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DoloresGrey
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Today I've done a silly thing which I can't take back due to saving.
So, last week or so I furnished a super duper cute apartment for my freshly graduated sim. I used the simkea sp (by Illogical Sims). It took me hours to furnish her one bedroom apartment. I was really chuffed with the result. The very next day my sim got pregnant. With twins. So she and her family enjoyed their awesome apartment only for one week because there wasn't enough room and rooms for all of them. I decided to move them to another place.
And I accidentaly took the furniture with them.
I was really looking forward to once come back to live there with one of her children.
I am so sad.
Please, share your fails so I know I am not there alone
So, last week or so I furnished a super duper cute apartment for my freshly graduated sim. I used the simkea sp (by Illogical Sims). It took me hours to furnish her one bedroom apartment. I was really chuffed with the result. The very next day my sim got pregnant. With twins. So she and her family enjoyed their awesome apartment only for one week because there wasn't enough room and rooms for all of them. I decided to move them to another place.
And I accidentaly took the furniture with them.
I was really looking forward to once come back to live there with one of her children.
I am so sad.
Please, share your fails so I know I am not there alone
-probably just playing Phasmophobia 
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With all seriousness though, i've had one or two like that before where i took up the entire apartment.
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my most recent fail is attempting to mesmerise Caleb Vatore so i could get at his husband and turn him into a vampire. didn't work. Fortunately i saved just before that point but i felt pretty silly suspecting it was a silly idea all the same.
Cooking skill improved, and he'd caught a fish to roast. 'Fire!' I think that in only one instance was he able to successfully roast and eat his food without catching his chair on fire. I went back to playing my lawyer save.
Oh, I've also chosen to try being off-grid. Daughter started off wanting to enjoy beach life as a tourist, but being alien, she can't tan (I changed her to fishing.) None of them (alien mum, daughter, and mersim roomie) can use the phone to get a job, the only one who has a job is the daughter (Doctor) and she keeps wanting to take days off. /)_-)
I play with aliens too and was also surprised by this at first. It would be nice if they could just make the other sim forget something that just happened rather than erasing all memory, but I've gotten used to it now.
Incidentally, whenever I make a new sim and choose the questionnaire option... they're an alien. idk what that says about me. lol.
I don't play with aliens too often but I did this to my Sim's best friend (who is also an alien) and she had to reintroduce herself.
As for my fail, I accidentally aged up my adult sim in two separate households in teo separate saves instead of their children. This was within a few days of each other. Luckily, I could quit without saving and undo my mistake. You'd think after doing it once, I would be more careful....nope.
@Melfox we are all noobs when new packs come out and were all once noobs when we started. There are so many mistakes to be made - I know I haven't finished making them all.
My two worst mistakes - when I first started and was trying to age up a toddler with a birthday cake, I accidentally aged up his father who was a young adult (twice!) into an elder. The child was still a toddler. I then tried to age the toddler with the mother but aged her too. I couldn't get it into my head that I was doing it wrong and kept doing it wrong. (Thankfully I decided to read the forums after that.)
My 2nd mistake - at a party my sim had her whole family there. She had been having marriage issues because another sim had flirted with her (despite her rejecting him) and the husband was very jealous. I used flirty music and paintings to get her husband in the mood to repair their relationship. I accidentally clicked on their young adult son for the romantic interaction (sims too close together). Due to the romantic auras and sims being sims - he swung his mother over in a passionate kiss. It caused his fiance to burst into tears and leave saying never call me again. And the father slapped the mother in the face and asked for a divorce. The mother and son kept making out. It was horrible and sad. I left without saving - no long term harm done but I lost a few hours of gameplay because I hadn't saved for a while.
One reason I looked for a sims community was to try to avoid this kind of thing! But some mistakes can be fun. Usually in retrospect.
I'm currently playing a legacy save wherein the father married his college friend (this was a backstory I wrote up on the Household Info panel since this was before Discover University was announced). After winning the lottery, the couple moved with their three children (who have all been aged up now to young adults) to the big 64x64 mansion in Brindleton Bay. While I don't consider myself a good builder, I can at least get a grip on setting up rooms and expanding on lots.
Anyway, to make a long story longer, I had purchased the weather changing machine, and the father had earned TheKnack reward trait for completing the Nerd Brain aspiration, so he gave the machine an instant upgrade. That leads us to what happened last night during a playthrough. The weather changing machine is set up on a porch that leads to an addition to the house that I had built. It's a thunderstorm, and the playful independent dog is running about in Brindleton Bay, so in addition to calling him home, I also go to change the current weather. Wouldn't you know it? I forgot there was no roof over the porch, so just as Matty (the father) is about to change the weather... BAM! Lightning strike. Thankfully, the lightning strike didn't kill him, so I opted to just run with it. I just thought it was hilarious that the first time I had a sim get struck by lightning is when they are changing the weather.
Later on I made this mistake: I had a group of Sims at Strangerville. They were on a mission. I decided to let my young Lieutenant be in charge. What I forgot to do was to have the others in the Landing Party take a vacation day. So, I had one of them come home early. My first clue should have been that the Vulcan was dressed in a Hawaiian shirt and shorts, instead of his Space Ranger uniform when he 'returned'. When I sent them off to the lab is when I discovered I couldn't control the Vulcan. So, I decided to have him come home early again. This time he came home in the proper attire for his job. Thinking this was the correct Vulcan, I promptly deleted the one dressed in his Hawaiian attire. Later on when I had the group go to the bar, the Vulcan's human mother came in. I went to have him greet her and the only thing he could do was introduce himself.
Would that I had that mod with the ancestral save …
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Anyways a while went by and I realized I forgot about the first Sim. Apparently he decided to play basketball at the park and that meant that he switched to athletic wear which means that he was no longer protected from the cold.
When I switched to him his action said that he was freezing to death and I couldn't cancel it. I tried to leave the lot but nope. Grim came and took him after he froze to death and I lost the plea to save him. That was my first death in my Sims 4 game that was in my control.
My most recent fail was deleting a lot of townies I had actually become very fond of. Thank goodness, I had an older save where I found them and was able to bring them back. I don't know why, but sometimes I feel compelled to go on a deletion spree and always end up regretting it.
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Time enjoyed is never time wasted
This! I do this often too because I just dont like some of the 'random' townies that get produced or whatever. My fail is that I always seem to delete some sort of random parent that was used for the mccc mod and then later on I regret it so much. I deleted a few of regular townies too on accident because they were in a household by themselves and were elders and I just delete without realizing and Nancy Landgraab is gone forever. (She has triplets with my one main sim) I didn't even realize until I saw the kids walking around one day and I used mccc and saw that they had no mother.
Luckily I had a guest inside the house to take care of the newborn. Game screaming: the baby is hungry!!!
The parents were dropped down again, first the mother.
And a little later the father.
What the f........??
Sure enough, he was pregnant and gave birth to a "twin" boy.
It is very rare that the game takes my breath away, but this time it succeeded to do so.
Home keepers are sims moved into existing households to allow the other sims to go to university. When the sims, who went to university, either drop out or graduate, the home keeper are likely to move out.
When home keepers move out, I might prepare a new home and make a house mate of opposite gender for each of them. George Cahill left long ago, meaning his former home was vacant but too small for my use.
She kept texting me asking for help cause she didn't know how to do certain things.
So wile im texting her different tips an tricks, she sends another txt saying.
"I JUST GOT INTO MY HOUSE AND KILLED MY SIM!!! I THINK IM DOING THIS WRONG!"
Turns out her Sim was killed by fire using the infamous cheap stove lol
My reply - "Welcome to the Simming world."
Curious, mine do cook in those autonomously. It may be one of the items you have to make them use once yourself to 'unlock' it.
Wow! That's a jaw dropper!
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