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Live and learn I suppose. I thought I'd seen most of the wants but "Change into PJ's" is a new one on me. Rolled by a Romance sim and whilst I can see the logic in it I've never seen it before.
No doubt it is common as muck and I'll collect 3 zillion "You Are A  Retard" points for even asking and be relegated to answering "we want petz" posts on the BBS until I lose the will to live and/or would rather remove my nipples with a cheese-grater.
I do sometimes wonder though about wants. My machine sometimes appears to get stuck, rolling up the same wants time after time even after they have been fulfilled until the hard-drive begs for mercy.
Any useful tips to get out of wants ruts more than welcome.

I've seen "change into formal wear" before, although not specifically the PJs one.

The PJ's one is very common for pleasure sims. Usually sims with other aspirations get that want if they have been wearing PJ's often while out of bed... not 100% sure.
I suppose personality has got to do with it as well.

Avie only has Sims2 (macuser) so won't have any Pleasure sims.  Romance sims who aren't doing so well in the woohoo stakes frequently get the "change into underwear" want, but I've never seen PJs, and I've played an awful lot of Romance sims!

My bad - on my original Sims2 game I remember seeing that want just once - so it's probably not a very common want.

Well, it is now, with Pleasure sims - Maxis must have decided to revitalise it!  Also the "Jump on Couch" want - the option for sims to do it was always there for funloving sims, but not the want, but Pleasure sims roll it frequently.

Interesting.Evidently the" wants" programming anticipated the release of the expansion packs with some being uncommon in the base game but more frequently seen with the expanded aspirations of later releases.
I must say though that some wants occur very rarely in my game. For instance I have only ever seen the "Meet Aliens" want in the pre-made Curious brothers. It has never once come up in any of my own Knowledge sims and I have more of those than Mr Gates has dollars.
Bizarre.

My sims only ever want to meet aliens after they have already been abducted. It would be nice, sometimes, if they could get the want and then get abducted.

I tried for ages when I first got the always abduct telescope to get Beau Broke (knowledge in that game) to get the want, bought magazines so he could max out his interest in sci-fi, he'd even been and examined the alien spacship etc., and he too only got the want after he'd been abducted and got pregnant.  I sold the telescope before he tried it again!

And it's interesting how, once a sim gets abducted, any aliens that they know who aren't Knowledge are as afraid of abduction as normal sims!

My first knowledge sim managed to get the "get abducted" want filled (he had it locked for forever getting there and we were having a lot of trouble with ghosts which he wanted badly and just couldn't seem to see). After he got abducted, his son went running out and laughed at him, so he rolled a want to see his son get abducted. I thought that was funny :)

I had the same kind of thing with the vampires - in a fairly large (by my, not Brynne's standards) household, the two knowledge sims kept wanting to be and have other people be vampirized, and had fears of the vampires getting changed back to human. Everyone else (including the vampires :p) wanted to be human again and/or wanted all the vampires to be human again and had fears they'd be turned yet again. It was kinda tricky getting them all set so none of the fears went off and most of the wants got filled. And then the knowledge sims wanted to start over :p

Personally I've seen the pj's and underwear wants often for romance Sims and now with nightlife I see it often for pleasure Sims too.  But the magazine wants never pops-up.

I do love playing romance Sims so I normally have a lot in my hoods.

As for the alien abduction wants, I do see Sims wanting a relative to get abducted instead of themselves but that will only happen to knowledge Sims, other Sims will fear it happens to them or relatives.

My sim wanted to by a magazine yesterday. I had never seen it before...

Well, as I said, I've never seen a romance sim get the pjs want, but maybe because their in relationships anyway, or maybe because normally my romance sims are very ougoing.  Perhaps a shy romance sim wants pjs?

I must say I get sick of knowledge sims wanting their poor, timid family sim wife or husband to meet the aliens!  So completely unconcerned with their welfare!  Give me romance sims any time, they always know when it's time to feed the baby, bath the toddler etc!

I've had a couple of romance sims roll up that want.  One was pre-uni, the other was pre-nl.  It rolls up when they get home from work, particularly if they wear a uniform.  (Now that I think about it, both were in the police career). 

The first one was Bella Goth in Strangetown, who was already in the police career when she became playable.  The other was a born-in game sim in one of my own neighbourhoods.  He was career switching to earn rewards for his lot (and when I do that, I make them go all the way to the top of the career before I switch to the next career, otherwise it's just too easy for a uni graduate to get all the career rewards in a few days).

The first Sim I saw with that want was back when I only had Sims 2 basic and it was Don Lothario.  Then I notice Nina Caliente did pop it up too.  After I install Uni that want pop-up less often to be replace with the eternal cellphone/mp3/handheld want.  Now with Nightlife I started to see it pop-up back again.

The way you put it, it's hilarious :D. Me too, I get annoyed with knowledge sims rolling and spamming their want slots with 'Relative gets abducted' want after their own abduction. It stays there for days :(.

Talk about unusual wants, I've had a YA get a want to 'Streak'. I've only seen it once though.


Well, you can try having them do what you would prefer them to be doing a few times, before fulfilling the want that has been clogging up the want slots, but I guess what they would want to do still depends a lot on their aspiration. For example, I want a Family sim to have wants regarding his/her own kids, so I have them interact a few times, then fulfil a want like 'talk to so-and-so', or I want a knowledge sim to get a gain a skill point want, so I have said knowledge sim gain a skill point first, then fufill one of their wants, so on and so forth. It's worth a try :-\.

I've seen it once or twice with Pleasure Sims, but I think with Romance Sims I've only seen underwear (figures).  The alien want only comes up in my game after someone's been abducted, same with the vampire want only coming after someone's been turned.  The one I've never seen is to work in the cafeteria, I don't know if that's blocked by something such as the Uni clock or a similar mod, but I've never seen it once.  I've had one or two strange ones come up that I've never seen before, but only the once, so I can't remember what they were.

Weird things are happening in my new Pleasantview anyway.  Although I've seen someone mention it before, for the first time I saw a Sim open & shut the fridge door with the icon "Play With" (Dustin Broke, in aspiration failure).  I've also noticed that townie kids keep walking by lots during school hours, which has never happened before.  I also had one of the MATY Sims I downloaded come home from work with Mary-Sue and charm her, even though they had no lightning bolts.  I've never encountered this before without any bolts - the odd thing is that she accepted the flirt and got a memory of being unfaithful because of it.    Whether it's because the guy was Pleasure I don't know, but it still seems a bit odd.

Oh, I had the cafeteria want repeatedly in a family sim with about §10 in the bank. My sims also play on fridge doors alot. That and jumping on couches.

I've had a poor Romance sim spin that want.  In fact, the whole de la Roche family, Romance Sim Jacques, elder parents Georges (Popularity) and Martine (Family) span play an instrument for tips, freestyle for tips, hustle pool, work as barista, work in cafeteria all in the same evening (just after they'd moved into a new house and had almost zilch in the kitty!  And since they couldn't afford a musical instrument, etc., they were left with freestyling!

Wish that would happen in my game a lot. Seen it only just once with Angela Pleasant who followed Dustin home from school. I'd sold the pinball machine to do minor remodelling on the house, I guess she prefered the fridge to the little tv.

My sims usually do it if they're playful and are in the red of asparation.

The original Angela Pleasant is a pain in the a***!  Lucy Burb also does it, and goes and jumps on beds wherever she visits.  Once she grows up to teen she's ok, but she is a HORRIBLE child!

Oh yes, I remember Lucy Burb used to be addicted to bed-jumping.  Boing, boing, boing...luckily teens can't jump on beds.

Also fortunate that jumping on sofas is not autonomous! ;D

It can be in red aspiration. I've seen loads of sims jump on sofas too.

Oh, maybe it's just mine don't often get that low - or if they do, they aren't the jumping on sofas type!  It's usually fortune sim teens that I have get very low - not enough cash in the family coffers to buy three paintings at a total cost to mum and dad of about 8,000 simoleons, so they end up on the sidewalk with their begging bowl!

 I havent had any "wierd" wants but did have a weird fear on a newborn
   
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I would think that fairly normal when you're dependant for all your needs on another sim!

ZZ the baby fears the death of a neighbor's daughter a neighbor I might add that has never met the family  of the baby with the fear

Oh, well, I wasn't to know that, I can't mouse over your icons and see what it means!  I just assumed the baby feared for her own death, which would make sense!

I know thats whu=y I figured I better tell a little more detail about the oddball fear. I thought babies werent supposed to have fears

Well, normally they don't have either wants or fears that you can see.  I've never bothered to try to see them, but presumably there's a way which I haven't investigated.  Or did you use a hack of some sort to do it?

I used insim to make the baby selectable

Well, that rather explains it, since Maxis obviously had no plans for doing so, and therrefore the coding is probably not working properly!  Maybe the fear is one that another sim who knows the neighbour's daughter has, and it's just been transferred!

I have 2 Sims spinning wants to change into pjs and I believe they're both romance, a few with the underwear want. It is a nice change from the other stuff that they ALL want, but I don't know how to get it. The last one spun it as a teen and hadn't been in pjs any more than a regular sim!?
I think babies fears are screwy, I've had them fear their siblings getting D's and spin one want (shrub, tree or occasionally flower) but I have twojeffs wants mod (original only) so I suppose I am not being helpful.

I once had a sim that feared her own death through out her teen days. Maybe it was just a phase? After she went to college, she never got it again.

Many wants will only appear if the selected Sim has certain memories or tokens set.

I noticed the wear PJs want a lot with one of the new NL slob people a pleasure sim.

That poor baby must not be aware that Sim babies can't die!

hmm I will have to take a look and see if the Baby with the "fear " of  the neighbors death  had any unusual tokens at the time that wacky fear was spun. the Baby in the Picture with the  Fear is Monica Hedgeman the Daughter of Sim Phedge and Sim Bangelnuts.the baby whose death she fear is a duaghter of one of Brynne's Sims Yvonne Danforth. Yvonne is The twin Daughter of Jacob.  neither Phedge nor Bangelnuts Have ever met Jacob or Her Mother Honey. the closest they have come is having met Yvonne's Uncle via the Welcome Wagon

Well, I have a child who is the daughter of two knowledge sims, and from the first day she transitioned into toddler she's had the fear of seeing a ghost!  There are no ghosts on her lot, in fact, there are no ghosts in the entire neighbourhood!

Hmmm Monica's Parentage Consists of a Knowledge Sim (Phedge) and a Family sim (Bangelnuts)and there have been no deaths in Romance city either heck the only "ilness" has been Morning sickness and thats quite Rampant in the neighborhood with several females pregnant ;D

Well, Pandora's mum Pamela was a fully fit Sagi and never once got morning sickness!  She sailed through her pregnancy without a hitch, even though it took her 4 attempts to get pregnant in the first place!

One really nice thing about the ''change into pjs" want is that  everytime sim me gets ready for bed, she gets an aspirational boost!  :D

You can do the same with "change into undies"!  I always do that with Don when he gets that want - he has to wait until bedtime!

It's kind of fun to just randomly change into undies though. I do it all the time! In real life.  :P

i've only had 1 romance sim spin up the 'change into pyjamas' want. and that was ages ago! i've had several romance sims since, but none has rolled the want yet. i haven't seen the 'change into undies' want though. haha, though i'll understand the guy's feeling. i like walking around in my house with undies only if it were possible (parents :P)

That's the nice part of being all growed up. I can walk around in my underwear any time I please. My son gets a little embarrassed when his friends are over, though.  :-X

I think they tend to spin these wants when their aspirations are getting low!  and usually before they've actually woohoo'd!  (I've never had a romance sim who was half of a couple spin either want, they just go for the big wants every time!

I guess all you people who walk around in your undies live somewhere a bit warmer than where I do!

Brynne sounds exactly what i want to be :D!

haha! quite right. i live near the equator :)

I've seen a few wants for the PJs/undies before, also in Romance Sims and mostly when they come home from work. I have also only seen the magazine want once before, and that was when I selected a ghost to see if he still got memories of things going on on the lot.

Whoa the mac must be on an unusual wants jag because I just rolled up something else I have never had before "Drink coffee" Same Romance sim, same house.
I reckon this here computer has been overdoing the festive imbibing.

I had this male romance teen sim that rolled the want to change into undies every day after school what was funny is that if I changed him right away,he rolled a want to do his homework--not every day but enough to warrant changing him right away.  It was funny seeing him sitting on the floor doing his homework in his undies.  He was the youngest of four boys--what his brothers must of thought.  I had a baby roll the want to buy a piano and to buy a shrub--those were my weirdest.  It was the same child so he was a wealth sim when he grew up.

Pleasure sims frequently roll the "drink coffee" want, never saw it before NL though, with any other aspirations, but then, maybe mine don't really need to that often, since I have a Gnomon's flamingo on every lot!