Fears and Wants that don't trigger

[Emma]

'Buy a sauna' is a want, that's probably why it doesn't trigger.

[Assmitten]

No, it is the 'look through telescope' want that pleasure sims always seem to get. The stargazing want triggers just fine. I am wondering if it is because I have 'No Shoving from Look Through' installed.

I've only had that one trigger after the neighbor comes and shoves. I believe the actual name of the want is "Look at Neighbors," not "Look Through Telescope."

It is 'look at neighbors'



I'll remove the 'no shoving' hack and see if it triggers it.

I have no shoving, and my family/pleasure sim gets this want constantly. I never saw it till FT. He looks at Mortimer and goes "heh heh heh EWWW."

[Emma]

I know what it is now Assmitten-you have to unqueue power idle to fulfil the want. I like the shoving-makes for moar fight

[jolrei]

I know what it is now Assmitten-you have to unqueue power idle to fulfil the want. I like the shoving-makes for moar fight

I used to like it as well, until it always turned out to be the same sim being looked at and doing the shoving.  After that I found it got a bit old.

[Kazzandra]

I used to like it as well, until it always turned out to be the same sim being looked at and doing the shoving.  After that I found it got a bit old.

Yes, but if you design a neighbourhood with this is mind, you can have a resident psycho who has nothing but enemies! Super sweet fun!

[talysman]

I know what it is now Assmitten-you have to unqueue power idle to fulfil the want. I like the shoving-makes for moar fight

I used to like it as well, until it always turned out to be the same sim being looked at and doing the shoving.  After that I found it got a bit old.

I don't recall it always being the same sim who catches the other sim spying and runs over to start shoving... but maybe I just didn't have a whole lot of shoving going on. First sim to get pissed at a peeping tom was Gary Puckett; he may have been pissed off twice.

Latest sim to get pissed off happened to be the current Captain Hero, so I'm building it into a story about her threatening someone for discovering her secret identity.

[Emma]

I've has 2 different shovers so far-one was the first sim I moved into the neighbourhood and another was a sim frm my college town. Maybe they changed it so it is more random?

[cwykes]

'Buy a sauna' is a want, that's probably why it doesn't trigger.

It's still a game costing more than 3000.  It should work dammit - especially as it's the only item in the price range! 

[Kyna]

No, it shouldn't work, because it's not a game.

It's the same reason that buying the most expensive tv (8K simoleons) doesn't satisfy the "buy a computer" want, even though they're found in the same category.  Some categories have different types of objects within them, and you have to make sure you are buying the right type of object.

[Emma]

I've noticed the 'get a pet a job' want doesn't trigger at all if it is obtained using the PC. Even the specific ones for security, showbiz, uh, and the other one. It is fine if you use the newspaper though.

[cwykes]

No, it shouldn't work, because it's not a game.

It's the same reason that buying the most expensive tv (8K simoleons) doesn't satisfy the "buy a computer" want, even though they're found in the same category.  Some categories have different types of objects within them, and you have to make sure you are buying the right type of object.

Fair point.  I withdraw.  So that want to buy a game costing 3k can't be met except by buying something that also fills the 5k want.  Your sims get two wants satisfied by buying that bowling alley or golden flamingo.