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pbox:
Swiftgold, I'm doing that by starting a home business that does nothing, hiring an employee and assigning "Tidy Up" to them. Works fine in my game? I have one such playable maid in my game .. I think she does everything a regular NPC maid would do -- empty trashcans, make beds etc.
imyourboy:
Yeah, they completely lack a concept of a "proportionate response", don't they? And their emotional ADHD can truly baffle. "Oh, mah GAWD, I saw a ROACH! I must sob for hours nao!" followed by, "BooHoo, I didn't go to University! I'm uneducated! Meh, bought an expensive counter instead. Uni can stuff it." Yeah, seeing a roach is exactly as traumatizing as the death of a spouse, if not more. And all it takes to get over the death of your spouse is the purchase of an armchair. Oh, but a burglar who doesn't even steal anything and is immediately apprehended? Netting the homeowner a $500 bonus, no less? Yeah, that one they'll bitch about for the rest of their lives.
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I have a family that the grandmothers from both sides of the family lived with the family. The grandson was at home when the first grandmother died and he took it very hard. He cried for quite a while. Then when he got really sleepy he went to bed and he dreamed of her. When his bar was full at 4 am he got up and cried some more thinking of her. He then went to the piano and played with thoughts of her popping up along with her tombstone.
I was so touched by this. Then the poor thing his other grandmother passed the next day and he was again sad but not like with the first grandmother. After 3 sim days he still cries about her. Is this unusual?
Swiftgold:
Quote from: pbox on 2008 June 08, 20:32:05
Swiftgold, I'm doing that by starting a home business that does nothing, hiring an employee and assigning "Tidy Up" to them. Works fine in my game? I have one such playable maid in my game .. I think she does everything a regular NPC maid would do -- empty trashcans, make beds etc.
Do you have problems with visitors, doing it this way? I've had a few home businesses, but apart from the brothel which is pretty much open all the time, I haven't been able to run one with any success because of phone-invited guests complaining about things being dirty even when the business wasn't running (I put Squinge's No Customer Complain back in after that, no matter how it might bork things), and with visitors leaving when the store closes and becoming customers, and other things that just don't work with how I play :\
I've also used Paladin's playable maid controller, but since you can't interact with them while they're working and can't ask them to stay when they're done, I figured I may as well just go back to the NPC maid I always ignore anyway...
Liz:
Quote from: imyourboy on 2008 June 08, 21:40:50
After 3 sim days he still cries about her. Is this unusual?
That really does sound touching, and to my experience it is unusual. Nice, though. I'd be bored if they all ran around sobbing for days, but I'd like it if, as with your sim, my sims would occasionally care that someone they loved has died. Not every sim or for every death (or to have them all out back in "Sims 1" motive failure at the tombstones all over again), but given their ability to keep that fury chip on their shoulders for freaking ever, a little sadness seems a reasonable thing for them to tote around for a few days.
J. M. Pescado:
I like their furiousness. But sadness is for pussies and people in my family are executed for that sort of nonsense. But furiousness? We NEVER FORGIVE!
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