The man of her dreams...

[Witches]

Really? Thanks! I'll have to check it out once I install NL. Does it work with NL?

I'm waiting to install any hacks until I've got everything up and running.

[baratron]

Supposedly, it's unnecessary with NL because the bug has been fixed. So you can install the fix for now, but should remove it when you get NL.

I haven't played Sim State, which is why I didn't know any of your characters. I have Academie Le Tour attached to Strangetown, and La Fiesta Tech attached to Pleasantview. I figured that sims would want to go to college in a different place than where they normally live .

[Witches]

Makes sense to me! I think Sim State is a good blend of the two. It seems to have more stuff to do than Fiesta and allows Greek houses, which Le Tour does not. But I like Le Tour's community lots the best ... I like variety so I had all three colleges attached to my old neighborhood and Le Tour and Sim State attached to my new one.

I'm so psyched! I've finally got a computer that can play NL. It's sitting next to me in my office right now. I just have to wait for work to be over so I can go home and get it all set up. Woo hooo!!!

I think I feel a cold coming on. 

[cabelle]

Makes sense to me! I think Sim State is a good blend of the two. It seems to have more stuff to do than Fiesta and allows Greek houses, which Le Tour does not. But I like Le Tour's community lots the best ... I like variety so I had all three colleges attached to my old neighborhood and Le Tour and Sim State attached to my new one.

I'm so psyched! I've finally got a computer that can play NL. It's sitting next to me in my office right now. I just have to wait for work to be over so I can go home and get it all set up. Woo hooo!!!

I think I feel a cold coming on. 

I may have misunderstood what you said but you can have Greek houses at Le Tour, you just have to make them yourself. I like to use the victorian house for a sorority and that three story "craftsman" style home for a fraternity. Just make sure to name the lot for the fraternity/sorority (like Oresha Cham House) when you place it, otherwise you'll have a Greek house named "75 Pine Street" or something like that. Move your students in, have one of them select "apply for charter" on the phone and for a small fee they're a Greek house.

One of the things I especially like about NL is the new feature with the lot bin. I've placed all of my empty houses and community lots in it, when I put them back in the neighborhood a handy duplicate remains in the bin. Very nice for my custom university (Salem Technological Institute) in my own neighborhood (Three Sisters Island). I placed copies (renamed them too) of some of the Sim State community stores in Pleasantview because I liked the way they looked better than the community lots that came with Pleasantview. They had more of the "old town Main Street" I was looking for.

[Witches]

I know Pescado fixed this for Uni, but doesn't creating your own greek house cause your sims to lose all their memories?

At least that's what I've heard.

Now that I have NL I think I'll wait on creating a greek house. Especially when there are some in the other campuses already.

Guess you could just call me chicken. 

[gynarchy]

I had a Legacy Sim start a Greek house a couple of days ago and all his memories remained intact, as did his daughters' memories when they joined later. The only Sims to be brainwashed when joining were the dormies I invited to hold down the fort when my Sims moved back home, but that's to be expected. The only hacks I have in my game right now are Crammyboy's portal fixes and TJ's no personal electronics wants. I had completely forgotten about that bug but it looks fixed to me.

[KnightSkyKyte]

Getting slightly back to the earlier topic...

I have 2 couples living in the same house; one are married, the other engaged. Only everyone has 3 bolts for one of the engaged guys! They are all family sims, and although one of the married couple sims and one of the engaged Sims are always together, and one is always swooning over the other really, really obviously, nobody has done any autonomous flirting.

The only time I ever saw autonomous flirting (when I hadn't already established the relationship), was in Uni on campus when Puck Summerdream wanted to kiss Juliette up arm. She was busy, so it dropped out of his queue, but, it was there. Once. Neither were attached to any other sim.

So yes, I'm particularly interested in the autonomous flirting. Just recently, I went into SimPE to set a gender preference for a number of townies - I hope this will enable autonomous flirting from them, since they are all unattached.

[MissDoh]

I had a Legacy Sim start a Greek house a couple of days ago and all his memories remained intact, as did his daughters' memories when they joined later. The only Sims to be brainwashed when joining were the dormies I invited to hold down the fort when my Sims moved back home, but that's to be expected. The only hacks I have in my game right now are Crammyboy's portal fixes and TJ's no personal electronics wants. I had completely forgotten about that bug but it looks fixed to me.

Thanks, it is always good to read a confirmation about a fix that is mention to be fix by Maxis and it also good to know it did not seem to create other weird problems.

[Brynne]

I've had a couple instances of autonomous flirting, but they all had 3 bolts for each other to start. I think that helps. I have 2 teen brothers in the game, and I was introducing them to a couple of teen females that I had created especially for them. Jason was paired up with Robin, and they had 3 bolts a piece. I just had Jason start chatting with Robin, then I moved to his brother Jeremiah(who was standing nearby) and got him talking to Julianna, the girl I made for him. While I was having him socialise with Julianna, I heard the harps play and Jason and Robin were holding hands, giving each other backrubs, etc. I did not initiate anything romantic, there. All I did was have them chat. I thought that was damn cool. All sexual preferences were set ahead of time, there.

Just recently, I had another of my teen sims, who had no sexual preference, fall in love on his own. I wanted to see which gender he would choose, so I purposely did not set his preference for him. I summoned Orlando Centowski (whom I renamed Robert) and set his preference to males, all the way. I also had a female sim on the lot. Both Orlando and the female sim had turn ons and turn offs that were compatible with Mitchell's. Ditto for zodialogical signs, and they were all family sims. I wanted to have Mitchell "scope room" to see who he chose, but "scope room" was not available for him. I'm guessing for teens that doesn't show until a preference has been made? I have no clue. But I had Robert ask Mitchell if he "liked what he sees", and Mitchell liked his custom hair. Before I could even have the girl do the same, Robert was sweet talking Mitchell, and Mitchell wasn't minding a bit. Their scores went up really fast, and they're a couple now. Poor girl didn't have a chance.

[MissDoh]

Like any Sim, the "scope room" option won't appear until the gender preference is set, it does not make a difference if it is a teen, adult or elder.

I wonder what would have happen if you would have made the girl do the same thing, Mitchell would have probably fallen in love her instead of Orlando, I suspect it set the gender preference to male when you did that but cannot confirm it.

[Brynne]

Well, I was checking his preference as it happened, and the "do you like what you see" action had no impact on his score. All the subsequent flirting did.
I could have sworn I've had sims be able to scope the room before choosing a preference. At least the adults. Apparently not, though. It does make more sense to me that the option would not show up until their preference has gone in one direction or the other. Or both.

[MissDoh]

Well I think the option "do you like you see" set crush upon Sim so it could have set up the gender preferences.

[baratron]

Bah, it's discrimination against bisexuals, that's what I say . My gender preference is set slap bang in the middle - I like girly boys and boyish girls .

I say to this setting of gender preference.

Yes, of course I'm not 100% serious, and I do realise why it's being done this way. Just being facetious for the hell of it.