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Like, does people even do this in real life? I just end up closing the doors...but still... special the cow guy is driving me crazy.
And lets remember these sims in university just use whatever they want. hungry? goes into the fridge and stuff face and they NEVER clean up after themselves.
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I sometimes hate playing university because like, i want to be able to invite people inside, not just have them waltz into my home when they feel like it. Like, does people even do this in real life? I just end up closing the doors...but still... special the cow guy is driving me crazy. And lets remember these sims in university just use whatever they want. hungry? goes into the fridge and stuff face and they NEVER clean up after themselves. |
It's not a good advertisement for American universities, that's for sure! But if you get the Visitor Controller, you can ban them. The only Uni NPC I allow is the coach, because he/she has saved quite a few Sims from Academic Probation by forcing them to get that Body skill point in the nick of time.
Now, if I weren't so severely techno-challenged, I could have got the words 'Visitor Controller' to serve as a link, but I'll just have to do it this way: http://www.simbology.com/smf/index.php?topic=17.0
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Seriously wtf.
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I believe antivisitcampus from MATY stops that.
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My after school visitors usually end up playing on their own while whomever invited them over ignores them completely. Then I lose track of them totally and am surprised that they're still there when they say, it's late and I have to go.
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A sim can call emergency on the phone when there is a fire in their home. Same for a break in. Though that same sim would probably get fined for a fake call, if another member of their household would collapse and die on the floor...
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My after school visitors usually end up playing on their own while whomever invited them over ignores them completely. Then I lose track of them totally and am surprised that they're still there when they say, it's late and I have to go. |
There's so little time for the kids to play before they leave, that this is the one situation where I use Macrotastics to make them socialize so they will become friends. Sometimes, I want my sims to be able to marry childhood friends/sweethearts when they grow up. So I'll make sure they make friends with any townies they bring home from school. If I like one as a match, then I'll have the townie age up along with my playable sim. Even sometimes I will do this if there's an especially appealing child sim that I want to have remain best friends with my playable sim. They can be roomies in college and everything!
I keep having to add more child townies when I do this but that's ok :D
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The drop off has been made. You've been warned.
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When you want to raise your Sim's skills and hobby points by doing certain activities, but can't because said Sim's fun is maxed out and they, for whatever reason, refuse to do said tasks, because apparently "I'm having too much fun to do that fun thing!". It's almost like the Fun need is not something you need to prevent from getting too low like literally every other need, but rather something you need to prevent from getting too high. |
I've recently been having this issue with a YA sim. She needs a body skill point for her major, but even though Music & Dance is her OTH, she refuses to dance for more than a few seconds before stopping. I do have a mod in that makes dancing raise body skill. It's not that she's too tired/sweaty/hungry or anything like that. She's just, as you said, apparently having too much fun.
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I've recently been having this issue with a YA sim. She needs a body skill point for her major, but even though Music & Dance is her OTH, she refuses to dance for more than a few seconds before stopping. I do have a mod in that makes dancing raise body skill. It's not that she's too tired/sweaty/hungry or anything like that. She's just, as you said, apparently having too much fun. |
Yeah, I had the exact same problem with the Natural Scientist career. My Sim had to build up two Body skill points to get the final promotion, but it was a pain in the netherlands because she built up said skill points slowly while the fun meter rocketed past the ceiling in just a few minutes and thus stopped doing the body-raising activity.
I'm still dealing with similar issues in terms of hobby-increasing activities. I keep getting pop-ups yelling "Your sim is losing interest in whatever!!! Do something!!!!!!", but I can't do anything because her fun meter is almost always maxed, and thus she vehemently refuses to do anything hobby-related that raises fun. (Read: pretty much almost every hobby-increasing activity ever, because a hobby is basically something you do for FUN) The only hobby-increasing activities she accepts doing are those that produce sellable things, such as paintings and robotics, which carries some unfortunate connotations for me.
And this reminds me of another pet peeve of mine: the robotics station drains comfort and energy like no tomorrow. This makes it hard to keep producing robots at a frequent pace, which is Bad™ because it takes so freaking long to gain all those freakin' robotics badges! Going from Bronze to Silver is actually pretty reasonable, but going from no badge to Bronze takes forever(I'm pretty sure I made over 100 toy robots with this Sim alone before I got the Bronze badge), and I have yet to ever reach the Gold badge legitimately. This time, I'll try to get the Gold badge for good since I want to craft a Servo, but considering the HoverBots take much longer to craft than the RoverBots, complete with the Comfort and Energy drain, I'm going to be in for a wiiiiild ride.
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I could deal with my Sims jumping into the bathtub every five minutes but I'm drawing the line at the Servo who has now started doing the same (completely draining his energy in the process). Time to download a mod.
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Bubblebaths. I could deal with my Sims jumping into the bathtub every five minutes but I'm drawing the line at the Servo who has now started doing the same (completely draining his energy in the process). Time to download a mod. |
You might want Waterproof Servos
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And this reminds me of another pet peeve of mine: the robotics station drains comfort and energy like no tomorrow. This makes it hard to keep producing robots at a frequent pace, which is Bad™ because it takes so freaking long to gain all those freakin' robotics badges! Going from Bronze to Silver is actually pretty reasonable, but going from no badge to Bronze takes forever(I'm pretty sure I made over 100 toy robots with this Sim alone before I got the Bronze badge), and I have yet to ever reach the Gold badge legitimately. This time, I'll try to get the Gold badge for good since I want to craft a Servo, but considering the HoverBots take much longer to craft than the RoverBots, complete with the Comfort and Energy drain, I'm going to be in for a wiiiiild ride. |
Most crafting things are too motive-draining in my opinion. It's something I have on my to do list to mod at some point, to make running crafting based businesses more fun to run. I can try to remember to let you know if/when I get around to it. And I am fairly certain fixing robot badge is easy, so will try to remember to look at that too when I am back to creating, whenever that may be. Feel free to remind me in a month or so if I haven't said anything by then
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when playables and townies flock to the staff room for the TV or pester the cashiers behind the counters in community lots.
while I SHOULD not put doors to off-limit zones in un-owned lots, I have a nagging feeling that my npcs would starve to death on the spot. I know they won't. But it just doesn't feel right.
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