Sims 3 Things you didn't know!

"igazor;c-16507022" wrote:
I recently had a bad experience with a maid and those dog toys. My sim dog needed to chew on one right away, but the maid wouldn't let him. She stood right there in his way and immediately "cleaned up" the toys as soon as I set them on the floor -- he's still a puppy, doesn't move about very quickly, and can't get his own toys out of the toy box. Should have dismissed the maid, but my other sims were not home. Was going to reset her after over a sim hour of this but I finally gave up and placed two more pet toy boxes on the lot, thinking that the annoying maid who had other things she should have been doing couldn't reach or stand right in front of all of them at once. That seemed to work. :)

*sigh* It's so hard to find good help these days.

It seems like your maids quite enjoy thwarting your plans. (I'm remembering what happened to all the nectar you set out.) Personally, I'd have waited until she walked away and her hands were full of plates or something, but then again the puppy might have been too desperate for that.

I know a lot of people like to simulate real life and make their sims clean up after themselves, but personally I stopped caring about that ages ago. (Maybe around the time in TS1 that I tried to make my sim clean up a flower vase that a friend had brought, and she just up and died on me. So I reloaded and tried again. Same thing. Over and over and over, until I deleted the blasted object and moved on.) So now I just drag everything to the trash. Newspapers, garbage piles, the contents of the potty once someone has removed them, even plates, although they get dumped in the dishwasher if my sims have bought one. The only chore my sims do is the laundry, but I still gather the dirty clothes and toss them in the washing machine first.

On the other hand, once the family can afford to contract it out, the maids are on their own.

Oh, did I not mention this? There were other things for her to clean up on the lot but the maid would not move from in front of the (at the time) one toy box. She was actually standing guard over it.

I'm not often bothered by ineffectual household servants who are not under my control, they do usually leave the place cleaner than when they found it. This is a pretty unusual household for me though. Three sims plus the puppy, one of the human sims I've made non-selectable with MasterController so I have no control over what she does. The other adult has a busy work schedule and the teen even more so between school, a part time job, and they all have skills that they are way behind in working on. Since they do have the funds and the cash flow unlike most other households I've only just started playing, the maid service seemed like a good fit at the time. :)

"igazor;c-16507264" wrote:

"IreneSwift;c-16507182" wrote:
@Igazor Did putting a toy right in front of the puppy not work? Was she too fast for him even then?

I'm sure there must have been a way to make that work maybe if I had tried several toys at the same time, but what was happening was that the maid was getting "Clean Up" on the toy in her action queue immediately, faster than the puppy could even begin waddling over to wherever I would place it even if it was right in front of them. Thus the object was unavailable to the dog because the maid, although she didn't always get there first, had the object locked and in use.

Guess I was more amused than annoyed by this, it's not like the dog was harmed in any way, but the game of Sneak the Toy Past the Maid sure did use up a lot of game clock time before I found a way around it.

Oh yeah, I forgot about items not being available to anyone else as soon as someone decides to interact with them. But that reminds me of something I a few years ago. I was playing a single mom with a toddler. She had to go to work so there was a babysitter there every day. The babysitter must have had the neat trait, because every time my toddler left a toy on the floor and went to do something else, the babysitter immediately picked up the toy and put it away. So I amused myself with a game of "torment the babysitter," and had the toddler get out a toy, leave it on the floor, get out another, leave it on the floor, and on and on, all day long. It was funny. The babysitter had been reading books in between tending to the toddler, but she never got a chance again, once I invented that game. I still do it to babysitters sometimes.

I figured on here you would get 100.000 from a genie, so I did that and was finally able to build a bigger house. Now I want to befriend the genie and have her move in with me :)

haha true @igazor especially for eco-friendly sims perhaps it happens the positive recycling moodlet.
But my simself rarely cares of cleaning them she is not eco-friendly trait so it's only a help to keep her house tidy lol. Sometimes
when she has missions as PI she has her house full of dirt.
haha nasty maid she hates pets for sure ahaha. Be aware that sims 3 has kind of sub-personalities that isn't shown by the traits.
Sims 3 people are more complex than people thinks about.


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Miss V my simself got the visit of Viviane's female dog yesterday and I could wash her in the bathtub and taking care of her, she had fleas poor baby xD , she played with Sirius and she said hi to Mistigriff and she likes to play the ball in the small garden.
And guess what? When Brunelle was home, Viviane called Miss V ahaha. Brunelle seems to be an Airedale (big as size)

I love the sims 3 so much especially unexpected event like this, this game is awesome and it shows it's far superior to sims 4 the lie and sims 2.

So yes pets of your friends can visit your home 100% confirmed !

I just discovered something I didn't know.

I have a sim in the Journalism career and I sent him to a movie to do a review. When he got home there was the option to write either a negative or a positive review about the movie. Feeling feisty, I had him write a negative review.

A few days later I was going to send him to the movies to get out of the house for a little while. But the movie option was grayed-out and the message said something like: "Because of your bad review, you're not welcome here at this time."

I had no idea! :D
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I just discovered that plantsims leave behind a flower trail. So adorable

So I didn't know they had a weird bug where a toddler that's sick with the pestilence plague and has the urge to cough, will do that stretching thing like they do to go up and down ladders. But they don't do it for vomiting, that's just a cancelled action. Very creepy. Callie isn't super worried that her son is some kind of demon, she accepts as he is.


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Been building a bit and there's two commands that I have had very little acquaintance with until recently... constrainfloorelevation and placefriezes. Both of those commands have been very useful in creating stuff like a sloped driveway leading to a garage.

Still a neophyte when it comes to building in Sims 3, but am hoping to make my Sims houses a bit more unique down the road as I attempt to master all the Sims 3 bulding tools provided. This game is incredible... (Sims 3 offers a plethora of building options that no other Sims game can come close to...Sims 4 tries, but well...me and Sims 4 don't get along...hence the reason I haven't bought it).

Not sure if anyone else knew, but the reason they call that section floors/ceiling is because if you tilt the camera up you can get rid of that ugly ceiling and replace it with something better or worse. Not sure how I went years without knowing this, but alrighty. Lovely ceiling now though.

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