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"Jeanie" <Nobody@home.com> wrote in message
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>> I'd like to see them at least pause to put on a jacket before leaving
>> the house, and to not go outside and roam about the neighborhood in
>> their bras or bathing suits as they often do now.
>
> Yes, why can't they whirl around and get dressed again after waking up,
> like
> they do before going to bed?
Maybe they don't want to
When I am off work, I do not get up and get
dressed automatically.
>>
>> I'd also like to see:
>>
>> ...Sims not put foodstuffs, baby bottles, babies, trash, etc., to the
>> floor when there's a counter, crib or trash can three feet away.
>
> Can we get a big AMEN to that?!?
>>
>> ...Sims pay their own bills, empty their own trash and clean their own
>> toilets without being told to constantly. I know you can hired maids,
>> but still, maids don't always do it, or things get dirty after the
>> maid leaves, or some of my real po' Simmies can't afford maids, and I
>> get sick of constantly having to check on toilets, tubs and trash
>> cans.
>
> That's been partially taken care of with University and the "influence to
> clean" option. When a sim has been influenced to clean, they do all of it
> except paying the bills. And, if you hire the nanny, you don't need the
> maid because most of them putter around making beds and cleaning things
> all
> the time that the baby doesn't need attention. You can also influence her
> to serve a meal, but there's no telling what you'll get.
>>
>> ...Sims not wave and wave and wave and tell me they're tired when
>> they're standing next to a bed, bored when they're standing next to a
>> TV, stereo and computer, hungry when there's a giant pizza on the
>> table next to them, or lonely when they're in a room full of people.
>
> So stupid. I notice the bladder thing needing attention, click on the sim
> and tell them to use the toilet and they have to stand there holding their
> crotch for five minutes before they go use it. This falls under "Things
> That Make Me Sigh While Playing."
>>
>> ...Sims not take so LONG to tell me something obvious. Some of the
>> animations are too reptitive. I know pointing to your mouth ONCE
>> means you're hungry. You don't have to point, rub your tummy, whine,
>> point, rub, whine, point, rub, whine, point, rub, whine...
>
> True, but I do like the little looks they often turn around and give you
> when you tell them to do something they were going to do anyway, or better
> yet, something they really don't want to do in the first place.
>>
>> ...An improved ability to receive deliveries or answer the door
>> without getting confused/distracted. They've made this a LITTLE
>> better since Sims 1, but it's still a chore for my Sims to answer the
>> door and get a delivery, especially in a big house. For some reason,
>> the decision fades out of the cue halfway to the door, and they stop
>> to watch TV or swim in the pool instead. Or they get outside and
>> walk around in cirlces as though they're doing a mating dance with
>> the delivery man. How hard can it be to walk a straight line to the
>> grocery guy?
>
> Their routing is all screwed up. It seems they never take the most direct
> route to something. One was standing in the kitchen right by the back
> door
> with the swing right outside and when I clicked "swing" and he walked all
> the way through the house, up the back stairs, back down the front stairs,
> through the living room, out the front door, all the way to the street,
> back
> down the side yard (outside the back fence) and then stood there a few
> squares away from the gate and complain that he couldn't get to the swing
> because the fence was in his way! This falls under the category "Things
> That Make Me Bang My Head On The Computer Desk While Playing."
>>
>> ...And while I'm at it, I hate it when I have a buch of tasks in a
>> Sim's cue to do and they either autonomously fade out, or even switch
>> order of priority. When I say I want Sims to do A, B, C, D, then E,
>> I mean it!!
>
> Some of them are pretty snippy, all right. Depends on what you tell them
> to
> do and what mood they are in, also on what kind of personality they have.
> Sloppy sims will almost always find something they like better to do than
> to
> go scrub the toilet. But I can't really blame them for that. I do the
> same
> thing. <g>
>>
>> ...Sims be able to order clothes on the computer and get deliveries to
>> the door as with food. I hate having to send them to a community lot
>> to get clothes, and then when they move in with someone else they
>> don't even take their choices with them!
>
> This really does irritate me. I do wish they could take their clothing
> with
> them when they move.
>>
>> ...Jealousy handled more realistically. I don't want a Sim to slap
>> another Sim and refuse to sleep with them forever more because that
>> Sim danced with someone else or gave them a hug. I DO like the
>> jealousy concept, but they could tone it down a little. Also, I'd
>> like to see some Sims do threesomes. ;-) And foursomes. How about
>> Bob, Ted, Carol and Alice Sim?
>
> Or me with my Stepford Wives.....
>>
>> ...More choices for music. Hey, Maxis, there's more to the world than
>> rock, pop, rap, disco and metal!!
>
> Actually, the music they play themselves on the new musical instruments is
> pretty good stuff. I like it when you get four sims all playing the
> drums,
> guitar, bass and keyboard together. We be jammin'! And it's so cute when
> children start dancing during the performance. But the busking gets on my
> nerves. I'm thinking I need to go download that "no busking" hack at
> MTS2.
> Get rid of the tip jar! You are in your own damn house!
>>
>> I know, a lot of this can be dealt with in Sims2 right now. Here's
>> hoping they will.
>>
>> And how is it when married Sims break up, the one who leaves winds up
>> with (I believe) $20,000 when they start out again? They should, by
>> law, get half of everything.
>
> Absolutely! And if they get caught cheating, they should have to move out
> with 47 cents and their little duds in a bandana tied to the end of a
> stick.
> LOL
>>
>> I'm not a member of the online forum on Maxis' own website, which I
>> understand the programmers themselves read sometimes, so if anyone
>> wants to post this list in there on my behalf, and even add to it,
>> feel free.
>
> I didn't know such a thing existed. Perhaps I should go check it out and
> join.
>
> Jeanie
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