Missed Call?

molunchmonkey wrote:

Callum9432 wrote:
Townies didn't even need to have phones; notice you could call them at work even if they didn't have a cell phone.

I've never tried it, but I would bet that if you removed all the phones from that Sim's home, then called them while they were at home, they would still answer.

Thank you for the insight into how the TS2 townies work; that's very interesting. However, both the things I quoted aren't correct. Or else I just misunderstood what you were saying (it happens! :wink: )

If you call a townie during their work or school hours, you get a generic voicemail message ('Hi, Goopy's out right now, try calling back later'). So the game would take into account their 'not being home' and therefore unavailable to talk. However, the game wasn't set to do it the other way around. I've had many townie kids call my sims' homes during school hours! :lol:

Okay, I didn't remember that bit; I haven't played TS2 in a while. It doesn't change the point, though, about why TS2 townies didn't need phones but TS3 townies do.

As for the second sentence, I'm guessing you're talking about playables? This is how it works: let's plop the Ottomas family onto a lot. Now give Dora Ottomas a cell but no landline for the house. If your sim calls Dora Ottomas (during available hours), she'll pick up. If your sim calls any of the other Ottomi during appropriate hours, you get the pop-up message 'Sam/Peter/Whoever doesn't have a phone! You can't call someone without a phone!' That's the same message you get if the family is in the bin and hasn't been touched at all.

Now let's say the Ottomi have a landline and you call for Peter when Peter is at work. One of the other Ottomi will answer and tell you to call back later when Peter is home, w/o any idea to when that would be (at least in 3, the sim would tell you he's going to be busy for the next X number of hours; that was a nice touch).

Thanks for clearing that up; like I said, I've never actually tried it out (I've never really had the need to :P )

Alistu wrote:
Callum9432, the part about the texting is correct but not for phone calls in general.

I haven't experienced it myself but I have seen people post about how they have had their Sim call a townie in TS3 only to then see that Sim walking down the road with no phone in sight whilst the call is still ongoing.

That's one of the reasons that some players, and myself, were surprised to see that sending a text actually required the Sim receiving it to look at the phone.

Hmm, that's odd, I'm sure I've seen townies answering their phones. Though to be honest, I haven't exactly been watching, it's possible I was seeing something else. But if that is the case it means they have even less reason to have TS3 style phones again.