Virtual Families

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cristaleda wrote:trying to water my garden boxes how do i do that....

you can not do that.

hi my real name is Grammy i am 10 years old how do i download games because, i am new to this place?

i can help u i am 12 year old lokk click free games then see the games see how it play theres many games then click download then whet it finish click play now then u play i wish that i help u

Hunt221 wrote:hi my real name is Grammy i am 10 years old how do i download games because, i am new to this place?

Hello Grammy -- First it is important your parents are aware of your online activities and know you intend on downloading games. Wouldn't want you to get in trouble. From the website or the game manager (smaller iWin window), choose a game you would like to try. There a games which are free to play anytime but are interrupted by advertising and there are games which have a one hour trial period. Click on the game title. Another page will open up. Click on the large orange box on the right hand side of the page which says Download. Depending on how fast your internet connection is this process may take from 3 to 25 minutes or even longer depending on how large the game is. When the download is complete, another smaller box will pop up with the game title and a button which says Play Now. Click on Play Now. Have fun.

~MaryBeth

Hello...Im new to the site so Im just getting used to the whole set up....but Virtual Families is a great game....I've been reading the helpful hints, thank you for that!! I must confess that I had my doubts about the red ball..lol..but I did find one in the upper left corner of the screen and I also found another one by the stairs in the house...it was for two different families, I have yet to find one for my 7 generation family, but I'm sure it will turn up. Thank you all for the help and hopefully I can find my way back here to keep posting!!
Stephanie for Michigan

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Following my own advice like a good little user, I read through all the comments to make sure I wasn't asking for something already revealed.

How do you get your peeps to clean up dishes after meals? Tried plopping them on table, near sink....no dice!

How many times can you reject a future mate?

In order to find collectibles & Easter egg you must drop your peeps on a suspected area...yes/no?

Do you first have to fix the hose before they'll water the flowers?

Which hose do you use to water flowers and how do you get them to pick up the hose?

While they are doing their jobs, the peeps stop, stand up, look up & hold out hands, why?

Is it OK for peeps to work on career at night? Is it something to encourage?

I want my peeps to go to bed at a certain time--10 PM. Tried repeatedly but they won't go. Should I scold them?

Do they have ADHD? They only stay on a task for a few minutes.

Do they ever interact with each other without user intervention?

Old BF keeps sending my woman emails. Will this annoy the man at any time?

Observations: if you praise your peeps while they're doing a task, they stop and may or may not continue an activity. I found praising them right after they complete a task produces positive reaction from the game. Too many pets with the praise glove produces same reaction as scolding glove-peep runs away and tells you, you're nagging. I'm sure this will be one of many interrogation posts.

Thanks.

~MaryBeth

How do you get your peeps to clean up dishes after meals? Tried plopping them on table, near sink....no dice!

Place your peep on the sink, they must say they "see the sink"

How many times can you reject a future mate?

For as long as you want, just be careful as you can't continue to the next generation if you don't have a child. I was able to have a single parent home as I had an adoption event before even getting a request to marry

In order to find collectibles & Easter egg you must drop your peeps on a suspected area...yes/no?

For the Easter Egg aka red ball YOU have to grab it from the extreme top left hand corner of the sreen for the collectibles you drop a peep on it when you see it in the yard somewhere

Do you first have to fix the hose before they'll water the flowers?

Yes, and the shed must be opened unless you have someone that will water them on their own accord

Which hose do you use to water flowers and how do you get them to pick up the hose?

you drop a peep on the watering can in the shed they then take the loooooong trip to the hose that was fixed and then the loooong trip to the window boxes

While they are doing their jobs, the peeps stop, stand up, look up & hold out hands, why?

some peeps are stubborn, what more can I say, LOL just put them back to their task and praise them

Is it OK for peeps to work on career at night? Is it something to encourage?

I say as long as they aren't exhausted then it is fine to encourage it I do it a few times myself
{quote]I want my peeps to go to bed at a certain time--10 PM. Tried repeatedly but they won't go. Should I scold them?
NO! Don't scold try chamomile drink and praise them when they go to bed, If you scold them to often they will become depressed

Do they have ADHD? They only stay on a task for a few minutes.

I've asked myself a few time LOL still haven't been able to answer it yet! Just put them back on task and praise them is my only solution so far

Do they ever interact with each other without user intervention?

Unfortuanately no

Old BF keeps sending my woman emails. Will this annoy the man at any time?[/qoute]

LOL no but it would be quite entertaining if they would

Observations: if you praise your peeps while they're doing a task, they stop and may or may not continue an activity. I found praising them right after they complete a task produces positive reaction from the game. Too many pets with the praise glove produces same reaction as scolding glove-peep runs away and tells you, you're nagging. I'm sure this will be one of many interrogation posts.

I have found that to be true also, but happy fo you to mention it for those that don't know yet!

....Whew....I need a hand massager....where's that hubby of mine
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Waaaahhhhh! No matter how many times I edit my post it won't fix the last quote box. Maybe we can only put so many quotes in a post?

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Mmizzell did such a good job of answering your questions MaryBeth. All I can add is that there are in fact times when they will interact with each other spontaneously. These occasions are rare, but it happens when out of the blue one of the adults will "call children to dinner" or "call children to bed", or "call children to brush teeth". With these last two calls, you'll hear the kids and parents muttering and arguing about it. It's hilarious. LOL.

Every task has a set time limit. They call it a work cycle. So once the cycle finishes, they will go on to another task. That's why, if you want them to continue at a task, such as working on a career, then you encourage them with the green glove.

You can only use the glove twice before they will run away and tell you to stop nagging. lol.

I think the old boyfriend emails only happen if you started with a woman and she rejected a marriage proposal. Only then will she later receive an email from him - either telling her how fabulous life is, or that he's had incredible bad luck.

You can reject as many offers as you like, but they come less and less often after a while. I don't like to reject more than three, because then by the time another offer comes around she or he could be too old to have kids.

Something else I've discovered is that if you have a couple of kids, and one of them starts "playing train", try dropping another child on top of them, and then they will both run around the house playing train, one following the other. Like in Virtual Villagers. And sometimes if you drop one kid on another, they will run to the bedroom and have a "giggle party". It's hysterical.

Paradoxis wrote:Mmizzell did such a good job of answering your questions MaryBeth. All I can add is that there are in fact times when they will interact with each other spontaneously. These occasions are rare, but it happens when out of the blue one of the adults will "call children to dinner" or "call children to bed", or "call children to brush teeth". With these last two calls, you'll hear the kids and parents muttering and arguing about it. It's hilarious. LOL.

Every task has a set time limit. They call it a work cycle. So once the cycle finishes, they will go on to another task. That's why, if you want them to continue at a task, such as working on a career, then you encourage them with the green glove.

You can only use the glove twice before they will run away and tell you to stop nagging. lol.

I think the old boyfriend emails only happen if you started with a woman and she rejected a marriage proposal. Only then will she later receive an email from him - either telling her how fabulous life is, or that he's had incredible bad luck.

You can reject as many offers as you like, but they come less and less often after a while. I don't like to reject more than three, because then by the time another offer comes around she or he could be too old to have kids.

Something else I've discovered is that if you have a couple of kids, and one of them starts "playing train", try dropping another child on top of them, and then they will both run around the house playing train, one following the other. Like in Virtual Villagers. And sometimes if you drop one kid on another, they will run to the bedroom and have a "giggle party". It's hysterical.

Oops, I forgot about the parents calling the children to eat and to brush their teeth.
I've been able to get by with 4 praises before they tell me to stop nagging(but then again I was doing it for more than 1 task)
LOL, I didn't know about the train and giggle party I'll have to try that out

*GRINS*

Yeah, I meant two praises in a row of the one job. I think you can praise as often as you like if you praise them for something else in between er, praising.

you have to buy the missing parts for the fountain in the store. Keep checking and they will rventually turn up. This is the same to paint the workshop wall and also to repair the floor in the house

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How do you get into the shed??

Whats the wall repair kit for?? i cant use it on any of the walls!!

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jculwell wrote:How do you get into the shed??

Have one of your peeps pick up the door know from the top right of the sandbox and then have a peep pick up the key from the welcome mat

Whats the wall repair kit for?? i cant use it on any of the walls!!

The wall repair kit is for repairing the outside walls of the workshop wall

Step one: place repair kit on the green bucket next to the sandbox

Step two: place peep on green bucket. They will then mix it with water and bring it to the workshop wall

Step three: place people on the green bucket to have them fix the wall

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Thanks Mmizzell & Para. I did put 10 lbs into a 5 lb bag didn't I? But there's still the looking for collectibles thing. I know when you see things pop in the yard, you can drop a peeps on it and they'll pick it up but those eggs/balls hiding all over is what I need clarification on. In order to pick up hidden objects, can you use just the cursor hand or must you drop a peeps on an area where you think it may be? And after one of those work cycles, one of my peeps did the call of nature stop but then went to do the laundry. I tried putting him back at his job and he told me no - snot. How do I get them to work if they tell me no? Since I can't slap them silly, how do I encourage it?

~MaryBeth

PS. Never played Virtual Villagers or any game like this before-totally new to this genre.

The only hidden item/easter egg is the red ball, which you find by clicking above or around the red glove in the top left hand corner.

The collectables show up randomly in the yard. Click on the collections tab at the bottom of the screen to get an idea of what you're looking for.

In this game, there are picture pieces, which only show up in the top left quarter of the screen *after* you've opened the shed.

In the top right corner, you mostly get the different leaves and stuff.

Coins are also collectables, but they tend to show up in the bottom half of the screen.

The bug collection only comes up when it rains, and they can be found anywhere in the yard at all.

MaryBeth, they usually say no if they are new (as in just starting out at their job/career). Just persist by dropping them in the right area for their career again.

If you interrupt a peep before they have finished a work cycle, then they will generally say "no" when they try again and you'll see a puff of grey smoke around them, like they've tried to work but blown something up instead. LOL!

It takes two repair kits to finish the workshop wall. Also, the bucket will dry out if you start someone on the wall and then go away. Once the bucket is at the wall, make sure at least one person is using it until it's finished. You need to watch them.

The leaking water hose needs to be fixed before you can do this task.

However, you CAN fix the birdbath without having fixed the hose, so long as you've got the green pump thingy.

ok, so ive got the pump thingy for the birdbath but wat do i do now??

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Mmizzell wrote:

jculwell wrote:How do you get into the shed??

Have one of your peeps pick up the door know from the top right of the sandbox and then have a peep pick up the key from the welcome mat

Whats the wall repair kit for?? i cant use it on any of the walls!!

The wall repair kit is for repairing the outside walls of the workshop wall

Step one: place repair kit on the green bucket next to the sandbox

Step two: place peep on green bucket. They will then mix it with water and bring it to the workshop wall

Step three: place people on the green bucket to have them fix the wall

IT WORKED!!!! THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!!

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DexGypMom wrote:
Thanks Mmizzell & Para. I did put 10 lbs into a 5 lb bag didn't I? But there's still the looking for collectibles thing. I know when you see things pop in the yard, you can drop a peeps on it and they'll pick it up but those eggs/balls hiding all over is what I need clarification on. In order to pick up hidden objects, can you use just the cursor hand or must you drop a peeps on an area where you think it may be? And after one of those work cycles, one of my peeps did the call of nature stop but then went to do the laundry. I tried putting him back at his job and he told me no - snot. How do I get them to work if they tell me no? Since I can't slap them silly, how do I encourage it?

~MaryBeth

PS. Never played Virtual Villagers or any game like this before-totally new to this genre.

Okay...Here we go...For the Easter egg/red ball you can only grab it with your hand/cursor the peeps can't interact with it all it's purely for your entertainment plus it helps pass the time when they take forever to do something, (that answers your question, the next part is for lurkers) but you can only find it in the top left corner once. Meaning if you have 5 families running and you find it in your first family and place it say in the sand box, then when you open the 2nd family the ball will be in the sand box. And as for when they tell you no, just put them back to the task you want them at and praise them. Over time they will stop telling you no when you put them to work.

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ok i was wondering, if you upgrade the kitchen will it give u a bigger table for bigger families??

and i found pieces of a picture in the backyard, wat r those??

and WHAT RED BALL?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Please don't use text larger than 18 for an entire message. Thank you. ~MB

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Paradoxis wrote:It takes two repair kits to finish the workshop wall.

If you have two peeps working on it continuosly(sp?) it only takes 1 repair kit. I've never used more than one kit

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jculwell wrote:ok i was wondering, if you upgrade the kitchen will it give u a bigger table for bigger families??

and i found pieces of a picture in the backyard, wat r those??

and WHAT RED BALL?!?!?!?!?!?!?

It will not give you a bigger table it will only make a kitchen career advance more quickly

picture is a collectable

red ball is in the EXTREME top left hand corner of the screen, take your cursor and drag it from that spot

Bird bath instructions:

Step one: place pump on birdbath

Step two: place two peeps on birdbath

note: you may have to try this a couple of times to get them to lift simultaneously(sp?)

Hi All. I have a question. Ive seen the pieces to the puzzle, and the coins and leaves and stuff but have not seen any insects to collect. I always notice them taking bugs outside but not collecting them. Should I be looking somewhere else??

The bugs only come out when it's raining, and can be found anywhere at all in the yard.

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Mmizzell wrote:

Paradoxis wrote:It takes two repair kits to finish the workshop wall.

If you have two peeps working on it continuosly(sp?) it only takes 1 repair kit. I've never used more than one kit

Really? I had no idea! Thanks!

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Mmizzell wrote:...you can only find it in the top left corner once. Meaning if you have 5 families running and you find it in your first family and place it say in the sand box, then when you open the 2nd family the ball will be in the sand box.

I have not found this to be so. I've had to find the red ball in each separate family, and where I place it in one family is not where it turns up in the next family/game. I recently started a family from scratch, and haven't got the red ball yet in that family because I got bored with it.

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Paradoxis wrote:

Mmizzell wrote:...you can only find it in the top left corner once. Meaning if you have 5 families running and you find it in your first family and place it say in the sand box, then when you open the 2nd family the ball will be in the sand box.

I have not found this to be so. I've had to find the red ball in each separate family, and where I place it in one family is not where it turns up in the next family/game. I recently started a family from scratch, and haven't got the red ball yet in that family because I got bored with it.

[size=186LOL, What is with these games!!! I can't win!!! Okay do you find the ball with your first family and then start a new family? I usually start all my families and then find the ball so what I said above is true for me. But this time around I only had 3 running and had the ball in all three of them. I just opened another today and I had to find the ball for it. So what you said is true for this situation. So maybe I have to revise it to say the ball is carried over to the other families only if they currently have a family? What do you think...or am I just losing my mind?

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jculwell wrote:Thank you! i found the red ball but, wats it for??

It's purely for your entertainment, the peeps cannot interact with it only you can. Have fun with it. See how many times you can bounce it off the walls.LOL

*para giggles with mmizzell*

I've no idea. All I know is that I had five families running at the time the red ball was first brought up here. When I finally found it, I went on to find it in each family. And where I left it in one family did not show up in the same place for the next.

Then, about a week ago, I deleted a whole family and three of their generations to start from scratch because it was getting well, repetitive.

That's the family that I haven't bothered to get the red ball for.

Maybe you're right and we are both right? LOL!

Dang these games!!!

If my child gets the house after the parents die, will she get a proposal? and have a chance to get married.?

katdog@ffstg wrote:If my child gets the house after the parents die, will she get a proposal? and have a chance to get married.?

Yes.

Help! My parents are in their late 50's and they still haven't had any kids! I've tried at least 8 times and given both of them baby boost, but it doesn't work! There hasn't been a kid at the door yet either. They got married in their early forties (I know, late) because I was trying to get one of the marriage trophies. What should I do??? (This has never happened before, and I'm on my 6th generation!!!)

Also, I cannot find the red ball. There is definitely nothing red in the top left corner of my screen. I only just heard about this on the forum, and I can't find it.

I keep seeing mention of a "red ball". I haven't seen a red ball and I've looked in all of the places mentioned. What is this "red ball"? Is this a forum myth?

LolaWrinkt, I've had children come to the door to be adopted when my peeps have been almost 60, so don't panic till everyone's dead.

Shokahoka, you can't see the red ball. It is hidden. You find it by clicking above and around the gloves in the top left hand corner. It can be a bit tricky, but just keep trying.

Paradoxis wrote:LolaWrinkt, I've had children come to the door to be adopted when my peeps have been almost 60, so don't panic till everyone's dead.

Shokahoka, you can't see the red ball. It is hidden. You find it by clicking above and around the gloves in the top left hand corner. It can be a bit tricky, but just keep trying.

Thanks! One of my people just died and I immediately got a marriage proposal, so I guess there's that option, too.
What gloves? i definitely don't see any gloves.

Found the red ball; it really doesn't do anything but bounce. At one point it got stuck to the cursor hand and wouldn't release until I put it in my inventory.

I think my female has obsessive compulsive disorder, she brushed her teeth 4 times in a matter of 45 minutes. Is this normal? Don't want to scold her for brushing her teeth because that's a good grooming habit. Should I just redirect to another behavior? Tried to expand the family but my 2 unwilling participants did argue about it. You could here yummering from them and the status line said, arguing. Will try again today. My female likes to work, day trader, and became elated when I purchased a book for her. In between transactions on the computer and her paperwork, she hops around in joy--hysterical. But what kills me is when I direct her to work and keep her highlighted, I get that puff of smoke and her saying no but in the next instant she's surfing the web. If the computer works for surfing, it's got to work for the job. Another humorous activity is when they go to admire their outfits. Didn't think they would be vain, too. My male is kind of lazy in the work department and I constantly have to put him back in the kitchen work area; he's a butcher. Always praise him upon completion.

I've noticed sounds play when collectibles pop up on the property, windchimes and what sounds like a brass section of an orchestra. Have any of you noticed this? They also enjoy selling stuff on the internet and hop around upon completion, which brings up another question. How long do the collectibles stay visible? I don't want to interrupt them from work or a nap if they display as tired to retrieve a collectible. Is there a window of time to collect the objects or do the objects stay until you pick them up? Until next time.....

~MaryBeth

LolaWrinkt, the gloves are the red and green hands you use to praise or discourage your peeps.

It's ok to discourage bathroom activities MaryBeth. In one of my early generations, I praised one of my peeps for brushing their teeth, hair, flossing, and something else I can't remember now, and a message came up saying that if you praise them in the bathroom too much it encourages er, unusual bathroom behaviours.

Atm mine seem to love using the warm hand towel. It drives me nuts. Rather than use the red glove, I pick them up and put them to another task and praise them right away. I don't wait till the task is over.

There are sounds like bells and stuff that happen when collectables show up. They also sound for no apparent reason too. My theory is that one of the sounds might be like a clock announcing each virtual hour? Just an idea.

Anyway, the collectibles are only there for a short time. Perhaps two or three minutes. Enough time for a peep to finish what they are doing before you drag them to it. So yeah, they don't stay long.

Some of the things they do are hilarious. Have you seen one do Tai Chi? and Karate? One of mine was fond of "talking to the plants". One of the kids insisted on "digging a hole to China". I can't believe they like to "bother the fish" too. LOL!

Have you watched the kids when they hide? They will actually go into the bedroom or laundry cupboard and disappear. It's so cool.

Now that you mentioned the strange activities they do, I remembered my guy went into the living room and told the empty furniture a joke.

Their exercise routines are funny, too. You can spend....well I do spend hours....watching all the stuff they do. Everyday is something new like enjoying nature....say what?? It would be so cool if they interacted more than the parent and child scenario you brought up in a previous post. It's like 2 strangers living in the same house. Well--off to see if we can get started on the next generation. ~MaryBeth

LOL! I love it when one of them starts to play charades. Alone. LMAO.

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Here's a weird one. The family consisted of Mom, Dad, and an 8 year old that they adopted. Dad dies. All of a sudden the 8 year old is running around celebrating the new baby. I'm thinking that the kid is crazy with grief, but the next time I open the game there is a 2 year old. I don't know if this is immaculate-conception, reincarnation, or hanky panky.

I've also had several grown children write back over the generations that they are having dreams about the house. Does this come to anything?

they don't get to have a baby fe minute they mit bit i get the baby boot.

you fix the leaky hose by buying tape from the store

there is a door knob in the sandbox and under the welcome mat there is a key to open the shed door

Paradoxis wrote:Some of the things they do are hilarious. Have you seen one do Tai Chi? and Karate? One of mine was fond of "talking to the plants". One of the kids insisted on "digging a hole to China". I can't believe they like to "bother the fish" too. LOL!

Have you watched the kids when they hide? They will actually go into the bedroom or laundry cupboard and disappear. It's so cool.

I had a message that "Nature is calling!" and my chick headed toward the bathroom. I thought, "I'm not gonna hafta watch this, am I?" To my relief, when she closed the door, she was completely hidden. I just hope she remembered to flush....

Do y'all ever talk out loud to your little peeps, or am I the only nutball who does that?

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Mmizzell wrote:They are not links. To highlight the post all you do is left-click and drag your mouse over the post. The same as if you're gonna cut or copy the text. If you still have trouble then you can PM me and I will give the answers there.

Yes, they can be too old to have kids, I believe that it is after 50, but I'm not exactly sure as I have had 6 kids in my three families before age 35.

I'm not sure of the age limit as I have had 4 people die at different ages. My first woman died at age 77 and her husband died at age 75(the same day as he disliked solitude), their daughter died at age 82 and her husband lived to age 89. I'm now on my third generation. After they die, you get to decide which of their children inherit the house. You can keep the game going for generations.

BTW, you can pick your people up as soon as they sit down to sell a collectable and the money will be deposited to your account, that way you don't have to wait for them to finish before sending them off to do something else.

How do you get them to live so old? I am on my 9th generation, and they have all died between 62 and 65.

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