Is there still a portal bug?
seelindarun:
If you're open to workarounds rather than rooting out the source of the problem, I'd suggest un-assigning the owned car first. I have only a couple of plantsims, but they've held regular jobs most of their lives and had no issues with carpools. Both were normal sims who sprayed too much, rather than being spawned from another plantsim. I don't know if Seasons fixed things, but I always had no end of problems with disappearing cars and carpools when I assigned household cars, even the Maxis ones.
Process Denied:
Quote from: notveryawesome on 2007 October 30, 04:14:24
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.
That is really cool. My business owners are all wealth and they freak out if they don't have a job so that would be perfect. They were only able to run their businesses on their days off so business were kinda pointless.
baratron:
Quote from: notveryawesome on 2007 October 30, 02:37:50
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.
In my not-very expert opinion, it's not portal-related. The portals are invisible squares that are the entrances & exits from the lot. There are separate portals for residents, visitors and NPCs. (I think residents + visitors share two of the portals and NPCs have the other two, iirc.) If the portals were buggered, you would have the same problem with all resident sims.
You say you use the custom career with all your business owners... are any of the others Plantsims? Does the custom career claim to be compatible with Seasons? I'm suspecting there is some sort of code conflict between the custom career and the Plantsim. If giving him the car solves it, go for that option - otherwise put him into a different career path (one of the standard ones that comes with the game).
You could try asking one of our awesome modders for help, but you know what Pescado will say about the custom career! ("It's the work of the Non-Awesome!"). See if you can find a standard career with the same bug, then he'll fix it ;D.
cwykes:
My solution for business owners is to employ them in another owned business and just not send them to work if I want them to do something else. I used to think they didn't get fired for not going to work, but actually one did get fired the other day, so I guess you do need to track it a bit. When you play his/her boss and their business, your sim is a useful employee because of their business skills and when you go back to the sim's life, he/she has extra skills for their own business. I have a family business empire where a few family members own businesses, but all of them are employed in one of them - even the owners. I move them around to suit as I play the business.
Quote from: Dea on 2007 October 27, 20:15:08
.......... I used the lot debugger in debug mode to change their last names bc I hear you not supposed to with SimPe.
Does Pes say it's not safe? I've do that quite a bit so you've got me worried Dea!
J. M. Pescado:
Changing a sim's last name in SimPE is safe. Changing a sim's first name in SimPE does not complete the namechange process, and vestiges of the old name remains. Always perform first-name changes in-game...and if you're already in-game, you may as well complete the last-name change in-game withh the Lot Debugger also.
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