Oddities

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Odd Object Conditions#

When players purchase objects within the game, Sims may respond with approval, indifference or disapproval. While the majority of these object reactions are governed by a global script (comeandseeme::Do Come and See Me), certain objects deviate from this norm by utilizing unique private scripts that offer unique likability conditions.

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Stoves As Surfaces#

• In the base game, the placement scripts attached to stove objects allow users to move dishes to their surfaces through the move_objects cheat code. Forcing this scenario makes Sims unable to perform anything related to cooking, even getting meals from the fridge.

Flower Intersection#

The Newbies household, where the tutorial scenario takes place, is one of two areas in the entire game that contain an outdoor flower intersected with another object — in this case, another outdoor flower. This type of arrangement can not be likewise reproduced by the player, not even post-move_objects on cheat code, well-known for letting the player place objects in unusual places at the world. pre-release snapshot on which outdoor flowers share the same tile grid as a Buy Mode object.]]

• Interestingly, if the player chooses to place any of these two plants elsewhere with the Hand Tool, the game will not allow them to return it on its original position, as using the Undo tool only makes the flower vanish from the world — without money back, as it is typical of Plant Tool catalog.
  • The ability to arrange home appliances and other items directly onto outdoor flowers tiles was removed at the last minute of the game's development, given that the Newbies house, in its default state, was last modified less than one month prior to the game's final build compilation.
  • It has been noted, however, that if the player adds an Expression primitive at the tree flowersoutdoor::init tree that instructs outdoor flowers to have the literal flag value 3 (has zero extent), they can restore the outdoor flowers' ability to be intersected by objects as they once did, meaning that that was the original settings for flowers back in pre-release builds.
• The opening video for the game has footage of a garden on which outdoor flowers share the same tile as the "Fountain of Tranquility".
• There is another instance where outdoor flowers at the mansion at 2 Sim Lane sport a similar conundrum. Still, their intersection happens with trees in that case, which is a object placement instruction that is allowed by default.