So weird...Has this happened to anyone else? This happened on a University campus, but it kind of has to do with some Nightlife stuff. Has anything like this ever happened to anyone else? I made a sim and sent him and his sister to college. While there, they both found that someone special. When they moved out of the dorm and into a house, they invited their significant others to move in. One evening, Dusty (my sim) and his girlfriend Jennifer were sitting on the couch when the cow mascot comes in. I'm not quite sure what he did, but I think he flirted with Jennifer. However, Jennifer does not have a memory of being caught cheating, but she does have a memory of meeting the mascot. Dusty has a memory of catching Komei (the mascot) cheating BEFORE he has the memory of meeting Komei. So not only is Dusty furious with Komei for cheating (even though he had never met the guy before), he's furious with his girlfriend! And she didn't even do anything wrong! Is that messed up or what?
i havent had that happen ... maybe its some kinda wierd glitch i wouldnt worry about it too much unless it happens again ..
That's happened to me a couple of times. The cow will come in, flirt with someone, and the flirtee's sig other will get mad, slap both of them, and then get a memory of the COW cheating, not the flirtee. The memory will say something like "I can't believe Donte broke my heart like this..." (Donte being the cow's name). It's messed up! I always dismiss the cow immediately if there are any couples present on the lot to avoid the drama. I really haven't noticed the cow flirting with anyone whose significant other was not present. Hmmm.
That cow is just trouble ... I hate the cows. They mess up your dorm with their stupid pranks and annoy your sims. I locked one in a room once but then relented because my sims were too nice to do that, even to a cow. Actually, since I installed NL I've only been occasionally bothered by the cow. But still ... BBQ, anyone?
LOL! Can we throw a cheerleader in there as well? All those mascots bug the living daylight out of me. I mean seriously, who gave you permission to come barging into my house when we're in the middle of dinner, do your fakey little cheer and then sit down to study like you were invited when I've never even met you! GET OUT OF MY HOUSE! Why don't the sims react that way...I would.
I know. Spike ended up woohooing one of the cheerleaders, as mentioned in a different thread (those romance sims, I tell ya) and she showed up as household help in his memories. I wouldn't exactly call her helpful, other than as a notch on his bedpost.
I always keep a Sim-O-Vac aspiration reward on hand. It's very useful for topping off my sims aspiration meter and any dormies who have moved in can use its handy skill absorbtion function to top up their skills (at the pesky cow's expense, of course ) Also a student should be a knowledge sim and knowledge sims like to see ghosts and the supply of cows seems infinite so every dowm should have at least one cow's tombstone ... mine do (either that or it's one of the old farts who run around telling sims to work out ... even when they're working out! ... What's that all about? )
I hate those "coaches." They drive me nuts. I automatically sim-vac them just for showing up. The cow gets a lot of abuse in my game too, though I've never gone so far as to kill one. My problem is, with a couple of exceptions my current sims seem to be too nice to use the sim vac. Any sim with a niceness higher than 6 ignores my commands to use it. So I'm stuck with the annoying ones. Sigh. Do you know, they never visited Spike. He got one llama visit, that was all. Maybe they knew he wasn't among the "nice."
I killed a llama once as an experiment for ghosts. Once again, I got distracted from the family so it was com[pletely pointless! And it took me ages to starve him as well.
I married the Llama. His name is Drake and he shows up all the time at neighborhood residences and community lots, always dressed in his Llama suit. I know it's him because the curser shows me his name and he talks like an elder. He's a nice guy. I like him. So I'd be reluctant to kill any of the mascots. However, I'd kill those cheerleaders, given the chance. Never much liked cheerleaders.
Well, after they graduated, I had the twins (Dusty and Rose) move back to the base neighborhood and move in with their significant others (Jennifer and a boy whose name I can't remember). Jennifer arrived at the house in full llama gear. I swear, she was not a mascot in college, but she turned into one in the base neighborhood. I had her change clothes and I changed her appearance to get the stupid llama head off, and then I sent her downtown to buy new clothes (for some reason, I HATE those black pants with flames up the sides). When she arrived at Cold Issue Clothing, voila!! The llama was back. So when she got home, I had to change her clothes and appearance again. It was really annoying. She is never going downtown again. (Didn't this happen with someone in one of their stories? Maybe the one that got ruined when Nightlife was installed?)
It happened with my Dear Emmy story because Emmy's Uncle Drake always showed up at family events dressed in his Llama suit. He was a mascot in college that her Aunt Kiara fell in love with. They had two kids. I decided he was an eccentric that the family just had to deal with in good humor because there was no stopping him.
LOL, MegRen. I hate the flamey pants too. I think Sandy Bruty should be locked in fashion jail for her outfit. The baseball jersey, the flamey pants, the ugly haircut ... I know she's not a lovely girl, but I can't help thinking she'd look better with a different outfit, a little makeup, some glasses, a different do, anything. Bev is trying to befriend her as we speak. (See Bev's House of Beauty, which I haven't worked on much. Having too much fun with my vampires ...)
LOL, I always hated Sandy Bruty, and yet now I think I might make my sim bite her so they can be vampire lovers, as she has nice pale skin, unlike the other NPC my sim fell in love with, Abbey Goss. I tried biting her, and her skin came out grey! Yuck. So I exited without saving. Randy Rossi should be the one who's arrested for fashion crimes--he always shows up Downtown in his PJ's! Also, I'm having trouble keeping my other vampire in her coffin. She just wakes up around noon and starts hissing from the sun! Is there some way that they can stay in there? My brother mentioned that the sim will stay in the coffin even if their energy is filled up as long as you don't direct them to do something else. Any proof? Speaking of my brother, I've been watching and helping him as he plays and when the baby started crying, I'm like, "You gotta feed her, she's hungry," and he says, "You have to feed it?!" Just what a boy would say, no?
When I moved my vampire couple into a new house they were awakened in the middle of the day twice--by the doorbell. I had no idea the doorbell woke people up. They were sleeping in a back bedroom away from the living room and the telephone. First it was the neighborhood welcoming committee. Then it was the gypsy lady. My vampires shooed away the visitors but were getting so far into the red that I got them the energizer. It was OK to use since they were both in a platinum mood (newlyweds, go figure.) Another reason one of mine has insisted on rising in the middle of the day was to give the other one flowers after a good date. I decided there'd be no more dates for these two. Too dangerous. As for your brother, I'd let the social worker take his babies away from him. And I'm not kidding. There should be consequences for neglect of babies. Uh oh, I thought this was a vampire thread. What happened? How did I get lost?
Spike and London go on so many dates I'm surprised they can walk around all the roses they leave scattered everywhere. Their coffins are right inside their front door, and I make sure they leave earlier in the evening so even if they accidentally party the night away, when they get home it's still dark and they have time to recover. As for the Avon Lady problem, I only get one doorbell ring-a-ding per day, usually. My vampire gets up, I send him/her right back to bed. If they're in college you have to also send them back to bed right away if they want to go to class, or if they're in a greek house, if they want to "visit campus." My advice? Do NOT attempt to do anything other than send them straight back to "coffin." (Well, it's not really a bed, now, is it?) That's when you run into trouble. Their needs will not deplete if they're in the coffin, so don't worry if something's in the orange. Earn enough aspiration points to have an energizer machine handy at all times. If they're in the gold or better (thanks to those asp. points) they can just energize when they get up for the night, though once you get the hang of it you'll need this very seldom. Until they earn those points, just keep a strict eye on their needs. The only ones that will deplete at night, once they're in the happy green, is hygiene if they work out and fun if they have do to college assignments. Once in a blue moon they also need to eat or use the potty, but not very often. Spike and London's grocery bill was almost nothing until they had a kid and a live-in nanny. If a vampire is in college, don't let them go to class (unless of course, it's at night). Get their skill levels up to where they need to be, do assignments and/or the term paper until their grades are where you want them, and send them to the final exam even if it's in the middle of the day (make sure they're happy first!!). They'll pass, no problem. Send them straight to bed if it's light when they get home. If they're in a Greek house have their minions, I mean pledges, do their schoolwork for them. Actually, any influential sim can do that. Doesn't have to be a "Greek" sim. Anyway, that's what I've figured out. Do not shoo the neighbors. Do not try to satisfy any of the vamp's needs during the day. Do not pass Go. Once you get the hang of it, vampires are a lot of fun to play. It's kind of a drag to go back to the sims that actually have to eat, use the potty, etc., on a regular basis. Oh, I've included a picture of one more reason vampires are fun: I call it "cow abuse." (Fine. You want to come into my home and be a pest? Well, Bleh to you ...) Of course, you have to clean up afterwards, but it's so worth it (and besides, vampires can have maids.) One more tip: it's OK to hire a maid. She/he won't wake the vampire up at all. They're very considerate that way.
