I had a Fortune Sim (one of my favorite Sims right now) who kept spinning the want to get engaged to his girlfriend after having his first kiss with her at Uni. After graduating he spun the want to get married to her, have a wedding party, and also get married to a rich Sim, while fearing being left at the altar. After they were married he rolled up the want for a baby. Needless to say, he got all his wishes

I've NEVER seen that before in hundreds of Sims, not even Family Sims - the closest I've ever gotten is one particular Family Sim who wanted to get engaged to a lover who was already married. All the rest were generic marriage wants, except on dates - I've come to expect them to want to get married on a date if they're already in love :\

I just finished the freshman year on "normal" with my dorm of twelve (well, now thirteen *cough* that risky woohoo really IS - one try?!). Anyway, considering I haven't played the normal way since Uni came out, it's surprisingly fun. Just by letting them go to class and having them study/do papers only when they want to, which isn't ever in the case of the three Romance Sims, they've managed to achieve grades running from C to A+, which I love because otherwise everyone gets a 4.0, and as a college dropout I can say I -wish- it was that easy! They only have one class!

Otherwise, I've just been letting them go nuts with the socializing... almost all the previous relationships between them have been broken up now, and the Romance Sims especially have been causing some havoc. I have no idea what made one of them furious at another on the first day, too, since they have no romance involvement at all. I'll probably speed it up near the end, but for right now I'm enjoying it.

I just stuck twelve of them in a dorm last night... I usually send them by age a chunk at a time but I had fun with the last batch and didn't put them through on total speed to let them get to know each other, so I'll probably do that for a while until I get tired of it. Then it's complete the necessary skills, random grade, "finals in two hours", and out they go! *grin*

Yeah, the female definitely has to be the playable character. Though I've gotten around this (to make it even) and used the mind-control mirror to have the female visitor selectable while woohooing, so that there's an equal chance... I have risky woohoo going but I don't know if it still applies when the female is the visitor.

But as for the original topic... lots of people seem to have these runs of one sex or the other, apparently because the Maxis randomizer doesn't randomize completely randomly. Mine's done that several times, though not quite to that extent. The SimPeing sex-change seems to work quite nicely, though.

A friend of mine has had Sims produce children by Santa and Mrs. Crumplebottom in-game using I think the autonomous bed. No word yet on how they turn out

Anyway, awesome as usual, heh. It always bugged me how I'd be having a male Sim sponge-bathing downtown in the male-only bathroom and she'd burst in to lecture them. Reminds me of how in Sims1 I'd have a hotel downtown and she'd take a bath and proceed to wander around naked thenceforth in a medium-skinned male body, clutching her purse primly in front of her...

*puts on the Nomex suit, waits on the sidelines*

Heh, same with me - I like the possibility but the reaction, while appropriate, seems kinda disproportionate when you consider how the death of a beloved parent or child merits for some an aspiration hit and, oh, a day of crying randomly in between the usual jokes and chatting and smustling? I had a Sim in permaplat who I tested the miscarriage on (she was stuck with a pregnant body, and a real pregnancy sorted that out, but since she'd just had twins I didn't really want her to have any more kids.) She wouldn't use skill-building items for two or three days and kept waking up with nightmares... hmm, actually if the reaction to deaths was more like that, I'd personally like it too, heh. More realistic.

I'm keeping it in, though, since it creates a challenge, and the chance for more random things (especially bad things) occuring appeals to me. Another Sim had two close calls, and it definitely made me pay more attention to what was going on there instead of coasting through the time waiting to see what the kid came out looking like.

I believe that was always a feature - and normally it's just what I'm looking for, heh! But in this particular case I don't want the wife to be unfaithful and I want the 'other man' to get jealous since it would be realistic... taking it out briefly and letting the Traditional Maxis Jealousy swoop down will do it. *grin* After the rampant cheating I had going on in the early days of my game, I've swung back to letting them date whoever before marriage but most of them staying faithful afterward ('cept Romance Sims of course - and the two I had married have already ruined it with autonomous uncontrolled stuff downtown). I don't want her to randomly be making out with Former Lover Boy since he won't get jealous over her being married now!

Hope you can find one... I've had to do some clone swapping myself, once when my Sim changed her (Maxis) skin from S1 to S3 randomly and I couldn't fix it. Tried to play on but it just wasn't her, so I made up the clone, heh. Now I have a way to actually fix that kinda thing, but I don't have any old backups anymore. Guess that's life!  :\

I wouldn't touch any tokens myself, heh, after accidentally deleting half an attraction marker which made my Sim jump and be unable to use the toilet/shower. Fixed by removing the other half, but I generally leave that stuff.

I've gone through the memories many times but I just saw this squiggly bubble, but when my Sim was looking out the window... I wonder what it was about then, since they usually just "see" random objects outside...

I'm very glad for the anti-obsession hacks... too bad the go to college one won't be squished. It would make so much more sense if it came up during the middle of the teen age period! They made it hugely long anyway, so at least they could 'let' us play as teens for a while before throwing the college want at us. I usually turn the testingcheats on and shift-click fulfil the go to college want anyway, because, yeah. It rolls up the moment they're teens, the other two slots usually end up being sneak out with Sim and go out with Same Sim and then probably something else I don't want to fulfil. So, yeah. Since they're usually gonna go anyway, they get the points for going early and I don't have to deal with the want.

I wondered the same thing! I miss those commercials! I thought installing Uni was what messed it up, but if it's still like that in the unpatched original...

I'd love to have them back again, but it is strange how they just disappeared.

Might want to try deleting the thumbnails? Then the game ought to regnerate them properly. When I was having my 'hair textures replacing the scalp skin' problem, I'd regnerated thumbnails and it was showing the 'bald' skin in the preview with the hair texture screwup. So, it regnerates it from what exists...

This thread explained it for me, and so far I've had no problems whatsoever categorizing away:

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=2119.0

With InTeen, there is - in fact I think unless you have the flavor pak installed you have to have your adult Sims go steady too before you can propose-engagement. You can also break up at any time, but I think it's only if you've had them go steady/get engaged/married first... not sure.

You can click next on the preview in CI to see all the texture files in the package. When I was sorting my collection I put all the ones that weren't all one color plus elder in a seperate folder. Oftentimes, especially when there's a new mesh that's only for adult, the child/teen hair won't be recolored to even match the adult hair, so you'll find all sorts of colors in there and even with the name in the file it's not exactly trustable. I have quite a few filenames in my red hair folder that say blonde or brown...

Ahh, this was pre-romance-mod-update, though, heh. I'm tempted to see what happens if I do the same thing again with some different Sims, though. Maybe non-related this time, since relatives tend to get furious on someone else's behalf now. Except when they're furious at them. *grin*

Heh, both the nephew and uncle are Knowledge Sims. The Romance Sim's only role was to be whistled at while walking by... and now the uncle hates her! Stupid Sims.

The romance mod as found in the director's cut is updated for NL - thankfully! However, I really agree with this - something is preventing one of my Sims' old loves from getting jealous when she kisses her husband in front of him, and since she's Family and he's Popularity and not Romance or anything, that's something that should happen. Guess I have to try to remember to take the mods out briefly...

It takes some extra work, but I've found this to be very useful, as suggested in another thread. In SimPe paste the name of the package into the 'Text List' section of the package itself; it usually has the recolorer's name in it. If there isn't a text list you can create a string - and it's useful in that if there isn't a text list section in the package at all, the package likely isn't even working in-game anyway. It's pretty easy when you just copy-paste the file name from the Open dialog in SimPe, when you go to open the file.

When you do this, you can then mouseover the hair in Bodyshop or CAS and see exactly what file it is, so when you switch between the ages you can see that it's blonde for the kids' hair and then suddenly jumps to black in the custom mesh, etc...

(Thanks to whoever suggested this in a previous thread)

I had a teen downtown wolf whistle at a Romance Sim just to set his preference and was thusly "caught cheating" by his uncle, who had a crush on her. -100/-100 and he wanted to see his nephew's ghost over a whistle - and he's a Sim who's woohooed every Romance Sim I have! I fixed the memories, but left the relationship bad and explained it as rivalry between two heirs to the Neighborhood Tyrant's dynasty (which they are). I was so glad when the romancemod was updated for NL...

That's what I did, and it seems to work okay for me. It appears to mess up things if you're trying to clone and recolor those hairstyles, but since I'm not, I'm fine with it.

Gah, I haven't seen the fear of getting caught cheating either. And, especially in the early days of my 'hood, they sure should have! >< Perhaps I'll roll this up now that I have some generations of Sims with more extreme/varied personalities than the ones I started out with in CAS...

Heh, yeah. I used to have some custom food but I took it out for some reason after NL... so I'm pretty sick of their options and like to give them the new stuff in restauraunts, even if they don't 'want' it.

Well, the random calls you get for outings and the like always want you to go downtown, but I suppose you can also pick regular community lots when you choose where to go (I never do because mine are the boring comm. lots stolen from Pleasantview - I hate making comm. lots) so it probably doesn't matter there.