Is there still a portal bug?
cwykes:
well I've done both in Veronaville - it's amazing that hood has survived as long as it has!
afterthought - most name changes were for townies now I think about it and that's less convenient to do in game.
jsalemi:
Quote from: cwykes on 2007 November 01, 10:16:49
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.
I got two custom careers from N99 called 'Self-Employed Sim' and 'Happily Unemployed Sim' that someone here pointed me to ages ago. They don't pay anything, the car never comes, but they do fill the 'get a job' want and keep it from coming back. All my full-time business owners are 'self-employed', and I have a just-back-from-uni-and-living-with-the-'rents slacker or two who are happily unemployed. :)
cwykes:
I'm just wary of custom careers because they aren't maintainance free. Any new EP can wreck a custom career and it's just another thing to update when you add an EP. shrugs - my solution works for me and suits the way I play. I only have one custom career in my game and that was by accident. I downloaded a "cook pizza"option with lots of kinds of pizza only to discover it was a career!
jsalemi:
Yea, but these two are so basic that they're essentially EP-agnostic. They have only 1 level, 1 work hour a day (that the sim doesn't actually work) and an icon. Nothing in there to really break in a new EP.
notveryawesome:
Quote from: baratron on 2007 November 01, 00:26:22
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.
I'm assuming the career is compatible with Seasons, as Seasons is listed as one of the EPs that the hack's creator uses/used at the time of creation, but if it's not compatible, that would certainly explain why it wouldn't work with plantsims. None of my other business owners are plantsims, and none of them seem to have problems with carpools, etc when they have the Business Owner job. I really think that plantsims are just buggy. They behave strangely on their own lots, as well as those of other sims. For example, their motives get screwed up when they are hired as employees by other sims. I've never tried this, personally, but I've read others' accounts of the problem. In my own experience, it seems that every lot a plantsim lives on eventually becomes corrupted, as do the plantsims themselves (e.g. the plantsims' pie menus get messed up and they can no longer 'Give Gift' etc), and the only way to solve the problem is by moving the plantsim(s) to another lot and bulldozing the first one. I'm going to try having the bugged sim quit his job and re-acquire it, just to see if the problems occur the second time around. If they do, I'll have to just get him a normal job or leave him listed as unemployed, even though he runs a home business.
@cwykes: Many hacks that are listed as careers aren't actually careers. For example, some of the controllers for Monique's hacked computers are listed as careers, though they are clearly not careers. I don't really know how to explain why this is, however, so I'll leave that to those more Awesome than I.
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