Extra Family in Egypt

[RockinRobin]

Yes, Bogie....I do remember that challenge and yes my sim did that one. I can't remember the timing of when the boy showed up though. I do think he showed up AFTER that challenge because I think she did that one on her 1st or 2nd trip to Egypt and then he showed up as soon as she went back there.

Thanks for merging the threads Pam.

[RockinRobin]

My sim went over to visit her son's home since she's in Egypt again. and I decided to go ahead and add him to her family. Now I'm able to see his relationships and how everything fits together. Wow it's all so bizarre!! 

He was living with the Hawas family. The father of the household is his nephew and the wife is his sister-in-law. The little girl is his niece and the other adult male in the home is his half-brother. Did you get all that? LOL

So I'm thinking that his father, (the one Audrey is supposedly married to) must have been old and died and left the kid to live with his extended family. I guess his half-brother must be married to the woman who is his sister-in-law and their daughter is his niece. I don't know....it's all so confusing! I'm glad she's getting her son out of that craziness!

[RockinRobin]

I checked the family tree and it's changed again now that the family is home from Egypt. I was right....the boy's father was the Special Merchant! The weird thing is that he (special merchant) has the same last name as my sim....Sullivan. The other people on the family tree are my sim's half-brothers and sister, so apparently, that Special Merchant got AROUND quite a bit! He had 4 children and all of them have different last names and I'm assuming...different mothers.





Now I'm having trouble with the boy skipping school all the time. He's a teen now and he'll go to school, but then I see that he's skipping and will be down at the park or even come home sometimes. Have any of you seen kids skipping school? I have never seen it before. I keep making him go back to school. LOL He must take after his father!! 

[Pam]

Now I'm having trouble with the boy skipping school all the time. He's a teen now and he'll go to school, but then I see that he's skipping and will be down at the park or even come home sometimes. Have any of you seen kids skipping school? I have never seen it before. I keep making him go back to school. LOL He must take after his father!! 

I've had a problem with skipping school, but I thought it was a bug. The kids would go to school and then leave the building after a few minutes. I started following them to school to see what was going on. They would enter the building, then pop out the back. I'd click "go to school" and they would go back in, but then pop out the back again. And... when this happened, their homework was no longer done! It was like leaving the school building reset their homework as incomplete for the next day, so their little smiley face for homework was a scowl. I first noticed it when I was having kids age up and I wasn't allowed to choose a trait because of their indifferent study habits. I knew they were going to school and doing their homework every night, so what's the problem? Yeah, skipping school was the problem. I had two in school and they both kept popping out the back. If you're finding yours at the park and stuff, maybe it's because he's had enough time after popping out to go somewhere. Try following him to school and see what's happening. I haven't noticed this problem since the last patch came out. I was hoping EA got it fixed!

[RockinRobin]

I just did that because it showed he was skipping school again almost as soon as he got there! I decided to go to the school and see what was going on. It was just as you say.....I'd make him go in and then he'd come out the back door again. I made him go back three times and he kept coming out...so I gave up and made him sit down in the grass and do his homework and he got the message that he made the honor roll!!  LOL Maybe he thinks he's too smart for school?

He has an after school job also at the grocery store and so far, he hasn't missed any days at work. He'll skip school, but he does at least read a book or do homework and then he goes to work. Maybe it's time to age him up.   

[Pam]

Do you have the most recent patch that came out a few days ago, RockinRobin?

[RockinRobin]

Yes I do. Remember I had trouble with it at first? 

Another problem that I'm having......IF it's even a problem and not just part of the game....

Remember how I made my sim a nice handsome guy to meet while she was in China? I added him to the household after they hit it off and were getting close because I wanted them to get married. Well that guy came home with her and her son and so now they've been together for the 18 days in China, home for about 4 days, 21 days in Egypt, and now home for another 10 days....so what is that....a couple of months in Sims time? And the option to "propose go steady," "propose engagement," or "propose marriage," still has NOT come up at all. I think it has to be because she was supposedly married...even though that guy is dead now. And then I was suspecting that he was married also, though I haven't been able to prove that and he has NO ONE in his family tree.

Anyway, I guess I'm gonna have that guy move out and make her another guy in Sunset Valley to start dating and see if that works.

[Bogie74]

Ahh, RockinRobin!! I SO love your posts!! Your games are as weird as mine!!  It's somehow comforting, and yes oddly disturbing at the same time - that we have these weird instances! 

I have some funny pics I'm going to post later about the 3rd Indiana Jones I created. Had to start over..getting annoying! Although, I am glad that the collect from deeds thing is fixed. At least now he can make some $$!

My question though - in the relationship panel, are both displaying "romantic interest"? If not, that could be why the no going steady etc is not showing. Just a thought.

[PJSim]

Does anyone else find it interesting that a guy with the Never Nude trait has managed to make so many babies and with different women even?

Maybe it's to do with the absent-mindedness...

[RockinRobin]

LOL PJ!!  You just made me spew my coffee!    Too funny!  You have a point though.

Bogie, yes they are both showing the romantic interest thing and have a heart next to their names. Their relationships are maxed out and when they take pictures of each other, it shows as "My Main Squeeze." They obviously like each other a lot because I catch them kissing each other even when I don't make them. LOL

[Lefassar]

I'm experiencing this annoyance as well. I somehow missed this thread, so I created a new one. I figured I'd copypaste what I wrote in this thread, so here:

Ever since World Adventures came out I've been going on adventures, playing the same family, consisting of one male and one female adult sim. I haven't let them become romantically involved with anyone, including each other, since I've just been so excited about trying out the different adventures. So, they have now aged from young adults to adults, and they're currently travelling in France. I was going through the female sim's friends, trying to find a specific one, when I noticed something very odd. My sim knew another sim that had the "relative" symbol. I placed my cursor on it, and it said "daughter"! What the... Also, this "out-of-nowhere" daugher wasn't a baby or a child, but an adult sim! (I couldn't tell if it was a young adult or adult but STILL!) Can you imagine the surprise when I checked the male sim's friend list, and HE HAD A SON? Same thing, it's an adult. The daughter is in China, and the family tree says her father is some chinese guy that my female sim is friends with (but like I said before, no romance there!). The son is in Egypt, same thing, no romance with the mother.

I'm glad I'm not alone with this problem. What a pain.

[Pam]

There doesn't seem to be a solution to this problem, either.  Let's hope for a patch to fix it soon!

[RockinRobin]

Wow Lafassar....you're game is as strange as mine! I actually started playing a new sim because I wanted to play one who could get married and raise a proper family. When she went to Egypt, she met that same Special Merchant there and I made her get away from him! LOL I keep checking her friends panel to make sure that no illegitimate kids show up after she travels. So far, so good. I was able to get her married to the other male sim I made for her and they've both been back to China and so far, neither of them have had any unexpected kids.

I have no idea what is causing that, but it's so strange because it seems to happen with sims that don't even have a romantic interest and personally, I think it sends a bad message to kids who may be playing the game. Ya know?  I've always tried to play my sims as morally as possible and maybe that's boring for some people.....but it's just the way I choose to play. So it's kinda upsetting when I find my sims running around reproducing without my knowledge or blessing. LOL  

[Arafel]

Reading this now has me paranoid. I'm gonna have to check my sim's family tree now 

[Lefassar]

I don't really care about the moral, just that it doesn't make any sense. I mean, I could live with it, if in fact my sims would actually be romantically involved with someone while I'm not looking, and then became pregnant and THEN actually had the baby. But, it annoys the heck out of me that they just suddenly appear from nowhere! As adults! I like to keep my game quite realistic, so having these random (adult!! I just can't get past that...) children pop up and not being able to do anything about it really annoys me.

I searced around a bit, and it seems the WA version of Awesomemod might fix this. At least it says in the desctription: "13. Active/Sacred Sims will no longer suddenly find themselves the parent of some random vacation locals." I'm hoping for the best. I haven't had the chance to try it out yet, but once I get the mod installed, I'll see what'll happen. Too bad it won't have any effect on the existing children. :/

Oh yeah, and I think someone mentioned here or in some other thread about this same issue, that their sim had the "heartbroken" moodlet after the apparent other parent died, as if they saw it? That happened to me too.