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10th Apr 2012, 10:04 PM

#251

Dizzy-noodles

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Originally Posted by arwentroi

@ Levera: What is this awesome bookshelf you speak of? I am highly interested.

@ lil_princess_of_evil: I have a sim that once knocked over his girlfriend's trash can. WTF?! I had to use a hacked object to give him an extra nice point.

@ HexYeah: TwoJeffs has a "No Romance Swoon" hack here.

@Dizzy-noodles: What's BOTDF? Is this a band or something that old people like me have never heard of?

Oh, and I like salsa music. Heh. My radio stations play mostly 80's music and J-pop.

I refuse to play with free will on because autonomous actions annoy me so much. I have plenty of hacks to stompinate the stuff that turning free will off won't get rid of. One of the things that drove me crazy was that they'd always do completely useless thing that wouldn't gain skill or boost needs, like playing computer games or writing in their diaries. I suppose there's a bit of Fun to be gained - I do sometimes have them play games on the PC - but there are activities that are much more fulfilling.
I also hated it when I'd have guests over or be rushing around for some important reason and then one of the household sims would disappear and take a bubble bath. Usually when their Hygiene is full, too. I think I had one that did this during a FIRE.

Hiya

BOTDF is short for Blood on the Dance Floor, they're a band. I only discovered them a few months ago but I LOVE them (and I'm 32 so probably older than you ;p )

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10th Apr 2012, 10:14 PM

#252

Dizzy-noodles

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Originally Posted by Tina9340

I'm sure that most of these have been said, but here's my sim pet-peeves:

-Toddlers who go into the bathroom and splash all the toilet bowl water around.

- "OMG. MY EYES. I'm in the bathroom with my naked WIFE".

-Sims who autonomously flirt with other Sims; Sims who I would never even think of hooking them up with. Ex: I had a Sim in Uni, and he was best friends with one of the girls in his dorm. I left them alone for a few Sim minutes, and when I got back, they had developed crushes on each-other. ._. I broke them up, ruining their friendship. I got them to be friends again, and the same thing happened. So, I decided to marry them when they graduated.

- Visitors. "Okay, I know we just met. But, I'm just going to go in your house and use your things. Kthxbai".

-My pregnant sims always end up falling asleep in their foods.

-"What's this?" Dude, I just replaced your phone. Chillax.

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I know that there are mods to fix these sorts of things, but I don't like having too much mods in my game. So, I just deal with them.

Haha I agree with all of these!

10th Apr 2012, 10:20 PM

#253

arwentroi

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Originally Posted by Dizzy-noodles

Hiya

BOTDF is short for Blood on the Dance Floor, they're a band. I only discovered them a few months ago but I LOVE them (and I'm 32 so probably older than you ;p )

Ah, I figured it was a band. Thanks! My 30th birthday is in 2 months, so you're not much older than me. I just assume everyone here is a kid, because it seems that way everywhere else

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10th Apr 2012, 10:21 PM

#254

Dizzy-noodles

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Originally Posted by Levera

If your in an apartment complex, the don't show up. >.> And it made me upset because I wanted the darn plaques!

Anyway, I think mine would have to be, is when people just enter your house, and begin to try to pick fights with my Sim. >.< Its sad, and makes my Sim pissed.

Also, when my sim says goodbye or ask to leave to another Sim, and they just stand there then go back to what they are doing. So, I say

Forget it!

And let them stay for weeks and weeks and weeks on end, until they say: Bye or Look at the time, I'd better be getting home

>.> Yeah, they could have left weeks before -.-"

One of my nannies would not leave, and kept walking round in her underwear (my poor eyes), she wouldn't leave even though she was hungry, tired, etc. I even tried to kill her but she wouldn't die! Eventually I had to move the family out of the house to get rid of her!

10th Apr 2012, 10:30 PM

#255

omglo

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Originally Posted by Peni Griffin

Actually, I find that if I buy things when my sims are asleep (which I almost always do, as it's a handy time when I know where everybody is), they don't go gawk at it. And I make use of the "What's this?" mechanic on community lots to direct them to the place it seems best for them to go when they first arrive on the lot, so they'll all gather (for example) at a group of statues in the foyer of Crypt-o-Night instead of going all the way to the back to look at a light or sink or whatever it was the builder put there last.

Oh is that how they decide where to go first? I've always wondered why everyone who goes to the museum really really wants to look at the garbage bin.

10th Apr 2012, 10:58 PM	#256
supaizzy Test Subject Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 58 1 Achievements	OMG i dont no if its just me but my sim has an obsesion with digging holes like i look around and theres bloody holes EVERYWERE! drives me crazy
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10th Apr 2012, 11:33 PM

#257

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Originally Posted by supaizzy

OMG i dont no if its just me but my sim has an obsesion with digging holes

like i look around and theres bloody holes EVERYWERE!
drives me crazy

Are you sure its your sims digging holes? Its probably just the stray dogs coming onto your lot and digging.

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11th Apr 2012, 01:07 AM	#258
supaizzy Test Subject Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 58 1 Achievements	I think its a mixture of both lol seen dogs and sims dig holes. But Either way there are still loads of f%*king holes in my garden
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11th Apr 2012, 09:50 AM	#259
_sheldor Test Subject Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 24	Lol what's this HAS to be the most pointless and annoying. ESPECIALLY if they disagree on it. Lol. Personally I find everything my sims do annoying. I'm a control freak, so I always have free will off. I can't stand my simmies running around like rats when they could be doing what I want them to do lol. I also can't stand when they bird watch or catch butterflies. Everytime I move a family into a new home this happens. Oh! And I can't stand play fetch. It doesn't go off when free will is disabled because the stupid pets are needy. And if you take free will of the pets they just stand there...and it's creepy.

11th Apr 2012, 03:45 PM	#260
Dizzy-noodles Field Researcher Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 383	Another one-kids splashing in puddles! I make them mop it up when I catch them, to teach them a lesson!

24th Apr 2012, 11:54 AM	#261
DamascaRamza Test Subject Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 26	Autonomous smustling, autonomous "Auto Rain/Hail/Snow", autonomous dancing with adults, be they parents or random people, autonomous bed making, basically a lot of the autonomous actions, thankfully quite a few of them have mods to disable them.

24th Apr 2012, 01:30 PM	#262
RowenaLupin Instructor Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 526 1 Achievements	Above all of the annoying bits of auto-actions. Lately, I've been using only custom paintings to decorate the house because it makes it a lot more customizable - and the themes work well together. My painters are all maxed out, and yet their partner goes around to the SAME two or three paintings, and 'ick' them, and then the painter gets really sad that he doesn't like them. They look really good actually, and it matches the room better than a 'grilled cheese' picture.
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24th Apr 2012, 02:30 PM	#263
whiterider Oh, My! Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 14,599 Thanks: 27756 in 63 Posts 30 Achievements View My Journal	Sleeping. Sim is bored? Bedtime! Sim needs to pee? Bedtime! Sim should be at work? Bedtime! With one of my larger families, I got so sick of chasing them all out of bed (never their own bed, either) all day that I ended up locking all the bedroom doors during the day, only letting them in at night. And still the adults ninja the kids' beds while the kids are in the bathroom in the evening!
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24th Apr 2012, 03:04 PM	#264
Honeywell Inventor Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 966 Thanks: 26883 in 46 Posts 25 Achievements View My Journal	Writing in their diaries. Every other second someone is plopping their ass down and pulling out a diary. To be fair, there's not much on the lot (not even a house) so there's not much else for them to do but it's still annoying. During normal game play I hate when they play video games on the computer because the sound effects are so loud they grate on my nerves.
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24th Apr 2012, 03:07 PM

#265

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Originally Posted by whiterider

Sleeping. Sim is bored? Bedtime! Sim needs to pee? Bedtime! Sim should be at work? Bedtime!

With one of my larger families, I got so sick of chasing them all out of bed (never their own bed, either) all day that I ended up locking all the bedroom doors during the day, only letting them in at night. And still the adults ninja the kids' beds while the kids are in the bathroom in the evening!

I've long since given up on my sims consistantly sleeping in the beds I've designated for them. Some households are better at it than others, but I've noticed that my laziest sims (closest = best) and most hyperactive sims are the worst for it. Nowadays, the only ones I actually stop from playing musical beds are the main Beaker household...though it still doesn't stop addled Guinea Pig (their second human lab rat) from trying to sleep in the same bed as one of her two favorite people, Loki and Circe.

My least favorite autonomous actions are that inhale animation and the shade-eyes animation that came with, I think, Mansions and Gardens. I got a hack to stop the eye-shading, but the inhaling I can mostly live with. Though I doubt that the air smells terribly good, given the number of knocked-over garbage cans and serial-ventrilofarters around.

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24th Apr 2012, 03:45 PM	#266
omglo Instructor Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 442	I hate the eye shading action because it looks so jerky. The other animations are smooth, but sims snap their hands up like their hands are metal and there's a magnet in their forehead.

24th Apr 2012, 03:54 PM

#267

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Originally Posted by whiterider

Have you tried TwoJeffs smart beds? I also had the issue where my sims would go to bed when they still had 33 % of their energy left (a problem that started after installing AL). It was extreamly annoying. However; since I installed smart beds they only go to bed autonomously when they really need to sleep. And if you want to disable all autonomous sleeping the only thing you have to do is to clear all bed ownerships. Smart beds is now an essential hack for me.

24th Apr 2012, 08:12 PM	#268
SusannaG Instructor Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 444	Mine would spend all day either writing in their diaries, or looking out the window, if I let them. Which I do not! And all night in the wrong bed, naturally.

24th Apr 2012, 08:16 PM	#269
M.M.A.A. Alchemist Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 2,573 Thanks: 469 in 16 Posts 4 Achievements View My Journal	The Freetime autonomous animations they make. Especially the spherical-rubix or whatever it is and the ballet-feet pose. Whenever I tell the to do something, there is always a delay when it comes to accomplishing the task. And.. Sleeping in the wrong beds, even after sim-years of living and directing to the bed they are supposed to be sleeping in.
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24th Apr 2012, 09:58 PM	#270
StrangeTownChick Field Researcher Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 319 Thanks: 119 in 5 Posts 3 Achievements	I find the needs dance really annoying. I get that they programmed it in there to help us, but does it have to be so LONG? I'd be cool with a simple wave and thought bubble, not all the delaying animations that come afterwards.
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24th Apr 2012, 10:06 PM	#271
Yazoo Top Secret Researcher Join Date: Dec 2011 Posts: 2,007 Thanks: 100 in 3 Posts 6 Achievements View My Journal	Sims running to the window when it begins to rain or snow. Especially when they are doing homework, or they need to go to work. Bam, they are at the window. Or outside, and let me tell you, when someone is front of your Sim and they are looking at the "snow" well, it sort of looks like they are looking at the chest area. "Yes, hi, I need to get a close up of your chest, because it seems to be snowing" Yeah...Whew.
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24th Apr 2012, 10:08 PM

#272

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Originally Posted by Levera

Sims running to the window when it begins to rain or snow. Especially when they are doing homework, or they need to go to work. Bam, they are at the window.

Or outside, and let me tell you, when someone is front of your Sim and they are looking at the "snow" well, it sort of looks like they are looking at the chest area.

"Yes, hi, I need to get a close up of your chest, because it seems to be snowing"

Yeah...Whew.

More of like looking up their nose.

24th Apr 2012, 10:09 PM

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Originally Posted by M.M.A.A.

More of like looking up their nose.

Oh yeah I agree. I had Tegan (My College Sim) She was going out with Bella at the time, and it began to rain, and bam she was up close and personal. Then Bella did it. And they were looking up each other's nose

Then they were pretty close to each other's chests, I was like:

"Well that is another way to get to know each other."

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24th Apr 2012, 10:11 PM	#274
sushigal007 Scholar Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,290 Thanks: 711 in 32 Posts 7 Achievements	The sleeping in any old bed drives me batty. I don't mind most of the autonomous actions - when you play a lot of ISBI, it's the autonomy that entertains. But the beds! Argh! I tried downloading a hack to assign beds, but it didn't work with my bunkbeds and I needed those more.

25th Apr 2012, 09:31 PM	#275
Sheldrake Lab Assistant Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 164 Thanks: 102 in 2 Posts 4 Achievements	Ever since I installed Freetime, my Sims have been obsessed with watching a movie on the television. With all the other "toys" I've given them, all they want to do is plonk themselves down on the couch and watch a movie they've seen countless times before. I am infuriated that I cannot find a mod to fix/alter this D: The "Watch out!" annoys me as well...seems a bit pointless, unless driveways in the Sims are actually that dangerous. - Sheldrake :3
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