Did you know that frequencies of certain maintenance events (in Residential Rentals and lots with Maintenance Troubles challenge) are affected by lot traits and challenges?
Here's the list:
Filthy lot challenge: Increases chance for Pool Algae and Sewage Leak events
Cursed lot challenge: Increases chance for the Cursed Book event
Spooky lot challenge: Increases chance for the Haunting event
Off-the-Grid lot challenge: Eliminates Water Leak and Electrical Malfunction events
Creepy Crawlies lot challenge: Increases chance for Infestation event
Reduce and Recycle lot challenge: Decreases chance for Trash Overload event
Great Soil lot trait: Decreases chance for Garden Blight event
Sunny Aspect lot trait: Decreases chance for Tenant Revolt event
So yeah, and these are only lot traits. These can also be affected by the residents and what objects are there and how much have they been used.
If your sim has the Paranormal Investigator License and they see Grim Reaper, they have a new interaction unlocked. This interaction is called: Ask to Join the Soul Reaper Society When your sim asks this, you'll get one of two responses: Response 1:
Hah! Sorry kid, no open positions right now, but I like your moxie!
Response 2:
Ah, you remind me of myself when I was your age. Sorry kid, no openings for the foreseeable future.
Afterwards, your sim cannot ask this question again, which is caused by the trait I've mentioned.
So yeah, is this the confirmation that no, Grim Reaper career won't come, or is it a hint that it might come. After all, the stuff pack was released in 2021...
It might have been shared on the Internet before, but still, as I didn't know this myself, I'll share it here!
@EgonVMthe information you shared over the last two weeks is great. So many great insights. I will definitely be looking back if I want my spellcasters to get a specific curse.
A detail I'd like to add:
Did you know that the decursify spell only removes one curse at a time while the potion removes all curses at once. I found this very useful when I want my sim to keep a specific curse for story purposes.
It is great helpful information that you have posted about the differences between the decursify spell and the potion @atreya33 It is very helpful for simmers who have spellcasters in their household to know.
@EgonVM Awesome thank you. I have rarely played occults but it is on my list (very long list) of things to do with my Sims. So nice to have something to refer to. Happy Simming
Thank you for all the kind words. I'm happy that it is well received. Going through the tuning files is interesting for me too.
Today I'll share a small fact though.
On knitted gifts, the reaction depends on the gift quality. There is an exception though: gifting a knitted baby onesie to a pregnant sims will always result in a positive reaction.
There are also two special gift reaction that can happen:
Gifting a sweater to a sim that is in a relationship (either lover or boyfriend/girlfriend, engaged and married sims are safe) will result in a sweater curse for the receiver. This will cause most of sim's romantic interactions to fail for 7 days. This won't happen when one of the sims have Sacred Knitting Knowledge trait. This trait also gives an ability to remove the curse.
Gifting a knitted Grim Reaper plush to the Grim Reaper will reset your sim's aging bar. This will work only once though as any other times will make the Grim Reaper question your sim's hobby (the relationship will still go up though).
If you ever get a call to give an entrepreneur 1,000 Simoleons and give it, they may call you back to ask you for more. At this point, you don't need to give them more money, as saying that your sim can't afford it will keep the chain going. Calling them out will get you 2,000 Simoleons and ends the chain.
If you're patient enough, they'll eventually call you back to say that they got their business going off. You can either take 25,000 Simoleons or 2,500 Simoleons and a relationship gain.
So yeah, on follow-up calls, the only benefit of giving them 1,000 Simoleons more is the relationship gain.
Other than that, you only need to pay 1,000 Simoleons once (to start the chain).
It is very helpful to know what sort of gifts certain types of sims like and the effect of gift value @EgonVM 🙂 It helps our sims choose the best type of gift to give.
Ah, this fun fact with temple and servant skeletons I've discovered years back (April 1st 2021). Unless some other source dated earlier was found, I still can't help but take credit for discovering it (just wouldn't want this fact to be forgotten...).
From the previous post I forgot to mention though that sims with Bro trait can give Bro Gifts, which should never be disliked by Bro sims and give a special moodlet for both the giver and receiver.
Do you want to make a custom professor? Well, good news is that you only need to enter one cheat code.
traits.equip_trait [trait_codename]
There are 8 traits (4 for Britechester, 4 for Foxbury) that when assigned will automatically assign your sim the required Professor trait and career (which, when separately assigned, won't work on their own). It'll also puts the professor into separate categories (A, B, C, and D) so that when your sim takes multiple courses, only one professor from each category gets assigned as the professor of the course.
There are 4 types of professors that can appear in Student Commons. These sims require certain traits and certain life stage and it'll affect how they'll act. Here's the list under spoilers:
I didn’t know that there were so many different types of arguments! @EgonVM 🙂 Thanks for posting about them and the conditions that some of them require.
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