@PaQuilter1 yeah and I doesn't help that 99% of the time, the "help" is useless to me because all my careers and hobbies are maxed except for a few but since I only have 3, I'll save them for the next generation. The only one I like is the pet one but since I am saving money, I can't buy a pet hedgehog like I want to.
@whackywhippet234 wrote:@PaQuilter1 yeah and I doesn't help that 99% of the time, the "help" is useless to me because all my careers and hobbies are maxed except for a few but since I only have 3, I'll save them for the next generation. The only one I like is the pet one but since I am saving money, I can't buy a pet hedgehog like I want to.
If you get the pet one again, please remember (and post here) what you were doing when you got it. There are several of us that really want to get the pet one and have not yet been able to get it.
Oh! So that’s why my sim was crying... it doesn’t really effect game play at all. My sims are always working or something, so I only see the effect once, immediately after I activate it. After that, I never see it again.
@BlueWizardRob I always hit "I don't like pets" when it comes up. I don't think there's anything special to get it. And new ones are popping up as well. The make up one and the rival one but yet again, it's just for hobbies or career boots that have no use to me since I'm 100% done.
@whackywhippet234 wrote:@BlueWizardRob I always hit "I don't like pets" when it comes up. I don't think there's anything special to get it. And new ones are popping up as well. The make up one and the rival one but yet again, it's just for hobbies or career boots that have no use to me since I'm 100% done.
I think @BlueWizardRob is asking what actions you’re doing to trigger the pet surprising choice to even come up. I’ve only gotten it once, and I can’t remember what I was doing. I’ve tried to trigger it with personal events, rival, better late than never, talking about pets, norhing. All I get is a % off options for personal events or hobbies. No choices to buy anything in several days. I’ve worked, done hobbies, personal events, special events, and gone to two parties a day. Really sick of my % off options though! 🤨
@sweedeypy Me too. Me too. I'm sick of stealing someone's lunch too. 😧
@PaQuilter1 wrote:@sweedeypy Me too. Me too. I'm sick of stealing someone's lunch too. 😧
OMG when I went back in the game instantly got the sandwich/lunch choice! 😭🤬 hahaha, how annoying 😲 and it was the first and only one I’ve had all day 😐
I got a surprising choice regarding one of my Sims' clothes. I chose the worst option and now he won't speak to anyone in the house. If I click on him with another sim active I get the lock-out message that "[sim] is upset." Haha! XD
Bonus! The irritated sim will be locked out of group activities at parties too. Talk about holding a grudge!
I got one about a lemon tree, pretty funny. Not after the 6th time though!
I'm wondering if there's a glitch on the surprising choice option where you can spend "2000" simcash for 25% off purchases. That seems erroneous. The next option was "150".
Seems counterintuitive to spend that much simcash for a discount on purchases WITH simcash.
@ShaNoodle9 Did you happen to get a picture of it? That seems like it could be a bug. I think it should show 200. If you did take a picture, can you open a bug report for it here:
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/bd-p/the-sims-mobile-bug-reports-en
There is a short form to fill out. Thank you! ☺
@ShaNoodle9 I've had it twice and got a screenshot last night. Fiscally it really does make sense lolol
Lol nah. I don't think I'd go into a store and pay them that much... And not receive anything yet... Just to get a discount. If u have that much, u might as well spend it straight up.
200 makes a little more sense than 2000. That's just throwing away real and fake cash lol.
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@ShellsSeaShells Omg! Do they really think people will pay that? It doesn't even make sense...just use the cash to buy whatever you want. Maybe it's an April Fools joke in July! 😱😵
@PaQuilter1 It is a bit crazy isn't it ....
People must either accidentally click this or given that everything is quite expensive and now available for sim cash (yes, those rooms for instance) maybe paying $50 (in my currency) makes sense?
Probably cost hundreds of dollars to buy everything, unlock items early etc.
I would bet money that someone out there has taken the offer up. I don't think it's a bug. 🙂
@ShellsSeaShells wrote:Seriously I'm laughing right now at my desk...
Look what I got now when I just checked on my sims.........
Bahahahaha
Except now instead of flipping a house (which one does for profit and not for a discount on goods) we can go shopping together for the discount!
EA, thanks for trolling me.
Wait a minute, once you reach Level 40, XP’s don’t even count—isn’t that correct??
So, WHY would I use Hard-to-Earn Sim Cash on options 1 or 2 and Option 3 doesn’t help to do anything anyway, if I am understanding the whole XP thing. Just Not Happening in my game!
(As much as I’d love a Hot Tub- $2000. SC is way over the top, especially since right now just to clear one section of land just to put it on, will cost me 30k+ and will keep increasing with each plot)
And EA thinks that Surprising Choices are not a form of Extortion?
#amiright about the XP’s ?
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@whackywhippet234 wrote:@PaQuilter1 yeah and I doesn't help that 99% of the time, the "help" is useless to me because all my careers and hobbies are maxed except for a few but since I only have 3, I'll save them for the next generation. The only one I like is the pet one but since I am saving money, I can't buy a pet hedgehog like I want to.
If you get the pet one again, please remember (and post here) what you were doing when you got it. There are several of us that really want to get the pet one and have not yet been able to get it.
I got it Monday night and this morning. Both days I had just entered and left CAS too quickly to actually change anything. I've actually gotten several surprising choices that way. Monday was the first time that I've gotten the pet choice in about a month.
@sweedeypy there's nothing to it, it's just random.
I've been playing for months and have never got the pet option in surprising choices, and I've been saving up too!!! *sobs*
I just get the same old career/hobby stuff, oh and I'm continuously stalked by the fortune teller! 😂
What actions does one have to perform to get something different?
@Mai653 again, it's randomized there's nothing you can do to make a certain surpising choice appear. Like I got the same surprising choices 2x in one day (which is rlly annoying, I have a sick sim now that can't to any events because of her being sick)
Ah well, then I can just hope that someday it crops up..
I hope your sim feels better soon! 🙂
@Mai653 wrote:I've been playing for months and have never got the pet option in surprising choices, and I've been saving up too!!! *sobs*
I just get the same old career/hobby stuff, oh and I'm continuously stalked by the fortune teller! 😂
What actions does one have to perform to get something different?
It is random but doesn't seem to be completely random. The "steal a sandwich" one seems to be much more frequent when you are doing career actions. The pet one seems to be more common when doing relationships or parties. We weren't able to get enough data to make a positive correlation but they seemed to be not quite completely random.
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