Share your most recent fails

This one is a personal favorite of mine over the years:



With all seriousness though, i've had one or two like that before where i took up the entire apartment.

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my most recent fail is attempting to mesmerise Caleb Vatore so i could get at his husband and turn him into a vampire. didn't work. Fortunately i saved just before that point but i felt pretty silly suspecting it was a silly idea all the same. :smile:

I decided to play a Sim living off the grid in a tent, with a fire for cooking. First attempt: 'Fire!' Second attempt: 'Fire!' Third attempt: 'Fire!'

Cooking skill improved, and he'd caught a fish to roast. 'Fire!' I think that in only one instance was he able to successfully roast and eat his food without catching his chair on fire. I went back to playing my lawyer save.

Hi, I'm a noob so perhaps this is expected but.. I got my daughter alien to wipe her mother's memory because her mother was angry because she'd empathised with an angry neighbour (who was angry because she was an alien...) .. well i didn't know it meant ALL of it, I thought it would just make her forget the conversation or something, help her feel better. After a few hours nap and a few hours swimming, her daughter had to introduce herself to her own mother. NOBODY seems upset though. Aliens are weird.

Oh, I've also chosen to try being off-grid. Daughter started off wanting to enjoy beach life as a tourist, but being alien, she can't tan (I changed her to fishing.) None of them (alien mum, daughter, and mersim roomie) can use the phone to get a job, the only one who has a job is the daughter (Doctor) and she keeps wanting to take days off. /)_-)

"MelFox;c-17364300" wrote:
Hi, I'm a noob so perhaps this is expected but.. I got my daughter alien to wipe her mother's memory because her mother was angry because she'd empathised with an angry neighbour (who was angry because she was an alien...) .. well i didn't know it meant ALL of it, I thought it would just make her forget the conversation or something, help her feel better. After a few hours nap and a few hours swimming, her daughter had to introduce herself to her own mother. NOBODY seems upset though. Aliens are weird.

I play with aliens too and was also surprised by this at first. It would be nice if they could just make the other sim forget something that just happened rather than erasing all memory, but I've gotten used to it now.

@CaprianaB I mean i can see the usefulness of it if an alien has ballsed up "first contact" or has been discovered by someone who doesn't really matter all that much except they're now angry.. or if your alien is mischievous or dastardly .. I was just taken aback by the power!

Incidentally, whenever I make a new sim and choose the questionnaire option... they're an alien. idk what that says about me. lol.

"MelFox;c-17364300" wrote:
Hi, I'm a noob so perhaps this is expected but.. I got my daughter alien to wipe her mother's memory because her mother was angry because she'd empathised with an angry neighbour (who was angry because she was an alien...) .. well i didn't know it meant ALL of it, I thought it would just make her forget the conversation or something, help her feel better. After a few hours nap and a few hours swimming, her daughter had to introduce herself to her own mother. NOBODY seems upset though. Aliens are weird.

I don't play with aliens too often but I did this to my Sim's best friend (who is also an alien) and she had to reintroduce herself.

As for my fail, I accidentally aged up my adult sim in two separate households in teo separate saves instead of their children. This was within a few days of each other. Luckily, I could quit without saving and undo my mistake. You'd think after doing it once, I would be more careful....nope.

I failed getting into the Secret Society with a sim. It's probably a spoiler

@DoloresGrey I so feel you. And have made that mistake more than once - if it is an apartment or something not on the gallery I want to scream. I actually did it when I moved Jessica out of her house and almost left her boys with no furniture (thankfully I had a gallery copy).

@Melfox we are all noobs when new packs come out and were all once noobs when we started. There are so many mistakes to be made - I know I haven't finished making them all.

My two worst mistakes - when I first started and was trying to age up a toddler with a birthday cake, I accidentally aged up his father who was a young adult (twice!) into an elder. The child was still a toddler. I then tried to age the toddler with the mother but aged her too. I couldn't get it into my head that I was doing it wrong and kept doing it wrong. (Thankfully I decided to read the forums after that.)

My 2nd mistake - at a party my sim had her whole family there. She had been having marriage issues because another sim had flirted with her (despite her rejecting him) and the husband was very jealous. I used flirty music and paintings to get her husband in the mood to repair their relationship. I accidentally clicked on their young adult son for the romantic interaction (sims too close together). Due to the romantic auras and sims being sims - he swung his mother over in a passionate kiss. It caused his fiance to burst into tears and leave saying never call me again. And the father slapped the mother in the face and asked for a divorce. The mother and son kept making out. It was horrible and sad. I left without saving - no long term harm done but I lost a few hours of gameplay because I hadn't saved for a while.

@Becka28 ... I have no words. thats like... worst nightmare ever kind of scenario.

One reason I looked for a sims community was to try to avoid this kind of thing! But some mistakes can be fun. Usually in retrospect.

I had to be careful not to spit out my water reading these fails, and I have one myself to share.

I'm currently playing a legacy save wherein the father married his college friend (this was a backstory I wrote up on the Household Info panel since this was before Discover University was announced). After winning the lottery, the couple moved with their three children (who have all been aged up now to young adults) to the big 64x64 mansion in Brindleton Bay. While I don't consider myself a good builder, I can at least get a grip on setting up rooms and expanding on lots.

Anyway, to make a long story longer, I had purchased the weather changing machine, and the father had earned TheKnack reward trait for completing the Nerd Brain aspiration, so he gave the machine an instant upgrade. That leads us to what happened last night during a playthrough. The weather changing machine is set up on a porch that leads to an addition to the house that I had built. It's a thunderstorm, and the playful independent dog is running about in Brindleton Bay, so in addition to calling him home, I also go to change the current weather. Wouldn't you know it? I forgot there was no roof over the porch, so just as Matty (the father) is about to change the weather... BAM! Lightning strike. Thankfully, the lightning strike didn't kill him, so I opted to just run with it. I just thought it was hilarious that the first time I had a sim get struck by lightning is when they are changing the weather.