Showing posts with label sims. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sims. Show all posts

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Fishing with bait in Sims 3

Since a game update a few months ago, it's been impossible to fish with bait in Sims 3. The Sim will walk up to the water, and the fishing action will just end without any fishing happening.

I've just discovered that, if your Sim is capable of fishing in a swimming pool (i.e. they're a child or have the childish or insane traits), they can fish with bait in the swimming pool. However, I still don't know how to make them fish with bait in regular water, or to get the people in charge of game updates to fix this problem.

Thursday, August 06, 2009

Things Sims 3 Should Invent: get a new lifetime wish after you've completed your first one

So Sim-Eve is at the top of the law enforcement career track and Sim-Roarke is the CEO of a mega-corporation. And they're nowhere near being elders. (I started them as young adults.

So now what?

Sure, they still have their day-to-day goals - Eve wants to write a book and Roarke wants to befriend Jared Frio - but the game really would be better if they had another big crazy lifetime wish completely unrelated to the first, like becoming a star athlete or something.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Anyone know the Sims 3 food icons?



One of my Sims (dude on the right) wants to make Kate Pistachio's (lady on the left) favourite meal. The internet tells me that you find out another Sim's favourite food by chatting until they start talking about food. So I had them chatting and my Sim's thought bubble showed the cartoon icon (like on the Simology page) for his own favourite food. Then Kate came back with this icon.

But I can't tell what it is!

Anyone know which food that's supposed to be the icon for?

Edit: Never mind, I figured it out by going into Create a Sim and looking at the bit where you can edit their food preferences. (Can't believe I didn't think of that right away!) Apparently that picture's supposed to be ratatouille. So, for the googlers: Kate Pistachio's favourite food is ratatouille.

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Delightful

When Sim-Eve goes to serve hot beverages, the command is "serve delightful hot beverages." When she goes to take a bubble bath, the command is "take delightful bubble bath."

When Sim-Roarke goes to do these things, the commands are "serve hot beverages" and "take bubble bath," respectively.

I wonder why Eve gets "delightful" in her commands? I can't see any characteristics she had that might make her go in for delightfulness.

I only have the one household going at the moment and don't especially want to start another just to solve the mystery of delightfulness. We'll see what kinds of commands their kids get when they grow up. (Q: You're CF, yet you're giving a canon-childless couple kids? A: Yes, it makes the game more interesting.)

Friday, June 12, 2009

Ten days in Sunset Valley

In keeping with my latest fandom, my first household in Sims 3 is Eve and Roarke (who, because the game requires a first and a last name, is named Roarke Dallas - I think they'd both be amused at that). I like the way personalities are constructed in this version - you pick five major personality traits from a long list, and then a long-term lifetime goal based on those traits. The results are remarkably spot-on - Roarke is throwing parties and schmoozing with the guests while Eve is taking the opportunity to question those guests, then getting called back into the police station, and getting bonus happy points whenever she eats pizza. I also appreciate how the goals the characters want to achieve vary nicely over time. In the original Sims you'd reach a point where you just can't achieve any more, and in Sims 2 it would get rather repetitive. But here I'm playing with the longest possible life span and I'm seeing some nice variety in both short term and long term wants. I don't think I'm going to get bored waiting for an interesting want to come up.

My only complaint is that fast forward is slow! It's downright frustrating! I don't know if that's because of my CPU speed (it's 2.8 GHZ - the game requires 2.0) but I really wish they could do something about that.

The interesting thing is this is the first Sims game that I got right on the release date, so the internet doesn't yet have answers to all my questions. For example, I simply cannot find Willow Hennessy, whom Eve needs to befriend so she'll (assuming Willow is a she) will serve as a police informant for the Developing Informants challenge. I looked around the whole town and she isn't walking around anywhere, there's no Hennessy household, there's no floating turquoise icon showing her location like there is for the people Roarke needs to befriend, I have no idea what to do - and the internet doesn't know either. Also, I've been spending a really long time on the Cook 5 Perfect Meals and Build Muscles wants - way disproportionate to the number of points I'll get for them - but I can't google up any insight on how I might expedite them.

It's also a bit frustrating not to have access to the full range of cheats (I don't even know how to do the thing where you delete a Sim and their moods and wants are reset - I've found the Make All Happy cheat, but I can't figure out where to actually go to delete and reenter) and to Sim PE. I wanted to make the Kendall household from the Margaret of Ashbury books. That's a complex household - Roger Kendall needs to be an elder and his wife Margaret needs to be a young adult, but the game won't allow an elder to marry a young adult. Roger has two sons from a previous marriage who are older than Margaret (which is what makes that household interesting to play), but you can't create older adult stepchildren in the in-game creator.

But overall, if we could just have a patch to speed up the fast forward, I will be very happy and enjoy learning the ropes along with the rest of the user community.

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Well this is a disheartening development

Sims 3 causes my computer to blue screen, just as it's about to finish loading the town.

I was expecting it to maybe be slow and frustrating because I have only the minimum RAM requirement (figured I'd get more if it was annoying), but I didn't see this coming and the internet doesn't seem to know anything about it yet.

I'm going to uninstall and reinstall, but if not I have no idea what to do.

Update: Updating video drivers fixed the problem.

Props to amazon.ca

Despite the fact that I chose supersaver shipping, my copy of Sims 3 arrived today, i.e. the official release date.

On that note, I may be incommunicado for a while.

Saturday, May 26, 2007

How to make your Sims be uncouth

If you have a male Sim who isn't too neat and isn't too shy, and he has to go to the bathroom, you can click on any bush on the property and the option "Use" will come up. If you click on Use, he'll pee on the bush!

(Yes, I only just discovered this.)