Your signature has something to say about this situation.

LOL!

Yeah. Heh.

I just got a nasty reminder of why it's important to read every single event clearly. I just got the event asking if my peep wanted to advance his career for 250 coins. For some reason *cough not reading clearly cough* I thought it was the career CHANGE counselor event and I said no. I felt instant remorse as it gave me the "Maybe if Fredrick got a promotion he would be able to pay 250 coins" message. Sigh. Not only does Fredrick have plenty of coins (almost 100,000) he's also a Level 7 and it would have bumped him up to Level 8.

During the early stages of the game, I choose a spouse that didn't care much for running!! A lightbulb should have triggered my brain... but it didn't... When I saw her move at a snails pace, I thought she was sick.. Surprise.. surprise...

I've had two regrets:

The first one also involved a troublesome child. She was 18 actually. She never touched a book. Ever. When I noticed she was 18, I tried harder to get her to study but she always refused. I guess its my fault for not taking her to the homework desk when she was younger and praising her for it. Anyway it ended badly, I eventually lost all patience and used the red glove on her when she decided she would rather take an insect outside. She ran away and instead of coming back like everyone else, I got a note that she went to college. So I haven't seen her in 20 virtual years. It is not how I wanted to say goodbye, she would have gone to college anyway, but I feel she left because I got angry at her. The least I could do is let her inherit the house, I guess. That is in vf1 which I play simultaneously with vf2.

The second regret was sending away my vf2's family's only two kids to boarding school. I wanted them to get the best education, but not at the price of never seeing your parents again. Their parents adored them. The dad would read them stories at night, and they kept calling them for meals for an hour or so after they had left. I felt so bad, they were a complete and happy family. I still have the parents, they are my first so I play to go through the journey with them, and not to use them as experiments.

Thandi, could you let us know if sending them away to school increases their level in the next generation? Inquiring minds want to know!

Don't feel bad for scolding your peep! At 18, they go off to college anyway and she's probably forgotten all about it! I just hate it when they're making dinner and decide to go off to college! Couldn't they finish making the meal FIRST???

I thought they went to college at 19?

That's happened to me twice, Swedane! On one of these, I just bought the thing that makes them overcome a dislike, but the other I just left alone. Unfortunately, the one I left alone, since I knew she would always be slow I never bothered to check if she was sick. Apparently she was. She died. Oops.

It's possible it was really just very coincidentally timed with the kid turning 19. But yeah, they do go at 19.



I laughed a little harder than I probably should have. The whistle smiley just gets me every single time.