AutoYakYak Macro Phone Caller (10/25/06)
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2006 February 07, 13:18:16
And I find that calling sims on the phone results in making friends with them far more quickly than even living in the same house! How many family members never get beyond about 20 on a daily relationship until one of them moves out?
There's a reason for this: Befriending a lot resident is over twice as expensive in terms of sim-time as befriending non-residents: You occupy BOTH sims for the same amount of sim-time, meaning you pay twice the cost, AND there are extended handshaking delays involved if both sims are not simultaneously idle.
Conversely, the time of a visitor is effectively free, because visitors require no resources to sustain, nor does having a visitor over consume its time: Therefore, you pay only for the time of your resident sim, and the visitor's time is free. Even better is socializing visitor to visitor, but unfortunately, there is no reliable way to make this happen, and when it occurs randomly on community lots, the results are often undesirable and/or counterproductive. Even arranging the scenario at one of your lots tends to be an annoying exercise due to the extremely short attention spans of sims.
ZephyrZodiac:
Plus quite a few visitors actually dislike each other (especially, it seems, in Veronaville!) on sight, and spend their time arguing and poking each other, totally ignoring your sims' attempts to make friends!
There seems to be some kind of programming involved when sims come to welcome new arrivals - pick the three most incompatible sims possible! And when you've done picking fights with each other, why not go and pick a fight with the sims you're supposed to be welcoming!
Until sims are actually good friends, I prefer to keep them apart and to interact on the phone!
RainbowTigress:
It seems that if you can get a sim to come over, or they walk by your house where you can greet them, the auto socializer is faster at making friends than the phone, because they can use interactions such as telling jokes, admiring, and if they have the skill, Bust A Move. LTR also gets more of a boost for those best friend wants.
ZephyrZodiac:
Well, maybe I'll try it sometime..........although I tend not to use mods that take over my role as Supreme Being!
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2006 February 08, 01:46:00
Well, maybe I'll try it sometime..........although I tend not to use mods that take over my role as Supreme Being!
Don't think of it as having it take over your role as Supreme Being. Think of it as acquiring a sergeant to scream at your recruits for you.
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