Setting sexual preferences

[simmiecal]

For the MATYhood, I have gone into SimPE and set the attractiveness to specific genders for sims that expressed a specific preference in their thread. Do I still have to have the sim flirt with the correct gender in order to set the preference?

[Torkle]

Nope - You should be good to go.

[ZephyrZodiac]

But if he's romance it may not stop him wishing and wanting!  And it certainly doesn't stop family sims of the non-preferred sex swooning over him and following him home from work and stalking him on the phone.........

[Brynne]

ZZ, your game has a mind of its own, I think LOL

[ZephyrZodiac]

No, just Cassandra Goth!  She'll chase anything in trousers!

[Brynne]

lol!
She's my sister in law. 

[ZephyrZodiac]

She's nobody's sister-in-law in my game!  Alexander has only ever got as far as Uni, he's a Peter Pan living in a Greek House forever!  And she's always a cheating wife, and Not because I organise it!  I certainly didn't tell her to bring Daniel Pleasant home from work and leap into his arms!  She had poor Beau in really desperate straits, he was so upset!

And she followed my sim in another version home from work and leapt on him in front of his long-term partner and they nearly broke up!  THEN she brought him home to her house and started to kiss him again in front of her husband and little daughter! who was very upset indeed!  Now, what caring mother would do that?

[Brynne]

That Cassandra! What a hoot she is. Our family reunions are always fun! 

[ZephyrZodiac]

She's a trollop!  I don't play vampires, but I wonder.......

[Brynne]

That would be fun! I don't play them either, but...heh heh.
Just kidding. I haven't played her enough to know what kind of personality she has in my game. She seems nice enough to her half-siblings, though.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Oh, I thought she was nice enough at first, far too nice, I thought, for Don, which is why, since I played the Broke house much more than the goth one, she ended up the same age as Beau and they got married.  And then she cheats on him with her best friend's husband!

Maybe I should have let her have Daniel!

[Brynne]

Yeah! I have almost as much fun tormenting Daniel as I do Don. 

I hardly ever play the Goth household, believe it or not. Even though Bella is the mother of many of my sims, she was always teleported over. I didn't see the infamous wedding clip until Justin was a teen. I went to the Goth house, invited Justin and Joe as the wedding guests, and they got to see Cassandra get stood up at the altar. I haven't been back to the Goth house, since.

[ZephyrZodiac]

I usually get her to break up, it's easier than having her go over to his house to be broken up with!  But I hate playing the Goth house, it's so unplayable!  And so dark, I spend hours just putting some decent lighting in!

[Brynne]

Yeah, I noticed that, too. And the gardening is a nightmare!

[ZephyrZodiac]

I wonder who they get to build their houses for them?  I think my cat could do better!

[Brynne]

Hell, I think I could do better!

I totally cannot build a decent looking house. Like Bangelnuts says, they look like boxes with roofs. 

[ZephyrZodiac]

My neighbours' twelve year old has that problem - plus he usually makes them nearly as big as the lot!  But really, it's not hard, and boxes basically work better than all these complicated designs that people keep coming up with!   If you learn how to build bays, if makes all the difference to how a box looks!  I'm in the process at present of sorting out a lot of houses from my game and doing a vanilla install to redecorate them etc., so if you like I could email you some of the better ones.  Be nice to have someone else test them for me!

[Brynne]

Sure, that would be cool!

I'm really not that bad with houses. I do know how to do the bay windows and a few other tricks. It's just not where my creative talents lie. I'm more of a sim builder. 

[ZephyrZodiac]

I like doing both, I have to be in the right mood though!  What I like doing best, though, is building unfinished houses that have potential and odd as in peculiar) houses!

I'll let you know when I've got some interesting ones!

[Brynne]

Awesome, ZZ!

My worst ever house was called "The Sand Lot". JM saw a pic and thought it was an email challenge lot. Uh, nope. Just me too lazy to bother with minor details like walls and flooring.

[ZephyrZodiac]

I did something similar with some very poor students!  Just a pity the recliners don't match up to the Sims1 ones - if I made a big family then, I used to put a cheap recliner for each sim in front of the tv.  When the kids were tired at around 10pm they napped, parents watched tv then they napped (as kids slept through tv in those innocent and halcyon days!).  And they all woke up at 6am without an alarm clock!

I have one house I packaged up for SandySimmer over at simFreaks, it's quite large with an interesting staircase.  Updated for NL and works fine in the game, didn't crash when I tried to load it in my vanilla game, so presumably I didn't use any terrain paints in it (now I know the dangers I never do!.  I've got pics as well, but since I'm hopeless at uploading and whenever I've been to Photobucket or anywhere like that they are full and direct me elsewhere, and I just get confused!

[gali]

Brynne, just rememberred to ask you - don't you sent your teens to college?

[ZephyrZodiac]

I suspect Brynne has them all in teen jobs as soon as possible and then, like human teenagers, they just want to leave school and get a job!

[Brynne]

No, they actually do go to college, eventually. Remember, Justin was a teenager for 4 months real time, and he went to Uni late last August! So, yeah, they'll go to college. When I'm ready. 

[ZephyrZodiac]

Just wish it was quicker moving between the two hoods!  Once I'm there I tend to stay and play a fair number of lots for a couple of semesters before I return!