A little like an inner-city emergency room. It's enough to drive anyone crazy. Yeah, including me! If I ever die and go to hell (neither of which is likely to happen but let's pretend) they'll set me up as a nurse in an emergency room. Or as a doctor. I had a chess game and people actually stood in line waiting for a chance to play chess and sit down! Others sat on the floor and read books. The real frustration is when someone sleeps on the couch and took up three seats that way![/quote] hahahaha - I love your asylum write-ups! Those are what got me going on mine - yours, Lynet's and that Person person's asylum journals. Please keep them up! Ironically, my Crazies have more personality to them than all my Normals put together. Wonder if it's like that in Real Life? They make me think of what us kids in the 70s thought Sea Monkeys were going to be - not that you're probably old enough to remember.... You're prolly also right about the realism of inadequate budgets and lack-of-funding-for-hospitals. I'd slit my wrists before doing that to the mentally ill if I were in charge. Don't EVEN get me started.... ccc
[quote=Chee-Z;129340]Yep! Autonomous Casual Romance. Triggers random flirts, kisses and the occasional woohoo. MATY is the place I got it from, under Two Jeffs, but you need to read the readme before you plop it into the downloads in order to understand how it works. Quite complex. I have so many families now, it's like playing the Asylum Challenge with every session. Gotta love having 4 adults, 2 dogs and several screaming toddlers. [/quote] Still working on trawling throught the MATY and Mod the Sims 2 sites for these downloads. I swear the amount of homework you need to do before you can play the **** game! Holy hannah. I saw mods and hacks for more clothes than entire Barbie catalogue from 1960 on, every recipe under the sun, more houses than my entire country has, and even one changing pillow-fighting to fish! (I want that one! What a great idea. But scared to use it since I've never used a hack before and don't know what it could potentially screw up since I'm not much of a computer genius. Holding out for something major like The Fight Club or Risky Woohoo to screw up my game on instead.) Anyway, back I go to find Two Jeffs and hopefully when I find them they'll be worth the search. (Which is eerily reminiscent of the kind of thing I used to say when I went to bars and clubs back in the day...) :shocked: Think it's worthwhile starting a Your Favourite Hack thread for beginners who aren't heavily into Search Research? Or would that be cheating and insult everyone's considerable intelligence? ccc
Mirelly, you surprise me; I have never played with free will OFF! To me this is a lot of the game, dealing with the exigencies and idiosyncracies of the hidden programming and the fact that they (the little irritating lovable simmies) have such strong personalities. I think to really love the sims you have to have a little middle manager in you. Sometimes it takes me repeated efforts to get someone just to take out the trash and I find the asylums restful in a lot of ways. (It's like watching someone else's department crash and burn; oh, well, at least it's not mine!) I think this is one reason my families play more slowly than a lot of yours (collective) seem to do. To get anything set up, you have to play at real time (or you miss big events like birthdays and deaths) and you can only concentrate on one person at a time. I run around (figuratively speaking) from sim to sim, setting up a series of activities, and by the time I set up several people, the first one has decided to skip half of what I asked for and just as I (whew!) get everyone to sleep, someone wakes up! and decides to go swimming or play video games or make spaghetti! Wait, that's not on the agenda!!
I never turn free will off, either. It does sometimes become a battle of wills, theirs and mine, but their spontaneous rolleyes antics always make me laugh, and that's why I play with them. Meanwhile, I checked in on my Asylum. I haven't been there recently because I've been busy with Mrs. Crumplebottom, but did look in for a few minutes today. They were in the middle of a blizzard. So the instruments on the deck are now popular again. So is the piano, which is indoors, fortunately. They are all earning creativity points because painting or playing instruments is more fun than anything else. One of the guys went to work and was apparently nowhere near a bathroom because his bladder bar went 100% red (he left for work with it close to 100%.) So his mood was pretty red when he got home and headed for the bath. Thisboy passed out cold on the living floor a few minutes after getting home from work. (exhaustion.) Poor Lil played the base on the deck, in the cold, until I thought she'd freeze to death, but finally came in and headed straight for the shower to warm up. (Pictures are from early in the blizzard.) So far then, No one has lost their job, but no one has been promoted, either. No on has made any friends outside the asylum group. No one has died. Parts of the house are getting pretty dirty, namely one of the stoves, and the toilets. They seek each other out reguarly for social interaction. They haven't set any cooking fires. Their sleep schedule is a mess.
So Neva has a terrible social need. He brings a friend home from work, just as the Social Bunny comes to visit. So Neva talks to the Social Bunny and ignores his friend. Meanwhile, Forevah wakes up with her own social need deep in the red, and (in her bikini undies) starts hanging out with Neva's friend, just as her own Social Bunny appears! She goes to talk to Neva, and the friend joins them, and now the three of them are happily chatting away and their social scores are going up. Now the Social Bunnies are lonely! One is solid and the other transparent, depending on which sim I have active. They keep trying to get the attention of the sims, but can't, so they're talking to each other and telling jokes! (I love it when the joke involves wiggling their butts.) I wonder how long they'll keep this up. It's hysterical. Meanwhile Wyant, who just feels a bit hungry and tired, is lying on the couch watching the action.
Oh, great! One of the Bunnies finally started talking to Wyant, who wasn't lonely at all, and must have said the wrong thing - Wyant slapped the Bunny! I've never seen that happen. The sibs are now happily playing a game and the Bunnies and friend have all gone. This kind of thing would never happen if I was in control! Score one for the asylum.
