When the Welcome Wagon Becomes Unwelcome

Yassssssss, unwelcome welcome wagons (!) are great. xD Sometimes I do end up throwing a drink on neighbors ?

My neighbors loves to clean dishes and use computers (very unwelcome of their part, but I do appreciate their dishes effort), so I lock all bedroom doors and also serve everybody with some tasty drink for good behavior ?

They can't be left loosen or otherwise they'll take over the place like crazy toddlers usually does :tongue:

@Flap Normally I enjoy the opportunity for my Sims to meet other Sims, especially in a brand new game. But this is the very first time I had a neighbor go through the entire large manor and take it upon themselves to light all of the fireplaces. I think there's twelve of them! Yeah, it was on the cold side for the first day of Spring, but still. Wood ain't cheap either. :open_mouth: LOL

It depends. I usually ignore it, unless I've built the neighborhood up with alm the families I want to interact. Then its nice:)

Well my story with Welcome Wagon goes way back to the 'fruitcake bug'(this has been fixed).

I downloaded a Sim from the gallery and started playing with him and he married one of my Sims and created a family. He had one strange quirk that drove me cookoo. He constantly made horrible faces when he ate no matter what quality of food it was. I thought maybe it was something to do with me downloading him from the Gallery as I had never done that before. (it was not due to this)

Disclaimer - The following has since been fixed. This was a few years ago.
Then it started happening with other Sims I created and did some investigating and it was from Welcome Wagon fruitcake. Oh boy! That Welcome Wagon was not feeding that to my Sims ever ever again. I do not run mods and really had to be quick to throw that fruitcake out or stop my Sims from eating it. It would immediately get dragged to trash can if possible. One problem was if you played rotational and your current Sim lived near another played family, I would have to swap back and forth and micro manage that wicked wicked gourmet atrocity. Everything was ok as long my Sim that brought the fruitcake didn't put it in their inventory. There was no way to get it out at the time, or at least I couldn't figure it out, other then re loading a previous save and play musical fruitcake again.

So this fruitcake and Welcome Wagon was not welcome at all and in fact dreaded in every new game. This still sticks with me to this day and although they did fix and patch the fruitcake bug, I am still fearful to have any Sim of mine eat it. A couple weeks ago I wasn't paying attention and my Sim ate the fruitcake when I wasn't looking and to my surprise, she liked it. So maybe through many Sim hours, I can get over my fear of this fruitcake, but the memory lives on lol.

One day I may grow to accept the fruitcake from Welcome Wagon but please please paws off my stuff! Now there is a fear these Welcome Wagon NPCs have the recycle trait. My Sims now do Welcome Wagon 'outside' the home', far away from any items that can be insta recycled by tense recycle NPCs. So now my Sims are practicing social distancing and now item distancing with any NPCs that are sketchy. This is a separate issue from NAPs which are disabled in my game.

I had a widowed mama who moved with her two children to a new world to start fresh. The welcome wagon showed. I was about to ignore them when I noticed it was just one single male townie so I decided to have her welcome him in and make a new friend. Big mistake. He was very angry for some reason. I had her thank him for coming. They made idle conversation for a couple seconds and he started yelling at her. I cancelled the chatting so he stomps off on a huff and he heads straight for my kids dollhouse and smashes it causing my kids to cry. I was crabby anyway so I sent mama up to chew him out. I then used a mod I have to electrocute him and had her kick him out. Then deleted her relationship with him. He messed with the wrong family!

"crocobaura;c-17595063" wrote:
I recently had a fruitcake dilemma in my game. She loved the fruitcake but he hated it, so it was difficult to decide whether to throw it out or not. Wish they would not eat it if they hate it.

Put the fruitcake in her personal inventory. That way, she can get it but he can't.

The everlasting fruitcake...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIxDyBB3qPs

I usually ignore the welcome wagons unless I want the family I created to befriend another family, then I just place them in the same area so the family will come over with their little cake thing

Oh my, that fruitcake. Only once have I seen any sim enjoy it, while other sims eating the same fruitcake hated it. I get rid of them as fast as I can. I also glare a lot at the sim who brought it to my new sims welcoming party, and feel a mean pleasure when my sim doesn't get along with that sim during the first meeting.

And explain to me why a Vampire would bring a fruitcake? The Vatore boy had one at my most recent WW event (it was in Forgotten Hollow so it's not like there are that many neighbors anyway). That felt so...wrong. But I just pretended it was a ruse on his part to appear unthreatening.

They are always unwelcome in my game lol. With their poisonous fruit cake, or whatever cooking experiment gone wrong that dish is. I used to forget to get rid of it so my sims naturally just go and grab some whenever they are hungry, they never learn. One time i somehow only invited one person in and the rest stood outside the whole time, their rude selves left complaining.