Exploiting those Nightlife features!
Regina:
Chemistry helps not only in their romantic relationships but in their friendly relationships, too. Say you have a sim with a pretty heavy gender preference. Even though they have a gender preference already and you won't see the actual chemistry for the sim they're trying to befriend, the interactions still open up much more quickly. Two sims working on friendship with good chemistry can and will respond good to friendly hugs and will do things like playing Red Hands at a much earlier stage of the relationship.
I had one sim making friends with another--in this case it was a female making friends with a male and they had negative chemistry. Even when their friendship level was 65/40, he still wouldn't let her give him a friendly hug or let her gossip. The only reason I pursued the friendship was because I was trying to go for her 30 best friends want and the neighborhood had a very limited population. Otherwise I would've moved on.
RainbowTigress:
I was really referring to making best friends with another sim without being romantically involved. The sim already has someone I've paired them with, and I'm just trying to satisfy a want to be best friends with another sim or maybe I just want them to be best friends. It's usually slower when you don't want to use the romantic options, so I was wondering how quickly you could get up to best friend status without the romance.
Sagana:
oh... sorry I don't know. I haven't used dates for just friends, and I've only done outtings a bit... they're ok for fun activities, but if I want a friend (not including some roleplay/story reason that requires certain actions) I usually just have 'em come over a bit and play with them, then call them on the phone every spare minute... guess I've never been in that big a hurry as that takes 3-4 days.
RainbowTigress:
Quote from: sagana on 2005 October 20, 03:22:48
oh... sorry I don't know. I haven't used dates for just friends, and I've only done outtings a bit... they're ok for fun activities, but if I want a friend (not including some roleplay/story reason that requires certain actions) I usually just have 'em come over a bit and play with them, then call them on the phone every spare minute... guess I've never been in that big a hurry as that takes 3-4 days.
No, I don't use dates for friends either, but sometimes you get like 2-3 wants to be best friends with different sims, and unless you cheat (which we would never do, right? ;D) you can't lock but two wants at the same time. Sometimes I just feel compelled to give my sims everything they want. :o
Hook:
I don't think I've ever had 2 Sims first meet and become best friends the same day, at least without any romantic interactions or some help from the game as noted below.
Chemistry helps, because it unlocks interactions at lower levels.
If I were in a real hurry to get to best friend status, I'd use the Cool Shades aspiration reward. While a Backrub will only give 2 lifetime relationship points normally, with Cool Shades it will give 10. Same with Bust a Move. The hard part is getting the Sims to where they can do the Backrub or Bust A Move.
Once gossip is unlocked around 30 daily points, and you know it will be accepted, do two other interactions so you can get full credit for the next gossip and then do gossip with cool shades. This is worth 40 daily relationship points.
The relationship scores "normalize" 3 times a day, from what I've seen. Around 9 AM, 4 PM (always) and 11 PM. This will give you a few LTR points which might unlock Admire if you don't already have it. The daily and lifetime scores will move toward each other. This always happens at 4 PM (if your Sim is at "home"), but I've seen it the other two times recently.
I'm sure there's more, but I feel like I'm rambling already.
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Hook
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