Homework? Why do my kids always drop their homework on the floor, somewhere that I can never find it? Can't they put it on a TABLE like everything else? And they keep moving it around. I had one teen doing the other one's homework because HE absolutely REFUSED. I tried to get Dad to help him and everything, but to no avail.
Kids will always seek to drop their homework on a desk. Note they only want to put the homework on the side with the chair kneehole! If more than one desk is present all children will still use the same desk ... it'll be the first desk you bought ... so if you buy three desks all at the same time the first one to be plopped down ... wherever you move it to ... will always be the one that all children (including ones yet to be born) will choose. If the desk is occupied by anything ... then the kids will drop the homework as near to the desk as possible. If no desk is present they'll tend to leave it by the front door unless their grades are below A+ in which case they are apt to leave it in the road. If their isn't a desk to sit at then kids are quite happy sitting on the floor to do it (note that they may well block a door or something ... ) Kids won't do homework unless they are sufficiently green anyway.
If the homework is dropped in an inconvenient spot, you can always go into buy mode to move it to a better location. Same goes for things like newspapers, bills, etc. It's been in my limited experience that kids will do homework as long as their mood is green (even the slightest bit above 0) and none of the needs are critical. Maybe this differs depending on personality traits, I dunno.
I encourage them to drop the homework by the road and avoid some of the "I got an A+ cheering) by deleting their "school" icon as soon as they are off the bus. Then I move the home work to where I want it with the buy mode. It makes it easier to find, except for the green "books" which take some hunting to find in the grass. I've found that it's really difficult to get a Sim who doesn't at least have their "fun" in the green to do their homework. So I generally have my Sims do something fun as soon as they get home to max their fun, then set them at the homework. But their fun deteriorates so much when they do homework that I have them do something fun when they are done with their homework too. That's why I like them to be in Private School. Their fun doesn't deteriorate nearly as much at school, so they have more time to do a lot of things when they come home.
I'd usually stop them immediately when they come home so this way they leave their homework on the walkways and can grab it and move it with the move_objects on cheat to a desk.
You don't need move_objects to move homework to places. I wonder how long it'll take people to put an axe in the cheering thing. Modding folks have already attempted to put the axe to the "whining" and the "jealousy" matters, and make abductions occur every time.
Cheering... DENIED! As soon as the kids get off the bus I delete their cheer from the parent's queue. I hate it. THed first day.. yeah cheer. Day 12... chill out! Maybe the cheer should only show if the A+ is on the parent's aspiration list?
Yes, when you look at features like this, it becomes pretty obvious why a not-so-immediately-obvious bug like the Jumping Bug, which will almost certainly strike, but only if you play the game for awhile, got overlooked: It's obvious that they never tested this game by actually PLAYING it, or all the testers would long since have gone nuts about the entire cheering thing. I mean, can you find ANYONE who actually LIKES that they do this EVERY TIME? Can you imagine a busload of teens trying to unload with this cheering thing going on? The last one off the bus would never make it to work, because it would take like 6 hours to unload! I mean, couldn't they have at least moved *AWAY* from the bus before opening their report card? If I had a sibling that did that, preventing me from getting off the bus, I'd demonstrate my annoyance by planting my boot in his backside.
Yeah like TS1 where no sim ever had the simple idea of just side stepping another. But. This is just a game we're talking about. It's a simulation sure, but it is not a simulation of real life. I don't think I'd want to sit watching a simulation of real life. Much easier to just have one. The whole point of The Sims as a franchise is that it is a game without a "win" goal. The player sets the "goals". The developer's job is to deliver a gameplay structure that supplies a good mixture of enjoyable actions and antics ... but to keep it liberally sprinkled with a sufficient quantity of grit that seems (and therefore is) designed to foul up our well-laid plans and to stop us becoming complacent. Complacency is a first step towards boredom.
I always have a challenge getting my Sims Children (Not unlike my real children haha) to do their homework. I always make the fatal mistake of buying the family a computer and putting it on a desk. gasp! Them the brats throw their books in the floor by the desk, sit down and start playing computer games. I tell them to stop and then click on their books so they can do their homework. They will complete about 1/2 of it, then their "fun" level gets low and they jump right back on that computer!! So, needless to say, my bratty sims children never get A+, and I never have the cheering problem. sniff, sniff, my sims kids are stupid!
