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Some of my sims r such idiots... who in their right mind would lounge by the pool in the middle of winter with outerwear on of course to daydream????
Then the ones who go swimming in the winter is a real killer...before they go out the door to do so they spin and put on winter coats...then at the diving board they do the famous spin and naturally r in their swimsuits...then to make matters worse when they get out they decide to have a snowball fight and the idiots r still in their swimsuits...u would think the ones who have their logic skill maxed out would know better...not the case at all...
Then why must my sims use the table i put by the mailbox for the mail to put the coffee cups on...i mean they have tons of counter space 2 tables and they walk all that distance to put them on that table....and then they no sooner get back in the house and they turn and head out again to bring it to the dishwasher...and my tread mill was outside...i always had it there..well my sim girl needed to shed some pounds as i'm sure u all know they get really fat and fast with seasons...so i had her go jog off some pounds well believe me they overheat fast and u already know about the hygiene drop...well they still head for the shower and naturally a hot one at that...so she gets out of the shower and she is on fire...i think wow remind me not to take a shower when i'm overheated..so here i am trying to get the fire thought from her brain and get her to jump in the pool to cool off...nope she rather jump up and down and scream...meanwhile her husband and blessed children come running in and join the screaming concert..i had a heck of time trying to get them to forget about the fire and get the fire exstinguishers out of their butts to save her....to late she died...dumb i tell ya...what is more insane is the fact that while i'm watching them do these things...i'm actually talking to them and telling them they r idiots....:smt120
i did have pics of these momentive events..but i uninstalled my games and forgot to save them...but the memories live on....

So i think it would b fun to have us share some dumb things our precious sims do...moderators if there is already a thread like this i appologize in advance and feel free to remove it...however if this is the case plsz point me in the right direction of where they r at....

Do you mean stuff like fishing with the pole upside-down, stuffing fish up their butts, getting in bed with a partner and a woohoo want and turning on the TV?

yes micco some more good examples of unbelievable stupidity...i hope others will post their stupid sim moments also...it is fun for a good laugh...
how about this one...they r squeezing their legs together cuz they have to pee so bad and they r looking at me whining...and mind u there is 2 bathroom's downstairs which r much closer and 2 upstairs...all r not in use and they go upstairs to use the one that is plugged just to make a mess....then if they got a house full of people they all try to use the same one when there is 3 available....

Or when a pregnant sim has to throw up she will run upstairs to use the toilet up there instead of the one 2 steps away from her or when the cat is sitting on one of the counters they decide to cook something and they have to put it on that one instead of the other 4 or so counters. :roll:

its just a game...i think ur lookin too much into it..if it wasnt so bizarre it wouldnt be any fun
people do things that are waaaaaaay dumber in real life
this thread for example:coffee:

^anyhow, buzz-kill san.
why is it, when the bathroom's free, they wash dishes in the kitchen sink but insist on washing dishes in the bathroom sink when someone's in there?

I have a greenhouse with 70 tiles of plantable area. One would think that when told to plant many from a corner start that they would plant an entire row and then go to the next row. Not our simmies and heaven forbid you get two of them working on it, they will go along just fine until they meet up and then they both start working the same tile at double cost. Guess it's not the heat, it's the stupidity ;)

Well my sims aren't as dumb as I thought they were. Once I left free will on after filling the house with essentials and getting them a job, then I decided to sit back and watch. I thought they would be dead within the hour, but to my surprise they lasted a week and then I got bored of them not entertaining me so I exited.

not quite sure how it happened but my sim gave birth to her 1st baby (she was havin twins) and put it on the floor next to her but the when she gave birth to the 2nd she put it on top of the other one and then picked baby 1 up, then put 1 down on 2 picked 2 up and carried on repeating this for about an hour until the dad got bored of "watching birth" and picked up baby 1 and wandered off!! Mum then 'realised' what she was doing picked up baby 2 and went and put it in its cot!!

Haven't got seasons yet but i can't wait to get it!!

    Sammie

:oogle: wtf? ok, that's just weird. :oogle:

Yes, Sometimes they can be very dumb =)

For Bev in NY & other simmers-- I found a mod patch at Palladin's Site (www.simwardrobe.com (http://www.simwardrobe.com)) that stops Sims from bursting into flames from overheating. According to Palladin-- and he claims to have gone into the code program lines added to Seasons-- a sim with body temp. over 70, has a 1/100 chance of bursting into flames every 15 game minutes.  Simbody temp. of 70 is way below 100 which is the temp. of heat exhaustion for sims. The EA designers seem to be ghoulish in this last game add-on. I'm picking up all my hot tubs & placing them in each house owner's inventory for now. I'm testing this new mod from Palladin in Roswell, New Mexico (Strangetown, to some of you).  The biggest problem is neighbors who drop by to visit & hop into the hot tub while I'm busy looking after the average 6 sims in the household. They sometimes stay all night in the hot tub & risk self-immolation. Yeah, turning into a Roman candle. Ka-poof. On the other hand, I had a guy do the Military obsticle course for 4 Sim hours in deep snow in his underwear & he hardly even got cold. He got a body point, too. Tough nuts, these sims. Roger93.

Re the coffee cups. The stupidity is with the game designers.  They think it's cute for these little electrons to do dumbass stuff like take the coffee cup out to the little table you have by the mailbox, marching through rain & snow in their underwear. They could have designed the sims program so simmies could put their empty coffee cup down on the dining table, a counter or any free nearby surface but they had to be cute & drive you nuts.  The program sends the little simmies to the nearest coffee table height surface first, including those lighted boxes you put outside so you can find the mail in the dark of night. Designers, yak. Roger93.

I must tell U I like all those sims stupy exemples. And I thnik there is real people like that!.

I had a Sim give birth at the same time it was time for her to drive to work. Well the baby got stuck on her arm somehow and she got in her car and drove to work with the baby! I thought the baby was lost! But when she came home, there the baby was and it was added to the family after that. :)

Maybe it was bring your child to work day

Ever had a Sim stop doing something just to wander off to view the artwork on the other side of their house? Or to have waterballoon fights in the middle of winter when there is a blizzard raging outside? My sims doesn't know any better.. :( There are times I sighed when I watch my sims simply walk out into the freezing weather without stopping to do the famous Wonder Woman spin to don their coats to ward themselves from the biting cold of the winter.

here's one for ya. it, too, relates to winter. if i don't keep my eye on them, my sims will go outside, build a snowman and/or make snowangels and freeze before i can get them to go inside.

Oh you've just gotta love the stupid things that Sims do.  If there is a pool in their yard, mine will insist on walking outside, going down the slide, then getting out of the pool to walk to the other side of the yard.  Is there a useable path with enough space for them to walk?  Yes.  Does this usually happen in the middle of winter?  Yes.  Will they ever do this in the summer?  Of course....not.

LMAO! This is so funny! Keep'em coming!

When i first got seasons, i had sims woohoo in the hottub during a rainstorm ( so romantic) They got struck by lightning .Then they got back in on their own and got zapped again.Killed em both.i couldn't of done that on purpose again still trying though.

MATY's Lotdebugger now has a "Smite" command....LOL You can recreate that one now.

you know what i hate that kids don't come to the bus and it takes 3 sim hours or more i have 5 kids and it takes forever

Monica has a "Run to bus" hack that clears this problem, my wee ones scamper like mice on speed. Someone has a "Stop skilling and go to work/school" hack as well, I think it's twojeffs over at MATY, but my brain is un-caffeinated right now, so I am not certain. :P

Hacks fix most stupid! YAY!!!

I made the dumb mistake of installing pets and seasons in the same day. So I had to get used to both environments in the same session in a new house.

I have new house built for seasons a 7 sim household, huge house on a huge lot entirely fenced in with "forbid pets on lot" selected for the gate. I am trying out the items that are first time for the sims like the hot tubs and poker tables.
 
7 sims are playing poker on two tables during my first rain storm complete with memory lagging lightning bursts and seemingly indoor rain??:

I cannot cancel their actions without them going back to the tables and playing the moment I cancel their actions.
I decide to delete both tables but this is not a simple task when the tables are the most popular item in the world right now to my sims.

I had to get one sim at a time to go downstairs to do something else and wait for their individual "use item" que to leave the chair so I could go into build and delete the chair.
Note that as soon as their actions are done, they rush back up to get on the poker table again!!
I did this one chair at a time, pausing to route new actions on each sim and restarting until I had one sim playing cards by himself.

While I was "herding" everyone out of the room I noticed that they all had decided to go the outside route to the downstairs area instead of taking the indoor stairs..

Two start having a pillow fight outside?? Meanwhile unbeknown to me, the others go off chasing a cat at the edge of the lot.
Later after I get them inside, not sure why they were out behind the house.. I make the mistake of having them get into the hot tub. (4 of them).
Three are done in the tub and while I'm getting one out because hes exhausted the others disappear some place.
I start to search for the missing sims and the one exhausted sim is given a quick ego boost from the ego mirror so I can get his needs quickly taken care of.
I start searching for the missing sims, and the wet sim runs outside in his swimsuit,  and helps me find the others because he wants to join in playing with the same cat AGAIN.
Within minutes, the sim who is outside in his swimwear without a coat catches the flu.
By forbidding pets, I apparently make the sims constantly leave the gate to go chase animals..
I am guessing that I need to reduce my household size in order to play seasons lol..

I absolutely hate when my sim takes the dead fish and walks all the way to the second floor bathroom to dispose of them when there's already a bathroom right there on the first floor! One time I was trying to get my dog to chase a robber from the house but she decided it was more important to wander off somewhere else and to insult to injury when the cop finally showed up she got beaten up by the robber. So much for protection. The only reason I didn't get anything stolen was because of the alarm I had in my house and in the car.

Why cant they EVER just take the shortest most direct route to get somewhere?  
Like the morons they are mine keep orbiting their house to use the back door, even when the front door is the more direct route to the room the need to visit.  Then when they are near the back door and need to use a room closer to there they go all the way around the house to use the front door!! ARGGHHH!!!!

Then the kids decide to nap on the couches whenever I put them to bed...  They just get up again and go sleep on the couches instead.  It drives me insane! Then when I cancel that interaction, hoping that the horrible critters will just go to their own beds they bee-line for th parents' bedroom!  I have to lock them in their rooms at night time to get them to sleep in their own beds.  I hate sims. But I cant stop playing with them either...mmm....

But my ULTIMATE peeve of ALL TIME has to be the Lobster Thermador OBSESSION.  I have no other word for it.  The INSIST on ALWAYS making LOBSTER!! Even when they aren't really hungry, with justa quarter of the hunger meter empty the kitchens are always full of half-chopped lobsters.  Thats the time most sims die for their stupidity.

What got me was the time my then pregnant female vampire was in the hallway. It was daytime, and for some reason she decided to walk out of the front door, out and back in again through the garage door, up the steps to take her back indoors, to about two or three tiles away from where she was standing, just so she could give birth >_< She was still smoking when the fourth arrived. That same vampire decided to take out the trash too some time later, again during the day. I didn't know it at the time because my attention was on another of this now large family, and when I next selected her she was indoors, but all her motives were critical - she was that close to making her poor hubby a widower. It wasn't until I noticed a passer-by complaining about the smell of trash outside that I realised that's what she'd tried to do >_<

UGH I just played uni through with 3 houses for my new story.  OMG they were throwing water balloons and family kissing ALL THE TIME!  I swear, kisskiss, throw the balloon...stomp the feet and throw another balloon, then kiss.

EVERYONE in the entire dorm was doing this.  I actually had to direct them to do other things because they were all just kissing all the time.  Yes, my Hogwarts story is a soap opera, but not -everyone- needs to snog constantly every day!

Oh God yeah, I noticed that too! I thought for a moment it was the peck cheek thing I downloaded, but nooo... >_< Something else in Seasons that needs to be squished ¬_¬

Oh god dont get me started about vampires I had one that kept wakeing up in the middel of the day only to go stand outside. I dont remember if she ulimatly died of her stupidity or not XD That was my first vamp and I havent had one since. XDDD

no you should do the asylum challenge, with 8 sims and not enough beds and so on, it is very funny!!

I want to know why nannies insist on getting bottles out of the fridge until they actually hand it to the toddler. Apparently putting it on the floor is not good enough for nannies. I've had several get up to three bottles for a toddler, even though the toddler has started sucking on the first one the nanny laid down.

Squinge came up with a hack that stopped Sims most annoying habit (IMO). I couldn't get my adults/teens to do anything but hold the dang baby. They kept going into the baby's room, picking it up, feeding it, playing with it or just standing there with it in their arms. Poor child couldn't get any rest. I had to lock the door to keep them out.

Oi I know that one jade my legacy family wont leave the youngest boy alone who is still a baby. I finaly gave up on getting them to stop and ingnored the one who was doind it he finaly got hungry and put the kid down ON THE FLOOR!!!! the crib was right next to him >,>

I'm sure my neighbors are making "she's crazy" gestures to each other because I'm always screaming "Leave the damn baby alone!" At my computer. (I have no kids) LMAO

i hate when my toddlers are about to pass out AND crap themselves from playing with the toys too long. i've got inge's bottle for them and a nice little hack from twojeffs to make sure they're not disturbed on the potty, but the annoying little brats just keep on playing till they're in the red.

Well the point is to control your sim which you can by turning free will off! But if you desire to see your sims go out side while its freezing or go into the hotub when its summer you can keep it on. But yes, Sims are VERY stupid...

this stuff is really funny i to am a sim adict but alsa sims is only a game made by only men as smart as the game itself. the whole game amazes me i know that the whole game is nothing but codes. It is just that the ppl that do the coding still have to be one smartcookie. the little dumb things they do keep the game interisting..

What I find really wacked out is the jealousy system. Not only does it kick in for sims that have a crush on each other, but I've had a couple of instances where the sim in question wasn't even in the same room, storming all the way over from the other side of the lot just to slap the "cheating" sim when all they had was a crush. It was a romance sim who was jealous too, which is even more ridiculous ¬_¬

Thankfully I won't have to endure that any more *happily pats Smonaff's committed only mod*

I have to admit that I´m much to dominant to give them their free will, mostly they do the things that I tell them. But yesterday my sim got up in the middle of the night, I just sat there and stared, and he had this fitness attack, when he reaches a new fitness level and admires his swell muscles, and I just thought,
oh, you little brat, you´re just right back at the punching bag...:mad:

:laughing::laughing:

My husband used to give me crazy looks when I would do that too. I still occasionally yell at the computer screen, but he's learned to ignore me now.

I take my sims very serious. Sometimes I get so angry because of their stupidity, that I run away from the game.

How many times doesn't it happen that just before the bus comes to get the kid to school, it throws a new quarter in the arcade. I can live with that, because they are kids right?

What I really really really hate is when a neighbour comes to vist but refused to accept to be welcomed, because there suddenly is some fluff on her shoulder. On top of that the greeting sim completely forgets why she is out in the freezing cold and just stand staring into a blank.

You just can't order a sim and go to an other part of the house. They will use the slightest excuse to completely forget what they were supposed to do.

That's why I always turn free will off...strangely enough it comes back on!

My teen girl once just decided to get naked and streak. Through her own home. Her brother and father were home. So, she runs up to her brother and starts dancing. Naked. He makes this disgusted face and she runs off and stops RIGHT in front of pops and dances. STILL NAKED. He just stares in shock until she runs away (still naked) into the street where the bus pulls up. I mean, can you be much more of a creep/idiot/freak? But, I have to say, I lol'd. (o:

Nannies must be one of the most annoying things ever coded for the game... I HATE THEM!!! They never arrive when they need to, instead of (example) 8AM they arrive at 01:00AM WTF?? They keep making these elaborate deserts (that no one eats) confiscate the bathrooms for their personal 'needs' and stay in there for hours, refuse to leave when you fire/dismiss them, only on the 6th try usually... Overfeed babies with 10 000 000 bottles strewn everywhere and refuse to pick them up...  UGH!!
ANd why is it necessary to phone a nanny when there are non-resident (family)adults on the lot? (Ex: grandma comes over to visit, mom goes off to work, dad's dead.... who look after little billy? a batty nanny! Apparently his loving granny isn't motherly enough...??)

The mind boggles.

OMG, Tomkat, I totally agree that nannies SUCK!  My brother hired a nanny, who didn't take care of his kid, burned his kitchen down, and when he didn't have enough money to pay for her "services," she "took" the rest of his burnt kitchen as "payment". xD!

Oh, dumb things my Sims do, right.

My lady-sim has been asked out by the same guy three times, which I didn't know could happen; I thought you had to ask THEM out.  Apparently not! :0  Anyway, so they're like, making out, woo-hooing in their car, and daddy-dearest walks by.  What does he do?  Strikes up a conversation with the guy.  About what, you ask?  Why, his son's graduation, of course! XD

Another stupid thing:  my babies will NOT grow up.  I mean, I get the parents to go over and help them with it, like you have to, but it doesn't work! D;  They stand there like, "HURRR, LET'S GET CHUU A BOTTLE, EVEN THOUGH YOU'VE HAD 15 ALREADY.  -feed-"  It's three days later that they help the baby grow up on their own. :?  That's why I always have free-will on. xD

More dumb things.  I have stupid sims. xD!  I left the house on free-will for about twenty minutes (RL minutes), and come back to see that 6 out of 8 of my Sims have died of starvation and left a burning kitchen in their wake.  Um, I figured SOMEONE would be smart and NOT leave their TV dinner in the stove while they took a shower.  The whole lot was on fire when I came back.

Oh, and to everyone that says they yell at their monitors when they play:  LAWL, U SUK.  Just kidding.  I do that too.  But it's not at my Sims, it's at build mode. xD;;  It just doesn't work with me.

This thread is still hilarious! Yeah, I wouldn't dare leave my sims alone for a minute because I know they will attempt to burn the house down! :D

My biggest peeve right now..? My sims harassing the poor pets every minute to give them hugs or belly rubs... Had a sim the other night hugging the cat, putting it down and then turning right around to pick up the cat and give it another hug! Again, again and again...

Why do nannies have to choose the most expensive meal, lobster thermidor to be exact, to prepare and then stop to go do something else, leaving it to rot on the counter? Why do they have to stand by the crib and stare into the wall? If I was a toddler being watched by the nanny like that, I would be creeped out!

Well mine I used this hack to make my Sims a vampire. A rose of some kind you download from MTS2. Anyway I made the mistake to do this when they first move into their new home. All the neighbors come over to introduce themselves and she goes to the door and meets them and starts to turn to smoke and then the dumb woman goes through the garage to go back into the home to go inside and dies right when she gets inside. She has no sense to stay out of the sun. I have now decided if I want a vampire Sims to make sure I use that object only at night.

Well i decided to check on this thread i started and i am so glad so many of u have posted....Reading thru them i couldn't stop laughing...I totally agree about the nanny being annoying with the giving to many bottles...but i can't quite get why when the kid's energy level is almost at the pass out level she insist on putting the kid in a highchair to feed it when that level is only about half way....and then the opposite when the kid is starving and she insists on putting it in it's crib....Then i didn't have enough money to pay her once and of all the stupid things to take...when i have a house full of valuable stuff she takes the kitchen sink....
Well back to my game to watch more funny stuff....LOL

Maybe I should add things like "Don't walk away from stove while cooking" to my list of must-have hacks ;) This is why my game's hacked to pieces, so I only have to endure some of this crazy stuff. I will say though, Pescado's "lobo nanny" doesn't seem to do much, and when I made one selectable so I could actually get her to do useful stuff, I noticed under her personality she had only one neatness point :oogle: I do so wish dizzy2's sitter hack could be updated for Pets/Seasons...

Well my sims the other day swam in the pool in the dead of winter. The girl got frostbite and so did the parents. I have the hacks so I am not sure if that is why they stayed outside so long or if it is just the game.

I have two momennts of stupidity:

Once this girl was getting married and her (elder) mom just decides to get up and start a water balloon fight with her (elder) husband , in their formal clothes.


One time this girl's father died and while the grim reaper was still there she was having a pillow fight with her mom and she was an adult, and then his brother and his wife started having one too!

My one family I'm playing INSIST on napping on the cheap couch rather than walking a little further to sleep in the expensive bed. Guess it doesn't help that they're both lazy, but c'mon, I'm not even THAT bad!

Yay, a place to vent about stupidity the sims exhibit.

Oh, my God! Yes, yes, the nanny always does that, apparently, none of my sims had enough cooking points to just put the thing in a freaking oven. And why is it that pets who hate a person will still be more than willing to do things like hugging and fetching when they hate that person. That's something so annoying about pets: I mean enemy sims will interact in ways to remain enemies (logically), but they won't stay enemies with pets- I mean who decides to pet or play fetch with a dog that you consider your enemy!? They should be shooing and yelling at it, and the dog should be barking and biting, not be like, err... I hate you... sure, I'll play razzle with you (and not bite the person). They really don't leave pets alone! That is so true. I have pets installed, yet, I end up getting annoyed when a sim family gets a pet, so I never let anyone get pets. They won't even give the pets a chance to eat.

Oh, I just thought of this one. The Sports channel! It irks me off that they keep changing it to the Sports channel... especially, when in their interests, they hate sports. Oh, and my sim decides to change to the weather channel and it keeps telling me it's sunny out but it's going to ran every like two seconds; that was the one time, those sims decide not to change the channel every half a second and I had to make him do it.

My servos stop what they're doing and do chores excessively. I tell them to do something, someone uses the toilet, and they ignore my orders and go clean the toilet. They freaking leave during the middle of woo-hoo to make someone's bed that's across the house. Why do that one guy's servos not work and mine work too hard?

My sims have never frozen to death or burst into flames before. I didn't even know that happened. I have a family of homeless sims who live around a public bathroom. Somehow, even they have survived the elements, though all their children got taken away... apparently, they aren't resourceful enough to use something on a buffet table to feed a baby, they need refrigerators.

Ah, I just thought of something. I've lived with cockroaches before, but sims telepathically know where they are, and run over there just to complain to stomp on them unsuccessfully, complain to me about it (when they're the ones not cleaning up after themselves), and get sick. I have never gotten sick from a cockroach! Stop obsessing over cockroaches you aren't suppose to know are there (They walk of the house through the front door, go all the way around the house, stomp, complain, go back around, go inside, do something for a second, go out the front door again, around the house, stomp, complain, over and over). They sacrifice ninety percent of their time on this, regardless of motives, then complain to me about motives. Granted, I've had moments when my normal activities were briefly disrupted by cockroaches, but I still ate, slept, etc. successfully. They must have occupied less than or equal to one percent of my time, not ninety!

I just thought of something again while reading something in another post. I can't use the myshuno thingie, because it is the ultimate anti-school/anti-work thing. I mean they just stand there in front of it... standing. I X the thing, and it takes them like two hours of standing before finally being free of myshupnosis.

One of the two things I hate most that I can think of right now are throwing water balloons- they do it during winter and excessively. I keep having to hear that some kid is freezing after repeatedly making them stop and go back inside over and over and then I turn my back for a second, and I hear I'm an unfit parent cause he's freezing or burning up again.
Arg. Why can't they go inside when they're hot or cold by themselves? And who takes three or four showers in row because they're hot or cold!?

The other thing I hate (and I discovered this after I decided not to use automatic motive feeding flamingos, and try playing without cheating) is the "hold infant" or whatever that annoying interaction is called. I mean these sims decide to hold the infant and starve themselves to death, I have to manually make them put the freaking baby down and manually direct them to eat, or go to the bathroom, or take a shower, or sleep (because they'll just hold the baby again)! They keep complaining that the kid smells and I have to tell them to change the kid's diaper because they can't figure that out for heaven's sake!

I'm glad everyone is still adding to this thread....i have a new annoying thing to add...I have BV and i am so sick of my sims constantly singing that sea chantey....they do it all the time...and everyone they meet they start singing it and teach them it....so what started as a family learning it while on vacation to fill their memory thing is now something i wish they never had to do...U know how u hear a song and it is in your head all day and u kind of sing it? well after i play my game that dang sea chantey is in my head all day...The other day i had a sim doing the pee dance and looking at me like Help me!!!! i got to go....well the dumb thing was she was in the bathroom...it wasn't like there was a long line to wait in....she was the only one....?????? well i thought about clicking the toilet to get her to focus on the solution...but i didn't cuz i wanted to see what she would do...and u guessed it she peed on the floor and cried....

Why are Sims so stupid?  Oh, that's an easy one, because EA hired the biggest bunch of losers ever assembled to design this game and after investing tens of dollars and ones of minutes doing product QA testing, they marched this pathetic game out to the trough knowing no matter how horrible it was we would buy it.  Having had the dubious pleasure of meeting most of the development team, I think we should not think of the Sims as stupid, but rather as smarter than the game creators.

They have no brain! How smart can they be without a brain?

Check in Bodyshop if you need proof. lol

Well guys i am really sick of that dang sea chantey....but now i created a business and they r doing it there or performing tai chai.....and worse they got the customers doin it instead of getting them to buy stuff....this is not good....So new funny things that r happenin....i love Eric's maxmotives from insimenator...anyways cuz of it my dog when she isn't at work sits on the beach and watches the waves the rest of the time...i even had a sim show the dog the sea shells on the shelf and tell the dog about how they discovered it...."interesting" and i finally had a sim get bit by a vampire and it shocked me course i did use insim cheat to get their friendship level up...but nothin happened....but then i go to my business the next day and all of a sudden the vampiress shows up and bites my sim...i was thrilled to think it finally happened....but then my sim kept goin outside to do tai chai and of course smokin at the same time....so i had to end that little moment but i forgot how to do it and it was hard keepin her inside till i remembered i had to get it from the gypsy....so that was neat seein that happen...but the next day it happens again...good thing i bought extra bottles of potion....Whew!!!!

Well heres my shot!! i was in my business (really small) and the shelf is right by the door. It held the same flower that a customer wanted but she stayed at the desk with the may i help you? erm love its in front of ur eyes lol

dlb4hee -- same here.  Never posted before.  But I had to because... well, the first (AND ONLY!) time a satellite has ever come down and killed one of my sims, was the time I spent HOURS designing one to look as close as possible to myself.

And I use stargaze and gaze at the clouds *all the time.*  

This is a really funny thread.

Oh, and after I got Seasons, well, I didn't know a Sim could catch on fire in the hottub.  I left to go check on food cooking (because unlike the Sims I actually remember that I'm cooking), and a visiting Sim apparently burned down *hours* of work on my favorite house.

Sigh

omg cmk...lol that is funny hearing about course i'm sure u weren't very happy....but i will let u guys in on a little secret....i was playing my game once ok couple times and had something on the stove and forgot about it till i smelled it burning...so the sims and i apparently need to have someone controlling us at all times....LOL
Here's one for ya....Why is it that if u have a stereo "mind u inside of your house"  sims will b outside and just start dancing?  well one time this happened got a pic of it too...a bunch of visiting sims and some of mine started doing the smustle outside on the sidewalk....looked funny but the part that really got me upset over it was they started this just before my kids were coming home from school....and u got it they were right where the kids needed to get off the bus at....so it took forever to get my kids off the bus...and of course if one moved to get out of the way so the kid could get off the bus then....the kid would join in the smustle and block the way....ugh!!!! and of course this was the day each of my kids brought home a friend from school....and as each one emerged from the bus they joined in the smustle....so now for the real annoying part....all thru this that darn bus keeps blowing that horn and all my kids just dropped their homework on the lawn i had to move each one into the house....i hate when the kids leave it outside....
i had a child who got off bus and Dad came home from work at the same time and kid drops homework and goes and hugs Dad....and it was winter and i had to scan the dang front yard to find juniors homework....ticked me off so i made him sit outside and do it....yep he turned blue and i got the warning of child neglect...i saved him tho sent him in the house for some hot chocolate...

I love this thread. :)

I know this was mentioned before, but WHY is there such an obsession with babies and toddlers? When I want them to feed the kids or put them to bed on their own, or just play with them, they ignore them. But when the kid's energy is in the red, and I've directed them to put him in the crib, and he's trying to sleep, here they come again to drag the kid out of bed to...what? Put him on the freakin' FLOOR!! So you have them put the kid in the crib again, and here comes another one, to get him out. What's with that?? I've learned that I have to make sure to have another obsessive activity lined up for them like studying something or playing on the computer after they put the kid in the crib so that they're not bothering the poor exhausted thing five seconds after they put him to bed. Oh, and if you *don't* want them to put the toddler to bed because he needs to use the potty first -- there they are, lined up to pick him up. And I just keep canceling them, one by one, over and over. And yes, yelling at the game while I do it! "ARGHH!!! LET THE KID ALONE!!!"

And I hate that it's gotten to the point where I don't want to put a piano or other musical instrument in the houses I build because the sims never stop playing them if I have them there. I've already hacked my game to bits to stop them from the constant water balloon fights (in winter, no less), pillow fights, and the endless "red hands" competitions. Why do they get so obsessed with certain activities? It's so annoying!

And yes, I hate the nannies. The first sim I ever purposely killed was a nanny because she never did anything other than hang around in the hot tub all day in her disgusting saggy swimsuit. She was totally useless.

Which brings me to the gardeners -- the female ones seem to uniformly suck. They don't do half the things that need to get done, and a few times I've had them come to one of my lots and go, "Your plants are in beautiful condition! No need for me today!" or some such thing, and there are WEEDS all over the place! That's when they aren't whining or yelling, "Earlagonda!!" because something isn't where they think it should be.

I hate the Sims. So why am I so addicted?

Actually, with the help of JM Pescado's "Eye of Pescado", the baby care thing is easier-although they do pile up on things, and you still have to keep them busy. It does make me uncomfortable when they put the baby on the floor, even though I've read where it doesn't do any harm to the baby..although in real life, you'd get put in jail for child abuse, quick!
As for nannies, I've had pretty good luck with mine-one house even has round-the-clock nannies, and they don't all go into the swimming pool. They do their job and then leave. It's those maids you gotta watch out for, always hanging around and looking for some excitement.
I hate the weeds, though..they pop up everywhere.
By the way, MATY does have a "no-whine" hack that eliminates alot of the whining that the Sims do when they're really being aggravated.

:laughing:  This thread is so funny!

I have a good one that annoys the hell out of me.   Champagne at weddings.  Now you would think that a wedding would be a perfect place for champagne.  Not at all, because if there is champagne present those blasted sims with toast themselves in peeing everywhere every time!  One toast is nice, but I had this one sim once toasting the marrying couple like 6 times in a row.  Everyone kept joining in and drinking and soon just about everyone had an accident on the lawn.  The wedding was ruined.  

Still though I've got to give Sims some credit.  I've condemned a few to die for various reasons a few times.  I sought to accomplish this through neglect.  I figured if I left them alone they would be dead a few hours.  Not so, somehow they usually manage to keep on going.  Sure their aspiration drops into the red and they go mad, but at least they are alive!

Speaking of which, that's another annoyance I have.  Wouldn't it be wonderful if want they did autonomously actually coincided with what they want?  For example if they want to go swimming in the ocean, why, why do they build a sandcastle instead, mere yards away from the big blue sea?  

But I love them and I love the game.  No matter how bored I get, something unexpected always happens and completely renews my interests.  I just can't help it. ;)

My sims just WANT to be struck by lightning 24/7.

Also one of my old games my sim had twins, then managed to set the house on fire.. so she and the father ran out of the house with the twins and LEFT them on the side in the rain and every time i told them to bring the kids back in they went off to do something else..

Don't get me started on the very special fire moronism. I always wondered what this fascination with fire is all about. It renders the "make emergency call" function of the phone pretty much useless, since they're rather burning to death watching and hopping like drag queens in dispair, than dial for the fire fighters.

My very first Sim surprised me with burning to a cinder preparing his first meal in the house. What's more, if he's dead, the  fire comes with the house. The next family I moved into the same lot was burning too once they had moved in.

fire was bad enough in the first iteration of The Sims; but in The Sims 2 it is an arsonist's wet dream.  The games were inspired by Will Wright's real-life experience of having a house-fire and the stages and steps of resuming life and buying all the needed things... he obviously needs more than a little therapy since he passed his emotional damage into The Sims, then the disaffected jades on the dev team for The Sims 2 felt the need to make the fire "better".

Ah,this thread gave me good lulz :lol:
Well,they are computer generated pixels,i'll be damn if my Sims finally find their way around the couch on their own without having to wave their arms at me everytime they are 'stuck' behind them.

What about the diagonal walls? :mad: Damn, the amount of times my sims will get "stuck" behind one when they can easily walk around it...

I've not had a stuck sim behind a wall yet, But i have had one stuck between two chairs before, all i did was tell him (to the screen) that if he was stupid enough to do that I wasn't gonna let him out, in the end he wet himself so i let him out.

Thank God for the various hacks that the very talented creators have supplied us with. I would have uninstalled NL without the clear vampire skins, and without inteenimater and insimenator I would have become very bored with the game when I first got it!

When i first started playing without downloads i DID get bored with it very very easily, But now i can play ion it for hours and not realize it..

I now have the problem of them going around the house just to get to something that is right in front of them...  and the  "LEAVE THE BABY ALONE" Is a classic for me.  too bad sometimes people think i'm talking about my baby though :|

I don't mind them going to feed the babies, saves me a job ;) Everything else though, like the visitor who wouldn't put the baby down despite him/her (can't remember which) really needing seeing to, I ended up using a controller hack so I could get her to put the baby back in the cot >_< I wish they wouldn't grab the toddlers when they were tired too - that's what I got the mats for, let them get in themselves and eat something before you starve to death! Sheesh... :roll:

Boy!! u guys r great I am glad that u r all having fun with this thread...So I want to help a little with the baby, toddler problem that is going on or at least what I have found....If u have "Seasons" it is setup that with each season there is something special about it...Spring is for Love so romantic encounters r greater...Summer is for friends...so they increase at a faster rate....Fall has the little leaves swirling around the skill bar...so u learn faster....and last winter is for Family and I have noticed the whole family bounds more at this time including the dog or cat they seem to want attention more then also...So the holding the baby thing and everyone with the que to put them to bed at the same time seems to b greater during this season...and trying to get them to do something else and cancel the que is very difficult....As for the ones who say they r yelling at their screens saying leave the damn baby alone...I do the same thing. I've had a few visitors say bye and leave while holding my baby and i'm yelling hey where u going with my baby, next i see the baby reappear on the sidewalk....I mean how rude to just walk off with my baby.
I know I've read that even a parent has taken a baby to work before...LOL  this has happened to me also and even with a puppy....the day the mother took the baby to work kind of ticked me off cuz I still got charged by the Nanny who was there to take care of my baby and she just sat around all day   watching TV and playing chess or swimming in my pool.
I thought of something else that happened to me that was real strange...I had my sim marry Mortimer Goth and then decided to move them to a house I downloaded that I love by the way..."The Jana House by Dinki on here" submits plug for Dinki's creativeness..LOL  Well Alexander was a teenager and I planned to move him back to the Goth house eventually as he is the male heir...well I didn't know if I moved them out if the family graves would still be there when I moved him back in or not....so I didn't want to lose them so i put them in Alexander's inventory...Well when we all moved to The Jana house and I released the pause button...I couldn't believe what happened everyone of them graves was lined up on the sidewalk just like my family....So i checked  Alexander's inventory to see if some how they fell out during the move....then the other shock came.....in his inventory all the tombstones were still there....Then i cracked up laughing cuz i thought it was so funny that the dead follow u when u move....Weird or what....I didn't know what to do cuz i didn't want to have the graves be gone so i could never have Alexander take them back to The Goth house where they belong and i certainly didn't want to save them in his inventory and have double of them...it was bad enough having the first set wandering around haunting the lot. and i wasn't sure if it would mess up my game somehow so i deleted the ones on the sidewalk and I haven't checked yet to see if the graves in the inventory will still work...i was playing the land lubber challenge but when i go back i will see what happens and let u guys know....BTW if u leave a grave on a lot when u move will it still b there when u move back or if another family moves in?

Bev in NY-To my knowledge it'll be sold with the rest of the family's stuff so no.

I also scream at the family to "leave the damn baby alone!!!" It doesn't matter if the kid is asleep on Atavera's hacked blanket. No, the entire family has to run over, wake the kid up and put him in the crib and completely ignore him when he's screaming to be let out.

Oh yes, the Sims who are in aspiration failure who do the time wasting desperation actions. You know, rocking the flour sack baby, romancing the mop, etc. They annoy.

Oh! The bed making actions! If the kids are starving they go to get the food waiting on the table. But they scream and stomp if someone gets to their plate first. If I don't X out the action to make the bed, they will walk aaaaaaaaalllll the way across the house, upstairs and to their room to make the bed.

And the sims who have to go aaaaaaaaaallll the way upstairs with the toddler to use the tub in the farthest corner of the lot when the sim who's holding them is starving and needing to pee so badly. No, because bathing the kid is way more important than not peeing yourself. Idiots.

This isn't a sim problem, but an annoyance-the elevators break more often than the sinks or toilets or showers do. And even if the elevator is only on one floor for woohoo purposes, they still scream and get the memory of "plummeting" when it breaks..

:oogle: ... *goes off to graveyard to grab Squinge's no elevator plummet*

I'm grateful for the stop waving/whining hacks for that very reason.

I know that the Do Homework hack I picked up is a wonderful thing. Now instead of stopping my kids from bringing up their fun or whatnot after returning home from school, the hack commands them to stop whatever it is they're doing at 6 and do their homework autonomously. I just saw it in action for the first time last night with Alexander Goth; he stopped playing piano, sat down with his homework, finished that off then right back on the piano. It was wonderful.

...I wonder now if it works for university assignments as well. I'll have to test the theory with the elder Grunt boys and Johnny Smith tonight.

Kattan-it doesn't. It's only for kids and teens.

The fastest way I've found for the grade meter to be filled is to write term paper, go to class twice and then either do a few assignments or study with a group of 5 or more kids.

Damn. Ah well, worth a shot anyway. Not like they need it though, because damn if Ripp doesn't schmooze with his professors so much that he can actually skip class (he's done it five times now) and STILL finish the term with a 4.0! And the funny thing is, I changed his aspiration to fortune so maybe he's paying them bribes or something. Tank, however, fails at interpersonal skills and still has to go to classes, haha!

Romancing the professors never really worked for me. I got the grade boost once but that was it. I'd rather work my poor sims to death than let them have some loving especially with the old lady professors. *shudder*

I had that happen to me also. This Sim A really fancied my other female sim Bwho had a crush on her but also another female sim C. Sim B kissed Sim C in front of Sim A. Sim A got mega jealous and her & Sim B kept of cat fighting so I had to make one move out :punch:

Sims are full of stupidity. my ones keep setting the freaking kitchen on fire so I've been putting sprinklers everywhere in the kitchen

I have a new complant. I downloaded morague's single plates of desserts mod from MTS2 and now, every single pregnant sim I have goes straight for the cheesecake. You would think that all of them might compare notes and not go for it, but I guess they just can't resist that rich, creamy goodness.

mmmmm... cheesecake :drool:

LOL!!!!! :laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing:

soms sims are sooo dumb!  I always have freewill off, always make sure they have something to do and very often use cheats, so these sort of things never happen to me.  I'll watch closely, though, and see if it does :)

I would really like to know what is in the Sims' coffee (and why can't I have some)?  Every chance my sims get, they will head over to the coffee maker and drink cup after cup...  I had one sim go into bladder desperation, did the whole crossing-her-legs things and - instead of going to the bathroom, she got herself another damned cup of coffee!!!
 
I left my game running one time while I took care of something else.  I was only away from the computer for maybe thirty minutes, but when I got back, the floor was covered in pee and coffee cups - and two really wired, smelly sims in the process of having another cup!

I play with free will turned off, because I don't trust them one little bit. I did turn it on once though. I sent my Sim to a club downtown, and when she arrived I thought "Let's see what she wants to do, rather than me telling her all the time".

I thought she might have a drink, maybe dance to the DJ or talk to someone. No. She picked up the dirty dishes customers had left, took them into the kitchen of the club and started washing them. She only has about 3 bars on her neatness :?

I think I'll turn it on again having read this thread, just to see if anything truly stupid happens. :smile:

When I let the the sims play with the free will on.  Dad left for work daughter had started school and a bonfire.. Fool that I am i had one in the back yard for her to come home.
 
Mom lit the blasted thing on fire killed herself, her young son that was just crawling and grandmom. One would think she would have at least called the fire dept. Nope in fact she died without doing anything other watching the pretty flames....
 
It gets better. Place burns down dad and daughter show up and try to go through the nonexistant door. At that point I figured I either had a bug or the dumbest family on the block....

hmmm... i would say, but i don't think i'm allowed to :D
Kath: wook at the pwetty owange stuff :tongue5:

I had some trouble with sims birthing once. the woman was having triplets (the hack), and first/second baby went as normal - until the third baby. after birthing him, she started all over again, babies disappearing one by one, while she birthed them over again. and again. and again. and again.
I didn't count how many times she did it, but it was a lot of times... when I got bored of waiting (so bored I wanted to smash my computer) I had to do that force error-thing. I can't really remember what happened, but the problem dissappeared (luckily).
what the other simmies were doing? either watching (no one picked up the babies) or pretending not to care. I felt sorry for that woman. bad enough having three babies at once, if not twenty... :(

and simmies are SO impatient! they can't wait a freakin ten seconds for someone to move so they can walk past. putting food inside the fridge? takes forever, because they keep putting it on the ground again. giving twins or triplets bottles? takes forever to get that perfect shot of all of them drinking because their parents are so annoyingly stupid.

and when you ask them to do something - why do they have to go the LONGEST POSSIBLE WAY to get there?:eh:

I once had a housekeeper who refused to do other things than wash the aquarium. she stood there for ages, washing it. even though there was dirt upstairs! she didn't even want to go home. washing. washing. washing... that aquarium got really clean, and to get her out of there, I had to delete the aquarium. :smt120

and to find the simmies homework, I always have to watch the clock for when they get home, and cancel the "getting home from school", because otherwise I never find their homework  without going into build mode. and besides, they always want to put it on the same spot. even if it's plenty of room around them. :???:

but in spite of them being so stupid, it's actually fun to play them. at least since teleporting came with insim. now, i usually never let them walk wherever they're heading ;)
oK, I have said enough, I think. *release of frustration*:roll:

*cringes*

Although, as much as I feel sorry for that poor mother, can you imagine being one of those babies - getting squeezed out, only to be shoved back in to go through it all again? :smt103

i've got a hack from monique (i think) that makes them do their homework at 7 pm. solves the problem of having to find it. :D

I just use Pescado's macrotastics, click on the sim and macro/do homework ;) Only time I have to look for it is if they need to learn to study.

I tried that. but can't remember if it worked... do you know where to find it?

and I always teach them to study the first time they get home from school. (I've even tried to do it simultaneously with quads, making them finish together... :D that's not easy!)

theraven-it's by Monique at MTS2.

How the heck did you do that?

hehe... that's a secret :D I also do it with babycare, birthdays and so on...

here's a few examples (with triplets/twins, though... couldn't find the quads...or the homework):

I got a weird one for the 1st. time....Brandi Broke had in her wants panel to be best friends with herself?????? and here is the weirdest part i paused the game and sat here for a few minutes trying to figure out how the heck i was going to accomplish that one....I had some depression issues once myself and i know u begin to hate alot of things about yourself and u have to come back and start liking yourself again...but she wasn't even depressed....
I take alot of funny pics and weird things in my game but I never uploaded them to share   I'll have to go read how to do it and maybe start my own thread like I've seen on here with my pics...
I solved the everyone get baby and toddler issue....i lock the door and only allow one sim to go in the room....so the rest just stand outside the door and whine...and i tell them to do something else....

Thanks for sharing all the cool stories.

All partners of my game-born simmies have had a previous birth... But they'll never know.

I always pre-plan the kids future... to the extend that they are going to school with their future husband / wife (with 3 flashes!).

When I started that, I made a lot for one of the boring standard sims, used the summoner (from the insimenator) to summon the kid(s) of my favorite family. I had them choose the age of adult with the insimenator, used the hacked crystal ball to find the teen/YA/adult who matches their aspiration most (I set their likes and dislikes to totally improbable combinations, like 1. zombie 2. plant-sim and the dislike to athletic).
I have them flirt a bit and scope the room for better matches (I get several possible matches with the hacked crystal ball, don't remember who did it on MTS2). When I find a suitable match, I exit to the neighborhood without saving, then go back to that "lab" place and teleport the ppl in who they had the perfect match with... Next I make them quit their jobs and delete all their memories (carrigons hack). Then I shrink them to toddler and let them grow up them to child... (all with the insimenator).

Then... I go and play the "family" lot, after saving the "lab" one. I summon the kid(s) with the summoner, move them in (with the teleport picture or insimenator).
Now, as soon as they grow to teens they will want to fall in love with each other and are bonded for life.:tongue8:

Sound a bit like frankenstein, isn't it? But it works perfectly for me :) Poor simmies will never know that they had a previous life...

Beau Broke had just turned into a child when lightening stuck the tree outside and it caught on fire.  Of course, Beau has to scream and run around in a circle.
  You guessed it.  He got too close to the fire.  Luckily, Brandi was able to plead for his life with the Reaper.
  It's still raining, and lightening struck another tree.  This time, I decided he was far too stupid to live.

I really really REALLY hate the fact that they obsess over feeding babies.  Like, that's all they ever do when they have a baby, and I'm like WHAT?  STOP IT.

One thing that really made me mad was the coffee cups. I mean serisously, sims walk up 3 floors just to set the dang thing down with no way to stop them and sims don't care about turning the TV off they just slap the changer out of no where and even if deleting it with moveobjects on, they annoyingly do it.

I had a household of 2 toddlers and my sims were going nuts to get their dirty hands on the toddler for the last time and stick them in the tub and then throw them right out because the toddler is freezing. And don't get me started on why sims wuss out and give up on commands so easily.

I have a teen sim and she hates me! If I tell her to walk into her house she will walk in and walk back out and walk in and walk back out about 20 times then she would usually (after walking in and out of her house 20 times) tell a joke to her boyfriend and walk back into the house and last she would end up in her backyard swimming in the pool and I didnt even tell her to do that! my sims can be so stupid sometimes.

John Burb(who is a house husband and maxed out on his cooking skill) has set the microwave on fire at least three times.I eventually got tired of this and deleted it.He has never once set the stove on fire,although Jennifer has a few times...she is another annoyance herself.She is pregnant with baby #2 and insists on playing SSX3 until I have to cross out  the action and move her on to something else..she has sat there playing that obnoxious game when her bladder and hunger bars were in the red and so was her plum bob.....I mean,I love my games too but I  do take bathroom and food breaks.She was pretty easy before she got pregnant so I am wondering if pregnancy has made her stupid......Lucy Burb is completely adorable(and also expecting by her townie husband Trevor)so I really wanted another Burb kid...but I am re-thinking that decison.
Yes,they are stupid sometimes........but they do such cute things that I have to forgive them.

LOL Tank Grunt made me laugh last night. He's got four points in cooking (and three or four in cuisine enthusiasm now), yet he keeps burning the food. One time I noticed the fire engine pull up, went down to the kitchen to find he'd set fire to the omelettes. Did he panic? Did he try to put out the fire? No, he was stood inches away calmly playing with his rubics (sp?) cube! :lol: That kid has no sense of fear... or just no sense :laughing:

... Mind you, that could be the "no watch fire" mod I installed after getting sick of every sim in the house (including visitors) flocking to the site of the fire... :angel: