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#1 Old 25th Mar 2007 at 12:02 AM
Default Game Guide: Parties
How does one throw a good party? What can you do to perk up a boring party? Are there any tricks and tips you can share?

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#2 Old 25th Mar 2007 at 3:47 AM
Make sure to do lots of social interactions with your guests, and give them a short break to eat and use the toilet. Make sure to serve real food for them, instead of them having to eat snacks from the fridge.
#3 Old 25th Mar 2007 at 4:06 AM
Put those bubble blower things on your lot! I threw a wedding party and the rank went up reallyyy high just from people blowing bubbles and drinking champagne. o_o; Big radio's work too!
#4 Old 25th Mar 2007 at 4:19 AM
If I don't feel like bother too much, but still want the asp. points for all those popularity sim party-wants, I go the easy way:

1. I invite one sim only to the party (preferably a house hold friend).

2. I don't leave the poor sim alone for one minute. Talk, admire, hug. Repeat, over and over. That's all. You'll have a 'roof raiser' with practically no effort.

Just remember to allow your guest to eat something and go to the bathroom. If the sim leaves due to full bladder or hunger the party is immediately considered a disaster.

Also good to know: every non-household sim is considered a party guest, even if they weren't invited with the "throw party" option on the phone. If you would be so unlucky that all your guests walked out on you, you can still save the party by inviting anyone over the phone, or by stopping a random, by-passing townie.
#5 Old 25th Mar 2007 at 4:24 AM
always have at least one couple kissing but two is better I've never had a party go wrong this way
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#6 Old 25th Mar 2007 at 4:37 AM
I tend to do well with parties when I have people get in the hotub ^^

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#7 Old 25th Mar 2007 at 7:17 AM
Well, the only thing that really matters is socialising isn´t it. So anything that will get the sims to get their relationships up is good.

That means a good party is easier to achieve, if some of the guests don´t know each other that well already and you get them to boost their relationship.

The groundrule is to keep the party area small. The easiest way to get a roof-raiser is to just have one little room full of sims, without anything else. They have to interact, because of the lack of ooptions. Just make sure you don´t invite really mean sims or sims, who hate each other.

This way sims will interact easier, as they don´t run around all over the lot, not even seeing each other. The best way is to have a party-basement or garden party and just lock everything else. If you don´t have OFB, you can temporarely remove doors. The non-cheaty other ways are:

- if your guests have access to any objects, make sure they are labeled group activity: hottub, pooltable, bubbleblower (invite them to join, if they do it autonomously they don´t talk), tv, pokertable, etc.

-get your guest to sit at the same table. They really just have to sit there and they will talk. For example serve a meal and call your guests to eat.

- use the influence option, if you have uni. You can basically force your sims to interact this way. Plus the sim, who throws the party usually wants to influence his guests anyway.

I really like to use only a small party area. It makes the place look crowded, even only with a few sims. It feels more like a real party this way. They just need access to a toilet and food. The party becomes a roof-raiser, if the guest have a lot of positive interactions with each other. Your sim doesn´t even have to interact with them.

I just had a perfect wedding party. I invited the grooms family and the brides family. Those two families didn´t know each other that well. I locked everything, but the small garden. There were no objects, but the buffet, the wedding arch, chairs and one table. When there are no other objects sims will play with each other to get the fun up. They eat at the same table.

I don´t like wedding parties with everyone watching tv or sitting in a hottub.

The very, very easy cheating way is, to make the guests selectable. Install Pescado´s macro socialising and direct half of the guests to macro socialise friendly with the other half. You can now make them unselectable and put your sim to sleep, if you want to. It´s always gonna be a roof-raiser.
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#8 Old 25th Mar 2007 at 2:34 PM
Actually, you can have a roofraiser when everyone has a score of 100/100 with each other. It is the positive interactions, not the score result, that counts toward the party score.
If you have the "hang out" option available, start hanging out with one guest (Preferably who just left the bathroom), then invite everyone else to join as soon as they become available. If you can get 15 people hanging out with each other it boosts the score enormously.

And if the party is an event party, such as birthday, wedding, sports, etc. make sure the event happens. (Sports party means hanging out in front of a tv which you keep tuned to the sports channel.)

Woohoo/ makeout, etc will boost the score, but only if it does NOT end up causing jealousy. I had a romance sim turn a roof raiser birthday party into a disaster by sneaking into the bedroom with the gardener while his wife was busy talking to the other guests. (Which I though was extemely hypocritical of her, as the first entry in HER wants panel was "woohoo with Remington". But I understood why their daughter was angry.)

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#9 Old 25th Mar 2007 at 3:44 PM
make sure that all the guests you invite are already friends with the host/ess. sims who decide to turn down your invitation will negatively affect your score. also if you wish to have mosre people at a party and have a limit when you click phone...throw party (i.e. it only allows you to invite 2 guests), try this;
(im using the 2 guest limit in this example)
click the phone and call sim..so n so..invite
repeat until you have 2 less than your party limit
then click the phone, throw a party and invite the last 2 guests.
please remember that the game has a default limit of 8 sims on residential lot. so if you have a household of 3, you can only invite 5 sims no matter how you try and do it. there are hacks and cheats to get around that limit,i hear.

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#10 Old 25th Mar 2007 at 6:34 PM
The bar REALLY helps. At the beginning, have your host serve drinks (blended and poured), and the guests will automatically pick it up as they come into the house. When everyone drinks, they interact with eachother, and BAM: a few minutes into the party and the score's already at 'Not bad'.

If you're cheap and would rather not buy a bar, get the toasting set instead. Select 'Toast To...' (HINT: Choose 'toast to' if you want everyone to participate. Choose 'toast WITH' if you only want two sims to participate) and select a random guest. Everyone will pick up a glass of champagne and start interacting.
#11 Old 26th Mar 2007 at 3:31 PM
Sims like fights and woohoo. If you can have at least one of these, you have a roof raiser pretty much in the bag.
#12 Old 26th Mar 2007 at 9:30 PM
Quote: Originally posted by sidneydoj
Actually, you can have a roofraiser when everyone has a score of 100/100 with each other. It is the positive interactions, not the score result, that counts toward the party score.


That is perfectly true. I was wrong there. It´s just that I find it quite pointless for my popularity sims to interact with anyone they are already at 100/100 with. They are really more shallow than romance sim. Not even remotely interested once they made someone their best friend.
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#13 Old 28th Mar 2007 at 6:52 PM
Plenty of toilets. Add extra ones for the party. I had a wedding party, at Roof Raiser, but EVERY GUEST LEFT one minute before the end due to bathroom clogging. The party was a Disaster.

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#14 Old 31st Mar 2007 at 12:31 PM
Got a handful here:

-Invite as many as you want, but make sure to socialize a lot. It helps, as the others pointed out.
-When having a meal, make sure all invited sims are seated. I always get the problem of getting a Sim to the dining table (grr...billard tables and hot tubs...)
-Make sure you have a lot of stuff in the house that more than one person can do, preferably:
-Hot tub. Sims tend to spend too much time with the hot tub, IMO.
-Billard Table. Another fun activity.
-Myshuno. "The Zany Party Game". Need I say more?
-Bubble blower. Pretty fun for most Sims.
-The ice/roller rink (For Seasons EP). Preferably the big one, since it accomodates even the largest party.
-Finally, Be part of the party. Obviously, because would you make a party and leave it alone?
#15 Old 2nd Apr 2007 at 2:43 AM
I haven't thrown many parties, but the few I had after getting the Holiday stuff pack with the party favors in it were roof raisers...... the poppers seem to make the environment score dip though, so it's good to have some high environment things nearby to compensate.
#16 Old 24th Dec 2007 at 7:30 PM
do high relationship raising interactions(woohoo, make out, propose engagement/marriage, etc.)! They grow the party rank very much(try to limit to woohoos and make outs...)
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#17 Old 13th Jul 2008 at 2:26 PM
Note; Sorry if this is ressurecting an old thread, but I just had to share a few tips I didn't think had been mentioned yet!

The Golden Rules for weddings;

1. Either delete the fridge or turn the fridge around to face the wall before the party starts. This is because your guests will go straight to the fridge for food, missing the wedding ceremony and will prefer the fridge over the buffet, every time. See Rule 8 too.

2. Do not buy the champagne bottle until after the ceremony. This is because the champagne bottle is very attractive to Sims, and they'll be toasting each other while you're trying to get them all to sit and watch the ceremony. Not good.

3. Start the ceremony as soon as possible! Sims who have already started to interact with other Sims/objects will not always cancel what they are doing to go straight to the ceremony. Especially if they are already eating! See Rule 1 and 8.

4. Place the wedding arch and chairs outside in a wide space, with gaps between the chairs. If Sims get in the way of each other, they will tantrum that things are in their way and this will often cancel the action to watch the wedding.

5. If you have a wedding cake, place it on a end table in an open space. This will avoid people getting in the way of each other.

6. If you want a bar and/or bartender, do not call them/put the bar out straight away. Sims will miss the ceremony.

7. Make sure none of the guests will be wearing a wedding dress as their formal attire too! Especially if you want to take photographs. Remember to change their wedding attire to a normal formal dress/suit afterwards!

8. If you are going to have a buffet or cook food for the guests, DO NOT put the food out before the ceremony. This is because if a guest starts eating, the action is not likely to be cancelled so they can go and watch when the wedding ceremony starts. See Rule 1 also.

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#18 Old 14th Jul 2008 at 5:16 AM
If you know a sim who loves playing water baloon fights, or snow ball figths with other sims, invite them over. They'll keep playing with each other, and that raises the score alot. And best of all, you don't have to interact with the rest of the sims if you don't want to.
Field Researcher
#19 Old 21st Jul 2008 at 5:53 PM
If you have a wishing well or a voodoo doll, successfully wishing for friends or voodoing a friendship with a near stranger during the party are very easy ways to skyrocket a party to roof raiser status almost immediately. As long as nothing goes terribly wrong during the party, the event (birthday, wedding, etc.) takes place, and people keep chatting away, you should have a great party with minimal effort.
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