Mod The Sims - What did you discover today while playing the sims?

AngelFrouk

21st Mar 2007, 02:46 PM

I discovered my mailboxes are messed up, I can use all the "Boolprop TestingCheatsEnabled" by just clickming on them (as oposed to right clicking), and I get error messages each time I get "special" mail from date or outing rewards.

So now I am looking at the second reinstal in a weeks time :D Hope it fixes itself with that...
You probably downloaded the 'mailbox hack'.
So reinstall will only help if you get rid of that hack. And if you get rid of that hack, you don't have to reinstall. ALso, make sure you don't have a userstartup.cheat where the boolProp cheat is enabled by default.

Axe Gaijin

21st Mar 2007, 02:53 PM

Nope, don't have the mailbox hack, it's likely because I used testing cheats a lot. Never had problems with it on previous install, but hey I knew there was a chance of it screwing with my game.

Kaotic Bliss

21st Mar 2007, 10:26 PM

I have discovered that my sim won't write in her journal with others present it was really cute.

Proxian_girl

21st Mar 2007, 10:33 PM

I have discovered that my sim won't write in her journal with others present it was really cute.
Oh, gosh. I LOVE the diaries. I wish I still had the pictures from my Kingdom Hearts Asylum Challenge-- one of the guys sat contentedly in a room with all three girls nearby, writing in his diary... and the second another guy walked through en route to the bathroom, he was all "OH NO DON'T LOOK :argh: ". It was SO ADORABLE.

Menaceman44

22nd Mar 2007, 12:31 AM

I've discovered all of the terrain for any sub 'hood in my game has reverted to "temperate" and that the "terrainType" cheat doesn't do a thing to help.

QueenScorpio_SC

22nd Mar 2007, 03:27 AM

That when the last sim dies on a lot sometimes Grimmy will stay on and watch TV or go to the bathroom; this has happened thrice with me so far and after he is done he dissappears and then the games stops...

anGeLa_sama

22nd Mar 2007, 03:31 AM

I discovered that you can "Serve Juice" so the sim kids and guests can drink it.

Ghost sdoj

22nd Mar 2007, 06:57 PM

I discovered we have a hack conflict somewhere and the only thing that will get rid of the graphic if a fire starts is to quit without saving.:(

Axe Gaijin

23rd Mar 2007, 06:11 AM

I discovered that sims can become furious at eachother for being messy. :wow

I was playing a dorm earlier, and Cleanfreaksim(tm) takes a shower and starts cleaning it afterwards. Messysim(c) walks in and start taking a shower, splatering water al over the floor. Cleanfreaksim then starts to mop up the water while Messysim, oblivious to what's going on washes on in his merry way. And then Cleanfreaksim gets furious with Messysim, the more he has to mop up, the more their relationship score drops!

They were around +15/15 before the incident and from Cleanfreaksim's point of view it dropped to -31/31.
By the next day they were -45/45 at eachother :D

I was lucky to spot it just in time as I was scrolling by (keeping taps on what's going on in a dorm with 7 sims is hard work) and to have the view set to relationships, otherwise I'd never known what happened :wtf:

longdaysend

23rd Mar 2007, 02:15 PM

nirvana, sprinklers are a life saver for fires..they're with the phones and such in buy mode i believe. i haven't lost a stove or counter since i started using them :)

two things from me today;
i discovered that i am completely unable to remember if i deleted a hack before installing a new one(insim 2.4 and 2.6 sitting right next to each other in my folder..i coulda swore i deleted the old one)

and....if its winter when your sim arrives on the lot (moves in) they will of course go to the outdoor activity that is all the way across the yard without thier winter coat (they arrive in 'everyday' like always) then stand there shivering....just go inside you dope!

UtopiaGlam

23rd Mar 2007, 10:05 PM

nirvana, sprinklers are a life saver for fires..they're with the phones and such in buy mode i believe. i haven't lost a stove or counter since i started using them :)
Same for me, I don't buy fire alarms any more since I have them

sketchy

24th Mar 2007, 03:18 AM

Sims won't woohoo when there's a ghost in the room. They'll tell it to "shoo." :p

Tigress_SC

24th Mar 2007, 03:27 AM

Sims gain social as well as relationship points while fishing with someone, even though they don't talk, but just have thought bubbles.

coltraz

24th Mar 2007, 07:16 AM

Same for me, I don't buy fire alarms any more since I have them

I can't find Sprinklers anywhere... :\ Are they just for community lots?

Ghost sdoj

24th Mar 2007, 11:57 AM

No, but they came with UNI. You find them in Miscelleneous/ Miscelleneous at home.

Incomplete

24th Mar 2007, 07:11 PM

That by some mysterious magical unknown force, my CC is working again! Yay!
Oh, and whenever a sim successfully performs a romantic interaction with a sim they have a crush on/are in love with, they smile at the screen. Kinda freaky to have a sim smile at you, but cool nontheless. :P

Ghost sdoj

24th Mar 2007, 07:15 PM

It depends on the sim's personality and the interaction. I have one very shy sim who gives a "who-Me?" look every time I tell her to make out with her husband, even though she had a want for it. But she LOVES to hug- squeeze.

TheDuecedFaerie_SC

24th Mar 2007, 09:38 PM

Sims won't woohoo when there's a ghost in the room. They'll tell it to "shoo." :p

Haha, I actually had Mortimer Goth's ghost cheer on a Sim couple of mine once.... rather freaky... and perhaps a weird glitch since it's never happened again... :blink:

coltraz

25th Mar 2007, 04:17 AM

No, but they came with UNI. You find them in Miscelleneous/ Miscelleneous at home.

That's so weird, I looked all over, I have all the expansions too... I must be blind.

Tusnelda7

25th Mar 2007, 11:27 AM

That's so weird, I looked all over, I have all the expansions too... I must be blind.
It's, like said the tree dota and then the 3 dots, second page, bottom line (i think) and is red and looks abit like a miny fan.

~Squash-buddy-ven~

25th Mar 2007, 11:31 AM

I found out that sims get a memory if they sleep with an NPC, like the maid.. My sim slept with a hostess from one of my restaurants and when I looked at his memories, he had a memory from it.

Passion4Film

25th Mar 2007, 02:31 PM

I realized that, thankfully, I am not the only one who sometimes can't find objects in the catalog that I've seen before and look everywhere for. LOL

Ghost sdoj

25th Mar 2007, 02:46 PM

You get a first woohoo memory of your first woohoo with a servo.

UtopiaGlam

25th Mar 2007, 04:55 PM

I don't know whether it's a discovery or a bug, but it's sorta funny! :)

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r208/Creature_Nocturne/snapshot_730075c2_f312db51.jpg

frakusv2

25th Mar 2007, 07:49 PM

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a205/frakusv2/d42bfe4d.png

You can get rear ended when returning home from school...

coltraz

25th Mar 2007, 10:31 PM

It's, like said the tree dota and then the 3 dots, second page, bottom line (i think) and is red and looks abit like a miny fan.

I found it yes, thanks! I don't know why but all this time I completely ignored that object. I thought it was some kind of decorative pump, and I just never bothered to find out what it was. So much so that it became invisible to me. Crazy. I wonder what other useful objects I ignore...? lol

Proxian_girl

26th Mar 2007, 12:48 AM

Spawned Townie = best genetics EVAR.

Also, I killed Amin Sims off in one of the households in a neighborhood, saved, and he showed up at a community lot later! 0.o

Sizza

26th Mar 2007, 02:00 AM

Haha, I actually had Mortimer Goth's ghost cheer on a Sim couple of mine once.... rather freaky... and perhaps a weird glitch since it's never happened again... :blink:

Ew, that's gross:blink:

maybesomethingdunno

26th Mar 2007, 07:22 PM

I recently discovered that the Maxis hottub gives a hygiene boost. I had a custom one (from somewhere) that seemed to give a larger boost, but I saw very little difference between that one and the Maxis version in terms of coding. Also, not only can Sims move left and right around the hottub, they can also move diagonally across the hottub to the opposite corner as well.

Loco

26th Mar 2007, 09:20 PM

I had something weird happen today. I grew a toddler, Georgia (from my story), up to a child with InSIM, and all was good. She went to school then came back and did her homework. But when she'd finished, she got stuck sitting on the floor. She could move her head, but nothing else. So I deleted her, saved, exited, and went back in. But in the little family picture, her teenage sister was holding her as if she was a toddler. (I got a picture but shut down the computer without saving it... gah). Back in-game she was sitting by the mailbox instead of standing. I clicked the ground and it said 'crawl here' instead of 'go here'. She'd turned into a toddler, but still looked like a child... twas very weird. So I just grew her into a child again, from InSIM, and she worked fine...

I_Love_Simming

27th Mar 2007, 03:27 PM

i discovered that i am officially addicted to the sims as ive not played it yet because of work and ive just been sat here all day thinking about what i'll be doing next with them lol COME ON 5 o'clock i needa go simming arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrg

longdaysend

27th Mar 2007, 03:40 PM

sims can spy on sims with the telescope..from a subhood! had a Sim at college and mortimer goth came and smacked her for spying..last i checked he was quite happily chilling in pleasntview.

my game hates death and ressurection. one of the Hilbert twins died as a child (okay fine, i made him) and though the tombstone was in the front yard, when i tried to resurrect him, it said "Paxton's been resurrected on another lot" and took the tombstone away...now i have to find the brat and move him back home with his family so his brother can finally kick his tombstone. sibling rivalry at its best, ladies and gents :)

MattieMayfair

27th Mar 2007, 09:34 PM

i learned that sims CANNOT go to class while in the "Downtown" Or Blue Water village etc they have to be in the university hood. I had 2 sims 1 was a fresh man and she had 50 hrs to catch up to her boyfriend i want them to graduate same day so i make her go down and hang out at Uni places lots run home save game run back to town lol.

Menaceman44

28th Mar 2007, 12:05 AM

Yeah, the semester timer stops counting if they leave campus.

flamebabe9_SC

28th Mar 2007, 02:46 AM

pets can sing along when the instruments are played it's rather cute

pinkplushii

28th Mar 2007, 10:57 PM

Flowers die if they're watered too much. Today I had my sim water flowers, and they where changing as they where being watered, So I thought "HMM. THEY MUST BE REALLY DRIED OUT. LETS WATER THEM SOME MORE." so I did. They changed again. So I figured i'd water them again. and again. They kept on changing and I've only seen them change when they're dried out. Then eventually one of the flowers died and I was all :O

Ghost sdoj

28th Mar 2007, 11:46 PM

A neat sim will mop a flowerbed that has been overwatered. Then they usually water it again. HELLO! If you just MOPPED it, it doesn't need any MORE water, does it?

UtopiaGlam

29th Mar 2007, 12:56 AM

A neat sim will mop a flowerbed that has been overwatered. Then they usually water it again. HELLO! If you just MOPPED it, it doesn't need any MORE water, does it?
Haha XD! That's the problem with neat sims, when they think they don't have enough cleaning to do, they create themselves some more work lol

asyouwish

29th Mar 2007, 02:56 AM

I discovered that Chester Geike has a very oddly-shaped head. So odd, that none of my hairs look good on him. One of the few times I had to resort to plastic surgery.

AdmiralAeris

29th Mar 2007, 04:18 AM

Occasionally high chemistry can backfire, especially if you have Seasons...

Ghost sdoj

29th Mar 2007, 01:42 PM

You can use the resurrect-o-nomitron to raise someone whose tombstone is on another lot. (And that Kennedy Cox is an idiot. The full story is in the thread about the deleted gravestone.)

Axe Gaijin

31st Mar 2007, 01:34 PM

I discovered that buying a new PC can alter your whole Sims Experience!

Goit my new PC yesterday, after most of the mundane task of tranferring files and hunting down utileties and programs that you use more htemn the useless yunk that comes pre-instaled on the new system, it was time to instal Sims 2.

Oooooh boy what a difference :D Load times are under a minute, I can zoom around the lot instantly witout a hitch and I bubmped up the setings to highest.

The only slowdown I noticed was after I activated boolprop Useshaders, every time a sims or a car enters the lot it stops for a nano second :)

Of course... I've got my work cut-out for me though, after testing setings in pleasantview I started a brand new neighborhood, empty Downtown area, empty shopping hod, empty college :) Next weeks I'll be building building building :D

EDIT: nah not going to bother correcting those typos, I'm typing this on the old PC with my keyboard on my lap while Sims is running on my new system :P

MattieMayfair

1st Apr 2007, 06:56 AM

Today i discovered how fast university goes for the timer to get out when you go downtown and just keep doing maxmotives and play drums till its time for class . My sim spent the whole uni experience at the coffeeshop lol i flew outta there fast!.Made $10 grand sitting on the drums!!.Sadly when i moved out the money didnt carry over GRR!!. Also i learnt that in the grad movie the sim graduating always goes and puts there arms on the nearest male sim. At least in my game for the 3 grad movies i seen they have. (this time it was the prof in his swimsuit Kinda creepy).

AtropaMandragora

1st Apr 2007, 10:11 AM

Made $10 grand sitting on the drums!!.Sadly when i moved out the money didnt carry over GRR!!.

I always buy stuff for the money they've got and put it in their inventory before they move out of uni. That way I can either have some good, expensive items to decorate their new homes with, or I can move them into an empty lot, sell all the stuff, and then move them into a more expensive home.

QueenScorpio_SC

1st Apr 2007, 08:20 PM

That a sim with a tiny bit of hunger who also has his bathroom wants in the yellow would rather go make pork chops than go to the bathroom

stariscool

1st Apr 2007, 08:56 PM

I only just realised that with the stairs you can place, you can remove the hand rails from the sides! I was so amazed when i realised you could.

iunplugthings

1st Apr 2007, 09:27 PM

So, I have a sim that had a lifetime want of raising 20 puppies/kittens. So I figured I'd try for it. After raising one batch of kittens the normal, real way - helping them build skills, build relationships...etc, they finally grew up. But, then I had to give them up for adoption as to make room for the next litter. And well, I learned that when playing that way it's extremely hard for me to give up the kitties.... I get terribly attached. So, I resorted to using inSim for the rest of em. Haha.

MattieMayfair

2nd Apr 2007, 09:32 AM

Wow the 20 puppies/kitties never did that 1 before i tried breeding my 2 cats then i ended up with 5 and all they did was fight with each other. now i Keep my animals single lol. They always say "Please Spade Or Neuture" So thats what im doing. I discovered today that when you move a family out for uni that there objects in the house DO not get sold and get left behind for the next family to move in that house. Lucky its relatives moving in next lol(its like "thank you Auntie for leaving all your stuff").Also i discovered how ANNOYING the Datable Diva is my guy made best friends with her just by sitting in a hottub downtown with her. Now like every 10 minutes she calls and wants to go for outings. I went 3 so far.She has a ton of friends im so marrying her into my family bet she is loaded!.

equustel

2nd Apr 2007, 10:16 AM

I learned that a Sim can teach a Sir Bricks-a-Lot toy (made from the toy workbench) a trick as well as pet it. The animations for those two actions were simply adorable.

I also learned that I can change my Sim's skintone and eye colour in SimPE without resorting to SimSurgery. Yippee. :D

*roxette

2nd Apr 2007, 12:32 PM

That you can move your families graves onto a community lot very easily to make a community graveyard. Saves my poor simmies getting spooked every night by their ancestors in my legacy!

Garnet_SC

2nd Apr 2007, 06:25 PM

I discovered that it's not good to put a crib in the parents' room after you've installed Seasons... The damned baby won't stop crying and they can't get any sleep. :|

chnnature

2nd Apr 2007, 08:59 PM

I discovered that my maid laughs a little bit like Scooby Doo....

etherealgirl

3rd Apr 2007, 01:44 AM

I can't believe I never realized this, but you can bathe a baby in the sink. I just always changed their diaper before.

yamikuronue

3rd Apr 2007, 05:44 AM

That you can move your families graves onto a community lot very easily to make a community graveyard. Saves my poor simmies getting spooked every night by their ancestors in my legacy!

Except you lose points for that in the legacy rules. "Free Roaming Ghosts" means they have to stay on the lot ^^

KismetRose

3rd Apr 2007, 07:42 AM

I discovered that the new overheating in Seasons really does suck. I had two separate sims burst into flames today, one due to the hot tub, one apparently for no reason (she was jutst fixing a shower and her temperature was fine). I will be installing Paladin's hack for this problem asap. I do not want to have to worry about my Sims bursting into flames everywhere.

autumnwish

3rd Apr 2007, 09:44 AM

I found out that pet ghosts and sim ghosts can interact. For example, a sim ghost can play with a ghost cat using the cat teaser or even give the cat a hug.

NH1

3rd Apr 2007, 11:49 AM

If you seasons, and your sims has to pay the bills. You tell them to get it. Then your sims hides the bill. With seasons, you can just click on the mailbox and click on an new option to automicly pay ALL the bills on your lot.

~Squash-buddy-ven~

3rd Apr 2007, 11:54 AM

I learned that the food is extremely detailed. I zoomed in on a dish and it had a corncob on it and it looked like a real one! I've never seen that before!

skeletonkiss

3rd Apr 2007, 09:21 PM

I found out that ghosts can get electrocuted trying to fix things!
I have the ghost urn hack that allows you to have a ghost worker. I wasn't paying attention for a minute or two and look back at the screen to see all my sims clustered around the garbage disposal all freaking out, and the ghost all light up with electricity. Afterwards, she was all burnt up looking, and stayed that way till I used insim's clothing selector to change her back. lol

Tyo

3rd Apr 2007, 09:57 PM

I played the Goth family for the first time and saw that, even after getting married, Cassandra and Don always have the "Break Up" option. Why don't all Sims in relationships have this option?

sim_kid1129

3rd Apr 2007, 10:15 PM

That my video card sucks.

Proxian_girl

3rd Apr 2007, 11:53 PM

That I have comparatively few problems with the screaming baby "glitch" a lot of people got with Seasons. My sim family's grown-ups pretty much just pass the baby around as soon as it's born, taking turns cuddling and talking to it, put it to bed, feed and change when it needs it, and cuddle it whenever they have a spare moment, and the baby kinda just sits there for the rest of its babyhood like it would've before I installed Seasons. No complaints, no nothing, even from active or playful babies.

Of course, they don't seem to sleep ever, but that's another story.

Whizbee

4th Apr 2007, 01:03 AM

Something very strange happened in my game today!
I was trying to get my sim to catch his fiancee cheating (I know, I'm horrible! :D) so I had him run into his bedroom, where the sims fiancee and best friend were Woohooing.
He cheered them on. He clapped, he pumped his fist. He then swooned over his fiancee before going to use the toilet.
Determined to break this sims heart, I tried getting fiancee and best friend to go on a date at home. They were sitting on the couch playing SSX on their date when the main sim walked in. He started sobbing and attacked the best friend and sent him on his way, then slapped his fiancee.

Moral of this story?
Woohooing with your fiancee's best friend is just fine, but don't you dare play video games with them! :P

iunplugthings

4th Apr 2007, 01:26 AM

Moral of this story?
Woohooing with your fiancee's best friend is just fine, but don't you dare play video games with them! :P

Hahaha. Wow. Gotta love those sims. :)

longdaysend

4th Apr 2007, 03:45 AM

that most of the maxis walls in my "build only" game are screwed up suddenly..they appear to have chainmail over them....gahh it was just working fine a week ago!

and if im paitent my sims age on thier own...imagine that, i was quite shocked when dad became an elder during a play session and i didn'teven use insim to 'subtract days" from his life :P i forgot they do that, hehe.

coltraz

4th Apr 2007, 02:36 PM

I finally figured out you can change their display by changing their appearance in the mirror. i was never sure how to do that.

SofieAmalieN

4th Apr 2007, 02:53 PM

That Seasons has made my game run better on my computer!!

longdaysend

4th Apr 2007, 07:16 PM

maxis finally caught on! before when a new area of buy/build mode was introduced in an ep, future ep's would have the icon but if you didn't have it installed they were unclickable..for example the 2 story doors came with Uni. before i got uni (and only had nl,ofb installed) the icons were there but greyed out...today i noticed that since installing seasons i have diagonal roofs & the "delete all" hammer, though i never reinstalled pets...ahhh the two things i wanted from that wreched EP i have thanks to seasons..yay.

Menaceman44

4th Apr 2007, 08:47 PM

I discovered that all of my subhoods in all neighbourhoods (except for desert hoods) have defaulted to temperate terrain and that using the terrainType cheat does nothing. :(
Also that one of the floor tiles that came with Seasons is wrong (at least in my version) I can't remember its name but it should be green, that's what the description says but it is a cream colour and looks exactly like the tile next to it in the catalogue.

moo_beebi

4th Apr 2007, 11:48 PM

Count Four

5th Apr 2007, 05:44 AM

I've discovered, with two different sets of newlyweds, that when one is sleeping and the other is awake and has no pressing needs, they'll very often go and relax on the bed next to their sleeping mate. It's kind of cute.

Also discovered that the new kid (just transitioned and not at all nice, according to the grumpy-nice slider) will sneak off the lot in the middle of the night to "steal back gnome". That was hilarious.

Ghost sdoj

5th Apr 2007, 01:54 PM

Sims don't need to be newlyweds to relax next to each other.
A sim who got told to go sleep in pajamas because he was about to collapse from exhaustion, but who got interrupted because his kid was climbing the stairs too, decided to go relax next to his wife instead of sleep. Which led to a repeat of the discovery that a sim will climb out of a bed they were relaxing on in order to pass out on the floor. (Standing up! Maybe he fell out of bed and landed on his feet?)

longdaysend

5th Apr 2007, 03:19 PM

i discovered that sims who drink too much coffee get the shakes like a heroin addict going through detox...poor simmies

XSilver

5th Apr 2007, 11:39 PM

I discovered that romance sims can be fun, especially when you play the black widow challenge. I tried the "black widow" challenge today and it's awesome.

ETA: So far she's gone though(fell in love with,cheated on,killed - just like you're suposed to in this challenge) 4 guys and is currently trying to find a guy to cheat on her current guy with. A very interesting challenge, it makes playing romance sims much more exciting.

Update: She has killed yet another guy, now she's got a new guy.

pinkplushii

5th Apr 2007, 11:56 PM

You can make half walls! o_o! I never knew that! I thought there was only fences for little things. XD Can you put gates in the half walls? Since there aren't any doors that would look good.

Ghost sdoj

5th Apr 2007, 11:58 PM

I've never been able to put a gate in a half-wall. I end up just leaving a vacant space.

Chinchillagirl6

6th Apr 2007, 12:29 AM

Sims do a bonfire dance! :D

Mortalia

6th Apr 2007, 12:46 AM

That Messy sims will relieve their bladder needs in the shower. ew.

longdaysend

6th Apr 2007, 02:43 AM

You can make half walls! o_o! I never knew that! I thought there was only fences for little things. XD Can you put gates in the half walls? Since there aren't any doors that would look good.
you can put a gate in if you put fence in the open space first, then put a gate in..as in...build your halfwalls leaving a blank space where you want the gate, run a line of fence in the blank space, place gate on fence.

moo_beebi

7th Apr 2007, 09:31 PM

i never knew you could flirt with the headmaster!

Loco

7th Apr 2007, 09:45 PM

I discovered that sims mourn in different ways. But I dunno why - does it depend on the sim's relationship with the dead one, or summat?

Menaceman44

7th Apr 2007, 10:35 PM

In my game if the mourning Sim had a high relation with the dead Sim then they will bawl their eyes out, if they knew each other but not too well then they will sigh and if they hadn't met in life then they just shrug their shoulders.

maz_SC

7th Apr 2007, 10:52 PM

There's a painting that came with Seasons, the water in it is animated. Freaked me out at first.

Also, thanks to my new graphics card, I only just noticed a grey curtain that came with the base game - if you zoom in real close, you can see a pattern of ones and zeros on it. How nerdy!

Today was a good day for discoveries. :D

Derange

8th Apr 2007, 12:04 AM

That my Sims get electrocuted nearly every time they hop in the hot tub while it's raining...

moo_beebi

8th Apr 2007, 01:18 AM

i haven't had a sim get electrocuted yet :(

Proxian_girl

8th Apr 2007, 01:20 AM

I was fooling around with my sims and the InSIMenator, and the Seasons Penguin wandered by...

That penguin makes really adorable children! =D

claire.

8th Apr 2007, 01:39 AM

I learned that a firewomen will yell at you if you call because of a fire in a tree.
Does anybody know why this happens?

Proxian_girl

8th Apr 2007, 01:41 AM

I learned that a firewomen will yell at you if you call because of a fire in a tree.
Does anybody know why this happens?
Is it because the tree was hit by lightning in a rainstorm, and the rain put the fire out before she got there?

You get fined for that, too.

Count Four

8th Apr 2007, 02:47 AM

I've never been able to put a gate in a half-wall. I end up just leaving a vacant space.

Hm. I wonder if you could put one section of fence in the wall, then put a gate in the fence section? I'll try it later and see if it works.

And today, I saw a kid scuff her shoes on the rug and then give her dad a static electric shock; cute. I hadn't seen that before since I usually don't bother with rugs.

melanie_SC

8th Apr 2007, 02:52 AM

Yesterday i found out that if a sim holding a toddler tries to snuggle it and their relationship isn't great, the toddler will push the adult away lol. It's was funny and served my cheating rat-of-a-sim right! :D

FrootLoop

8th Apr 2007, 03:02 AM

I actually watched one of my Sims reading on the bed, and they read backwards! They flip the pages from left to right. I don't know how I never noticed it before :einstein

Count Four

8th Apr 2007, 03:25 AM

Did you notice they're left-handed when writing in the diary or playing the punching game? It took me a few days to catch on to that.

skylark

8th Apr 2007, 10:27 AM

I discovered that the two "leader of the pack" werewolves in my new Prosperity Neighbourhood are named "Peanut" and "Biscuit". Besides being completely wacko names for alpha werewolves it also had me canning myself because that's what I call my younger brother and boyfriend respectively.

ending

8th Apr 2007, 04:19 PM

I discovered that pets look into a mirror and start growling at their reflection XD

longdaysend

8th Apr 2007, 04:28 PM

my sims complain about an imaginary black cat blocking thier paths...every so often one will yell at me and the balloon of what they are complaining about shows a black kitty cat.

also it takes forever to have a sim freeze to death (yes i was trying), took about 3 days or so.

SofieAmalieN

8th Apr 2007, 06:06 PM

That I need boolProp useShaders true on to see the fish in my tanks, but that if I have it on the snow turns grey... -sigh-

Oh and that some sims are just impossible to keep fit. I have two simmies living together always eating the same food. One sim I can keep slim and he doesn't have to work-out all the time to stay that way, but the other just goes from fit to maxis-fat in a few sim-day..

QueenScorpio_SC

9th Apr 2007, 06:51 PM

That a sim can be the personal trainer of another sim provided they have more body points

Saria Crossing

9th Apr 2007, 07:08 PM

I found out today that my computer can barely hold what it can now and Im afraid to get seasons. I dont feel like my computer exploding.

Also i found out pink shirts do not look good on red haired sims.

Tigress_SC

9th Apr 2007, 07:53 PM

Ha, I just saw something just now that I've never seen before.

One of my families consists of a mom, dad, and two children. Well, when everyone woke up, the father and mother were the only ones that were hungry, so I told the father to serve pancakes, but I would only have the parents eat. At about 10:30 (it was a Saturday), I figured that no one was going to eat the rest of the food so I told the father to clean it all up. Well, all of a sudden the little boy who I had no idea was hungry dropped everything that he was doing (he was playing a video game that I told him to play, meaning that he usually wouldn't stop unless I told him to), ran to the kitchen table and started eating a plate of pancakes before the dad could clean them up. That was adorable. It could've been a coincidence, but since the kid was running and he only has one active point, I think that he was trying to grab food before it got cleaned up. :)

AxelValentine

9th Apr 2007, 09:00 PM

Not today, but just now remembering to write it down - I only recently discovered that sims will either like or dislike a hair. And that I'm really good at picking ones they like.

Menaceman44

9th Apr 2007, 11:00 PM

I think I've discovered that Servos can't turn into Plantsims. I had him spray LOADS of bug infested plants but he wouldn't change. I suppose it makes sense with him not being organic and all.

onsenmark

10th Apr 2007, 12:19 AM

When you put a toddler in a high chair and feed it a bowl of food, the toddler will repeatedly exclaim "Yukky!" happily while eating the food. O_o?

Also, they will apparently eat the same food older Sims eat.

yamikuronue

10th Apr 2007, 02:08 AM

Tsi

10th Apr 2007, 02:32 AM

I discovered my toddler parented by two uni students started playing a pillow fight with a visiting dancing mascot cow outside of Mommy's dorm. Also that a sim that I killed named Lakshimi hates the same tot sim for some reason.

Brandon14

10th Apr 2007, 03:15 AM

I discovered a new want.
You could wish to 'drink' someone if your an enemy.
http://i19.tinypic.com/48mgu2u.jpg

Chinchillagirl6

10th Apr 2007, 07:27 AM

Sims kids have an option of 'Show Off' and do a cartwheel or handstand. :D

AtropaMandragora

10th Apr 2007, 10:55 PM

I discovered that you can "Serve Juice" so the sim kids and guests can drink it.

How exactly do you do that? I've tried just about everything, and I just don't get the option. :(

yamikuronue

11th Apr 2007, 02:57 AM

How exactly do you do that? I've tried just about everything, and I just don't get the option. :(

you have to have 6 times the amount needed to make a glass stocked. Try putting an entire harvest worth of apples or lemons in the juicer, or even two.

Tyo

11th Apr 2007, 03:14 AM

Sim kids can have food fights. It was the funniest thing I'd seen at grandma's birthday party.

coltraz

11th Apr 2007, 03:19 AM

I discovered that pets will bark and react to their reflection in a mirror, and if a Sim sees this they laugh quite hard at their pet.

AtropaMandragora

11th Apr 2007, 09:57 AM

you have to have 6 times the amount needed to make a glass stocked. Try putting an entire harvest worth of apples or lemons in the juicer, or even two.

Ah, that explains it. Thank you. :)

Incomplete

14th Apr 2007, 04:49 AM

That sims three days pregnant refuse to go out of the house.
BUT.
When you're playing another lot, guess who comes along to visit your family? Too pregnant to go anywhere, indeed! :frying:

Stormy_SC

14th Apr 2007, 05:05 AM

I discovered today that during a rain and thunderstorm, a tree can catch on fire if it's struck by lightening! And if a fireman can't get to the fire, then another fireman hops out of the truck and helps him put it out!

tlynnjpeg

14th Apr 2007, 06:09 AM

If you make an infant selectable, their plumbob comes from their tush.

-Jpeg

HCAC

14th Apr 2007, 02:27 PM

I am not sure how new this is but I saw one of my sims juggling balls for the first time. Coffee cups are commonly juggled but 'balls?" Is that new?

Lina_SC

14th Apr 2007, 02:28 PM

I discovered that it was a genetic abomination to make babies with Goopy. Also, I found out that ghosts that died being struck by lightening are red.

chnnature

14th Apr 2007, 02:55 PM

I discovered that you can still drive to work if you're pregnant.

maybesomethingdunno

14th Apr 2007, 08:21 PM

I am not sure how new this is but I saw one of my sims juggling balls for the first time. Coffee cups are commonly juggled but 'balls?" Is that new?

You have a very playful Sim. Playful Sims can juggle autonomously or as a self-interaction; however, as a negative to this, they are "too playful" to meditate. I believe that has been the case since the base game.

Cheeseisgood

14th Apr 2007, 08:29 PM

I found out that Maclom Landgraab's babies, despite the icky eyebrows turn out alright as teens!

FeNerd

14th Apr 2007, 10:05 PM

While buiding a house I discovered that you can delete the banisters from stairs. I never knew you could do this and always hated having the horrid rails sticking out of floors.

Elspeth_SC

15th Apr 2007, 10:49 AM

I discovered that if you are on the phone to your maid at the same time as they are expected at your house, then a different one shows up instead.

Also, a pregnany sim will refuse to go on her honeymoon because she's pregnant, so her new husband will go on his own!

Ghost sdoj

15th Apr 2007, 12:48 PM

1. Pregnant women who are randomly selected as group members of one of those "do you want to go downtown?" outings WILL autonomously eat cheesecake.

2. Cheesecake DOES affect a pregnant townie.

3. Moving 4 pregnant women into the same house together does not prevent twins, even if you DON'T have the lot full of sims hack or Pets. (And it looks pretty silly when an extremely pregnant Diva is primping.)

4. 7 babies being born to 4 women at the same time all over a 2 story house leaves the camera at a very strange angle after it finishes zooming in on all of them.

5. The simlogical reservable cribs are very handy for determining which babies have been dropped outside somewhere.

6. Family sims are quite happy to potty train another woman's child. But the two fortune sims don't want anything to do with their kids. They would rather buy sculptures and flowerbeds.

7. A romance sim who had a fear of having a baby when he was last played will take a big aspiration hit from having 7 babies born at the same time, even if he was on another lot while the births occurred.

8. Even a knowledge sim can develop a want to have 10 grandchildren if she gets 7 grandkids all at once. (There are 3 more pregnant townies, so that will happen as soon as I get some of this crowd cleaned out of my unwed mothers home so the new group can move in. Although I'm not sure whether my pregnant Grand Vampiress will get to join the crowd or not. It depends on whether or not either of the other two have twins. Grand Vampires need too much micromanaging to prevent them from biting everyone they meet.)

Count Four

15th Apr 2007, 01:55 PM

Sims downtown can see through walls and doors and tell when someone they've got a crush on is cheating. Neato.

Lunarsea

15th Apr 2007, 02:10 PM

I discovered, when playing fetch, mean sims will pretend to throw the stick and confuse the poor dog! :evil:

nixie_SC

15th Apr 2007, 03:24 PM

talking to the plants (harvestable ones) will make the price higher when you sell it, if the crops are inside a green house you don't have to spray them.

If you want to become plant people, you have to plant the trees outside of the green house so that you get to spray alot!

using the custom roof tools (the one where we have to click, drag, release) will give you much better looking roof then with the automatic ones. long lived roofslopeangle 15

this is probably a glitch, as i have not use the lock aspiration cheats (yet) sims' aspiration can get stuck (which is good :P) Gabe (one of maxis pre-made sims), he reached the highest aspiration one day and has the highest influence bar as well, that was 3 days (sims day) ago, and the bar is still full when I visit his lot, the whole time I was playing that household, even when he achieved new wants the aspiration bar did not change one bit.

fishing is addictive! there were 6 sims visitors on one of my sims lot and they just won't leave, its like the poker table, they didn't leave when it rains! I try to say goodbye to everyone, but failed, they finally left when it snow for the second day, yes one of them were there for about 4 sims day, the rest join in later .... sigh.... sims! By the way, great way to make friends bar go up if you fish together with only one other sims.

:o dog only has one toy (the chewing one) .... how terrible! (am i right? or there are other, do tell me, maxis one)

if the temperature of your sims is half on the bar, he will freeze and fell to the ground after making 3 snow angels, dipping in the hot tub (make the temperature bar red) before making snow angel is a good idea if you don't want them to freeze. they will recover the next day when the sun comes out if that is the only sims on the lot, other wise another sims can go warm them up. (pretty neat I think)

exercising too long (with cheat, off course) on the thread mill will cause the machine to catch fire and subsequently burnt the sims on it to death. Was trying to make the sims gain body points from 0 to max :P nearly kill her, the father successfully beg death to let the daughter live.

ps: anyone know how to make a specific townie come visit, any cheat, i try the boolprop testingcheatenabled true, make NPC Visitors, but it is a random visitor everytime, what I want is a specific one.

AtropaMandragora

15th Apr 2007, 07:44 PM

this is probably a glitch, as i have not use the lock aspiration cheats (yet) sims' aspiration can get stuck (which is good :P) Gabe (one of maxis pre-made sims), he reached the highest aspiration one day and has the highest influence bar as well, that was 3 days (sims day) ago, and the bar is still full when I visit his lot, the whole time I was playing that household, even when he achieved new wants the aspiration bar did not change one bit.

Are you sure he didn't get his lifetime want fulfilled? Because that guarantees platinum aspiration for the rest of the sims life.

Ghost sdoj

15th Apr 2007, 08:51 PM

ps: anyone know how to make a specific townie come visit, any cheat, i try the boolprop testingcheatenabled true, make NPC Visitors, but it is a random visitor everytime, what I want is a specific one.

There is a function of the Insiminator which will do that. Or you can get a teleporter shrub from the Simlogical archives which will do that. (Make sure you get the right one. There is another one which summons groups of people to your lot, which is handy for a business.) Or a thing from DMA which looks like a yellow burglar alarm and will allow you to invite a sim as if calling them on a phone, but with no chance of being rejected.

Lina_SC

15th Apr 2007, 09:56 PM

i discovered something really awesome: Goopy, my sim's hubby, had been cheating on her with the maid. The maid came over, saw them flirting and threw a fit, same ol' same ol'. Then when she came over the next day to clean the house I clicked on her and it said "pay off with 50" I did that and a little message popped up saying "fine, fine, ill leave you alone.. for now."

foolinthemoon

15th Apr 2007, 10:23 PM

lol, this isn't the things i've leaned today, but things i have learned recently,

* sims with neatness maxxed out giggle when flushing the toliet and it ups their fun :wtf:

* I can bathe a baby in the sink!

* i enjoy playing the premade familys more then my own.

* darren dreamer just THINKS he loves cassandra, he really has a thing for brandi broke (or atleast he does in my game)

*if you hire a gardener, they will help rake leaves and tend gardens! YAY!

HCAC

16th Apr 2007, 01:49 AM

You have a very playful Sim. Playful Sims can juggle autonomously or as a self-interaction; however, as a negative to this, they are "too playful" to meditate. I believe that has been the case since the base game.

Thanks for the tip! I haven't seen this before.

bubblegumtears

16th Apr 2007, 02:40 AM

if a sim reallly doesn't like another and checks them out, they make the throwing up action. . . it's really funny

Mickey_SC

16th Apr 2007, 02:52 AM

You can do yoga on one of the coffetables. -- I think its the one from Glamour pack. Its really cool though! :P

GiLaNg

16th Apr 2007, 04:46 AM

Hmmm... i discovered that Celebration stuff's Marriage arch (or whatever it's name...) couldn't show it's cinematic even i had thrown the Marriage Party...

N i also discovered that Wedding Party that showed in CS screenshots, was a stupid promotion.. You can't have any monk or preacher conduct your marriage... And you can't use the rounded table for having a marriage ceremony in the arch...

That was totally sucks while i wish i could play like that...

SSChan

16th Apr 2007, 06:27 AM

I don't know if I was imagining this or not, but what I just discovere is that sims sneeze, when someone on the same lot is bad mouthing them, just like the old Japanese superstition.

Vlad was gossiping to someone about how pissed off he was as Syd. The next thing I knew, I heard her sneeze, but she wasn't sick or cold. :O

I'm trying to get it to happen again, but Vlad and Syd keep refusing to bad mouth each other when I tell them to, only autonomously. *sigh*

Ghost sdoj

16th Apr 2007, 01:13 PM

You can do yoga on one of the coffetables. -- I think its the one from Glamour pack. Its really cool though! :P

Mine can use any coffee table for yoga. I found that out when one of my sims brought home the old spindle one while visiting campus, and I had no idea what that thing was. When I clicked on it, I just got the option to do yoga. So I used the eyedropper in buy mode to identify it.

Sims can do yoga on a coffee table, but they won't put bills on it?

I_Love_Simming

16th Apr 2007, 01:17 PM

When you catch a fish and serve it, its all sparkly :D

chnnature

16th Apr 2007, 02:04 PM

That a wife will laugh hysterically at the husband when he returns from being abducted.

Menaceman44

16th Apr 2007, 02:05 PM

I noticed my Sims sneezing a lot last time I played.

Sims put bills on my coffee tables.

The food sparkles because it is made with fresh produce. It fills your Sims hunger bar a LOT faster than normal food. If you put veggies in your fridge then the normal food gets a fresh food boost.

nixie_SC

16th Apr 2007, 06:21 PM

Replying to post #882
Thank Atropa, I have to check, did not know life time wants can do that.

Replying to post #883
Thanks sidneydoj, I'll have to pass that one, as I have never use that program before and the warning make it sound very dangerous to use, so i guess maybe I'll go to a commnity lot and see if they will meet up. :D have to be soon too before their friendship wears out (that missing sims does not have a phone), wants him to have her move in and then move her on to a lot.

which reminds me, what will happen if I manage to move all the townies and npc into houses of their own, will there still be npc and townies around?

dulcetpurr

16th Apr 2007, 06:56 PM

I discovered that Sims can have a want for seeing the ghost of a particular person. :blink: It happened in Uni, Kevin Beare wanted to see the ghost of the one of the cows. And he was still...alive? Hee!

Cheeseisgood

16th Apr 2007, 08:29 PM

Sims can do yoga on coffe tables?! :blink: When was that added?!

SofieAmalieN

16th Apr 2007, 08:46 PM

coltraz

17th Apr 2007, 04:15 AM

I didn't know garbage piles could be so enormous...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v80/castrostaal/snapshot_92f378a1_b3303425.jpg

bigirish2003

17th Apr 2007, 04:40 AM

My self sim walked downstairs to eat the food that his wife had put out for him on the table, but before he got there she cleaned up the plate. When he arrived at the table he bunched his fists and grimiced. A thought bubble appeared over his head with her face in it and flames dancing on top of it. I thought that particular bubble only appeared when a sims relationship was in the negative.

coltraz

17th Apr 2007, 05:16 AM

SofieAmalieN

17th Apr 2007, 07:15 AM

I didn't know garbage piles could be so enormous...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v80/castrostaal/snapshot_92f378a1_b3303425.jpg

That is quite huge.. lol

Menaceman44

17th Apr 2007, 05:02 PM

I discovered if you move a NPC character into a house then they keep their NPC work clothes and they appear on the dressers under "Special".

Morigale

17th Apr 2007, 11:09 PM

I discovered that I am capable of running an eight-sim household (or, more accurately, dorm) without everyone dying.

I discovered that if you have eight sims go to their final exams all at once, when they come back the pop-up notices will scroll all the way off the bottom of the screen.

And, worst of all, I discovered the following three things: My alien sim doesn't consider himself to be related to his half-sister's cousins. He and one of his half-cousins are very compatible. And, finally, they won't stop rolling up wants to interact romantically with each other. :wtf:

nixie_SC

18th Apr 2007, 03:59 AM

Discover that Rover the Stray loves to watch TV, comes home everyday from his rescue mission, the first thing Rover does is go straight to the TV and watch. (I let Robert and Cynthia Kim adopt him for Gabby, now they have a cute little boy puppy whom i call Kimba)

Aryxa

18th Apr 2007, 05:49 PM

I had my first Secret Society induction today... my Sim was just standing there, not responding to any commands, then this girl walks in, starts jabbing him with her finger, handcuffs him and marches him into a limo. I was just there like WHAT just happened??! Is he being arrested?!! Then we got to the Society House and all became clear. The only pain was for some reason when I tried to use the phone to get him home, it just kept cancelling out of the queue. Not quite sure why it did that, but I got myself back to the dorm via the Neighbourhood and he got himself back there.

Menaceman44

19th Apr 2007, 12:21 AM

I discovered that the books a Sim reads from the education reward bookshelf are gold instead of the usual green.

Kakashi_Hatake_SC

19th Apr 2007, 12:25 AM

That sims can have nightmarees ^.^, heh I've never seen that before.

pieridae

19th Apr 2007, 12:33 AM

If your sim is holding a puppy/kitten and you tell them to "watch clouds" outside they will sit down on the floor with the puppy still in their hands and play with them :)

How sweet! I will definitely have to try that!

pieridae

MizzBlackCherry

19th Apr 2007, 02:11 AM

While buiding a house I discovered that you can delete the banisters from stairs. I never knew you could do this and always hated having the horrid rails sticking out of floors.

Good to know, I hate that too. And this may have been a result of having 'moveobjects' on, but I could delete doggy pee puddles with the hammer thing. Same with garbage piles, and thank god. I have a custom road down, and if anything goes wrong with the garbage can/driveway/mailbox, I'm hooped to fix it for some reason.

White Queen

19th Apr 2007, 01:48 PM

I don't know if this was mentioned before. Yesterday I got my first visit from the penguin and when my lady-sim went to pet him, he looked straight at her b**bs. :wtf:

MattieMayfair

19th Apr 2007, 11:30 PM

I discovered today that after installing seasons alot of my custom furniture dissappeared but all my other custom stuff stayed. Im thinking that might been just a 1 time thing cuz i had to click the enable custom. So i will try agian later. Ive been meaning to clean out the downloads folder anyhow so it prolly is a good thing lol.

Peace

19th Apr 2007, 11:57 PM

When my sim put one of his quads on the floor, the babies that were sleeping woke up and had that baby that was on the floor with a red x in a thought bubble. But i didnt hear it cry.....

whoa did you get all that? lol

Proxian_girl

20th Apr 2007, 02:15 AM

I had a sim wish on a wishing well, and she got a male Townie named Shannon!

Opinions: Should I make him completely transsexual?

Chinchillagirl6

20th Apr 2007, 02:19 AM

I had a sim wish on a wishing well, and she got a male Townie named Shannon!

Opinions: Should I make him completely transsexual?

Shannon is both a guys and girls name. I know 3 guys named Shannon. :einstein

onsenmark

20th Apr 2007, 02:23 AM

If you go into CAS, and create a family with two elders, you can't give them children.

If you age them down to adults, give them a child, age the child up to a teen, and age the adults back to elders, you can't make the teen their child, even though it's their genetic spawn.

Wow, WTG, EA.

foolinthemoon

20th Apr 2007, 02:27 AM

I had a sim wish on a wishing well, and she got a male Townie named Shannon!

Opinions: Should I make him completely transsexual?

i know more guys named shannon than i do females! but.. i vote YES! ;)

nixie_SC

20th Apr 2007, 07:52 AM

One of the NPC Mail Carrier was name Kerie Bradshaw, I found out after moving her in with one of my own sims, move her out again, so I can place her somewhere in the town, but she turns into a Newspaper Stealing Maniac! everything was find before she moved in and out and set up home for herself! she just snap i think and has become a menace in Riverblossom. PS: she wasn't jealous or angry at any sims in particular, she strikes at every household!

McGreggor, if you change his hairstyle to a short one not the doofus looking one he has, and remove the beard, in my game he turns into a young Val Kilmer :P !

oh! before i forget, different dogs has different obsession, Rover, as i mention earlier loves to watch TV, and Google, a small dog with big ears that I've created, loves looking at his own reflection in the mirror and sniffing it for hours sometime

Quinctia

20th Apr 2007, 07:46 PM

Robovski

21st Apr 2007, 01:33 AM

chnnature

21st Apr 2007, 02:43 AM

I discovered today that sometimes the Grim Reaper will take a Sim from old age- and he'll be wearing a lei and 2 hula girls will be with him and dancing a hula dance....
:blink:

Ghost sdoj

21st Apr 2007, 10:29 AM

Today I discovered I couldn't make a recognizable grandchild in CAS. Made Grannie Mae, then made Polly (the teen) and that was going to be the household, but then I couldn't make them any more than roomies. So then I made Peter, who became the son of Grannie and the father of Polly and then in the game Polly isn't recognized as a grandchild - one of the first wants for Grannie was to have grandchildren.

Bah!

Next time try this: First slide the teen onto the picture of the father. Then slide the picture of the father onto the picture of the grandmother. That should sort out the relationships.

(If you are comfortable with SimPe you can edit family relationships with it for this family. But it isn't ready for seasons yet.)

Count Four

21st Apr 2007, 10:52 AM

Discovered that a teenager whose aspiration meter has gone deeply red (she set her dinner on fire, for -2000 aspiration points) will throw REALLY friggin' annoying temper tantrums. And I am not buying her a $2000 telescope just to make her feel better, they can't afford it.

Also discovered that my family sim who just had a baby is walking around all the time thinking about adopting a baby--even though that's never rolled as a want for her.

Ghost sdoj

21st Apr 2007, 11:18 AM

Maybe she is thinking that she would like someone to adopt HER baby? Or the pregnancy was tough enough that she is thinking "Next time we have a baby, we are adopting!"?

I had a sim who turned out to be pregnant with twins and in a house with 3 other pregnant women constantly going around with the adoption thought bubble. Of course her thought bubbles NOW are usually due to a motive distress because she is the only family sim in the group so she ends up taking care of the toddlers most of the time.

Count Four

21st Apr 2007, 11:50 AM

LOL, sidnydoj. Maybe motherhood has turned out to be too hard for her? "WHAT was I thinking?"

But she does have a Marry Off Six Children LTW and this is her first baby; maybe that biological clock is ticking really loud.

Elspeth_SC

21st Apr 2007, 12:45 PM

I discovered that when you have a perfectly healthy sim phone in sick to work, they do a fake cough and then hold the phone away from them and giggle. It's hilarious.

Thrior

21st Apr 2007, 01:34 PM

annapic2

21st Apr 2007, 01:37 PM

If a toddler is in the highchair and a family memeber serves a meal, he/she will serve the meal to the toddelr in the highchair too (hamburger is perfect for toddlers ....)

Ghost sdoj

21st Apr 2007, 02:29 PM

That Ross is an idiot. He's a pleasure sim but all he thinks is about babies, adoptions, getting married and stuff whenever he has that thought-bubble about his aspiration. I don't know if it's normal (he's my first pleasure sim) but it surely looks silly because he's the type of sim who will NOT get married and have children T_T.

Maybe he wants to change aspiration to family? My pleasure sims think about dates and woohoo. (and the grand vampire adds biting people into the mix. Along with the fact that I did a VERY good job of making a sim who was compatable with him so he can't stop thinking about her. Even when she isn't there.)

UtopiaGlam

22nd Apr 2007, 12:10 AM

Today I found out that a toddler will play in a trash pile like they do in a puddle, it's the same noise and there are spatterings like if it was water

Robovski

22nd Apr 2007, 02:26 AM

Well, with a baby around you would have wet, squelchy trash...

Eww. :)

Freja

22nd Apr 2007, 06:30 AM

I found out that in a restaurant on a community lot, it is possible that the waitress drops the food on you when she serves, with a hygiendrop as the result. I was so surprised when it happened :blink: (and my sim too). My sim got a new meal, and later when I payed, it only costed 10 simleons, even thou I ordered the lobster.

xXharp_babyXx

22nd Apr 2007, 08:30 AM

Today I found out that a toddler will play in a trash pile like they do in a puddle, it's the same noise and there are spatterings like if it was water

You stole my discovery! D: Haha, I thought it was kinda gross with the garbage juice/water splashing everywhere. :hmm: :P

Jordan09

22nd Apr 2007, 03:16 PM

not much. i discovered some new custom content that i got from mts2 but thats about it! lol

PennyTheCorgi

22nd Apr 2007, 03:20 PM

That if one sim gets some baby mush for a toddler and another sim finishes dinner and serves the toddler before the sim with baby mesh does, the one with baby mush will set it on the table and have the option to eat it.

Ghost sdoj

23rd Apr 2007, 02:48 AM

I discovered the grim reaper is a voyeur and one of my knowledge sims is INSANE. I had an elder who was scheduled to die, and his soon to be ex wife was squeezing one last dream date in. (So she could leech another bottle of elixir of life from him.) The Grim Reaper showed up just as they started to woohoo and stood there with his hula girls watching the fireworks and nodding. Then the guy finished, climbed out of bed and got his farewell dance while his ex-wife dreamed hot dreams about the Grim Reaper.

craptastic

23rd Apr 2007, 02:50 AM

I discovered that the refrigerators make..noise? :blink:

Peace

24th Apr 2007, 02:46 AM

I discovered that if a toddler drinks from a spoiled bottle he/she will "spit" the milk out. And that the townies and Npcs are different in ever neighborhood. Kinda sucks when you are forced to start a new neighborhood but want that certain sim you had before :( Anyone have a Jack Patch? lol

Ghost sdoj

24th Apr 2007, 11:54 AM

You can use simpe to export a townie you like and then re-create them in your game. The "make me a townie" function of the teleporter bush will let you turn them back into townies.

Count Four

24th Apr 2007, 02:03 PM

Glitch--naked floating girl. (There was a thread for weird stuff you've seen in game but I can't find it now.)

Dad was downstairs in the dining room having breakfast, and floating in the empty air above his head was a full animation of his child daughter--who was upstairs taking a bath before school. No bathtub, no water. Just naked floating girl, scrubbing her ankles. Funny.

Also discovered the maid for one of my families thinks the fishtank can never be clean enough. He cleaned it for about three hours, until he finally said it was late, he needed to go. Sheesh.

Thrior

24th Apr 2007, 02:43 PM

That if your sim hated the sim who died, he/she can kick his/her tombstone =P. The option is available when you click the tombstone. Or maybe it has something to do with how mean the sim is + his/her relationship with the dead sim. My vampire-sim killed Cassandra Goth (thanks to that nice vampire hack) and then he could kick her tombstone because they became automatically enemies just before she died but he's totally mean as well.

Proxian_girl

24th Apr 2007, 03:33 PM

I've discovered Uni! :love:

Robovski

24th Apr 2007, 06:33 PM

I've discovered that since Seasons my Sims2 experience is becomming a bit unstable. :(

Phones sticking out in the air over heads, shopping bags appearing/disappearing in customer's hands, pathfinding is getting wonky, and I had my first crash.

I guess I'll have to rescue my neighborhood and re-install.

nixie_SC

24th Apr 2007, 06:45 PM

Today, *blush* I discover a sims I've made in strangetown, more than half a year ago when I don't have Pets and Seasons, ROFMAL, I move her into a lot, so that I can later marry her to another sims, I save the game, and decided to come back to build the house later, i think she's been standing beside the post box all those time waiting for me to build her a home. poor thing, and I constantly think shes a npc/townie when she would walk pass my other sims's houses ...

Elven Moon

24th Apr 2007, 07:14 PM

I learned that children can flirt with and marry their step-parents after their mom or dad dies. You can probably flirt before, but I didn't try it. So, one of my male Sims married his own step-mom and became dad to his own half-siblings. I was amused and disturbed ^^;; Also, in-laws can flirt with their child's spouse, although it does take awhile for the spouse to warm up to it. I get bored sometimes ^^;;

Canoodle

24th Apr 2007, 07:26 PM

I have a mean sim who has the ability to kick trashcans. Nothing new there, but it's great for generating compost! No more raking.

Proxian_girl

24th Apr 2007, 07:56 PM

I've discovered that apparently the friendly cheerleader is attracted to the evil mascot. (See also: I discovered Uni!)

Canoodle

24th Apr 2007, 08:02 PM

I've discovered that apparently the friendly cheerleader is attracted to the evil mascot. (See also: I discovered Uni!)
Lucky you! My cheerleaders always beats the snot out of the mascot or vice-versa. And what's up with no male cheerleaders?

HCAC

24th Apr 2007, 10:08 PM

I haven't done much with gardening so today I had one of my servos check out the garden and it was covered with flickering bugs. I first thought they were fireflies but later when he had the 'spray option' and it wasn't from the sprinklers, I realized they were bugs ruining the tomatoes.

So, I learned sick plants get bugs...!

Elvenmoon...I have a stepson married to his stepmom, too, in my game. He's stepdad to her triplets.

maybesomethingdunno

24th Apr 2007, 10:11 PM

proxian_girl, Uni is one of my favorite EPs. I'm always glad to hear of others who like it too. :)

And what's up with no male cheerleaders?

*coughJustTheClothesButStill (http://www.modthesims2.com/member/maybesomethingdunno)Cough* :D

I've discovered how relaxing the Seasons start-up loop is to me. I think I might fall asleep at the computer as soon as I start the game once my huge, "pre-Seasons Installation" Downloads folder is placed back into the EA Games/The Sims 2 directory.

chnnature

24th Apr 2007, 10:20 PM

coltraz

24th Apr 2007, 10:52 PM

I learned that when a Sim is putting away leftovers, another Sim can take a helping from the leftovers that are being carried to the fridge. Their arms just flip backwards into midair and a serving from the platter appears between their hands. Nice!

Thrior

24th Apr 2007, 11:56 PM

That Gordon doesn't like it if his son is fighting or humiliated or something.
He's totally mean and he's always booing or cheering when there's a fight and if someone happens to pee on the floor he will always laugh. But when his son is fighting he goes to this "Oh dear!" -mode and wasn't least bit amused when this same son peed on the floor =P.
I thought this was some sort of relatives-thing but when Gordon had a fight with other sim, his daughters were only cheering.
I don't know if it's normal behaviour that parents are worried about their offspring like this but I surely haven't seen anything like this before.

lipstick

25th Apr 2007, 12:02 AM

I discovered that when a sim is furious with your sim, there is no limit to the things they will do!
I had never seen this before...but she actually had poo in a bag, then lit the bag on fire, and my sim had to go stomp it out! I had NEVER even imagined that being in the game lol

AdmiralAeris

25th Apr 2007, 04:54 AM

Fresh food offers no benefit if your sim burns it...

sketchy

25th Apr 2007, 06:06 AM

moo_beebi

25th Apr 2007, 07:29 AM

just how much i love playing servos!

NH1

25th Apr 2007, 11:05 AM

I've discovered that apparently the friendly cheerleader is attracted to the evil mascot. (See also: I discovered Uni!)

In my game they sometimes (not always) are engaged with each other...

Birgitte Heuschkel

25th Apr 2007, 11:19 AM

That when a grouchy uni student is headed for a chair to do research he'll whap the other researchers on the way with the book.

Aryxa

25th Apr 2007, 12:21 PM

Skill building bars in Seasons have little leaves or snowflakes whirling round them... so cute!

MagicBeans

25th Apr 2007, 12:35 PM

I didn't discover it while playing, but instead while in a chat with Pinstar. I found out that a painting of a family member, will appreciate in value when they die. It then continues to appreciate for every generation that goes on after them, capping off at ... umm... crap, I can't remember what he said LOL $450,000? Might have been general knowledge for some, but I never knew that! And that, btw, is what gave him the idea to start the Legacy Challenge, for those of you doing that. He wanted to play long enough to get his painting up to $450,000 :lol:

That when a grouchy uni student is headed for a chair to do research he'll whap the other researchers on the way with the book.
And I'll be testing this one! :rofl:

Proxian_girl

25th Apr 2007, 04:10 PM

I've discovered that MTS2 doesn't have vampire-style clothes for Female Teens! Female Teens people! Can you believe it?! Because I don't! Something's wrong in the world when Toddlers have vampire clothes and female teens don't. =p
I have a hard time finding anything else for female teens! Are you searching for "vampire" clothes or "goth" clothes?

tlynnjpeg

25th Apr 2007, 05:42 PM

A lot of things I discover are things that I simply hadn't encountered yet. But every now and then, I get one that makes me wonder at my own intelligence. Like this one:

After seeing it in a few sim stories, it suddenly dawned on me that the base for the social glasses aspiration reward is a nose. Oh yes, go me.

-Jpeg

Thrior

26th Apr 2007, 12:56 AM

onsenmark

26th Apr 2007, 12:58 AM

That Sims are too danged stupid to simply step over something on the floor. Instead they stand there and do the "hay, there's something blocking my path" whine. Idiots.

Count Four

26th Apr 2007, 02:44 AM

But at the same time, osenmark, I've seen them trip over the spike lights on the lawn with no comment, the sillies.

AxelValentine

26th Apr 2007, 03:08 AM

That one of the ghosts in my legacy family is truly malicious. So far he's woken the kid up six times, and the mom twice and the dad once. He really doesn't want them to sleep.
Oh, and their house is almost completely underwater because he drowned in a ladder accident. ;) Maybe that's why he hates his family even though his son was at college at the time.

moo_beebi

26th Apr 2007, 10:25 PM

i never knew flirting with the prof. at uni could help your grade!!

zukoislove

27th Apr 2007, 01:18 AM

If you put a toddler's toy in the middle of the room next to a bed, and there's no other way to get to the door, the sim walks over it (they actually look down and see it's there and pick there foot up a little higher than usual).

Unless my sims are just smart. Idk.

moo_beebi

27th Apr 2007, 03:47 AM

grouchy sim kids beat up teddy bears and then hug them for forgiveness :|

Ghost sdoj

27th Apr 2007, 02:30 PM

That Darius is crazy. He just suddenly decided to attack Lucy (his future wife's mother) without any reason and their relationship was totally neutral (0/0 0/0).
Well... I think it's because he and she aren't a least bit compatible but nobody of my sims has ever been as extreme as Darius. Some of them have hit some sim just like that yes, but none of them has ever attacked without reason.

How Grouchy is he?

Grouchy sims tend to do things like that. They think an insult followed by an argument or a water ballon in the face are a good way to introduce yourself.

Thrior

27th Apr 2007, 04:54 PM

^
He's totally grouchy. Nobody of my other mean sims has ever been as extreme as he so that's why I found it pretty hilarious XD. He meets Lucy > he attacks her > he kicks her ass.

Menaceman44

27th Apr 2007, 07:33 PM

I discovered that plumbobs and skill bars aren't reflected in mirrors but that the glow they give off is.

Valentine_SC

27th Apr 2007, 07:45 PM

That alien teenagers can get acne.
If you think about it, it's only logical that they'd have it, too, but I don't have abductions/alien babies very often, so seeing those green pimples was kind of weird

Proxian_girl

28th Apr 2007, 12:52 AM

I got two of my simmies kidnapped by the Secret Society today, so I got to meet the cowplant! And for something whose scientific name includes "simnivorii" (simnivore = eats sims?), it's darned cute-- to the point of wagging its little tail when my sims fed it! Positively adorable!

On the other hand, I neglected it for a while, and as soon as it put up the cake lure, EVERYONE ELSE IN THE SECRET SOCIETY had to wander out toward the cowplant's pen intent on grabbing some cake... I had to delete the gate and use moveobjects to put my controllable sim into the pen and feed it before it ate a potential future Legacy spouse!

Kyrelle

28th Apr 2007, 12:58 AM

Sim kids can autonomously put their homework on a desk (without a homework stack already being there). I've only ever seen them put it on the floor!

Sizza

28th Apr 2007, 11:10 PM

In my 'hood, reflecting in the water, I saw the alien spaceship! It looked like it was abducting someone. The really funny thing was that it was straight above a nuclear power plant:lol:

Proxian_girl

29th Apr 2007, 12:00 AM

My sim had a crush on a Dormie, and she caught her crush getting macked on by the Cow Mascot...

... and her memory is that the COW cheated on her! Is that normal?

Zzz!

29th Apr 2007, 12:34 AM

I just noticed that after installing the Pets EP, a cat and a dog appear on the 'Create Family' button :) It is so cool.

Lina_SC

29th Apr 2007, 12:40 AM

kids can play with toddlers when you click on their toys! and its so adorable, because when my toddler was playing the block game, her sister was telling her where it went and she clapped when she got it right <3

MagicBeans

29th Apr 2007, 12:46 AM

My sims are freakin' brats.

Derange

29th Apr 2007, 12:52 AM

'Primp' and 'gussy up' increase hygiene.

ooshinaynay

29th Apr 2007, 12:53 AM

^^ omg they do!!!!

Tyo

29th Apr 2007, 01:12 AM

My sim had a crush on a Dormie, and she caught her crush getting macked on by the Cow Mascot...

... and her memory is that the COW cheated on her! Is that normal?
That happened in my game, too. After that I ended up trapping the cow in a fence for the rest of university.

MagicBeans

29th Apr 2007, 01:12 AM

"Primp" appears to be gone from my menu. I discovered that yesterday.

Canoodle

29th Apr 2007, 01:26 AM

Seasons bug. They claim it will be fixed in the upcoming patch. In the meantime, Pescado fixed it. If it bugs you, just get the primpfix at MATY. Remember to remove it (and all the other borkenness that MATY coders have fixed, like the fishing, energizer etc fixes) before installing the Seasons patch when they release the new version.

Kyrelle

29th Apr 2007, 04:28 AM

That you can have sims who hate each other equally, yet only one of them will have the disgruntled posture on the loading screen. Hmm.

Count Four

29th Apr 2007, 04:36 AM

A child sim actually had a 'play-tickle' interaction possible with a toddler! It was right after he'd transitioned from a baby, his big sister had the options to tease or tickle. Next time I checked, though, she only had the tease option.

Bad Kay

29th Apr 2007, 12:24 PM

In Dutch, there's this translation mistake. A male sim of mine had a grandchild and his memory said: Wie had ooit gedacht dat ik nog eens oma zou worden
Which means: Who would have thought that I would become a grandma one day :confused:

caitlin27292

29th Apr 2007, 12:30 PM

i discovered that your garden sprinklers can break and need to get repaired!

plaything

29th Apr 2007, 01:40 PM

When one sim of a couple is in asleep and the other one gets in, the first sim will wake up and they will snuggle up together before going off to sleep. Awww :)

AxelValentine

29th Apr 2007, 02:46 PM

That you can have sims who hate each other equally, yet only one of them will have the disgruntled posture on the loading screen. Hmm.
Or you can have sims in a household who don't hate each other at all and one of them will have a disgruntled posture.

chnnature

29th Apr 2007, 02:49 PM

That is you have a household with infant twins - even if the family is happy and healthy- on the loading screen they look irritated that they have twins.

HCAC

29th Apr 2007, 02:52 PM

I had a father in law have a crush on his son in law...Very weird..They kissed 'goodbye' romantically.

lipstick

29th Apr 2007, 08:09 PM

I discovered that you can have your sims give birth to twins, and they won`t look anything alike...but when you have them give birth at two separate times, they`ll be identical. [shrugs]

Elven Moon

29th Apr 2007, 08:39 PM

Maybe it's a glitch, but I had a Sim sit down to eat dinner while still holding the baby!

MizzBlackCherry

29th Apr 2007, 09:59 PM

I found that the InSim machine has a couple of rather amusing "side effects" that I hadn't realized...

To start, I made a family (Mom/Dad/had babies), but the whole time Mom was being a complete brat, and not from pregnancy. She won't watch TV, read a book, play the piano, or train the children for more than 30 seconds. I'm like, what's up with this beaaatch?! She whines at everything! Then I remembered...I had set her to 'exhibit extreme feminine behavior'. Haha, InSim is such a scamp for that.

Also I had set a woman to be manly, and she came over for coffee (I hadn't played her lot yet) her voice was all butchy and low pitched, and all she wanted to do was play punch you-punch me or turn sports on the TV. ehehehe....