Yes 
So I’m staying well away from it. Cos I already spend half my time here and the other half doing important things like … uh … sleeping and working. The last thing I need is one more addiction 
Servo works for a certain amount of time and then he has to go and “recharge”. when he vanishes,just turn him on again.
I created a sadist.
He invites other sims over. When the come in, they are directed to a completely enclosed (with glass windows) two tile sized cubicle. THen I go to buy mode and buy a refrigerator and block them in. They just stand there and cry and pee and fall asleep standing up in their own filth. They have plenty of food from the fridge, so they can’t die.
My sim just hangs around in the pool and watches his living art suffer in their cubicles. I named him Vince after Vince D’onofrio in “The Cell.”
It’s fun.
Scylla of all the ill things…
I just popped in to say I downloaded a Harley. Its in “my” sim’s living room. With her hottie of a husband. I’m going to quit work and be an artist for a while. Hubby’s going to stick with his athlete career for a bit til there’s a nest egg…
Sorry, bad week and Sims is my escape mechanism of the month.
**Scylla,{/b], that is beyond cruel. Now I know what I’m going to do with the temp characters that I didn’t bother deleting and are now wandering around the neighborhood everywhere.
What would happen if I walled up a character at a neighbor’s home, then evicted or killed them? I’ll find out soon enough…
Oh yeah, started playing the Bachelor…only took him 5 days to get laid. 
OK, New SIM adict here lookin for advice…
How do ya know if your SIM’s getting any? Just because they do some lovey kissing then sleep in the same bed? I’m not lookin for the Maxis folks to have actually put graphics in for it, but couldn’t they just quietly up the social and relationship indicator’s overnight?
My male bachelor was a flop, but I made a female bachelorette and she’s a major hit, especially with the other neighborhood ladies. Though right now she’s a web designer and thus works hours that are nearly impossible to get social points with.
And how the heck can you have a poly family if two members of the family can’t get affectionate without the third getting jelous! They don’t let you do three way lovey interactions so they have to take turns and I’m tired of sending someone off for a cold shower so the other two can neck in peace.
I think my install’s got problems since I don’t see the robot on my purchase list, nor some of the other living large items. House party items are all there though.
-Doug
Can someone who’s played Livin Large for awhile (and had highly disfunctional families) tell me what’s up with the Grim Reaper walking up to the mailbox and disappearing? He’s visited my WT (White Trash) family three times without killing anyone. First was before the guinea pig virus. Second, he was coming for the crack addict wife (whose health bars were all below 5-10%, but wasn’t starving) but disappeared about 2 tiles from her bed. The 3rd time was strange, everyone was fed and healthy, but a couple days later they were having a major social crisis. In fact I’m reaching a fail-safe point where either the husband or the wife will leave the family, removing that character from the game which is equivalent to dying (and I don’t want to lose EITHER character…not to mention the family probably would not survive with only one parent.)
dublos: Well, my bachelor was being “cheered up” after their little romp, so I guess he couldn’t perform (hahahahaha) – I’m sure they didn’t want to get too detailed on the sex part because they wanted a Teen rating. But you’re right, the game is definitely slanted towards monogamy. Maybe in The Sims 2 they’ll add harems…
Well, then they shouldn’t say (page 58 of the sims manual) that polygamy’s supported and that there aren’t any “direct game consequences” from these multiple marriages.
Or maybe they ment the police won’t show up and haul your butt away for getting into a second relationship. <sigh>
As I mentioned in my e-mail, I solved my missing objects problems by backing up my user data, de-isntalling, cleaning everything up and reinstalling again, and life’s good.
Twosomes are just boring and it’s a lot easier to make family friends when you can afford to have someone home all the time.
-Doug
First of all…never believe game manuals. I suppose you could have several wives at once, just don’t let any of them see you messing around in front of them. It’s a shame that threesomes and full-blown orgies aren’t possible…
Heh, try playing a 4-kid family with a crackhead mom and a dad who swims in the pool all day and works security at night…talk about a challenge.
Oh my goodness, my bachelor fucked Chris Roomie again, and this time when he got out of bed he slapped her! I guess she wouldn’t put out…
Well, some people already know this, but the white trash family had to break up. William moved in with Michael Bachelor and actually has time to work on his career; he still visits his kids and it seems like he has more time now to spend with them than he did before. Shenene managed to clean herself up enough to get Chris Roomie to move in – she brought about $35,000 net worth and a steady income, which mostly went for her own private loft, but also added an indoor dining room, two extra bathrooms, and some new toys for the kids. Taking care of four children puts quite a damper on her social life, however. I think I’m going to send at least one kid to military school, if Jason doesn’t drown them all in the pool first. Chris bought a Vibromatic Bed so we can always add more kids.
I started a “Sopranos” family, so far it’s just Tony, Livia and Junior (I’ll add more characters by having them move in later) – I like how they turned out more or less like the TV show except I gave Livia waaayy too many Active points. Tony is playful and outgoing but also has a very sadistic mean streak; he has as many enemies as friends right now. Junior hasn’t made friends with anybody yet. I gave Livia ZERO Nice points and very low outgoing/playful points, which makes her one mean S.O.B. I had to force them to talk to make friends with each other so they could share beds. Junior & Livia were hopeless, but Tony wound up falling in love with her. Haha, figure that one out.
Also started a new character named “Neo Anderson”, who of course is a hacker…he’ll probably move in with the Sopranos very soon. I like how when the last person living in a house moves in with someone else, their old house remains furnished. I need to tweak it a bit because the “bachelor party pad” costs more than $20K to move into now and that’s gonna create a problem when I run out of lots.
If your people get the guinea pig disease, buy the lonely guinea pig picture, and have the sick ones view it for a while. That will cure them, and you don’t have to bother trying to make the cure with the potion kit. If you buy the picture early in the day and cure everyone by nightfall, you can sell the picture and get all of your money back.
I haven’t had a lot of time to play lately, unfortunately. 
I used to play it all the time.
Scylla, you’re mean. Here’s another way to get rid of all of your friends and neighbors (this is in the strategy guide): build a pool like a moat around your house. Put the ladders so that, once they’ve gotten into the pool, neighbors can only get to the house “island.” Don’t feed them. When they try to leave, they have to get into the pool, can’t get home, and starve to death. :eek:
Has anyone bothered with the NEW expansion pack? Is it worth it?
jadailey: I got the new Houseparty expansion for my birthday and its really fun. There are new themes,lots of cool new items including a bubble machine that looks very similar to a bong… I’d say its worth it. My local costco wholesale club has it for $24.99 which is a good deal.
Also,if you have all 3 SIMS games,you can get santa to come to your house. Buy a christmas tree,a small table,and a plate of cookies. You also need a fireplace. Put the tree,the cookies,and the table(cookies go on the table) near the fireplace. DO NOT LIGHT THE FIREPLACE! Then send your sim to sleep and after a few hours,saint Nick will come down your chimney and put some gifts under the tree aswell as an item(I got a stereo:). He will then eat the cookies say Ho,ho,ho! and the “beam” up out of the house. This will only work if ALL your sims are sleeping. I’m not sure,but I think it only works at night. Also make sure servo doesn’t clean up the cookies and also that they are fresh and do not have flies.
jadailey: I got the new Houseparty expansion for my birthday and its really fun. There are new themes,lots of cool new items including a bubble machine that looks very similar to a bong… I’d say its worth it. My local costco wholesale club has it for $24.99 which is a good deal.
Also,if you have all 3 SIMS games,you can get santa to come to your house. Buy a christmas tree,a small table,and a plate of cookies. You also need a fireplace. Put the tree,the cookies,and the table(cookies go on the table) near the fireplace. DO NOT LIGHT THE FIREPLACE! Then send your sim to sleep and after a few hours,saint Nick will come down your chimney and put some gifts under the tree aswell as an item(I got a stereo:). He will then eat the cookies say Ho,ho,ho! and the “beam” up out of the house. This will only work if ALL your sims are sleeping. I’m not sure,but I think it only works at night. Also make sure servo doesn’t clean up the cookies and also that they are fresh and do not have flies.
jadailey: I got the new Houseparty expansion for my birthday and its really fun. There are new themes,lots of cool new items including a bubble machine that looks very similar to a bong… I’d say its worth it. My local costco wholesale club has it for $24.99 which is a good deal.
Also,if you have all 3 SIMS games,you can get santa to come to your house. Buy a christmas tree,a small table,and a plate of cookies. You also need a fireplace. Put the tree,the cookies,and the table(cookies go on the table) near the fireplace. DO NOT LIGHT THE FIREPLACE! Then send your sim to sleep and after a few hours,saint Nick will come down your chimney and put some gifts under the tree aswell as an item(I got a stereo:). He will then eat the cookies say Ho,ho,ho! and the “beam” up out of the house. This will only work if ALL your sims are sleeping. I’m not sure,but I think it only works at night. Also make sure servo doesn’t clean up the cookies and also that they are fresh and do not have flies.
Goddamn it, that Servo robot is pissing me off. It always breaks down in the bathroom, usually blocking the door and usually with my characters stuck inside when they’re trying to greet visitors at the door. It also gets confused when I tell it to serve food (which isn’t very nourishing anyways) – I tried calling a repairman but he did nothing to help. Sheesh!!! What a lemon.
Boy, that Bella Goth is cold as ice…I wonder how Mortimer can stand her.
If you’re using the money cheat, then just buy several robots. That’s what I did, usually I wake up, the first thing I do is turn on 4 robots. Between the lot of them, they finish everything.
Consider yourself lucky! A few months ago I had a Sim die 4 times in one (Sim-time) night. The first time she died, her hubby successfully pleaded for her life. She didn’t even make it back to bed when the Reaper paid a visit again. This time she was turned into a zombie. Less than a Sim hour later, the Reaper returned and made her into a zombie again. When the Reaper came the fourth time, she was killed for good. I was upset, but apparently I was the only one – her husband was at it with the neighbor the very next day.
(N.b. I caught the whole episode in a most amusing photo album, and then later stupidly went and deleted the husband, so I guess it’s gone.)
About that maid…
Usually if you have a really big mess they won’t clean it up and will leave after a certain number of hours. So to get your house cleaned in one day, push ctl shift c ( I think thats how you get the cheat screen) and then write set_hour 12-23 (its military time and I don’t think it will do minutes) and let it go for a couple hours and then set it back again until all the chores are finished. My whole house was a mess, and after a while of setting back the hour, she cleaned everything up and I only paid her for like 3 hours.
Am I the only one that just has the original version of The Sims??
Check the UserData/PhotoAlbum directory, the jpegs are probably still there, at least I still have photos there from obsolete families. You can’t check them in-game but any graphics utility should be able to view them.
So far I’ve only plead with the Grim Reaper twice, first one was successful in a test game where I burned Bella Goth alive (didn’t save it), but for the second one, the Reaper refused to even listen to me. I finally polished off the “Human Slave” family, who are now a collection of tombstones evenly split between the Pleasant & Soprano families. (And both families are haunted now, so I’m reluctant to make more to kill off…) One of the Slaves was imprisoned by Livia Soprano a la Scylla’s Marquis de Sade method above, although I was nicer, I gave her a microwave and even a small cheap bench to sleep on. The last Slave actually got married and moved in with Chris Roomie, which I suppose itself is a fate worse than death.
I spent all day playing the Goth family for the first time, and my GOD, what an architectural nightmare of a house!! Didn’t they play-test this thing first? I can’t have more than 2 visitors at once or they’ll all form a traffic jam in the bathroom door – my “daughter” wound up pissing herself, in fact, because she couldn’t get inside. I also found that visitors get bored VERY quickly if you don’t have a TV or stereo…