My sims break up as soon as they get to a downtown lot.
Regina:
Quote from: gali on 2005 October 13, 04:00:16
Always invite your girl friend, and when she comes, ask her for a date. The date will occur at home.
Be sure you have hot tub, bowling, stereo, and a bar - to satisfy the sims' wishes (except the dining with a sim wish).
It takes a longer time, but always ends as "dream date", and the girl brings flowers the next day.
Never make the dates at downtown, they will fail for sure. But you can manage a group of friends, and go downtown "just for fun" - it always is a big success...:).
Oh, Gali, you are missing out! My sims have absolutely wonderful dates Downtown. Sometimes I start the dates there and sometimes I start them at home then move them to a Downtown lot. I've found something that really helps to get a date off to a good start, though, is to do enough interactions at the first of the date to get the time meter up to 4+ hours. Then and only then do my sims 'dine out'. If the dating sims get the wants early in the date, just lock them so they'll be fulfilled when they sit down at the table. If you're not sure what the food is your sims want, click on the waiter and choose 'chef's choice'.
One of my sims had a date this evening and since I didn't want him to get a crush on the gal he was out with, they ate dinner, played pinball, bowled, joked, danced, etc. Even though their date wasn't a dream date it was still decent.
I was experimenting last night and actually accomplished a Dream Date on a Downtown lot with two sims who had just met. That's the first time I managed that, though.
Hook:
I can't be sure, but I think I got the "dine out with Sim" want fulfilled by eating at home on a date once. Both Sims had the want, then they both sat down to eat, and the wants went away.
Hook
Regina:
Hook, it wouldn't surprise me. I've thought of trying it to see if it works. Of course it may've just gone away because they ate. LOL I'll have to give it a shot on one of my sim's dates. I have this Romance fella and I have an idea he may be doing a lot of his dating at home. ;)
Twibil:
I was surprised when I saw the "you're dumping me for someone else..." too. I will try to get a screenshot of it to show you all. It really is bizarre.
I have tried every combination of things I could think of to fix this. I have sent them both out on date with other people with no problems, and then gone back to send them out with eachother, and it happens again. I have submitted a help question to Maxis, we will see what happens, I have provided them with the error log, mybe they can make some sense of it. I surely can't.
Okay, here is the screenshot I promised.
Shupinola:
Interesting that this happens to Nervous. I haven't played in Strangetown for ages, but I have encountered a simillar problem in Pleasantview with Dustin and Angela. He invites her for a date and as soon as they arrive Downtown, the date meter pops up, but then cancels out and Angela walks off the lot. If I have Dustin hang around Downtown, Angela sometimes turns up as a wandering visitor to the lot. Dustin can interact with her just fine, until he asks her to make it a date and the same thing happens again, but this time I get the score for the start of a date.
I've been told that this is a glitch in the EP, and unless it's been fixed by that thing in the patch that prevents Dustin from continually bringing Angela home with him (although he hasn't brought her home once since I installed NL), I guess we're stuck with the problem.
Back to Nervous though ... the only time I played him, I noticed that he has no stats whatsoever. Maybe that is the problem and his GF finds him absolutely dull as a date. OK, so that sounds like I'm applying intelligence to Sims, but what I mean is, maybe there's something in the game code that makes Sims reject other Sims with no/low personality when they enter the date scenario? And poor old Nervous - being a Maxis-made Sim with altered game parameters (like Dustin) - can never go on a date without it ending in misery. It wouldn't surprise me one bit as Maxis are notorious for overlooking things like this.
One last thing ... did you make his girlfriend? Any chance of posting her on the MTS2 site as a downloadable Sim?
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