Roommates & Work Income
Zazazu:
Quote from: floopyboo on 2009 March 12, 02:11:09
No, they're just another mouth to feed, and they pull your toddlers/infants out of their beds & don't put them back. Flatmates are completely & utterly useless. Much like real life.
They are good for bonking, and occasionally make a meal they forget to eat, thereby feeding your sim.
TheCheat:
There also seems to be some weirdness with marrying/moving in current roommates. My current Sim's wife used to be his roommate in their old apartment, and when I had them get married, all of her memories got wiped and replaced with the default ones, except her new husband replaced the Mystery Sim in the memories.
Zazazu:
This is normal townie behaviour. Roommates are, at heart, glorified townies.
AuKestrel:
Quote from: floopyboo on 2009 March 12, 02:11:09
No, they're just another mouth to feed, and they pull your toddlers/infants out of their beds & don't put them back. Flatmates are completely & utterly useless. Much like real life.
Wow. I thought they would reduce your rent. That's really pointless - worse than pets.
What IS the point of apartments, then, overall? Aside from more realistic game play, that is*. I mean, I like the idea of apartments but they're not expensive enough to make them realistic in-game and there seem to be more problems associated with them than not. (On the other hand, houses aren't realistic either. Theoretically a house should appreciate somewhat in value (not, of course, anything resembling the recent real estate bubble).) But the benefits of houses are that the school bus still shows up and you can place items outside as well as inside, plus you don't have to cope with neighbours coming and going; and, to go meta for a moment, you don't have to worry about the several "cloned" sublots that occupied apartments create in your game files.
Maybe if rent was collected more frequently than once a week... I don't know. I have played several apartments and ended up moving the families into starter-type homes. This roommate thing just adds one more reason not to bother with apartments.
*I am not addressing the fact that apartments can be useful for people who use Sims 2 to advance story/plotlines. I can certainly see their usefulness in that case, although, again, I think there were existing mods pre-AL that made "apartments" possible for the purposes of storytelling.
caterpillar:
The roommate pays half the rent.
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