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I can't "Ask to be Roommate"
leeemur
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When I updated to 1.50 before UL came out, I've never had that option. I just figured that I'll get it once I get UL. Now that I have UL, I still can't get it to show up. I tried removing all my mods, but I still can't ask people to be my roommate. I tried asking my boyfriend first, but didn't get the option, so I thought maybe it's because we're romantically involved. I tried asking my best friend, and I still can't ask her to be roommates. The roommate service from the phone works though. Any fixes? Anybody else have this issue?
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Really? Nobody else has this problem?
When I do that, the only choices I have are the people in the household.
I'm having the same problem and posted a question about it on the forum too. I used to have the option but now I don't.
There's an option on the new phone under travel and services for roommate options, but he game just sends you a houseful of sims and then you can choose which you want and dismiss the rest.
I liked being able to ask random sims becuase then I could make sure that they had jobs and stuff, but I don't seem to have that option anymore either. I notice the "ask to move in" option there but I don't want controllable sims. I want them to be npc.
I'll bookmark this thread and hopefully someone has an answer.
Once again, EA says something will be one way and when we get it... it isn't as specified.
I'm a bit disappointed with the way EA chose to do this. The door lock function is extremely tedious and unless you set bed ownership for each bed in the dorm, I'm pretty sure the dumb little sims will just meander around until they pass out somewhere...absolutely no structure! Ahh, it messes with my OCD...I liked how they handled it on the Sims 2 - everyone picked a room and their pictures were on the door, then you couldn't go in there unless invited. This whole thing could have been done better imo.
I agree. They seemed to have gone backwards as well as forward with this expansion. Why not implement the same structure as in Sims 2? It's obvious that it can be done. When I had my sim go to university they were sleeping all over the place and some were passing out. Not the best way to have set this up. I sure hope they can fix this issue.
I've read an article somewhere, i'm not sure of it's accuracy but maybe it might help some of you:
Roommates can be any sim Young Adult or older who has no strong family ties. That basically means any unmarried sim. If a sim is married, the Roommate option doesn't appear to ever show up. If they aren't, it should show up much like "ask to move in" on any sim you're friends with. The higher your relationship, the more likely it'll show up. You might have to do friendly interactions first. The interaction is titled "Ask to be roommate". :?:
Your roommate does not appear on the sim panel, but counts towards your house limit! So if you have 7 sims, you can only have one roommate. Potentially, a single sim household could have 7 roommates. Not sure if mods that let you have more than 8 sims let you have more roommates or not, but it's likely.
When a sim is asked to be roommate, they leave their current household, and enter sort of a limbo. They are not a member of your household. They are not a member of their old household. They are not technically "homeless" (Townies). Because of this, if you change households, your roommate will disappear. Sometimes they are replaced, but more often than not they are just completely removed, and sent to the Homeless bin, meaning they'll appear around town, or might never appear again at all.
Update: I've changed their relationship to acquaintance, didn't have the option. Changed to Friends, had the option.
When he was my boyfriend before, i didn't get it, nor when he was my fiancee.
I have the roommate service enabled (males only, 3 sims) - i've dismissed them right when they arrived at 9am tho .
Update2: Also, he had a job when i was trying before all this, now in my new attempt with him just as friends, i also made him quit his job... So i'm wondering if this would affect it.
Now that i asked him to be my roommate he accepted, and his house shows as "No one lives here" - although he didnt come to my house .. yet.. So maybe only next day 9am, i'm afraid if i disable the option of roommate service in my phone he won't come... Or after he does, if he will be gone. Anyone has an answer for this?
As for the Sims meandering around until they pass out, that's only happened once or twice for me. The bed assignments I picked worked pretty well for the most part. I actually started laughing when I found a passed out Sim because I am in university and that is just all too accurate.
I did have a big problem with Sims starving, though. One guy actually just keeled over and died of starvation right in front of my Sim as she was leaving for her final exam! It put a real damper on her mood for the exam. He has a nice little burial plot at the Sims University lake now. Geeze, if Sims keep dying like that, I might have to build a graveyard on campus!
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You need to have sufficient roommate allowance: if your sim is living by themselves, enable roomate service and set it to the appropriate number of roommates so that you can ask an additional sim to be roommate.
Remember that rm will start showing up at 9 am the day after, so if you set it up in the evening, and then go out and ask a friend to be rm the next day, make sure no NPC sim has already arrived at your house, in which case you will be able to ask your friend, but they won't, in effect, be able to BE your rm, even if they accept.
If you can't ask a sim to be rm, it is probably that you haven't enabled the appropriate number of rm, or that they are in a relationship with another sim that you don't know of.
It's a mess. You have to play it just right at the right moment to get a friend to actually be able to live in your home as a roommate.
Before I enabled roommates (option is not available sometimes on a home phone) for the house, I would invite my friend over..then enable over the smartphone. Close smartphone, and enter it again to set the amount of Sims you want as roommates. (That should have all been in one easy step but it isn't.)
The immediately turn and ask the Sim at your house that is your Sim's friend to be a roommate. Before, as fast you can, the game lines up which Sims in the world will arrive later that night or the next day.
Once the game determines who will be the roommates, nonplayables, it's too late and very hard to get it timed just right.
I've asked NPC aliens to be roommates before and it worked fine
However, I've started a new game and I want my male sim to ask a female sim to be his room mate, but I'm only getting the option "ask to move in" and it's such a pain!