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mw1525
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago

A New House Full of Rodents?

I was reading through the owners manual which came with the base game (disk). On page 19 under 'Surprises In Your Sim's New Home' it says "...or worst yet, maybe it's already occupied by a host of rodent residents!"

I have never seen this. Has anybody here ever had rodents in their starter game, base or otherwise? I've had broken water pipes, ghosts, meteors and I've even had roach spawners whose spawn radius make them appear very close to my Sim's home (Riverview), but never rodents.

Even though I know it's possible they could be there, in my seven years of playing this game, the event just hasn't happened for me. This leaves me wondering if this event was something which was 'supposed to make it into the base game but was pulled at the last moment.

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  • "Squeemotastic;c-17218994" wrote:
    Hi SuzyCue72! I was mostly annoyed because I had to start over with this sim after I had played him for most of his young adult life and had him pretty skilled up. Decided he needed a spouse so off to china he went. He met, wooed and married a local girl and they returned to LP. And the game glitched. :( Badly. So this was Mac's second lease on life. Hoping he makes it further this time!


    @Squeemotastic - Hi! :)

    I wonder if the glitch could possibly been caused by moving a sim from one of the foreign subworlds to your mainworld? I think I saw something about that on this forum some years ago, but I'm not sure... maybe @igazor knows more about it... he's into that sort of thing, haha, constantly moving sims around between worlds, I mean.
  • "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:
  • I did give him a brown paper bag; first to breathe in and then to ripen his banana, they are yellow as the sun in the game.

    Edit: Like so, and I think we're all happier now
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