Exploiting those Nightlife features!
Regina:
The more I get into Nightlife the bigger laugh I'm getting. There are some features in it that can be exploited absolutely to death with wonderful results! There are a couple of aspirations I always had a hard time keeping happy and gaining enough aspiration points to buy them the good rewards. One of those was Knowledge. It seemed no matter how hard they worked, they eventually reached a point where they'd get near aspiration failure and they'd have to work on a skill to get their aspiration back up and without their thinking cap to boot.
I have found that with Nightlife sims can basically live on love. The best sure-fire way to get them in a good mood is to send them on a date. Of course, the better the chemistry between the two sims the easier this is, but it's also easy if they have a good relationship already. Shoot, the date doesn't even have to last real long, just long enough to get their aspiration meter up, get the date meter up fairly well, get them some points for reward objects they might need, and if the date goes really well they get a huge motive boost.
Another thing I've noticed is that if you have a Romance sim who wants to date almost everyone in the neighborhood, with very special care they can date up the wazoo on public lots and never get caught cheating. Have the Romance sim choose his dates from the service worker pool or from the Downtownie pool. Build a nice place in your regular neighborhood, then have them invite one of those sims on a date, but instead of going Downtown just go to that nice lot you built. Their Downtownie or service worker boyfriend/girlfriend are never going to show up on those lots, except for possibly in passing (some service workers) or in a working capacity. As near as I can tell one that's on the job is completely oblivious to what's going on. This also keeps Miss Crumplebottom from doing her best to waylay your sims while they're making out in the quiet little spot behind the restaurant.
Oh, one thing I might add here is that while I've read on the BBS about Miss Crumplebottom 'ruining my date!' I've never seen it actually happen. One pair of my sims had gone to the Botanical Garden restaurant and were necking out in the back corner. They'd hit Dream Date and Mrs. Crumplebottom strolled on out and started whacking the guy with her purse. It didn't affect the date meter score. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it sure didn't in this case.
Hook:
Gotta love how easy it is to send a Sim on a date to get their aspiration meter up. It's almost like a cheat.
I had Mrs. Crumplebottom purse-whacking one of my dating Sims, and the meter fell a little. Not enough to really hurt, but it did fall. The date wasn't to dream date status yet.
I suspect once the date meter is full you still accumulate date points. If you get a lot of extra points, your date will bring you more expensive gifts later. If this is how it works, then being purse-whacked won't lower the score enough to register on the meter.
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Regina:
Oh yeah! Those extra points are great! I hadn't taken tons of opportunity to play with racking up extras, but my Legacy sim invited one of his friends, who just happens to be a Romance sim, to move in. My plan for him is to turn him into a vampire, then have him melt in the sun for the ghost bonus. Anyway, him being the love-lorn fellow he is, he's so far dating the Diva, a vampire and a waitress. So far he's been delivered a DJ machine and two pianos!
I was telling my daughter last night the dating thing tends to put a game within the game--you have to learn how to 'play' it. ;)
I agree--it does seem almost like cheating! ;D
cabelle:
I've been lucky with keeping my sims from being assaulted by Mrs. Crumplebottom. On my "date" lots I'll have bowling, a bar or a poker table to keep her interested. Most of the time Mrs. Crumplebottom's too busy with her drink to even notice my sims making out. If she does, I cancel out of the "be hit with purse" interaction before she can do it (the same way I cancel out of the "work out" interaction when the coach comes in and harasses my college students). The most Mrs. Crumplebottom does once I cancel the interaction is to shake her purse and yell at my sims, then she goes back to her drink (or poker or bowling). I've tried it a few times and as long as my dating sims are about half a room from her they have an excellent chance of not being pummeled by her purse. :)
Brynne:
As many times as I've been downtown, Mrs. Crumplebottom still hasn't appeared on any of my downtown lots. I want to see this purse whacking thing!
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