"This is inappropriate", says my Sim's father
Hey all! Thought to come here and maybe complain a little 😇 My Sim is a young adult, and she moved out from her parents into the city. She has a great relationship with her parents and often visits...
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@EeveeTinn Interesting points. I agree, it would be a fun and appropriate addition to have some nuanced levels of 'allowed and welcome' behavior within families and within relationship levels when it comes to food access, bathroom use, and other needs being met... and just 'making themselves at home. Even if this was done within a setting per sim, invitation each time they come to the lot by a household member, or something along that line. (Not referring to 'woohoo' overnight invites.)
It would also be nice if we could have a guest bed or bedroom that has a bed not assigned to the household that could work for overnight invited guests, friends' sleepovers for kids, etc.
@EeveeTinn Yeah, this bugs me too. I feel like there should be different rules for adult children who moved out last week, your child's fiance, etc.
My first time running into this was also the most hilariously awful. I had a teen romance, both parties aged up, and then I realized that the parents didn't know each other... while planning the wedding. Her parents exist! I can't not invite them! So brilliant me decided to hold the wedding at the other parents' house. Great, right? Only I forgot a cake. 😉
No problem! The other parents own a stove, and... "THIS IS INAPPROPRIATE PLEASE STOP!"
Because I was a n00b, after the couple exchanged their vows I ignored the bride's father and had Mom keep making the wedding cake, so the bride's parents threw the entire bridal party out into a blizzard, and everyone raced around in a panic and almost froze to death before I ended the event (Game: "Are you sure you want to end the event early? Everyone is having such a great time!" while my Sims run in circles in a blind panic and turn blue) and we traveled home. But not before Mom peed herself in the snow.
This wedding earned a silver. 😉 Also no one died, which was its own reward, I suppose. I now count any non-fatality Sim wedding as a success.
@xochiquetzl_xkvn Oh my gosh! I loved your wedding story... and I also hate weddings and birthdays in the Sims and have avoided them like the plague and kept them completely private for years.
I had nothing but bad experiences if I tried to run a birthday party or wedding when I was new at the game! So... about a year and a half (?) or so ago (for a challenge) @PugLove888 and I decided to team up and do one. I made the venue lot and she made the household, which included both sets of parents and their children. I moved and played them in a duplex I made so they all knew each other well. Then I ran the wedding in the venue and it was actually a lot of fun (I'm sure a lot was because I controlled all of the main/key participants!), and everything went so well!! https://imgur.com/gallery/4mFHgX2
Even so, I still do elopements and only 'age up', as that was not a typical situation. 😉🥳@SheriGR I've since done the Party Animal aspiration, so I feel like I've mostly gotten the hang of it, but I still find Kava Parties (for Beach Life) to be, ironically, the most stressful. LOL! Once you get the Party Animal reward trait (Perfect Host) and/or a good reputation from the Get Famous pack, it's a lot easier. It still won't let you bake a wedding cake at your new in-laws' house, though! 😉 (Always Welcome. Yeah.)
While hilariously awful, that wedding's not the worst social event I've thrown. While I was doing Party Animal with my Super Sim, a guest decided to go swimming in the snow on New Year's Eve and died. Nooooo problem! I thought, and had Mom Transportalate up to Grim with a death flower... but she decided to witness death instead of giving it to him (autonomy, sigh). Because we're attached to Brent Hecking, we spent the rest of the party Necrocalling and Dedeathifying him and earned a bronze. I made sure he was properly back in his own household and married to Brant again, and had him comfort Brant. At two AM, they both had popups of "New Year's Eve was AWFUL!" Sweeties, you said a mouthful. 😉 (They're still marked played in that save. And yes, I had EVERY life insurance possible on hand, lol.)
@EeveeTinnYeah, I would really love to see the game acknowledge family ties outside the current household for more than who you can or cannot date. Like, yeah, Grandma can cook in my kitchen if she feels like it, as can adult kids who moved out. Also, cooking is inappropriate but other Sims come over and take mud baths in my tub and other things that are, IMHO, a lot more inappropriate than baking cakes. I had one married couple consummate their marriage in grandma's bed! fortunately, grandma never found out, lol!
- @xochiquetzl_xkvn hahah you really have a ride with your Sims.
And so true! Like when other Sims that you just met randomly go to your computer in your room and play video games or browse the web...Ever since then I lock the computer for basically everyone except the sim, sometimes household. Also Sims randomly kicking your trash bins, and using your grill or making herbal remedies at your grill/stove (looking at you Sims Santa). And we cannot tell them to stop doing that as far as I know. You can send them home but that is about it, or perhaps use generic mean interactions 🤔
- @xochiquetzl_xkvn This is hilarious 😂 so sorry you had to have an awful wedding for your Sims 😂 it is a bit ridiculous yeah, especially if you own Parenthood since everything there revolves around good/bad parenting and family ties. But as soon as you move out, apparently you're not family anymore in the house your sim grew up 😅😂
