Sorry if this is the wrong place, but I don't know where else it would go lol. :p Basically I just created a sim and used cheats to make a teenage sim living on her own. While it's fun, I've come across a couple challenges and just have questions I'd like help with. Also if anyone wants, I can post updates about how it's going lol. :D 1- She's a teen sim with no adult household member, but it's also frustrating that she can't learn to drive. Is there another way other than asking a parent to learn to drive? 2- I created a Unicorn family (mom, dad, and foal) in another household. I liked having them for me to look at but tbh, unicorns are a hard creature to take care of, and I'd rather my sim focus on building skills and living on. My question is, is there a way to have a unicorn (or unicorn family) live on my property without it being under my control? Also, how would I create a living area for it without it being locked up? Finding them and adding them to my household is not the problem here, I just want to know if it's possible to have them live there but be autonomous. 3- On a side note, would unicorns breed on their own?4- I had my sim become a resort owner but even though I've started building the resort up, it still says resort closed because there's no resort tower. Does anyone happen to know when it will recognize there's a resort there? (Number of rooms, etc?) 5- Is there anything I can do to increase the likelihood of prom happening? I've yet to see anything related. Also, I've searched online for most of these and just haven't found the answers I'm looking for.Disclaimer- I own all the expansion packs for sims 3, and I don't use mods.

1- Not sure really. Does your teen have a car in their inventory? I presume that would be a condition. And I think the teen has to know the adult very well (be friends).2- If you have NRaas mastercontroller this is possible by turning the unicorns into roommates. I’ve noticed however NRaas roommates won’t leave the property autonomously.3- Maybe with NRaas storyprogression?4 + 5 I don’t know, sorry.

Maybe your teen will get the option when talking to a befriended sim in town? It’s worth trying ;)As for NRaas Mastercontroller, you can find it here. (hope I’m allowed to give that link...) When you don’t have mods yet, you’ll have to create a Mods folder first. Here’s an instruction how.

1. She needs to be sufficient friends with an adult/ya/elder. I think good friends is enough, but it might require best friends. It does not have to be a parent. I had my teen who lived alone ask the adult over to his house, then ask for help to learn to drive. He also owned a car and had it as his preferred vehicle (which I always do when teens learn to drive). If you have ITF she can build a plumbot who can teach her how to drive, but I think she'll still need a high friendship with the plumbot. It might also depend on the world she's in. I've had parents teach teens to drive in China and Oasis Landing without a problem, but the interaction is blocked in the university world (you'd need a mod to get your teen there anyway). (edit: she shouldn't have problems in the homeworld.)2,3 - don't know.4. Do you actually have a resort tower on the lot? If you don't have one of the resort tower rabbit holes you can't open the resort. The game needs those to spawn the resort workers. Also make sure your resort is profitable - that the projected profits are greater than the expenses in the resort management summary. I've had to pare back expenses by removing amenities and dismissing workers until the resort was technically profitable and then adding that stuff back as it gradually made money. (edit: you don't need any VIP rooms. I once opened a resort with only the cottage resort tower, one buffet table, and the check-in desk. It only made about 40 simoleons a day until I started expanding it.)5. Not that I know of. There's a 14 day cool down on proms occurring, and a 50% chance per day of a prom being scheduled, but I don't know if that's rolled every day or just some days. If you use NRaas StoryProgression you can change those values to increase the frequency of proms. You should be able to do change those values with NRaas Retuner too. I don't know of any non-mod way to influence the frequency of proms.

"Chi5678;c-16265920" wrote:I'll definitely try asking other sims. If not I'll just wait til my sim ages to YA. I'm gonna hold off on the mods for now, but thanks in case I decide to use them. If anyone knows ways without mods that'd be awesome :smirk: As far as I know unfortunately there isn’t a way to turn pets (and animals) into roommates without a mod. You could of course create a household, put them in there and send your sim there whenever you want.

Ummm... so update on my sims family today. I created a family of 6 to help populate the town, 2 parents, 2 teens, 2 kids. The parents are happily married, or so I thought! I had my teen go over to hang out at their house today and when I walked in the mom was making out with Nancy Landgrab... Doesn't she have a husband too? :o https://i.imgur.com/sFNjeey.jpgDoes this mean they'll end up getting divorced and such? Also, I'm not saying it's wrong, but isn't the game supposed to put males with females?

My Sim "Family" and the Questions I Have

astridentanja
7 years ago
1- Not sure really. Does your teen have a car in their inventory? I presume that would be a condition. And I think the teen has to know the adult very well (be friends).
2- If you have NRaas mastercontroller this is possible by turning the unicorns into roommates. I’ve noticed however NRaas roommates won’t leave the property autonomously.
3- Maybe with NRaas storyprogression?
4 + 5 I don’t know, sorry.
astridentanja
7 years ago
Maybe your teen will get the option when talking to a befriended sim in town? It’s worth trying ;)
As for NRaas Mastercontroller, you can find it here. (hope I’m allowed to give that link...) When you don’t have mods yet, you’ll have to create a Mods folder first. Here’s an instruction how.
TreyNutz2
7 years ago
1. She needs to be sufficient friends with an adult/ya/elder. I think good friends is enough, but it might require best friends. It does not have to be a parent. I had my teen who lived alone ask the adult over to his house, then ask for help to learn to drive. He also owned a car and had it as his preferred vehicle (which I always do when teens learn to drive). If you have ITF she can build a plumbot who can teach her how to drive, but I think she'll still need a high friendship with the plumbot. It might also depend on the world she's in. I've had parents teach teens to drive in China and Oasis Landing without a problem, but the interaction is blocked in the university world (you'd need a mod to get your teen there anyway). (edit: she shouldn't have problems in the homeworld.)

2,3 - don't know.

4. Do you actually have a resort tower on the lot? If you don't have one of the resort tower rabbit holes you can't open the resort. The game needs those to spawn the resort workers. Also make sure your resort is profitable - that the projected profits are greater than the expenses in the resort management summary. I've had to pare back expenses by removing amenities and dismissing workers until the resort was technically profitable and then adding that stuff back as it gradually made money. (edit: you don't need any VIP rooms. I once opened a resort with only the cottage resort tower, one buffet table, and the check-in desk. It only made about 40 simoleons a day until I started expanding it.)

5. Not that I know of. There's a 14 day cool down on proms occurring, and a 50% chance per day of a prom being scheduled, but I don't know if that's rolled every day or just some days. If you use NRaas StoryProgression you can change those values to increase the frequency of proms. You should be able to do change those values with NRaas Retuner too. I don't know of any non-mod way to influence the frequency of proms.
astridentanja
7 years ago
"Chi5678;c-16265920" wrote:
I'll definitely try asking other sims. If not I'll just wait til my sim ages to YA. I'm gonna hold off on the mods for now, but thanks in case I decide to use them. If anyone knows ways without mods that'd be awesome :smirk:

As far as I know unfortunately there isn’t a way to turn pets (and animals) into roommates without a mod. You could of course create a household, put them in there and send your sim there whenever you want.
Chi5678
7 years ago
Ummm... so update on my sims family today. I created a family of 6 to help populate the town, 2 parents, 2 teens, 2 kids. The parents are happily married, or so I thought! I had my teen go over to hang out at their house today and when I walked in the mom was making out with Nancy Landgrab... Doesn't she have a husband too? :o
https://i.imgur.com/sFNjeey.jpg
Does this mean they'll end up getting divorced and such? Also, I'm not saying it's wrong, but isn't the game supposed to put males with females?
astridentanja
7 years ago
Lol, well, I think that's up to what happens next :D I think initially it's a 50-50 what gender sims choose to fancy. But after that they are loyal to the direction you (or they) chose. I guess what you decide in CAS doesn't count..?
astridentanja
7 years ago
No, it definitely doesn't make sense. Maybe one of them is a flirt?
igazor
7 years ago
"Chi5678;c-16267890" wrote:
Also, I'm not saying it's wrong, but isn't the game supposed to put males with females?

Under EA standard (meaning without mods to influence thing one way or another), sims upon creation or becoming of age will either be neutral on gender preferences or be only slightly straight (+2 for opposite gender/-1 for same gender). Those scores will change as they go on to have positive or negative experiences with each gender. It doesn't take much to sway in either direction from a start like that, and sims can also act counter to their official orientation if they around someone they are very attracted to.
puzzlezaddict
Hero+
7 years ago
"Chi5678;c-16267965" wrote:
Lol I find that weird though, both women are married to men, why are they cheating on their husbands with eachother XD

@Chi5678 Are you sure they're actually cheating? Maybe it was Geoffrey Landgraab's birthday.

Also, @igazor I'm curious about this scoring. Do you know what the range is, and how different interactions are counted? I've never had any trouble getting townies to do what my main sims want (other than cheating when I'm not around), but it's interesting to think about how their experiences, user-directed or autonomous, might affect their preferences.
igazor
7 years ago
"puzzlezaddict;c-16268672" wrote:
Also, @igazor I'm curious about this scoring. Do you know what the range is, and how different interactions are counted? I've never had any trouble getting townies to do what my main sims want (other than cheating when I'm not around), but it's interesting to think about how their experiences, user-directed or autonomous, might affect their preferences.

Each sim has two hidden gender pref scores, one for the opposite gender and one for their own. Each positive (usually romantic, but innocent things like "What's Your Sign?" can also count) experience adds a point for the gender in question and/or subtracts a point from the other one. Each negative experience does the opposite. There is no range or max value other than the theoretical upper limit that an integer value can hold (it's really high).

When a sim is in the positives for opposite gender, they can be attracted to that gender. Likewise for the same gender. And again, sims can act or accept a user-directed action that runs counter to their preference but they have to overcome a hefty penalty in the attraction score and thus be very attracted to the other sim in particular for this to happen. Situational things like having cinnamon, romantic drinks, elixirs, spells, mood lights in play can be a factor. So can an abundance of flirt friendly traits and LTRs on both sims.

At very low scores, like (using opposite/same now) +10/-5 or something, a sim can easily flip preferences. The game itself will gently push opposite gender sims together, but it doesn't insist on it.
At very high scores, like +10,000/-10,000, sims aren't any more interested in romance than others, but it's very unlikely they will have enough experiences in their lifetime to change preferences.
If both scores are positive, then the sim is attracted to both genders
If both scores are negative, then the sim is asexual (attracted to no one).
Zero is neutral, but sims don't stay at exactly zero on either score for very long unless they aren't interacting with anyone.

For those using mods, NRaas MasterController and the MC Cheats module are required to see and change the two scores on each sim individually. NRaas StoryProgression is required to influence and somewhat randomize the initial orientation a sim gets upon being spawned into the game or, for those growing up in it, the starting out pref scores they get when they reach their teen years, so that not all sims start out quite at 0/0 or so close to it.