Hi everyone,Ok, I know theres a whole thread on roommates on the university life board but I wasn't sure if the sims3 and university life are exactly the same when it comes to having roommates or asking someone to move in so I put the question here if thats ok.What I want to know is how come when I'm out and about chatting and socializing with other sims some sims when I chat with them have the question come up as 'ask to move in' and other sims it comes up as 'ask to be roommate'. What's the difference?What I want to know is how can I have someone move in and I won't have to control them at all? The more sims in a house that I have to 'control' the harder it is to keep track of everything they are doing and should be doing and where they are going, etc.Is there anyway to ask someone to 'move in' or 'ask to be roommate' and have someone else controlling that sim just like I'm controlling my own sim?Thanks again for all your help.

You could ask the mother to move in and then when the move in menu appears just move in the child and leave the mother where she is. (Out of world or where ever.) This also works with teens etc. Just another in-game way to move kids and teens around without having to use manage households.

Ask to Move In - adds the sim to your household. They're just like any other sim in your household, controllable by you. This interaction usually only appears after some friendly social interaction (in the top left corner it will say 'simA thinks simB is being sociable/friendly.'

)Ask to be Roommate - does not add the sim to your household, but does make them live with your household. The sim will live in your house similar to the way a butler does. They will keep their job, they will leave the house, they will eat, sleep, watch TV, bathe, etc, but they can't be controlled by you.

Once a week they will pay rent. The roommate does remove a household slot from the pool, so keep that in mind. For example, if you had two playable sims and two roommates, the game counts that as four sim slots being taken up out of the possible eight maximum. You would only be able to add four more playable sims, four more roommates, or any combination that adds up to four to the household.So for sims you don't have to control, you'd be wanting to add roommates. The game will do the controlling of the roommate for you. Hopefully that helps sort it out!

I'm currently playing as a family of one Sim and a cat. The Sim got romantically involved with another, and I wanted to try and ask the other Sim to move in with the household. The problem is, from what I can gather this is a Friendly related option when talking. But this option does not appear for me in the talk options. I have seen it once when I was building the relationship between the Sims, but now I cannot find it anymore.The Friendly talk options contain all sorts of stuff for me. My Sim has a lot of extra options in the Friendly screen (she's a Witch with various traits that give quite a few extra talk options in this screen).

Note that their relationship is at the highest level: the bar is fully green.So is it possible to ask that Sim to join the household, preferably without breaking up? Or is at this point marriage the only way to do this? In the Sims 3 sims have a hidden 'instantaneous relationship', that is taken into account to determine what options show in the pie menu.This means that in order for 'Ask to Move In' to show up (it shows up under Friendly), you need a number of things:. A reasonable long-term relationship. It doesn't need to be very high, aim for at least 30 or 40.

High instantaneous relationship. This is done by stacking friendly talk options and building a conversation.Once you have both of these, 'Ask to Move In' should appear under friendly, and when selected, is usually accepted.(The same basic flow is used to make available stuff like proposals and propositions generally.).