Stay Away from this Guy in Egypt!

[e^(pi*i)]

They should make it such that polygamy is good in that marriages over borders don't count. This is a serious suggestion; what if someone wanted to play a sim who lives a bunch of different lives in all of these locations?

Maybe they should add a whole criminal aspect to the next expansion and make it so that our sims can forge identities and live two lives, even in the same city. (political career AND crook?!)

That one was a less serious suggestion.

[LivvieLove]

BE WARNED:
there is a guy exactly like that in all locations.
My TEEN sim went there one day and discovered she was the mother of a child. It glitched up my favorite game, (my starter legacy), because at first I felt I should take the child back with me to Riverview. I did but anytime one person interacts with her she freezes up everything and makes it impossible to move.
Now I can't even get rid of her either.
I don't want to kill her either!
So I had to re-start my legacy.

[jmz95]

They should make it such that polygamy is good in that marriages over borders don't count. This is a serious suggestion; what if someone wanted to play a sim who lives a bunch of different lives in all of these locations?

Maybe they should add a whole criminal aspect to the next expansion and make it so that our sims can forge identities and live two lives, even in the same city. (political career AND crook?!)

That one was a less serious suggestion.

This might be pushing it for a "T" rating though. And, since you can't stay for very long in other locations, and the places don't have any real jobs, they'd have to put in a LOT of coding, almost make it like a whole new game, like "Sims 3.5" or something lol.

[RockinRobin]

Well this stinks!  

So I decided to play an existing sim in Riverview, take her to Egypt, and see if she'd wind up with any kids she didn't know about. The sim I was playing is named Tyra Esposito and she lives with Jaime Kent and Barbara Carr and their household is called the "Kraft" family.

Anyway, I played her for a couple of days, built up some skills, traveled to Egypt and she had made enough money to buy her own little house, so I had her buy the house just two doors down which was empty. (next to their house is the Carpenter-Rhodes house and then the next one was empty....a cute little row house)  I liked this sim so I decided to move her out so that maybe I could play her again sometime and I went and played a different family for a day and then went back to check on Tyra to see if she had any kids yet. Come to find out....she is back in the house with Jaime and Barbara and their household has ZERO funds again! What the heck?? She still has the skills she built up and the inventory of stuff she got while in Egypt, but she is now dating Trigger Broke and does not live alone anymore.

I guess when you're playing the EA created sims, they just reset back after you play them...I don't know. Anyway, she didn't have any unknown kids in her friends panel, but I'm wondering if I need to create my own sim to take over there to see if it will happen because apparently, we don't have as much control over the EA sims as we would think.

[RockinRobin]

By the way.....I meant to tell you all this in my last post, but I suppose it deserves its own post. Regarding the Hawas family in Egypt....where the "dirty old man" lives......I decided to package up that household....(house and all its members) and save it to the library so I could place them in Riverview and play them. I wanted to see if there was anything out of the ordinary with that Sekhmet Hawas. I really didn't find anything too weird about him. His traits are light sleeper, angler, schmoozer, never nude, and absent minded. The only people who showed up as "family" in his friend's panel were the people he was living with. (son, Sopdu, daughter-in-law Nepthy, two granddaughters Meret and Shermine, and grandson Geb) The skills that he has built up were the fishing and handiness....but they were not maxed out.

So I took old Sekhmet out in Riverview and he does seem to befriend other sims pretty quickly...I guess because of his schmoozer trait. I haven't checked the other families yet to see if he's managed to reproduce with any of those sims yet....but I'll check. He has a girlfriend now, who I can NOT find in Riverview anywhere!!  He's going steady with her and he can call her but I can't find where she lives. I followed her yesterday to see if I could figure out where she lives, but she was going to work and she works at the Stadium. So I can't check her to see if she's had a baby by him or not. (her name is Shana Natcher....anyone know where she lives in Riverview?)

Anyway, playing the Hawas family has been fun. I like Nepthy and Sopdu and their kids! LOL Nepthy has a LTW of being surrounded by family and has since had another set of twins (boys) while I was playing them. So they have a total of 5 kids now. I had Geb grow up and move out because they were running out of room. 

[kat]

So I can't check her to see if she's had a baby by him or not.

If you go to Sekhmet's 'profile' page while you are playing him (where it has his aging bar), you can click on his family tree button and that will tell you who all of his children are and who their mothers are. 

[RockinRobin]

Oh yeah....I knew that.   

[Kilgore Trout]

Bah, this just happened to me. My character Henry Jones was exploring Egypt and of course came into contact with this family. I then started getting notices referring to Henry Kamel. I checked my profile page and, lo and behold, I had been renamed to Henry Kamel and had also gathered a daughter (child, not toddler).

Luckily Henry is a single sim, so this was largely rectified by a trip to the city hall as soon as I got back and changed his name back to Jones (after all, the plan is for him to spawn young Indiana at some point  ).

Whilst still in Egypt I visited the child in question and after introducing myself (!), the first thing she did was complain about being hungry. So I'm now putting this down as Henry taking pity on a poor Egyptian family and 'adopting' the child.

As such, I can just about live with this, but I can see that this would be really annoying to a sim further along its life plan or with an already-existing family.

Oh, and "hello forum" Been lurking for a while, and this is a great resource.

[Pam]

This is really turning out to be a major bug! There are similar complaints on the official Sims 3 forum, so I'm sure EA is aware of the problem, and hopefully working on a patch.

[The Illuminator]

This is really turning out to be a major bug! There are similar complaints on the official Sims 3 forum, so I'm sure EA is aware of the problem, and hopefully working on a patch.

Are you sure EA did not want it to be like this and add a little spice to your traveller's live?

[HelenP]

I don't know, Illuminator, it all seems a bit extreme to me  .  If it was intended it seems to have back-fired, it looks like too many players are upset by it.

[Metropolis Man]

Are you sure EA did not want it to be like this and add a little spice to your traveller's live?

Absolutely not. No way. This Egyptian guy is a game wrecker. To be honest I'm scared to death of the Surrounded by Family challenge I'm throwing together in a month where family members will be required to "mix it up" with foreigners. It could be devastating in a tourney situation if things happened that are completely unplanned. Having a nectar machine break down is one thing. Returning to Sunset Valley and finding out you've had some immaculate conception is another! It's so much of a concern to me for that particular event that I honestly think I'll have to delay it until this is addressed by EA.

[The Illuminator]

Metro, I guess you're right. I hope EA will repair this soon...

[Metropolis Man]

I never frequent the official EA forums. Does anyone know if there's a bonafide list of bugs that are due to be fixed somewhere at that site? I'd like to keep tabs on this issue.

[RockinRobin]

Yeah Metro, it could definitely throw a monkey wrench into a challenge if sims are running around having extra kids show up just because they meet this guy. I haven't yet had it happen in France or China......so I can't really speak to those places. But someone on here said there's a guy like this in every location? That's a scary thought! Do we have an identity on those guys yet so I can be sure to stay away from them?