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Tell me about mistakes you've made while playing The Sims 3
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When the first Sim I ever played had her first birthday, I accidentally aged her directly from YA to elder. (That is to say, I didn't notice she had already aged up to adult by herself before the guests arrived. I had no idea what that weird shaking thing meant. So I had her blow out the candles on the cake, and she became an elder. On top of that, all the guests thought it was a terrible party. She went to sleep old and unhappy. I deleted the save and started a new game with her.)
In one of my current saves, there is a little boy in a townie family called William Jones Jones. (I briefly added my Sim's friend to her household to help her marry the woman she was going out with and adopt a child, because before I installed NRAAS Story Progression nobody in town got married or had babies. When I had to give the child a name, I thought I had to write both name and surname so I wrote "Willliam Jones". When I saw the poor boy was now William Jones Jones, it amused me so much I just left it that way.)
Tell me about your mistakes! Or, even better, share screenshots!
In one of my current saves, there is a little boy in a townie family called William Jones Jones. (I briefly added my Sim's friend to her household to help her marry the woman she was going out with and adopt a child, because before I installed NRAAS Story Progression nobody in town got married or had babies. When I had to give the child a name, I thought I had to write both name and surname so I wrote "Willliam Jones". When I saw the poor boy was now William Jones Jones, it amused me so much I just left it that way.)
Tell me about your mistakes! Or, even better, share screenshots!
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It was a children's birthday party out by the pool and my sim child was coming to blow out the candles but this fire started and spread and a few children and adults who were standing close by and they caught on fire and burned to death, a few others standing around freaking out were suddenly on fire, even a firefighter who was using the extinguisher to try to put the fire out burned and died when he caught on fire...
The fire was still going when I quit the game without saving, but if I hadn't I'm sure my sims would've came out fine physically. They got out of the way in time, lol.
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And this isn't exactly related to the game, but one of my main families back in early 2012 was this super-rich family headed by Declan...the matriarch? It took me until I was done with high school and also well-attached to that household to learn that Declan is actually a man's name.
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Then I looked up all the ways to increase the chances of having a multiple birth pregnancy: listening to the kids radio station and watching the kids channel TV. I took my gay male couple I was playing at the time, and got them both pregnant. Then I had them listen to the kids radio station and watch the kids channel on TV as much as possible. I also gave them the fertility treatment LTR, the first time I had use that. Now, the mod I was using allows a 0.01% chance of quads, which wasn't apparent because in the mod settings menu it only shows a 0.00. Both guys had quads. I was floored. I didn't have a problem with the game lagging, but it was a major shock. I started to blog about the experience, but sadly never finished that particular household.
My most recent mistake was in adding extra trait slots using Retuner without disabling the add missing traits to sims feature in story progression.That was enough of a disaster with only two families and it could've been a lot worse if I'd already had dozens of families.
My third mistake was adding school rabbit holes to Winfield and Glenvale County which forced children and kids into that school.I should have them all in home-schooling before adding the school next time.
I got the never ending loadscreen and had to quit without saving. Then upon reloading the game, whenever I tried to reload their house, I got the never ending loadscreen all over again and had to trash my save.
I really miss that save. It was so much work.
Still, it taught me a valuable lesson about not over filling inventories, and moving. Until Twallan, bless the modfather, expanded his entire suite of mods from one single SP mod, to the suite there is now, which helps a great deal.
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... And then Seasons destroyed my laptop's insides and I decided to get a Macbook to replace it, and discovered I couldn't play the game on it at all.
I hate Seasons.
The only major oopsies I made in TS3 was waiting three sim weeks to save a file and then only doing so when I decided to travel and watched as the game crashed.
I had a sim (Cornelia and Gunther Goth's daughter) die of starvation during an eating contest too. I brought her back to life as a ghost and had her alien husband use the potion that turns them into a temporary ghost until my sim could eat some ambrosia.
My biggest mistake was to reset my sim after they were caught spray painting in university and were about to be arrested. When I reset them their icon disappeared and I had to exit without saving.
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About the dying of starvation thing, I don't know if you already know, but it was a bug, and they eventually fixed it.
I know, this happened right after Seasons was released, and that was the only time I had this issue.
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So I starved my sim while trying to get her a tan.
I made her lie on a lounge chair for 3 sim days
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1. That was my first big mistake too. When I sent my sim to fix the dish washer a second time they were electrocuted again and then this foreboding music started playing and the grim reaper appeared. When my sim died I was shocked because I didn't realize sims could die. Instead of choosing a new household to play I quit that game in a huff.
2. The first time I played a married couple from the start I was so frustrated trying to get them to sleep in the same double bed. I didn't realize their relationship had to advance first.
3. I was completely frustrated trying to get my professional sports sim to win a game while playing with the combined school/stadium from Pets. Even after I found out the problem was a glitch with that building I kept it in that game because I had written the "loosing team" scenario into the storyline. But I never play with that combo stadium any more.
I've done that a couple of times too.
I never knew that birthday cakes can cause fires... woahhh
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Yes that's happened to me too. Also there is one double bed in the base camp in "France" that has a beside table placed incorrectly so that only one sim can sleep in the bed. I've had sims try to woohoo there and go through the same foot-stamping routine you describe.
I've had so many birthday deaths... *cry* Those birthday cakes are ebil! Seriously though, my sims often age up without a party if I like them. Don't want them to burn up on their birthday!
That said, I have never had one cause that kind of destruction. Poor ApparentlyAwesome!