Forum Announcement, Click Here to Read More From EA_Cade.
Hobbies maxed but no hobby people have been around and no access to secret lots
AprilDawn
Posts: 795 Member
in The Sims 2
I recently got the Sims Ultimate collection. I am enjoying playing Sims 2 again - especially around the holidays where you can get Santa to come!
I have sims living in an apartment in Strangetown. They have maxed several hobbies but those hobby people that just come right into your house have never come by and my sims do not have access to the secret lots and did not get a plaque. Does anyone know if this is because they are living in an apartment? I have played apartments many times before but do not remember if this happened before. I have never played an apartment in Strangetown before but I have used apartments in several other worlds.
Also, can you get Santa to come to an apartment? That does not seem to be working either. I decorated and made Santa cookies and left them out but no Santa. I was thinking you have to have a wreath on the front door though (I forget all of what needs to be done to trigger the Santa visit) and cannot do that in an apartment.
Thank you!
Happy Holidays!
I have sims living in an apartment in Strangetown. They have maxed several hobbies but those hobby people that just come right into your house have never come by and my sims do not have access to the secret lots and did not get a plaque. Does anyone know if this is because they are living in an apartment? I have played apartments many times before but do not remember if this happened before. I have never played an apartment in Strangetown before but I have used apartments in several other worlds.
Also, can you get Santa to come to an apartment? That does not seem to be working either. I decorated and made Santa cookies and left them out but no Santa. I was thinking you have to have a wreath on the front door though (I forget all of what needs to be done to trigger the Santa visit) and cannot do that in an apartment.
Thank you!
Happy Holidays!
0
Comments
Your Sims can also interact with Santa and become BFFs with him - great for when your household needs another friend for a promotion.
Word of warning: he often clogs the toilet!
The hobby issue seems to be a glitch.
Sometimes, I've had to let hobby enthusiasm fall back to 4 just to raise it to 5 again to get the pop-up for the hobby lots.
My only issue with the hobby lots themselves is they are fight clubs. somebody always gets into a fight and my Sims stop what they are doing to watch the scrap. It would be alright if it happened every once in a while, but it happens almost every...single...time! And it might happen every time, but depending on the lot, my Sims can be in a walled off area, not able to notice it.
Seems I solved at least some of the problems - I did get Santa to come to an apartment
My sims have now moved to a house and the music hobby lady came by though not for the one that had music maxed so he will likely have to drop it down and then back up again to get it. So apparently there is a problem with the hobby sims - especially if living in an apartment. Don't recall ever having the problem when I played disks so I wonder why there is a problem with the UC - odd.
Funny how brawls break out at your secret lots! Do your sims have lots of enemies? I have never seen that happen that I remember but I have not played a secret lot with the UC yet. The only secret lots I really like are the cooking one because of the cooking contest and the music one because you can do the dance contest - the rest are boring from what I remember.
Speaking of brawls, it was funny living in the apartments - I had put those 4 singles sims (2 are part alien) that are in the bin in one of the apartments and two of them were always fighting like Angela and Lilith Pleasant!
TS2 Graphics Fix Tutorial]
I just got done playing their round in Strangetown in my game, and the same happened to me. For me it was Erin (the blonde related to Loki Beaker) and Chloe (the alien with the cropped red hair) who were always at each other’s throats.
It’s amusing to me at first, but after a while the constant fighting gets on my nerves, so I make sure those two are always busy doing something when they are both at home at the same time.
The Pleasants are coded to fight often. It was part of the original story before you ever add any EPs or SPs. Once you add those you don't get the full force of what happens at that house like you would if you were playing the base only. Particular things happen in that household when you first load them (if they are first family played) (Maxis set it up that way) and in base game only. Like the maid ask if he wants her to stay, he gets caught by wife cheating, and the girls start fighting. It depended on your answers (triggers) but yeah it had a particular setup to support it's background story. All the base game households have that setup which is hidden to player. But you only get the full force of it if any one of those houses are the first family you play. If they are the second or third it throws off what might have happened if they were the first family. They all have particular hidden triggers to make stuff happen.
The game was patched to stop the Hobby Sims from busting in the houses so much, and never to call for mags. but I see in TS2UC this patch doesn't seem to be there. They bust in often and they call often. But I think the apartment was your problem and if you are already in max enthusiam you might have redo that somehow. Simwardobe had an object mod to change the hobby then you could change it again to the one your Sim has now, and then build that back up (in a house) so you can go to the secret lots. I'm sorry I am long winded I just put that stuff there so others who have never played would know why those sisters are always fighting, it's supposed to be from the broken home effect on kids. And just a note for new players, if you cheat to raise skills and or enthusiam it won't work. The game will not recoginize the last cheated skill point or the last section of enthusiam being filled. You have to actually earn those last things. (I know you have been around a long time sorry just telling new players).
Thanks again and Happy New year!
Happy New Year to you too! That's weird mine are the same and eight Sims in my household and them busting in can be nerve racking. lol
Fun fact, this is one reason why the basegame neighborhoods have so many bugs. (That and all the unresurrectable sims...) Not all of these prompts and triggers worked out that great with expansion packs.
When I used to play a game with discs and pleasantview in my menu, though seldom played other than making over sims and houses, the maid would randomly ask in that neighborhood if you wanted her to stay. Even if she wasn't Kaylinn.
TS2 Graphics Fix Tutorial]
I have gotten hobby sims in my apartment though
And yes you can get Santa on the apartment.
Hmm - mine did not ever show up until I moved them into a house. I am thinking it is because the apartment building is in Strangetown because I do not remember having the problem when I played in the town that actually came with apartments (I forget the name of it right now - Belladonna or something like that I think). Or - it is suddenly a problem because I got the Ultimate Collection - was playing on discs before - but not sure why there would be a difference other than a glitch in UC or what Cinebar said about UC not having a patch. I may do a test and play in the apartment town to see if it works there. I did get Santa to come to the apartment finally and a Christmas tree fire! Fun times
Interesting. I've had issues with them showing up in custom apartments that I made, maybe it has something to do with me not making the apartment perfectly? (It was also last install, so it could have been one of many glitches that hung out in that neighborhood...)
TS2 Graphics Fix Tutorial]