I recently realized I named 2 of the families in my save "Prescott" and "Westcott." I made them weeks from each other and made other families in between, but I'm still annoyed with myself for not realizing how similar the names are. Apparently, I just really like names that rhyme with "-escott," LOL. What are some moments when you did something less than brilliant in your game, and later realized it and thought, "Duh--why did I do that??"

Mine was this. A guy called my sim up and invited her to the romance festival, and my sim agrees to go. Now, this guy is married, and also another sim that I also play, but in another household. So I thought it would be a good idea to include his wife with this group. Everyone goes and drinks the tea that makes everyone flirty. Almost immediately some other woman walks up to the married guy and flirts with him, and he flirts right back. All this is happening right in front of his new wife (still newlyweds). She gets extremely angry and walks off.My duh moment is never to invite another married couple to one of those things unless I can actually control everyone.

can't tell you how many times my sim has refused to go in a room and then i realise it was because i locked the door

I've had heaps of those moments. XD + ^^; They're usually door-related."Serenity, what are you doing outside? The toilet's that way."*realises that she IS heading towards a toilet, but not the one I told her to use*"But why would you want to use the one at the park when you have three perfectly good ones at home? Like that one..." "...which doesn't have a door."*laughs for five minutes before finally adding a door*"How did I forget that? Never mind. Now to find out why Joey's sleeping outside when he has a completely accessible bedroom..."(In case you're wondering, that didn't have a door either.)

"alyssa123;c-17160923" wrote:can't tell you how many times my sim has refused to go in a room and then i realise it was because i locked the doorI used to lock my front door and then wonder why when I invited sims in they stayed outside. Now I lock the bedroom door to keep the vampires from my sim when she's sleeping.

My favorite of mine has been similar to the door issue but with sinks. I'll forget to add a sink and wonder why my sim is running to the basement bathroom to wash all their dishes passing three other rooms that should have sinks in the process.

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LaBlue0314
New Scout
6 years ago
Mine was this. A guy called my sim up and invited her to the romance festival, and my sim agrees to go. Now, this guy is married, and also another sim that I also play, but in another household. So I thought it would be a good idea to include his wife with this group. Everyone goes and drinks the tea that makes everyone flirty. Almost immediately some other woman walks up to the married guy and flirts with him, and he flirts right back. All this is happening right in front of his new wife (still newlyweds). She gets extremely angry and walks off.

My duh moment is never to invite another married couple to one of those things unless I can actually control everyone.
Alyssa12307
6 years ago
can't tell you how many times my sim has refused to go in a room and then i realise it was because i locked the door
AyKooChao
6 years ago
I've had heaps of those moments. XD + ^^; They're usually door-related.

"Serenity, what are you doing outside? The toilet's that way."

*realises that she IS heading towards a toilet, but not the one I told her to use*

"But why would you want to use the one at the park when you have three perfectly good ones at home? Like that one..."

"...which doesn't have a door."

*laughs for five minutes before finally adding a door*

"How did I forget that? Never mind. Now to find out why Joey's sleeping outside when he has a completely accessible bedroom..."

(In case you're wondering, that didn't have a door either.)
DragonAge_300905
Seasoned Rookie
6 years ago
"alyssa123;c-17160923" wrote:
can't tell you how many times my sim has refused to go in a room and then i realise it was because i locked the door

I used to lock my front door and then wonder why when I invited sims in they stayed outside. Now I lock the bedroom door to keep the vampires from my sim when she's sleeping.
Ayvid_Reader
Newcomer
6 years ago
My favorite of mine has been similar to the door issue but with sinks. I'll forget to add a sink and wonder why my sim is running to the basement bathroom to wash all their dishes passing three other rooms that should have sinks in the process.
Ayvid_Reader
Newcomer
6 years ago
"DragonAge_300905;c-17161271" wrote:
"alyssa123;c-17160923" wrote:
can't tell you how many times my sim has refused to go in a room and then i realise it was because i locked the door

I used to lock my front door and then wonder why when I invited sims in they stayed outside. Now I lock the bedroom door to keep the vampires from my sim when she's sleeping.

I lock the doors to any rooms that have computers. It's rude they can use my computer lol.
DragonAge_300905
Seasoned Rookie
6 years ago
"pegasusventrice;c-17161367" wrote:
"DragonAge_300905;c-17161271" wrote:
"alyssa123;c-17160923" wrote:
can't tell you how many times my sim has refused to go in a room and then i realise it was because i locked the door

I used to lock my front door and then wonder why when I invited sims in they stayed outside. Now I lock the bedroom door to keep the vampires from my sim when she's sleeping.

I lock the doors to any rooms that have computers. It's rude they can use my computer lol.

lol

Another one I've done so many times is build building backwards. I scrapped so many builds because of it. This is what I mean, the guard towers are on the wrong side.
Sigzy_29
New Spectator
6 years ago
"DragonAge_300905;c-17161487" wrote:
"pegasusventrice;c-17161367" wrote:
"DragonAge_300905;c-17161271" wrote:
"alyssa123;c-17160923" wrote:
can't tell you how many times my sim has refused to go in a room and then i realise it was because i locked the door

I used to lock my front door and then wonder why when I invited sims in they stayed outside. Now I lock the bedroom door to keep the vampires from my sim when she's sleeping.

I lock the doors to any rooms that have computers. It's rude they can use my computer lol.

lol

Another one I've done so many times is build building backwards. I scrapped so many builds because of it. This is what I mean, the guard towers are on the wrong side.

You can move the whole building you know? Just rotate it so that the towers go backwards.
zisp
6 years ago
Kinda the same thing.
Named two sims in my legacy the same name. They're a few generations apart. Thankfully the second one isn't the heir. Would have been confusing.
mia_noelle97
6 years ago
One time my sim couldn't get to her toddler who was on the third floor of their house and I kept getting mad at her thinking she was just stupid or something but then I realized that I had accidentally deleted the stairs when I was renovating the house.