The Romantic Life of a Sim
Witches:
Now that I've got Nightlife, I actually enjoy playing all aspirations again. I've found that any aspiration can make a good BF/Spouse if you treat them nicely ... I used to hate Money sims because they were only interested in buying things, at least it seemed that way, but now my sim is married to one and he's a great husband. Most of his wants revolve around her. He even wanted a baby, something I haven't seen in a non-family sim before.
Of course it helps that they woo their hoo on a regular basis. :D They may fantasize about other sims they meet, but so far they only have eyes for each other.
Just my two cents, but if you're getting a little bored with the Sims, like I was, get Nightlife! It adds a whole new dimension.
I haven't even tried to ruin a sim's life yet. Having too much fun with having things go right ...
So, what about you? What do you think of the new romantic possibilities? Any good stories to share?
ZephyrZodiac:
Well, I don't have Nightlife, but I've played an innumerable number of hours, and all the things you mention can be achieved without any EPs at all! And a gay popularity or knowledge sim in a relationship is just as likely to want to adopt a child as a family one. (They generally make better parents too!) And I've had elder romance sims wanting grandchildren. (After all, they don't have to have them themselves! and they're pretty good at helping out with the baby!)
Sagana:
Oh I love NL - basically every aspect (tho I have to say it's awfully easy to keep sims always platinum - just take 'em on a date/outing where all the wants revolve around the date aspects or things dt and roll 'em over again and again).
I don't think I have all the romance subtleties figured out yet at all. I'm not at all sure what makes them *really* like each other. For example, I created a couple as adults - gave them turn ons that match (well more or less - one of his is swimsuits so he likes her better sometimes than others) and made them fairly compatability personality-wise (I thought :) So sure enough they come up with 2 lightning bolts, 3 when she's in a swimsuit (I've never seen more than 3 - tho I've heard reports of 4), both have have a baby wants (which is what I wanted - I believe he's pleasure and she's popularity iirc). Anyway so I think everything is going great...
She gets little hearts all over the place every time he goes by - but he doesn't for her. Not even if she's in a swimsuit. He brings a female friend home from work and I can tell he's into her big, although there are no lightning bolts on their relationship score, and he keeps thinking about being married when he looks at her or she talks to him (the wedding ring shows up - I thought this was way cute. He has to remind himself he's married). If I click on her to choose an action, the ones with lighting bolts are there (flirts and all) - so I gather some flirt-type interaction is required before the lighting bolts show in the relationship score, at least if the sim is married/attached (I think this is a good thing - less "buggy" :) So I have him scope the room - both the work friend and his wife are there and he comes up with "new friend is HOT" (NOT, needless to say, most attracted to his wife). So I do the flirt/checkout interaction, figuring there must be at least 3 bolts or something, but nope, just 2. So how come he likes her better? No idea at all, somehow her personality must match his a little better.
But it's fun and really works rather well - now I have a female sim who is crazy about her husband and a male who just hasn't quite found real true love with his wife. He likes her - the marriage works well, but... not all the sparks there could be. He'll probably have a midlife crisis, lose her and then end up sorry as friendship and shared experiences are important, but he doesn't realize it in the quest for the absolute dynamic :) It'll also be interesting to see what that does to his son - said son being the whole point of creating them in the first place. However it comes out, I'm having a great time.
Regina:
Pre-NL (I don't have nor do I intend on getting Uni) every aspiration I played with the exception of Romance inevitably rolled a want to have one child. Of course family sims rolled have a child wants all the time.
Pre-NL, upon reaching elderhood every sim I had, no matter what aspiration, that had an adult child, wanted a child to get engaged, and if they got engaged wanted them to get married, and if they got married wanted to have a grandchild. Now I've noticed that my sims who have children reach adulthood aren't necessarily rolling those wants. In fact, I have one mom sim whose grown son is something like 18 days from elderhood and is on his second wife (the first wife died in a tragic accident [ahem]), and only when the second wife was expecting did she even roll the want to have a grandchild. Oddly enough, she's a popularity sim and pre-NL, my popularity sims wanted grandkids up the wazoo.
This particular adult sim is a money sim and only after he married for the second time did he want to have a child. Unfortunately, I didn't get it locked before he got home from work and by the time he did he was right back to his 'sell masterpiece, sell great novel, yada, yada' wants. His wifey, a knowledge sim, didn't roll a want for a child, either. Previously if a non-family, non-romance aspiration got pregnant they rolled a want for a child at some point during the pregnancy but I'm not seeing this happen since installing NL.
knitro:
I have had the baby want show up after NL witha Knowledge sim that was preggers. Once in a while others will have ti randomly...but what annoys me lately is that all my elder men want to have kids and not grandkids, its like your wife is old, she can't have any! get over it!
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