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There's a patch at MTS2 to stop telepathic memories occurring - like the one
where everybody has met a baby just born into the family even though nobody
has been anywhere near it.
MM
"Granny Crabapple" <marrowjam@[reallywild]blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "BombayMix" <bombaymix@altavista.co.uk> wrote in message At first I
> figured the
> >
> >>"mystery sim" must be Brandi Broke which might explain where all those
> > kids
> >>came from, but it's the same for men or women sims.
> >
> > It's nobody really. For some reason Maxis decided to put memories in to
> > represent the sims past. Makes a bit of sense for parent and kids, they
> > always have, "Did woohoo with X" and "Had Y" but for lone sims it seems
> > a bit pointless.
> >
>
> About as pointless as newly created adults, or worse, elders, arriving in
> the game without even the ability to cook a TV dinner.
> I know the user boolprop cheats makes it possible to tweak your new Sims
to
> give them a smattering of past knowledge but it is a pity adults and
elders
> aren't given a few random settings, for those who don;t cheat.
>
> Somebody, elsewhere mentioned memories by toddlers? I have just had a
prime
> example of this. Remember my Crazed Doctor and his impregnation machine?
We
> the one daddy, after giving birth, picked up his baby and ran home again
as
> fast as his wobbly legs would go, leaving behind two other half-clone
> sisters of the baby... If you see what I mean. Three sisters now,
actually.
>
> Well I played the daddy family enough to get the child to school but
tonight
> went back to the Crazed Doctor, whose children are now all toddlers, by
> three different people, and all of these toddlers know the absent brother
> got A+ in school. Amazing, considering daddy hasn't spoken to the doc
> since - not surprising, really.
>
> It's the Midwitch Cuckoos, I tell you.
>
> Granny.
>
>