The SIMS: Hot Date

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Ok I had planned on getting TS:HD since I heard about it earlier this year? Why - because I must buy every freaking game that has the semi-word SIM on it.

Ok, not really - but I was looking forward to this one. Mainly because one of my favorite things to do when I get bored is pop in the Sims, create a character based on one of the regulars at my MB, and have them proceed to burn down their house* or something :slight_smile:

The Sims: Hot Date does not disappoint! I’m having a ball sending people downtown to check out the ladies. I’ve even had a couple of successful pseudo-dates.

I haven’t found anyone who’d go home with my character yet though, which is probably for the best. He spends all his money downtown, and his house is a freakin’ dump. :slight_smile:

Anyone else playing it?

*note: the guy depicted in that link actually types like that online. I don’t know why he does that, but it’s fun to imitate. :slight_smile:

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I bought it last night and I’m having a blast with it. I’ve not had a successful date yet, though. My characters don’t seem to share the same interests! I did have a picnic with a guy townie, but when my sim asked him if he wanted to date, he said “no” and their personality points went way down.

I’m still doing a lot of exploring. Post any groovy stuff you discover and I’ll do the same. Don’t worry- soon all the Sims freaks will be in here contributing!

Zette

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Well I finally got someone to go home with my character. Spent a good bit of Simoleans on her - nice dinner, flowers, chocolates, etc. Did a little dancin’ too. :slight_smile:

One problem: when she got to the house she immediately started stamping the cockroaches.

Anyway, my advice:

  • Keep asking “How are you?” - then watch to see if your pal needs to eat, or have fun, or whatever.

  • Always shower right before you go out. Be well rested too. The babes (or gents) downtown don’t like a filthy Sim.

  • Don’t take out your puppet on the first date. (this holds true in real life as well)

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I’ve been waiting for Hot Date, it seems to the ideal setting for my more pathological syms to pick up new victims. Unfortunately, I don’t have the time to play at the moment, so I can’t justify spending money on and addition. Meanwhile, I’ll start stocking up on poison chips and flammable objects for the time when my Sims can make a trip downtown and meet new people.

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With the demise of Simsville, I’ll pick up Hot Date…eventually. Too busy with Civ 3 now, along with some other stuff.

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Prior to the release of Metal Gear Solid 2 (came out same day as HD), I downloaded the skin for Solid Snake and put him in a Sim house.

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I need this game, i need this game, I need this game…

I’ll be whining hardcore at my family for this as a (sigh) Christmas present. (ARGH six weeks!)

But I’ll be along eventually.

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Roll on Christmas! If I don’t get Hot Date as a present this year, I’ll cry!

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It’s out? damn, the things I miss being on a road trip.

Can’t get it until after Thanksgiving, maybe I’ll tell little brother that it’s what I want for Christmas, because $ is going to be a little tight for a while.

On a side note, I hate this keyboard. I’ve retyped stuff a thousand times, because I hit the keys wrong because it’s a different size than the one I’m used to.
Carry on.

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Hooray! Mr Cazzle, as the love of my life and man of my dreams, went out and bought Hot Date for me, and said I can have it now (none of this “waiting for Christmas” crap for him!). So, I bid you all farewell - I shall not return for a while.

[sub]and the fact that I stopped here first before installing Hot Date says plenty about my addiction to the SDMB[/sub]

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A lot of people in my SIMS Live Journal are reporting problems with freezeups and BSOD with Hot Date.

I haven’t had problems - I suspect that some of the trouble is due to OS conflicts or lack of enough RAM memory. Possibly corrupt custom objects/skins that File Cop doesn’t pick up.

Anyway, I’m having a terrible time getting a date! It was never like this in real life! I go out, I meet someone, but we never have enough in common for them to want to hang out with me. Do you have to build up relationships pretty high before asking for a date?

Also, I’m thinking of making a “hotel” type of thing downtown so my sim can just quickly sleep or shower (so he/she doesn’t have to go home). I’m going to at the very least try installing a bed and a shower into an existing downtown area (for convenience).

The only date I really had was a picnic with a guy, and he got bored and left. :frowning:

I guess if it was wicked easy, it wouldn’t be much fun, right? The rejections can be fun!

I haven’t had much time to really sit down with it, but this weekend I should. Groovy Baby!

Zette

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You guys are making me want to scream! I want this game sooo bad, but 1) I have no money, having spent it all on Cirque du Soleil tickets for the 27th, and 2) I won’t have any time to play it until after Thanksgiving.

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Even with my claims of not having time to play (actually it is true), I picked up Hot Date anyway. My overwhelming first impression was that it is buggy. I was unable to make a date, and after much searching on the net found that the install left a file name phones.iff behind. This file interferes with the phones presenting the new HD dialogs, which in turn affects the face to face dialogs as they seem to be driven by the phone system. Very frustrating.

Once I got that fixed, I did some exploring. Gone are the days where you can invite someone over and make a new friend or lover in a few hours of Sim time. You need to build up your relationship a bit before even asking a Sim out, and then you need to progress very slowly. Even a Sim who has fallen for you will spurn your advances if you go to fast. After learning this, I was able to, erm, consummate a couple romances (much to the chagrin of the woman I was living in Simbiosis with – she sought me out in the morning and had a slapping fit.) I have been unable to initiate a one-nighter with a townie I didn’t already have the makings of a relationship with, things just don’t happen that fast, but I’ll keep working on it.

And that is the situation over at #7 Sim lane. Things are a bit darker up on the hill at #1. Tristan isn’t interested in dating per se. He is more excited about the prospect of depopulating the town while growing his beloved cemetery. One of the things I never liked was the need to fiddle about in build mode to liquidate a Sim, but I’ve come up with a few strategies in which Tristan can directly express his psychosis. Upon learning of the new cab service, Tristan commissioned the building an addition on the rear of his mansion. Painted black as pitch, the room is bisected by a tall iron fence. One half of the room is accessed from the main house via a steel door, the other half has no visible access whatsoever save for a curious contraption of occult-technology Tristan picked up that he refers to as a transporter phone. Both halves of the room are carpeted with a thick covering of overlapping rugs. Rugs which overlap right up to the hearth on the accessible side of the room. After meeting a Sim personality that he doesn’t quite hit it off with, Tristan rings them up and beams them over into his haunted prison (Tristan also loves ghosts.) If the unfortunate Sim doesn’t partake of the poison chips left for them, well… then he just lights a fire to warm things up.

Back in civilized (almost) society, Lola of #3 Sim lane has been having trouble achieving a promotion in her chosen profession of professional thief. Seems she couldn’t make enough friends to use as contacts to satisfy her boss. Upon learning of the cab service, she has been heading downtown to make dates. Once she is successful in making a friend, she immediately dismisses her newfound pal and seeks out another likely prospect. Lola doesn’t have time for sex right now, she’s resisting her urges until her career is established and she can afford a love tub of her very own.

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It’s so nice not to have to wait for Christmas. I told my roomie that I wanted Hot Date for my birthday…next Friday. Just in time for my day off and my parents to have gone home from Thanksgiving :slight_smile:

Oops. I hope he realizes I mean the Sims game Hot Date…

Corr, who’s not looking forward to a night possibly involving studded leather outfits and a feather duster

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Ooh, ooh. Gone Gold did their Value of the Week and Circuit City and Best Buy both have Hot Date for $19.99. Even cooler, Electronics Boutique price matches and I have a $10 rebate from them. I could get it for $10. Justify. Justify. Dammit, I really HAVE to play AvP2 and Motor City Online this week. I don’t have time for The Sims.

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throatshot, its a moral imperative at $10.

If you don’t do it, I’ll mail you the $10 (plus S&H) and you can send it to me.

Or you could just be my Secret Santa.

Whatever, someone has to get it at that price.

Buy it and just refuse to unwrap it if you don’t have the time.

You know you want to.

All the cool kids are doing it.

(What’s this about a Sims livjournal?)

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Could these damned computer game people give me a break? I haven’t conquered France and China yet! How can Piper go on a date when there’s war in Greece?

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I’m unhappy that I need to find my house party cd before I can install Hot Date (why?) It might take me all week to find it, since I can’t remember when the last time I played the sims was. Oh well, I’m off after tomorrow, so I’ll have time to locate it. Boy am I glad I waited until today to buy it, it’s $10 cheaper than it was last week!

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It seems I made a decision that was both wise and foolish when I installed Hot Date.

I decided to protect my precious citizens, homes and downloaded goodies that I’ve amassed over the last 12 months, and burn them to CD. My burner was playing up, so I copied them over to Mr Cazzle’s computer, and asked him to burn them. Then I blew away my Sims directory, and installed from scratch. I tells ya, a tear came to my eye during the Living Large install, when the preview of Simsville popped up (“Available in 2001”).

So I entered a freshly installed world, and avoided the problems others have been talking about (though I didn’t hear of them until after my install). I took a quick look around, did some downtowning, and then Mr Cazzle said to me “Oops. I deleted your files. They weren’t important, were they?”

Nooooooo!!!

12 months worth of collecting, playing and building. And not just any building. In order to have kick-ass parties, I build a neighbourhood where all ten houses had 8 people living in them. I built a shrine to Pleasantville. I had a house with 6 people, all of whom were at the top of their career ladders. My round house - gone. My floating house - gone. My block of units - gone. All my skins, wallpapers, objects - gone.

So Hot Date has been a bitter-sweet experience for me. The game is good, and I’m loving the downtown component, but I keep thinking “I know what wallpaper would look good ther… D’OH!” and “I’ll use that one skin that… OH NO!”

Mr Cazzle is so lucky he is the man of my dreams, or he’d be a dead man about now.

Oh, the new relationships are hard to get used to. I had some trouble at first, and had to put Renaud to sleep in a cot bed in the kid’s room for the first three nights, but eventually he and Esme fell in love, and now they’re happily sharing the bed. I’m still trying to get Morgan Townie to fall for Lucy Rabbit - I’ve had pink hearts from them both, and passionate kisses, but that’s as far as we’ve gone to date. Some of the new actions have made me laugh out loud, they’re so funny.