My favorite Sim of the moment Heddy Nist. She writes romances with names like Hard Kiss, Hard Fist and Keep It Slick. She graduated college by sucking (up to) her professors despite spending every free minute drinking and drugging and trying to sleep with every student she impresses with her pool table tricks.
She continued her hard drinking, promiscuous ways after college and, as happens, accidentally got pregnant. Being pregnant did not stop her bar hopping ways at all. In fact, she was on her way to a Waylon’s Haunt when the baby came.
Baby Daddy has moved into the home to help her care for her child and she’s tried to straighten up by not going out so much and throwing killer parties at home instead. But here’s the thing. The baby, now a toddler, won’t learn.
He did gain a music skill playing with the xylophone but his meter filled to half-way on his talking, walking and pooping skills at the regular rate and then stopped. No amount of mommy or daddy time teaching will move the skill meter. I can’t help but wonder if this is a glitch or does The Sims have a FAS baby mode.
I know this is mostly meant as a humorous observation about an oddly coincidental chain of events in Ms. Nist’s tumultuous life, but I vote glitch.
Are you current with your updates? I went back to the game (not recently, several months ago) after a long hiatus, started a young adult Sim, and then watched as nothing I did kept his mood meter from going very-angry red. Turned out I was missing a patch and after I updated I was good again. I wish I could remember specifics, like what patch number it was or whatnot, but it’s been too long. Hardly matters anyway, since I’m sure there’s been several patches since.
Though wouldn’t it be cool if the developers had anticipated this very thing and really are sending you a message?
