Why is my child wearing this helmet thing?

"Waterdragon;c-15714723" wrote:
I also think, it´s cute when they do this things autonomously. It´s interesting to see, that some of the kids seem to spend their entire childhood in the king/queen outfit from "presiding over royal court", while others prefer to play with the costume chest. None of them ever decided to to a joyride autonomously, when I think about it. Mh. Is this tied to traits?

I have a kid like that in one save, and his teen brother boos at him whenever he sees the younger kid holding "court", cracks me up every time it happens. (just the teen brother, the rest of the family doesn't seem bothered by it)

Darren (child bro.)"...and now I, King Darren the Magnificent, declare that all--"
BJ (teen bro.)"Boooooo... you suck!"
Darren "..ahem, I declare that all--"
BJ "Boooo... boooo!"
Darren "...that all teen brothers should shut the plum up!"
BJ "Mooooom! Darren just swore at me!"
Darren "But Mom! BJ keeps interrupting my royal court!"
BJ "Well, royal court is dumb!"
Darren "IT IS NOT!"
Mom "BJ, shut the plum up & let Darren pretend whatever he wants no matter how dumb it is!"

...because parents aren't interested in justice; they want quiet.

My original post was made because the inactive kids would not switch out from that outfit. Back then I just started playing sims 3 as I'm pretty late to the party and even though I had nraas MC, I was not aware that I could make inactive sims switch out into normal outfit that way. I still don't know if I was having a glitch or if back then I should have simply used MC to change their outfits to everyday. Yet it seems odd game design to me to make inactive kids not switch out of that outfit autonomous.
I have modded it out now.

I never see inactive kids dressed like that in my game though, so it might have been a glitch. I do hate (HATE yes, hate) how sims that have the robot fan trait (or what is it called) always always always walk around covered in boxes. Might be fun for your own sim but it's a nuisance for inactive sims.

"JoAnne65;c-15721597" wrote:
I never see inactive kids dressed like that in my game though, so it might have been a glitch. I do hate (HATE yes, hate) how sims that have the robot fan trait (or what is it called) always always always walk around covered in boxes. Might be fun for your own sim but it's a nuisance for inactive sims.

(sheepishly hides box cutters and special chemicals that dissolve cardboard behind back) Not fun, you say? :p

Just kidding, I've heard of that one but have only seen it once, on one sim and actually in Oasis. There's probably a better solution out there, but I bet most players suffering from that issue just get the sims into some version of CAS or another and replace the trait, or use MC to do so.

"igazor;c-15721601" wrote:

"JoAnne65;c-15721597" wrote:
I never see inactive kids dressed like that in my game though, so it might have been a glitch. I do hate (HATE yes, hate) how sims that have the robot fan trait (or what is it called) always always always walk around covered in boxes. Might be fun for your own sim but it's a nuisance for inactive sims.

(sheepishly hides box cutters and special chemicals that dissolve cardboard behind back) Not fun, you say? :p

Just kidding, I've heard of that one but have only seen it once, on one sim and actually in Oasis. There's probably a better solution out there, but I bet most players suffering from that issue just get the sims into some version of CAS or another and replace the trait, or use MC to do so.

Please don't hide those, hand them to me! :D
One of my heir's sisters had the trait. Her looks were hidden for evermore once he had left the household and started his own life. Whenever I'd see a walking box I knew it was her. I simply changed the trait, that solved it of course. But sigh, EA and overdoing stuff...

Oh gosh... Their joyride outfits, and their outfits when they preside the court - it would be OK if they change out of it as soon as they've finished playing... I use MC anyway to change, so it doesn't bother me that much.

Here are Taïga and Derek joyriding:
https://greywitches.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/thegreywitches-12-08.jpg

My kids once aged after joyriding :D

http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l512/Jo-Anne2/Album2/Dorian_718.jpg

(triplets so yeah, all three ;))
(I like how they all have different helmets btw, including @jillbg 's kids)

"KaikoMikkusu;c-15723434" wrote:
I think that the helmets may depend on the child's fave color, like the IF doll given to them.

I'll check ;)

I don't actually mind the outfits that much. What bothers me is that the "royal court" seems to be able to cancel out any action that I try for them. It especially bothers me when I'm trying to gather up the family to go on an outing.

The game where one of the kids constantly held royal court I started leaving them behind and not bothering to direct them to do anything. The rest of the family went to an older sibling's graduation and then out to eat or they went on a picnic (don't remember which of these usual after graduation activities they did) . The royal court kid held royal court and not sure what they did after that. Since I wasn't really playing this kid any more I was about to "totally annihilate" them when I found and installed the mod instead. :)

ETA: I've never had a kid that constantly went on joy rides so have no mod to stop that from happening autonomously.

I did the test!

https://68.media.tumblr.com/9611547d0c3d775c80a9eda06fa5cffc/tumblr_nd35neloJ71rqfhi2o1_500.gif

Éowyn (with the pink/blue (lavender like)/white helmet): favourite colour blue
Linden (with the red/blue helmet): favourite colour purple
Finn (with the green/grey helmet): favourite colour coral red

So alas, no connection :disappointed:
I also took out their IFs.



I don't see any colour based connection there either?