Exploiting those Nightlife features!
RainbowTigress:
Thanks for the info, Hook. I'll definitely look into the stuff you've mentioned.
Marvin Kosh:
While I'm not sure it can be exploited (only had it happen once so far) there is a chance for your Sim to get a promotion if a work friend is on an outing which has a favourable outcome. They will, according to the dialogue, pull some strings to land you a better job, even if you don't have the skills for a promotion.
Regina:
Quote from: Marvin Kosh on 2005 October 22, 10:16:26
While I'm not sure it can be exploited (only had it happen once so far) there is a chance for your Sim to get a promotion if a work friend is on an outing which has a favourable outcome. They will, according to the dialogue, pull some strings to land you a better job, even if you don't have the skills for a promotion.
That's an interesting little ditty! I'll have to give it a try sometime. :)
Sagana:
I decided to try out outings as a friendship only thing and had very little luck with it.
I started out having the patriarch (Henry) attempt an outing to get to know his son-in-law-to-be (Almeric). They hadn't previously met (the YAs met at college and her mother had visited but not her father.) So her mother invited him over and Henry set to work getting to be friends with him. A joke and a chat didn't get us very far (not far enough to set up an outing) and they had no chemistry, so Henry used manage groups to take Almeric out bowling. With no extra points from work or anything and no chemistry, they started the outing with something like 8/0 relationship scores.
Dates seem to be set-up to succeed - wants are rerolled when you hit DT and again when the date meter comes up (with an opportunity to lock any of those) and you get the panel that says what the date wants. The same isn't true of outings - it rolls once, but not twice and no extra help keeping them happy. Henry and Almeric had very little in the way of possible activities and none of it moved their scores very far and I couldn't even manage to get to extra time on the timer so it ended without being very much fun for either of them. Almeric went home.
There happened to be a female there that had good chemistry with Henry (dunno how much as he didn't flirt with her), so he asked her on an outing. They also started at 0/0 but with the extra options from the lightning bolts, they had more fun. Still, they got to be friends and the daily score was well up there, but best friends was a distant dream. The outing would have lasted a bit longer, but as this was Henry's second without a break, and the energy boost doesn't come until the timer goes off, he ran out of energy (it's possible to let the timer run out, get the boost, and ask them out again - but he was falling asleep on his feet, so I gave it up).
Still without the flirt interactions, I just couldn't find enough that would up LTR scores quickly. I wish outings would at least reroll wants to match (Henry's a family sim, his wants were nonsense in a bowling alley) and if it's one-on-one give you the option of seeing the other sims wants, like dates do. It probably works better with a pleasure sim, as they're set-up to like downtown, and roll those wants a lot.
I *did* find that none of the "play" interactions when dining out (throw food, steal food), nor the general ask ones ("what do you do" etc.) caused any sort of romantic thing (post-patch), so that's good :)
smcnic:
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This has nothing to do with romance or lovers, but personally I love the ecological guru career. A pregant female can make 70K a week with perfectly timed pregancies. She still racks up a load of vacation and makes a fortune.
I too am curious as to how this works. I'm not normally into the Uni careers and don't think I've even had an ecological guru.
ETA: Never mind, I'm dense and didn't notice Nectere already answered the question. Disregard!
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