Mysterious Mr Gnome

Thrippa wrote:
I think the Zenyattas have a glitch in their generation code, like they were supposed to appear when a horse licks the salt lick for 80 minutes consecutively, but they don't clear the count so they appear every time the horses lick 80 minutes in total. Because I know my horses don't spend 80 minutes all at once at the salt lick, but I'm always flooded. I just periodically sell off all the unnamed ones; it's a great income source!

I'm not sure how I got the spring gnomes (I have 2). The first year I went to the festival and did the easter egg hunt, with no luck. The second year, my Sims came home with a new baby and almost tripped over the pink guy at the mailbox. I've not seen anywhere that you can get a spring gnome as a baby gift! The other one is similarly mysterious (no pun intended). He just turned up beside the fishing pond one day.

The summer one turned up behind the barbeque grill. I understand he's supposed to be attracted to barbeques and fireworks.

For the winter gnome, I sent the whole family out to build snowmen, aided by the fact the kept getting wishes to build more snowmen. And then poof! there was a much smaller sgnoman in the middle of them.

I've got the cat gnome, too. He caused me a lot of trouble, because the cat always pulled the wrong toys out of the box, so I had to break off and send her to get another toy. Usually, the catnip mouse was the third of the three. After I finally got the gnome, I accidentally discovered that I could have just clicked on the box and selected the specific toy I wanted. :roll: I'll get a dog soon, and see if I can snag the dog and freezer bunny ones. And my teenager has just taken an interest in sculpting, so I hope to get that one was well.

I did trick-or-treating and went through the haunted house many times over three falls and never did get the witch; I'll try just repeating the haunted house this fall and see if it'll work. I've added the wishing well to my game, and will see what I can pull out of that. This game is a 50-foal challenge (thus all the Zenyattas) so I can't get all of the gnomes without breaking the rules, but I want to see how many types I can get.

I also have a vampire gnome from growing plasma bushes, and the laundry gnome from the laundry.

Thanks. I'll try getting my Sims to use their bar-b-que more.

You can get lots of extra vampire gnomes by putting teddy bears on the floor. The vampire gnome turns them into vampire gnomes. Some people use this as an income source as the teddy bears don't cost much and the vampire gnomes sell for about 1000 simoleans each.