How do I wean myself off of snapdragons?
spaceface:
I understand your snapdragon addiction, I also overused them but it did get boring. Now I restrict myself to one bouquet per bedroom.
professorbutters:
I don't use them much anymore. I do in my legacy house, but then I also have about 12 or 13 ghosts there, so low motives would be lethal. I also have a bunch at the legacy businesses, especially the ticket businesses.
The best thing I ever did for the motive cheat/micromanagement problem was to play a BC and then an Asylum, especially the latter. They may not be terribly happy, they may see the shrink or the therapist, they may pee themselves, but they won't necessarily die. I have a college house that is packed-eight sims and they aren't all that bright. I use College Rampage and the Skillinator. When I see a few of them are getting hungry, I have one fix a meal and then Call To Meal. Otherwise, when I see one complain that he's stinky or needs to pee, I just look at the screen, shrug, and say "figure it out, genius." Usually they do.
I noticed that on the Macrotastics thread you expressed some concern about socialization. Seven of those eight sims have one nice point and enjoy picking fights, but most sims would rather be friends. Their whole little lives are about getting to 100/100 with everybody they know. A simple Macro>>Socialize>>Friendly will do it, and then after that, the occasional game of Red Hands is your friend (essential because a lot of mine are maxed playful.)
Reading the Awesome Spec houses thread was so helpful. I didn't do everything to spec, but it solved a lot of trouble. Meeting needs is often a result of poorly deigned house
AuKestrel:
Quote from: EsotericPolarBear on 2008 February 04, 06:34:48
I never design my own houses. I'm even worse at house design than I am at juggling. I just use premade houses and modify them slightly as needed.
Seriously - try downloading some of the AwesomeSpec houses. I'm particularly fond of Trepie's Budget AwesomeSauce (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,8931.0.html) if your Sims have the 50k to buy it; otherwise Witch recently posted a couple of playable starter homes (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,10644.0.html).
The house makes a huge difference. The largest lot I usually play, unless it's a Legacy and I have no choice, is a 3x3. You'd be amazed at what you can fit into a 3x3 lot and still have room left over for a pond and a swimming pool.
Zazazu:
Quote from: professorbutters on 2008 February 04, 09:22:10
I don't use them much anymore. I do in my legacy house, but then I also have about 12 or 13 ghosts there, so low motives would be lethal. I also have a bunch at the legacy businesses, especially the ticket businesses.
Feh, one ghost will do it. I just had a major upset last night when miss meanie-pants Celina was scared only twice by her father's recent ghost when she was already tired from having to get up and get her 7/8 alien son out of the crib. She passed and the two cats and toddler had to go into care, to be quickly rescued by her estranged sister/cousin. Not even Jumbuktu* could save her, as his shrine was in her bedroom on the other floor.
*Jumbuk IV reward from the Adventurer career that Celina decided was a god, and who she had convinced her older cat he was the avatar of. The girl was maladjusted due to a predisposition to being a mean little shy child, plus her father nearly moving her away from her sister/cousin due to almost marrying a money-grubbing human, plus then later on her sister/cousin married a guy she protested to as he was also human but who she secretly was attracted to. Hopefully having a Jumbuktu-sculpture-filled nursery for his first couple of years won't have screwed up Derek as well.
Process Denied:
I was concerned about this issue. My game is full of so many hacks(by the way, make it so enjoyable) that I was wondering if I could play without hacks. That is probably the main reason that I bought Lifestories. I play hack free and it is nice to know that I don't have to play with hacks if I don't want to--but it is way better with hacks. I don't see snapdragons as being that bad-I put one on each nightstand and they wake up refreshed instead of waking up like they had just ran a marathon in their sleep. If you still want them to eat breakfast together and you have the InSIMinator then make them have 50% hunger lost and then they will eat breakfast. With snapdragons, you will be able to manage their needs in a normal way.
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