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    The Genie, What Did You Wish For?

    AstroAstro Posts: 6,651 Member
    in The Sims (2000)
    So, I just got the genie lamp today in game. I clicked on it and the genie came out and said I had 3 wishes ~ blah, blah, blah ~.

    So I saw there's we're 6 (I think), and I ended up choosing the "live longer" one, all it did was reset his current life stage. I was hoping he would become immortal, oh well, still have 2 left.

    Which wishes did you choose an why? :mrgreen:

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      Rflong7Rflong7 Posts: 36,588 Member
      Hi :)

      There's 3 and I usually ask for peace of mind (platinum)... or money. :mrgreen:
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      AstroAstro Posts: 6,651 Member
      Rflong7 wrote: »
      Hi :)

      There's 3 and I usually ask for peace of mind (platinum)... or money. :mrgreen:
      Hello! :mrgreen:

      Is platinum permanent? And how much money do you get?
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      Rflong7Rflong7 Posts: 36,588 Member
      Yes, it's permanent but I don't remember how much money. It's been awhile since I had ask for money. :D
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      KennydkKennydk Posts: 31 Member
      Does the genie ever 'mess up' wishes like in TS1? I use to avoid the genie in that game like the plague!
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      Rflong7Rflong7 Posts: 36,588 Member
      edited June 2015
      I don't remember if the Genie does- I've never had it fail. I have had the Wishing Well fail.

      Gawh, yes- never the genie in The Sims. XD
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      ashleyrenee210ashleyrenee210 Posts: 187 Member
      Astro wrote: »
      Rflong7 wrote: »
      Hi :)

      There's 3 and I usually ask for peace of mind (platinum)... or money. :mrgreen:
      Hello! :mrgreen:

      Is platinum permanent? And how much money do you get?

      It depends on how many money bags fall from the sky. Whenever you wish for money money bags fall every hour or so each time decreasing in value. I did this for Nina Caliente once and the first one she got was $50,000 then the next was $10,000 then $5,000 then $1,000 and I think that's it. I don't exactly remember but it was something like that. It all really depends though because I also got it for Dina (Since she's married to Julien Cooke in my game) and it only gave her a $10,000 moneybag.
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      RazingRazing Posts: 287 Member
      If my LW is impossible (Like a job that I didn't want my sim to be in etc) I choose Peace of mind. I don't normally choose for money because being poorer is more fun than being rich. I also choose longer life if my sim is near to aging and I don't want them to and I choose the one to resurrect a dead sim if I want my sim back. BTW why do you get given the genie lamp? I thought it was from something to do with romance but sometimes my sims get it for no reason :p
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      Seera1024Seera1024 Posts: 3,629 Member
      Razing wrote: »
      If my LW is impossible (Like a job that I didn't want my sim to be in etc) I choose Peace of mind. I don't normally choose for money because being poorer is more fun than being rich. I also choose longer life if my sim is near to aging and I don't want them to and I choose the one to resurrect a dead sim if I want my sim back. BTW why do you get given the genie lamp? I thought it was from something to do with romance but sometimes my sims get it for no reason :p

      High hobby enthusiasm AND high lifetime aspiration. And that grants a chance of a lamp.
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      RazingRazing Posts: 287 Member
      @Seera1024 Thanks :)
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      AstroAstro Posts: 6,651 Member
      Hmm, I'll probably do "peace of mind" next. :p
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      KayeStarKayeStar Posts: 6,715 Member
      I usually wished for money.
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      redfox5redfox5 Posts: 17 New Member
      I always ask to bring someone back to life, they way I play, my neighbourhood has a high death count.
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      NerdySims99NerdySims99 Posts: 150 Member
      I usually chose money because my sims were usually so poor that I needed to chose that option. I never tried the 'peace of mind' before but it sounds like I'll have to!
      "You've gotta be stirring my pasta."
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      Sigzy05Sigzy05 Posts: 19,406 Member
      Money, Money and I usually set the ginie free :p I'm too good of a person to let the ginie rot inside the lamp :blush:
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      slynnskislynnski Posts: 2,316 Member
      edited June 2015
      Money and peace of mind. Perma-platinum sure is a nice perk.

      To comment on what someone mentioned above -- yes, you get a higher chance of getting the lamp if your hobby enthusiasm and lifetime aspiration is high, but I have had many sims get it when both were low, too. I think being really good at keeping your sim happy and fulfilling a ton of wants helps the chances too.

      ETA or maybe I'm just lucky. XD
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      EgonVMEgonVM Posts: 4,937 Member
      My favorite wish: Power to Cheat Death. Sometimes, when sim is crushed by satellite, this power can save that sim's life.
      Then Peace of Mind.
      My sims never wish for money. Or Burglar will come, and I don't want my sim to be furious to somebody.
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      Shadecaster101Shadecaster101 Posts: 1,343 Member
      I just got the genie lamp yesterday. I wished for fortune three times. What happens is for each wish of fortune, a bag of $10,000 Simoleons falls from the sky. A couple bags fall later, of lesser amounts (for me it was usually $7,000 and $4,000).

      I didn't wish for any of the others because the Sim I was wishing as was a married elder with an already permanent platinum aspiration.
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