What's on YOUR Wish List?
sloppyhousewife:
Quote from: jwaas on 2009 January 19, 22:58:40
One is the tendency of Sims to put themselves to bed -- and very quickly too! -- when their energy bar is at maybe 30%.
I've used JM's Autonomy Control to proscribe the autonomous use of beds globally, which works wonders. I mean, wtf? I'm perfectly capable of putting my sims to bed myself, tyvm.
Another annoyance is this "cuddle in bed" bullshit, and EAxis did everything to force this oh-so-cute feature on players. Now, sims sleep after woohoo even with their energy at about 95%, so you have to wake them and wait for them to undock (which takes ages, because they need to cuddle). Also, you can no longer wake one of them without waking the other (in case this one has slept in already), so they can cuddle again before getting up. Arrrgghh!
Now, double beds are only used for procreation purposes in my game, but if it takes three or four attempts for the sims to succeed, it's still unnerving.
Quote from: jwaas on 2009 January 20, 05:33:35
Now that one problem is solved and a second probably will be shortly, I'll add one more. Has the stupid Family Sim song and dance upon returning from work been squashed yet?
I don't know of a hack to stop it (I'd love one, too), but you can stomp the family sim dance by cancelling the "at work" action as soon as they get home (before they get out of the car).
jwaas:
Oh, the cuddling and pillow talk in bed, I wasn't even going to dare to mention that annoyance, but it drives me insane! I already have to wait too long for morning (barring some unusual circumstance like a burglary), and was resorting to keeping one of the kids awake to put to bed last in order to prevent that stupidity. But it still wouldn't prevent one spouse from waking up the other spouse, as you said, just so they could cuddle.
I hate to admit it, but I never thought of simply having two single beds for my Sim parents. With the ACR mod, they can woohoo on the couch; and even without that mod, there's always the hot tub. I will look into Autonomy Control -- I assume that's part of macrotastics? Which I am not using at the moment.
So macrotastics, plus an "I Love Lucy" bedroom with two single beds for the spouses: I can haz. :P
For the other, I will try cancelling out "At Work" the next time I run a Family Sim parent. Did you notice they will do this nonsense even if they have no children? They may even do this if they live alone, but I can't remember. My only other option is to stop running Family Sims. Knowledge Sims are pretty close, with better LTWs. ;) (I already have no Pleasure Sims due to not having NL installed, and don't miss them at all. Romance Sims are about 80% the same thing, at least in my experience, except prefer woo-hooing to dates.)
Thanks for the commiseration and advice!
sloppyhousewife:
Quote from: jwaas on 2009 January 20, 16:17:48
I will look into Autonomy Control -- I assume that's part of macrotastics?
No, Autonomy Control (aka "The One Shiny") is a stand-alone hack, to be found in The Armory.
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For the other, I will try cancelling out "At Work" the next time I run a Family Sim parent. Did you notice they will do this nonsense even if they have no children? They may even do this if they live alone, but I can't remember.
I'm pretty sure family sims don't do the dance when living alone, but having / not having children doesn't seem to have an influence on it. Then again, I don't have much experience with working family sims - the only playable ones with jobs I have in my game are Cassandra Goth and a former cow mascot, both of which I rarely play.
jwaas:
That's true, in fact I seem to recall whenever running Norman Subject (as I always rename him since I cannot abide by "Nervous") that if he was married, or even had so much as a (platonic) male housemate, that he would still do the dance when getting home from work. Of course he is not one you want to beget progeny -- unless you give him a facelift and makeover, then correct his DNA with Christianlov's application, as I do with most Maxis Sims. ;)
Quote from: sloppyhousewife on 2009 January 21, 11:26:43
Autonomy Control (aka "The One Shiny") is a stand-alone hack, to be found in The Armory.
Now that I think about it, I'm sure I've tried Autonomy Control, and found it to conflict with some non-Awesome item that I cannot live without. It's OK as I almost never run households with more than four Sims, and so it isn't too hard to prevent them from going to bed before I'm done with them. Better keep an eye on them, though -- I have more than once seen a 6 or 12 sleeping in a double bed with one of the parents, which would be awful if it weren't also kind of funny.
Using two single beds for the parents, though, is brilliant and stops all the cuddling and waking up problems. I'm so glad I thought of it. ;D You can even put them next to each other so that it is vaguely reminiscent of a double bed.
Finally, I thought I'd share my workaround for the snotty you-didn't-let-me-get-any-sleep speech, just in case someone has a better solution. The problem seems to be that, since AL, Sim guests have automatically been asked to spend the night, whether or not you initiated that action. You need to have enough energy bar left for the last Sim to go to bed, to click on the guest (or one of the guests) and select Say Goodbye To.../Everyone or Ask To Leave.../Everyone. Choose "Everyone" if it shows up, even if there's just one guest, just to be sure. This is for friends brought home from work or school, home business customers who will not leave, or even the lover who came over with the ACR Make Booty Call option. It is common for this to require queuing up this command two or even three times for it to be carried out, especially if the guest is in the hot tub. The insistence of Sims on putting themselves to bed compounds the problem I'm sure.
The alternative is just to bear with it, as it doesn't seem to affect Sim relationships.
But of course, I'd prefer a hack that just squashes this stupidity directly. :)
Kyna:
Quote from: jwaas on 2009 January 21, 16:31:07
Finally, I thought I'd share my workaround for the snotty you-didn't-let-me-get-any-sleep speech, just in case someone has a better solution. The problem seems to be that, since AL, Sim guests have automatically been asked to spend the night, whether or not you initiated that action. You need to have enough energy bar left for the last Sim to go to bed, to click on the guest (or one of the guests) and select Say Goodbye To.../Everyone or Ask To Leave.../Everyone. Choose "Everyone" if it shows up, even if there's just one guest, just to be sure. This is for friends brought home from work or school, home business customers who will not leave, or even the lover who came over with the ACR Make Booty Call option. It is common for this to require queuing up this command two or even three times for it to be carried out, especially if the guest is in the hot tub. The insistence of Sims on putting themselves to bed compounds the problem I'm sure.
Or you could just click "make bugger off" on the BRY hammer & sickle. It's one of my must-have hacks on every lot (no matter what type of lot), whether I intend to run a business on it or not.
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