Don't hate me because I have to pee...
lefty:
Quote from: rainbow on 2005 October 17, 23:51:31
JM, have you ever had flamingoes get worn out or get blocked? I have had problems lately in some of my lots where everything has been going fine but suddenly they can't kick the flamingo. They complain like something is blocking them with a thought bubble of the flamingo, and I usually have more than one, so they will run to the other and do the same thing and back and forth. I've tried moving them, and sometimes it will help for a while but sometimes it won't. I ended up buying new ones, and that seemed to fix it for now. Some of them sold for $5.
This has also been happening to me. I tried replacing them, moving them, but no go. Sometimes it helps, but more often than not it didn't. I finally got frustrated and placed a gnome, and voila! It kinda worked again. The sim will try to kick the flamingo, but when they can't, they go kick the gnome.
Tried kick stuff later on, and they were able to kick the flamingo again without issues :-\
ZephyrZodiac:
Quote from: nectere on 2005 October 18, 20:23:13
I have taken to sending a sim to run out and water balloon anyone that kicks the trash can over, I have yet to see any one of those same sims return to kick the can again. Half the time the sim getting water bombed laughs it off. Prank for a prank I figure.
Love it! I'll definitely try that next time it happens!!!!
Brynne:
Okay, back to the red x thing, I definitely notice it more than before either NL or the patch, and I'm pretty sure it's not just the power of suggestion. I had a bunch of sims over at one of the smaller houses, and they were all hanging out in one room. There was a sim in the bathtub, and one using the toilet (throwing up with morning sickness). Not only did every single sim, including toddlers, have the thought bubble with the x, some sims were having double thought bubbles of it. And they weren't just a fleeting thing like they were, before, either. The bubbles stayed there for a while. They were all picturing the guy in the tub, too, and not the sim who was actually using the toilet. And I checked motives. I had actually just refreshed everyone's bladder just before, so their bars were all a solid green. Very irritating. And spam-ish.
Torkle:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2005 October 17, 00:36:48
The Bathroom Red X thing isn't related to pathfinding at all, because it will happen even whenother sims are stationary or even doing something else which is nonmobile. It is a mystery.
My current theory on the Bathroom Red X phenomena is that it is part of the detection code for "lose bladder control at party" scenario. But I don't know what controller object would be monitoring bladder changes so closely. I may have to go poke around in some BHAV code now...
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Hook on 2005 October 18, 00:00:56
I've seen evidence in the game that suggests the flamingo can break, although there's not a special graphic that shows it. Have you ever notice that the environment score goes down a bit whenever the kicked flamingo falls over? What's weirder, the environment score will go back up in time on its own.Quote
The Flamingo can occasionally become "jammed". It is not broken, it simply is unkickable from one side. This is generally resolved if you direct a sim to manually kick it from the other side.
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