…you can turn free will off?
Almost forgot…baby Qwinka with her…nephew?
Athena has that Michael Jackson vibe going too.
Harmless,
That she does! 
Be aggressive, don’t let him wander off or he’ll do something stupid and get stuck doing it, it’s happened several times for me!
I always start by showing him around the house while my highest cooking Sim is making dinner and then see where I stand from there. (Of course, for the Dreamer family there was no cook at all, so I sold some of their ugly wheelbarrow coffee tables upstairs and bought the party table - as a side note for some reason I could not get the Headmaster to get his OWN plate from the table you must actually set a plate on a table for him.)
If you have a nice enough house (show as many rooms as you can), a bad meal and bad schmoozing won’t matter, they’ll add the few points you need. As well, a great meal by Brandi Broke and just a few attempts by her, Beau and Dustin at schmoozing him up was enough to offset their rather poor house - try chatting, it seems to help.
I know making espresso helps as well, but I’ve actually only had bad experiences with this tactic. Cassandra served the espresso, decided to drink it, got wired and then wandered off to leave the cup on a table in her bedroom all while the Headmaster was waiting at the door! 
Or, if you’re just complaining about his personality I agree - sometimes no one hits it off with him and then it’s quite nervewracking!
Lady
Did he flush? If she was in the shower and he flushed the toilet, she could have gotten scalded by hot water. I think it depends on the price of the shower … it doesn’t happen with the most expensive one.
Did not think of that. I just caught the aftermath.
I have the most expensive shower, but not the shower/tub as it takes up too much room.
All I know is she was pissed.
I’ve witnessed some sims scream at seeing another “naked” sim, so I figured this was a reversal.
They raise their hands to block the view of the nudie while turning their heads away and muttering. 
It’s funny how family sims will stop whatever they’re doing to be disgusted or embarrassed when other family members make out. Luke (the nephew in the baby pic) was making out with Maura and his Grandma Betty threw a fit.
By the way, has anyone had a sloppy sim take a shower, and notice that the “bladder” bar also starts recovering? Ewww…
My headmaster experience was interesting: He wasn’t impressed with the house, Dad’s attempts at schmoozing all fell flat, and dinner was so-so. Finally, Mom decided to start flirting, and immediately all three kids were accepted.
It just reminded me of the line from Forrest Gump: “Whew, your momma sure does love you, boy.”
How the heck do you throw a good party?!?! Every party I throw goes through the same cycle. Snoozer, Not Bad, Good time then 1:30 from the end it goes to “Disaster” and stays there this has happened through three different parties (birthday party, birthday party with different guests/more stuff, Wedding party with pretty much every party thing I could throw at it).
I read some tips that say make sure the relationship meters of the guests go up so I had one sim bring a person from 0 to 70 and the party throwing sim bring three guests up from 70 to 100, 60 to 95 and 40 to 90. How much more do I freaking need? And on the last party I even selected sims that wouldn’t fight or insult each other I only saw two negative conversations everyone else kept getting pluses.
The key is to KEEP the meters moving up. If all the releationship increases go up during the first half, and nothing happens during the second half, the score will dive.
I actually succeeded on the first try. I had my knowledge-seeking sim cook a turkey, and I didn’t even do a house tour - just schmoozed him for a while and fed him. Maybe it’s just your combination of Sims?
Same with birthday parties - invited 6 guests for my 2 birthday parties so far, both successful parties with zero effort (bought a cake and balloons, had knowledge Sim make tasty food too, and let 'em play bingo).
as far as I could tell it was constantly going up. Is there some trigger at 1:30 that I’m not meeting? I have my sims kissing butt the whole time…
I saw the funniest thing today!
I bought a garden gnome for the first time to meet a Want to buy a sculpture.
While I was watching a couple of sims chatting when I heard demonic giggling coming from somewhere.
I scrolled over and found Betty sim (who was visiting) sneaking over to the gnome, giggling and rubbing her hands and looking very much like Golem.
She then steals the gnome and leaves.
After she leaves, her son-in-law, Mitch, then autonomously goes and steals back the gnome. 
I played my Trash family all weekend. All four of their kids were taken away by social services, so they popped out another one, Darren. Then they suddenly had a fear of having more children! Jimmy Trash, Janice’s brother, had an aspiration to marry a rich sim, so he wooed Titania Summerdream and eventually married her. Only to find out the bitch lied about her finances! They barely made it past the honeymoon before it was over.
I wish not all Sims were jealous about catching their SOs in other relationships. Janice and Michael Trash both have the Romance aspiration (Janice is doing better than Michael in the love 'em and leave 'em category) so getting them both enough woohoo is a pain.
I love how not all sims are the same. Some of my sloppy sims do not pee in the shower; others do. Some care if someone else is in the bathroom with them; others do not.
I electrocuted one of my sims last night. I had clicked on the computer to have her chat online and all I got was the option to “repair.” So I’m thinking, “she’s a knowledge sim, make her fix the damn thing.” It started out fine. Then suddenly she had voltage going through her and I could see her skeleton. Then the desk started on fire and the fireman came and put it out. It burned her clothes off and she was standing there all charred in her underwear with her hair sticking straight up and her glasses askew. It was great. After a shower, she looked normal again.
Suddenly my whimpy little knowledge sim’s wants changed from “see a ghost” and “be saved by death” to “stay home from work.” Aw, poor baby! Maybe that did count as being saved from death. In all the excitement, I didn’t see her get any aspiration points, anyway.
Heh well I figured out the problem. In the birthday party I wasn’t having the kid blow out the candles in time. I figure the wedding parties had similar problems.
D’oh!
The new Halloween decorations are available at thesims2.com website!
I just downloaded them here at work, so I haven’t tried them out yet, but it says something like they are huge inflatable lawn ornaments. Can’t wait to try them out tonight.
That table bug is really getting to be a nuisance. Anyone else experiencing this?
If not, I think maybe it might have something to do with my downloads.
They stop eating and appear standing behind their chairs. Then, sometimes they pick up the perfectly good unfinished food and clean it up. 
Ok, found a thread at the Sims resource website of many people having that problem.
From what most are saying, it slowly crops up in the game.
Also, lots and Sims are disappearing.
It’s a long thread, but I’ll post back here if they announce any fixes.
I have been a hopelessly addicted Sim City fan ever since the original “Classic” game; over the years I’ve bought new computers primarily to play Sim City even though I lied to myself and said it was for “work”. Yeah, sure, right.
Anyway, I tried the original The Sims, bought a couple of expansion packs, and played for a while, but ultimately I found that I wasn’t getting anywhere and grew bored.
Then comes The Sims 2 and I swore I would never buy it since I wasn’t so wowed with the original. Then I started reading the reviews and decided I’d buy it eventually. Well, I found a decent deal online and I got it about a week ago. Needless to say, I haven’t played Sim City 4 since. The Sims 2 has taken over my life completely! I cannot believe how much improved this version is over the original. Just WOW!
I started by playing the Burb family; it took me 3 real days to kill them all off, but the sad part was, I wasn’t even trying for it The Grim Reaper got the teenager (Lucy?) before she grew up – I couldn’t stop him Then her dad died of old age, and her mother I think died of both old age and a broken heart. I feel awful about it, but I gather there’s no way to get them back. I want do-overs!! And yes, while I thought about not saving the games, when Lucy died I had been playing for about 5 hours and didn’t want to lose it all. Save, and save often. Uh-huh!
I’ve since created a brand new family; the Mannings were young marrieds and now have 2 boys, a few days (years?) apart from each other. Both parents are now Elders, though, and I hope I can at least get the older kid married so the family can carry on.
I really try to play the game without cheats, but man, 20,000 doesn’t buy a whole lot of house. Even though wifey-pooh never worked, hubby has a decent job (he’s a Business Executive) and while the house is nice, it’s certainly not overly plush in any way. After all this time, though, the family’s net worth is only like 19,870 or something. Am I doing something very wrong here? How do people ever get to move into the houses that cost 60,000 to 230,000? Unless you get one of those great chance cards and a boatload of Simoleans, I just don’t see it. Any ideas?
BTW, I didn’t realize that the number of guests that can be invited to parties are limited through the game based on the computer specs. I’m limited to 2, and then I’ve had NONE show up, which makes for a super party. NOT. I then realized you can still invite people over just by calling them up – if they are around and want to visit, they will show up and you can still have a good party even if the original folks who were invited never show. It truly is an amazing “game”.
OK, I’ve rambled enough. Can you tell I love this game???
A house full of working adults with aging turned off would do it.
Start with a bunch of singles, each in their own house. Move them up the corporate ladder, then have them move in together. They’ll get Simoleans for selling off their stuff except the house. If you have enough Sims, you’ll be able to move them into one of those big houses with no problem.