What did you discover today while playing the sims?

[stephness]

Since the last thread was deleted in the purge, I figured I'd start a new one. ^_^

Today I encountered the coach for the first time. My sim wasn't even that out of shape! Weird.

[King Of My World]

The Coach? Wow, which expansion is it on if any? I'd think UNI because thats the one I've never had/used, besides pets of course.

[SimGameFan]

I discovered that Open For Buisness is awsome!! I discovered that a man can come and review your shop also.

Edit:
King Of My World: yes, it is University that it comes with.

[stephness]

The Coach? Wow, which expansion is it on if any? I'd think UNI because thats the one I've never had/used, besides pets of course.

Yeah, it's Uni. If your sim is out of shape, a coach appears on the lot and makes your sim drop what they're doing and exercise.

[Howabominable_SC]

I discovered that Sarah the dog's puppies are hideous abominations.

(><).

[rome_raven]

I discovered that when cats are bored to tears, they seem to spend all their time jumping on and off of counters

I've also discovered that some of my sims think that their dog is the dumbest in the world and don't like training them.

(:D and thank you Stephness for making this thread again)

[nekochanpurr_SC]

I discovered that they put new commercials on the sims TV.. At least, theres one on the cooking channel.. XD

[Stasis Field]

My sim invited her boyfriend 'round for dinner, but headed to bed shortly afterwards - and...

...the non-controllable boyfriend started trimming the hedges, weeding the garden and generally tidying the house. I never realised they could or would do that. My sim can't be worth all the hassle, surely? ;)

[momicajack]

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

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

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

[Howabominable_SC]

Cats can cough up hairballs (><).

Yes, I got a picture.

[rome_raven]

I saw a stray cat puke (or at least he looked like that to me) after my sim tossed him in the air a couple times. At least it wasn't on the clothes like with toddlers.

[Tyo]

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

Momicajack: the door-locking options came with OFB.

[yamikuronue]

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

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

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

OFB had doors you could lock

I discovered my burning hatred for EA. I was at the mall today-- THE mall, the ONLY mall in town-- and they had 5 copies of pets sitting on the shelf AND they'd had bandit cat for preorders. But no, I preordered from EA games, who hasn't even SHIPPED yet

[Tyo]

I discovered my burning hatred for EA. I was at the mall today-- THE mall, the ONLY mall in town-- and they had 5 copies of pets sitting on the shelf AND they'd had bandit cat for preorders. But no, I preordered from EA games, who hasn't even SHIPPED yetThat's how I was feeling until I got home today. I checked my e-mail and I had a message that said it had shipped (apparently this morning, but that has to be a lie), and I checked my mailbox and there it was. So I think that EA is screwy, because it couldn't have shipped from Detroit to Vancouver Island within the day, I don't think.

[lemonboleyn]

I discovered an intense passion to kill off the two sons of my favourite sims, one of whom is the kid of my favourite sims before them. It's not my fault though, I can't stand the sight of the boys anymore, and they certainly can't carry on the family line; their noses spread all over their face.

[Black_Barook!]

I found out that my sims are stupid, and not your average stupid. More like "I'm going to shock my self a million times and see if I live" stupid...

[momicajack]

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

Momicajack: the door-locking options came with OFB.

Lol! You both got me on that one! I guess that goes to show how guilty I am of deserting my Sims this past year to play World of Warcraft so dang much! I haven't explored my Business expansion all that much yet, so I guess I just didn't know. In any event, the topic is about what new thing we learned today, and it was new to me, so . . . :frying:

hahahahahaha!
:moo:

[Whatsername360]

Yesterday I discovered Aly and AJ were on my sim's boombox. o.o

[chloe984]

that my dog has a obsession with yowling at the tv

[RosalindP]

I discovered that it's apparently impossible to adopt strays. They just hang around all day if you interact with them and then leave sometime at night.. which sucks, because I have a sim family that would totally suit being the stray-magnet.

[Kaotic Bliss]

I discovered today that my pc is very well equipped to handle all ep's except pets. LOL. I am so bummed.

[SimGameFan]

I discovered that OFB enables bumpmaps for me!

[JAQ2]

I discovered that sims can aspire to be a warewolf. This happened after the sim aspired to and saw a wolf. I havent made a warewolf yet, but i plan to :)

[Asya_SC]

My sim and her husband (Castor) were kissing on the couch. Then my sim's sister, who has 2 attraction marks for Castor, came and sat next to them. And she was extremely frustrated to see them kissing, she had this "have a fit" thing and her relationship with her elder sister and Castor fell to 50's from 100. Neither my sim nor Castor had such loss on their side though. Castor and this sim are only friends! I think that's very interesting. They can be jealous of someone they are attracted to even if they don't have an emotional thing going on.

Besides, the sister's child "cries softly" when he sees this couple making out!... :confused:

[Howabominable_SC]

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 :)

[Leyla_SC]

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 cute, I have to try that now!

I discovered today that dogs sit in bay windows! Its pretty cute!

[Ghost sdoj]

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 :)
So why can't they do that with babies and toddlers? They just drop the kids on the floor to do ANYTHING!

[Tyo]

I only just realized that you can merge families outside of university towns. Heh...

[Roboevil]

I discovered you can take your cat to work...
Assuming it's a glitch, my Sim was holding my kitten at the time the carpool arrived. He changed into his work clothes (still holding the kitten), walked outside (still holding the kitten), got in the car (still holding the kitten), and off he went (guess what? Still holding the kitten!)

[Tyo]

If you feed your dog too many treats, he'll vomit.

[NH1]

A dog can laugh at another dog/sim...
When a sim is relaxing on the bed, he can ask a dog/wolf (don't know for cats) to join the sim... There are no further options when relaxing though... I think it's cute, it looked like the wolf was holding guard near the sim!

[mookiepants]

i learned the other day, your pregnant sims cant change the kitty litter box, just like in real life, i asked her to four times and nope she refused, i had to get the maid to do it.

luckily maidypoo will come clean your litter box, shake out your cat bed and clean your bowls, hurrah the maid.

[simsample]

If you feed your dog too many treats, he'll vomit.

*Simsample runs off to play Pets with bag of pet treats in hand....

[Ghost sdoj]

Snapdragons appear to be cumulative. (ok,I'm cheap. I've been playing OFB for 2 months now, and just now got someone who could make them to sell.) I had 6 on display, and the only motive which was dropping much at all was energy. After all but the last 2 were sold, motives were dropping faster. Either that, or they had finally hit a critical line and the number of flowers had nothing to do with it. But I am still going to fill my house with snapdragons from now on.

[Akronborn]

How do you merge families? I dont have University.

[rome_raven]

How do you merge families? I dont have University.

It's a feature of University, in order to get the graduates get back home. If you don't have Uni, you don't have the feature. Sorry :(

[CeJaye]

I discovered it's really really sad to watch a sims mourn for the dog they've had since the sim was a toddler, and the dog was a pup. And I heard that dogs will mourn for their sims too. :(

[lemonboleyn]

Building community lots just to take up space or serve as places for pic-taking is really addictive.

[HCAC]

I discovered Kitty can bat at flies just like in real life! See my post in the picture (pets) thread.
It was cute!

[~Michelle~_SC]

I just found out there is a new LW for family sims. I don't know if it's just for same sex couples or not but it is 'Raise 20 Puppies or Kittens' [It's the first time i got it and like seeing as the couple i found out is same sex so yer]

[exactduckwoman]

It's a feature of University, in order to get the graduates get back home. If you don't have Uni, you don't have the feature. Sorry :(

The only EP I have is OFB and I have it. I wonder if it comes automatically with NL, too? Super useful though. I'm going to make an elderly "I'm bored with you" sims house one of these days. :D

Edit: Oh, and something I saw for the first time yesterday! A want for "Have 20 grandchildren" worth 30,000 aspiration. The sim in question's LTW is to marry off 6 children, but even that's only worth 25,000 asp.

[chyrun]

Pets has the door locking option, too. I don't have OFB.

[chronicboredom]

A new raise 20 puppies or kittens lifetime want with Pets, pretty easy to do as well, assuming you have a big pay off in the birth! ;););)

[Jenl212]

I discovered that Sarah the dog's puppies are hideous abominations.

(><).

Yes they are! She gave birth to the three I am assuming she was already pregnant with, and they are all white ugly things. Obviously only have access to her DNA (like with Brandi Broke's baby) and now my adoption pool is full of ugly dogs.

I just got that 20 puppies and kittens want too. My first Pet want, so I feel compelled to fill it, despite it being a nightmare for my legacy family. At least they already had a cat I was considering for breeding.

[sims2fanatic_SC]

The other day I discovered if teens see one of their parents cheating they get mad and dislike that parent.
Never knew that before.

[Simalien]

I discovered that teaching your parrot to talk and then talking to them will skill your sim in charisma while raising your sims fun and social bars too. Sure beats using the mirror.

[momicajack]

that my dog has a obsession with yowling at the tv

Yeah, I've noticed my cats and dogs don't seem to like the television or the stereo. I think maybe they just don't like the noises. You should also make sure if you put a pet's bed in the living room or a room with a tv or stereo that while the pet is sleeping the tv/stereo stay turned off so they can get their rest (just like sims wake up when a tv/stereo in the room is on). My cat meows at the stereo and my dog howls at the tv. I guess the animals just don't like all that noise.

Pets has the door locking option, too. I don't have OFB.

I'm beginning to think maybe each time a new pack comes out, maybe some of the good interactions that were in the one before it may be added to it too.

Akronborn, maybe the merge families thing will work for you. Just try from the neighborhood view to move a sim or pet into a household that already has sims living in it. I think this feature must also come with pets because they give you some pre-made pets in the lots section of the neighborhood view where your homeless pre-made sims are, and I read in the gamebook that pets cannot live on a lot by theirselves, therefore, it would make sense to think that they put that interaction into the pets game in order to be able to play those pets that come in the lots and families bins. Also, there is nothing in there that says you HAVE to create Sims and pets at the same time - they let you just make the pets and those are placed in the lots and family bins, so how else is one going to be able to get them into a home with sims unless you can merge them?
:confused:

Try it out.

[yamikuronue]

Vampires generally dislike kicky bag I guess.. I can't get them to agree to a good solid game of it unless they're already almost friends with my sim

[Ghost sdoj]

Depends on the vampire. But the Grand Vamps do seem to love bowling and pillow fights.
Also the bubble blowers and musical instruments that no sim can stay away from.
(They all seem to be pleasure sims. I guess this makes it less likely for them to go into aspiration failure over people who didn't want to be a vampire getting themselves cured. But it's kind of weird that they never get the same want to be cured that any other pleasure sim will get. At least they never actually fear it either.)

[chronicboredom]

Other new LTW: Have 6 pets reach top of career, this is one of the eaiest ever :O

[QueenScorpio_SC]

When a toddler is playing with a toy (like the Wabbit) the parent can come to the toddler and "play with"
Clean sims always clap their hands when you give them a cleaning task

[sketchy]

Child Sims can tease toddlers. Why is the only child-toddler interaction one that makes them hate each other? ;p

[SarahTheS]

Child Sims can tease toddlers. Why is the only child-toddler interaction one that makes them hate each other? ;p

They can also play with them... it pretty much depends on how many nice points they have. They're really bratty to their sibs if they are mean little kids.

[SugarHoneyIcedTea]

And I heard that dogs will mourn for their sims too. :(

Yeah they start howling, it's really really sad! :(

[leighcy]

I'm pretty sure I've seen this mentioned somewhere before ages ago, but I just discovered that if you buy a bookshelf, have a sim study something, then sell the bookshelf while they still have the book out, you can still use the book to study without the shelf. They will just put the book down on a table or any other available space when they're done with it. Pretty cool if your sim is poor or short on space.

[Luvnme]

I discovered that sims can chicken out on the diving board. Don't know why, since they'll still use the ladder to get it, but it's pretty funny.

I also discovered that sims age transition with the most horrible clothes known to humans!

Thank Simmers for Custom Content.

[craptastic]

I just got Pets a few days ago, and I've just discovered that the dogs drink their own pee :lol: And roll in it.

[mokado]

I just got Pets a few days ago, and I've just discovered that the dogs drink their own pee :lol: And roll in it.

Yeah, kinda disgusting LOL :P

Drink his own pee :S Jeez, that crazy stuff ^^ Wonder if dogs like the taste (Never seen mine Real Dog doing it though)

[cappyboy]

Well, more yesterday than today. But I discovered that if you're planning to play your Sim's wants in numerical order, you better pray you don't get a female Family Sim with Have A Baby in Slot # 1.

I tried to fulfill for this for one such Sim. So they woo-hoo that night they move in. The next morning she's in hunger desparation. But she's already in the bathtub washing up when I notice this.

So she gets out of the tub starts to wonder if she's pregnant and promptly keels over into the fetal position. I'm caught so off-gaurd by this that I'm lucky to properly summon her husband to the bathroom. One night in the house and he already has to plead with the Grim Reaper for her life. Unfortunately, I fumble the task and accidentally cancel the action before Hubby can complete it and his bride dies. Naturally I deleted him and acted like nothing ever happened on the lot. Another couple lives there now and has no clue what happened to the prior occupants.

[Blue Serenity]

I learned my game is seriously mucked up... my Betty Newbie i shown as alive and well since i restarted.

Oh yeah and the coach just appears randomly even in my frat of full body skills, full fitness sims

[lovefrogs12]

My same sex couple had a LW of "6 pets reach top of career"
I didn't play them long enough to try to do it, just saw it when I first moved them in.
He was the wealth aspiration I think

[CajunBelle0731]

I discovered you can take your cat to work...
Assuming it's a glitch, my Sim was holding my kitten at the time the carpool arrived. He changed into his work clothes (still holding the kitten), walked outside (still holding the kitten), got in the car (still holding the kitten), and off he went (guess what? Still holding the kitten!)


That happened to me this weekend. Stephen Tinker was holding his puppy when the carpool came to pick him up and he took it to work with him. Somehow I don't think his boss would have liked that since Stephen was a shift manager at a fast food restaurant.
Then the next day, they were having a birthday party for their twin girls. He had brought one of them to her cake when the carpool came. He had just stood there with the baby for the longest time without age transition. Finally I cancelled out command because I didn't want him to miss his ride. Instead of putting the baby down, he took her to work with him. And the strangest thing was that all their guests that had gathered around the cake stayed there the whole time. I even tried to get Wanda,Melodie and their other two daughted to engage the guests in other activites but they stayed put. When Stephen got back from work, as soon as he got out the car the baby grew up. Then the guests started cheering. Too weird.

[chloe984]

dogs like to knock the bin over and roll in the rubbish

[unsettled_76]

If you are playing a severely sloppy sim, like Don Lothario or his children (at least in my game his kids are sloppy), you have the option to 'salvage' if you click on the garbage can. I've seen them make anywhere from $4 to $12. It was kind of cute (by cute, I mean, a little gross) when the kid did it. She fell all the way in the bin. Teens don't fall in.

I also noticed that sims love playing with the birds and the womrats, but don't mourn them when they die. :(

Nina Caliente is actually a pretty nice, if a rather single-mindedly domestic, sim. And she's very clean. Grim came to get her because she was so busy taking care of the house and feeding everyone else that she forgot to eat. Which is funny because I always thought she and her sister were skanks. :)

[craptastic]

Kitties sing along with the stereo :lovestruc it's adorable. Kind of annoying, but adorable all the same. My sim turned on the stereo, and her kitty walked over in front of it and was going "meow meow meowwwww MEOW meow meow meow meowwwww" while bobbing her head back and forth and lifting her paws every now and again. :lol:

[AdmiralAeris]

If you are playing a severely sloppy sim, like Don Lothario or his children (at least in my game his kids are sloppy), you have the option to 'salvage' if you click on the garbage can. I've seen them make anywhere from $4 to $12. It was kind of cute (by cute, I mean, a little gross) when the kid did it. She fell all the way in the bin. Teens don't fall in.

His alien offspring aren't sloppy in my game though -- and by "aren't sloppy" I mean complete neat freaks.

What I discovered: Pet owners who randomly walk by other lots bring the pet with them. It was weird seeing Robert Kim waddling by with Gabby tagging along

[Melodyway17]

In pets, if a sim is playing the piano, the dog will sit by and 'sing' along with the piano @_@ Dogs can also lick/sniff toddlers (the licking is absolutely adorable!! ^O^).

Pets can sleep on the bay windows! New Lifetime want - have 20 pet best friends! @_@ Dear lord! Why did my sim have to have this LTW?! T_T

Transformed werewolves can't use the mirror to change appearance (too hairy, is what I got :laugh: )

[frivolous_SC]

cats can literally sleep anywhere. 8D besides beds and petbeds.

[Ghost sdoj]

In pets, if a sim is playing the piano, the dog will sit by and 'sing' along with the piano @_@ Dogs can also lick/sniff toddlers (the licking is absolutely adorable!! ^O^).

Pets can sleep on the bay windows! New Lifetime want - have 20 pet best friends! @_@ Dear lord! Why did my sim have to have this LTW?! T_T

Transformed werewolves can't use the mirror to change appearance (too hairy, is what I got :laugh: )

Ok, they let vampires with no reflection use a mirror to change appearance, but they don't let a werewolf (who DOES have a reflection) use a mirror?

[AxelValentine]

There was something, but I forget what exactly it was.
Oops...

[PhantasyGurl]

I discovered you can lock and unlock doors for Sims and Pets..how cool! It's funny when I find these things out! I clicked on door by accident and there it was haha!

[Kaotic Bliss]

Ok I haven't seen this but my sim was stuffing his face from the fridge, drinking milk from the carton and what not. He is a neat sim also and he wasn't really hungry I guess he was doing like we all do and open the fridge when bored.

[plaything]

If Sims don't like a deceased Sim, they can kick their gravestone. Hilarious!

[puigcaro]

If you send a pregnant lady to trim the bushes, and don't realize both her hunger and energy bars are on the red, it's practically impossible to bring her back to wellness. The odd thing is, after I got her better, I sent her in to have a shower and after she came out, she curled up and died.... I still don't know why. Now she's a zombie, and her baby (born from her as a zombie) is a gorgeous toddler.

[jefrir]

That elder sims can receive a pension and have a job in a player business at the same time.
That when you kill the last sim in a house you get a messag saying that Sims is a LIFE simulation game, and wondering whether you meant to kill them all. I'm slightly surprised I've never done this before.

[Mouse_SC]

HCAC- OT but your avatar sim is A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E

Last week I discovered that miniature German Shepherds are quite adorable. :P

[KismetRose]

There's a deep red tank top for women that comes with some tattoos and on the chest, the plumbbob is worked into the tattoo design.

I also put one of my sims in a deep blue tank sort of shirt only to find out it has a big, colorful tattoo on the back. Though the tattoo seems to be of a fish, it's still neat.

[HunterGreen]

I discovered that teaching your parrot to talk and then talking to them will skill your sim in charisma while raising your sims fun and social bars too. Sure beats using the mirror.

Then after you teach it to talk, all it says is "cracker" over and over again. :D Sims look somewhat crazy when they are talking to it.

[Lilmissliza22]

Today I discovered that ever since I installed Pets, none of my custom content shows up in Pleasantveiw, so I dont play Pleasantveiw anymore.

[stephness]

I had something rather odd happen to me today, although I'm positive it had to be a glitch. I was playing a small dorm when one of the NPC dormmates went into the bathroom stall. Pretty normal, right? But something caught my attention..

This sim was a female, but she was peeing standing up, facing the toilet. Like a man. Funnier still is that she looks rather masculine as well..

[DrFraud]

I had a glitch once while playing one of the Sim State U dorms where the cow mascot suddenly froze in place and the poor Sim was stuck there forever after, to the point where they desperately needed a shower! I never thought of deleting and restoring the poor thing in cheat mode, for some reason. (I haven't used cheats since The Sims 1 and the days of having to use move_objects_on on particularly stupid dogs and cats so that the carpool/bus could leave for work/school.)

The other day, I discovered that Sims with queued-up actions in a multi-Sim household, unless watched like a hawk, are prone to substituting their own actions. (I sent Edwin Sharpe, who'd gotten more than a little tubby, upstairs to exercise in front of the TV, switched to Roxy and her boyfriend, and returned about two Sim-hours later, only to discover that the lazy sod had been lounging on the sofa all that time...)

I also discovered that (a) it's a bad idea to have a Sim cook toaster pastries when they need to leave for class in a half-hour, and (b) if you're going to set off the sprinkler system to fulfill a "Pull Prank" Want, it's a very bad idea to do it in a room you plan to have the prankster spend time in afterwards.

(BTW, how the heck do you get the Coach to show up? I've had several overweight Sims in various college households, and always had to make 'em do their exercising on their own.)

[xXharp_babyXx]

(BTW, how the heck do you get the Coach to show up? I've had several overweight Sims in various college households, and always had to make 'em do their exercising on their own.)

I think it's just random. I moved Ripp, Tank, Ophelia and Johnny into their own house at Uni, and within about 15 Sim-minutes, the coach turned up lol

[gamestress]

My kitty that just came home from work, was in bad need of some fun, she went right to the televsion (which had been left on), started watching, and her fun greened right up!

[Bad Kay]

I have discovered that the 50's dress (or another decade) that came with nightlife is an exact copy of the dress that the girl in Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' is wearing in the intro. It's funny, since they've put in the dance routine too.

[Webster54]

whaa! they do the thriller choreographed dance? i never noticed that!

[Ghost sdoj]

I actually mentioned this in the previous thread, but it's sort of a warning so I will post it again:

There is an upper limit to the number of Aspiration points you can have stored up. Once you get to 327,650 (or maybe it was 327,680) you are maxed out and cannot gain any more. And if you use the sim-vac while you are maxed out, it resets your total to 0.

You also need to keep most of your pictures in a story album. I found that out a couple of days ago when I was taking pictures on an unowned lot and they stopped saving. I have a story with about 150 pictures in it so far, so I was worried that I had found an absolute limit. But after I put all my loose pictures into the neighborhood story folder, I was able to take pictures again.

[Webster54]

i just noticed that dogs eat a student sims homework if you don't watch out.

[cinderdayzii]

My female vampire repeatedly tries to bite the necks of her young children (babies too!) and the even the ghosts on their lot. She can't, so she just follows them around with the "bite neck" action at the top of the screen. As of yet, she hasn't tried to bite anyone that actually COULD be bitten.

Go figure.

[Webster54]

nibbling is a sign of affection

[AdmiralAeris]

OK this was yesterday but...

Pets brings back the commercials on the sims' TV!

[Ghost sdoj]

OK this was yesterday but...

Pets brings back the commercials on the sims' TV!

Now all we need is a remake of SUPERSTAR! Then our sims can watch themselves in commercials they made.

[tlynnjpeg]

I'm probably really slow on these...but...

Today, I found that if you have a sim paint a portrait of another sim, and the subject leaves to do something else, the portrait will be of a blank wall (or whatever the background was). Same thing for still life if you move the object/landscape/whatever.

Also, if you set one sim to work out, at least on a machine, you can have another come over and be a personal trainer.

-Jpeg

[Ghost sdoj]

But you can have a sim paint a still life which HAPPENS to include another sim posing in it, and get a portrait of the other sim, even if the sim left while the picture was being painted. I used to have a portrait of the Grim Reaper that one of my sims painted, but it disappeared when my oldest Deathspawn kid tried to take it to college with him.

[craptastic]

Dogs chew on homework if you don't train them not to chew the furniture :lol:

[Morwen Laicoriel]

Dogs chew on homework if you don't train them not to chew the furniture :lol:

Cats scratch them up, too. XD

[AxelValentine]

When you get the surger table for the medical profession they can pull all kinds of stuff out.
I got a sponge, a phone, a toy horse, and cheeseburger...and through it all he though the sponge was normal but threw everything else away in panic.

[Brook_Lynn_Marie]

If a toodler is playing the xylophone adult can come over and play with. I found out when a visitor was over and I'm like wait how did they do that!? Its like the tuck in thing becuase you can't make them do it they do it on their own. ( the adult that is )

[tlynnjpeg]

If a toodler is playing the xylophone adult can come over and play with. I found out when a visitor was over and I'm like wait how did they do that!? Its like the tuck in thing becuase you can't make them do it they do it on their own. ( the adult that is )


As long as there's for them to sit, you can click an adult or teenager on the xylophone (or other toddler toy), and it should have the option to play with (well, you should have the option anyway, they just will throw a fit that they can't sit, as usual). I think you can have up to 3 playing with the toddler. I know I've had two.

-Jpeg

[Brook_Lynn_Marie]

As long as there's for them to sit, you can click an adult or teenager on the xylophone (or other toddler toy), and it should have the option to play with (well, you should have the option anyway, they just will throw a fit that they can't sit, as usual). I think you can have up to 3 playing with the toddler. I know I've had two.

-Jpeg

Yeah my games on the skits right now from having insim and pets at the same time along with some other things so things are a little messed up. Thats cool yeah my sims dont have the option to sit and play with toodlers only with the doll house.

[moonluck9]

Yeah my games on the skits right now from having insim and pets at the same time along with some other things so things are a little messed up. Thats cool yeah my sims dont have the option to sit and play with toodlers only with the doll house.
A pets compatable version of Insim is out now, you know. :)

[Brook_Lynn_Marie]

A pets compatable version of Insim is out now, you know. :)

I remeber someone saying that it would come out this weekend! I was just at the website thismorning im such a dunce. Thanks-

[tlynnjpeg]

But you can have a sim paint a still life which HAPPENS to include another sim posing in it, and get a portrait of the other sim, even if the sim left while the picture was being painted. I used to have a portrait of the Grim Reaper that one of my sims painted, but it disappeared when my oldest Deathspawn kid tried to take it to college with him.

That's not how it's worked with mine. It may be an EP thing, though. I only have Uni. I've done still lifes of sims before, but they had always stayed in the same spot while the picture was done. Just not that day. The toddler that had been the subject had long left (the painting was started, then finished several sim days later). That's why I tried doing a portrait instead. But the subject ended up with a full bladder and left for the bathroom, while the painter kept on going. So I ended up with two very nice pictures of walls :lol: .

-Jpeg

[craptastic]

Cats scratch them up, too. XD

That's too funny :lol:

[laety85]

A pets compatable version of Insim is out now, you know. :)

OMG really!!!! *runs to insimenator.net to download* I am SO releived by these news!!!! :D

[Webster54]

i've had to play without the inseminator and i went to a person's business. i found out that if you give your employees a break, they'll back to work on their own when they're ready. you don't have to tell them.

i also learned that if your customer gets mad and throws their bags on the floor, you get the money from their purchase when you clean up the bags. i don't know if you get the whole amount or just a portion, but you do get paid when you clean it up.

[Aleesha]

not today but on Saturday I found out that sims can woo-hoo in a car haha

[jingxia]

I had a glitch once while playing one of the Sim State U dorms where the cow mascot suddenly froze in place and the poor Sim was stuck there forever after, to the point where they desperately needed a shower! I never thought of deleting and restoring the poor thing in cheat mode, for some reason. (I haven't used cheats since The Sims 1 and the days of having to use move_objects_on on particularly stupid dogs and cats so that the carpool/bus could leave for work/school.)


One of my sims also got stuck once... in space!

He got abducted but never returned.. the carpools got stuck, his motives did decay to the point where he would have died. But since the sim was gone and unclickable, I couldn't do anything about it.. so I was forced to move the family to a different lot.

[AtropaMandragora]

I discovered sims can have the want to streak. Did not know this. (Don't play uni much).

[Bad Kay]

not today but on Saturday I found out that sims can woo-hoo in a car haha

Wow, you're late! One of the first things I did when I got Nightlife :p
I discovered that nannies can kiss toddlers. I thought only family members could..

[lemonboleyn]

I discovered that BJ the headmaster is really fickle. XD The other one, I forget his name, is fine, tho.

[*roxette]

I found out that if you have a fire, when there are already cars parked on the front, the fire engine won't come! So you have to put out the fire yourself!
Because the gardener and the repairman were there, the fire engine wouldn't appear so my poor simmies had to spend 1/2 the day trying to put a kitchen fire out before it engulfed the entire house! The repairman was just stood watching, my sim wouldn't "dismiss" him coz he was too busy panicking about the fire! Thankfully the gardener eventually finished tidying the garden and the fire truck arrived on the scene.
So my simmies were saved :D But I lost 1/2 my kitchen cabinets coz of that dam bug! Grr.... From now on am putting sprinklers everywhere!!

[violet kazoo]

Lazy Sims slouch when they're just standing.

Sims in university who have the same major have an interaction where they can talk about their major.

Children can do an interaction called "Nyah Nyah" and another where they can tell a secret.

[plaything]

Yeah they start howling, it's really really sad! :(
Dogs & cats will also mourn for sims that they didn't know, if you click on the grave & press "mourn", whereas other sims will just shrug. I guess the animals are just nicer!

[sims2fanatic_SC]

The other day I discovered the "Bust A Move" thing I thought it was the funniest thing I had ever seen on sims.

[Brook_Lynn_Marie]

I discovered preganate sims could rub belly. I knew you could do it with hacks and what not but I wanted my pregnate sims to play with the womrat and she would just rub her belly then finally opened the cage and played with it.

[lemonboleyn]

Okee, so this was yesterday, but I discovered that Kaylynn the maid has only 1 in neat. She's always yelling at me if I make her clean somethin'.

[punkd20]

I discovered it 3 or 4 months ago pregnant sims need more food and energy than normal sims lol :D

[Psy10]

Kids can exercise using the stereo but not the TV. :screwy:

[Proxian_girl]

It IS possible to set the toaster oven on fire. (my Legacy Founder's wife did so)

Inability to cook, regardless of skill levels, seems to be inherited. After his mom set the toaster oven on fire at cooking level 3 (trying to fix a toaster pastry), the Legacy Generation 2 spare decided he wanted chili con carne for lunch (at cooking level 5), and promptly set the stove on fire... then went and stood in it to panic. And he's a Knowledge sim!

[simmer22]

I discovered a lot of completely new tv-shows, some with animals, and even a car advertisement (and other)

and that one of my simmies went crazy (not literaly, but she cried a lot) when I had to adopt away two animals.

and that I hate not to have a "more sims on the lot"-hack... a pain when they had one kid and a lot of animals, and I wanted them to have more kids and adopt a cute cat that was wandering around.

[Naz]

Today I found out that none of my sim's neighbours like my (male!) sim except Darren Dreamer.

[AxelValentine]

This is not right...Maxis has sick minds!
I have a family where it's two brothers and the one's spouse. I was going to make some kind of little storyline with them where the single brother likes the other one so I used inSIM to make it happen.
Well....after that Family Kiss wasn't the only one they could do. :jaw: :blink:

[maybesomethingdunno]

AxelValentine, InSim enables the player access to functions inside the game that aren't normally available. You can set and clear family, romance, and friendship flags or attributes in a way that is not a normal part of gameplay. I've used InSim to create a situation Maxis did not intend for the player to create through normal gameplay. I summoned a Sim to my lot who had a death token (was considered dead, but didn't have a tombstone/urn) in Pleasantview. I made him selectable and, having him as the active Sim, I tried to resurrect him. Well, it made my game crash to the desktop. Apparently, a Sim who is dead, should not be the active Sim and, as the active Sim, he should not be on a lot trying to resurrect himself. Maxis did not intend for me to create that situation, but InSim allowed me to create it. Thus, there was an unexpected effect. There may or may not be any ill-effects depending on how you play with the relationships flags for family members in ways Maxis did not intend. So, be careful.

[leaftheweed]

Discovered a couple of things...

1) Never play "toss the baby" right after a toddler has had a bottle. My parent Sim got barfed all over mid-toss.

2) When a not-nice Sim gets mad enough at another Sim, they'll get the Want to "See (hated Sim)'s Ghost". I have one particularly nasty Sim whose wants are all about seeing Sims he hates die.

[lemonboleyn]

2) When a not-nice Sim gets mad enough at another Sim, they'll get the Want to "See (hated Sim)'s Ghost". I have one particularly nasty Sim whose wants are all about seeing Sims he hates die.
Heheh, it's not the just meanies. ;) I have a very nice simmy who caught her husband cheating- the "See Ivy's ghost" want didn't go away for sim months. xD

[Ghost sdoj]

SimPe 60 is realeased now, although he says that it was only due to high demand and he STRONGLY recommends backing everything up before you install it. You also need Net 2.0 to use it.

[AxelValentine]

maybesomethingdunno - I did that before with the death token, but she disappeared and couldn't be selected. If she was it just went to her daughter, the only other sim selectable.
I've done tons of stuff with inSIM and gotten it mixed up with original stuff. Such as changing toddlar's appearences.

[QueenScorpio_SC]

If the gypsy gives you a match you don't like and you forget to end the data and simply ask her to give you another match the previous one will hate you for days on end
Which leads to...

Sims who are POed will stalk the sim they are mad at and steal thier newspaper and kick thier garbage can all day.

[Atgnat]

i discovered that sims are left handed when writing diaries.

[joeySimzee]

I discovered that my Sims 2 grounds are all replaced by weird numbers and that my objects.package file is corrupted :)

[aurora__x]

When I had to put up one of my pets (had too many cats. :( ) for adoption, my sim, Psyche, ran through the house crying and ran to the police car to say goodbye before her kitty got taken away. I felt horrible!

[~!Sasha!~]

I noticed that sims put down an extra plate when a toddler is in the house right? Well I found out why they do this. When the toddler is in the high chair waiting for food, the extra plate is served to them! I just now noticed this and Alt+Tabbed just to post this. It's so amazing! I'll have pics when it happens again, if no one else has seen it already.

EDIT:
And you can command you dog to lick the toddler! And the toddler can cuddle the dog. It's so cute!

[~Squash-buddy-ven~]

Today I discovered that dogs can use the Water Wiggler that comes with OFB.. I had just made one for the kids and the family dog Jinx went straigt to it and began playing. And the best part is, that the dogs hygiene goes up as they play with it. That way you don't have to bathe them all the time.. :)

I also discovered that the Bust A Move interaction is great when building relationships.. If your sims can "Bust A Move" then they have a little advantage when making friends.. I tried it with a sim at Uni when he was trying to build up his Greek House, and in matter of no time, then he was at level 6.. :D

[Peace]

I removed all of my downloads and mods out of my game. Now my sims snap their fingers! LOL I swear they didnt do it before!!

[Neema]

I discovered that time does not affect TVs/games that are on (if you have it on on normal, then go to double, then triple, the TV will still be the same speed. Also, if you pause while the TV is on, the show your smi was watching doesnt stop; it keeps going.

Also, if your about to adopt a dog on the telephone, it does not tell you the age of the dog (or so i didnt see)

[CeJaye]

I think it tells you the age of the dog by the picture of the animal; you should be able to see if it's a puppy, or an adult.

[danishani2_SC]

i discovered when you go into buy mode if your sims is watching tv it still runs.

[Brook_Lynn_Marie]

I found out that if a parent is holding a toddler and trying to go up the stairs but has a trouble because their path is blocked they'll wave one of their hands. I have a pic. Yet they can't hold the toddler and get a bottle or answer the phone or anything eles.
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g286/BrooklynnMarie2/snapshot_9263c604_926cf770.jpg

[xXharp_babyXx]

I wish I'd gotten a picture of it, but my sims were eating their dinner, and one of them threw some food for the cat. ^_^ I haven't seen it since. :( lol

[autumnwish]

harp_baby, if you use the cheat to control your pet, you can have them beg for food while a sim is eating by clicking on the sim. The sim will then toss some food to the cat/dog. It is quite cute.

[NH1]

harp_baby, if you use the cheat to control your pet, you can have them beg for food while a sim is eating by clicking on the sim. The sim will then toss some food to the cat/dog. It is quite cute.
yes, but don't let them beg while the sim is cooking... I did that and when the sim turned around to 'toss some food'...the kitchen caught fire... Really, and he is a great cook... Never had a fire before and makes/prepares all food

[AtropaMandragora]

Quite a long time ago, one of my sims was preparing dinner, and to save some time, I decided to have another family member sit down at the table in the meantime. I don't remember if I clicked on the seat or on the sim who was serving the food, but I got the option to "wait to be served" or something like that. I might be slow, and everyone else already knows about this, but I hadn't seen it before, nor have I seen it since.

[Lunarsea]

I've discovered that a sim's hunger bar goes down faster is it studies cookery! Also, I married a couple of my sims and suddenly they both got the fear "Get caught cheating". Despite the fact that neither of them have a bit on the side.

Does this mean they don't actually care about stamping on the heart of their nearest and dearest, and actually don't mind cheating. Naughty little simmies!!
:shrug: :lol:

[puigcaro]

Sims who are POed will stalk the sim they are mad at and steal thier newspaper and kick thier garbage can all day.

That always happens to me, usually when one of my CAS sism marries a townie or NCP, the old girlfriend is alwaysmad. The last one that kicked my trash can and brought on roaches had a little "accident" with the cowplant. :3dcool:

I discovered that now (with Pets) if you want to change neighborhoods, a little window appears with the thumbnails, you don't have to go back to the starter screen. (If it already did that I had no idea)

[Ghanima Atreides]

I noticed that, apparently, Pets can become zombies just like sims because when my Legacy sims' pet cat died, they rolled fears about him becoming a zombie...:wtf:

[AdmiralAeris]

A couple of things I've noticed since the install of Pets:

Pictures are no longer removed from the storytelling bin when a family/household is merged into another or otherwise disappears legitimately (the pics were always in the storytelling folders but were no longer accessible in-game), no doubt due to that all-too-common complaint of Exchange storytellers "I forgot to move in a placeholder and now my college pics are all gone!" (or something to that effect).

This one may be pre Pets, but I hadn't seen it before -- parents can now randomly visit their YA offspring on the college lots. I saw this when John Burb drooped in when Lucy had invited her fiance (Beau Broke) over and spent nearly his entire (ungreeted) visit freaking out because Lucy goosed Beau.

[NH1]

I don't know if this is a bug or not but:
- My sims just came home from work and was low on energy, so I told him to go to sleep. When he just asleep an NPC came on to my lot, he woke my sim up and the NPC left the lot again... I didn't say hello or anything to that NPC... and I never saw him before... I don't get it, why did he do that?

[Ghost sdoj]

What did the NPC look like?

(And are you CERTAIN it was an NPC? If you were using a telescope at all during the day, you can get an irate neighbor coming over to yell at you for spying)

[shoobles]

I've discovered two new things over the past couple of days. If you press tab repeatedly when the cheat menu is open, it will go through a selection of cheats, although you do need to add a value of some sort (on/off, true/false, or a number). Also, apparently the piano can break down and need to be tuned. Its actually kinda neat.

[exactduckwoman]

Today I noticed I have the restaurant podium in my Community Lot buy mode. I always thought that you could only do restaurants if you have nightlife, but I only have OFB. I haven't tested it out yet though.

[*roxette]

I found out cats and dogs can fight today!
My cat Oscar got annoyed with one of the strays... Rudy or something? Big black dog. And he started a fight! Then lost it bless him... and he had a memory for it. I hope he wins the next one! :D hehe

[Chandi]

I discovered that I can change the graphics settings of The Sims 2 to a decent quality without burning down my own house.

[NH1]

What did the NPC look like?

(And are you CERTAIN it was an NPC? If you were using a telescope at all during the day, you can get an irate neighbor coming over to yell at you for spying)

Yes, it was an NPC (don't know the name, but he had black hair and and a dark skincolor, I'm certain it was an npc since all my playable sims are werewolves now and the npc wasn't a werewolf) .The sim didn't use the telescope, his wife did use the telescope though, Maybe the npc got angry at wrong person?

[tlynnjpeg]

Angry sims, at least in my experience, yell at the first one they feel like yelling at, regardless of who used the telescope. I especially like when the offender is still using the telescope, and the neighbor runs right by them to yell at an innocent family member.

On a same note, I discovered that said innocent family member can be a toddler. Neighbors are kinda silly, since toddlers can't even use the telescope.

-Jpeg

[SofieAmalieN]

Yesterday, I discovered that my beloved hood was bugged. So I had to delete it and start over. Gen 4 was becoming adults... I rescued gen 1 - my all time favourite couple - they had 12 children, 10 naturally and 2 adopted. But they're safe toddlers, living with their parents and grandparents/siblings... Now I'm starting over, which is.. okay because then my hood will be ready for Pets, when I get that it for Christmas.

[Brook_Lynn_Marie]

Yea one of my custom hoods is bugged also! All the males get the flu! When there fine even when I just move a family in they get the flu then get over it then after about a day they get it again! It was really annoying. But I won't delete it because Its probably a bug with a hack I have that will be updated for pets.

[Shnooks]

Yesterday I was playing and I found out a few things:

-My sim went on an awesome date, and the guy came around at like, 2am and LEFT A FLAT SCREEN TV IN FRONT OF HER HOUSE. It said something like "I had such a great date, so heres a [TV Name]!"

-My sims also got a cold! Its so hard to get them to stay in bed D:

[Ghost sdoj]

I had a sim move out of the dorm after a dream date. ( He graduated.) He got the flowers, but the reward had not been delivered. He married the girl he had been dating, and they both became vampires. Then my husband moved one of his teens into that same dorm and the next day the wife came over (in bright sunlight) to deliver a DJ booth to my husband's character!

[exactduckwoman]

-My sims also got a cold! Its so hard to get them to stay in bed D:

They don't have to stay in bed all the time. Just make sure they get enough sleep, and make them study or read or watch tv a lot. Mine always get better within a day or so if I do that.

[SHADEAUSTAR]

When dogs make a human best friend, their memory is "Jack joined my pack". When cats make a human best friend, their memory is "Jack became mine". Is that too funny, or what?

[DarkPhoenix]

When dogs make a human best friend, their memory is "Jack joined my pack". When cats make a human best friend, their memory is "Jack became mine". Is that too funny, or what?

Well, as someone said, "Dogs see you as a roommate. Cats see you as a servant."

[FuryFanFiction]

My sim had a want to wear a tuxedo... a couple days after his wedding!!! That was definitely something I hadn't seen before.

And if you are at the top of the Law Enforcement Career, you fly to work... that was awesome! Didn't know they did that!

[alayaya]

i encountered something that i have never seen before a couple days ago. Has anyone else seen this?
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c173/jkuijper/promotion.jpg

Tracy is the townie that my sim was dating at the time. He was in the medical career field. When i eventually got them married it turned out she was a "cheif of staff" (the top of the medical career).

[moonluck9]

I found out that when you adopt a baby you get the pop up like it was being born and you get to name it.

Eather that or it is a bug in the InTeen bata. Does anyone know?

[jingxia]

i encountered something that i have never seen before a couple days ago. Has anyone else seen this?
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c173/jkuijper/promotion.jpg

Tracy is the townie that my sim was dating at the time. He was in the medical career field. When i eventually got them married it turned out she was a "cheif of staff" (the top of the medical career).

I had that too! But only once. :]

It's cool. :D

[Lunarsea]

I discovered yesterday that fire is laggy! When you have a lot of it anyway! And that you can set trees on fire! :D

[Henry Crun]

One of my sims started chatting up a robot at the disco and I discovered an option to 'Tune Up' so, of course, I clicked on it. She produced the usual huge screwdriver and proceeded to use it on the robot who loved it. The robot was kicking it's leg like when you pet your real life dog and hit just the right spot. I'll post a pic of my sim with the robot in the Random Pics thread but meanwhile I am kinda worried about my sim having the hots for a robot when I had lined up a really hot guy for her :banghead:

[SofieAmalieN]

I found out that when you adopt a baby you get the pop up like it was being born and you get to name it.

Eather that or it is a bug in the InTeen bata. Does anyone know?

It has always been like that :) It's only with babies though. Toddler and children are already named.

[moonluck9]

I feel kind of stupid not knowing that. I have adopted babies before but the ones that came were ones that were taken away from other homes. I guess you learn something new every day.

[HunterGreen]

I discovered that doing the crossword puzzle in the newspaper gives logic points. I can't believe I have never had a sim do a crossword puzzle before.

[~!Sasha!~]

I never noticed this:
http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n184/ArrojaKH/snapshot_00000001_1278ae5d.jpg

[Proxian_girl]

I discovered that a Popularity sim in an Asylum Challenge (with 7 other sims) has very little trouble keeping his aspiration gold, even autonomously. I also discovered that love isn't everything (two friendly/crushing sims, and when I prompted the girl-- my controllable sim-- to flirt with the guy, she gave me the evil eye!).

I have a question: How low does a sim's Neat/Sloppy rating have to be before the sim is willing to take a spongebath from the sink? Or is there an expansion required for that?

[moonluck9]

The only way they will do it is if there hygiene is very low and there is nothing else to use, like a shower. I'm pretty sure that it has nothing do do with Neat points.

[tlynnjpeg]

I discovered that doing the crossword puzzle in the newspaper gives logic points. I can't believe I have never had a sim do a crossword puzzle before.

But it takes forever to get anywhere with it. I wish crosswords counted for more.

The only way they will do it is if there hygiene is very low and there is nothing else to use, like a shower. I'm pretty sure that it has nothing do do with Neat points.

They have to be outgoing to some point. Shy sims won't do it. Also, I've had my fair share of stupid sims who have a perfectly good shower waiting for them in the next room, but no, they'd much rather strip naked in front of their poor guests and family and use the kitchen sink. But I think the idea is for if there's nothing else available.

Today, I had just moved Dustin Broke and Angela Pleasant into their own house at Uni, and wanted them both to do some term paper-ing, so I bought two computers and plunked them down next to each other. A bit later, I had Dustin playing SSX3 and when I clicked Angela on the other computer, it gave her the option to join a LAN party. I find this hilarious (and extremely helpful, since their social shoots up as fast as their fun).

-Jpeg

[sims2addict01]

I discovered that there is a little cabin on by the woods in the outskirts of Pleasantview...do you see it?

[Ghost sdoj]

Yes. My husband went into it, and decided it's not even a good starter house.

[Nymphetish_SC]

Today I discovered that teenagers can be attracted to their parents?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v683/vertig0/snapshot_f26927bd_72789172-1.jpg

[Shnooks]

Whoa, Nyphetish, thats just weird D:

[Canoodle]

The alien spaceship has a license plate. It says: ANM8ER !

[Nymphetish_SC]

Whoa, Nyphetish, thats just weird D:


Yeah I know =0. It must be a glitch or something.

[Birgitte Heuschkel]

How incredibly cute children are when playing Cops and Robbers. Did I mention I'm new to this game?

[GummiBears]

Today I was playing my legacy and the teen had her boyfriend move in, and he yea..brought 5 MILLION DOLLARS with him. Ugh.. and he came from a 'poor' family too, I sort of heard about that with nightlife see but I've had it for over a year and that has never happened so I forgot and yea 'rediscovered' it today lol..... Thank god for family funds cheat.

[AxelValentine]

Not today, but I did notice that when you have kids play Miss Mary Mack it sounds like they're really saying it! Well, if you ignore the fact that it's not real words. But they have the rythm and everything down. It's kind of cute.

[Simstar]

Today I discovered that teenagers can be attracted to their parents?

And apparently sims can be attracted to their pets, also. In one of my sim's dreams, her dog's face popped up with the hearts around it.

[dragon_tfm]

hmm maybe hearts dont always mean inlove so much as they really care about them cause otherwise i have soem really icky sims (alot of my parents dream about their kids and have those heart thingsy come up )

[xXharp_babyXx]

Today I was playing my legacy and the teen had her boyfriend move in, and he yea..brought 5 MILLION DOLLARS with him. Ugh.. and he came from a 'poor' family too, I sort of heard about that with nightlife see but I've had it for over a year and that has never happened so I forgot and yea 'rediscovered' it today lol..... Thank god for family funds cheat.

:lol: what a way to screw up a Legacy :P

[nekochanpurr_SC]

hmm maybe hearts dont always mean inlove so much as they really care about them cause otherwise i have soem really icky sims (alot of my parents dream about their kids and have those heart thingsy come up )


I think that hearts in the talk bubble can sometimes get 'stuck' because i've noticed it happen when my sim who currently is in love with another starts talking about it with their kid/etc.. Then everyone seems to have the hearts! Could be just me, though..

[Ghost sdoj]

Nope, It's happened to me too. I had a picture posted in the funny pictures thread where a sim who was having breakfast with her fiance had a comment with his face surrounded by hearts. Then he repeated it. Along with the hearts. It was like "I love you." "Yes, I love me too."

[nixie_SC]

I discover i've lost my cd key to my open for business expansion, which i also think will surface anytime after i buy myself a new copy.

[simsample]

Nixie, read this:
http://www.modthesims2.com/article.php?p=1322625

[QueenScorpio_SC]

Today I discovered that really grouchy sims can kick their own cans (i.e. the cans outside their houses)

[Hakura_SC]

Well, I didn't discover it today but I find it really neat how there's these little ways things can alter from the viewpoints of different sims. Like if they're getting a visit from the Psychiatrist guy, and possibly the social bunnies, I could only see those NPCs through while the sim they were visiting was selected.

Also I found it insanely cute for some reason that the 'Task Line-up' or whatever you'd like to call it, for the pets have black and white pictures.

[lilsweetcori]

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Also I found it insanely cute for some reason that the 'Task Line-up' or whatever you'd like to call it, for the pets have black and white pictures.
Me too. At first I thought something was wrong with my game (hee hee) then it dawned on me... duh they are supposedly color blind (or something like that) so thats why theirs maybe is in black and white.

[SSChan]

I discovered yesterday while building a home that if you press shift and either > or < your camera will continuously revolve in a circle until you click one of the rotate arrows on the UCP.

It was kind of frightening. I was panicking trying to get it to stop. XO

[kcoffee]

I discovered yesterday while building a home that if you press shift and either > or < your camera will continuously revolve in a circle until you click one of the rotate arrows on the UCP.

It was kind of frightening. I was panicking trying to get it to stop. XO

Oh my god! Thats happened to me a few times and i end up closing up the game because i can't get it to stop! Haha, thank you!

[TheDuecedFaerie_SC]

Today I discovered that I haven't played the Sims in a REALLY long time... So I'd better get a move on and... um.. make them have babies or something, lol. Oh, and also, I discovered the cute movie clip that plays at first, well, everythings really. YAY for my new computer!

[oniella]

Ok I discovered a few things today.

One, some kids, while playing cops and robbers are really mean lol. While my child simmy was pretending to die (on the floor), her friend came up, kicked her, than laughed!! I was like WHAT!?

Ok, also, when a dog digs a hole, a guest can fill the whole back up. Yea!

Um, there is more, but I forgot :p

[Miss Jill_SC]

Well uhm, my sims can't get the apple turnover out of the stove, lol. :P

[Henry Crun]

If the kids are playing with the fire engine toy that came with OFB and you put your cursor over the icon of the fire engine in the top left hand corner it says things like 'rescuing a cat from a tree' or 'giving a talk to school kids on fire safety' etc rather than just saying 'playing with fire engine' :)

[violet kazoo]

I discovered that custom skin is an acquired taste. I'm so used to seeing my Sims in the regular Maxis skin that they look scary in anything else.

And if you press tab in the cheat window, you can cycle through the different cheats.

[maz_SC]

Yea one of my custom hoods is bugged also! All the males get the flu! When there fine even when I just move a family in they get the flu then get over it then after about a day they get it again! It was really annoying. But I won't delete it because Its probably a bug with a hack I have that will be updated for pets.

It might not be a bug. If someone came by your house with a flu - in my case it was John Burb who I never played - they will contaminate your sims. He was a regular in the welcoming comittee for my neighbourhood, always came by sneezing and coughing & soon enough everyone was sick thanks to him! I then had to play the Burbs to stop the pandemic.

[nixie_SC]

Nixie, read this:
http://www.modthesims2.com/article.php?p=1322625


Thanks alot, simsample, I found the booklet just when I given up hope that it is lost forever, :D hahahaha, its right infront of me all the time, for a week, and i ddin't see it.

[Loco]

I discovered that sims... well, I dunno how to describe it. But my sim had just got engaged, and for almost all the next day he walked around with his arm half-raised, as if to show off the ring... it was sorta cute. I got a piccy:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/Adva/Sims/0296dozerring.jpg

[Brook_Lynn_Marie]

It might not be a bug. If someone came by your house with a flu - in my case it was John Burb who I never played - they will contaminate your sims. He was a regular in the welcoming comittee for my neighbourhood, always came by sneezing and coughing & soon enough everyone was sick thanks to him! I then had to play the Burbs to stop the pandemic.

Oh thanks! I'm going to have a fun time finding who it is I havent played in the neighborhood in forever! I was just kinda thinking about deleting that neigborhood because I hardly play it. I think I'm going to start a new neighborhood. Something new and refreshing.

[Elven Moon]

Sims can have seemingly random fits.

Just today one of my families celebrated the toddler transition birthday for their first kid. The proud father doted on his son, constantly picking him up or talking to him. So, he's doing that, and I'm watching the guests talk, when suddenly I hear this grumbling noise. The dad has backed away from his son and is stamping his feet in anger. I was a little confused, but I had a Sim pout after a baby was born (sort of a "Great, another mouth to feed!" thing, I guess) so I figured it was fine. He does this 3 or 4 more times, and then I'm really lost. Just what the heck is his problem!?

Finally I notice that his mother-in-law and father-in-law are always being intimate in some way when he does this. I checked their relationship stats, and they're all -100! They seemed fine before, I have no idea where this came from. He doesn't even love either of them, so I doubt it's jealousy.

So, yes. Sims can throw random fits.

[Ghost sdoj]

I had a toddler become furious with his mother for something. When I checked his memories with SimPe, the toddler had a memory of his mother having an affair with his stepdad. While it is true that they made out with each other, they were engaged to each other and living in the same house when this happened. So apparently it is possible to cheat on a sim WITH that same sim. And anger people who find out about it.

[Brook_Lynn_Marie]

That toddlers can eat dog food. i was like litle simmy no! I mean him and the dog where like best buds they cuddled all the time but he ate the dog food i was just like blah. So now I try to keep him away from the dog bowl otherwise I don't no what could happend to him.

[Miss Jill_SC]

After giving some people free makeovers, my sim's wants was updated with "want bronze talent badge" for the proffession.

[Brook_Lynn_Marie]

Miss Jill- thats cool I love giving townies make overs they can be quite ugly somtimes.

[GummiBears]

That you can have a lot of greek members! I never really play the greek houses but I did today and uhm.. I clicked on the greek letter to see what their status was and it said "maxium: 32000" That has to be a glitch.. I don't even want to think about a house with that many sims in it!

[Brook_Lynn_Marie]

That you can have a lot of greek members! I never really play the greek houses but I did today and uhm.. I clicked on the greek letter to see what their status was and it said "maxium: 32000" That has to be a glitch.. I don't even want to think about a house with that many sims in it!

Oh I could imagine them all waving there hands because the couldn't move where they where all doing the little pee jig. It would be funny to see on a video but I wouldnt want that many on a lot in my game!

[etherealgirl]

I discovered that sims... well, I dunno how to describe it. But my sim had just got engaged, and for almost all the next day he walked around with his arm half-raised, as if to show off the ring... it was sorta cute. I got a piccy:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/Adva/Sims/0296dozerring.jpg

This happens to me sometimes when I tell the Sim to stop playing chess and do something else. Their arm gets stuck up like that, as though they are ready to move a pawn or something. So it's more likely something like that than showing off the ring (although that's pretty funny!).

[Ghost sdoj]

The number of Greek house members has nothing to do with how many actually LIVE there. You still have the normal limit on the number of people who are actually in the house. The 32000 maximum simply means that you can have everybody on campus pledge to the house if you want to. Once the pledge period is over you can ignore them entirely until it's time to move someone into the house to replace someone who graduated or moved out, since the only way to combine anyone into a Greek house is for them to pledge first.

[CajunBelle0731]

If your sims get caught hacking their grades at university,they not only get a lecture and a fine,but the cop takes out a repo gun and takes their computer too.

[iunplugthings]

I never realized that if a sim with glasses goes swimming, the glasses disappear. I mean, who'd want to swim with glasses anyway, but it's a nice detail I never noticed before.

[SimGameFan]

Oh I could imagine them all waving there hands because the couldn't move where they where all doing the little pee jig. It would be funny to see on a video but I wouldnt want that many on a lot in my game!

My computer would literaly blow up if I had 32,000 sims on it.
A computer with 8GB of ram, 3.8GHz processor, top of the line graphics card, and a 1TB HD would probably even blow up! :lol:

[tlynnjpeg]

I never realized that if a sim with glasses goes swimming, the glasses disappear. I mean, who'd want to swim with glasses anyway, but it's a nice detail I never noticed before.


I do! I'm blind otherwise :P.

On a related note, makeup disappears when they change into pajamas. I rarely use makeup, so this was a new find for me.

-Jpeg

[Birgitte Heuschkel]

Today I learned that two parents, both working, trying to raise twins and three kittens and a teenager at the same time are fairly prone to nervous breakdowns.

[Alcyone]

On a related note, makeup disappears when they change into pajamas. I rarely use makeup, so this was a new find for me.



I never noticed that before and I use makeup all the time loL! :anime:

[iunplugthings]

I never noticed that either.

What I noticed today? Sims can join in 'LAN parties' - :) At least, while they're at college they can. I was amused.

[Brook_Lynn_Marie]

That when sim get ingaged the ring goes on the middle finger .

[Sizza]

That turning my sims into midgets is funny, but watching theirlegs and arms makes it hilarious

[Brook_Lynn_Marie]

That turning my sims into midgets is funny, but watching theirlegs and arms makes it hilarious

I've always wanted to try that. I should really use that cheat for picture taking. Well not make them midgets but just smaller or if possible taller.

[Sizza]

Didn't you use that cheat in the competition you made this pic for(the one in your avart)

[Derange]

I learned today that it's impossible to make an alien Sim in Bodyshop who lacks a nose and still looks cute. Trust me. I've tried.

[Brook_Lynn_Marie]

Didn't you use that cheat in the competition you made this pic for(the one in your avart)

Are you talking to me? Well if so no its just that way when two kid sims hug one gets the lower end of the hug making them appear shorter.

[GummiBears]

That premade sims have actual bios lol. I've been playing this game for way too long and I have just noticed that now.. I was playing with Mary-Sue and I noticed above fitness was a little pen and pad so I clicked on it and it went something like "athletic and something, mary sue likes pottery, or used to when she had time, she believes there is good in everyone" or something. Heh. Now I want to go see what they all say.

[Brook_Lynn_Marie]

That premade sims have actual bios lol. I've been playing this game for way too long and I have just noticed that now.. I was playing with Mary-Sue and I noticed above fitness was a little pen and pad so I clicked on it and it went something like "athletic and something, mary sue likes pottery, or used to when she had time, she believes there is good in everyone" or something. Heh. Now I want to go see what they all say.

Really I didn't know that maybe when I have more time I'll go take a looky.

[longdaysend]

i discovered just how finicky the genetics regarding "create a baby"...i used to think it took ,blocks (for lack of a better word) the eyes were one block the mouth and jaw another..etc..but..i was wrong when one child had dads eye colr and chin and moms eye shape and mouth...:blush:

[leaftheweed]

Today I learned that two parents, both working, trying to raise twins and three kittens and a teenager at the same time are fairly prone to nervous breakdowns.

That sounds remarkably like real life. :D

[broo_SC]

I've noticed that sims can get a crush on each other even with lifetime relationship of 10. Happened to my poverty challenge founder and her now husband. Never saw it happening before tho.
Also that sims can "dance" naked (while streaking) :banned:

[Maffers87_SC]

I've never done the "scope room" choice in the pie menu. So I did it today and it told me who they thought were "HOT". It was pretty funny!

[KangarooDied]

I've discovered that some playful sims can be hyper-active. I have one who kept doing stuff. Like, a couple of seconds after turning the radio on, he starts listening to his mp3 player, then stops that and turn the TV on, doesn't watch it, then goes to make spaghetti.
Quite amusing.

[NH1]

I discoverd that 2NPC can be engaged together... I started a complete fresh neigbourhoud and create only 1 sim in univesity. I made him fall in love with a female sim. And I made them kiss, but her npc boyfriend (the cow mascot) was looking at it (I didn't know that an npc could be engaged) and first (the 'breake up' icon appeared above the head). So, I used boolprop to make the female selectalble and one of her memory said that she broke her engagement with the cow npc... She didn't have a memory of being engaged with the cow, though...

[maz_SC]

I discoverd that 2NPC can be engaged together... I started a complete fresh neigbourhoud and create only 1 sim in univesity. I made him fall in love with a female sim. And I made them kiss, but her npc boyfriend (the cow mascot) was looking at it (I didn't know that an npc could be engaged) and first (the 'breake up' icon appeared above the head). So, I used boolprop to make the female selectalble and one of her memory said that she broke her engagement with the cow npc... She didn't have a memory of being engaged with the cow, though...

Engaged to a cow.. that's something straight out of the Jerry Springer show. :D

[leighcy]

Tonight I saw something amusing that I'd never seen happen before. One of my teen sims was about to get in the taxi to go on her first date when a lady neighbor came walking by the house. The neighbor stopped, looked at the taxi driver and did the 'eww.. not attracted' thing with his head and a bunch of x's. I'd never seen that and found it funny. :)

[AxelValentine]

I found out that if a sim gets pregnant with themself the baby can come out with recessive traits.
One of a couple I have has custom skin and I wanted one of their kids to have the dark skin like the other Sim, so I had him get pregnant with himself. Alex (father) = Grey eyes, dark skin, brown hair
Sammy (daughter) = Green eyes, dark skin, black hair.

The couple also have had two kids with different coloured hair. Both parents have brown, one kid has black and the newest boy has blond. I've never seen that on any of my others.

So basically - I discovered recessive SIm genes today. :D

[Elven Moon]

I discovered that if a Sim is in the tub, and another Sim is about to die, that Sim will walk around the house naked to witness the event. They don't seem to have any shame ;)

[Peace]

I feel really stupid posing this but oh well! lol When one of my sims became a child i bought his two everyday outs, one for his toddler brother, and a teen outfit. Well he wore one and when his brother turned into a child he was wearing one of the outfits! And when he turned into a teen he had on the teen outfit. When his baby brother grew up he had on the toddler outfit i had bought! I was in shock. I thought I was the one who had to put the outfit on them!!!!

[sketchy]

I discovered the "Surprise Engagement" option that's available when two Sims in love are dining. I've never noticed that before! Gonna have to use that sometime.

[negneg189]

Heh, really stupid, but I found out big dogs can "make puppies" with little dogs!

[chyrun]

I discovered that a gypsy in my custom neighbourhood is named Joy Hurt. I think it's a...cool name. Joy and Hurt.

[Menaceman44]

I got Pets for Christmas and the first thing I spotted that I didn't expect was in Strangetown. I was looking at the new neighbourhood decorations when I saw a weird glowing effect off the side of the screen and when I zoomed over to have a look there was a spaceship scanning the crash site! I would have got a picture but I was too slow and it zoomed off.

[sayyadina_SC]

I finally discovered the "flying pig"! I was on the phone and left the game in neighbourhoodview for at least half an hour (never did that before), and there it was: the flying pig. Amazing...

[Branwen_SC]

I discovered the "Surprise Engagement" option that's available when two Sims in love are dining. I've never noticed that before! Gonna have to use that sometime.

I didn't know that! I have to try that sometime! :blink:

[Stasis Field]

I discovered that it's really quite hard to build a neighbourhood from scratch!

[SofieAmalieN]

I didn't know that! I have to try that sometime! :blink:

It comes with NL :)

[AngelFrouk]

My cat had a good laugh when my sim cleaned the litterbox...

[solitarycannon]

I discovered that the sims "fun" level goes up much faster when they watch that lady dying on the yummy channel.

[Ghost sdoj]

You can put a roof on the ground. It looks kind of silly, but it was perfect for an old abandoned house I was building.