How to achieve LTW of golden anniversary
Regina:
Quote from: gynarchy on 2005 October 21, 17:59:58
I've been wondering about this since NL came out - has anyone had a Downtownie attend a party? My Sim has 3 children by Mr. Big but the two of them never got married so he's still in the Townie pool. She invited him to each of their birthday parties and he didn't show up for any of them. The only other Downtownies my Sims have as friends are teens and with the leaving weirdness, I haven't bothered to invite them to see if they would show. It kinda makes me wonder if something is wonky with Downtownies coming to parties or if my Mr. Big is just a huge ass. Up until NL, I've never had a Sim not show up for a party if they were friends with the inviter.
Hmmm. That's an interesting idea. My sim's two invited friends are both Downtownies who had come home with her from work. I didn't try inviting her other friend, who is a playable sim I use when I need to generate Downtownies and service workers.
There are a couple of issues with Downtownies and Downtown service workers that I'm thinking Maxis should look into. Like have you ever noticed when you invite a DT service worker to your lot they just march in like they own the place without being greeted? Oddly enough, if you make them playable sims they do the same thing throughout the whole neighborhood. It gets extremely annoying very quickly because here you've got your sim set about to take on their day when in out of the blue pops this sim! And if the Downtownies aren't coming to parties, there's something really wrong.
Lynda:
Hmmm. I don't throw very many parties since NL. I try to have a Group for each Sim with their friends (multiple groups created if needed). If I want a party, I just invite some groups over. If I want it to be "graded" I invite them over for an outing (at home outings usually work better for me than downtown outings). I like the group function, because when your sim goes to manage a group he also sees all the group other sims have added him to - so if he wants to invite over his best friend's group of friends to get to know them better, he can.
I really wish you could "throw a party" with the group manager - I just don't have any use for parties anymore (aside from getting my poor little elder Sim her LTW!)
Regina:
I was never real big on throwing parties anyway. Mostly I'd let a sim have one when a relationship had sunk fairly low and then only invite over that particular sim. They'd have a great time, build up the relationship and in the end have a great party memory.
One thing I couldn't see a lot of point in, and see even less point now, is the teen's wants to 'go out' or 'sneak out' with certain sims. It seems to me NL should've completely nixed those wants as the options with NL are so much better.
Sagana:
I was misleading, sorry about that. I purposefully invited people I knew wouldn't show. I don't like parties at all and it doesn't count against you if you don't have any guests. One of the two I invited was a playable sim I'd moved out - I thought he might show up (he and the party giver had lived in the same house) but they didn't have a great relationship score anyway. The other was the countess, who actually *did* show up to tell me there was way too much light for her before she left (which I found amusing, inbetween feeling sorry for her). I was just kinda playing around to see what would happen at that point (this was not very long after I'd gotten the EP).
I don't like the sneak out options either. Doesn't "ask on a date" fill the "go out" one? If it doesn't, that's a bug imo. A teen going out is set up like a date, and it seems to me it should count, but I haven't tried it.
Lynda:
Quote from: sagana on 2005 October 21, 21:04:20
I don't like the sneak out options either. Doesn't "ask on a date" fill the "go out" one? If it doesn't, that's a bug imo. A teen going out is set up like a date, and it seems to me it should count, but I haven't tried it.
I have no idea how to fill the "go out" want. I had a teen recently ask her parents for permission to go out - nothing (what's the point of THAT!?). I then had her go to a community lot and the want wasn't satisfied either.
I agree, "go out" and "sneak out" don't really have much of a point. For some reason, my teens rarely seem to get a sneak out want.
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