Wants & Fears Sanity "Death To All Nesses" Public Beta Edition
JCSpencer:
Okay, yeah. That's true. I guess I was just in a wee bit of a snit last night. Sims have pissed me off again, and I realized I never really checked this site out, so I spent, oh, about 8 hours last night. LOL. I usually go to bed at around midnight, but I was up until after 5 am reading. Now I'm pouring down the coffee. You guys are absolutely hilarious. I know not to thank JM, but that don't stop me from loving him. If I was even a micro-fraction as awesome as JM, I would try to recode the entire want system since it's mostly fubar. But since I'm a pathetic little pissant, I can only bitch about it.
Anyhoo, what about the OFB problems I mentioned? Those seem in keeping with the other problematic posts. Asking for things that can't be fulfilled, that is. Well other than the employee-hiring thing... honestly I wish we could get rid of all wants related to "I just made friends with this person so I want to: hire them, play with them, talk to them, be best friends with him, admire them, flirt with them (even though I'm married and not a Romance Sim, grr), yada, yada." Using wants as a guide, making a new friend is apparently the greatest thing that could ever happen to a Sim, and when I have to make four new friends for my job, I sell the phone after I'm done and wait until 14 forget about me. Once I went for the Popularity's 30 Best Friends At Once... I will never, EVER do that again. Oh my God. I should sue EA for my therapy bills.
Although I know that it's not necessarily true that a Sim will keep asking for something if you bought one previously; they keep asking for trees, recliners, bowling alleys and DJ booths, but I won't buy 'em. Seriously, how many houses are really so opulent as to have a bowling alley? Yet every Sim and his mother wants one, even if they live in a damn trailer. It should've been a mostly community lot thing in my opinion. Why can't Sims ask for little upgrades at a time, or more freakin' variety? They wanna go right from the §99 radio to the §2700 DJ booth. They jump right to asking for the bowling alley now that it's available, to hell with the other stuff. They never even ask for the billiard table since NL overrode the University wants with the damn alley. And they could care less about the remote control cars and the new arcade games from University; all they want are the pinball machines. If you buy them the alley and the pinball game, they still don't ask for the cheaper stuff. All they ever ask for is one expensive double bed, to hell with everyone else in the family. I could make everyone sleep on couches, and they don't care as long as they have that one expensive double bed.
My Sims ask for portable electronics, but when I send them to the store to buy them, they reroll completely different wants. I get home and eventually they want the portable electronics again. WTF? It takes me three days of locking one of the wants at a time when they show up, driving downtown to buy that item, then waiting for the next one... and in the end they annoy the hell out of me with their mp3 players and handheld games and I end up taking them away. I wish I could force them to cry, but they just ask for more.
Okay, I'll stop whining now. Anyway, glad to be a member here. I don't think I've enjoyed myself this much on a message board since, well, ever really. Granted, I don't have a life, so that probably enhances the experience.
jsalemi:
Well, lock the want for the portable electronics before they drive (or since BV, walk) to the store. :) Or cut out the trip completely, and just get Monique's super-computers from MTS2, which have options to buy everything 'online' -- makes it very easy to fill electronics and clothing wants right away.
I do think that this hack cuts down on the 'hire blah-blah' wants. I've been seeing a lot less of them since JMP came out with this. Now it's pretty much the Popularity sims who own businesses who roll those wants.
Zazazu:
I'm only getting the hire wants for best friends with this hack, it seems, and at the most I'll get two slots of them. Yeah, Logan Young perpetually wants to hire "me" but he forgets about it when he goes home. And on the residential ticket-biz public beach, the step-grampa is always wanting to hire his step-grandson (a business owner himself).
The only thing I'd really like added to this is something to tone down more of the non-date wants during dates. I keep having issues with my Knowledge sims especially wanting to see ghosts, wolves, get skill points...and do nothing with the person they are dating after a couple of interactions.
And yay for JCSpencer's power-lurking. You want the phone hack. Trust me.
MissDoh:
After doing a little of search, "no lame hires" should help lowering the wants to hire everything that moves a bit.
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FEATURES:
Non-townie sims with jobs >= L6 or who are already working in a user business
are no longer considered eligible hires and will not clog the hiring pool, nor
be available with the "hire" option unless they quit. Sims will never want to
hire anyone who already has a job
jsalemi:
Yea, I forgot all about that one -- good call, MD!
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