How do I get a family re-union memory?
jsalemi:
I do see the 'have a family reunion' want show up every so often, mostly in family sims nearing or just past turning elder. It doesn't carry a lot of asp points, and in many cases the sim having the want is already permaplat, so I never really bothered pursuing it.
Zazazu:
Quote from: jolrei on 2007 November 26, 19:36:35
I should just say that I have had 3 generation parties before and do not recall ever getting a family reunion memory. I would check on that, except that I find the memory system to be more or less irrelevant (except to count "best friends" or "woohoos" for LTW purposes).
Can't be 3 generations, I just got the memory with the following birthday party:
Home - Aquitaine (Gen2), Lewis (Gen2 spouse), Albert (Gen3 teen), Bolte(Gen3 teen), Nowra(Gen3 teen), Merivale(Gen3 teen), Story(Gen3 child), Victoria(Gen3 baby/toddler/birthday girl)
Invited Household 1 - London (Gen2), Putney (Gen2), Marjorie (Gen2 spouse)
Invited Household 2 - Theodor Heuss (Gen2), Galata (Gen3 adult - child of Aquitaine & Lewis)
Total Attendees: 13 family, 2 townies, 2 outside households
Went through memories and found one more classified as a family reunion, a wedding. Again, only two generations, and not nearly as many:
Home - Aquitaine (Gen2), Lewis (Gen2 fiance/spouse)
Invited Household 1 - Brooklyn (Gen1), Randolph (Gen1 spouse), Theodor Heuss (Gen2)
Invited Household 2 - London (Gen2), Putney (Gen2), Marjorie (Gen2 spouse)
Total Attendees: 8 family, 4 townies, 2 outside households
On both, Aquitaine was the party-thrower. I swear, I've been through way too many parties with this one. Anyways, I also don't think it's necessarily the household numbers. I've had several other birthday parties with those same households from the birthday party invited (though Galata was in the main house at those) and no family reunion memory.
J. M. Pescado:
If you have the old "no reunion spam" hack for older editions of the game, the memory is suppressed, because it used to be that when a family reunion occurred, you'd get like 80 bazillion of them.
doren:
Quote from: Solestri on 2007 November 26, 18:43:46
Quote from: doren on 2007 November 26, 15:49:47
Dustin and his wife (who is the daughter of Brandi's husband) come over for a visit.
Wait, how did the game allow that? ???
EDIT: Sorry, wasn't thinking. I assume Brandi re-married, then?
Actually, the game does not want to allow them the full fun, although there is no reason for it. Dustin was in love with his girlfriend first (both still teens), then Brandi decided - way before ACR but still all by herself - she wanted the father (Father and teenage daughter were CAS-created and lived across the road). I did not want to create any problems for the teenagers and waited until they became students before Brandi and her lover moved together. So far everything was fine.
I think the change occured when Brandi got married, but I only noticed it later. The students were going to woohoo for the first time and I got them a love tub for some preliminary romance only to find out that they couldn't get in together.
It occured to me then that I had not seen any of the "Oh my god, he/she is so wonderful"- heart thoughts, that were so common for them, in a while. When I investigated I noticed: 1. No romantic interactions in the hot tub were possible, 2. No romantic pictures in the photobooth and obviously no public woohoo option, 3. All expressions of attraction were gone, and - worst of all - when I tried "scope room" they only shrugged! That was really bad, because if I ever had a perfect couple it's them.
When I got them engaged the heart thoughts and the scope room interaction returned and I always wanted to check if the other options are available since they got married. They are too busy making and bringing up more Brokes though, so I did not have the chance for it yet and since I got ACR the missing options are not such a big issue anymore.
But I would still like to know what tests are run and what stopped them using these objects.
Anyway, I think those difficulties made the Broke family only dearer to me and even if it happened by accident I like their special family situation. It is the reason why I like the family reunion memories too, because they are always big events (Brandi has 7 children), it's something I'd imagine them to think back to. They don't fulfil any wants or serve in any other way, but is this important? Some details simply add to the characters and the story.
simsfreq:
I always got the memory if I had the sim throw a party and only invite family members. My game only allowed about 4 people to come to a party, so it definitely wasn't 10 members, and if I remember correctly I only ever invited siblings and parents since I never used to play families long enoygh to get more generations than that.
This was in uni though and I haven't bothered to check since installing OFB and seasons.
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