Hmm. In my tests, I didn't really see a particular influence, but I'll check the code and report back! EDIT: Okay, the code definitely states that YES, interests DO influence the outcome of an interaction! However, there is also a huge random factor involved in this, but generally, the higher a Sim's interest in either of the four topics, the higher the chance of success, with a maxed-out interest (10 points or 1,000 internally) guaranteeing it. A positive outcome ups the STR between the HM and the Sim by 10 points, while a negative outcome lowers it by 3 points. This is directly translated into the Schmooze Score - to some extent. It's a bit more complex than that, so I might just update the Sims Wiki again with these new findings.
Oh, so that's what happened during my plays. I thought it was because my sim was socially awkward. Also, is it the played sim's interest or the interests of the head master? Because my sim had good grades, he got hand waved away for some reason.
One trick I use for the tour, if my Sims are kinda poor, is I buy one expensive sculpture/painting and move it from room to room that way it's always in the room I'm showing for the tour lol.
@@tiacat11 "Wow this guy owns not one, but THREE originals of 'Poisonous Forest (In Love with a Curse).' I didn't even know he painted that many! Unbelieveable!"
Yoo that brought back memories, I remember reading that tip back on like the sims 2 official forums back in 2005 or whatever, I always did that! And then mostly failed the rest of the tour, because I was a dumb kid and didn't know how to cheese the rest of it lol
@@sleekoduck That is false. I just now had the HM come over and dressed every single household member in PJ's. The HM did not leave. There is also nothing in the code to support this... which is why I assume the notion about formalwear to be nothing more than a rumour, too.
@@smwforever45 try it when one of the parents is in their underwear. I've found that overanalyzing the code makes you miss the actual gameplay mechanics. 😎
I had a sim lose their parents during a head master visit, the head master wasn't impressed because the food that was supposed to be for dinner was also what caused my sims to die. For some reason, the smug message after failure hit different this time around.
The headmaster scenario is really easy once you understand a few basic things. These days I challenge myself to see how many points I can get. I always do the tour first and then the dinner.
I was getting over a hundred before the espresso machine so often, I just started cheating the kids into private school because it lost the challenge for me. It's like building up aspiration points for a fortune/knowledge Sim in uni or keeping a romance Sim alive by sending them on dates and having them drink the elixir. Too easy.
If you want to take this challenge up to eleven: The theoretical maximum you can get is 209 points, or 179 without the drink, coffee, and hot tub bonuses. Schmooze points are capped at 60, you can't get more than 54 Room Points before the tour ends, and the most you could ever fill the HM's hunger bar during the scenario is from -29 to +100, giving 65 points. (The scenario ends if the HM's hunger goes lower than that.)
@@smwforever45 I recreated the Broke family from scratch (including green eyed Skip, who I deleted in CAS) and put them in a trailer that I also created from scratch and packaged for future use. Brandi will be in every neighborhood filling the prep school with her babies.
A trick I've learned is that when you go to greet the headmaster, pause and queue up all Apartment Life greetings. You get so many points that you might be able to skip dinner or tour completely. Last time I did it, I didn't even get to serve dinner because he was satisfied mid tour
I have been playing TS2 since 2004 and never knew you could serve coffee, drinks, and invite the headmaster into the hot tub. There is always something new to learn on the Sims 2. Thanks Marticore for sharing this video and happy simming! 🎮
I never knew about the coffee and drinks bonus!!!! That is freaking awesome! To add to the private school bonuses you start at level 2 if you get a part time job.
I believe you can show more than 3 rooms during the tour. It's all about points. When you reach more than 40 points, the tour will end automatically, but if you don't, after showing 3 rooms you can continue.
0:38 when i used to have base game only, Juliette Capp came back from school in the red one, it was both the first and last time i've ever seen it happening :0
Oh hey! It makes me feel quite honoured to see my work on Reddit and, subsequently, the Sims Wiki, featured in one of your videos! I simply did not connect the dots when you commented under my post, so this came unexpected, haha! I did the investigation mainly to debunk the rumours I heard of the most. I never saw someone mention certain outfits having an influence on the score or the scenario in itself before, so I just dove into the code again, let's see what I can find! Yes, you CAN show the HM more than three rooms, I'm not sure where that came from. Of course, if the first three rooms you show him are all excellent, you'll reach the needed score within three rooms, but if you're not as good at decoration then it just runs until you hit 40 points, or there are no more rooms left to show him.
I'm curious to see what gets found out - sure, irl having a headmaster come over and meet a parent in their boxers would usually be the end of things right then and there, but this is the world of the _Sims_ we're talking about! They're open minded!
@@tiacat11 Indeed! Maybe, one day, modders will jump in and add more realism, who knows? I create mods sometimes too and my interest is piqued for sure!
If the family struggels with money and have few decorations I found that moving decorations from one room to other rooms during the tour, and show the decorated room to the headmaster worked well.
I always opted to have one of my sims give the tour and schmooze while the other one is preparing dinner for everyone, of course if I was fortunate enough to have two adult sims at the time. Also I always went fishing beforehand to make the meal with "freshly caught fish", that also gives it a sparkly effect and is filling :D
I consider myself a Headmaster master, most of my sims go to private school simply because I like the uniforms (That's my Bri*ish culture coming out). However after watching this video there's so much I had no idea about, I assumed the headmaster just preferred food that requires a high cooking skill to make like turkey or lobster, no more slaving over the stove, he's just getting spaghetti from now on. I don't know if this is fact, but I think when schmoozing about school work etc its better for teens to do it, idk why I just rarely have a good interaction when the adults do it.
Cereal made of self-grown tomatoes? Now thats a cursed meal, the Headmaster probably gives points for it because he is terrified of what our sim might do if he doesn't
If you fail at first try, you can call the HM on the phone as a friend like any other sim (or invite him over as a friend). Then invite him officially second time, when he already likes you. One time my mom-sim had a romance with the HM :D It helped a lot!
Before my sim greeted the headmaster I spam this interaction to the limit, they can greet each other a few times in a row. But the option is available only before they greeted each other. It boosts their relationship significantly. It’s cheating but it’s ok with me.
Regarding Schmoozing- I find that the easiest way to get this up is to use the "Hang out" interaction. Just make sure you cancel the interaction and then do another interaction with him before the timer runs out.
It's certainly slow but effective because it stops any sort of distraction. Usually, I don't really need this many Schmooze points though - decent food and a decent room tour are almost all of the way to 90 points.
I might be talking crap here, but I do recall seeing my Strangetown and Veronaville sims wear those different coloured uniforms to school looong time ago. Haven't played in those neighbourhoods for ages, maybe everybody wearing blue uniform in all the towns was broken with one of the updates? A little trivia about the headmaster disliking salad - private school is a base game mechanic, and leftovers functionality didn't arrive until Four Seasons, and storing food in inventory wasn't a thing prior to University, so back in the good old days the sims had to prepare the food for dinner as the headmaster was already around, to make sure it wouldn't spoil during his visit. All the more advanced dishes come with higher risk for them either getting burned or starting a fire - should the fire happen during headmasters visit, the points would be deducted from overall score. Chef's salad does not require cooking, therefore it can't start a fire. So this was dev team's way of making sure you put an effort and not try to stuff headmaster with a safe salad :D Also, if I'm not mistaken, romantic interactions significantly increase smoozing points. Some sims will do everything to secure their children's future 😅
That's most likely because romantic interactions have a larger impact on relations in general. It's probably not viable most of the time because every HM starts with a near neutral relationship to your Sims. Could be more interesting if it's a second attempt, or a second wave of kids, though!
Extra tip for those who have seasons: You can pretty much ace the director scenario by serving fish your sim has caught, the rarer, the better. A golden trout dinner brings a ridiculous amount of points.
I remember a few times the headmaster didn't even give the family a chance to talk to him. As soon as he arrived, he said he didn't think the family was fit for private school and he just left. I think I read somewhere it's because of having trash or holes around the house, but I'm not sure.
In another test for the scenario, I literally littered the entire lot with rubbish piles when the HM arrived. The Environment was at the minimum, -100. Did not scare the HM off. It may have been something else, like the HM not finding a place to enter the house or exit his car.
I never had troubles with it, not even when I was 9 years old. It was only when I came on RUclips that I saw that other found it hard. But yeah maybe that’s just me…. I love these sort of video’s though! Learn something new everyday
Thank you very much! I was never able to get any of the kids into private school before 😅 I have been playing the game for the last few months again and will definitely try this 👍
I suddenly remembered that I’ve been playing this since age 8-9 and thought “private school” meant something like, it’s just you and the teacher in the whole class.🤣
I always used to have my Sims make Lobster Thermidor beforehand, put it in their inventories, and then take it out and serve it just when he arrived :)
I never knew about the sparkly Seasons fresh food - great tips! It's become so easy for me to get my Sims into private school, I just cheat with the college adjustor these days because it's monotonous.
I thought that the tour would end when reaching 40 or more points, rather how many rooms have been shown, but yeah, 40 points is usually 3-4 rooms. Also for the schmooze points it would always work to make the headmaster have dinner next to a serious and not-nice Sim. Both the General and Tank always get a load of points through that.
haha same! i mean i certainly failed a few times especially at first, but i played sims 2 as a kid and honestly did not have difficulty getting a family into private school. i would actively choose not to put them in if it made no sense for their story 😂
A couple of things I should note: Teen sims in private school with start a teen job at level 2. If your front yard is messy (with overgrown plants usually) the headmaster will reject you instantly (that's something I remember experiencing anyway). You can max out the schmooze points but busting out the voodoo doll from BV for a massive friendship boost with the headmaster because that item is super busted in this game.
A good tip for this is catch a bass and make bass with squash. It is super filling, takes no cooking skill, and it doesn't usually take too long to catch a bass.
Thanks for making this! I bombed my first headmaster tour cause my game glitched and he got stuck on the front porch, and my tour sucked on my second one because I couldn't figure out how to give a tour, lol. Third times a charm I guess.
thanks for this video ! i tried to get a teen in private school yesterday and i was kinda in a hurry to cook so i just went with a chips platter and got 18 food points LOL i'll definitely serve him porkchops today 👍
Fresh Fish (bass can be caught easily, and no one needs a high cooking level to prepare), is actually the most filling meal, and I find that I receive the most points when made well. I used to be a die-hard lobster thermidor player, but the failure rate is too high, fires can break out, and if you want to prepare early (placing meal in fridge), mods that allow your sims to autonomously eat from the fridge need to be removed (Sims tend to like to eat the highest quality foods first). Does the Private School Mod allow for scholarships for the poor sims (I am looking at you Beau/unborn baby Broke, et al)? I agree that the hot tub is too glitchy, are there any mods that combat that? I think it is hard-coded for lightning strikes in the head master scenario, so placing indoors might help alleviate that aspect. Another tip is to call the headmaster the same day, and hours prior to 5pm, or else his arrival will be glitched. Also, if the outside of your home has a low environment score (weeds, puddles, trash, etc.), the headmaster will not even enter the home, and you will fail before you begin. I sometimes purposefully fail the scenario, to get to know the headmaster better, to improve chances (as well as grades) for a second go at the scenario, plus now that you have met the headmaster, he can be invited out/over, or just chatted with on the phone to further build up a rapport.
So there are exactly 3 basegame uniforms and 3 basegame hoods. I can bet my ass all 3 were to be used based on the hood you play with but it was never implemented.
@@ScrawnyTreeDemon Looks like links don't work as I thought I had already commented on this yesterday - you can look up "Mini Fixes" by Lenna9 on Mod The Sims. One of those mini fixes is the headmaster hot tub fix.
Turn on the lights for the headmaster's tour to increase the environment. He always likes to see toilets no matter what. I think it's because the room is stuffed with objects relative to its area. The environment calculation isn't realistic. Someone wrote that Will Wright originally wanted to make an architecture simulator, but the result is meh. You can have someone gift you good food in the inventory. I think you need a mod that drops the person's priority in the hot tub and makes him exit on high body temperature or precipitation. I've never gotten him to drink coffee. Turns out he needs an adult or an elder (not a teen) with a coffee cup in hand before he considers drinking coffee. Otherwise it won't count if you just have 2 cups waiting. And he won't see the community espresso machine or a mod that has the category. He needs the Espresso Machine guid. In private school they wear small shoes. A mod is needed for them to have the black rebel boots.
Private school being free seems to be an oversight they never fixed for some reason. Both the memory and the pop-up after the headmaster scenario clearly state that private school is gonna make the player pay for it which it doesn't.
When I was a kid, one thing that I thought counted towards impressing the headmaster was getting the sims to be wearing fancy clothes. You know, present themselves well dressed, either in normal clothing or formal xD And I'd spend so much time make the sims run back and forth to the wardrobes, because they kept changing out of the good-looking clothes! - A dive in the pool? Now you're going to have a meal with the headmaster in bikini! - Sim took a little nap on the bed? Now you're going to talk with the headmaster in the living room while wearing pyjamas! It drove me insane and no wonder I never could get the kids into the private school. The headmaster doesn't care if you're naked even xD
Hey Merta, have you ever noticed that cats NEVER sleep on a cat tree without the controlPets cheat enabled (cats never sleep on it autonomously for some reason)? It always bothered me and i've never seen a modification fixing it, i heard rumors that cats use it only when they have high relations with other pets etc.
The headmaster is the most annoying character in the game. I invited him over three times and the first two times he got stuck in his car. The third, I was 50 minutes away from completing it but my Sim decided to give birth and the headmaster glitched and reset 😂
One thing I experienced is if you have sims woo-hoo'ing during the tour and he walks in on it, he instantly becomes disgusted and says the family isn't up to his standards/etc.
Yeah, I guess private school is mostly for rich people, so makes sense 😆 Never thought of that. Will he eat if it's not regular food served on a counter?
Schmoose works better if your Sim have good charisma. I always choose the sim with more charisma for interact with the headmaster. I'm sorry for my bad English, I'm a Spanish speaker.
omg my headmaster also got stuck in the hot tub, never gave me points, and ended up failing the scenario. i had no idea it was known to be buggy i thought i had just downloaded a conflicting mod or something
I've said this before somewhere but I'll never forget when I got more points than the max needed and my alien sim got rejected and I'm inlined to think it was because he was an alien hybrid... seemed sus to me
I always use cheats with the headmaster. 😂 I use Sim Modder to raise my relationship with him, making it much easier to earn schmooze points. I also manually raise the level of whatever Sim is cooking to the max and cook lobster.
If you're friends with him and if your interests on school, money and job are high, you immediately get 60 points for schmoozing. Then all you have to do is show him the house, you don't even need to serve dinner.
For some reason I get 0 points for the food every single time and I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong. And I can only show him one room of the house and I’m unable to show him more and my house has more rooms upstairs but it won’t let me and he keeps saying he’s seen the room before
There's actually worse things. In a follow-up to the whole chef salad thing I analysed on that Reddit post, someone was curious as to the different ways that Pork Chops could be cooked (as I mentioned it in the post). The game determining whether a Sim is a good, medium, or bad cook goes five layers of code deep. Just to show different animations of Sims cooking pork chops, and improve its quality based on the animation that was shown. It's insane how much work went into the game.
Możesz pokazać dyrektorowi tyle pokoi, ile chcesz, wycieczka po pokojach zatrzymuje się, gdy osiągniesz 40 punktów. (I translated this, sorry, I don't speak Polish. I hope this helps anyway!)
I'm still mad at my mom for deleting my game where I finally succeeded at sending the kids to private school. All because I was playing with lesbian moms.
This is completely unrelated, but for some reason, in my Sims 2 game, the unsavory dastardly looking guy has entered my sims home lot. All he does is harass my sims by pickpocketing them every time they leave the house. Is this supposed to happen? Or did I do something to make this happen.
Thankfully, Richard Dastardly left on his own eventually so now my sims' wallets are saved. But now I have an army of gardeners in my house. I guess there was a farmer's convention I wasn't aware of.
I hope I'm not paying them by the hour because I haven't seen any of them trim a single hedge yet. They're just playing poker in my living room and eating all of my food.
If you have a lot of custom content, try reducing it. Also, reorganizing your downloads folder can help by making sure that you don’t have folders buried within folders buried within folders and so on, also helps to edit the file names of CC if they have symbols like ( ) ! { ] and spaces in them. Underscores _ and dashes - are okay though.
@@wastintime8792 Do you have enough RAM, hard drive space? A good CPU? Dedicated graphics card? Do you have any programs running in the background that don’t need to be running while playing the game? TS2 has always been a game that can take a bit to load up, just depends on a lot of factors like CC and computer specs.
@@wastintime8792 Are you already using the "Graphics Rules Maker" to have your graphics card entered into the game's files? Ten minutes seems really long either way, but having the game recognise your graphics card will immensely help with other issues.
my sister went to private school when my mom and step dad got married lol, cost 40k a YEAR. crazy. though, you dont have to invite a headmaster and suck up to them when you want to go to private school. I think for a good percentage of them you dont even have an application process. u just write a check and boom in ur in.
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The result of "Talk about work or school" depends on the Sim's level of interest in school and work.
Thanks!
Hmm. In my tests, I didn't really see a particular influence, but I'll check the code and report back!
EDIT: Okay, the code definitely states that YES, interests DO influence the outcome of an interaction! However, there is also a huge random factor involved in this, but generally, the higher a Sim's interest in either of the four topics, the higher the chance of success, with a maxed-out interest (10 points or 1,000 internally) guaranteeing it.
A positive outcome ups the STR between the HM and the Sim by 10 points, while a negative outcome lowers it by 3 points. This is directly translated into the Schmooze Score - to some extent.
It's a bit more complex than that, so I might just update the Sims Wiki again with these new findings.
A safer bet is to tell the Headmaster a story about art.
Oh, so that's what happened during my plays. I thought it was because my sim was socially awkward.
Also, is it the played sim's interest or the interests of the head master? Because my sim had good grades, he got hand waved away for some reason.
@@jessicathompson2914 It's the played Sim's interests that matter here.
One trick I use for the tour, if my Sims are kinda poor, is I buy one expensive sculpture/painting and move it from room to room that way it's always in the room I'm showing for the tour lol.
As long as there's no other showstoppers in the Sims' rooms, of course. I don't really do this myself, but I know it works.
Thanks for this😁
That is both helpful, and fucking _hilarious_ to imagine happening. Looney Toons skit
@@tiacat11 "Wow this guy owns not one, but THREE originals of 'Poisonous Forest (In Love with a Curse).' I didn't even know he painted that many! Unbelieveable!"
Yoo that brought back memories, I remember reading that tip back on like the sims 2 official forums back in 2005 or whatever, I always did that! And then mostly failed the rest of the tour, because I was a dumb kid and didn't know how to cheese the rest of it lol
You get extra points in schmoozing when wearing clothes categorized as formal wear while interacting with him
Really? Nice
I always do this. You'll also get rejected if anyone is in PJs or underwear when the Headmaster arrives.
Wow didn’t know that. 😄
@@sleekoduck That is false. I just now had the HM come over and dressed every single household member in PJ's. The HM did not leave. There is also nothing in the code to support this... which is why I assume the notion about formalwear to be nothing more than a rumour, too.
@@smwforever45 try it when one of the parents is in their underwear. I've found that overanalyzing the code makes you miss the actual gameplay mechanics. 😎
I had a sim lose their parents during a head master visit, the head master wasn't impressed because the food that was supposed to be for dinner was also what caused my sims to die. For some reason, the smug message after failure hit different this time around.
Oh no! That's the worst disaster that could possibly strike a family!
The headmaster scenario is really easy once you understand a few basic things. These days I challenge myself to see how many points I can get. I always do the tour first and then the dinner.
I was getting over a hundred before the espresso machine so often, I just started cheating the kids into private school because it lost the challenge for me. It's like building up aspiration points for a fortune/knowledge Sim in uni or keeping a romance Sim alive by sending them on dates and having them drink the elixir. Too easy.
If you want to take this challenge up to eleven: The theoretical maximum you can get is 209 points, or 179 without the drink, coffee, and hot tub bonuses. Schmooze points are capped at 60, you can't get more than 54 Room Points before the tour ends, and the most you could ever fill the HM's hunger bar during the scenario is from -29 to +100, giving 65 points. (The scenario ends if the HM's hunger goes lower than that.)
@@smwforever45 I recreated the Broke family from scratch (including green eyed Skip, who I deleted in CAS) and put them in a trailer that I also created from scratch and packaged for future use. Brandi will be in every neighborhood filling the prep school with her babies.
A trick I've learned is that when you go to greet the headmaster, pause and queue up all Apartment Life greetings. You get so many points that you might be able to skip dinner or tour completely. Last time I did it, I didn't even get to serve dinner because he was satisfied mid tour
I never knew about the bonuses for drinks and hot tub!
I can't believe I never tried getting him drunk to accept my kids before 🤔
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I tried to get Ophelia into private school but the headmaster noped out of there😭 probably smartest move he ever made.
I have been playing TS2 since 2004 and never knew you could serve coffee, drinks, and invite the headmaster into the hot tub. There is always something new to learn on the Sims 2. Thanks Marticore for sharing this video and happy simming! 🎮
I never knew about the coffee and drinks bonus!!!! That is freaking awesome!
To add to the private school bonuses you start at level 2 if you get a part time job.
I believe you can show more than 3 rooms during the tour. It's all about points. When you reach more than 40 points, the tour will end automatically, but if you don't, after showing 3 rooms you can continue.
Yeah, I felt like it could've been 4 sometimes
0:38 when i used to have base game only, Juliette Capp came back from school in the red one, it was both the first and last time i've ever seen it happening :0
thats actually insanely rare! i wouldn’t be surprised if you’re the only case HAHAHA
I had it too! I remember Strangetown sims wearing green uniform, as well.
Seems like something that was broken with one of the updates.
@@shalryma that's my guess too!
@@shalrymamaybe based on these two comments it was originally coded that pleasentview had the blue, strangetown had green and veronaville had red?
Oh hey! It makes me feel quite honoured to see my work on Reddit and, subsequently, the Sims Wiki, featured in one of your videos! I simply did not connect the dots when you commented under my post, so this came unexpected, haha!
I did the investigation mainly to debunk the rumours I heard of the most. I never saw someone mention certain outfits having an influence on the score or the scenario in itself before, so I just dove into the code again, let's see what I can find!
Yes, you CAN show the HM more than three rooms, I'm not sure where that came from. Of course, if the first three rooms you show him are all excellent, you'll reach the needed score within three rooms, but if you're not as good at decoration then it just runs until you hit 40 points, or there are no more rooms left to show him.
I'm curious to see what gets found out - sure, irl having a headmaster come over and meet a parent in their boxers would usually be the end of things right then and there, but this is the world of the _Sims_ we're talking about! They're open minded!
@@tiacat11 Indeed! Maybe, one day, modders will jump in and add more realism, who knows? I create mods sometimes too and my interest is piqued for sure!
If the family struggels with money and have few decorations I found that moving decorations from one room to other rooms during the tour, and show the decorated room to the headmaster worked well.
The dark blue, green, red combo reminds me of something... We just need yellow and we got the Heather's!
I always opted to have one of my sims give the tour and schmooze while the other one is preparing dinner for everyone, of course if I was fortunate enough to have two adult sims at the time. Also I always went fishing beforehand to make the meal with "freshly caught fish", that also gives it a sparkly effect and is filling :D
Fish counts as "fresh food", too, that's why it sparkles and fills Sims up so much. If you have fishing Sims, go ahead! :)
This is what started the house fire in my game 😢 this is what I get for making the inexperienced sim do the cooking
3:46 this fandom is full of scientists and researchers I swear. It's amazing :)
I consider myself a Headmaster master, most of my sims go to private school simply because I like the uniforms (That's my Bri*ish culture coming out). However after watching this video there's so much I had no idea about, I assumed the headmaster just preferred food that requires a high cooking skill to make like turkey or lobster, no more slaving over the stove, he's just getting spaghetti from now on.
I don't know if this is fact, but I think when schmoozing about school work etc its better for teens to do it, idk why I just rarely have a good interaction when the adults do it.
You're better off telling a story about art or computers.
I'm Australian so I send them to private school for the uniforms too.
Cereal made of self-grown tomatoes? Now thats a cursed meal, the Headmaster probably gives points for it because he is terrified of what our sim might do if he doesn't
me and the headmaster have so much in common. gotta love cereal made with fresh tomatoes.
If you fail at first try, you can call the HM on the phone as a friend like any other sim (or invite him over as a friend). Then invite him officially second time, when he already likes you. One time my mom-sim had a romance with the HM :D It helped a lot!
Before my sim greeted the headmaster I spam this interaction to the limit, they can greet each other a few times in a row. But the option is available only before they greeted each other. It boosts their relationship significantly. It’s cheating but it’s ok with me.
Nothing more impressive than a brimming bowl of homegrown tomato cereal
Regarding Schmoozing- I find that the easiest way to get this up is to use the "Hang out" interaction. Just make sure you cancel the interaction and then do another interaction with him before the timer runs out.
It's certainly slow but effective because it stops any sort of distraction. Usually, I don't really need this many Schmooze points though - decent food and a decent room tour are almost all of the way to 90 points.
I might be talking crap here, but I do recall seeing my Strangetown and Veronaville sims wear those different coloured uniforms to school looong time ago. Haven't played in those neighbourhoods for ages, maybe everybody wearing blue uniform in all the towns was broken with one of the updates?
A little trivia about the headmaster disliking salad - private school is a base game mechanic, and leftovers functionality didn't arrive until Four Seasons, and storing food in inventory wasn't a thing prior to University, so back in the good old days the sims had to prepare the food for dinner as the headmaster was already around, to make sure it wouldn't spoil during his visit. All the more advanced dishes come with higher risk for them either getting burned or starting a fire - should the fire happen during headmasters visit, the points would be deducted from overall score. Chef's salad does not require cooking, therefore it can't start a fire.
So this was dev team's way of making sure you put an effort and not try to stuff headmaster with a safe salad :D
Also, if I'm not mistaken, romantic interactions significantly increase smoozing points. Some sims will do everything to secure their children's future 😅
That's most likely because romantic interactions have a larger impact on relations in general. It's probably not viable most of the time because every HM starts with a near neutral relationship to your Sims. Could be more interesting if it's a second attempt, or a second wave of kids, though!
Extra tip for those who have seasons: You can pretty much ace the director scenario by serving fish your sim has caught, the rarer, the better. A golden trout dinner brings a ridiculous amount of points.
I remember a few times the headmaster didn't even give the family a chance to talk to him. As soon as he arrived, he said he didn't think the family was fit for private school and he just left. I think I read somewhere it's because of having trash or holes around the house, but I'm not sure.
Was anyone in PJs or underwear when he arrived?
Yes, might be because of really low Environment when outside!
In another test for the scenario, I literally littered the entire lot with rubbish piles when the HM arrived. The Environment was at the minimum, -100. Did not scare the HM off. It may have been something else, like the HM not finding a place to enter the house or exit his car.
I never had troubles with it, not even when I was 9 years old. It was only when I came on RUclips that I saw that other found it hard. But yeah maybe that’s just me…. I love these sort of video’s though! Learn something new everyday
Thank you very much! I was never able to get any of the kids into private school before 😅 I have been playing the game for the last few months again and will definitely try this 👍
Actually, you can spam gestures, before the first one is done (spam as queue your sim to do more of them)
Love the sparkly tomato cereal lol
yummy
I suddenly remembered that I’ve been playing this since age 8-9 and thought “private school” meant something like, it’s just you and the teacher in the whole class.🤣
Tutoring 😆
@@Marticore Yeah, like all the classes are tutoring. Because there’s the word “private” so everything should be one-on-one.
@@yYSilverFoxYy for the kinda money you pay it absolutely should be!!!
I always used to have my Sims make Lobster Thermidor beforehand, put it in their inventories, and then take it out and serve it just when he arrived :)
I never knew about the sparkly Seasons fresh food - great tips! It's become so easy for me to get my Sims into private school, I just cheat with the college adjustor these days because it's monotonous.
I thought that the tour would end when reaching 40 or more points, rather how many rooms have been shown, but yeah, 40 points is usually 3-4 rooms. Also for the schmooze points it would always work to make the headmaster have dinner next to a serious and not-nice Sim. Both the General and Tank always get a load of points through that.
I'm watching this even though I don't think I've ever failed getting my kids enrolled into private school!
haha same! i mean i certainly failed a few times especially at first, but i played sims 2 as a kid and honestly did not have difficulty getting a family into private school. i would actively choose not to put them in if it made no sense for their story 😂
I didn't know about the extra points with coffee, drinks and hot tub! :0 thank you!
A couple of things I should note:
Teen sims in private school with start a teen job at level 2.
If your front yard is messy (with overgrown plants usually) the headmaster will reject you instantly (that's something I remember experiencing anyway).
You can max out the schmooze points but busting out the voodoo doll from BV for a massive friendship boost with the headmaster because that item is super busted in this game.
A good tip for this is catch a bass and make bass with squash. It is super filling, takes no cooking skill, and it doesn't usually take too long to catch a bass.
I once invited the headmaster while my Sims were living in an apartment, and after greeting, I got an immediate reject message.
I would love more videos like this
Thanks for making this! I bombed my first headmaster tour cause my game glitched and he got stuck on the front porch, and my tour sucked on my second one because I couldn't figure out how to give a tour, lol. Third times a charm I guess.
I’ve needed a video guide for years… even though one has probably existed for years.
thanks for this video ! i tried to get a teen in private school yesterday and i was kinda in a hurry to cook so i just went with a chips platter and got 18 food points LOL i'll definitely serve him porkchops today 👍
If you prepare dinner with fresh ingredients from the garden, even a burnt meal will give you over 40 points.
Fresh Fish (bass can be caught easily, and no one needs a high cooking level to prepare), is actually the most filling meal, and I find that I receive the most points when made well. I used to be a die-hard lobster thermidor player, but the failure rate is too high, fires can break out, and if you want to prepare early (placing meal in fridge), mods that allow your sims to autonomously eat from the fridge need to be removed (Sims tend to like to eat the highest quality foods first).
Does the Private School Mod allow for scholarships for the poor sims (I am looking at you Beau/unborn baby Broke, et al)?
I agree that the hot tub is too glitchy, are there any mods that combat that? I think it is hard-coded for lightning strikes in the head master scenario, so placing indoors might help alleviate that aspect.
Another tip is to call the headmaster the same day, and hours prior to 5pm, or else his arrival will be glitched. Also, if the outside of your home has a low environment score (weeds, puddles, trash, etc.), the headmaster will not even enter the home, and you will fail before you begin. I sometimes purposefully fail the scenario, to get to know the headmaster better, to improve chances (as well as grades) for a second go at the scenario, plus now that you have met the headmaster, he can be invited out/over, or just chatted with on the phone to further build up a rapport.
So there are exactly 3 basegame uniforms and 3 basegame hoods.
I can bet my ass all 3 were to be used based on the hood you play with but it was never implemented.
I actually remember them working! They must have been broken somewhere along the way.
Yeah, green for Strangetown and red for Veronaville, but they don't work 😆
There's a mod on mod the Sims that fixes the hot tub issue
Oh, cool!
Could you drop the name, by any chance?
@@ScrawnyTreeDemon Looks like links don't work as I thought I had already commented on this yesterday - you can look up "Mini Fixes" by Lenna9 on Mod The Sims. One of those mini fixes is the headmaster hot tub fix.
@@smwforever45 Excellent! Thank you
Turn on the lights for the headmaster's tour to increase the environment. He always likes to see toilets no matter what. I think it's because the room is stuffed with objects relative to its area. The environment calculation isn't realistic. Someone wrote that Will Wright originally wanted to make an architecture simulator, but the result is meh.
You can have someone gift you good food in the inventory.
I think you need a mod that drops the person's priority in the hot tub and makes him exit on high body temperature or precipitation.
I've never gotten him to drink coffee. Turns out he needs an adult or an elder (not a teen) with a coffee cup in hand before he considers drinking coffee. Otherwise it won't count if you just have 2 cups waiting. And he won't see the community espresso machine or a mod that has the category. He needs the Espresso Machine guid.
In private school they wear small shoes. A mod is needed for them to have the black rebel boots.
I laughed way too hard when the headmaster was struck by lightning looool
Next how to have a good party 👍
That's so uncomplicated that I might make it a Short 😂
No because that's so true 💀 it's so much harder for me lmao it used to be worse I've gotten better but still
Always love these videos from you
Private school being free seems to be an oversight they never fixed for some reason. Both the memory and the pop-up after the headmaster scenario clearly state that private school is gonna make the player pay for it which it doesn't.
Yeah, literally the symbol of private school has a simoleon on it...
I've never been this early to a marticore video :)
When I was a kid, one thing that I thought counted towards impressing the headmaster was getting the sims to be wearing fancy clothes. You know, present themselves well dressed, either in normal clothing or formal xD
And I'd spend so much time make the sims run back and forth to the wardrobes, because they kept changing out of the good-looking clothes!
- A dive in the pool? Now you're going to have a meal with the headmaster in bikini!
- Sim took a little nap on the bed? Now you're going to talk with the headmaster in the living room while wearing pyjamas!
It drove me insane and no wonder I never could get the kids into the private school. The headmaster doesn't care if you're naked even xD
i had no idea you got extra points for serving coffe, it makes alot of sense tho
mmmm fresh tomato cereal, my fav! Thank you, this was very interesting :)
I was so scared of this “quest” in sims 2 😂 I was failing all the time when I was a kid
I really appreciate this
I never knew about the coffee/ drinks etc! I use the mod that makes private school cost money to make it more realistic
Hey Merta, have you ever noticed that cats NEVER sleep on a cat tree without the controlPets cheat enabled (cats never sleep on it autonomously for some reason)? It always bothered me and i've never seen a modification fixing it, i heard rumors that cats use it only when they have high relations with other pets etc.
As a cat owner with a cat tree, this is just realistic cat behavior lol
Did the headmaster drink too much coffee? His head shaking, hahaha. (0:02)
Sims always shake after coffee, one is enough 😆
I didn't know about coffee or drinks. I thought I might learn something new even though I don't usually have problems with headmasters.
I am at the top of my career and graduated in the Dean’s list. Schmooze about School and Work score me a solid 80 points out of 90😊 lmao
Thank You sooooooo Much!!
Therapist: when did your anxiety begin?
Me: sims 2 headmaster event
The headmaster is the most annoying character in the game. I invited him over three times and the first two times he got stuck in his car. The third, I was 50 minutes away from completing it but my Sim decided to give birth and the headmaster glitched and reset 😂
One thing I experienced is if you have sims woo-hoo'ing during the tour and he walks in on it, he instantly becomes disgusted and says the family isn't up to his standards/etc.
No, that shouldn't happen, unless he has feelings for one of the Sims and gets jealous
For the dinner, I would put up a banquet table and serve turkey
Yeah, I guess private school is mostly for rich people, so makes sense 😆 Never thought of that. Will he eat if it's not regular food served on a counter?
whooo marticore!!!
I literally got a mod that lets you bribe him instead of dealing with him.
Schmoose works better if your Sim have good charisma. I always choose the sim with more charisma for interact with the headmaster. I'm sorry for my bad English, I'm a Spanish speaker.
No need to apologize for English on this channel, I'm not a native either!
omg my headmaster also got stuck in the hot tub, never gave me points, and ended up failing the scenario. i had no idea it was known to be buggy i thought i had just downloaded a conflicting mod or something
8:05 how to change theme from blue to silver?
Gray UI mod
I always wanted to make a RUclips video like this
I've said this before somewhere but I'll never forget when I got more points than the max needed and my alien sim got rejected and I'm inlined to think it was because he was an alien hybrid... seemed sus to me
I always use cheats with the headmaster. 😂 I use Sim Modder to raise my relationship with him, making it much easier to earn schmooze points.
I also manually raise the level of whatever Sim is cooking to the max and cook lobster.
If you're friends with him and if your interests on school, money and job are high, you immediately get 60 points for schmoozing. Then all you have to do is show him the house, you don't even need to serve dinner.
It's not that easy to befriend him within 6 hours, but you can use a voodoo doll 😆
For some reason I get 0 points for the food every single time and I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong. And I can only show him one room of the house and I’m unable to show him more and my house has more rooms upstairs but it won’t let me and he keeps saying he’s seen the room before
Maybe a mod interferes?
Such a complicated system damn.
There's actually worse things. In a follow-up to the whole chef salad thing I analysed on that Reddit post, someone was curious as to the different ways that Pork Chops could be cooked (as I mentioned it in the post). The game determining whether a Sim is a good, medium, or bad cook goes five layers of code deep. Just to show different animations of Sims cooking pork chops, and improve its quality based on the animation that was shown. It's insane how much work went into the game.
Wydaje mi się, że jest więcej pomieszczeń niż trzy do oglądnięcia. Nie są co najmniej cztery?
Możesz pokazać dyrektorowi tyle pokoi, ile chcesz, wycieczka po pokojach zatrzymuje się, gdy osiągniesz 40 punktów.
(I translated this, sorry, I don't speak Polish. I hope this helps anyway!)
@@smwforever45 yep, I understand 😁 have a nice day 🥰
_You can change topic?_ ... **What the fuck?** (Been playing since '07.)
Base game feature 😆 Yeah, you find out the most basic things many years later, that's The Sims 2 ❤️
I'm still mad at my mom for deleting my game where I finally succeeded at sending the kids to private school. All because I was playing with lesbian moms.
This is completely unrelated, but for some reason, in my Sims 2 game, the unsavory dastardly looking guy has entered my sims home lot. All he does is harass my sims by pickpocketing them every time they leave the house. Is this supposed to happen? Or did I do something to make this happen.
Do you have graves of children on your lot?
No, I haven't had any kids die in my game.
The only grave on this lot was the grave of an elderly mother who died of the flu.
Thankfully, Richard Dastardly left on his own eventually so now my sims' wallets are saved.
But now I have an army of gardeners in my house. I guess there was a farmer's convention I wasn't aware of.
I hope I'm not paying them by the hour because I haven't seen any of them trim a single hedge yet. They're just playing poker in my living room and eating all of my food.
how can i play TS2 on Win10 and not wait 10 minutes for it to boot up
If you have a lot of custom content, try reducing it. Also, reorganizing your downloads folder can help by making sure that you don’t have folders buried within folders buried within folders and so on, also helps to edit the file names of CC if they have symbols like ( ) ! { ] and spaces in them. Underscores _ and dashes - are okay though.
@@kore3919 tried even without CC...still same problem
@@wastintime8792 Do you have enough RAM, hard drive space? A good CPU? Dedicated graphics card? Do you have any programs running in the background that don’t need to be running while playing the game? TS2 has always been a game that can take a bit to load up, just depends on a lot of factors like CC and computer specs.
@@kore3919 16GB RAM AMD Ryzen 5 2600,SSD m.2 and a Radeon RX 580
@@wastintime8792 Are you already using the "Graphics Rules Maker" to have your graphics card entered into the game's files? Ten minutes seems really long either way, but having the game recognise your graphics card will immensely help with other issues.
my sister went to private school when my mom and step dad got married lol, cost 40k a YEAR. crazy. though, you dont have to invite a headmaster and suck up to them when you want to go to private school. I think for a good percentage of them you dont even have an application process. u just write a check and boom in ur in.