How often do you use powerful/extraneous objects?

I haven't played with these much (once in a moon option could fit too). I have cloned a sim. I've tested a relic. A family of mine has the crystal crown but I've never used it. What makes it so powerful? I have not used the weather machine, but I've recently placed it on two community lots. Yeah I think I want to incorporate some of these more into my gameplay. Would only use them with specific sims though.

Sleeping Pod - irl, there's nap stations in offices I've worked in. So I've added to community lots: University Commons, Nightclubs & Spas. Or in an alien's house

Omiscan Relics - in trophy rooms for the wealthy, not for 'usage' only to view

Everything else has been experimented with, but cheats over objects

I've never used the Crystal Crown, Sleeping pods or Weather machine. The only time I've used the relics was to fulfill the aspiration. However, I LOVE the Scientist career and have played it with many, many Sims so have used the Cloning machine and SimRay extensively! The Serums? Not so much, but I have used them.

Curiously, even though I've used the Cloning machine quite a bit, I've never tried cloning a Sim with it. The reason being I like to play small households, usually only one single Sim, maybe a couple and a child. I don't want another Sim that looks just like my Sim that may end up evil as well hanging around the house.

I'd probably get them mixed up and make a horrible mistake, like perhaps sending the clone to woo hoo with the original's spouse or something. o.O That is, IF you can control them, I don't think you can. Maybe? Obviously I know very little about them. I just think it would be cringeworthy having a clone. :# Perhaps in the right circumstances it would be fun. But it's just not for me. *shrugs*

EDIT: Also, though I've played several Spellcasters who know the spell, I've never used Duplicato for the same reasons!

I might try them out once, just to see what they do. My Sims don't live lives with a lot of drama, and for me, the challenge of the game is simply getting through the real-life tasks.

I usually forget they exist because I don’t spend much time in Build/Buy mode, so I don’t see them in the catalogue. My scientist sims use all their tech on random stuff (and will occasionally have a clone running around). My archaeologist has used the artifacts a few times, but I still haven’t run across the combo that makes them a skeleton. That’s the one I’m really interested in. In both those instances, I find the items through gameplay so it feels less cheaty to me.

I need to remember to add some weather machines in Brindleton Bay and HoB - those worlds are too rainy.

My scientist dropped a cloning machine outside there home so now anybody who wishes to sneak up and clone stuff can. As for sleep pods I didnt know they were in the game :blush:

I use the Crystal Crown quite often when I want to speed up skilling, fame or career leveling for my super sims. The hematite crystal recharges the fun need & boosts job performance which helps my Sims get promoted faster. The diamond crystal recharges social need & boosts fame gains. Certain crystals also give skill boosts when in the crown:

Crandestine (Get to Work) recharges all needs except energy & boosts painting/writing/creativity skills
Amazonite (Jungle Adventure) boosts the archeology & mental skill & recharges all needs except hunger
Amethyst recharges hunger need & boosts logic & mental skill
Jonquilist fills needs except energy & boosts charisma & social skill
Plumbite fills needs except energy & boosts fitness & motor skill

However, for faster skilling I generally just use a peach crystal in the crown (which keeps a Sims bladder need full) then I have the Sim drink snaggle fluster (& if the Sim has access, they also drink a potion of Nimble Mind) prior to working on a skill for a large boost.

Here's a good list of crystals & their effects: https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Celestial_Crystal_Crown

I use the weather machine occasionally (most often to prevent rain during Geek Con).

I generally only use the Omiscan relics in order to complete the Jungle Explorer aspiration & to summon the skeleton assistant.

I have tried the freeze ray function of the Sim Ray. But, I haven't tried the other features yet.

I have not used the other objects yet.

"Karababy52;c-17987852" wrote:
I've never used the Crystal Crown, Sleeping pods or Weather machine. The only time I've used the relics was to fulfill the aspiration. However, I LOVE the Scientist career and have played it with many, many Sims so have used the Cloning machine and SimRay extensively! The Serums? Not so much, but I have used them.

Curiously, even though I've used the Cloning machine quite a bit, I've never tried cloning a Sim with it. The reason being I like to play small households, usually only one single Sim, maybe a couple and a child. I don't want another Sim that looks just like my Sim that may end up evil as well hanging around the house.

I'd probably get them mixed up and make a horrible mistake, like perhaps sending the clone to woo hoo with the original's spouse or something. o.O That is, IF you can control them, I don't think you can. Maybe? Obviously I know very little about them. I just think it would be cringeworthy having a clone. :# Perhaps in the right circumstances it would be fun. But it's just not for me. *shrugs*

EDIT: Also, though I've played several Spellcasters who know the spell, I've never used Duplicato for the same reasons!

Yep, you can control clones, at least if they're clones of your playable sim. The game automatically adds them to your current household as the sibling of whomever cloned them. I've had two different scientists make a clone, but in both cases I altered enough about them not to get them mixed up. :lol:

The first one became part of the scientist's story, wherein both "brothers" passed the clone off as a "cousin" instead of a sibling because that seemed easier for them to explain. The clone only lived in the same household for a little while, though; he soon moved into his own place and had his own life as a musician. He's actually still alive in that save, but he's an elder now; his creator/brother/fake-cousin died of old age quite some time past. I didn't keep the other clone in the same save as his scientist/brother; after I changed a few of his details I saved him in a separate household to my library and then deleted him. I plan to import him into a different save at some point. Storywise, that scientist considered that cloning incident a "failure," so in his story no clone ever existed.

"VeeDub;c-17987906" wrote:

"Karababy52;c-17987852" wrote:

Curiously, even though I've used the Cloning machine quite a bit, I've never tried cloning a Sim with it. The reason being I like to play small households, usually only one single Sim, maybe a couple and a child. I don't want another Sim that looks just like my Sim that may end up evil as well hanging around the house.

I'd probably get them mixed up and make a horrible mistake, like perhaps sending the clone to woo hoo with the original's spouse or something. o.O That is, IF you can control them, I don't think you can. Maybe? Obviously I know very little about them. I just think it would be cringeworthy having a clone. :# Perhaps in the right circumstances it would be fun. But it's just not for me. *shrugs*

EDIT: Also, though I've played several Spellcasters who know the spell, I've never used Duplicato for the same reasons!

Yep, you can control clones, at least if they're clones of your playable sim. The game automatically adds them to your current household as the sibling of whomever cloned them.

@VeeDub
Actually, I've made quite a few clones, and they come out as the siblings of the person who is cloned, not the person using the machine to do the cloning (unless they are the same person, of course). Regardless, even if they are an NPC's clone, they end up in the active household and are playable. I say this simply because I've had the person who did the cloning date the clones of others, and have made siblings for the spouses of those doing the cloning, as well.

@Karababy52
As for mixing them up, they come out with different names (though same last name), and have none of the same relationships as their originals (so they won't be in love with your sims' spouses, for example). As for Duplicato, the clone is limited to certain commands (unless you add them into the household), is unplayable, and disappears after a time, so there's no worry of mixing them up.

"musteni;c-17987839" wrote:
A family of mine has the crystal crown but I've never used it. What makes it so powerful?

@musteni
Alongside what has been listed, each crystal in-game (including those added by packs) affects needs, emotions, interactions, and/or skilling...all for the only side-effect of being laughed at if another sim sees yours wearing the crown (which causes embarrassment).

"KyreRoen;c-17987926" wrote:

@VeeDub
Actually, I've made quite a few clones, and they come out as the siblings of the person who is cloned, not the person using the machine to do the cloning (unless they are the same person, of course). Regardless, even if they are an NPC's clone, they end up in the active household and are playable. I say this simply because I've had the person who did the cloning date the clones of others, and have made siblings for the spouses of those doing the cloning, as well.

Ah, good to know. I never did clones with any besides my own currently played sim (the two scientists I mentioned). I did vaguely wonder if cloning someone else was even possible, but apparently I wasn't interested enough at the time to try and find out. :lol: