Is there still a portal bug?
notveryawesome:
Thread hijacking in progress: I have what I think may be a portal problem, but I'm not sure. I have a house containing five plantsims, four of which are adults. Every time the adult male goes to work, he 'pops' back onto the lot after only having been at work for a couple of hours, and he is crouched in a driving position as though he is driving an invisible car, only there's no car (he takes the carpool). There IS a car on the lot, but it is normally assigned to one of the adult females. Assigning the car to the adult male seems to solve the problem, as he is the only one affected, but I'd like to find out what's causing the problem, so that I can fix it. His job is a custom career (business owner, night shift, found at MTS2). I don't think the career is the culprit, however, as I use it for all of my business owners, and this plantsim is the only one affected. Is the sim just buggy, or could this actually be portal-related? I've tried deleting the sim, saving, exiting, and re-entering the lot, to no avail.
ZephyrZodiac:
For Plantsim, read Portal Pooper! Rose Whatshername in G001 used to walkby and get stuck at a portal and cause the lot to go into constipated time.....I only managed to stop the problem when I got her to drink some of the anti-plant sim stuff given her by McGreggor.
notveryawesome:
Yes, the plantsims do seem to be buggy. I don't want to de-plantsim them, however, since they are part of my sci-fi 'hood, which has very few 'human' sims, and humanising them would somewhat ruin the theme. I guess he'll just have to be unemployed. Stupid EA.
ZephyrZodiac:
Well, let him run a home business - that should keep him out of mischief - and if you haven't done so, take a look at Paladin's stuff for fishing and farming in an owned business, also his chocolate maker - plenty there to keep him busy organising the employees (just don't let him employ plantsims.....!) ;D
notveryawesome:
He does run a home business, but I don't like how the game lists business owners as being unemployed, so I use one of two custom careers for all of my business owners, Business Owner with morning shift or Business Owner with night shift. They are designed specifically for business-owning sims; thus, the work hours are only 3-4 hours per day, 3 days per week, either very early or very late. That way, the sims can still run their businesses but can be listed as Business Owner rather than Unemployed. Sorry if I did not make that clear in my earlier posts.
Edited for clarity.
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