Sim Jealousy
Saturday, 7 June 2008 19:53So last week I got The Sims 2: University and today I got around to installing it. As per protocol, I play-tested the game vanilla, with no hacks or mods. Since the game is still borked and won't let me into Strangetown, or allow me to create new families, I assigned a campus to Pleasantview and picked one of the OTB households to play. One Family Sim, two Knowledge Sims, three different majors potentially leading to three of the four new careers; good times.
Except, my original plan for play-testing was to create a household of four, so I could move them through and out of uni together, so I could have a household with all four careers. So when it turns out that one of the household friends is majoring in Drama and thus eligible for the Show Business career, I pounce on the opportunity and move her in. Except it turns out that she's a Romance Sim, and has a crush on my male Knowledge Sim, who's involved with the Family Sim; without jealousy mods, a one-sided crush is grounds for her to get a memory of catching him cheating on her, because he slept with his girlfriend. And she's a Romance Sim.
I've mentioned before that I hate how jealousy works in this game, right?
Anyway, no more playing vanilla for me. I'm restoring my full Downloads folder and hoping I can neutralize the extra girl's fury. Or else, I'll just dump them and pick up one of the other households.
Except, my original plan for play-testing was to create a household of four, so I could move them through and out of uni together, so I could have a household with all four careers. So when it turns out that one of the household friends is majoring in Drama and thus eligible for the Show Business career, I pounce on the opportunity and move her in. Except it turns out that she's a Romance Sim, and has a crush on my male Knowledge Sim, who's involved with the Family Sim; without jealousy mods, a one-sided crush is grounds for her to get a memory of catching him cheating on her, because he slept with his girlfriend. And she's a Romance Sim.
I've mentioned before that I hate how jealousy works in this game, right?
Anyway, no more playing vanilla for me. I'm restoring my full Downloads folder and hoping I can neutralize the extra girl's fury. Or else, I'll just dump them and pick up one of the other households.