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"Granny Crabapple" <marrowjam@[reallywild]blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "Charles Whitney" <cbillingsw@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>>> The *worst* is when you've got two parents fussing over a toddler.
>>> Tell one to potty train him, and the other picks him up and puts him
>>> in the crib. GRRRR!!!! What a pain in the butt!
>>
>> You know, I wouldn't actually mind that in my game. I wouldn't mind it
>> at all if the worst conflict over a toddler was between trying to
>> pottytrain him and put him to bed, which the sims do only when the
>> toddler is about to fall over from fatigue.
>>
>> Instead, when I decide that the toddler needs to use the potty, and I
>> select a parent to train him, I also need to click off whatever activity
>> the toddler's engaged in, or else the parent just stands there by the kid
>> and gives up. When I click off the toddler's activity, literally
>> everyone on the lot makes a beeline for the kid to give him a bath, even
>> when the kid has a full hygiene bar.
>
> A bath??? Is the whole family very tidy-minded? I go crazy when they all
> want to read to the child. The family being knowledge hogs.
>>
>> And it gets worse, because sometimes the sims mill around when the
>> toddler's being bathed, so that when the first sim gets done bathing the
>> kid and puts him down close to where he found him, a second sim will
>> carry the toddler right back to the bathroom to give him another bath.
>
> I am impressed. But I bet it is frustrating.
>>
>> I also hate how the nannies try to feed the toddler all the time, and
>> when they try to do it when the toddler's occupied playing, the nanny
>> gets frustrated, drops the bottle on the floor, goes right back to the
>> refrigerator to get another bottle for the kid, which she also drops in
>> frustration, *and will continue doing this* until I cancel out the
>> toddler's action, which of course will result immediately in the toddler
>> being forcefed by the nanny, even if he's not hungry, not to mention the
>> buildup of bottles on the floor where the toddler was playing (and they
>> spoil fast).
>>
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> Is this only in one house or is the the whole neighbourhood like that? I
> don;t think I have seen any of these things.
No, although, obviously, it only occurs in families that have toddlers and
baths. Also, there are a few sim actions that the sim can't choose to
cancel himself (mostly related to skill-building) so if a sim is engaged in
that activity, he can't choose to bathe the idle toddler. This makes
smaller families easier to contend with, since, say, the two sims who would
bathe the toddler are more likely to both be engaged in said activities. So
generally it happens in families with more than three teens or adults, who
also frequently have enough room in their house to have baths in their
bathrooms. (Although it does happen in a family in a small house with just
the parents and one toddler, all I really need for it to show up is a bath
and a toddler on the lot)
There is no personality issue involved. It's not done exclusively by sims
who have high or modest neat points. It strikes me very much as "I have
nothing to do, well, might as well give the kid a bath!" To clarify,
though, they won't wake up a sleeping toddler to do this, but that's not any
different from other behaviors, for they also won't wake up a sleeping
toddler to feed him or read to him either.
I do occasionally get the "I want to read to the kid" desires as well from
adults and teens (mostly teens), which never works, as the toddler's always
involved in something else, which cancels the action. "Something else" can
constitute the kid playing in the toilet (I don't understand why the
programmers decided to not have the sims have a problem with that when they
see that happening. I mean, the toddlers do that with clogged and unflushed
toilets, which is just about the most revolting thing imaginable) or a sim
lined up to give the kid a bath.
As for nannies, I've found that they often get stuck on one particular
thing, and there's nothing to break them away from it until they finish it.
If they get on a cleaning binge or a chess playing binge, the kid could
starve to death for all they care, although I think "feed the kid if his
hunger motive is this low" probably is the primary motivation of all the
nanny's capabilities, so she'd have to be playing chess or cleaning for a
while for such a thing to happen.
C
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