This new furious state
Howabominable:
One of the problems is townies and npcs are so darn RUDE. Once Remington the maid was hanging out at the house and he started poking and insulting one of my sims for no reason! This was BEFORE NL, by the way. after a while they became enemites, and I decided to make them fight, since Remington seriously deserved to get his butt kicked (which is what happened, twice). I let the gardener hang out one day too and she started poking and insulting the same sim Remington hated, but I sent her away. Neither sim has been allowed to hang out at the house since.
After getting NL I sent one family to the lot, and a townie sim started poking an insulting THAT SAME SIM (but I couldn't control him as he wasn't in the family I was playing). They eventually got into a fight. My sim won again. He's the most kick-butt elder I have (but I'm not saying it's cause he's black or anything LOL).
What I'm getting at is, townies need to be nicer. I'm sick of them coming up to my sims and acting like jerks and causing problems. I don't mind that sims get mad at each other, it makes the game more interesting. But I would like it if it didn't happen to the extent it's happening now. An occasional fight is fine, but when certain townies go around making enemies with everyone there's a problem.
Quote
6. Sims are way too possessive about crushes. Seems to me that sims shouldn't ever get furious at a crush for dating someone else, but they should get furious at the person that sim is dating.
I disagree to some extent. In real life when I had a crush and found out he was dating someone else, I was ticked off at HIM, not his date. But that's just me :)
I agree with everything else you said tho.
Something I found weird was when I had an adult swim clean the fish tank (which put a puddle of water on the floor) her father upstairs became FURIOUS with her, while he was woohooing with his wife. I mean, if I was having sex with my husband and mu grown daughter cleaned a fish tank and got some water on the gorund I wouldn't immediately get out and become furious with her. That doesn't make any sense. It's funny if it's siblings, but I think that was a dumb reason to get angry.
Brynne:
Dumb reason to stop woohooing, too. :P Fishtank birthcontrol.
ZiggyDoodle:
It's not only jealousy or rejection that causes fury: One of my Uni YAs was on a dinner date. His mother walked in (who should have been at home tending to her twin toddlers) and I swear there was steam coming out of her ears when she saw them. The negative signs were coming off her head as fast as popcorn popping.
Of course, part of her problem could have been that her son's dinner date was Nanny Poppins, a live-in nanny I created and who lived with them for a time before going off to another nanny job. Maybe it was the age difference that bothered her?
Sigh. Guess they won't be hiring Nanny Poppins to help out with those todders...
Ancient Sim:
I have a rather amusing scenario going on connected with this which I'm really enjoying seeing unfold. It involves Heather Huffington, former Greek Sorority member. The game had her set as Romance, I changed her to Fortune (well, swopped her with Brittany Upsnott basically) and now I've made her Pleasure.
Before I installed NL, she married someone she knew vaguely at Uni, although he left long before her so was quite a lot older. He's a Knowledge Sim and totally different to Heather - in fact, they're total opposites. Opposites, of course, attract (although I've noticed the new attraction system doesn't allow for this AT ALL) and they ended-up together. Once I installed the expansion, things deteriorated fast as far as Jerome was concerned. Everytime Heather had a shower, he became angry with her to the point where he was in the low 60s in both daily & lifetime, although Heather was obliviously still on 100/100. At first they had no lightning strikes, but did develop one after a while (presumably due to them being married).
They had a newborn baby when I installed the expansion, although Heather was totally disinterested in her even before her aspiration change. While I was playing someone else's lot, they were ipart of a group outing which included Heather and her husband and Heather's husband's dead father's widow, Andrea Ruben (not his mother). In the group was also Heather's old college crush, Castor Nova (nothing like the game arranging things to fit!). Jerome's brother William was also in the group. The only other member I can remember is Beau Broke (now an elder), who for some reason appears in almost every group outing.
Heather deliberately flirted with Castor twice, although there was no response from her husband or Andrea, as they were in another room playing snooker. William, however, saw everything and stormed-up very angrily, immediately dropping to -100/-100 with Heather (who he had one, maybe two lightning strikes for). He's Romance, by the way. Castor then succumbed and held hands with Heather, just at the point where Jerome and Andrea came out of the snooker room. You can guess the rest.
Heather now lives alone Downtown. Everytime she went on a date, her ex was there hanging around, although once he stopped being furious with her he stopped appearing. William also kept making an appearance, constantly poking Heather and shoving her. Then everything changed. Although William was still around -30/-30 towards her, he walked up to her out of the blue (while she was on a first date with Don Lothario) and hugged her. Then he hugged her again ... and again. Since then, he keeps turning-up on her dates and doing this. He now has 3 lightning strikes for her (and for no one else) and it's only a matter of time as their relationship is positive again now.
I found it quite intriguing to watch how all this occurred, especially the way William deliberately set about changing his relationship with Heather because he had realised how much he fancied her - in other words, his loyalty to his brother has taken second place to his lust. You just can't trust a Romance Sim. Can't wait to see how their first date goes ...
cwieberdink:
Quote from: Ancient Sim on 2005 September 27, 01:46:58
I have a rather amusing scenario going on connected with this which I'm really enjoying seeing unfold. It involves Heather Huffington, former Greek Sorority member. The game had her set as Romance, I changed her to Fortune (well, swopped her with Brittany Upsnott basically) and now I've made her Pleasure.
Ancient Sim, that is a GREAT story! I was so entertained. Man, I wish I had more time for game playing. I am so bummed that I didn't really get to play on Sunday because I was trying to restore my backup sims. :-P
C
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page