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Lorraine-Simmer
7 years ago

Welcome Wagon: Why Fruitcake?

You know, I think I would like the welcome wagon a lot more if the neighbors didn't always insist on bringing a fruitcake with them. Why couldn't it have been something tasty like cookies, a cake, anything but fruitcake! And no, I don't particularly like cancelling the event either, because it always results in a really petty relationship loss with ALL of the neighbors. "Guess we're not wanted here," they say. Not when you have a fruitcake, I don't! Seriously, I've never once had a sim who actually LIKES fruitcake. Not to mention that bug where the reaction for fruitcake gets stuck for all foods after a Sim eats it.

I actually ended up installing a mod that disables the welcome wagon entirely.
  • Lorraine-Simmer's avatar
    Lorraine-Simmer
    7 years ago
    "Scarbo27;c-16761741" wrote:
    "SiliClone;c-16735351" wrote:
    Thanks for the mod, I hate the welcome wagon. Most of the time I just ignore them until they're gone but removing it is better.


    You don't need a mod to avoid the Welcome Wagon. Just set your lot trait to Private Dwelling BEFORE you move your household in for the first time and voilà! Your neighbors won't show up at all.

    I moved about 3-4 households into the lots that I built with the Private Dwelling lot trait and every time the Welcome Wagon didn't start in the first 24-48 hours, so I had suspicions about it, tested it in a brand new save on different lots with and without Private Dwelling, and yup the lot trait caused it to not happen at all. Which is a pleasant surprise for me.

    Edited: If you don't want to use the Private Dwelling lot trait because you prefer to play with other traits, just replace/delete it after a day or two when you're sure the neighbors won't show up, I like the trait because with Private Dwelling enabled, my sims receive less of unwanted visitors/random sims knocking on the door/vampires breaking in.


    Whoa, I didn't know this! Thanks for the tip!

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