@Gednaa and @wahini2024 , that sounds awful! So sad to have the parents refuse to hug their toddler! 😭
I hope this gets fixed soon! 🤞
@Gednaa and @SheriGR , In the Sims 2 there used to be Romance Sims (Sims who are afraid of commitment and want multiple partners and to woohoo in public locations) The game was set up for a wedding between a young adult Cassandra Goth (who I think was a Family Sim) and Don Lothario (a Romance Sim). Well Don panicked and left poor Cassandra at the alter, so I punished him by getting him married to a Sim I made named Barbara. Since Sims in TS2 had both Wants and Fears, one of his fears was to get married, so that really did punish him!😅 Despite this he turned out to be a good father! 😲🤣 So he had a lot of wants to be with his children and have them grow up well and get good grades!🥰 In the end he ended up happy, despite the time his pregnant wife Barbara went out to a public venue and a Vampire showed up and bit her, turning her into a Vampire!!!😱🙃 Not what I intended! 😅
LOL all my vampires subsist on plasma packs, marry, and have children. They're just normal Sims who don't age or die, skill faster, and have unusual dietary requirements. 😉
Okay, I'm playing Vlad in one save, LOL. But I gave him an epic makeover, a wife, twin children, and he's now a Proper Celebrity. He mostly drinks plasma packs but I figured that if the Paparazzi were a nuisance I might let him bite them. LOL. I just wanted to see if I could play Vlad in Vlad's house with my usual play style. (I'm also not letting them have jobs; they're making all their money from songwriting, painting, gardening, and writing books, so Vlad's career panel says "stay at home Dad." Vlad has epic bills, btw.) Vlad is a surprisingly good Dad when I'm playing him.
That said, yes, he's the exception and generally we do things like live on Sulani and send fish poachers away, clean up the environment, save randos with death flowers, etc. When we were doing Friend of the Animals we went through a phase where we rescued stray pets, nursed them back to health, and adopted them out. :D
(My friend has done the adopt strays thing as well and has redecorated Vlad's house to be filled with cat trees, litterboxes, etc., and Vlad lives with many kitties as a Crazy Cat Man in her game.)
Also, semi-recently my Sim married Venessa Jeong, only MCCC had her have 3 children with 3 different men and I forgot to check that before they got engaged. Oops. They had 7 Sims in the Jang's 2 bedroom Hakim House apartment (Venessa, her 3 daughters, her ex-husband, his sister, and his niece), and I only had slots for 2 more in her fiancee's house. So I set up Venessa with her 3 daughters in a gallery house in Newcrest, played them until the two eldest were young adult, and then moved her and her youngest in with my Sim until her youngest aged up to YA, and then she moved back in with her sisters. I've left the 3 sisters marked played and some unrelated Sims of mine are now dating some of them. 😉 (All this because I didn't want Venessa to abandon her children!)
Also, my Super Sim has now done every aspiration except Public Enemy, because I just can't. (She has the good trait, the Compassionate reward trait, and I'm a wimp. Also she's a 5 star celebrity with a Pristine Reputation and I don't want her to screw it up.)
@Gednaa , glad my story entertained you!
@xochiquetzl_xkvn , I have a hard time completing the Public Enemy Aspiration! It just isn't how I like to play. (I usually like my Sims to get along, unless it is for a story, and that is usually just with certain other Sims) I might try to do it one day, but don't hold your breath! 😅
@PugLove888 Yeah, I did do part of the Public Enemy aspiration in a different save because I was playing the Villareals for Reasons--I made Jacques my "villain" and had him also go to Strangerville and befriend the Mother. But I didn't finish it. I don't really enjoy fights, etc. (I also made Max an A student!)
I usually have no problem with doing Master of Mischief because you can do all the "perform mean or mischievous actions" with funny mischief that other Sims like. TBH the hardest part is getting people to dislike my Sim! because people actually like mischief. (Except Nancy Landgraab, so, alas, poor Nancy! she often ends up the brunt whenever I do that aspiration.) I believe I had my Super Sim and Jacques send people spam chain letters to get people to dislike them. 😉 And then Super went around and charmed them into liking her again, lol.
@PugLove888 @xochiquetzl_xkvn My current sim fired one of his employees (vet) and suddenly now has a 'bad reputation' 😱!! The guy looked like an oompa-loompa. I wonder if he had some hidden trait or something that set this off, as I have never had this after firing an employee. 😬 😂
@SheriGR Yikes! My vet fired someone and that didn't happen, but, well.
Vet clinic: opens
Employee vet: spawns in front of clinic
Employee vet: starts to run away from the clinic
Me: what?
Employee vet: keeps running
Employee vet: vanishes never to return
We'd been paying for training for her, etc., and I thought she wasn't doing actual work. She spent all her time playing with my Sim's pets and cowplant. After the running away incident her satisfaction went to "unhappy," so I said, "Yeah, me too" and fired her. My Sim didn't take a reputation hit but her relationship with the Sim in question did.
@xochiquetzl_xkvn Lol! Yes, I have definitely fired other vets, retail employees, and restaurant employees. I have fired other vets on this lot also, and this is the first time this happened. I think it may be something weird about the oopma-loompa guy. I think it was a good decision. 😂
@SheriGR I wish you had a picture of this Oompa Loompa Sim! 🤣
And I don't blame you or @xochiquetzl_xkvn for firing either employee! 😅
I haven't played retail or a owned business in a while, so I have not weird employee stories to share. 😞
But I do much prefer the mischief over the outright mean/evil actions! Like you said, Mischief is often liked by other Sims, especially the interaction where you give the other Sim false confidence! 😉
