A little too independent ...

A little too independent ...

I have a sim who (sometimes) ignores me. It's kinda cool actually. (I play with free will, obviously.) If I tell her to do something and she's hungry, for example, she'll ignore me and eat instead.

I did have one kind of troubling thing happen, though: I told her to call her college boyfriend and talk on the phone, not invite him over, and afterwards I had this string of things I wanted her to do.

Well, he showed up at her house, all the things I asked her to do disappeared, there was a little "jump" and she stood there yelling at me about how tired she was. So I just sent her to bed and boyfriend went back to college.

Still, it made me a little nervous. Hope it's just a one-time thing.

Anyone else have sim-iliar experiences?

 

You think you got trouble SBW? I'm starting to get distinctly paranoid about they way they look at me as if to say: "c'mon then missus ... wotcha got lined up for us, eh? I bet it's all pants again like last time!"

 

Mirelly, I'm really starting to worry about you, there comes a time when you just have to say to yourself 'This is getting too weird' and walk away....


And SBW, that's happened to me too on a similar occasion, the b/f showing up uninvited is not unusual and nor is your sims reaction to it (I know I have done the same thing personally once or twice ), I doubt there will be any serious repercussions to that.

 

I always get a really cold feeling and a tingling up my spine when the sims glare at the front of the screen, obviously where I'm sitting, and make an exasperated, angry, or sad facial expression before they do what I forced them to, be it cleaning the counter, or flirting with this really ugly person that happened to like him/her. Sometimes I wonder if we're all just sims, being played with by Higher Beings, and then I get mad at Maxis because Sims 2 would suck compared to the game we're all in. Yeah, that's what I think about; not worrying that all of our wars are just some form of entertainment for the Higher Beings. I could suddenly die of the choking disease this very minute! This is getting too deep for me. My brain hurts.

 

Boy, that's some deep thinking for someone your age. Keep it up, I enjoy your posts.

 

Everyone enjoys my posts. Just watch as it all goes to my head and I turn into some kind of snobby middle school genius.

 

My sims give me that look all the time. My favorite is when I make a shy sim tell a joke. She/he looks at me like a whipped dog and then cringes while sidling up to the jokee ...
I have those kinds of thoughts all the time ... I loved philosophy when I was in college, but ultimately I realized that it doesn't matter because we'll never know!

Still, it is kind of freaky to think that we might be sims ourselves ... you know you've been playing too much when you imagine little boxes floating above your head with the next 8 tasks you've got to do ...

War is never a good idea. It makes me sick to my stomach too. You keep having those independent questioning thoughts, 123. They've served me well.

 

Thanks, Sylla.

And what's this about Mirelly's sims wearing all pants? ... hmmm. Or is that some cockneyism I don't know about, being a Yank?

 

free will behavior

I made a sim called Manifest Destiny expressly as a mate for one of my rich boys. (This is still part of the grand racial mixing experiment.) They hit it off well but I just couldn't get them past making out to woohoo, no matter how high their scores. Yesterday I had them going from hot tub to bed (to "relax") and Manifest started cackling and rubbing her hands together madly and snuck off to steal a gnome. Okay, fine - she's a lab assistant, it's probably a virus. Back to bed, girl. But she did it again! Then AGAIN! I'm madly pointing and clicking, trying to get the boyfriend to "ask her to join." The command keeps disappearing and she's stealing ALL the gnomes, one after the other, laughing wildly. He gets up and follows her, she goes all the way through the house out to the front yard to steal the family's very last gnome, when boyfriend catches up to her. She turns around really fast, totally changes expression and they start making out. I've created a monster!

 

OMG LOL ... that is so funny Jiko. Manifest Destiny. What a hoot of a name for a crazy gnome stealing sim ... guess if she wants to have any woohoo it will have to be on a gnome-free lot!

 

I was playing last night and my Sim was on a community pool lot. I just started playing her and wanted her to meet a few people as well as satisfy one of her aspirations that happened to be go swimming. Anyhow, she went, she swam, she met people, blah, blah, blah . . . Her energy was dipping pretty low, as was mine; so, I had her call a taxi to go home so I could go to bed. The taxi came, it kept disappearing from the queue. She kept running over to talk to this person that kept irritating her. When they irritated her enough, she would run over to an alien male. Her social need was full. Though, come to think of it, she is a knowledge Sim and maybe she was fascinated by the alien male.
The taxi eventually left, no matter how many times I cancelled her actions and clicked go home. I was getting so aggravated. I made her call the taxi again, then lounge/nap on a bench until the taxi got there. It worked.

 

Whew. That's a good thing because I haven't found any way to sleep on a community lot ... even when there are couches you can't take a nap. I wanted to put couches in the community lots at the university so my sims would never have to go home, but it didn't work.

Glad you outsmarted your sim! Sneaky devils, ain't they?

 

I've entered the Gnome Realm now. After Manifest Destiny stole all the gnomes but one from the Oz family, she went home, I switched lots, and she came home from work with a friend. The friend stole all of her gnomes while she was recycling the newspapers! While this was happening, someone walked by and started yelling and pointing but she didn't notice. Back at the Oz family lot, with its last gnome, the young lady of the family (named Young) invited her boyfriend over (Joe Carr) and HE snuck off and stole the last surviving gnome! After he went home, Young refused to go to bed and went off to steal back the gnome. It's now officially an obsession, and I'm just the witness.

 

Someone yelled and pointed? That's never happened to me. I guess there have never been any witnesses when my gnomes are stolen.

Someone keeps knocking over my trashcan, though. I'm going to have to go on trashcan watch. Once Ischade gets her cowplant that person had better beware ...
Manifest Destiny's manifest destiny seems to involve gnomes! Maybe she's planning to use them to take over the world ... she wouldn't happen to have Master Criminal as her lifetime want, would she?

 

I get a laugh out of the clean sims who smile and rub their hands in glee when I tell them to clean the toilet, and the lazy slobs who cry and whimper. LOL I think that I'm one of the lazy slobby sims who cry and whimper when I have to clean, so I feel for them. LOL

See, this is all the beauty that comes from playing with free will on. They are not little digital robots, they have personalities, even though we created them. Since I started playing TS2 last year, I started feeling like, I don't know, they are just so more like real people. Sometimes, I prefer their company than the "real" people in the big bad world!

Maybe I need to seek therapy. LMAO!

 

When you start understanding them, run.

I much prefer free will. Can't understand why someone would play without it, unless of course they were a sims uberfishlord like you-know-who.

I find that reaction funny too. I find it's nice to have a Virgo in the simfamily. They're cleaning addicts. I too am more like the lazy sims ... so many more interesting things to do than clean.

My parents acted like fun was something that ended when you grew up. I on the other hand try to have as much of it as possible. Which does NOT include vacuuming. OK, if I have to, but not every day ...

I just had a simkid born in the game who is maxxed out (or nearly) on neatness and outgoingness ... and has almost nothing in any of her other traits ... she's a Leo. Should be interesting raising that one. She likes to clean the house, at least.

 

I was reading one of those "Life in a Week of Sims 2" articles, and the dude that wrote it said that he only put one little, innocent garden gnome on the front lawn of his dreamhouse, occupied by his simself and simfiance. Anyway, for a few nights, one of the townies kept stealing the gnome, and he'd steal it back, and his fiance would always wake up to an empty bed, and his simself happily munching on cereal and watching his gnome. Eventually, the dude got so annoyed that he would lock each person that attempted gnome theft into a small fence cube; apparently, once the first gnome-stealer was fenced in, another townie would appear and try to steal it. Scott Sharkey, the author, even said that the Grim Reaper might as well have moved in with them.

"My Sim hasn't had a gnome-retreival free night in a week, and I'm realizing that I can't kill everyone in town.
Oh, wait. Yes I can." ~Scott Sharkey

Here's a link, in case anyone wanted to check it out. It might have already been posted somewhere else on the board, but this isn't a question, so....yeah. http://1up.com/do/feature?pager.offset=0&cId=3134465

 

I can't remember if it was posted here or not. Hopefully none of the other mods will, either.

But I do remember reading it. In the weeks leading up to the official release, I read everything I could find trying to quench my curiosity about the game. (sigh! Good memories)

I got a good laugh reading it again, from a diffrent prospective. Poor guy complains about the lack of variety in clothing and skin colors, but I wonder what he would think of it now? Also, check out the house he creates for his family!!!


You know, I never did play those beds much, and I think it was because of this article! LMAO!!

You know, I think that I am inspired!! I need to make a really horrible family and move them into a one room hovel! This could be fun!

Maybe I'll even name them after my favorite Fish-man. And Maybe the Mom's name could be Mirelly. Always thought there was some chemetry. . . (KR goes away laughing evilly)

 

Once Young Oz got pregnant by Joe, she really really wanted to get married, so we had a midnight wedding, and DURING THE WEDDING THE GROOM SNUCK OFF TO STEAL THE GNOME. From his OWN house, now that he's moved in. And the bride was too pregnant to go on a honeymoon, according to the little game gods.

 

lol at Kristal. I guess you might be on the button, hon. I do love sea food. Re that shack ... I wouldn't want to play it. The bookcase is next to the puter so readers will clog up the uncomy chair causing the other residents to spend too much time on tantrums. The shower is another waste of space. It'll take so long for one sim to shoo everyone else out so he can shower that getting all four residents clean would take 24 hours (probably ) Don't get me wrong I enjoy playing families in challenging situations (I recently got some kids into private school without doing a tour ) but playing ho-hope scenarios like that shack just isn't fun for me. Maybe I am just too much the control freak ....

PS My next project is try get into private school without touring or dinner ... do it on schmooze alone! I got 60 schmooze points without even trying too hard in the above scenario ...