The Sims 2: inviting someone over using the computer

[pne]

Yesterday I was playing The Sims 2 and had this happen for the first time: someone chatted with someone else on the computer and raised the relationship score from about 15 to 56, making friends with them, and then I got a popup window: "Invite this person over?".

So I said yes, and she did indeed come over, even though it was only about 6:15 a.m.—a time when you can't even call a Sim on the telephone because they sleep until 7 or something.

So that was interesting.

Comments

[fledchen.livejournal.com]

Wow. I've had the game since it first came out, and I've never had that happen. Granted, I play it in fits and spurts, but I have spent a considerable amount of time playing it. :)

I think it's a little bit annoying that you can't call other sims at certain times, regardless of what the other sim's real schedule is.

[pne.livejournal.com]

I think it's a little bit annoying that you can't call other sims at certain times, regardless of what the other sim's real schedule is.

Yes, I think so, too.

I've considered looking for a hack that'll let you invite people over at any time of the day (I had a hacked teleporter shower for that back in The Sims 1 -- if you had two of them then one of them would let you call people and the other would send them away), but haven't been bothered enough to look yet.

I've had the game since it first came out, and I've never had that happen.

Nor I, as I said. Perhaps because I never really went in for chatting on the PC.

But this guy was a "minor character" who decided to use the PC autonomously because his Social motive was really low -- which was probably also a factor that caused him to talk for so long. (I've noticed that Sims will stay on the phone for a lot longer if their Social motive was low at the beginning.)

I'm not sure whether it was the became-a-friend event that popped up the window or what.

Curious.

[(Anonymous)]

If that's in the game mechanics, it really interesting. But you might also have accidentially installed a hack that does this by downloading a sims house from the internet (if you did that, of course).

[pne.livejournal.com]

Unlikely, since I haven't downloaded any kind of custom content for the Sims 2 on that machine yet.

[zompist.livejournal.com]

Sorry to contact you this way, but the last e-mail address I had for you bounced... you might be interested to know that someone made a Unicode font for Verdurian using the CSUR values, and that your Luke page is perhaps the only one on the web which this now unlocks...

http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/viewtopic.php?t=19615&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

[pne.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

He also got in touch with me by email. I'll try to get back to him in a reasonable timeframe (he pointed out a couple of errors in the Luke page, for example, where I had forgotten to convert ASCII letters into Verdurian).

He also mentioned that he wasn't sure how to map i-breve. I vaguely recall that I had discussed the matter with you, too, several years ago when I looked at the CSUR entry, but I don't remember what your response had been.

[leora.livejournal.com]

I think I've invited people over by computer before, although I forget the details of how I did it. It's been a while. I didn't realize though it was a way to get around the time of day issue for calling. I'll have to keep that in mind. I've used the computer during the no-call hours to get social for Sims with annoying work schedules.