Date gifts

[professorbutters]

It's the rakes that worry me, actually.

PB

[SNUGGLES]

I have been trying to find some kind of logic or pattern to date gift giving since nightlife launched.   I can't find any at all.

I normally do not get anything besides roses, even for dream dates.  Scored outings though tend to result in some kind of gift ( 60% of the time ).

My sims date all kinds of townies and college kids as well as other playable sims.  It doesn't seem to make a difference at all.

I hope someone is able to figure out the coding and what prompts the gifts.  I have many poor sims who would love some goodies. 

[Milhouse Trixibelle Saltfucker III]

Warning: The following post is more than a little bit off-topic.

Not to be mean, but: Your username is seriously "SNUGGLES"? Don't you think the all-caps is a bit unnecessary?
*Tsenatserix shields eyes
Not that my username is any better, but for the gods' collective sake, at least it's sentence case!

[DrNerd]

In my early generations, I got a Teen Townie as a Matchmaker drop.  Don't recall if it was a Dream Date or not, but my Sim definitely scored her First Kiss.  After the date was over, the Townie stuck around until midnight-ish raking leaves of his own volition, and then came back a couple of hours later with an expensive TV.  Apparently he REALLY likes doing yardwork.

For me, it's not so disturbing that they pull fishing rods, rakes, etc OUT of their pants, but that they put FISH in there and then EAT THEM.  Especially when the Sim in question is a Romance Sim with a Harem of Lovers LTW and those pants have BEEN PLACES.  Which is why I have a Fish Shop.

Edit: Tsenatserix--Love the sig!  "There's nothing more dangerous than a smart sheep!"

[SNUGGLES]

Warning: The following post is more than a little bit off-topic.

Not to be mean, but: Your username is seriously "SNUGGLES"? Don't you think the all-caps is a bit unnecessary?
*Tsenatserix shields eyes
Not that my username is any better, but for the gods' collective sake, at least it's sentence case!

Rofl!  Well this coming from someone with a username that is barely pronounceable and doesn't make sense.   *winks

[jolrei]

Well, at least SNUGGLES sounds like s/he can put a sentence together, has some sort of a sense of humour, and uses punctuation and caps properly in a sentence.

[Zazazu]

For me, it's not so disturbing that they pull fishing rods, rakes, etc OUT of their pants, but that they put FISH in there and then EAT THEM.  Especially when the Sim in question is a Romance Sim with a Harem of Lovers LTW and those pants have BEEN PLACES.  Which is why I have a Fish Shop.

Because it's better when the fish is coming out of someone else's pants? I don't know about you, but I'd rather eat fish that came out of my own buttcrack rather than the guy down the street's.

[DrNerd]

For me, it's not so disturbing that they pull fishing rods, rakes, etc OUT of their pants, but that they put FISH in there and then EAT THEM.  Especially when the Sim in question is a Romance Sim with a Harem of Lovers LTW and those pants have BEEN PLACES.  Which is why I have a Fish Shop.

Because it's better when the fish is coming out of someone else's pants? I don't know about you, but I'd rather eat fish that came out of my own buttcrack rather than the guy down the street's.

The whole point is that they sell the fish to Townies (and unlucky SimSelves who happen to wander by), rather than allow them to be eaten in-house.  It's actually sort of a brilliant business plan, given that there is no overhead.  And if playables happen to buy them, too bad for them!  "Hey!  Come buy this catfish that has been in my Skanky Romance Sim father's pants!  It's a steal at Expensive!  Delay too long going to the register?  Buy more pants-fish!" *restocks the display cases for a grand total of $0*  Finn's Fins is a Level-10 business that is pure profit, baby!

[Zaleth]

I tend to get more gifts on outings rather than dates, the stuff I have gotten is DJ Booths, Exp Telescope, Exp TVs, Spas and even got an Expresso Machine and food processor.  This is on both outings and dates.

[kiki]

For me, it's not so disturbing that they pull fishing rods, rakes, etc OUT of their pants, but that they put FISH in there and then EAT THEM.  Especially when the Sim in question is a Romance Sim with a Harem of Lovers LTW and those pants have BEEN PLACES.  Which is why I have a Fish Shop.

Because it's better when the fish is coming out of someone else's pants? I don't know about you, but I'd rather eat fish that came out of my own buttcrack rather than the guy down the street's.

I dunno what's scarier - the idea of eating fish that came from anyone's asscrack, or that I understood your logic completely...LOL. I agree on the businesses though; I make an "NPC" (that is, once I set up the business and stock it with staff, no longer play that playable) business that is like a "walmart" style thing that sells just about everything in the game possible in different sections of the store and end up with an absolute ton of items on move-ins.

[Zazazu]

I got my first car from Rivka, a townie. It absolutely made up for the fact that she was secretly a romance sim and went nutsoid after the proposal.

[professorbutters]

I got my first car from Rivka, a townie. It absolutely made up for the fact that she was secretly a romance sim and went nutsoid after the proposal.

You got a CAR?  How?  Did you just happen to have an empty driveway for her to put it on?

PB

[GayJohnScarritt]

   I'd like to add a pet-peeve of mine concerning date gifts.   For those sims who have decks where the front door is, if the deck isn't large enough to handle the gift, they'll put the roses on the deck with no problems, but when it comes to sneaking in with the gift, they'll get frustrated, turn around and leave without leaving the gift.   

[Emma]

Yeah-this is why I always try to leave at least a 3x4 space free as the size of the largest gift I have found is the karaoke.

If they sneak and ring the doorbell, just make space for them to drop the gift (I usually just pop the driveway and car temporarily in inventory) and force error on the gift-giver. They will sneak up to the doorway and then go drop the gift on the empty driveway space.

[Count Four]

Huh. I once had a sim drop the dance sphere (which is pretty big) at a house with very little frontage, having only two squares of lawn between the house and the sidewalk.  The house had no foundation, though.

I seem to get the best gifts when the date ends sometime between 7 p.m. and midnight.

[floopyboo]

It's not a portable hole. Their right butt-cheek pocket is a portal to an alternate dimension.

But that's what a portable hole is. Someone here needs to bone up on her AD&D rules.


I know I'm a little late to reply here  - sorry, life (and a weekend away) comes first.

[Emma]

If a house is on a foundation then you need a large enough porch for the gift. They won't drop near doors or stairs so that means at least 3x4 of empty decking.

[jolrei]

I'm trying to imagine a sim pulling a car out of their ass.  I must get sims out on moar dates.

[Liz]

I'm trying to imagine a sim pulling a car out of their ass.  I must get sims out on moar dates.

Date gifts are actually transported in a Bag of Holding. Much like the burglar's sack that can easily stash away a sofa and the kitchen stove, the burlap Bag of Holding can easily accommodate gifts which would otherwise be unwieldy. And as an added feature, the bag simply evaporates in a puff of red smoke. The gift appears a la TaDa!, eliminating the need for a "pull this Dance Sphere out of a medium-sized sack" animation.

[seelindarun]

If a house is on a foundation then you need a large enough porch for the gift. They won't drop near doors or stairs so that means at least 3x4 of empty decking.

This is odd.  I do remember this was a consistent problem from NL through Seasons, but since BV the dormies have been dropping their gifts more or less by the pedestrian portal.  The porch on that particular uni residence is really more of a tiny stoop.  It's only 3x1 accomodating a door and the steps off the foundation.    Maybe for once the Aspyr patch actually fixed something.

I got my first car from Rivka, a townie. It absolutely made up for the fact that she was secretly a romance sim and went nutsoid after the proposal.

You got a CAR?  How?  Did you just happen to have an empty driveway for her to put it on?

I think she meant that when the townie married in, she brought a car in her inventory, not a date gift.

[Zazazu]

I got my first car from Rivka, a townie. It absolutely made up for the fact that she was secretly a romance sim and went nutsoid after the proposal.

You got a CAR?  How?  Did you just happen to have an empty driveway for her to put it on?

PB

Sorry, I was unclear. It was in her inventory upon move-in.

It's not a portable hole. Their right butt-cheek pocket is a portal to an alternate dimension.

But that's what a portable hole is. Someone here needs to bone up on her AD&D rules.

Someone isn't that much of a dork.
*I kid, I've played NWN.*

[Skadi]

It's not a portable hole. Their right butt-cheek pocket is a portal to an alternate dimension.

But that's what a portable hole is. Someone here needs to bone up on her AD&D rules.

Hammerspace 

[Milhouse Trixibelle Saltfucker III]

Does that form a four-dimensional theoretical construct when combined with Hammertime?

[buddha pest]

Doesn't it make sense that gifts would result from outings more often than dates since outings involve more sims, so the odds of one of them dropping something off are higher?

[Emma]

Not applicable in my case, as apart from the initial unscored outing at 6-7pm on move-in to n/hood, my sims only go on outings with 1 sim. No groups. I have noticed though, if my sim becomes 'best friends' with the other sim while on the scored outing then the chance of a gift being left is very high.