Happy St. Patrick’s Day! I trust you’ll be wearing the green today, but what about your simmies? Will they be celebrating right alongside of you? Will you send them off to the dresser to pick out emerald-hued frocks?
Waking up this morning and realizing it was a holiday made me wonder if — and how — players of The Sims include holiday events in their games. Or do you include them at all? On my simming blog today, I posted about my in-game holidays and posed a few questions for other players. You can visit the blog or answer here. Either way, I'd love to hear about your holiday celebrations with your sims.
- Do you celebrate traditional holidays with your sims?
- Have you created any new holidays or special occasions that your families celebrate?
- Will your simmies be wearing green today?
I look forward to reading your replies
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2. No, I haven't.
3. No, they won't. I'm norwegian and we don't celebrate St. Patrick's day here. I don't even really know what it is to be honest.
I have no memory of this place. Time to start anew I guess
2. No
3. No, and neither will I - not a drop of Irish in me. I do, however, own a green Guinness T-shirt from my holiday last year. I'll save it for a day when the beer gets respect
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So if I'm playing TS3 with Seasons, I turn off the automatic changes or make the seasons last a very long time, so that I can change the season when I'm ready to. I play a lot of families in rotation, so I'd try to play them all for a season, then switch. It would be no good if, in my self-sustaining town, it was always winter when I got round to playing with my farmers.
This is why temporary holiday features frustrate me. Like the Easter eggs, or trick and treating. I was annoyed because I liked these features, but wanted to play with them when I decided it was Halloween or Easter. Thankfully modders unlocked them.
I don't think my sims will be celebrating St Patrick's Day today. I'm busy remaking some households and moving them around in town, and I need to convert a few things. But I wouldn't mind sending a few to that pub in Windenburg to celebrate with a few pints of Sim-Guinness when I start playing again. ^__^
I'm a rotational player too and like you, my "in-game" times doesn't match up with the real world. It's March, but in my game, it's late August and the kiddies are getting ready for another year of school. It is frustrating when there are "special events" that don't correspond to what's happening in my sim's world, so I understand exactly how you feel, @Cinderellimouse
@Mightydan You sound like me with holidays LOL. BTW, I added your "Frenemies" to the "Sim Blog" page at Jonathan Chronicles.
I will sometimes add a Christmas tree at Christmas and use the Holiday radio station, and I did have a few costume parties around Halloween (and used the Spooky station). The radio stations, for me, are kinda the easiest method to inject holiday broo-ha-ha into the game. I don't really play enough to mess with minor holidays like today, but I would fully, 100% support the addition of a Irish folk music station. I would use that station so much.
Valentines, St. Patricks, Easter, not really.
maybe I'll try Mother's/Father's Day
its because I don't really have time to do those things, and without seasons I'm not really feeling it.
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And back on topic. I tried celebrating Christmas. It just didn't make much sense though, but not that im story telling im actually enjoying holidays way more.
I won't be celebrating saint patricks day though... its not a big deal in my country and besides the fact that people wear green i dont know anything about this holiday
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Wow! That's awesome.
People wear green, drink during the day and more people wearing green march through the streets while others watch and drink, that is what i have gathered from years of watching American TV-shows.
These days it tends to be embraced by anyone in said countries that needs an excuse to get wasted, not just the Irish.
2. No. That might be an interesting idea to explore, though, so thanks for the idea.
3. Probably not.
Maybe when Seasons rolls out, I'll feel more festive to do these things.
I have no memory of this place. Time to start anew I guess
I missed this Halloween in game and didn't try Spooky Stuff till after.. That's a holiday I might stretch out this year for a month.
I doubt I'd dress my sims in green today not big on going in and out of CAS to redo what they are wearing. If I were making a new sim I might. If I play tonight they are going to the Windenburg pub though.
You could just create a temporary club for all your sims' friends, make the outfits feature anything green, set drinking/socialising/pub games as activities and take them to the pub for rounds of Cream Cola (green draught) or maybe a drink that looks like Guinness/whiskey.