Family Relations

[ZephyrZodiac]

ROFL   But sims still can't buy flowers and give them to their loved one!  Or a toy for the kids as a gift!

[neriana]

ROFL   But sims still can't buy flowers and give them to their loved one!  Or a toy for the kids as a gift!

Well, they do bring flowers after dates. And big-screen TVs. They also want to buy toys for their children, especially family Sims.

A lot of this is really roleplaying. Sims only do what we make them do, after all.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Yes, but it was the whole point, really, in sims1, of going Downtown, when you had fridges that didn't need restocking, buying gifts was the only reason for going to the shops!

[RainbowTigress]

I doubt Smart-serve actually charges the fridge appropriately for the amount of food taken. Plus the entire "inventory" thing obviously doubles as "vacuum freeze". I suppose you could buy a freezercase and use that, if you want to go into buy mode to have to get it every time.

I think Dizzy attempted to adjust the fridge according to how many servings were prepared.  One thing I miss about it is that it would prevent sims from just "Having" a meal and instead "serve" a meal, and it would lock the fridge for one hour to autonomous attempts by other sims to have a meal, although you could still order them to do so if you wanted.  It would be nice if someone would update SmartServe for OFB.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Maybe they will, although unless you want the make many option, it works perfectly well, so it's only a matter of adding some new coding, not updating what's already there, at least, that's how it seems to me - it's not broken, just doesn't cover all the new options.

[RainbowTigress]

Semantics

[ZephyrZodiac]

Are you putting your tongue out at me?

[RainbowTigress]

Are you rolling your eyes at me?

[ZephyrZodiac]

No, just rolling my eyes!

[RainbowTigress]

Well, I was just sticking out my tongue!

[ZephyrZodiac]

More semantics.......

[kacidama]

Have you seen Carrigon's new Toy oven?  Kids can fix anything in there now.

I always thought it stupid that kids weren't allowed to fix themselves a bowl of cereal.  Or that cereal and grilled cheese weren't available as options at all times.  (Now they are thanks to the food-replicator  )

ROFL   But sims still can't buy flowers and give them to their loved one!  Or a toy for the kids as a gift!

That is one thing I miss from TS1 too - and wouldn't it be fun for a sim to go to the shop to choose and buy an engagement ring (or other jewellery) instead of producing the same solitaire for males or females.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Yes, that diamond sparkly thing isn't exactly suitable if it's the male sim that's being proposed to - and since when did men wear an engagement ring, no matter which of them does the asking?  The woman might suggest it, they go and buy a ring, and then the man probably either puts it on her finger in the shop, or keeps it until they get home or to a restaurant, and then does the whole down on knees bit, just to set the record straight!

[Jelenedra]

I wonder if there is a way to override the ring the sims use for proposing? A plain band would work for both sexes.

Or, like mine, it could be two gold bands around a white gold band for TRIPLE MARRIAGE ACTION!

I love my wedding ring.....

[ZephyrZodiac]

Even a deeper stone like an emerald or a ruby in a heavy antique setting like a cage could work for both.

[Jelenedra]

Yeah, something that looks all family heirloom-ish.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Especially good for Goths!

[Ellatrue]

In this country it isn't so strange for men to wear engagement rings or "promise" rings... but they are usually very plain. I think my dad did something like that for his second marriage.

[vilia]

I'll bite...which country?

[Jelenedra]

It's not so strange here in the States, either. I mean, I've seen lots of guys wear "Promise rings" and the like. Not a big custom, but still not all that strange.

[Magicmoon]

I always thought it stupid that kids weren't allowed to fix themselves a bowl of cereal.  Or that cereal and grilled cheese weren't available as options at all times.  (Now they are thanks to the food-replicator 

Also, Squinge has a hack that allows any food at any time. It just changes the menu on the fridge so all the foods show up. I got it because I was tired of my sim having a want to learn how to prepare a certain food, then finding out I couldn't do it because it was the wrong time of day to make that particular food. I like the replicator, but it doesn't satisfy the "learn to cook (item) want, nor does it advance your cooking skills.

http://www.insimenator.net/showthread.php?t=8464

The replicator is great for campus lots. Eliminates the need for the dorm cook. And you can always cook normally if you want for skilling and fulfilling wants.

Also, my kids can cook food on regular appliances. I'm trying to remember why. I think it might be Christianlov's NPC & Nanny mod that allows this, but not 100% sure.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Dizzy's smart-serve allows kids to cook, but they don't waste time putting the meals on the table - it's help-yourself time!

[Magicmoon]

Dizzy's smart-serve allows kids to cook, but they don't waste time putting the meals on the table - it's help-yourself time!

Ok. That's the one I have. I like the serve yourself that sims used to use better anyway. I hate to see a starving pregnant sim run around to place 8 plates on the table while she gets ready to pass out! And if you cancel the action they always put the plate on the floor even if a cabinet is close by. How irritating.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Short answer is tell the pregnant sim to cook for themselves, and let someone else cook for the family and guests!  Or if she's a single mum tell one of the kids to phone for pizza - but if you have the hack, then they can cook - although I don't let mine actually cook with the stove, but make them study cooking until they can make chef salad!

[J. M. Pescado]

Also, Squinge has a hack that allows any food at any time. It just changes the menu on the fridge so all the foods show up. I got it because I was tired of my sim having a want to learn how to prepare a certain food, then finding out I couldn't do it because it was the wrong time of day to make that particular food.

Dizzy had one that did that also, it may still be on MTS2. That's the version I use (which is why I never made a new one). Squinge's version may or may not be pretty much the same thing.