Nightmare scenarios.

[Dark Trepie]

I'm sure we've all had them in this game.  A whole series of events that all decided to happen at once and creates an environment of total chaos that you can't possibly deal with and have to resort to extreme measures out of desperation.

I had one such scenario a couple of days ago.  I guess I should've paid attention to how old all of the kids were.  It wasn't untill this friendly little reminder popped up that I realized I was going to have to deal with three birthdays in one day.



I'll admit, this was pretty tame and not nearly as nightmarish as some of the other stuff I've had to deal with in this game.  But I figured for those of you that insist on throwing birthday parites for your sim kids this is something you don't want to see.  Needless to say, these kids grew up without any fanfare.

So share some of your horror stories with us!  And let us laugh at sympathize with you.

[idtaminger]

Do you mean it's a bad scenario b/c of the parties? You do realize that all you have to do is throw one party, only w/ 3 cakes? And afterwards, each child who transitioned during the party will get a "had a great/bad party" memory.

[J. M. Pescado]

Actually, I know it will work with only one cake, as long as everyone else grows up normally as well, and possibly with no cakes.

[BlueSoup]

Hehe, I have no pictures to show with it, but on one of my previous Legacy families, I was playing the first generation founder and his wife, Marisa Bendett.

She was pregnant and a huge pain in the ass.  I could barely keep up with her through her pregnancy.  I was playing the lot one night and chatting on AIM (the people I was chatting to can attest to how frustrated this all made me, because let me tell you, it *did* translate to the screen   ) and all of a sudden, it all started happening at once...

Parrish was making himself (and not his starving pregnant wife) a toaster pastry to eat before he headed off to work.  He was in law enforcement at the time, and he was running kind of behind as well.  So, of course this is the perfect time for him to start a fire, right? 

Anyway, after a lot of time screaming about the fire, his hygiene was bottomed out even though he had a shower right before his botched breakfast attempt, which conveniently also broke the shower, his carpool was waiting outside, and he still hadn't eaten.  He's so far into the yellow, it's embarassing that there were only 2 Sims living on the lot at the time.

His wife blithely slept through all of this, of course.  I finally got him out the door and then checked on her only to find she was in the orange for hunger and still not that well-rested.  I had only managed to get her to bed a few hours earlier, and as this was only about the 5th day into a Legacy family, you can imagine how poor they were.  The bathroom was in the bedroom!

I woke her up so she could go make herself some dinner, and then she set the damn stove on fire again!  The shower is pouring water out, and even though she has high mechanical skills, I couldn't afford the time for her to repair it.  I had her call a repairman to come and fix it, and she set out to make herself some more breakfast (this time, served cereal  ).

Well, by the time all this happened, she was once again exhausted and ended up passing out on the floor halfway between the shower and bed while the repair lady worked on the shower. She was oozing the green stink fun, but I just let her sleep on the floor for a little bit before waking her up and sending her to bed again.

I had great pictures of this, and when I was writing the story, you could literally feel the frustration from me on every page. 

[kewian]

That is not unlike many of my nightmares. I have one family with a grand total of 13 kids.  So everybody is having a birhtday every o ther day and she was almost always pregnant so I have to try and throw birthdays (notice I say try) while keeping her from starving to death (failed one time) and one time it was too much for dad so he decides to go out and look out the telescope (hacked of course) so you know what that meant and by this time IM cusssing and threatening to burninate them all.  She wont  eat ...she wants to go pick a baby up and then whine about not eating..honga honga... im like ..well I told you too.. and then we get into the pass out , hungry, go to sleep cycle....this is entirely frustrating... eat a bit (not enough to satisfy)  pass out still with the threat of the grim reaper.... so...yes I know I did this to myself  but did he really have to go and get himself knocked up?

[Kyna]

Trepie I had a nightmare scenario like that this week.

This was the evening in Lilith's house:

- Lilith was aging to elder.
- Her firstborn (a teen) went out to not one, but two scored outings - she got home from the first one she'd been invited to, and got the second invite.
- Her secondborn was transitioning to teen.
- The thirdborn, a child, was trying to chat to family & friends on the phone.  I had the comands in her queue, however the commands kept dropping out because of the incoming calls for the firstborn.
- The result of her fourth pregnancy, a few days before, was twins - I'd aged one to toddler the day before, but the baby now had to transition.  (I normally age twins separately, they are never identical anyway, so I prefer to play them as siblings close in age.)  I like to train one toddler skill a day - on the day of transition it's potty, the next day it's talk, the next day it's walk.  This, combined with a few social interactions, keeps my toddlers in platinum throughout toddlerhood.  So I had a baby I wanted to transition & potty train and a toddler I wanted to teach to talk.

Fortunately I'm not into the game's birthday parties.  Particularly not with Lilith, who would she invite?  Her ex-lovers - probably not.  Their wives - possibly, a couple of those are still friendly with Lilith.  It's hard keeping track of which of her friends are mad at Lilith for her romantic activities, and which are mad at the ex-lovers and their spouses for 'cheating' on Lilith.  Any party she had would definitely have fireworks!  I figure she's had enough socialising recently - she managed to arrive as a member of nearly every scored group during her last pregnancy, along with her sister and sister's husband (who was, in fact, reponsible for that last pregnancy).  If she wasn't in the group, she was on the community lot when the group arrived.

I enjoy playing Lilith's lot.  There's always something happening in her life.  And she's part of what keeps Pleasantview from turning into a boring 'happy families' neighbourhood like some of my Legacy-style 'hoods.  Given how much fun her character adds to the game, I'll take nights like this one as part of the price of the fun.

[MsMaria]

I can't think of any nightmares at the moment: yours are all great btw, but I have often had as many as 6 sims transition in one day. Needless to say, in my game, cake is for wussies. Cake? We don't need no stinkin' cake.

So far, no one has been traumatized or had a bad grow-up memory, knock on wood.

[dusty]

My worst situation was when damned Cassandra Goth (by then married to Darren Dreamer) decided to set the stove on fire at her toddler daughter's birthday party. This set off the toddler's fear of fire, immediately putting her into aspiration failure.  Toddler refused to stay on the potty, transitioned to child automatically and promptly peed herself - to this day she is still gossiped about.  sigh.  I am a somewhat better sim controller now.

[J. M. Pescado]

My worst situation was when damned Cassandra Goth (by then married to Darren Dreamer) decided to set the stove on fire at her toddler daughter's birthday party. This set off the toddler's fear of fire, immediately putting her into aspiration failure.  Toddler refused to stay on the potty, transitioned to child automatically and promptly peed herself - to this day she is still gossiped about.  sigh.  I am a somewhat better sim controller now.

Why on Earth is the potty in the kitchen? That's disgusting. Nothing like the wafting aroma of baby poo when you're trying to eat.

And for reasons of fire safety, this is why cooking areas should always be isolated from everyone else. This way if something blows up, nobody else is affected by the fire.

[dusty]

The potty wasn't in the kitchen.  When I tried to send her from the kitchen/living room into her room and the potty she threw a tantrum and I ran out of time before the automatic age transition set in.  But yes, separating the kitchen and possible fires from the rest of the house is a good idea.

[ZiggyDoodle]

I've had the same situation and what really ticks me off is that if you transition the toddlers before three p.m., then the next day you get a nasty note that they missed school that day and they have a D+ grade.    Black humor from Maxis, I guess.

[J. M. Pescado]

The potty wasn't in the kitchen.  When I tried to send her from the kitchen/living room into her room and the potty she threw a tantrum and I ran out of time before the automatic age transition set in.  But yes, separating the kitchen and possible fires from the rest of the house is a good idea.

What was the toddler doing there? Toddler facilities should be located in the same room together so that the toddlers don't need to travel very far, which depletes their very limited fuel supply and wastes their time. In fact, my toddlers basically never leave the nursery. Incidentally, you can X out the automatic age transition if you are quick, and postpone it for an hour, and then another hour....You just gotta watch for it.

[Charamei]

Triple parties aren't so bad. I've had several in my Pepper household. They have a room just off the nursery that contains nothing but the cake-table.

Having said that, though, I only use the cake - never the party.The stupid limits on the game mean that I can only ever invite two Sims over at a time, and if it's going to be that quiet a party, then why bother? Particularly as the Peppers are approaching ten members... an extra two just wouldn't be noticed.

"Are you a relative? I don't remember you."
"I'm a guest! You invited me!"
"No I didn't!"
"Well, someone did! And why do you all look the same, anyway?"

 

As for my nightmare scenario... I recently encountered an interesting glitch which completely stopped two of my Sims from going to sleep in their bed. They had just woohooed, and she was pregnant. Once they got out of bed the only actions they could perform on it were 'Make Bed' and 'Relax'. I tried deleting the bed and re-buying it, forcing an error, etc... in the end, after she had napped on the couch for a while, I had them woohoo again. Fixed the problem, but bottomed out her energy completely. And because she hadn't been able to fill her sleep bar, her hunger had been going down, so that was orange when she finally woke up again.

[dewshine]

Well... MY cassandra goth is married to eve logan-goth, after a nasty breakup with Don.  Little alex is a teen now... Cassandra just got herself bit by a vamp, is preggers, and alex get abducted by aliens... (one of those times is regret the teen hack I'm using, because he came back to the sound of chimes)  So... I think there's a baby boom afoot in pleasentview.   

[Sagana]

These stories just remind me of my RL nightmare. <doesn't bore ya'll with long true off-topic dealeo, but it was as bad as anything the sims can come up with, really>

Ah for the life of a sim ;)

[Emma]

The worst thing that has happened to me in-game was, I had my pregnant sim cook toaster pastries for brekky-and she went into labour before removing them from the stove. They went on fire while she was stuck there moaning! She span round and had the baby, and I thought 'where is the fire engine?' I'd forgotten to put in the fire alarm! She scoots off with the baby into the yard-and the daddy (Komei Tellerman) was in front of the stove celebrating-and catches on fire! I directed my sim-woman to put down the baby and phone for the fire service, but she kept running into the kitchen to panic. The other 2 kids were in there panicking too. Komei burnt to death-and so did my sim-woman...the social worker came soon after.... I quit without saving, but I really felt like crying. I didn't save it for ages-and all they had was the eldest toddler, and she was pregnant again....all that work!
When she had the next baby, she died from starvation...I gave up on that family not long after...

[skandelouslala]

She scoots off with the baby into the yard-and the daddy (Komei Tellerman) was in front of the stove celebrating-and catches on fire!

LOL..sorry for your sim nightmare, but that would have been funny to witness in a very dark but humorous way 

[Emma]

She scoots off with the baby into the yard-and the daddy (Komei Tellerman) was in front of the stove celebrating-and catches on fire!

LOL..sorry for your sim nightmare, but that would have been funny to witness in a very dark but humorous way 

It was funny to look back on-but at the time....waaaaaa!  *giggles*

[J. M. Pescado]

You suck, and also, you need the Fire Mod, which suppresses the urge to run back into the fire to scream at it. Plus if your sims have seen enough fires, instead of spazzing on sight, they'll automatically put it out.

[vector]

You suck, and also, you need the Fire Mod, which suppresses the urge to run back into the fire to scream at it. Plus if your sims have seen enough fires, instead of spazzing on sight, they'll automatically put it out.

And does it work with NL?

Pleasesayyespleasesayyespleasesayyes (as long as you actually mean, it obviously)

[J. M. Pescado]

It does now. Go get it!

[anelca]

who the hell is irresponsible enough or even sick enough to allow their sim to have  a baby by komei tellerman
that is a nightmare scenario

[Oddysey]

Uh . . . that's not Komei Tellerman. Unless my memory's spazzing out on me, that's Trepie's self sim. They have the same hair, but that's about it.

[anelca]

Uh . . . that's not Komei Tellerman. Unless my memory's spazzing out on me, that's Trepie's self sim. They have the same hair, but that's about it.

sorry 
i forgot the quote button. i was referring to Emmas post, a few posts ago

[gali]

who the hell is irresponsible enough or even sick enough to allow their sim to have  a baby by komei tellerman
that is a nightmare scenario

I was - and  he has gorgeous kids!

I always marry Komei to my own sim, only to get these pretty kids.