Things You Didn't Know!

The knitted baby onesie is very sweet for sims to knit, and is a special gift to give to a pregnant sim @EgonVM 🙂

I'll take a fun fact from one of my previous interest threads (Community Closeness from Eco Lifestyle).

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).

Thanks for the helpful information about follow up calls @EgonVM 🙂 It is good to know the effects of responses.

A small fun fact today.

What affects how successful your sim is pleading to Grim Reaper?

Here's the list!

• Having a child plead raised the chance of success.
• Emotional pleads are more successful when your sim is in Very state.
• Having Gloomy trait helps with Sad pleading.
• Potion of Prompt Resurrection fail will make your sim always fail pleading.
• Viewing the the completed Sugar Skull shelf will help.
• Potion of Prompt Resurrection and Grimbucha helps.
• Wearing charged Jet and Hematite also helps.

So yeah, again, having a child in your household can be strategically useful I guess...

Ok, I took a look at which sims break which rules more often.

These rules will never be broken by NPC tenants:

• No Ghosts

These rules have the same chance to be broken by every NPC tenant:

• Maximum Occupancy
• No Pets

And now we have three rules left. And these are affected by what's in the unit and who's living there.

• No Social Events: Sims with Family-Oriented, Outgoing, or Party Animal trait(s) are going to break it more.
• No Loud Noises: Sims with Bro, Music Lover, or Party Animal trait(s) are going to break it more. They require a TV or a stereo for this.
• No Trash Overload: Sims with Slob trait are going to break it more.

It was great to read which sims with what traits  have a higher chance of breaking rules @EgonVM 🙂 It helps to understand why rules are broken.

I thought about gifting more info on gift giving.

It turns out that sim's traits can affect the outcome. Well, there are three cases for this:

• Bookworms love books.
• Childish, children, and toddlers love toys.
• Foodie and Glutton sims love food (as long as it's untouched).
• Cheerful and Outgoing sims seem to never dislike a friendly gift from their friend (unless it's a flower or knitted item).
• Romantic sims and sims in Flirty mood seem to never dislike a romantic gift from their lover.
• Materialistic sims seem to never dislike a money gift.

In addition, what value the gifted item is also affects how much reputation your sim gains.

• Medium gain: 2,500+
• Small gain: 500 - 2,499
• Tiny for below 500.

Gifting Romantic gifts may get your sim gifted a rose.

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.

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That is a great fact! @simgirl1010 🙂 It is fun to see the response of the skeleton to the joke! 

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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.

Ok. Today I'll take a fun fact from this thread I've made.

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.

Here are the cheats to make custom professors:

University of Britechester:

traits.equip_trait trait_Hidden_ProfessorNPC_Course_Arts_A
traits.equip_trait trait_Hidden_ProfessorNPC_Course_Arts_B
traits.equip_trait trait_Hidden_ProfessorNPC_Course_Arts_C
traits.equip_trait trait_Hidden_ProfessorNPC_Course_Arts_D

Foxbury Institute:

traits.equip_trait trait_Hidden_ProfessorNPC_Course_Science_A
traits.equip_trait trait_Hidden_ProfessorNPC_Course_Science_B
traits.equip_trait trait_Hidden_ProfessorNPC_Course_Science_C
traits.equip_trait trait_Hidden_ProfessorNPC_Course_Science_D

And that's not it for now.

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:

So yeah, professor career is a special case within non-location based careers...

It is great to know the different types of professors and the traits that are associated with each one @EgonVM  The traits do reflect in how they act. 

Let's take a look into Parenthood's arguments.

Did you know there are 23 different arguments your sims can have:

• Arguments
• Careers
• Children
• Cleanliness
• Curfew
• Exercising
• Food
• House Rules
• Humor
• Job
• Kindness
• Life Goals
• Life Outlook
• Morals
• Music
• Nature Wonders
• Parenting
• Politics
• Romance
• School
• Sharing
• Social Anxiety
• Who's Better

Some of the arguments need a special conditions to be unlocked. Here's how to unlock those.

Though in there, when I say "All ages", I mean child to elder, as toddlers and younger can't have these arguments.

This is the list:

So yeah, such a detail...

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.

A small fun fact for today.

Did you know that teens are more likely to have mood swings when they have low hunger and/or energy need(s)?

This is also true for older sims with Uncontrolled Emotions trait, but they need these needs to be even lower and these will raise the chance of it happening more than for teens.

It would be best to try to make sure that the teen sims in our households keep their hunger and energy levels up! @EgonVM 🙂 Thanks for the helpful tip.

Fun fact on asking if sims want to become a werewolf.

Besides the relationship, certain traits can also affect the answer.

These traits make sims want to become werewolves more:

• Loves Outdoors
• Dog Lover
• Animal Enthusiast
• Outdoorsy lifestyle

And these traits make sims want to become werewolves less:

• Lazy
• Squeamish
• Vegetarian

The answer will affect how the cursed bite interaction goes (how the bitten sim reacts, how the biters howl, how the others react, especially Moonwood Collective members), if it's going to raise the relationship or lower it, or give the bitten sim an Energized moodlet or a Scared moodlet.

It seems like if the sim says no, it'll only affect what they'll say when they say yes (from "I would love to be a Werewolf!" to "I was hesitant at first, but I think I'm ready").

Of course werewolves with Chomp Champion reward trait will always get a positive reactions to their cursed bites, no matter if the other sim was asked before or not.

Thanks for the helpful information about asking to become a werewolf @EgonVM and the response. The traits that affect the result do seem like they would cause an effect.

For today, here's a list of special reputation-affecting text messages that your sim can get depending on their actions!

• Positive
  • Making friends
    
    Spoiler

    Hey, I heard you and [Sim Name] are good friends now. You're getting more popular - clearly you're a good person to know!
  • Donating
    
    Spoiler

    [Sim Name], I heard that you donated to a charity recently. If only more people were as generous as you!
  • Positive Satellite Dish Interactions (Get to Work)
    
    Spoiler

    [Sim Name], I saw you fiddling with your satellite... Did that have some connection with everyone being so oddly cheerful today? If so, how nice of you to brighten everyone's day!
• Negative
  • Disliked relationship
    
    Spoiler

    An acquaintance was telling me how much they dislike you... Try being a little nicer - becoming disliked is a slippery slope!
  • Despised relationship
    
    Spoiler

    What people think about you matters - and I heard that someone absolutely despises you now! It's making me question my own opinion of you...
  • Fighting
    
    Spoiler

    Word on the street is that you've been getting in fights... You'd better clean up your act, or you'll wind up with a terrible reputation!
  • Failed Pickpocketing (Criminal career)
    
    Spoiler

    I heard a rumor that you were caught pickpocketing. How embarrassing! You better stay away from my pockets!
  • Caught Stealing
    
    Spoiler

    I heard that you like to steal things... I don't think I want you in my home anymore.
  • Caught Cheating
    
    Spoiler

    I don't want to pass moral judgments, but I heard that you were caught cheating on your partner. You should try to keep your private affairs more... private.
  • Child Taken Away
    
    Spoiler

    What kind of person neglects their child? I'll show restraint and simply say... you should consider moving out of this neighborhood.
  • Pet Taken Away (Cats and Dogs)
    
    Spoiler

    I heard that you got your pet taken away? What kind of person neglects their fluffy, adorable pet?
  • Negative Satellite Dish Interactions (Get to Work)
    
    Spoiler

    Word's been going around that you used that satellite of yours to put everyone in a foul mood. What are you, some sort of super villain wannabe?
  • Caught Drinking from Sim (Vampires)
    
    Spoiler

    I can't believe that you've been drinking people's blood without their permission. That's just not right!

So yeah, these are the reputation affecting calls I've found, usually coming from a friend of your sim. Some will change the reputation more than others (like getting caught cheating).

It is great to read the details of the various text messages that Sims can receive @EgonVM 🙂 My sims seem to get the first positive text quite a bit so that is nice.

Today let's take a look at where emotional texts from Get Together can lead you.

There are 6 types of emotional texts your sim can send:

• Happy
• Energized
• Playful
• Flirty
• Sad
• Angry

When your sim sends an emotional text, the sim who was texted to may invite your sim out. Where and for what reason depends on the emotion (under spoilers to give the players an opportunity to discover these themselves):

So yeah, though do remember the following:

• The relationship between the sims mustn't be negative.
• The sim your sim is texting to mustn't be at work at the moment.
• The sims mustn't have any negative sentiments or have Difficult or Distant family dynamics.

So yeah, use your sim's emotions to get a hang out event to happen!

Thanks for the helpful information about the emotion texts @EgonVM 🙂 It is a great way to have sims hangout with others! 

Fun fact on eco footprint and gardening!

Industrial neighborhoods make plants grow faster while Green neighborhoods make plants grow slower. In addition though, plants Industrial neighborhoods get more weed problems than in other neighborhoods.

The main benefit with Green neighborhoods however is that the plants tend to be higher quality, selling for more and making better meals.

So yeah, in short for gardening:

• If you prefer quality over quantity, go green!
• If you prefer quantity over quality, go industrial!

Thanks for the helpful information about the effect of eco living on gardening in Industrial and Green neighbourhoods @EgonVM 🙂 My sims enjoy doing gardening, so it is great to know the effects. There are benefits and drawbacks on both neighbourhoods.