Sims 3 Things you didn't know!

"Faerie197;c-15784292" wrote:
Only 70%? Seems to me if you have Generations enabled, it's 100% for any newborn to get one.

I used a mod to increase the chances from the default 70% to 100% for my newborns. You can make it any % you like including 0% if you don't want them to appear at all for newborns.

I don't use a mod at all for that, yet I've never had a newborn NOT receive an IF doll if I have generations enabled.

"Faerie197;c-15784417" wrote:
I don't use a mod at all for that, yet I've never had a newborn NOT receive an IF doll if I have generations enabled.

It is possible to toss a (lopsided) coin with a 70% chance of yielding heads 100 or more times and still get heads each time. ;)

@igazor True enough I guess. But you'd think the law of averages would have it not happen once in a while. Even a family that had 30 kids all told due to twins and so forth all had an IF for every kid. Not all the kids made friends with the doll until it came to life. But all had one.

If the doorbell rings with a sim in the same room, it startles them. (This could be related to traits.)

You can cancel the newspaper via phone. So obvious, I know! Yet it took me years to notice.

"Pancakesandwich;c-15784203" wrote:

"TreyNutz;c-15782887" wrote:

"Pancakesandwich;c-15782578" wrote:
@lisasc360 I think I'm going to take Ambitions first, for the inventor career (time machines are awesome). Then Generations and then University Life. Does Generations also add a new lifestate?

Yes, Generations adds Imaginary Friends. I found them quite annoying as almost all newborns get one and they are impossible to get rid of without mods.

FYI the time machine is basically just a text adventure (like the catacombs) with a chance to bring home things. It's fun, don't get me wrong, but it's no ITF.

Impossible to get rid of? Well, let me see... fire, meteorites, generally explosions, time sickness, are they really immune against those?

I don't recall being able to sell the dolls before they become alive. Once alive...I never tried to kill one. I don't know if they are immune to death. Several I kept in doll form and stuck in inventory. One I aged up to YA and moved out just to get rid of it. Then I got a mod to stop newborns from getting them altogether.

But, back when I did have IF dolls in my game I did get several toddlers who didn't receive one due to there only being a 70% chance.

Did you know in ItF... that a combination of the traits Loser, Unlucky and maybe Unstable (on all Sims) as well as not having any jobs, can result in your future family having no money whatsoever? It doesn't even matter how expensive your house is. Tested with 70k simoleons.

Similarly, if your sim has many (and only) alien children Oasis Landing will be filled to the brim with alien offspring.

So, would that mean if your sim has a bunch of plantsim kids Oasis Landing will be overgrown with plant sims?

"Faerie197;c-15791889" wrote:
So, would that mean if your sim has a bunch of plantsim kids Oasis Landing will be overgrown with plant sims?

I happen to be playing 2 plantsims with who have had 24 kids. They did visit OL recently but I didn't pay attention to the descendants and don't recall if the descendents were plantsims or not. I'll have to send my sims back to check and see. (They are currently at university working on degree #6). What might complicate things is that most of the children were born human (via a mod which allows plantsim pregnancies) and I gave them the plantsim occult state via MasterController. Only 6 were 'born' from the forbidden fruit seeds.

I have 72.000 simelions. -Had... ...-just bought a restaurant.

Cannot use the 'No Bills'-LTS. The inflation would make me ruin my society.

@TreyNutz - Oh, mylanta, those vivid imaginations. -Ever considered to round them up on a fenced farm, so puresims can go and 'harvest' them? -Just add some water from time to time? 'Babyfactory' reach new levels of ghastly.

Here is a pretty obvious Did You Know (You Probably Did) :D

If something big recently happened to your Sim, like a fire, a divorce, a promotion, then they seem to have a "Talk about..." interaction available for the next 24 hours. So your Sims have more to talk about when something actually happened.
Another reason to love Sims 3 ^^

And less obvious:
(Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVJfeGxDjJc)
Aliens can steal space rocks from the science lab at night.