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How to trick or treat?
FaeChai
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So, I made a Halloween holiday for my sims and there's an option to trick or treat on that holiday. It says Sim teens and children love the tradition but what I cannot figure out is how to do it. I bought the candy bowl and had them take a piece and it didn't complete that task. Do I have to have them go to houses and knock on doors? That's the only thing I can think of, which is real trick or treating anyways.
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Dang that sucks. I waited all night and no kids showed up lol.
Yeah, it sucks.
As for the trick or treat interaction IT IS in the game. It was actually even patched with a holiday event back in the day so they have the code for it, and sims are suppose to actually animate and give a little candy to others. Tricking is just the scare interaction recycled....lol If you threw a Spooky Party you used to be able to use these interactions but they no longer appeared after Seasons. In the same post I did talk about the missing trick or treat interaction so maybe it's looked into, but knowing how this game operates it'll be a year before they fix it if at all.
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-INPUT-S-No-Trick-or-Treating-during-holiday/m-p/8284552#M106936
You'd think though that with Seasons they'd make trick or treating more intricate and add new animations but nope.........
Did you replace it with something? I've thought about replacing it with storytelling, but my current main family lives in Brindleton Bay - aka Rain World - and I don't want to rely on needing a fire pit.
In my experience, that's frequently how it goes in real life. The upside is I have a basket of candy all through November.
I haven't replaced it with anything yet. Not sure what else to put there but I am planning and thinking on it. Might as well use the space!
This is often how it goes in my neighbourhood too!
God, I can not deal with this game anymore.
And besides that, Halloween is end of the month, with all their pointless support and marketing of costumes and halloween stuff for console, how can you miss to fix the actual feature in the game!
Honestly they should be adding costumes for toddlers, not YA. Since toddlers weren't around when Spooky Stuff came out.
I've made a Spring cleaning and Flower Bunny day too but I put them both on the same day to save days.
I think it's broken. I haven't had any trick or treaters in ages.
That's just mean.
My idea for trick and treating was this:
- For every family in the neighborhood I decide if they give out candy or not.
- Families that give out candy place the spooky bowl on their porch or on the lawn.
- Alternately they can also bake cookies or other appropriate stuff and leave that out in the open.
- Now my family goes from house to house and if they see the bowl/a cake/etc., they grab a treat. But if they see no bowl, they prank the residents with a mischief interaction. (Of course you'll need to tolerate loading screens for that)
Any other ideas for active trick and treating?
If it's not inside their house then they should be able to use it. It might work. If you do it and it works let us know. Sadly it won't complete the tradition though.
In addition to those, I have:
Earth Day
Superbowl Sunday
Spring Break (streaking included)
Health Day
Rememberance Day (For funerals)
4th of July
National Movie Day
Father's Day
Mother's Day
The Purge
Music Appreciation Day
National Baking Day
Labor Day
Thanksgiving
Nature Appreciation Day
Winter Break (lasts 2 days)
Christmas Eve
Christmas
New Years Eve
Valentine's Day
Summer Vacation (a full week off for kids/teens)
I like holidays.
Yep.
I'm now using the Life Tragedies mod, so I'll probably incorporate kidnappings and armed robberies somehow. I'm going to ask the creator to add a tradition for the tragedies.
https://twitter.com/MarianaF53
I added a Springfest (Garden, Decorate, Grand Meal), a Summerfest (Grill, Fireworks, Attend a ceremony (which I pretend is the local fireworks show), Summer break (4 days with no tradtions but as days off. I just picked up LilMsSam's school holiday mod, so I may put that in), and Winter break (the two days between Winterfest and New Year's eve)
And of course Fright Fest - And I'm disappointed that petting ghost cats or talking to your Alien half-sister doesn't count towards Spooky Spirit, either. Nor does *being* an Alien...
I play with two week seasons, and I moved Love Day to the first Friday of Spring, but I'm considering moving it again to that Saturday, because it happens that that's when the Romance Festival hits.
That pumpkin bowl The little kid is carrying is from a mod right?
Pictures
First the elderly Reed couple prepared a camping table. Then I switched to a household with a child and toddler to bring them over as visitors.
The Reeds forgot to actually make popcorn, so my visiting sims had to do it themselves.
They haven't yet knocked at the door, so the rest of the house is still inaccessable.
I couldn't put the spooky bowl on the porch for some reason, so it went on the lawn. Padme was able to use it.
Despite this Max (who was in my group, but not controlable) pranked the Reeds. Ah, well, that's Max Villareal for you, I guess.
Padme then grabbed a plate of cookies for her little sister, Sigrun. With no seating nearby, Sigrun turned around herself a few times, but eventually settled on the pavement and ate the cookies.
There was also the option to put the food in a lunch bag, in case you want your kids to take some home.
The kids then parttook of the popcorn while the accompanying adult helped himself to the Kava the Reeds had prepared beforehand. He called everyone, so the hosts finally showed up.
I then had Padme knock at the door. She found another spooky bowl inside the house that she tried, too.
Right picture: it's hard to see, but that's a fire cracker the Reeds had placed on the lawn. I made Padme open ten or so of them before she eventually got a plushie. It landed in her inventory to keep.
And later I caught a glimpse of Dorothy Reed cleaning up behind the kids.