in her queue, so I waved the mouse over it with some apprehension and saw: "Approve."

This didn't translate into any action, she just stood there and smiled. I guess she's okay with her sister being with a jerk, as long as he's good to her - and random spontaneous makeout counts as being "very good to her indeed" in the family subculture.

[reaper with no name]

If a sim transforms into a werewolf and a non-knowledge sim is watching, that non-knowledge sim will take a hit to their bladder motive.

EDIT: From the looks of the relevant code, it might also require that the watching sim not be a vampire, werewolf, or zombie. But it's late, and I'm too tired to follow the logic flows.

[TUL]

I discovered that Sims react when other Sims go through the door/bookcase that came with Apartment Life.
Doesn't make sense, though...my vampire legacy's founder and his wife both use the bookcase door to get to their coffins, but she always gets right excited when she sees him using it...

[Peni Griffin]

At some point, I got an alien face template in my CAS. I know it didn't used to be there, so either it unlocked when I got my first alien baby, or it came with Free Time. As far as I can tell, I don't have a green skin tone in CAS, though.

It's a stereotypical "gray alien" face shape - big eyes, small mouth, bulbous head, pointy chin. The really disturbing thing is how much it resembles some of my born in-game sims, and how I can see how something similar could be gotten with random genetics if Ma and Pa Hawkins recombined their DNA often enough. Ma's round forehead and cheeks, short face, and freakishly huge eyes, Pa's sharp triangular chin. Actually Harris Hawkins is pretty close to it...

[thebomb]

Never have your Sim flirt with the maid. EVER. That was my discovery. :rofl:

[Hwes]

Never have your Sim flirt with the maid. EVER. That was my discovery. :rofl:
:blink: Whyever not?

[lucyv]

Never have your Sim flirt with the maid. EVER. That was my discovery. :rofl:

The maids and butlers are actually great NPCs for your Sims to marry since they have maxed skills.

[RuthStar]

I noticed you can have fellow Apartment sims to watch your kids, when your working/out. So cool, I've never played an apartment block long enough to get to the kids stage but i thought that was cool.

[lg135]

^There's a mod out that enables it so anyone can do it... Blanking on where it is, at the moment, but it's very useful! Lots of sim children in my game getting to know their grandparents and aunts and uncles that way :3

[Liv Lukas]

^There's a mod out that enables it so anyone can do it... Blanking on where it is, at the moment, but it's very useful! Lots of sim children in my game getting to know their grandparents and aunts and uncles that way :3

Here: http://www.insimenator.org/index.php/topic,95096.0.html

[RuthStar]

^Ooh, Thank you both so much, thats gonna be very useful, I have a family where two sims currently have 8 grandchildren (It'll soon be 9) and they only know about 5 of them, so this will be very useful for situations like that. xD

[Peni Griffin]

Hey, you know how when walking some distance to conduct certain interactions male Romance sims swagger? Female Romance sims in the same situation wiggle their little butts more than usual!

I have more female than male romance sims, so I have no idea how it took me so long to notice this. Georgette was already in her undies, so its possible that the animations for everyday clothes de-emphasize the motion (a damn shame, if so). It's also a more subtle movement than the swagger, involving fewer body parts. I'm not sure I would have noticed it if I hadn't had a hind view at the time.

[AlexandraSpears]

Any time you get a Family Sim on a date, one of their fears is that their date will stink...as in their date needs a shower. Without fail, they roll that fear. (Never had it realized, though.)

[TUL]

I discovered that apparently children can become vampires. :/
Once again, I'm playing my vampire legacy family, and I realize that the founder's wife is having a chat with the therapist. I try to look into her memories to see if anything happened, and I find that she had bitten her eldest son, Hunter at least six times - and one was just before Hunter aged up to a child!
Hunter also has the memory of becoming a vampire. :/

[lg135]

I discovered that (the idea of) running schools are actually pretty cool. I've got a witch in college with a huge inheritance and no passion for anything so I thought -- why not open a magical school? It would be an easy way to get more witches and warlocks into the game.

But that idea was trumped by my plans to open an elite boarding school. I had Denise Jacquet pull a huge loan to buy an old mansion and convert it to a teaching/living facility for the best and the brightest teens out there (read: richest, until the school brings in enough profit for a scholarship student or two). I did get the idea after seeing the challenge the Challenges thread, but I'm working it a bit different. It's a business lot, so that she can hire and pay external sources to be teachers, but it will be forever "closed" so that people don't just come in and wreck havoc.

In my head it sounds really fun, and thinking of all the potential story-lines makes me happy. I like figuring out how all the skills can be classes, how many teachers to get, what to charge live-in vs. traveling students, how to make profit from said tuition after paying teachers and funding trips... it's rather exciting to me :D


Also... I've never played the Jacquets before, so I never knew her son was a romance sim. I always assumed he was a bit of a loser and Knowledge or Pleasure sim who didn't mind living with mum forever. In-game, he actually acts more like a Popularity sim than anything else (rolling wants to meet new people and be friends, good memories for going steady, getting engaged, and marrying his wife, only occasionally rolling wants to woohoo with other people.

[pinimon162]

that sims can 'join' another sim who is juggling the coffee cups from the espresso machine. Mortimer and Dina spent a good sim hour juggling together, much to my amusement

[Alijah]

Pets have ghosts! I have never seen this before! (I often have a hard time letting my pets die :( So I only actually have 2 pet graves in my game). Florence Delarosa's beloved cat for many years died the other night and tonight I found him wandering the kitchen, yowling away!

No doubt looking for more food, since he seemed fond of eating her stuff right off the counters.

[margonaute]

My recent discovery is this: toddlers can eat snow!
http://i411.photobucket.com/albums/pp198/mswn/ts2/Week%202%20Sweet/ScreenShot057.jpg

Also, to the poster above who mentioned SimWardrobe: the site is back up (http://simwardrobe.com/)!

[AlexandraSpears]

Also... I've never played the Jacquets before, so I never knew her son was a romance sim. I always assumed he was a bit of a loser and Knowledge or Pleasure sim who didn't mind living with mum forever. In-game, he actually acts more like a Popularity sim than anything else (rolling wants to meet new people and be friends, good memories for going steady, getting engaged, and marrying his wife, only occasionally rolling wants to woohoo with other people.

When I first got OFB I thought he was a townie...and I had him get married to a Sim I'd created! LOL Then I actually checked out Bluewater....

Funny...any time I play him, he has fears for get engaged, get married, and have a baby. I did mention this here a few times, but I'll mention it again: one time I tortured the poor sod. He had a fear of get engaged...so he got engaged. He then rolled a fear of get married...so he got married. Then he rolled a fear of have a baby...and his wife had twins! (Good thing aspiration hits don't double!)

I typically change his aspiration to popularity so I don't have to put up with the whining.... :P

[pinimon162]

When I first got OFB I thought he was a townie...and I had him get married to a Sim I'd created! LOL Then I actually checked out Bluewater....

Funny...any time I play him, he has fears for get engaged, get married, and have a baby. I did mention this here a few times, but I'll mention it again: one time I tortured the poor sod. He had a fear of get engaged...so he got engaged. He then rolled a fear of get married...so he got married. Then he rolled a fear of have a baby...and his wife had twins! (Good thing aspiration hits don't double!)

I typically change his aspiration to popularity so I don't have to put up with the whining.... :P

a perfect example of sim torture fulfilling all their fears :lol: I've never actually played the Bluewater sims, they really don't interest me (with the exception of Malcolm Landgraab, who's been in other sims games so I played him)

[AlexandraSpears]

Romance Sims are pretty easy to torture!

But I'm not completely heartless, so I either give them a secondary aspiration of Family or change their aspiration.

[TUL]

I discovered that clean templates reduce the loading times of a brand new neighborhood by at least half.

[JazDarcy]

That sims can actually have quite logical wants!

My pregnant sim just rolled the want to have a baby, a fear of throwing up (don't blame her, never seen a sim have such bad morning sickness) and keeps re-rolling the want to eat cheesecake :P haha

[VioletPadfoot]

That sims can actually have quite logical wants!

My pregnant sim just rolled the want to have a baby, a fear of throwing up (don't blame her, never seen a sim have such bad morning sickness) and keeps re-rolling the want to eat cheesecake :P haha

I wonder if she realizes that the cheesecake she wants will give her twins? Or if she'll roll a fear of cheesecake the next pregnancy once she figures it out?

[JazDarcy]

I wonder if she realizes that the cheesecake she wants will give her twins? Or if she'll roll a fear of cheesecake the next pregnancy once she figures it out?

Haha! :) Well since she's having twins thanks to the cheesecake I don't think she'll be having any more kids as they already have a child and three kids is plenty! This sim is my favourite at the moment as before her first pregnancy she was a world class ballet dancer and actually rolled a fear of having a baby despite being a family/knowledge sim! :lol:

[TUL]

I discovered that there's a "woohoo in a tent" want. For some reason I've never seen it before. o.O

[omglo]

That if you mouse over a sim's astrological sign in the information panel a little box appears and tells you all about the traits that go along with the sign. Only took me a few years to notice this :faceslap:

Having a teen move in with their single romance sim parent is a bad idea if you have a mod that lets sims fight anyone installed, unless you want to spend the whole time preventing the teen from barging into the room and smacking his parent's dates.

[Mew1210]

That when my sim gives birth, the baby is green. Every. Flipping. Time. :cry:
She's married to Johnny Smith in Strangetown. Her older twins are green, but I want this kid to have a normal skin color. :C

[cheshirekat]

One of my sims got a "Plant a seed" want that I have never seen.

I often lay out a few plots for their garden before the family moves into their new house. But sometimes it may take a couple days efore they can begin work on the garden if they are a new family. So I am surprised I haven't seen this want before. All my families have to grow produce. But I make them learn how to fish first so they can have some food in the house - sims are not allowed to order groceries. But having them catch some fish before anyone can cook their first meal, I get to pretend the fridge is empty and not stocked with food.

[smorbie1]

One of my sims got a "Plant a seed" want that I have never seen.

I often lay out a few plots for their garden before the family moves into their new house. But sometimes it may take a couple days efore they can begin work on the garden if they are a new family. So I am surprised I haven't seen this want before. All my families have to grow produce. But I make them learn how to fish first so they can have some food in the house - sims are not allowed to order groceries. But having them catch some fish before anyone can cook their first meal, I get to pretend the fridge is empty and not stocked with food.

Really? Plant a seed? In S2? I've never seen that. That sometimes want to buy a garden plot, but none of mine have ever cared whether anything was planted in it?

Learn something every day! :Pint:

[lg135]

^I'm surprised neither of you have seen this. Come springtime, all my sims want to become gardeners and roll that want (but never want to keep up with the upkeep :lol: ) with or without a garden plot.

That when my sim gives birth, the baby is green. Every. Flipping. Time. :cry:
She's married to Johnny Smith in Strangetown. Her older twins are green, but I want this kid to have a normal skin color. :C

I've never played Strangetown longer than 10 minutes (le gasp!) but is Johnny Smith a full alien? If so, I believe I read somewhere that the green skin is pretty much dominant. I asked this question about Stella Terano awhile back after about 40 rebirths to see if I could one green child and one non-green kid and it just wasn't happenin' ^^;

[VioletPadfoot]

I've never played Strangetown longer than 10 minutes (le gasp!) but is Johnny Smith a full alien? If so, I believe I read somewhere that the green skin is pretty much dominant. I asked this question about Stella Terano awhile back after about 40 rebirths to see if I could one green child and one non-green kid and it just wasn't happenin' ^^;

Nope, Johnny is half alien. His father is a retired PT and his mom is full human. His younger sister is normal colored. But since she was maxis created, that has nothing to do with genetics.

[smorbie1]

[QUOTE=lg135]^I'm surprised neither of you have seen this. Come springtime, all my sims want to become gardeners and roll that want (but never want to keep up with the upkeep :lol: ) with or without a garden plot.


Mine want to plant orchard trees or flowers, but never seeds. Weird. :rolleyes:

[Peni Griffin]

I never got the "plant a seed" want till after I installed Freetime. Since then (I'm on my third rotation with it) I've had one Knowledge sim and one child Nature enthusiast roll it.

I have, however, been rolling "influence somebody else to do the gardening" wants since I first installed a garden. Lazy buggers...I hardly ever let them influence anybody else to do their chores, unless the sim is pregnant or there's a toddler in the house; or I'm at University and a professor is crashing a party.

[smorbie1]

I never got the "plant a seed" want till after I installed Freetime. Since then (I'm on my third rotation with it) I've had one Knowledge sim and one child Nature enthusiast roll it.

I have, however, been rolling "influence somebody else to do the gardening" wants since I first installed a garden. Lazy buggers...I hardly ever let them influence anybody else to do their chores, unless the sim is pregnant or there's a toddler in the house; or I'm at University and a professor is crashing a party.

I always ignore the influence wants. :D

[lizard49]

I never got the "plant a seed" want till after I installed Freetime. Since then (I'm on my third rotation with it) I've had one Knowledge sim and one child Nature enthusiast roll it.

One of my Sims with Pleasure/Knowledge aspiration rolled the "plant a seed" want today. He already has a bronze gardening badge & will be doing more gardening as soon as spring arrives in his hood.

[Tenielle]

That in a fire, Sims can carry their Toddlers to safety... so cute!
http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/qq239/tenielle84/Sims2EP92011-06-2822-32-12-21copy.jpg

[reaper with no name]

Female elder pets can't breed.

[Peni Griffin]

They'll also carry babies to safety - and for once won't get in each other's way when responding to urgent helpless-offspring needs!

As far as game mechanics are concerned, it's unnecessary, since babies and toddlers can't die in fires; but think how unsympathetic sims would be who didn't do this! It also has the beneficial effect of taking the parent who's protecting the offspring out of fire danger, too.

[aaries16]

In apartments all sims will run to the mailboxes if there's a fire. But this caused the reverse effect of the "caring parent in a fire" thing that happens in house fires. A sim of mine was walking to the kitchen with her infant and then a fire broke out on the stove (husband was cooking). Instead of running out the house with the baby, she put the baby down (just around the corner from the fire) and ran out the apartment for her own safety. What a horrible mother.

A couple things I noticed today:
Pregnant sims will refuse to go to work if they a due to give birth in about an hour.
Teen sims make out in the hot tub differently than adult sims. It's been a long time since I've seen teen sims make out in the hottub. Plus I found out that teen sims can make out in the closet too.

[Peni Griffin]

That's odd - when I had a kitchen fire in an apartment with a baby in it, the mother ran and grabbed the baby out of the crib upstairs and carried him to the mailbox while the father (who had started the fire) stood in the kitchen panicking until I canceled "panic" and told him to put it out. I guess this is one of those autonomous reactions with variables.

Now I have to go make teens make out in a hot tub.

[AlexandraSpears]

Whenever a Knowledge Sim loses a skill point as a result of a work chance card, they immediately roll wants for Stay Home From Work, and to regain the lost point.

[Mew1210]

Nope, Johnny is half alien. His father is a retired PT and his mom is full human. His younger sister is normal colored. But since she was maxis created, that has nothing to do with genetics.

Ohhh. I kept thinking "Since Jill is normal, my baby Sim might be normal." xD Whoops.
Oh well. The baby's name is Sydney, and she's adorable. :P Even if she's green.

[KaiRuh]

If you type a dollar sign ($) into a Sim's biography box, a simoleon sign is entered instead. :O

[jendyose]

I learned that setting your teenage fortune sim's turn off as unemployed makes for a very lonely time at college...oops.

[Peni Griffin]

I happened to look in a kitten's memories shortly after he made friends with the sims in his household, and saw that this was represented by the paw sign and the words: "Tiffany/Eppie became mine."

In dogs it's "Sim joined the pack," so I was specifically looking to see how cats viewed the transaction. Not surprising, but I liked to see it.

[AlexandraSpears]

Servos can get abducted by aliens. I had one that liked to summon aliens.

[Peni Griffin]

Hey, financial sims can autonomously decide to do financial consulting for cash! I had Ernest Munny check his e-mail and send and e-mail, and where normally, when I didn't get back to him, a sim would stick in a game disk, when I moused over his queue I saw "Financial consulting" in the window. I haven't had him do it before (I'm adding the aspiration benefits gradually, to get used to them, and only added this one for him at the end of last rotation), and he looks so adorably serious, rubbing his beard and going "hmmmm" at the screen...But then I'm a little besotted with Ernest.

Afterthought: It occurs to me that this is in conjunction with his having rolled wants for a bunch of big ticket items after my making him go through a lot of social interactions with his alien pregnant ex-friend, as the only person in the neighborhood with experience in this area. So now it looks like he's trying to persuade me to reward him with these things by proving that yes, they can in fact afford them. Which is just like his methodical little heart.

[devmars]

OK, here's what happened (and i discovered)

My mom sim (Rita) had to go to work with her husband (Leo), her kids had to go to school, so we called a nanny and had a schedule. The husband got promoted (he is in the medical field running the night shift) so now he can stay and watch the kids. Rita dismissed her, while their toddler, Andrew, was in her arms still. So, the nanny, not knowing about Andrew (and Andrew glitched and said he was in his crib still), drove off with my baby. His icon on the side disappeared, so he just left my family.

I didn't save, so now hes back. I killed the nanny using boolprop.

[AlexandraSpears]

Hey, financial sims can autonomously decide to do financial consulting for cash! I had Ernest Munny check his e-mail and send and e-mail, and where normally, when I didn't get back to him, a sim would stick in a game disk, when I moused over his queue I saw "Financial consulting" in the window. I haven't had him do it before (I'm adding the aspiration benefits gradually, to get used to them, and only added this one for him at the end of last rotation), and he looks so adorably serious, rubbing his beard and going "hmmmm" at the screen...But then I'm a little besotted with Ernest.



Wait until you try it out on super-rich Sims--if you give them the play the stock market benefit. They'll never have to work, they can bring home a couple thousand Simoleons in one day and buy all their shiny toys and baubles.

Of course, no doubt Fortune Sims will figure that hey, any Simoleon you can bring home....

[WooHoo31]

Toddlers dance to the stereo. So cute. :P

[reaper with no name]

Zombies can breastfeed.

They can't give birth, but if they happen to have a kid, die, and get brought back as a zombie...

[Aegagropilon]

That housecleaners have some super spidey-senses when it comes to cheating.

Jessie Pilferson invited over her main squeeze (and father of her twins, Axl and Bonnie) Gunnar Roque over to spend some time with the toddlers, since they roll wants related to him when he's visiting. So they're taking turns handling the twins when housekeeper Xavier Hurt -- who is one of Jessie's conquests -- enters the house to clean up the pigsty. Things go about as normal, until I mess up on the toddler switchoff while Xavier is taking out the trash. Jessie, finding herself and Gunnar momentarily unoccupied with the twins, promptly smooches Gunnar. Xavier drops the trash and runs back inside to give Jessie five across the face.


Though sims seem to have a keen sense in general in regard to cheating: freelance pollination technician Ellison dated both downtownie Ira Rodriguez and Strangetownie Matthew Howe before she finally married Matthew and cut ties with Ira. One day, Ira was walking by the house while Ellison was having the audacity to woohoo her own husband and promptly threw a snitfit. Ellison got the "got caught cheating" memory from INSIDE THE HOUSE, while Ira was still outside! And her bedroom was in the back of the house, where Ira couldn't have possibly seen what was transpiring (and if he was looking in, he has further issues than just his ex "cheating on him" with her husband :lol: ).

[my4monkeys25]

I discovered that not all family sims behave the same way. I have a couple, he's a family and she's a fortune, that have been married for some time now and neither has rolled the want for a baby. I thought this was very unusual. He rolled the want for a baby one time while they were dating but that's it. Usually, in my experience, family sims will roll that want right after the wedding.

This couple is weird anyway. She only rolls for her career and vacation homes (normal fortune sim behavior) but she'll also roll for her ex boyfriend. He rolls for like three other women all the time. It's like the game doesn't recognize that they're married and they definitely are.

Anyway, she's pregnant now because her dad keeps rolling for a grandchild and that's good enough for me. :)

Edit to add: One of my sims also rolled a fear of being chased by another sim? What in the world is that? I didn't even know they could chase one another??

[Peni Griffin]

Sounds to me like they aren't a very strong match. Date them more, encourage lots of canoodling, and they might get more enthusiastic; leave them alone, or play strictly by their wants as the duty baby pops out, and you may find them drifting apart.

But the time of year and the surrounding circumstances also affect which wants get rolled when. Sims with demanding jobs that they find satisfying are less likely to roll baby wants, in my experience; and while some family sims reroll the baby want as soon as they give birth, others won't until after the baby ages to toddler, or even to child. And if she feels poor, or tired, or the house is already crowded, or the parent is old enough that he or she will age to elder before the baby is self-sufficient, that have-a-baby fear pops right up.

[lauratje86]

Edit to add: One of my sims also rolled a fear of being chased by another sim? What in the world is that? I didn't even know they could chase one another??

I'm not entirely sure, but I think that that may be a glitch, I'm afraid. I think that sometimes, instead of rolling fears about being chased by a wolf/dog it will come up as a fear of being chased by a sim instead. Not sure what causes it, but if I've got that right it could be a sign of other problems in the 'hood. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news! And don't take my word for it, I may well be wrong!

[SingleClawDesigns]

@my4monkey and Laura

If your sim is child or older sometimes they roll the want/fear of being tortured by someone. I think the torture action goes with children mostly and came with freetime i believe.

[Alijah]

Edit to add: One of my sims also rolled a fear of being chased by another sim? What in the world is that? I didn't even know they could chase one another??

"Torment" is a social interaction that was added (I think) in Freetime. It is available to teens and children, and the kids/teens just annoy one another. They chase them, scare them, and overall, just act like an obnoxious sibling. It's actually really cute and reminds me of growing up with my siblings!

Skip Broke Jr. was happy to give a demonstration as he torments his older brother Beau:

http://i54.tinypic.com/2z86yc9.jpg

[GreenPiCat]

I learnt that you get a certain number of people in your home buisness based off your rank (As well as how good your computer is)

[lauratje86]

That's true, SingleClawsDesigns and Alijah, but I'm pretty sure I have also read about a glitch where fears of being chased by pets roll as fears being chased by sims. The torment interaction, on the other hand, is a perfectly legitimate part of the game :-)

So it depends on what the fear was exactly. Fear of being tormented = fine, fear of being chased (like the ones sims sometimes get about wolves) = bad....

[my4monkeys25]

I'm not entirely sure, but I think that that may be a glitch, I'm afraid. I think that sometimes, instead of rolling fears about being chased by a wolf/dog it will come up as a fear of being chased by a sim instead. Not sure what causes it, but if I've got that right it could be a sign of other problems in the 'hood. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news! And don't take my word for it, I may well be wrong!

Aw man... I hope it's not a glitch. I recently re-installed my game and this hood is brand new and the only hood I have. I'm on my 5th legacy generation, though. Ugh. I would like to make it through one legacy lol

Thanks for the info! And about the couple that never wanted the baby lol... she caught her husband with another woman and they split up. He is now rolling wants for family things but she is still rolling career wants. I'm just going to accept that she's a career woman and put her on birth control. :)

[Aegagropilon]

I like how the "torment" interaction is a positive interaction if the siblings or friends have a high interaction score. It's cute seeing them tromp through the house scaring and bugging each other, then get the little plusses over their heads.

[Lollopisemis]

"Torment" is a social interaction that was added (I think) in Freetime.
I don't have FreeTime so I rather think it came with Apartment Life :)

Back to topic: Hmm... I didn't notice anything today but my Sim was once interacting with a white "wolf"(dog) and afterwards she had a memory that said "Was chased by wolf" And it stood something about her being afraid or something like that. I was like "what?!" because I never noticed anything.

[lg135]

I like how the "torment" interaction is a positive interaction if the siblings or friends have a high interaction score. It's cute seeing them tromp through the house scaring and bugging each other, then get the little plusses over their heads.

Likewise, it's sad and annoying when they don't appreciate it and cry. The offending sim is like "What? I'm jus...look, I'm just...kidding...geez." It usually happens they hardly know each other, but I've had sims who enjoyed it at 0/0. I believe they eventually grew up and got married x))

[VioletPadfoot]

I discovered the "Gross Out" interaction. And was highly amused that when Ripp Grunt grossed out Tank, it took one try. But when Tank tried to gross out Ripp, Ripp only laughed at him.

I also discovered that I miss all my downloads and EP additions whilst playing in a base game version of AGS.

[Aegagropilon]

Housecleaners can get puddlerage!

Housecleaner Alec was going through the monumental task of cleaning up Chloe Curious and Ripp Grunt's house (Ripp and their daughter Layla Curious generate a lot of mess) when Ripp decided to take a shower. Alec went in after him to clean up the puddle and, much to my amusement, got the firey thought bubble of Ripp-directed rage afterwards!

[my4monkeys25]

I learned that sims can set themselves on fire with Crepes Suzette. I almost lost my legacy that way. lol

[Alijah]

I learned that sims will greet their BFF differently than other sims!

Lucy Burb was waiting outside for her BFF Georgia to come over, and when Georgia entered the lot, Lucy started waving her hand over her head like a manic with this big goofy grin on her face. I had no idea what she was doing til I saw Georgia return the action!

It reminded me so much of myself and my rl BFF, who lives on the other side of the country. It was a little sad, but so adorable!

[JazDarcy]

Some child sims will try and drink the bubble mixture. Its quite funny to watch actually :D

[TUL]

I discovered that I now have standards when it comes to CC. O.o
I was browsing a custom content site that I loved when I first started downloading CC, but now that I go back, I can't stand the quality...

[ai haibara]

I discovered that my sim can float on her back while in the pool!i never knew that! :p

[AlexandraSpears]

Not all townies are ugly.

There's this one child townie, has a blue shirt, black hair, and a poor imitation of Shirley Temple's curls. She was aged to teen along with my born-in-game Sim. I used Pescado's "change clothing" doodad to change her hair and clothes (after making her selectable) and she's pretty good-looking. She went to college with said Sim and is now married to him.

[margonaute]

Children can cuddle on the couch with adults, and IT IS DARLING.

http://i411.photobucket.com/albums/pp198/mswn/misc/ScreenShot098-1.jpg

[SingleClawDesigns]

I discovered that Jason Cleveland in Belladonna Cove is gay from the start. That will be an interesting family to break up.

[Peni Griffin]

I discovered that you can't repair the trash compactor if it has a juicer on top of it; not even if you're the repairman. I dunno what makes it different from the dishwasher, which I put stuff on top of all the time.

[Josepina]

When you press y in a lot you can swivel the camera around and check out the neighbourhood.

[Aserette]

That siblings can get super jealous when they see their sister/brother's lover on a date with someone else. For eg. Ron Brown was on a date with Amy Jones who he barely new. He's sort of a guy who doesn't want to settle down, he just wants to watch his nieces and nephews grow while he goes on with his own life.
While on a date with Amy Jones, he was still in love with Daisy Thimble.

Daisy Thimble's sister (Blossom Thimble) rocked up and got very mad when Ron and Amy had "romantic" interactions or flirted with eachother. Blossom even got negative relationship points towards him..

They were about to give eachother a back rub and had been flirting with eachother beforehand.

I wanted to get a pic of Blossom being mad.. Haha

[Peni Griffin]

Yeah, those relatives will hang around hating your guts for a long time after you and the person you're cheating on lose all interest in each other, unless you take pains to repair the relationship. That's why my romance sims mostly date townies and dormies.

[Aserette]

Yeah, those relatives will hang around hating your guts for a long time after you and the person you're cheating on lose all interest in each other, unless you take pains to repair the relationship. That's why my romance sims mostly date townies and dormies.

Yeah, the Amy Jones chick is a townie ages from teen to adult. I agree, it is a pain. Blossom and Ron were friends before he went and dated the other chick D=!
Even while her sister (Daisy) lost interest in Ron and went and had a kid with some other guy who didn't want to committ.

It'd be great if they lost interest (love) in eachother after no contact for a week or something. Instead of havening to go through a break up which would most likely cause them to be enemies D=!

[Peni Griffin]

I find learning anger management heads making enemies off at the pass; and if you have them call each other up periodically they can rebuild the friendship over time. But it takes a lot longer with relatives than with the actual lovers!

[Bellasaurus]

ACR will only allow one Auto-Woo at a time (in a dorm anyway), I have a tendency to make some of the dormies selectable & throw a few romantic actions around to spice things up a bit. High-jinks generally ensue, but only one (well...I suppose technically two ;)) at a time it seems!

[akksgurl]

I learned that my town is full of liars. I have no idea why, but whenever my sims marry in townies that claim to be rich, they end up being dirt poor. :lol:

[KaiRuh]

That I've no clue how I ever played without ACR. Everything just got much more interesting. :p

[Clashfan]

That I've no clue how I ever played without ACR. Everything just got much more interesting. :p

I so felt the same way after I installed it. No idea what took me so long. I did have a bit of an adjustment period and a major baby boom in my hood. ;)

[Alijah]

That I've no clue how I ever played without ACR. Everything just got much more interesting. :p

Same! I love how it gives more depth to townies--I often see them flirting on their own while I'm at community lots, and it gives it a bit of realism. I also like that sims can be inherently attracted to certain sims and autonomously seek that sim out.

I also recently discovered that 4th-generation Ottomas kids don't look half bad! David Ottomas and Angela Pleasant's baby just aged up to a toddler and she is surprisingly adorable!

[Aegagropilon]

We've all seen how sims that have been spied-upon with the telescope arrive to shove the viewer, but today I saw that other sims on the lot can react to the shover!

The ever-eccentric Frieda was looking through the telescope when Vidcund inevitably arrived to shove her. She started to cry and Nervous, who was standing nearby, scowled in Vidcund's direction. I checked his action queue and, sure enough, he was ready to argue with Vidcund XD

[Josepina]

When you place street lamps on a lot they are still turned on when viewed from other lots - unlike all other lights which are out or even street lamps placed from hood view which are not lit up. They don't actually light up the area like those on the current lot. But it still looks nice rather than looking out at a pitch black neighbourhood.

[DrowningFishy]

Man, you just keep learning new things with this game. Last week was teens can get abducted by aliens (don't know if I posted that one but hahaha thought something was missing just couldn't figure it out), to this week I discovered teens can read other teens to sleep. Awww the youngest Grunt read his girlfriend to sleep. Also I learned if an adult ages up badly into an elder the grim reaper shows up at the party... ... ...

[Holliday]

Also I learned if an adult ages up badly into an elder the grim reaper shows up at the party... ... ...

Really? I've had adults grow up badly and there was no Grim Reaper. I feel like I'm missing out! :(

[smorbie1]

Really? I've had adults grow up badly and there was no Grim Reaper. I feel like I'm missing out! :(

Me too. But I don't usually throw them a party. Did the grim reaper go ahead and take the new elder, or was he just crashing the party for a piece of cake? :rolleyes:

[Amairani]

I LOLed last night at my new discovery: turns out a "Leap Into Arms" interaction (one of the four types of hugs) can be declined by a receipient Sim if he has no crush for the Sim initiating that hug, he simply moved back at the time she jumped.
And as a result a leaping into arms Sim ended up on her butt on the ground :D And gave a disgruntled look at her crush, oh my her dissapointed face expression!
It was so funny that I made her to try leaping into his arms again just to see her landing on her butt again, not caring their relationship score get lower with every failure :D

[KaiRuh]

... I discovered that I need to be more careful when inviting extra Sims to a wedding.

Since the Throw Wedding Party option just gives you one Sim's phonebook, I always go through the other Sim's phonebook as well and invite everyone who I want to come from there who won't be invited by their spouse. While I was queuing up "Call Sim" actions, I accidentally clicked "Ask Sim on Date" once. Ooooops. I didn't notice it until the choice box for where to have the date come up.

Now that I think of it, I could have chosen a community lot and just cancelled the whole thing by simply not choosing a lot and exiting out of that menu box. But I chose home. So he comes to the house for our "date" ... and her fiance immediately "catches her cheating" — how did he even know?! They hadn't interacted at all! They were on opposite sides of the lot!

I still managed to get them married during that party. And the husband had a good few fights with his wife's "date" (all of which he won) before sending him on his way.

Ah, accidental chaos.

[DrowningFishy]

Me too. But I don't usually throw them a party. Did the grim reaper go ahead and take the new elder, or was he just crashing the party for a piece of cake? :rolleyes:

Just to be certain I repeated the same steps and yup grimmy showed up and my adult aged into a urn. Well, not literally there was a few steps involved but you get my drift. Maybe I reprogrammed my reaper by killing so many sims viciously.



Yeah sims 3 I had grimmys showing up at weird times, but never 2. It was funny that one time he beat the stuffing out of the burglar then shook my sims hand then poof gone; Still think that's on youtube. AH to bad sims 2 video on my computer sucks other wise I'd so capture this.

[my4monkeys25]

I discovered the way that neat sims eat potato chips! :rofl:

[AlexandraSpears]

Having a good reputation does not mean your Sim won't honk off the wrong Sim and pay.

Here's how I found out:

If you have OFB and play the Jacquets, you know that Gilbert always has a crush on this one townie (short brown-haired one) and vice-versa.

I got him married to a Sim I created.

One day this townie, going by the name Gwen in this case, decided to stop by the Jacquet house and Denise let her in, and of course Gilbert's wife Mitzi had no idea who this was.

Gilbert came home from work, not knowing that his other crush was around, and he and Mitzi decided to WooHoo...with the predictable result.

After Gwen was done slapping him, she informed him that his household would be paying top Simoleon for stuff! And Gilbert's reputation level is Reputable Resident!

[Aegagropilon]

Romance/Romance pairs can make for some unusual home situations XD (I have ACR installed, but largely disabled in my game so the jealousy adjustments are in place, even if the casual interactions aren't. I doubt this would happen in an unmodded game.)

I have two households that contain unmarried Romance/Romance couples -- Ripp Grunt & Chloe Curious and Jessie Pilferson & Gunnar Roque -- and their kids. They're generally very content and are usually in platinum mood because of in-house dates that can be easily worked around childcare.

Ripp spontaneously showed up at the Pilferson/Roque household and is currently dividing his time between kissing Jessie and chatting with Jessie and Gunnar's three kids. Gunnar isn't the least bit bothered by it and neither are the kids. In fact, Gunnar, Ripp, Axl, and Ozzy are all competing for Jessie's attention (while daddy's girl Bonnie shadows Gunnar). It's the sort of situation that would cause most households to explode into a massive, fightcloud mess of hurt feelings and broken hearts, but it's a complete non-issue in the Romance/Romance households.

I'm definitely going to use this as an advantage when it comes time to try and get Ripp and Chloe's daughter Layla into private school :lol: The headmaster won't know what hit him.

[AlexandraSpears]

It seems to me that children of Romance Sims are more likely to roll a fear of "relative breaks up." Maybe they know that one (or both) parents is likely to cheat. (My Romance Sims stay faithful--they can be kept happy with public WooHoo or going out on a date with their spouse).

EDIT: I also found out that grouchy Sims get Fun from watching brawls.

[Aserette]

A few days ago I discovered the "steal bottle" interaction between toddlers! I've only ever seen it in the opening cinematic, but I think it only showed up because the toddler twins I had didn't have many nice points.
D=! I was about to tell one of the tots to steal the bottle but his mum was about to give him one so I didn't get to see the interaction! Daamn it.

[lg135]

I discovered the way that neat sims eat potato chips! :rofl:

Okay, I'll bite -- how do neat sims eat potato chips? My sims rarely eat snacks so I'm blanking.

[Clashfan]

Okay, I'll bite -- how do neat sims eat potato chips? My sims rarely eat snacks so I'm blanking.

Very slowly and one at a time. It takes them forever to eat a snack.

[AlexandraSpears]

Very slowly and one at a time. It takes them forever to eat a snack.

And it looks like they're using their fingertips to hold the chips.

I don't mind neatfreaks (stuff gets clean, and I mean CLEAN in their homes), but sometimes it's a bit over the top!

[Firelira78]

I discovered that I should not have under any circimstances married Cassandra Goth and Frances J Worthington. They make hideous children (or at least girls) :)

[Aegagropilon]

I discovered that Chester Gieke has very, very strong genes. All of his kids look almost exactly like him, and his sons are practically clones of each other despite not having the firstborn effect.

Seriously, the only difference between kids Aldous and Edgar (besides Aldous's expressions betraying the sour little monster he is most of the time) so far is their eyebrows and possibly their cheeks. Stella's genetics really didn't stand a chance.

[xMERLiSE]

That Sims could ask "where did it go?"
Somehow, my male sim Jun got sick while I was away from my computer so I could mop my own floor. He'd thrown up for a while and the toilet was disgusting. I was trying to make him clean it, but since it was at an angle he wouldn't do it. I deleted the object and replaced it with a new one. My sim self came up the stairs and went to the bathroom and she began to raise her arms up and started looking around. I was like . . . kay, are you gonna pee now? So I let my mouse hover on the interaction with her face on it and all it said was "Where did it go?" >.<
Had me in giggles.

[lg135]

Very slowly and one at a time. It takes them forever to eat a snack.And it looks like they're using their fingertips to hold the chips.

I don't mind neatfreaks (stuff gets clean, and I mean CLEAN in their homes), but sometimes it's a bit over the top!

Hahaha I've got to try that! I have plenty (maybe TOO many) neat sims to do so on.


I just discovered that Parents and children can't sleep in the same bed with underwear on.

Wait wait, before you think I'm some kind of pedo, let me explain xD I exhausted a child to the point where they autonomously passed out in a bed (and in this case, her mum's bed) and because she had just taken a bath, she was already in her undies. I later sent the mum to go to sleep in her bed as well. I don't actively decide what a sim sleeps in, so at random I clicked undies, and expected the mum to go to sleep and fast forward the night.

It happened that way... for about a second. Then the child promptly woke up and refused to get back in bed. Curious, I woke up the mum and sent them both to sleep in PJs. They didn't wake up again :P

[Peni Griffin]

Children can't sleep with teens at all. Which was really inconvenient when I started playing the Newsons, as to save money and space I bought two double beds and two cribs, intending Ginger and Gabriella to sleep in one double and Gavin and Gallagher to sleep in the other, which is the way every family I was ever around would have dealt with the sleeping arrangements. The same-age, cross-gender pairs could sleep together once they made friends, but that squicked me, so I had to buy singles. I did let the twins sleep in the same bed while they were kids - money and space were both tight and hey, twins.

[Aegagropilon]

Kids also can't sleep in a bed that a parent is relaxing on. It wakes them up the moment the parent sits down on the bed.

I discovered this a loooong time ago, back when the Subject twins were kids. Grimhild had fallen asleep in her parents' bed, and Nervous went into the room to tuck her in. He then went over to the other side of the bed to relax and watch her sleep. Grimhild immediately woke up, even though she was still exhausted.

(And I could have sworn that teens and their kid siblings could sleep in the same bed, but I know I'm likely wrong.)

[omglo]

That sim children will hide when their parent gets in a fight. My sim took his son to that diner, and shortly afterward Kennedy Cox attacked him (is that townie so nasty in every game?). The poor little boy hid in the bathroom and threw a tantrum until it was over. Then I had the sim attack Kennedy to see if it was a coincidence, and that time, the child ran back to the bathroom and cried. Sorry for ruining your outing, pixel kid.

[AlexandraSpears]

Yeah, Sim kids HATE seeing their parents involved in any kind of fight or argument--they run and have a fit. Same with teens.

[Aegagropilon]

I'm not sure what determines whether the kid (or teen) will cry or just throw a fit when their parent gets in a fight or is argued with.

It definitely isn't nice points, though. I've seen 0 points nice simkids get just as upset as their nice-pointed peers.

[VioletPadfoot]

I discovered that sims can cannonball into the pool from the side. It amused me greatly the first time I saw a random sim do it while my sim was on vacation, and then again in a different household while everyone was swimming.

I also discovered that you can't tell a toddler to play with a toddler toy unless the toddler is on the same floor as that toy. This one is annoying. Until i tell the toddler to go downstairs where the toy is located, I can't tell him/her to play with it. Its happened in two households so far so I assume it's game wide and not a glitched toy/sim.

[KaiRuh]

Toddlers can't go up or down stairs without a mod to allow it, so that makes sense.

[xMERLiSE]

Sims can have a LAN Party ._.

[VioletPadfoot]

Toddlers can't go up or down stairs without a mod to allow it, so that makes sense.
I completely didn't think of that. I've had the mod to allow toddler and puppies and kittens to sue stairs for so long that I forgot I even had it.

[Peni Griffin]

If you change the relationships in SimPE, so that Goz Hawkins is now Livva Ann Onions's brother and all his children are Livva Ann's nieces/nephews and cousins to her children, with all the family flags tied on, the inappropriate attraction markers that have been plaguing you from day one go away, replaced by "family" symbols, but the family trees don't get linked. So the primary purpose is accomplished, but I still need my separate notes to remind myself how they're related.

Which at least means the decision not to expand the family flags to the second cousin degree for my core families (who really shouldn't marry closer than about fourth cousins, per the backstory) is made for me - too little work and I'd soon lose track of the degrees anyway without family trees to assist me. And I am not investing the time to make family trees in my husband's geneology software - it's not as fun as playing, and he'd notice and take my disks away.

It finally occurred to me to click on one of those little memory squares and I found that they put up additional pop-up explanatory text beyond the stuff that appears when you mouse over it. Why this never occurred to me before is one of the mysteries of the human brain.

[lazzybum]

Discovered two ghost pets can still play with each other.

I also discovered staring at the ghosts dogs playing for a minute or two somehow gave me the creeps and I jumped when my sim's housephone rang >_>. (But then again, its only a teen girl living in a huge lakehouse with 4 graves in the backyard)

Another:
You know when your sims enjoy something and you tell them to do that, they look up you with a "woot!" smile? Well, I told my sim to break up with her bf who just caught her cheating on him, and she gave me that look :|

[omglo]

That sims will sometimes wish to have their own children eaten by the cowplant, so they can drink them. The sim is right - his teen son has been awful, but killing him is a bit of an overreaction.

I just saw the want to woohoo a certain amount of service sims, too.

[Peni Griffin]

Was the want "Drink Kid" or "Kid is Eaten by Cowplant"? Because "Drink Kid" just means he wants to commit the "Throw Drink At" interaction. It is a bit of a shock the first time you see that want! They can also wish for people they're mad at to be sprayed by skunks.

[KaiRuh]

It is? Whenever my Sims gets the "Drink So-and-So" wishes, it's referring to the cow plant. It says so in the wish description. It would be silly to have two wishes with the exact same name.

[omglo]

It said "drink [kid's name]" but like KairRuh said, the description on the want mentioned the cowplant. If he ever rolls the want again I'll grab a screenshot.

[Peni Griffin]

And of course Maxis is never silly...Is the picture of the enemy's face with a tall glass next to it?

However, it's true I've only gotten the want once that I remember, right after I downloaded FreeTime, and I'm not in the habit of getting the more in-depth descriptions, so I might have assumed. Especially since the only cowplant anywhere in the game is in the secret society lot at Sim State, and though the person who rolled this want was at University he wasn't a member of the society and had never seen one. Perhaps there are rumors floating around campus and he was wanting it in a hyperbolic way, as I might think "I wish aliens would abduct that person and not bring him back."

[omglo]

I checked in on the Grunts, figuring one of them would be more likely to quickly roll that want than anyone else. When I loaded the game,the want was already there. :)

http://i51.tinypic.com/qoh8gg.jpg

[Rarr]

i discovered that the wine bottle is the most annoying object on the face of the earth, because your sims constantly want to "drink toast" even a week after their wedding!

[Peni Griffin]

Okay, I stand corrected - that's the same graphic I was thinking of. Now I'm a little shocked at Zeke. He's a biology major, so maybe he learned about them there. Not at all surprised at who he wanted to do it to, though. She's a real waste of space, from the point of view of anyone having to deal with her in their "real life." Note to self: Don't let anyone who knows Bev get a cow plant...

Why we're not seeing this want in relation to cow mascots constantly is beyond me. Perhaps it refuses to eat them out of professional courtesy? Perhaps cow mascots are where cow plants come from?

[Clashfan]

Huh, well I just learned two things. One I've never seen that want before and I have Sims that have cow plants. Two I didn't know you could click on the wants and get a full description like that.

[Ghost sdoj]

I had a sim get that want for a cow mascot... He was also in the Secret Society, so he "borrowed" the cowplant.

It did work, but only after the cow mascot had just arrived on the lot, so he was nice and clean.

[KaiRuh]

haha, that's pretty much the only wish I've ever really needed to click on to get a description of. I've never used the cowplant before, so I didn't know that it allowed you to "drink" Sims and when "Drink So-and-So" popped up on my Sim's wish panel I was like "wtf?!" Some of them can be pretty amusing though (the descriptions).

[lazzybum]

I didn't know you could click on the wants and get a full description like that.

same here O_O lol. I thought it was a new feature in TS3 *facepalm*.

I discovered my sims really like to eat santa cookies for breakfast :[.

[sk8rrchik]

If you stick a prep, a goth, and a hippy (pre-made girls downloaded from here) in one giant house, they follow each other around and constantly fight. :faceslap:

[omglo]

Huh, well I just learned two things. One I've never seen that want before and I have Sims that have cow plants. Two I didn't know you could click on the wants and get a full description like that.In case you didn't know, you can do it with memories, too.

[lg135]

With your aspiration meter, lifetime aspiration meter, influence meter, and motives as well. You guys should try to read them all - some of them are quite cheeky ;) (or maybe that's just how I read the in my head).

[TUL]

Today I discovered(or more realized) that I haven't played Sims in two weeks. O.o That's a record for me.

[SimMegaptera]

Dogs can eat homework! :blink:

River came home from school and put her homework on the floor, so I picked it up and put it in her room. Then I forgot about it while she ate lunch and watched TV.

Her mother Marjorie had invited a badly-behaved dog named Bonnie into the house, and I had a bad feeling when I didn't see Bonnie anywhere. The she moseyed down the stairs. Sure enough, there was a pile of destroyed... something... in River and Flower's room. Marjorie scolded her for "Destroying Furniture". Furniture? Was it... the lamp? The side table? No... aah, it was River's homework, now lying there in a pile of wood and plastic bits. I guess it was shop homework or something. :lol:

[AlexandraSpears]

Sims can have a LAN Party ._.

I'm still trying to figure out what a LAN party is.... :blink:

[maybesomethingdunno]

Local Area Network (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_area_network). So you can play with other people in the same place.

[Peni Griffin]

Now that my second alien baby is born, I was able to answer a question I'd been wondering about. Yes, Andice Point is recognized as the little half-sister of Frank Munny and connects the two family trees. Frank had been wondering that, too - questions of relationship loom large in his life.

[AlexandraSpears]

I found out that pets can sleep at community lots. I built a combination playground/pet park in a custom 'hood and my teen Sim took her cat, Bonkers, there. He lay down on one of the mattresses I put in there, and went right to sleep.

[VioletPadfoot]

I discovered... many things. Let me go check my notebook.

1) Children can still play with the Toddler activity table once they grow up.
2) The "Extraterrestrial Reparations Grant" which is a scholarship for those who have been abducted by aliens. The Teen in question had never been to see the aliens she just popped up the want the same day she became a Teen (and a Knowledge Sim). SO she got abducted by aliens. And fell into the 2% chance of my hack that nothing happens to the abductee. :( But at least now she has and extra $1500 when she and all the other sims her age go to college (She's a part of my Prosperity challenge and my rolls gave me a total of 8 children to start off with. I'm attempting to age some of them before their actual birthday so that I'm not trying to control all of them (if they all go to college) at the same year in college)
3) I just now discovered the exact number of children in my Prosperity challenge (currently 8 but not the original 8. 5 of those are now teens and the others will be teens by the time my rotation ends)(originally I had 2 teens, 8 kids, and 3 toddlers)(i never counted before I just knew there were a lot)
4) I also discovered you can save and leave the game while a Sim is on an owned community lot/business. Had to get off the computer to play chauffeur for my mother and planned on going to sleep as soon as I got home so i thought I'd try, and it worked!
5) My game is actually capable of producing twins w/o me cheating with boolprop or cheesecake. These make babies two and three of the non CAS sims in that challenge. Baby one is their older brother. If Sumika would stop woohooing with Jon, they wouldn't have six kids (but Jon wants 10 (rolled it just after the twins were born) so they'll keep on woohooing. ACR is awesome)

[HappyMonster]

I discovered that nervous subject's thumbnail in olive specter's memories differs with the one in her relationship panel :O

[AlexandraSpears]

Cats will sleep on kitchen counters.

[Amairani]

If toddler's hunger meter is less than half full, and it's winter, toddler crawls/walks outside and EATS SNOW >_< When I saw this, I felt so ashamed for neglecting that toddler. His Sim parents weren't bothered at all though.

[AlexandraSpears]

Why the disagree? *scratches head*

Maybe next time I should post a picture....

[smorbie1]

don't know why someone would disagree. my sims' kitties sleep on counters all the time.

[lazzybum]

I didnt disagree, but I've never seen cats sleep on the counters, only sit there staring off to space. Were their energy really low? ;o I'd like to see this

[Clashfan]

don't know why someone would disagree. my sims' kitties sleep on counters all the time.

Mine too, in fact they just sit on them as well.

[lg135]

Why the disagree? *scratches head*

Maybe next time I should post a picture....

I have negated that response with an agree! Take that, disbeliever!

[Bellasaurus]

Tell A Story fulfils the Talk To.. want.

[rmwilkens]

I discovered that if you marry "Mr. Big" to your house and he joins your family he is constantly primping lol. And he's at the top level of his career! Not bad for an NPC...

[AlexandraSpears]

I discovered that if you marry "Mr. Big" to your house and he joins your family he is constantly primping lol. And he's at the top level of his career! Not bad for an NPC...

Not to mention the boatload of stuff in his inventory (same goes for the Diva).

That primping annoys me, though. I'm forever cancelling that interaction if he's part of the household.

[SimSeriesMaker123]

Never let the sim teens stay home alone when your not sitting at your computer O.O I has the moveobjects on and i deleted the adult sims and I went to go get some pizza I come back and their living room kitchen bathroom and a bedroom and s nursery was on fire O.O

[Peni Griffin]

Give him a lot of stuff to do, Wilkins, and he'll do primp less. After awhile you get used to it. It's just his way.

Never go off and leave your game running, regardless of who's active. Teens don't have a lock on stupid behavior, just lower cooking skills.

[AlexandraSpears]

I found out that two Sims can use the same mirror at the same time to build Charisma skill.

[Clashfan]

I found out that two Sims can use the same mirror at the same time to build Charisma skill.

Really? :blink:

Does one stand behind the other or do they stand side by side? Not shocking I wouldn't know this since I dislike the action to begin with. I can just imagine it in stereo. :lol:

[AlexandraSpears]

Side by side. It's been a while since I did this, though. It was a wall mirror.

I don't know if you can do it with a bathroom cabinet mirror (like the ones that came with Seasons and Apartment Life).

[pinimon162]

that sims can fall asleep with their face in their food when too tired! and the other sim at the table will continue to talk to them as if they were listening..

[dtfan]

Headmasters don't care if there's a fire, or if you're on fire. If you don't have dinner ready for them immediately, they're leaving.
-__-

[maybesomethingdunno]

The icon for a Sim's reputation has the same tooltip text for the Sim's Bio. They both say "Sim Bio". It seems to me it should say "Sim Reputation."


A NPC roommate with a job doesn't contribute his/her salary to the household funds apparently...?

[Asteriski]

Drama professors are automatically in love with everyone they meet. I made the mistake of starting a relationship with one.

[dtfan]

Drama professors are automatically in love with everyone they meet. I made the mistake of starting a relationship with one.

Yeah... same here. She would never, ever stop calling, and she would never, ever stop inviting herself over and trying to flirt with me.

There should be an age of consent on The Sims 2.

:'(

[Peni Griffin]

No, the roommate doesn't add to the family funds and I believe if his roommate satisfaction is too low he won't contribute toward the rent, either! If you get one, choose wisely.

The only one in my game is really happy and likes to help around the house. Too bad his cooking score's so low. He's also a Romance sim. I'm still poking around for a story function for him strong enough to keep him around.

[maybesomethingdunno]

Ah, so his contribution is automatically deducted from the rent? I downloaded a Multiple Roommate mod, but haven't tested it yet. I don't know how many roommates it will allow me to have, but I'm eager to test its limits. I wonder if I can get rent completely reduced with enough roommates.... Gah! I've got to at least try this ASAP! :lol:

Thanks, Peni. :)

[Peni Griffin]

I think so...I must warn you, we are up against my complete inability to remember numbers! I think that the rent Lora paid her second week in the apartment was lower than what she agreed to pay when she moved in - but I don't know by how much, and I couldn't swear to you that she hadn't networked with one of those cousins of the landlord that come home from work sometimes. A week is plenty of time to forget, with my rotations. And Phoenix's roommate satisfaction is so high partly because Lora provided a comfortable bed, a computer, a hot tub, a stereo, a TV, and the cleaning service! Whether someone who actually needs a roommate to help with bills can get one who'll do it is a question I cannot answer.

[lazzybum]

I discovered that when lazy sims make their beds (which they usually dont), they just use one hand swipe motion, as if to do a lousy job. Neat sims will take time to pat down the blanket to make it all nice looking. I thought it was so subtle, yet awesome.

[Aegagropilon]

I discovered:

Mailcarriers can interact with any stray dogs on the lot:
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj202/aegagropilon/PetTheDog.jpg


The hula skirt has purple underpants underneath it:
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj202/aegagropilon/ISeeLondonANDFrance.jpg

[SimMegaptera]

Awwww, how'd you get the hula ghost to interact with the kid? Or did you just make/unlock a hula ghost for yourself?

[SimMegaptera]

I discovered 'Networking'. Felix was in the hot tub with a random townie girl at the club, and she wanted to network. So they got out of the tub and she said "oh yeah, your landlord and I go way back! I'll ask him to lower your rent!" Iiiiinteresting. And apparently there's also the possibility that the person you network with will hate your landlord, go have an argument with him (or something?) and the ticked-off landlord will take it out on you and raise the rent. o_O

[Peni Griffin]

If you get negative interactions with a networker they'll turn the network around on you, getting the landlord to up your rent, making furniture cost more, blocking promotions...only some sims are networkers but I haven't noticed any way to tell which ones are.

I have a sim in an apartment building with a networker, with whom she is enemies. I hardly ever tell my sims to interact with apartment neighbors, but for awhile I had another sim in that building, and it's also the building where I send new graduates who are engaged to people who've already graduated as a waystation, so they have a base from which to buy decent clothes and have their move-in outing before the wedding (they don't move in before the wedding; it just doesn't feel right to me). So every time I play another apartment, Leslie is up on the roof getting in this networker's face. I really have to find an in-story reason for her to move. Maybe her enemy bad-mouths her to the landlord enough that he kicks her out.

[lizziebee]

Dora Ottomas died, and two hula dancers showed up with the grim reaper. Is this only for elder sims that die?

[katya_stevens]

lizziebee: the Hula Dancers will show up for an elder sim that dies while in Platinum (Death should also have a lei around his neck and offer the sim a drink).

[SimMegaptera]

Yeah, if they're not in platinum, Grimmy just shows up and commands them to go, and they hang their heads and walk away into oblivion.

[SimMegaptera]

Here's a cute one -- when someone drinks a toast at a wedding, it's generally to the bride, even if it's a guest making the toast. They all get the thought bubbles with the bride's face. Then, sometimes, and maybe it depends on the playfulness of the toaster, he or she will start going clink clink clink on the glass. Then everyone joins in. Then the bride and groom get "Kiss romantically" in their action cues, and they do it. :rofl:

[Aegagropilon]

Awwww, how'd you get the hula ghost to interact with the kid? Or did you just make/unlock a hula ghost for yourself?

She was made in CAS, along with her twin sister and her boss :) (Since I play with long stretches of aging off and there's very few sim deaths, I decided to put the Grim Reaper and his buddies on vacation (http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?p=3571534#post3571534).)

[AlexandraSpears]

I discovered that when lazy sims make their beds (which they usually dont), they just use one hand swipe motion, as if to do a lousy job. Neat sims will take time to pat down the blanket to make it all nice looking. I thought it was so subtle, yet awesome.

*snaps fingers* That's what I wanted to post about here!

I've noticed that with sloppy Sims. Like Don Lothario.

[JazDarcy]

I discovered kids can classic dance together. CUTEST THING SINCE HUGGLE

Also I found out I find sims a lot more enjoyable with the image quality turned up. Silly things like the detail on the clothing being clear, it makes me happy :)

[AlexandraSpears]

Drama professors are automatically in love with everyone they meet. I made the mistake of starting a relationship with one.

I once had two Sims that went to college together, got married, and had a child, and they invited that drama professor to their daughter's birthday party.

The professor would try to hit on the husband, and he'd decline, then later on that night when the husband and wife did WooHoo, the professor slapped the wife--and both my Sims got a "Caught Cheating By Prof. Nympho" (not her real name, been a long time) memory!

In fact that's when I first realized that Sims don't have to be in a relationship with another Sim to "get caught cheating" by that other Sim--the other Sim has to have a crush on them at least.

And I use Pescado's romance mod when it suits me.

(Of course you can use Influence to torture the drama profs. Influence them to try to make out with another Sim and watch them get rejected right and left.)

[SimMegaptera]

@Aegagropilon, that's just lovely. Even Death needs a holiday now and then. :)

[dtfan]

I discovered that Santa Claus is very creepy looking!

Look at this!

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110221011524/sims/images/9/9b/Santa_Clause_%28The_Sims_2%29.png

[maybesomethingdunno]

That's better than some of the Santas at various malls. :rolleyes:

[AlexandraSpears]

Mailboxes are recolorable with the design tool.

(I'm not sure if Mansion & Garden is required, because I noticed that the colors available match the colors in the Second Empire set.)

I noticed the trash can was recolorable too...but only one color was available. (Yeah, that makes sense!)

[Mootilda]

Mailboxes are recolorable with the design tool. [...] I noticed the trash can was recolorable too...but only one color was available.Do you have CEP? That may not be a feature of the game, but of the CC (CEP) that you have installed.

[AlexandraSpears]

Yes, I do have CEP.

I figured it was part of M&G because the premade houses that come with it have the mailboxes in different colors.

Oh--and another thing I found:

If you look closely at the foundation floor, before you put any covering on it--you can see footprints, and what looks like stamping from a lumber yard.

[Nissun]

Microwave ovens and toaster ovens are not the same thing.

God, how the hell did I miss that? I've been playing the game for years! I only noticed when I read the object names and descriptions a couple of days ago. No wonder my sims couldn't prepare ramen in their "microwaves". And here I was, thinking some mod had bugged the microwave noodle option. Jesus. I wonder what else I'm missing.

[lazzybum]

discovered that you can get a 30% discount at a restaurant if you're friends with an employee there. In my case, it was my sim's sister :D. I wonder if that works for retail...

[smellincoffee]

Abductions from "Search for Planets" and "Search for Constellations" apparently don't impregnate male Sims -- only "Stargaze" does.

[KaiRuh]

Really? Well, the "summon aliens" still impregnates the Sims, I think, so there's at least one other option that works.

[lg135]

discovered that you can get a 30% discount at a restaurant if you're friends with an employee there. In my case, it was my sim's sister :D. I wonder if that works for retail...

Wow, I never noticed that! So did you just notice the prices were cheaper, or did a pop-up occur? This is really interesting :)

[lazzybum]

It is already lowered when you click on the booth to pay the bill. Then after it was paid, this popped up:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v343/lazzybum/Sims2EP92011-08-0601-15-04-79.jpg