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    Why dont sims grab the cowplant cake?

    NotSoLuckyNotSoLucky Posts: 4,682 Member
    in The Sims 3 General Discussion
    No sims around my neighborhood have ever autonomously grabbed the cake.

    Is it true that you can only be controlling them to make them do it? Because i want it to eat visitors that visit my sims house. I even put them around town but nobody is dying.

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      BoltzY2kBoltzY2k Posts: 11,123 New Member
      edited January 2012
      NotSoLucky wrote:
      No sims around my neighborhood have ever autonomously grabbed the cake.

      Is it true that you can only be controlling them to make them do it? Because i want it to eat visitors that visit my sims house. I even put them around town but nobody is dying.
      It looks like it I haven't had any NPCs take the cake yet.
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      NotSoLuckyNotSoLucky Posts: 4,682 Member
      edited January 2012
      BoltzY2k wrote:
      NotSoLucky wrote:
      No sims around my neighborhood have ever autonomously grabbed the cake.

      Is it true that you can only be controlling them to make them do it? Because i want it to eat visitors that visit my sims house. I even put them around town but nobody is dying.
      It looks like it I haven't had any NPCs take the cake yet.

      Aww. that sucks. The whole point i bought it was to have it eat other simmies. :x
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      eclipsetrixxzeclipsetrixxz Posts: 1,534 Member
      edited January 2012
      NotSoLucky wrote:
      BoltzY2k wrote:
      NotSoLucky wrote:
      No sims around my neighborhood have ever autonomously grabbed the cake.

      Is it true that you can only be controlling them to make them do it? Because i want it to eat visitors that visit my sims house. I even put them around town but nobody is dying.
      It looks like it I haven't had any NPCs take the cake yet.

      Aww. that sucks. The whole point i bought it was to have it eat other simmies. :x

      ^ I agree! :lol:
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      Magic_DancerMagic_Dancer Posts: 1,398 Member
      edited January 2012
      How sad. That ruins the whole thing.
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      NotSoLuckyNotSoLucky Posts: 4,682 Member
      edited January 2012
      Yea. I also tried debugging the cake spawn with twallans debut enabler but its not there.

      I wish random sims would be able to die from it.
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      bshag4lvbshag4lv Posts: 9,378 Member
      edited January 2012
      I bought it just for the papparazzi and they ignore it. :x The only one who keeps wanting to eat the cake is my sim. :roll: Very annoying!
      In my house, dog hair sticks to everything but the dog.
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      JenieusaJenieusa Posts: 5,142 Member
      edited January 2012
      NotSoLucky wrote:
      No sims around my neighborhood have ever autonomously grabbed the cake.

      Is it true that you can only be controlling them to make them do it? Because i want it to eat visitors that visit my sims house. I even put them around town but nobody is dying.

      worked for me....you have to starve them....don't feed or play with them for a day or so...then invite a sim over....
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      MayIHaveACookieMayIHaveACookie Posts: 20,488 Member
      edited January 2012
      I wasn't gonna get it, as you have to buy the whole set, but I agree the whole point is for the plant to eat all them annoying neighbours! D:
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      mangoesandlimesmangoesandlimes Posts: 2,623 Member
      edited January 2012
      They should make a patch for it and have paparazzis added to the list of Sim traits the cow plant likes.
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      SheDemonSheDemon Posts: 39 New Member
      edited January 2012
      my butler autonomously grabbed the cake. so yes NPC can do it on their own.

      i have yet to see the paparazzi do it tho.
      (half the reason i got one)
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      BoltzY2kBoltzY2k Posts: 11,123 New Member
      edited January 2012
      SheDemon wrote:
      my butler autonomously grabbed the cake. so yes NPC can do it on their own.

      i have yet to see the paparazzi do it tho.
      (half the reason i got one)
      Oh good! There's still hope yet lol.

      The cow plant won't eat everyone. It wont' eat sims with the good, lucky or unlucky traits. There's probably others too. Also if a sim has the brave trait the cow plant will spit them back out. I'm not sure if it's guarenteed 100% of the time. Just some extra information I found.

      I'm thinking sims with the opposite traits will be more likely to eat the cake. Probably evil and mean spirited. For mean spirited sims there's the icon right next to "take cake."
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      NotSoLuckyNotSoLucky Posts: 4,682 Member
      edited January 2012
      Jenieusa wrote:
      NotSoLucky wrote:
      No sims around my neighborhood have ever autonomously grabbed the cake.

      Is it true that you can only be controlling them to make them do it? Because i want it to eat visitors that visit my sims house. I even put them around town but nobody is dying.

      worked for me....you have to starve them....don't feed or play with them for a day or so...then invite a sim over....

      I invited like 10 sims over and none of them grabbed it
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      nicolebrittanyynicolebrittanyy Posts: 6,513 Member
      edited January 2012
      I've had the little kids who deliver the newspaper grab the cake before... but they never die. It always spits them back up :evil:
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      NotSoLuckyNotSoLucky Posts: 4,682 Member
      edited January 2012
      nicolebrittanyy wrote:
      I've had the little kids who deliver the newspaper grab the cake before... but they never die. It always spits them back up :evil:

      Kids are only snacks. They want a real meal :wink:
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      JenieusaJenieusa Posts: 5,142 Member
      edited January 2012
      Sorry they are dark...it was at night


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      MinDtriKzMinDtriKz Posts: 5,441 Member
      edited January 2012
      My cowplant just spits the Sims back out... and I see them around town later the next day. I think only one person has ever died from the plant. So far, not worth it! Need a mod to up the kill rate ;)
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      NotSoLuckyNotSoLucky Posts: 4,682 Member
      edited January 2012
      ^^ haha. The grim is playing with the cow.

      :lol:
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      NotSoLuckyNotSoLucky Posts: 4,682 Member
      edited February 2012
      MinDtriKz wrote:
      My cowplant just spits the Sims back out... and I see them around town later the next day. I think only one person has ever died from the plant. So far, not worth it! Need a mod to up the kill rate ;)

      Actually thats a good idea. I wonder if anybody could make a mod for it?

      Anybody here make mods? :mrgreen:
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      assionpayassionpay Posts: 4
      edited December 2012
      BoltzY2k wrote:
      SheDemon wrote:
      my butler autonomously grabbed the cake. so yes NPC can do it on their own.

      i have yet to see the paparazzi do it tho.
      (half the reason i got one)
      Oh good! There's still hope yet lol.

      The cow plant won't eat everyone. It wont' eat sims with the good, lucky or unlucky traits. There's probably others too. Also if a sim has the brave trait the cow plant will spit them back out. I'm not sure if it's guarenteed 100% of the time. Just some extra information I found.

      I'm thinking sims with the opposite traits will be more likely to eat the cake. Probably evil and mean spirited. For mean spirited sims there's the icon right next to "take cake."

      It also does not like neurotic sims. My sim went for the cake before I could stop her and it spit her out because she's neurotic :). Thought I'd add :)
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      A_MomA_Mom Posts: 868 Member
      edited December 2012
      When I bought my first cowplant I left it in the front yard but no one ever tried for the cake. The poor thing finally starved to death and keeled over. then I felt bad so the next one I bought I've been feeding regularly and have given up on it eating other sims.

      I had wanted it to eat the zombies but they were never interested.

      I guess you could always use a cheat to force a sim into your household for the sole purpose of making them try for the cake and getting eaten.
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      dothesmustledothesmustle Posts: 1,851 Member
      edited December 2012
      I couldn't wait for the cow plant but this one is like a kid friendly version of TS2s and for me is useless and pointless. I want it to eat people...I mean sims, I want it eat sims especially the paparazzi and Christopher Steele.
      You can call me smustle or Lori if you prefer.
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      bshag4lvbshag4lv Posts: 9,378 Member
      edited December 2012
      I never put it down anymore, what's the point. If I had known it wasn't going to eat anybody I never would have bought it. :x
      In my house, dog hair sticks to everything but the dog.
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