JohnL83 wrote: ↑

April 13th, 2019, 2:34 pm

It's a shame they don't give us an option to ask the homeowner,. "Hey, can I use your shower?" or "I'm starving, can I grab something to eat?" Instead it's more like, "Hey I'm stinking up your house, because you just talked me into training on your treadmill! Thanks for cussing me out for showering!"

Taking a bath in the sauna from Sunlit Tides does not trigger the Rude Guest reaction, but it restores energy, so when guest Sims use it they tend to stay awake all night. I find it's usually easier t do a MC Max Motives on a stinky guest Sim than it is to try to lure them to the sauna.

I'm with you on the rest of your points. Guest Sims who clean up after themselves should be thanked, not scolded.

(Sometimes I wonder if The Sims games are created by alien anthropologists as an attempt to model and understand human behavior. Their lack of understanding of us would explain why so much of Sim behavior is weird.)

My favorite example remains when I had my sim visit his lifelong best friend and co-worker who was at home stricken with two Vector mod diseases at the same time. The point of sending my sim over was to cook and clean for him then see if there were any ways to cheer his friend up, instead the bedridden friend managed up enough energy to show my sim to the curb for such behavior. I'm pretty sure that's when I learned to start using and distributing the LTR, this one had no reason to be "inappropriate" his entire life until then and was much more typically a gracious host rather than a houseguest.

(Sometimes I wonder if The Sims games are created by those who do lack an understanding of human behavior, but for a different reason. Like they were under 12 years old...with my apologies for this comment to any more intelligent under 12s who might be reading this.)

Thanks to everyone for not calling me out on my use of " LW "instead of saying LTR. LOL I just caught that when I was re-reading the post. Ooops.

Tropical Insomniac wrote: ↑

April 13th, 2019, 3:51 pm

(Sometimes I wonder if The Sims games are created by alien anthropologists as an attempt to model and understand human behavior. Their lack of understanding of us would explain why so much of Sim behavior is weird.)

Yep, I never quite got the rude guest thing for most actions. Especially when an evil sim can beat the crap out of someone at a party but not get kicked out unless it's the homeowner. Of course I wouldn't love it if a friend just helped themselves to my food or started cleaning my house without some reason to be doing so, but there are certainly many circumstances where it's perfectly fine. They really dropped the ball on not allowing blood-relations this option. I'd never chastise my mother or siblings for making themselves at home.
I have good friends who almost always stay around after a party to help clean up, or more often, wake up that morning and help me clean up. After a nice breakfast or visit to the porcelain god first that is.... It would depend on just how crazy the party got. LOL (that said "parties" these days are few and far-between)
Igazor, yeah that is pretty bad. I was so glad to get the lifetime reward "inappropriate but in a good way". I guess that was one case where EA got the message from it's fans.