Has your Sim ever been invited to another Sim's party - birthday, whatever?

My sims have been invited to some birthday parties - two of which were at empty lots...

My sim got invited to a lot of party.
She was on a dance party with her vampire buddy and when it ended she got another invitation.

"luthienrising;15660483" wrote:
I don't get this, but I also play with aging off.

About the parties and aging off... I have my town with only a select few homes able to age. And homes with it off, I will still now and then get a birthday party invite to... So Maybe it just because I have it set so SOME can age but it seems like even if you have aging off, a party invite can still occur.. But with the aging off, unless you have your sim go with the Always Welcome trait, and have them bake a cake and force age the birthday sim, I believe the party will end in a fail anyhow since that sim is being prevented from aging... lol, so whatever I guess, huh? LOL

Well I am sorry to hear that, but My Sims are always getting invited to places and parties, I mostly have them ignore going, cause I rather have them work on their skills and such.

"GalacticGal;15660807" wrote:
All I can add to this is, be careful what you wish for. I've been playing two families (that are very special to me) in rotation style. The eldest from each family will become the third family in this rotation. He's supposed to be slightly older than she. I am playing on Long, so that I have time to age each of the Sims when I choose. The teen boy in Family #1 is about two years older than his next teen brother, for instance. In reality, he was about nine months older than the girl in question. So, what do I get after playing a good couple of weeks, per family? He gets an invitation to her birthday party. She's all set to become a YA. Say, what? I started them all about the same time. How is it she reached that many days before him? I had him go just to be cordial. After all they'd already advanced their teen aged romance to "promised". (In reality, he was just sixteen and she fifteen when they married. That's not possible in this game, so I have to fudge things a bit.)

Needless to say having her age up to YA before him was off-putting. I just couldn't reconcile myself to this. (Having made so many concessions already.) I ended up starting them anew in a brand new game save. I also made quite certain before I played either household, that the length was set to Long. So, be careful what you wish for, when it comes to such "invites". Also, some of us took nearly the entire first two years before our Sims got abducted. Since this is a life-simulator (of sorts), all I can say is life isn't always fair.

Maybe you already know this and I'm just stating the obvious but, Sims birthday parties are scheduled at random and if you don't go to them, the age up will NEVER occur!

I know this for a fact, I have gotten many invites and only gone to maybe 1/10... And have checked/ known age up times for birthday sims in question. (Mines on Normal for the ones I allow.)

I have been invited to birthday parties only, they never turn out right, one reason I never have them, funny thing is I feel that I have to go just like in RL...lol

"pinkish;15678054" wrote:
I have been invited to birthday parties only, they never turn out right, one reason I never have them, funny thing is I feel that I have to go just like in RL...lol

Ha ha ! :smile: that's funny! I feel the same way too. Like their feelings will be hurt if my sim doesn't show up!

My Sims have always been invited out, etc - they just have never been invited to a birthday party.

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.

"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.

I had this happen too. I also play with aging off. I don't go to birthday parties that I'm invited to because of the chance of aging up. I thought that the invites stopped because I was refusing the invitations.