I was just playing Sims 3 Supernatural. I kept my word and used the Zombification Elixir, but the in-game zombies are boring as hell. They stagger, moan and eat plants (and honestly, it sounds more mechanical than leafy). They can growl at other Sims, but no, they can't bite other Sims. It was a very yawn kind of experience.
Anyway, I was trying to get my Sim to use the alchemy station; and it happened again where he was teleported by some glitch outside the house. Very annoying. So I thought maybe he should go on down to the elixir consignment shop place; and my deceased Sim was there with her surname in place of her marriage name. In other words, the game took her copy from the Move In Household catalog. I didn't do it myself; I didn't want her there. I don't want a Sim who has died to come back as something that is not a zombie; if I wanted to use that Sim I would have. But suddenly the game is freaking out and choosing to use the Sim-copies by itself?
Too bizarre. Anyway, what with the alchemy station bug and my dead girl back on her own two feet; I quit the game without saving it, at the cost of three moonstones. Sigh. Hopefully I'll be able to find them when next I play...And hopefully my Move In Household catalog is not spawning copies all over the damn neighborhood, either.
Anyway, I was trying to get my Sim to use the alchemy station; and it happened again where he was teleported by some glitch outside the house. Very annoying. So I thought maybe he should go on down to the elixir consignment shop place; and my deceased Sim was there with her surname in place of her marriage name. In other words, the game took her copy from the Move In Household catalog. I didn't do it myself; I didn't want her there. I don't want a Sim who has died to come back as something that is not a zombie; if I wanted to use that Sim I would have. But suddenly the game is freaking out and choosing to use the Sim-copies by itself?
Too bizarre. Anyway, what with the alchemy station bug and my dead girl back on her own two feet; I quit the game without saving it, at the cost of three moonstones. Sigh. Hopefully I'll be able to find them when next I play...And hopefully my Move In Household catalog is not spawning copies all over the damn neighborhood, either.
Sunstones and moonstones! I love collecting those! I have shelves and shelves full of them...no cheats, I just have my Sim walk all over the place, and I use the collection helper (lifetime reward) a lot :)
ReplyDeleteAnd my game did something like that, too . . . every time I built a new house, some pre-made Sims would have moved into it by the next time I turned the game on. So I had to build them all their own houses, so they'd leave mine alone. I'd wanted to move my own Sims in, not have a bunch of hippies in them...
ReplyDeleteI never knew about this cheat until recently. But it gives me two moonstones each night. Last night I was bummed because I'd gotten up to ten, but then couldn't save my game so I went back down to seven. And now, I have fifteen!
DeleteAaarghh! I hate glitches! That's never happened to me, but it sounds so annoying. I'm hoping if I delete this alchemy station and buy a new one, the bug goes away...I don't suppose that would work with your house bug?
No, I don't think so - Sims 3 is just glitchy, which sucks, because it's an awesome game otherwise. I love the windows and doors, the options to customize the texture/colour of everything, some of the career choices, the weather (LOVE the weather).
DeleteOnce I moved those annoying Sims into their own house, I stopped having problems. Of course, there are other glitches . . .
Careful with the cheats, sis - I've heard (and learned on games like Sims Life Stories) that cheats make the glitching so much worse :(
I have only had two glitches - the one with the alchemy station; and another where the Tend Garden option doesn't work. My Sim can either tend one plant at a time or do one option for each plant, but never all the options for all the plants. It slows me down a lot.
DeleteOh, yeah, the gardening glitches...forgot about those, even though gardening is my favourite thing to do in the game...
DeleteMine too! A Sim of mine once had over a thousand apples in the fridge! :D
DeleteFor me, it's pumpkins - I like to harvest honey and use it in the pumpkin pies, because they end up at "outstanding" quality (I only use perfect quality pumpkins and good quality honey) and my Sim can end up with +50 mood for 8 hours because of it! :D
ReplyDeleteWow, that sounds awesome...I actually don't use the apples in recipes. I turn off their needs so I can actually fulfill their wishes and enjoy the game and stuff, without making them hurry to the washroom every minute. (At least they eat fast, and I suppose I could buy Steel Bladder and Hardly Hungry.) Maybe when I'm back down to one Sim I'll play it without any cheats at all, but most of the time I have a full house.
DeleteWhoa! Full house? I can barely keep 2 Sims straight...but yeah, I don't use cheats at all :)
DeleteA full house pretty much needs cheats. I hope to stop relying on them when I'm down to one or two or even three Sims; but eight seems impossible to manage with only one toilet. I may have two; but it still seems like it'd be a load to handle, pun totally intended. I just think it will be hard to stop using cheats after so much time spent using them. :(
DeleteI used to use them . . . but when it made my game so glitchy that it would freeze up for a minute at a time and do it again thirty seconds of gameplay later, I decided it wasn't worth it. I uninstalled and reinstalled the game, and now the glitches are only the "natural" ones that I guess I can cope with - those multi-minute freeze-ups were something else!
DeleteI did have three Sims in a house once, sometime last year; mother, father, baby. Actually, I just wanted the mother and the baby; I kicked the father out after he'd gotten the lady pregnant. He didn't seem to care, he ended up with a way bigger house and a girlfriend, even though he was still married. Anyway, the game glitched terribly when I had two Sims in a house (the mom would sit straight up in bed, arms cradling an invisible baby (the real one was in his crib) and then lie back down, as if asleep, and then pop up, holding that ghost-baby again. It freaked me out, so I deleted them all . . .
My game is pretty good that way. It always freezes at exactly 3:59, whether it's AM or PM, but then it's golden.
DeleteYes, I can understand that! It sounds very troublesome and annoying. I hope that doesn't happen; I have a wonderful game going...
Mine freezes on the hour (in Sim-time) but also usually chokes on 3. Weird!
DeleteMe, too...I have thousands of perfect pumpkins, hundreds of bottles of honey, some fancy, some cute houses . . . it's awesome :D
That's wonderful. Right now I have one family scattered across Sunset Valley, and have been slowly moving them all in to die. Sounds horrific, but that's life - and it's also a legacy challenge type of thing I started. I am also doing it in Life Stories, but it's not nearly as entertaining as with Sims 3. Besides, almost every time I play, I get this overwhelming urge to kill a Sim! Oh well. I'm not hurting anyone who isn't 3D! :)
Deletelol, I never let my Sims die...if one does, I re-start the game and hope I saved it after accomplishing something... :o
DeleteI could never do that. I love working on my graveyard. They don't lose their skills, their memories, their relationships...Plus, with the Philosopher's Stone, I can resurrect them. I have several Sims who mastered a skill, so every now and then I summon them from the dead and make them help my living Sims with alchemy. :D Plus they can float through walls, so when I delete my door at night and have forgotten to pay the bills, I don't need to wait until morning! lol
DeleteWow, that sounds like fun! Maybe I will give it a try . . . do you have any expansions, or just the base game?
DeleteThe Philosopher's Stone comes with Supernatural. That's the only expansion pack I have installed; Pets is too glitchy to enjoy, unless I only want two Sims in my house anyway, and Seasons...Well, that one is okay, but I really hate it when my Sims get abducted every night - literally. Plus the frost always kills my plants, even in the middle of freaking summer.
DeleteI've set my seasons to be summer all the time, no other seasons. That way I can garden non-stop!
DeleteIf I delete my door, the aliens can't abduct me. I HATED those stupid abductions; I'm usually trying to do something, and if I have a job I need to sleep for, I don't have time for an abduction and a -20 (or whatever) negative moodlet. I don't even like the stupid aliens that come over and scan your mailbox, garbage can, whatever. And the stupid "alien" music that plays when it shows up. And their stupid ships.
I used to like aliens and sci-fi, remember? Then I moved here and G's always watching some show about aliens (or history, or both). Now I can't stand anything to do with the subject! :o
Oh, wow! What about Animorphs? Do you still like that, or did you never like it anyway?
DeleteI liked the aliens that didn't abduct me. Like Vabbilhea something-or-other. She came, befriended my Sim, moved in and I never had a problem with her. She later married a male alien who dropped by. But my male Sim was abducted by a different alien, and he (and he alone) had one or two alien kids with her after his abduction. The kid(s) got the Want to 'Get attention from Mom' - I guess when your mother lives in space, you don't get to see her every day! :D
I liked their ships. They were fast, and so different, and no one else in the neighborhood had them, and I could travel and be rewarded by doing it or kidnap Sims...It was mostly fun, but with horribly annoying additions. As if I really want my Sim's father to somehow give birth as if he has woman parts? I mean, how would that work?
Oh, yes, Animorphs is still brilliant . . . but I'm not obsessed with it anymore. I think I'll always like it, maybe love it, and I never want to get rid of the books, game, VHS tapes, DVDs, and whatever other Animorphs-themed stuff I have, but I don't really read the fanfiction or look at the fanart of it anymore. I have new obsessions . . .
DeleteI didn't know you could do all that with aliens! Cool! (I'm still one of those "save the game every few minutes so if something weird happens, I can change it with a click back to Main Menu" players that hasn't ever saved a robbery, abduction, accidental use of an ingredient I wanted to keep for something else . . . I doubt playing with me is much fun, haha, but I'm a perfectionist . . . and maybe obsessed).
Well . . . in fanfiction, it's called "mpreg" - male pregnancy. In most, I suppose a magical potion alters the man's body to give him whatever he needs . . . although, I mostly assume that the baby comes out of the hole he already has (yep - a butt birth). I've read a few stories like that, if characters I really liked were involved and especially if the reviews were good, but I don't care for those intimate details, and thankfully, most authors don't bother with them. Usually I'm reading those stories for the drama, angst, and romance, nothing to do with kids (most fanfiction involving kids seems to be all about the kids, how cute they are, what adorable mischief they get into, and isn't like canon at all; if I'm reading, for example, a Reba fic, I'll want a story about Reba, Brock, BJ, Kyra, Jake, Van, Cheyenne . . . the main guys, and maybe a bit of Elizabeth and Henry. If Cheyenne ends up with three more cute little girls and the main plot is about them and their friends with a little background plot of Van being stupid and thinking that Cheyenne is purposely not giving birth to any boys, it would only be half an interesting story.
Not unlike the BSC books . . . I want to read about messed up dates and bitchy friends and trouble in school, not the latest marching band, talent show, or baby parade. The main plots weren't awful, even if the grammar was, but those baby-sitting subplots make a girl need some serious chocolate.
Ugh, BSC...The worst parts were: Claudia can eat chocolate, but has never had a zit in her life. Stacey knows she's diabetic, but eats the forbidden candy and then bitches about how she can never catch a rest. Mary-Ann gets a haircut, but we didn't want her to so let's all stop being her friend. This girl has boobs, she must be totally chic! And the worst one among the worst; "Let's make kid-kits! Sure, we're babysitting kids who have pools and fountains, but how about some crayons? Bet they don't have any of those lyin' around."
DeleteI've seen some shows or read some stories where they focus on the next generation; but having been attached to the series because of the original characters; replacing them entirely with strangers is never a good move, although it is certainly a bold one. And in the case of Reba, I find their jokes not funny, the characters pathetic and the character of Reba Hart completely hateful. I try not to look at Reba McEntire the same way I look at Reba Hart, but a b!tchy woman who thinks she's sassy but is really just a hypocrite, is just annoying. Especially when she's no different than the person she hates so much.
I don't play my games that way. Whatever happens, happens. Fires, burglars, deaths - come what may, I'm all for it. But I never, ever let the burglar into my house. If I forget to secure my house at night by taking the doors off the walls, and a burglar comes onto my lot; I select him, reset him, and trap him...But I guess you saw that on my dA.
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Yeah . . . I still have a bunch of BSC books (probably as many as we had before Mom made us give our old collection away; I started collecting again as soon as we moved out of the small house (her reason for saying we had to get rid of stuff) and into a decently-sized one. Mostly I read them when I'm sick or need something easy to do, but I also like to read reviews of the books online (some are so hilariously sarcastic and intelligent that I have to reread the book it was about). :D
DeleteI hated having to give away my books. Even the BSC. I finally had some reading material; and I'm positive some of those pages were bookmarked with dollar bills. :(
DeletePlus, I don't think any of the adults had to give anything they'd been collecting for years and years. Sell the wedding rings for money, of course, but hobby stuff? Nope.
I know exactly what you mean! There's this story on Finding Nemo and I just adore it, because it tells the story of how Gill perfected The Escape Plan, met and grieved Chuckles, etc. It's awesome.
Some fanfiction is AMAZING, and you get the feeling that the writer just might be a real author . . . I've read a few fanfics so complicated and so great that I wondered if the writer was THE author of the actual book the fic was based on.
DeleteI've never thought that. I just thought the fan was a really good writer.
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