Gnome-Stealing Shenanigans
talysman:
Finally installed the other expansion packs (Pets, Seasons, FreeTime) so that I can have the full, up-to-date experience. There have been a few amusing events, like the robot-building mad scientist, her servo (Tom) and her roomie Bigfoot all rolling Dance and Music as their one true hobby, while her slacker husband was the one who wound up with Tinkering.
But one thing stood out: although I've seen walk-bys stealing gnomes all the way back to base game, and I've seen sims leave the lot to steal back their gnome, I haven't witnessed a *playable* steal a gnome. A born-in-game child autonomously queued up two "Steal Back Gnome" actions, which I thought was weird, seeing as I didn't have any gnomes placed on the lot for stealing, although his townie mother had a gnome in inventory. I checked the mom's inventory: gnome still there. So why does the kid want to steal back a gnome?
I let him go to see what happened. He walked off the lot, as for the normal "Steal Back Gnome" action, returned a few minutes later, and I got the pop-up saying he'd stolen back "his" gnome and it was now in his inventory. I thought "That's different. They used to put the gnome at some random inconvenient location." Then, since his next action was also "Steal Back Gnome", he left the lot again, and came back with the same message. I checked his inventory: yep, he has two gnomes he never had before.
Is this is a new feature, or perhaps something included in one of the DC hacks? Or did I just never see it before because I hadn't played many Grouchy sims? I'm doubting the latter, because I didn't see this happen with any of the four "evil twin" households. So far, it's just this one kid.
buddha pest:
I think Macro - Steal Back Gnome is what causes them to put it in their inventory? I could be wrong.
Maybe he's stealing back gnomes you've long since forgotten about.
talysman:
I haven't seen that macro, and I certainly didn't select it. And as I said, there was no gnome on the lot. Ever. I only noticed the gnome in the mom's inventory by accident, sometime after the kid was born, but never took it out of her inventory, because ... gnomes get stolen. "Steal Back Gnome" is cute the first couple times, but then you realize it's taking up valuable time.
Count Four:
Quote from: buddha pest on 2008 July 28, 00:43:50
I think Macro - Steal Back Gnome is what causes them to put it in their inventory? I could be wrong.
So far as I know, the retrieved gnomes have gone into inventory since NL. I've also seen sims steal back gnomes they never owned.
I've also had the game tell me that there was a car that wanted to come home when the only cars the family owned were already on the lot. I put in a third driveway segment and got a free car.
Sarahsuke:
Quote from: Count Four on 2008 July 28, 02:41:47
I've also had the game tell me that there was a car that wanted to come home when the only cars the family owned were already on the lot. I put in a third driveway segment and got a free car.
"It followed me home, can I keep it?"
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