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Bug? Tight pants?
 
Bizarre!

I don't know if that's a glitch or just plain awesome.

Gwill reported the same, ages ago. According to J.M. it's rather harmless. Link (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,8970.0.html)

Heh, well that is good to know. I can't believe I didn't see it earlier, then.

Aha!  One of my sims mysteriously satisfied the want to meet someone new.  I knew that there had been no strangers on the lot, but she was autonomously mopping up a puddle.  Her memories showed that she had met the NPC-penguin by mopping up its pee puddle! :D  While much hilarity ensued, I did wonder if she'd have to meet with her unfortunate demise soon for spreading dangerous gossip.  Thanks, she's spared for now.  ;D

Heh, poor penguin. Is he really that annoying? I've only seen him once in a test hood right after I installed Seasons (back when it first came out), but my main hood has the same configuration of seasons as yours does and it's finally rolling into winter so maybe I'll see him soon enough.

Actually on secret hobby lots it appears to be winter already, even when it's autumn in the actual hood, because EAxis set the default season rotation to summer, autum, winter, spring and the game seems to use this on secret lots. Since it's autumn (my third season) in the main hood this defaults to winter (the default third season) on secret hobby lots. Very annoying!

Wow, your sim and notovny have a lot in common.

So, wait...the penguin pees?

That house scares me.

Yup, although I haven't seen it happen often.

Hmm. Well, ain't it just like sims to get in a murderous rage over some bird droppings.

Well, neat sims get into a murderous rage over ANY puddle, including ones made by their (sloppy) loves-of-their-lives in the shower.  Hence Pescado's 'nopuddlerage' hack, which nerfs that silly nonsense.

I had the penguin show up in my game in fall recently.  ??? Well, at least he's not peeing in my yard (or stuck standing on the exit spot).  :)

The penguin will show up pretty much any time if you leave a fish laying around where it can get at it (usually).

.....or if you get your sim to build a snowman.

Yea -- I can take or leave the penguin coming around, but I am amused by it having a very animated conversation with a snowman.  And the fact that nothing stops the penguin from getting TO the snowman, even if it's in the back yard and the penguin has to trek through a locked gate and two locked doors to go through the house to get to it.

It does seem everyone has different experiences with the game. I have the penguin showing up regularly on lots no matter what the season. Sims seem to have frequent alien abductions when using the higher price telescope, (so many that I no longer use that telescope), and I have 2 different werewolves, glowing eyes, show up nightly on lots. There shouldn't be 2 werewolves in one neighborhood, but Lucky and Rascal are both werewolves that constantly nag at the backyard locked gate. This has been happening since playing one particular neighborhood.

Originally, these were amusing. Now, tired of cleaning up penguin puddles, tired of werewolves nagging, and tired of aborting alien pregnancies using, yes, the "Kitten Killer".

....silently closing my eyes and groaning ....

The game spawns 3 LotPs (werewolves) if you don't use a clean template, if i remember rightly, so that's normal.

What's unusual is that two werewolves are showing up regularly. A second werewolf is sometimes called to a lot, but it's uncommon. Normally, it shouldn't happen nightly. On the other hand, maybe the dogs just like your Sims.

As for the abductions, maybe an abduction hack crept into your game? Or maybe it's just sadorandom.

There's a mod by Squinge called "summonwolf" that does this. When I had it installed the pace leaders used to show up every other night or so, one earlier than the other by about an hour, but they'd both be there at the same time. It was kinda funny 'cause they didn't really like each other, either. I had never had a werewolf before when I installed that, but now I have and I'm over it. I didn't even realize I wasn't being harassed by Stinky and Sweets nightly until I read you post and thought "Hmm, that sounds familiar". Maybe you should check to see if you have a hack like this?

Wait...YOUR SIM WANTS THE PENGUIN TO DIE!?
How cruel.

Or even where it can't get at them. If I have mounted fish on my Sims' walls the penguin will come indoors and actually fly slightly to try and reach them. Very cute the first time I saw it.

I thought it was cute the first couple of times too but then the penguin became a permanent fixture on my lot, banging the gate shut at all hours of the day so I banned him. My Sims just moved to a new home and put the fish in the basement that is only accessible by elevator - I might allow him back just to see if he can ride down to talk to them.

Yes, true, but I thought only 1 was active and the other 2 spares, I have 2 that alternate in gameplay. This is first Neighborhood that this has happened in.


That's the funny thing, I could understand it if there was a mod/hack in use, but there isn't and it is only happening on one Neighborhood.  Doesn't happen on the 4 others that I have. Just at Crescent Island.



Well, if they like my Sims, I wish those dogs would stop it. I have my houses pretty much locked up with gates to back yard, so visitors of any kind can't just walk in. The werewolves dogs and other strays (thank you JM for the stop respawning strays) just come to the gate and want to get in. While the werewolf barks, it has the thought balloon of the gate with a red "x" over it. Maybe it has something to do with my getting fed up with them and deleting them with the moveobjects, and some they need to return regularly. I don't have an abduction hack, but I do know that the large telescope does increase alien abduction ability. It has never happened with the smaller, cheaper telescope, so I use that. Seemed to be more alien abductions on the beach lots than regular lots. I just noticed that with Crescent Island, the game runs differently...or maybe just some random stuff.

I can understand the penguin freguent visits as the fishing pond is near the veggie garden which is right by the fence and gate. The little bugger just keeps coming by, stopping, leaving pee, and keeps going.

Maybe all this happens because my Sims are 24 hrs Sims, I never let them sleep. I just keep using "maxmotives" to refresh their needs, wanting to excelerate gameplay. Gosh, just realized, I've really abused this game.

Pssh. Cheater. You don't need maxmotives to make them never sleep, and it doesn't really accelerate gameplay to do so.

Am I the only one thinking of that episode of Futurama with the penguins?

Thank you for pointing out my spelling error...lol. Going feeble minded here. You are right, the game does speed by when sims sleep so the amount of my time is not affected by keeping sims from sleeping. I lack the patience with the "been there, done that" type of things in the game. Too many Neighborhoods, Sim familes, and years playing the game caused me to get bored with repetition. I would guess this is the psychology behind churning out new ep's and keeping people interested in the game by providing new challenges. (goes to get dictionary)

I've seen this happen just once, and I nearly hurt myself laughing. Not because pee is particularly hilarious but because of the penguin's awareness of what he'd just done...
My sim pet the penguin, who'd previously been having a spirited debate with the snowman on the continued instability of the US stock markets, and this display of affection either pleased or displeased the penguin so much that he immediately peed himself and the sim in question. The penguin then froze and, clearly chagrined by his faux pas, he slowly and carefully backed away from the sim until he was off the lot.