"Livin in Sim;15688743" wrote:"Writin_Reg;15682902" wrote:
Night before last (Sunday night actually) when I was playing the game with my Vampire slayer he was called and invited to Landgrabbes birthday party (the dad) - I had my sim say yes and he was whisked over to outside of the Landgrabbes house where the dad waited for him and invited him in. There was a caterer there baking cakes and stuff. The first one she put candles in and then went to baking more and literally filling the fridge with cakes - lol.
There were a few other sims there, mostly my Sims friends or co-workers and other Sims I also play - but basically it was a pretty boring event. I kept waiting for the dad to blow out his candles and he seemed to do everything but - finally I clicked for my Sims to celebrate - the third time I clicked that - all of a sudden the dad aged to elder. Funny though is he never blew out those candles, and never initiated anyone to take any cake or anything - I finally clicked on the cake and had my sim take a piece - then the other sims there did likewise. Finally the timer for the party ended and the dad said he had seen better birthday parties - so needless to say it was as bad a party as it felt like. LOL. The game does not plan these things very well - and what little was done my sim initiated it with my help.
Odd thing about this birthday party though - I have all aging turned off right this minute - so maybe it was all lackluster due to that, as technically there should not have been any aging going on. I am guessing the AI overrided my game option to have no aging at this time. I found that interesting seeing I have never had that happen without me overriding that by throwing my own party. So I conclude if the game really wants someone to age up - they apparently will regardless of what options we set.
But to answer the question - yep invited to birthdays even with aging turned off for all households.
ETA - I posted this because before I had aging shut off I had also gotten invites to birthday parties too, but rarely went to them - it had been a while since an invite and I sort of thought it was because I shut aging off (mainly to not allow all my households with babies and tots to age without me) so I assumed with aging off there would be no invites. I assumed wrong. LOL.
He may have aged up without blowing out the candles because you started the action by clicking the cake and choosing Celebrate. The game may have had lag and finally the third time it worked. Cakes have gotten touchy lately about where they can be placed for interactions, so it may have been due to a routing error. It's just a guess, tho. :)
In other news, lol, I do get Birthday Invites, and I have all aging off. I don't get tons, but now and again. I've never had any Sim age up without my direction. (BTW, in an unrelated item, if you Taste The Frosting, you will age up whether or not you are the Birthday Sim. No wonder Mama always slapped my hand. :p ) I usually don't go to the parties, tho, unless I would have been ready to age up the Sim manually anyway. At the parties, if they haven't interacted with the cake, or there wasn't one for some reason, they haven't aged up.
Coding shenanigans?? In The Sims??? Say it isn't so!! :o (Those secretly whispering "Bring it on, The Sims!"--see me in the back of the room...)
