Date gifts
Liz:
Quote from: jolrei on 2008 July 23, 01:45:43
Quote from: Drakron on 2008 July 22, 21:54:02
They seem to function as a standard burglar alarm.
So, what then? The alarm goes off, the burglar still steals the car, but the police show up to watch him do it and then there's the standard fight, followed by the burglar running off into the night?
Because the burglarms inside only work for the room in which they're placed, an alarmless car outside can be yoinked without the police being summoned at all. The car alarm sounds while the burglar is still out in the yard, well before s/he has a chance to start plundering your sim's interior booty, so the cop arrives that much more quickly. Not that it makes the cop any more or less likely to win the fight, but I've never seen an 'alarmed' car get poofed into the Sack of Holding.
sloppyhousewife:
Quote from: Doc Doofus on 2008 July 23, 06:36:32
I get more gifts from the formal outings than I get from the dates.
I never send sims on outings, but the game seems to regard same sex dates as outings, too. At least, that's what the message boxes say. And it's indeed always the men (i.e. "outing" partners) who drop the cool stuff. My current legacy founder had three dream dates recently, where Johnson Pai (townie) dropped a piano, Gilbert Jacquet a bust of whatshisname and Jill so-and-so (garden club) nothing at all.
Quote from: Emma on 2008 July 22, 10:23:39
I have noticed though, if my sim becomes 'best friends' with the other sim while on the scored outing then the chance of a gift being left is very high.
That would explain it, as my dates never end without crush/love and several woohoos, so if they're really considered as outings, the gifts aren't surprising.
Zazazu:
Quote from: Liz on 2008 July 23, 06:42:47
Quote from: jolrei on 2008 July 23, 01:45:43
Quote from: Drakron on 2008 July 22, 21:54:02
They seem to function as a standard burglar alarm.
So, what then? The alarm goes off, the burglar still steals the car, but the police show up to watch him do it and then there's the standard fight, followed by the burglar running off into the night?
Because the burglarms inside only work for the room in which they're placed, an alarmless car outside can be yoinked without the police being summoned at all. The car alarm sounds while the burglar is still out in the yard, well before s/he has a chance to start plundering your sim's interior booty, so the cop arrives that much more quickly. Not that it makes the cop any more or less likely to win the fight, but I've never seen an 'alarmed' car get poofed into the Sack of Holding.
This is why you place the burglar alarm outside. Ye olde trick from Sims1 days.
Liz:
Quote from: Zazazu on 2008 July 23, 14:39:27
Quote from: Liz on 2008 July 23, 06:42:47
Because the burglarms inside only work for the room in which they're placed... but I've never seen an 'alarmed' car get poofed into the Sack of Holding.
This is why you place the burglar alarm outside. Ye olde trick from Sims1 days.
No wai, you use trickery and sneakiness in your game? That's, that's cheating, that is!
* Liz is disillusioned and deeply saddened.
Zazazu:
I'm sorry, Liz.
My burglars never seem to get anything with the alarm inside the house ('hood is actually about 50/50 on the houses that have alarms, and most lots don't have one at all). So I don't see any reason to put up with the slow motion and squealing alarm any longer than I have to.
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