Exploiting those Nightlife features!
Sagana:
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At the bottom left of the date meter you'll see an aspiration icon
I guess I just never "read" the icon <blush> - I'm very word-oriented.
LTRs continue to go up for the heavier "date-related" options even after the first time. I think it's less, but still some. Make-out still gives quite a lot, 7 pts maybe? (and woohoo for the adults of course) :) I try and have them do the more friend stuff early on - lots of play and talk stuff and then move up to the kisses as you get a real time/meter boost when they hit best friends (or any relationship change). I have trouble when they're up to 100/100 and love, or 100/74 (evil place ;) and I don't want them to woohoo but want more time on the clock. Makeout won't always do it then. Oh anything you haven't done before will give an extra boost and/or extra relationship score too - so go back and do "kiss up arm" or serenade or even blow kisses and caress hands at the table, if you haven't done those. (throwing food does too, but it kinda... grates on my nerves.)
Actually I believe your wants will roll spontaneously sometimes too, if you're doing the dating type things. And of course they reroll if you change lots also, so if you're really stuck you can just meander across the street :)
nectere:
Quote from: striker on 2005 October 19, 20:24:48
How do you do that????
You have a female sim in the natural scientist career, when she reaches the top, she makes 10k for one day of work. When she gets pregnant the game pays her even though she isnt scheduled to work, so as long as she is pregnant on Wednesday, she will continue to rack up 10k a day for each day she does not work that she is pregnant. And since she is only scheduled one day a week to work, she still racks up three additional days vacation when the child is born. So if you are planning on having a family of three children she can make a pretty tidy sum and a bunch of vacation if you time it right.
RainbowTigress:
Quote from: Hook on 2005 October 19, 21:06:29
All the LTR building stuff will boost LTR if you do an action, then two other actions before trying the first action again. I usually boost LTR by doing Admire/Backrub/Bust a Move over and over getting 5 points for each cycle. The trick is to do two other actions before repeating the first.
Thanks, Hook, I'll try that. I guess I was looking for the double ++ over their heads that happens when they do an action for the first time that day. Have you been able to achieve best friends doing this on a first meeting or even the next day?
Sagana:
I have... I've taken sims that have never met before through best friends, crush (maybe reverse order, crush is easier to get :) and love, ending with 100/100 score, in one date - I won't get them engaged usually, even if they both have the want, as I like to set that up romantically.
It does matter that they start with good attraction - I think that'd be really hard with only 1 bolt and probably impossible with none (tho if they're a little bit friends, dream dates aren't hard).
<scuffle> I always switch types of interactions at least twice before repeating one. I just didn't think about that mattering - I've done it since whenever it started to be important (was that sims1?) and just got into it as a routine and never changed.
Also, I'm sure the ones you've not done before add more - so I like to make sure I'm doing everything. Telling a dirty joke can add a lot all of the sudden. Oh and the sims kind of tell you when they need to do something you're not thinking of - pillow fight or backrub will keep showing up in wants - if you've done enough of those, you'll get a whole round of hug, kiss, makeout stuff.
Andygal:
I had one sim couple that had 2 or 3 bolt attraction for each other when they met(through the matchmaker, I think they might have had 2 bolts when they first met but it became 3 later on). And they fell in love after only a single date. It was a dream date of course :D. And he brought her the expensive stereo afterwards. I've never had that happen so quickly, used to always take me 3 or so days to get them in love.
Chemistry is fun. Both kinds of chemistry. Yes I am a nerd.
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