Re: How often do you get a suprising choice and what triggers them?

Yay! 🙂 I'm happy for you!

@ava7171 You're lucky. I keep getting XP Surprising Choices that does absolutely nothing for me or $2000 hot tubs which I have 2 already.  I would love a pet. ☺

@ava7171 I'll hang in there and keep trying. I have an extra wall I could give you. 😉😊

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@PaQuilter1 wrote:

@ava7171 You're lucky. I keep getting XP Surprising Choices that does absolutely nothing for me or $2000 hot tubs which I have 2 already.  I would love a pet. ☺

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Me too.  I almost always get the "forgot your lunch" which requires you to pay or get a bad choice but I also occasionally get the hot tub (I already have 4) or the fortune teller.  I want a pet!   Or better yet 10 pets!  The superheroes need a mascot!

If anyone remembers, or gets in the future, please post here what activities and location you were doing before you got each of the choices (especially interested in the pets one).  I'm not sure but there may be some activity or locations that influence what you get.  I do lots of parties, careers and hobbies but very little of anything else because I've finished all of the relationship stories.  I want to know if that is preventing me from getting the pets or if it is completely random.  about 85% of the time I get the one where I left my lunch at home and have to pay to avoid any immoral, inconsiderate, jerky choices that I would never make in real life.

Yep talking about pets in the relationship events triggers the pet option for me, not 100% but it only shows up after I talk about them. I’ve had the buy pet chance several times now but since I have hit my item limit I don’t feel the need to buy more decor. I have yet to get the hot tub and I think maybe, since I didn’t start the game until after the hot tub event, that maybe it’s a very low percentage I will? IDK, has anyone got the hot tub option who started playing well after the hot tub event? 🧐

In other news for the first time got the doctors surprising choice, selected the ‘suffer the consequences’ option (forget the name) but it resulted in the most hilarious side effect yet... your sim falls asleep 💤 so they yawn then power face plant the side walk in the most unflattering way, it’s the best 😂😂😂

So definitely look out for that one for some lols.

I haven't done many relationship events in over a month since I finished those stories.  Which relationship stories have options to talk about pets?

I think I had the option to talk about pets with the "better late than never" relationship story, but it doesn't appear every time.

@BlueWizardRob @KodamaTreeSpirit Is right (as a ghibli fan I’m fangirling all over your name btw), one of the triggers was the better late than never one & it’s towards the end, late level like level 8 or 9 that it occasionally pops up, it’s something basic like ‘ask if they like pets’ or ‘ask what their favourite pet is’. The reason why I did that relationship so many times was because I was a total backwater moron with it, always started it on a retired sim and never quite made it to lvl10 before my retired sim automatically left for good (thus removing the chance to interact with them for those last couple of times) until I read you can do it on a elderly NPC. But never fear, for what ever reason the pet surprising choic popped up randomly after a long dj job event and a long ASOS fashion event so it’s not always the better late than never that triggers it.... but me doing those brain dead attempts to hit lvl10 better late than never with most of my crew for a few weeks did make it proc more often.

(on an unrelated note, wiz, I want your good luck with tiger swimmers that you get from Izzy!)

Ah thanks @Here4Snacks! I wanted to pick just "Kodama" as a username but it was already taken apparently. I'm a huge Ghibli fan too! 🙂

I was swanning around the shop, window shopping, and as soon as I closed it a surprising choice triggered. It was to save a struggling business and offered discounted simcash items...

( @KodamaTreeSpirit I love them so so much, ghibli films are my top films before anything else, if you ever get the chance the ghibli museum in japan is amazing, they have this hip high howl’s castle bronze statue that I want for my garden 😋)

@Here4Snacks  I got that choice a few days ago and it was one of the few times I have spent simcash on the surprising choices.  I wanted that bird bath - LOL

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@ava7171 wrote:
Does anybody knows how they triggered the hot tub choice? I have been trying to get it again for days now and I'm out of options :D

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I have triggered it several times.  Today I was just finishing an event in the better late than never story and started a family mentoring event when it popped up.

I have the same question but with regard to the pets surprise.  I want a fish and a hedgehog but have never found that one.

Me too, @rmw8855, I really struggled with that one... I love rugs...but the birdbath won!

I wouldn't suggest the hedgehog...you NEVER see it, unless you tell your Sim to pet it, then it's super quick...I didn't have enough for the fish tank, but I'm saving up...only have 149 simcash now, so it'll be awhile...my luck, they'll stop offering it just when I can afford it & the hot tub is just a fantasy lol.

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@ava7171 wrote:
Does anybody knows how they triggered the hot tub choice? I have been trying to get it again for days now and I'm out of options :D

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I just got this offer too.  Just finished a Quick Shift at the hospital.

I just got it again.  I was just finishing an (overnight) long practice session in my piano hobby.

@BlueWizardRob, today, I had the option to "talk about pets" in the BFF story, at level 4 between the 2 characters. No surprising choice has popped up yet, but Ill keep an eye on it...

I hope it helps! 🙂

Thanks.

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@ava7171 wrote:
@BlueWizardRobit's amazimg how many times you got the hot tub choice. It's like they know you don't need them anymore so they keep offering it to you. Same with pets in my choices. I got them 3 times but they refuse to offer me the tub 😃 I'm wondering who will get their desired choice first or will we ever get it at all...

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I don't know.  I just got the hot tub one for the eighth time.  I want a pet.