Friday, May 12, 2000

Restrictions Lifted by Generation

Generation Two

Law Enforcement

  • -Your Sims may not purchase smoke detectors, fire sprinklers, burglar alarms or car alarms.
  • -Your Sims may not use the “emergency” tab on the phones.
  • -Teenage and Elder sims that have less than a 10 body may not leave the lot for any reason, including going to work or community lots. The ONLY exception to this rule is that teenage Sims can go to High School without penalty.
  • -Your Sims may not call the police to look for runaway teens.
  • -Only Sims in the Law enforcement career field may use the fingerprint scanner.
  • -You may not call adoption services to adopt or give up a pet.
  • -You may not call to report a lost pet.

Once a brave hero from the family emerges, they can clean up the streets and restore order, allowing police and fire fighters to once again help people. The Law Enforcement restrictions are lifted. The smoke detector and burglar alarm may be purchased and used, even if the Science restriction has not been lifted.


Slacker
  • -Sims may not use vacation days.
  • -If a sim misses a SINGLE day of work for any reason (including pregnancy) they must quit their job. (If a pregnant sim is lucky enough to have 2 days off in a row and they time their 2nd and 3rd days of pregnancy on those, they can keep their job).
  • -If a sim loses employment in a career for any reason (quitting or being fired) they may never take a job in that career again. This cross-applies to teenage, adult and elder careers. (For example, if a sim was fired or quit from the Science career as a teenager, they may never take a job in the Science career, even when they become an adult or elder)
  • -Elders may not retire, they must quit if they wish to stop working.
  • -You may not ignore chance cards; you MUST select one of the two options.
  • -Only those in the slacker career may use the slacker career reward object.
  • -All of the slacker rules apply to pet careers as well.

Once a sim from the family becomes a professional party guest, they host a huge party and invite all the leaders of industry to attend. Little do they know that the federal labor enforcement agents have also been invited. Confronted by the federal agents, the labor leaders agree to follow the proper labor laws. The Slacker restrictions are lifted.


Generation One


Medicine

  • Showers and bathtubs of all types may not be purchased or used at home or on a community lot.

  • Dish washers (both types) may not be purchased or used.

  • Pools may not be built or used.

  • Sims may not use medicine to become well.

  • Whenever Sims woohoo, they MUST choose “Try for baby” If ‘try for baby’ is not an option, they may not woohoo. (Unless the sim is already pregnant, too old to get pregnant or the two Sims woohooing are the same gender).

  • You may not purchase or use the changing table.

  • Sims may not purchase vamprocill. (They may use it if they brought a bottle back from college)

  • Only Sims currently employed in the medical career may use the surgical dummy

  • You may not give dogs a bath

  • You may not purchase or use the litter box.



Culinary

  • Sims may not purchase or use anything from the “Ovens” or “Small appliances” category except for the cheapest grill.

  • You may only prepare food once per sim day. Once any sim has prepared food, no other may do so for the rest of the day. A sim making a one-serving meal counts. (An easy way to keep track of this restriction is to turn the fridge backwards after a sim has taken food from it, and keeping it that way until midnight)

  • Sims pulling out baby bottles does NOT count against this limit and may be done as many times per day as needed.

  • Sims may not prepare food on community lots

  • Sims may not eat at restaurants on community lots.

  • You may not use the “Delivery” menu on the phone to order Pizza or Chinese food.

  • Sims may not purchase prepared food from community lots (such as pre-made cakes from a bakery)

  • Sims may not hold food in inventory.

  • Sims may not flag any food item as ‘for sale’ with the wholesale tool.

  • Sims may not purchase or use birthday cakes, wedding cakes, the bakery display case or any catering buffet tables.

  • Only Sims in the culinary career track can make use of the Chocolate maker.

  • Filling any pet food bowl, the wormrat cage or bird cages counts against the family’s “one meal per day” limit.

  • Sims may not “give treat” to pets.


Service Animal
The combination of stress of living in fallout with the lingering radiation in the air has had a terrible effect on the minds of the elderly. Older minds decay faster and senility sets in early and badly. Surviving to elder hood in this new world is both a blessing and a curse.

-Once any Sim turns elder, you may no longer issue any direct commands to them, nor cancel any of their actions. You may still cancel actions that would otherwise break another restriction (such as playing computer games). You may also direct an elder to quit their job if they happen to miss a day of work with the slacker restriction still in effect.

Once a pet reaches the top of the service career, they help the house’s elderly. Interacting with a trained service animal heals the mental and emotional damage done to the minds of the elders. They are slowly helped out of their cloud of senility and brought back to reality by their furry friends.
The service restriction is lifted. (Or suppressed)


Animal Show Business
Life in a desolate world is harsh to Sims of all ages. Younger Sims find the new world they are growing up in not only scary, but mind numbingly boring as well. With no entertainment for kids and teenagers, concentrating on work is very difficult.

-Children and teenagers may not “Learn to do homework”
-Children and teenagers may not skill build with objects that do not also raise fun.

Once a family pet raises to the top of the animal show biz career, they provide some much needed entertainment to the house’s youngsters. With their minds finally stimulated, they can finally focus on school work and learning.

Animal show Biz restrictions are lifted (or suppressed)