A New House Full of Rodents?

I have seen it. There is a 20% chance for the scenario in unmodded game, I think; and according to this mod they are specific to certain lots. I tried in Appaloosa Plains, on the lot Sunflower Shack at 1936 Beach Boulevard. There is a jolly notification like in the other scenarios, about squatters leaving trash behind - and my sim could shoo rats as well as appearantly get them underneath their clothes, unseen by me though; throw away trash and collect the various fresh harvestables laying around; the sort depending on the installed content one have I assume, since I got a banana, pumpkin, carrots, herbs as well as base game ones.

@Auroraskies - I had no idea that the rats were part of the house occupants/squatters moving-in-challenge! One of my sims got that particular challenge, (I posted about it in this thread august 20) but I didn't see any rats at all! I took a couple of screenshots, (see below) and there are no rats on any of them, it's really strange. It must be a bit buggy, or something.





@mw1525 - Now I've finally seen the "rodent residents", with the help from Auroraskies, and the info and advice on the page at Mod The Sims. The address is 2200 Pinochle Point in Sunset Valley. Here are a few screenshots from the occasion:

@Pary - Thanks for mentioning there is a mod in existence to increase the chances of the 'starter challenges'.

@Auroraskies - Thanks for taking the time to find and link to that mod. However, the idea of having rats climb underneath my Sims clothing is not an appealing one ;)!

@SuzyCue72 - Thanks so much for the screenshots! While I find the move in challenges fun to do, I wouldn't want them all the time (option 4). Just look at the size of those critters :D!

I hadn't seen this for so long that I forgot it was a thing! Of course yesterday I started a new game in Lucky Palms and chose the tiny house on the big lot (by the community garden lot). As soon as I hit play a notification came that it had some plumbing issues! Everything that could be spewing water was. I chose to play it that way to give my guy some handiness experience, but boy it took him forever to repair the shower. By then he had neighbors lining up to visit, as well as a repairwoman who told him she would be happy to fix the rest - "for free, of course"! I happily accepted her kind offer and went to meet the people who were still hanging around. Welcome to the neighborhood, Mac!!

@mw1525 - I'm glad you liked the screenshots. :)

I don't use the MTS mod, I don't think it's necessary since these events occur fairly often anyway.

The rats not only show themselves, they make sounds too, little high pitched squeaks, and you can also hear the pitter-patter of their tiny feet, haha. They seem to like running in under the kitchen appliances and countertops, and one of them even ran up the wall... :o

You can tell your sims to "shoo the rats", and then they stomp their feet and swear and grumble. So far I haven't seen anyone get rats inside their clothes, maybe that doesn't happen everytime, or not at all, I don't know, only time will tell.

I just love that cute little tune that always plays when one of these scenarios take place. It sounds so comforting and encouraging, as if to say "there, there, don't you worry, it'll be okay, everything that's wrong with your house/lot is fixable" :)

Yeah, sorry about my little joke, the sims are rather attached to their clothes aren't they; this is what I meant by getting overrun by rats :)

https://i.imgur.com/3pjRsSV.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/RdvWvDS.jpg

"Squeemotastic;c-17216105" wrote:
I hadn't seen this for so long that I forgot it was a thing! Of course yesterday I started a new game in Lucky Palms and chose the tiny house on the big lot (by the community garden lot). As soon as I hit play a notification came that it had some plumbing issues! Everything that could be spewing water was. I chose to play it that way to give my guy some handiness experience, but boy it took him forever to repair the shower. By then he had neighbors lining up to visit, as well as a repairwoman who told him she would be happy to fix the rest - "for free, of course"! I happily accepted her kind offer and went to meet the people who were still hanging around. Welcome to the neighborhood, Mac!!

@Squeemotastic - That's just because he's a newbie, he'll soon get the hang of it. :)

@Auroraskies - Oh my, that was one skinny dude... I hope it's not because the rats have eaten up all his food so he gets none? :o :mrgreen:

"Auroraskies;c-17219157" wrote:
@SuzyCue72 There were a lot of rats crawling all over the place.. but I did give him the banana afterwards for his troubles :p

@Auroraskies - Good, he looks like he really needed it, and plenty of other food too, and bananas are delicious, you just have to let them ripen before you eat them. :)

I'm being more than a little fuzzy-headed this evening (allergies, meds, blah), but am I really being paged into this thread to discuss how to ripen bananas? I mean it's not that difficult, all you need is a brown paper bag and...oh wait, let me read over the last few posts a bit more slowly. :)

It's usually fine to get foreign sims to join your household while in their world and bring them home with your traveling party, but I wouldn't marry them while they are still not part of what the game is considering the active homeworld. It's much safer to do the wedding in a homeworld of which both sims are full residents. And I would strongly suggest having NRaas mods in play that help bypass and get through game breaking errors and sim corruption that can happen in many of the ways these things can be done -- those would be ErrorTrap, Overwatch, Traveler, and RelationshipPanel. Especially Traveler though on the ensuing travel transitions.

MasterController can also be used to yank not actively being played sims out of one world and into another as full-fledged residents, but the other sim has to not have a presence in the current homeworld yet, not even as a visitor/tourist, and that's more of a brute force approach. I still use it at times especially when large numbers of sims are involved in the desired world transfers.

A sim who is visiting a homeworld as a guest/tourist should never be asked or forced to move in while in the visiting state, they are in that case a scaled down mini-sim representation of themselves and not the full version, unless again mods are present to protect that sim from data corruption.

Always appreciated the "Your house has been hit by a meteor..." start. :D Helps with the § in the bank account first thing off the top of the game. :smirk: