Blind Dates I'll move this to a more apt forum if a nned become apparent ... Meanwhile. Has anyone else found a blind date didn't have a phone so couldn't be contacted after the first meet? If this is the case I wish I'd known before my poor sim wasted her inheritance ...
I had a sim do a blind date...once. I was appalled at the thought of spending 5 figures on a date, so I had him pay $28 simoleons. She turned out to be one of the university cafeteria ladies. Poor guy tried hard but he couldn't het the date meter past "OK". Those cafeteria ladies can be pretty hard to make friends with. But at least I could call her at work!
Yes, I had this happen... fortunately it was only the town's philandering politician (Beau Broke... lol) it happened to, so I just had him move on to his next conquest.
I've tried the blind date just once. My romance adult sim paid the maximum price of 5000 hard earned simoleons and got Armando Tan, the college student, dropped at her feet. She worked hard to get the meter up and barely managed to get one red rose and a couple of kisses out of him for her troubles. But she DID get his phone number.
not a blind date, but my sim finally met Mr. Big (can't remember his name, but it's the guy in the red smoking jacket and constantly preening) and went on a date with him, it went well and he droppind in on her (kinda like a peeping tom really) later that sim night. Their relationship bloomed. Tried to get her to ring him next day, but got the message that he didn't have a phone.... Now how many rich blokes are out there, that don't have phones???? Fortunately because the date had gone well, his friends kept calling to go on group outings, so I got to ask him on a date again and they went home were she asked him to move in and was excepted.
Sylla, I had a Sim (a romance sim) go on a date with that Romeo. He annoyed me, and he annoyed her. She ended up pushing him and running him off!! And now he is constantly calling her!!!:(
I think she got about 40,000 simoleans, haven't checked his inventory yet though, it took so long getting him to move in! He is a fortune sim though, and so far they get along really well (she is a fortune sim too though.) Still can't remember his name either.... Should go play and have a better look, might do that tomorrow if I get a chance and I'll let you know more details.
His name's Tucker, but I can't pronounce the surname! I just had a Family Sim marry him (Gloria Lupinchild) and they have had a daughter together. They're very much in love, it's cute! I thought the constant preening was hilarious at first, but I'm sure I will soon start to find it annoying! Gloria is also nearing friendship with one of the female Vampires from Downtown. She got invited to the wedding party; the first thing she did when she got to the house was "Blegh" Tucker! So funny! Anybody know if there's any special "requirements" for your Sim to be turned into a Vampire? I don't know much about Nightlife yet. Answers on a postcard!
I had one of my CAS try a blind date just to see what happened. She spent about mid range for it. It turned out to be a dream date, which really shocked me. I don't remember if I had her call him after or not. I do know that he kept showing up, at ALL hours ringing her door bell. Sometimes she ignored, sometimes she answered. Eventually she had him move in. I found that he'd been a YA and grew up right there on her door step. He brought a whopping $600 simoleons with him and NOTHING in his inventory. I didn't mind though. I'm slightly unhappy about the fact that he's a romance sim, as I didn't want that for her. Although, his LTW is to be a celebrity chef; so, he shouldn't be too difficult to keep "honest."
Romance sims can be very good, attentive spouses, especially if they don't have woo hoo LTWs. Just keep 'em happy with lots of romantic interactions with YOUR sim and they won't want to stray. Much. I've noticed with NL that even Money sims fantasize about other sims. But if they don't act on it, what's the harm? I mean, who doesn't have fantasies about other people once in a while?
I checked, my Mr Bigs name is Ash Zhang, he bought 11 friends and ALOT of stuff in his inventory (including 2 pianos ). They just had a baby daughter also and are doing very well.
In my game he's Irfan Platz. Not nearly as poetic LOL. He called my teen sim and said, "I hear you're a lot of fun to hang out with." I reacted like any mom would and told her to say no. (See my story thread.) I mean, eewwww?
Despite the eewwww factor, I might have said yes just to see if it could be done (adult on date with teen). Uni kids aren't supposed to be able to "try for baby" either, but my nere-do-well Bug Hunter still managed to simpregnate Mary-Sue when she had him over for a date...
Somehwere around here I read a discussion about Uni students having babies or not having babies. I think the conclusion was that Uni girls can't but Univ guys who visit the regular neighborhood can father children with the resident women. JMP had a technical explanation for why this is so and it had nothing to do with gender politics. If I am remembering correctly, that is, because I haven't bothered with a search for that thread. Is Mary Sue from the neighborhood and Bug Hunter from Uni? And just pondering--do all dates necessarily require romance? Looks like that's the case so, yes, it would be odd for an adult to date a teen. Maybe he's younger than he looks.
That's correct, it was Mary Sue Pleasant and one of my legacy heirs who was attending Sim State at the time. As for the teen-adult thing, are you sure he was calling for a date? Or did he just invite her downtown for an "outing"? Although a lot has been discussed about NL's "dates" but I haven't seen much talk about social groups. Social group outings are non-romantic. When she asked her mother if it was ok to go out, did she say "Awww c'mon mom, it's just a group thing!"
Yeah, I raised this issue back when uni came out; it makes a very clear (and negative) sexist statement about gender-equality I think! :(
That's for sure. Every time one of my sims is invited out it's a group outing that often includes kids. Not romantic at all even though I tried hard, once, to make it so between the woman invited and the guy who invited her. The tag-alongs made it difficult. By the way, I think this is the thread where Mirelly raised the issue about gender-equality (still on topic about college age kids and dating.) http://forums.worldsims.net/showthread.php?t=5418&highlight=college
I believe that the reason Uni gals cannot get pregnant is that the baby would be left behind when she returned to campus. This is whymany of the hacks that allow more non-conventional pregnancies still do not allow Uni-pregnancies. I still agree it's terribly sexist!! As for the outing/date thing, I think that the teen sim was asked on an outing. I've even had babies tag along on outings! Poor thing laid in the doorway and suffered!!! And for a date to be a good date, you need to fulfill the sims wants while they are on the date. Many of them are non-romantic, such as "dine out with Joe", "Dance with Joe", "Talk to Joe", "Bowl" etc. I think that it is possible to keep the date platonic if that's your goal, but I also think the game will roll romantic wants along with the platonic ones when you're on a date, so it's not easy.
