Deciphering sims thoughts Being meaning to ask this for the longest time, to help me decipher sim's thoughts... - What does the thought bubble with the baby pacifier and telephone handset mean? Do they want to call a baby/child or call their baby/child? - When a sim thinks about another sim constantly even when they live in the same house does that mean they want to interact with that sim more? This has been happening alot with one of my married couples. When they were roomates and dating this didn't happen that much but now that they've had their second child it happens more frequently. He is knowledge, she is family. - Why do they give you the "look"? When I first started playing this didn't happen. However, now that I have them married and having kids they look at me often. Especially when I have them interact with their spouse (kiss, etc.)? They don't complain just look at me.
Baby pacifier and handset means "I want to adopt a child." You know, call on the phone for baby delivery. Sims think about random sims all the time, but about the ones they love more. My married knowledge sims get hearts and harp music every time they think of each other. All together now, awwwww ... As for the last one? I get a lot of "do I have tos" that come with that look. Shy sims hate telling dirty jokes, for example, even if it's a want they currently have ... so funny to make them do it anyway, though I am occasionally kind and delete it.
For real???:shocked: She has had this thought for a long time! My other family sim just has the thought of a pacifier so I always wondered what this meant. I'm letting her have her own kids and everytime she gives birth she rolls the want to have another one (she has 2 so far). So, she wants to adopt some? If I adopt a kid and get a girl, can she later marry one of the biological boys or will they treat each other has biological siblings?
Just because the sim is thinking about adopting a baby doesn't mean they actually want to. I know that when I think about my growing stack of homework due next Monday, I certainly don't want to do it! I think they will treat each other as siblings, though I'm not sure.
They are definitely siblings. No flirtation of any kind is allowed. There's no family leave for adoptions, BTW, which is STUPID and discriminatory, IMHO. 123's right. They need to roll that want as well. I just go ahead and go with their thoughts sometimes. For example, that's all Lola ever thought about in college. At least five times a day she'd think about having or adopting a kid, so I gave her one of each even though she never asked for it. I have plans and their little wants don't always matter that much, bwah hah hah hah ... Got to continue the generations, after all ...
And all this time I thought the pacifier with the telephone in the thought bubble meant that Sybil wanted to telephone and talk to one of her children, as in "I want to call my baby." So I'd have her do that. She's the one who had that thought all the time. Others might, but I haven't paid very much attention to them.
Why should there be? Somebody already got the vacation time. That'd be double-billing to give it out to someone else as well. Companies would go out of business if this scam were allowed!
My sims usually adopt when they're at the beginning of their adult years, which means they don't have any vacation time added up yet. I hate sim nannies with a burning fiery passion which means one of my adults always has to quit their job. If they had those three paid days it wouldn't be such a financial burden. There's adoption leave in RL, why not in the sims? Three days to get into the swing of the baby thing is very helpful. Just saying, if the breeders get it adoptive couples should too.
I adopt children who make useful babysitters when they become teens. This also gives time for the parent sims to make some useful career advances thus making the maternity leave more remunerative. Oh my bad! I have turned into a pescado!!!
When I played the original Sims game I'd have the parents alternate taking days off to take care of the baby. Otherwise they'd get fired, if I recall, because missing work two days in a row got you fired. I have adopted a few children in Sims2 but there was always someone around to take care of the baby. If there hadn't been, I would have tried alternating days calling in sick. Not good for the pocketbook but better than getting fired. I doubt it. Not many people adopt, because it's extremely difficult to do. It would be a better world if we encouraged the adoption of children in any way possible. The children are not to blame for the failures of their parents and it's more important than ever, especially to the companies you are concerned about, that the next generation be healthy and educated.
I don't think he's "concerned." I think he's just being cantankerous. Why should he care if companies have to lay out dough? It's not his. I agree. I have friends who have adopted and it's not an easy process. I'm not saying they should be handing out kids to anyone who asks, but once a parent is shown to be reliable, stable, etc., it shouldn't cost them their life savings either. As for the adopting children to be babysitters, Mirelly, I'm afraid I'm just not that cold-blooded. Every person in my game has to have a reason for being there, and with my newly married young gay couple, adoption is the only answer. Xander quit his job to stay home with the kids, and that works out just fine. I always adopt babies. I don't like most of the in-game names and therefore must name all children myself. If one of them turned out to be named Goopy I'm afraid I'd just be mean to it. They had to get rid of the swimming pool to get a second child, though, because with only one income $5,000 takes a while to accumulate. I wanted the kids to be fairly close together in age. So now there's Dante, and baby Carlo. And a big blue spot in the backyard.
Yeah, I know. You're right. I lost control of myself for a moment. As for naming the kids, how about Merola's painting? You can change their game-given name. I guess. Haven't tried it on an adoptee. I wish I could adopt some of those pesky NPC kids, like Marsha.
*Ooh! Ooh! Car 54! Where are you!* Inge's Teleporter Plus? I think I've heard about this before. I'm going to do a search now!
I'm staying away from Merola and Inge. I've only just started introducing Pescado's hacks to my game. The new shiny phone hack works great, BTW, and no random sims have gotten bitten since I installed the vampire fix. I didn't mind the biting so much but I don't want my game to implode, either.
Why staying away? Are you worried they'll corupt your game, or just not wanting to cheat that much? LOL Honestly, I was thinking about it last night, and thought that maybe I was using too many hacks and cheats myself. I like realism in my game, so how realistic is it to have a magic painting that makes you happy and teaches you things instantly? Or another that teleports people to your home in the blink on an eye? LOL Maybe I'm just jellous!
Honestly? It sounds like cheating to me. I don't like things too easy. I'm already regretting getting Alec a job in culinary, since his LTW is celebrity chef. I hate permaplat sims for the most part. They cease to be interesting. I think I'll try to get him fired.
I only used Merola's painting to fix the name of a child that had no name at all because the game skipped over the naming screen. If it takes Inge's bush to adopt an NPC child, I might try it, although I thought I read somewhere that they aren't quite normal? They don't grow up or something strange like that. The only serious cheat weakness I have is for "kaching." I try to avoid it but sometimes I just can't stop myself.
SBW: Permaplat is somewhat of a bore sometimes. I have gotten so fed up of fat old lecher Ricky Cormier that I locked him in a garret over the garage with a computer and an energizer (the lot is heaving with them due to his MIL, Joy, spending her 200,000 asp points just before she departed the smortal coil) and left him churning out novels at the rate of one a day.) Lyn: I know what you mean about kaching. In the past I've often fallen back on it as a lifesafer, eg to reverse a dumb chance card that wiped out the family 'pot' that was being saved to buy a piano ...
