I have bad memories for romance sims fixed with mod. https://modthesims.info/d/524868/ea...mance-sims.html

I use Pescado's RomanceMod as well and it works well for the way I play. I just wish Romance Sims would sometimes say "Not my thing" to proposals now and then, even even if they have a 100/100 relationship with the other person. I'm not against them gaining the bad memory if they accept, after all it is contrary to their aspiration, but they should just say no sometimes.

I don't play Romance sims often, but I had one who was in a serious relationship. After a while of ignoring all his cheating wants he started rolling woohoo in bed/in public/in hot tub wants instead. His boyfriend was happy to satisfy those and he stayed in platinum easily.

I stopped playing romance sims because they were way too clingy and they ignored their own needs to the point of critical mass. And the three bolt chemistry made them extremely volatile when it comes to jealousy. The lowest romantic action toward another sim could easily set them off.

Wants are not orders. Sometimes I fulfill them; sometimes I see them as just daydreams. Some Romance Sims never want to get married but would rather be carefree singles with lots of lovers. Some do and stay faithful, while occasionally fantasizing about cheating. And some are just dogs who don't care who they hurt. Variety makes the game more interesting. If you let wants roll away, they will eventually roll them less often. If you fulfill them, they will roll them more often. And that helps determine their personality.

As for what makes me go grr--when someone is invited over, rings the doorbell, and then wanders all over the lot or goes to the backdoor and won't stay still long enough to be greeted! Aarrrgh.

I agree. I only fulfill a want if it makes sense for that character. Hence why I call my playstyle 'loosely wants based,' because that's what I do.


Oh my, I forgot how much that gets on my nerves. It happened in uni; Dirk would invite Lilith over and she'd keep wandering around until she got fed up and left. Pausing to greet helps that issue, though.

I'm noticing this a lot more in my games lately, but sims have been preparing to put something in the bin, drop it, then leave it. Fortunately, I find the rubbish piles in time so that they don't get ill.

Weird, my sims keep rolling the same wants forever non-stop, no matter if I ignore them.

I ignore most of the wants but they still manage get themselves to platinum.
The most popular want nowadays for all my sims is "Get a skill point"

I know I have a mod that stops this. I'm going to have to go digging to find out which one but I know it exists cause I also hated this behavior and now my sims all wait politely by the mailbox to be greeted.

I also only occasionally fulfill wants and often times play directly against them if I want them to roll different ones. I find Fortune the hardest because all you have to do is buy one thing and it will start all those "buy" wants to start coming back.

EDIT: wasn't that hard after all it's called "frontdoorhack" and it's by Pescado.

Sometimes, when moving a sim into the dorm, the UI doesn't come back and the only way to fix it is to tab out of the game and force close it. I have the cut screens disabled, so it's not the video getting in the way.

Happened again last night. First sim in newly built dorm in neighborhood, but it's so rare I haven't noticed if that's a pattern with it or not.

Maybe you need to shake up things for them a bit. Try taking them to a community lot. That will at least reroll wants.

Thank you, clashfan! I'm off to get that now.

The attention desperate friendships. I use a couple of mods to make sim friends more reasonable but sometimes it's just too much. I once made a friendship with my sim's co-worker and immediately 1 day later I simply received a message telling me she's no longer a family friend. WTF I just didn't talk to you for like 5 hours wtf is wrong with you???
It's even annoying during university. "ggggg why u no talk to me? u no me friend anymoar?" bitch i'm busy studying 24/7 I have no time for this

This one has been happening forever but when I do a home office it usually has a computer desk, bookshelf and a nice cushy chair but what grind my gears is when sims choose to sit at the chair at the computer desk to read or study rather than the nice reading chair I put in there for them. It happens nearly every time. FINE! sit in your uncomfy chairs! Ungrateful pixels.

^It's even worse when you have one Sim reading a book at the desk and they're blocking someone else from using the computer

I play my sims where I fulfill wants if it makes sense like wanting a baby when they've been established in town for a while and I'll lock it if they're already on a homestead lot and have just started to decide how their family home is to be laid out.I'll not take too long in getting started on building it and getting it finished before they start trying for that baby.I also make sure their cash savings isn't too low as well and if that's what the issue is they'll start playing with the career reward charisma podiums to build that cash up fast.I got the career rewards unocked in buy mode though a hack because it used to be a royal pain to have to unlock them using that cheat.

@Charmful Try to not put the bookshelf close to the desk. If it's a small room put the comfy chair between the bookshelf and the desk. It might help, I've found they tend to sit in the chair closest to the bookshelf. If the bookshelf is in the middle they always choose the desk chair for some reason.

Clashfan, I do that, but I double checked my folder and discovered I have a mod for that, too. Ladyangel's Read – Not in dining chair at simfansuk.

@TadOlson, maybe consider some mods to increase the profits for gardening, for less work. Then they won't need career rewards and things to make extra money. Monique's Harvest Yield or BoilingOil's More Realistic Yields will let you increase the number of crops you get after a harvest. I use Monique's mod and it's very simple to edit, so you can customize it for your game and get the right yield for you. I started using it after I created a BACC hood a bit like yours in which everyone was starting from scratch and had to grow their own food to survive. I liked farming but I didn't want it to be the main goal of every family, plus my sims barely had time to do anything else besides maintain the plants. It felt like they were always weeding and talking to plants. Monique also has Harvest Time to change the amount of time it takes for plants to grow, Talk to Many, so that you don't have to manually queue the "Talk to" command, and Auto Seasons Garden, which calls sims to garden.

@Sunbee, try hitting F10, or some of the things in this thread: https://thesims2.livejournal.com/5781299.html. If stuck aging is the cause, you can keep the blender, etc. on the lots to manually age up sims. Or I think the sim manipulator has an option to summon it via pie menu. Finally, I think it might be a dorm issue; if so, you can move sims into a private residence first and then move them to a dorm.

I have Cyjon's Smarter Chair Selection, so they never block computer or dining table.

@TadOlson
I use BoilingOil's More Realistic Yields along with No Fresh food for my farming family who provide fresh food to the entire hood. My farmers are not filthy rich.
Things are automated with Pescado's Macrotastics-Garden. It may be not to everyone liking since spraying is automated too but I never had a Plantsim with that mod though.

I've got a Mod that stopped plants from decaying making them always healthy though I still habe to tend them to improve it.Some of the links will help myself and others who want to play a challenge like the BACC or an apocalypse challenge where they're going back to the land or colonizing new land.

The one thing that really bugs me is that food has a short expiration date. It seems after the sims make a meal and after they get done eating it immediately spoils.

Oooohhhh! I had not seen that mod. *snags it* The fact it covers pizza eating and coffee drinking is more to me than just the reading. Thank you very much!

@Essa Those Boiling Oil gardening mods are so awesome. I hated the fresh food effect and so would rarely stock the fridge. I like to have family meals and with the fresh food everyone would take two bites and be done. One toaster pastry could feed a family of 4. I can see where some people like this but it drove me crazy. It's even better that is covers the fish cause now my sims eat a lot of what they catch. I just discovered those recently and I'm loving them!

^ I concur. The more yield did wonders for my level 10 home farmer's market business and I love not having to call the grocery service on other sim lots because if I look into their inventory they have a crate full apples or something I can use to stock the fridge!

Oh, it be nice if Mortimer could have an observatory, I thought. Anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong? I'm thinking I should give up and either make everything living space or create a second floor deck.

This isn't so much about the game but just something that happened to me recently that has me needing to vent.

An unreleased song for The Sims 2 by Jerry Martin was shared on Youtube for years and was interesting to see his take for the soundtrack. I noticed it was taken down a couple years ago and decided to upload it on my own channel to preserve it and let other Ts2 players stumble upon it just as I did.

Two days ago I got a copyright violation for the video in question by Jerry Martin. I have nothing monetized, I only thought it was my way of contributing to the legacy and development of The Sims 2 as it approaches being decades old. I thought well sheesh, take it down I really don’t care I CAN listen to my copy whenever I want but now with the way I was just whipped with some stupid “strike” I don’t think the song will resonate any happy thoughts anymore.
OK so he made the song, he has the copyright of some unreleased song, created probably in 2003, so he can do whatever he wants (Which is to keep it locked away which would be stupid, OR he could be releasing it officially--if so, good for him).

I love TS2 so much but lately it just triggers an OCD trait in me that makes me irate and that shouldn't happen when you're gaming so I've been on a hiatus and especially with this just happening I feel like its just furthering me away from the game and entire series.