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Pegasys:
One easy way to make the date fields (birth, marriage, death, etc.) more flexible would be to make these text fields, not true date fields. So you could then enter "12 days before Elder" or "15 Sim Days."
In the process, however, you would lose the ability to sort or search by "after" or "before" a certain date.
We can still keep track of when a Sim was created in the database, but this wouldn't necessarily be the "birth" date. So in essence there would be two fields, a Birth date which is however you want to enter it, but not sortable, and a Creation date which is the date that the record was created.
Thoughts? Comments?
witch:
Hi Pegasys
Yes, what the others are saying about character traits is correct, eg nice/grouchy = 4 and so on. Sims also have a genetic character which may be different to their ingame character, this would be good to record by numbers as well.
I don't have the d'base here to test the failure of data carrying over from the new sim screen to the list view, will get back to you if I replicate this. I wonder if this is connected to the d'base having difficulty connecting the spouses.
Sim age in days will be useful for some and days till next transition. I want to know the generation number of my sims too. I don't have an all over date, either for families or for the n'hood. I just can't see how to make an all-over date work when families are played for different lengths of time. Maybe a box to say what number the member of the family might be? ie this is the 34th sim born in this family line?
cheers
witch
windy_moon:
I love the database. I only have 25 Sims entered so far...lost count of how many to go, I'm thinking at least 60. :P
Doubt this is realistic but wouldn't it be great to have the database calculate relations. Brothers, sisters, half siblings, step siblings, nieces, nephews, cousins.... Imagine if once you got the Sim data entered, you could then get a list of everybody the Sim is related to and what their relations are!
The game itself should do a MUCH better job of this. >:( The little family tree pop up is not much use...you can keep clicking the dots for more, but it's not user friendly...and personally, I like lists, not diagrams.
Love the database, thanks!
Kyna:
Pegasys, I'm getting an error message when I try to open my database.
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"Sims2.SIM" is damaged and cannot be opened. Use the recover command to recover this file.
I can't find the recover command to recover my data.
The error happened when I was updating a child to a teen and updating her aspiration. That worked ok. Then I want to put in her LTW - tried clicking on the LTW fields to get the drop down list of LTWs and the data base didn't do anything for a few seconds and then it crashed. Now when I try to open I'm getting the above error message.
ZiggyDoodle:
Simply excellent, Pegasys - thanks very much for all your work!
I find the database very easy to use and quite intuitive. Especially like the household function which allows you to edit each member of that household. I have 14 YAs at Uni and hadn't kept track of their aspirations but did find my sheet listing their majors, so it was easy to add that information from the household option.
Recognizing this is a beta test, will we be able to modify the fields or delete those one would never use?
Much appreciated!
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