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vecki:
Quote from: Pegasys on 2005 October 27, 01:39:07
Quote from: vecsta on 2005 October 24, 05:36:08
And sometimes there are issues with adding partners - I have to add both partners to the database before creating the partnership, otherwise it only appears on one sim's record. You know how creating the partnership can create the second sim? Well when it does that, their relationships panel is blank. Adding the partnership to their record then leads to a duplicate record on the original sim - and working out which one is the 'duplicate' record just does not work!
Vecsta or anyone else who has had this issue -
I have tried reproducing this problem several times and can't. The only way I get a similar result is if there is another Sim with the exact same name. I suspect you may have had duplicate names in the database. I should have mentioned this earlier, but as Zythe recognized, the database goes a little funky with duplicate names. At least one character in the first or last name needs to be different. I think I'm going to add a warning message when somebody tries to enter a duplicate name.
If this is NOT the problem, please let me know, and please provide any extra detail as to how this problem occurs.
Do you mean as in the sim you are trying to create a relationship for or just having a duplicate floating around the system? I did have 2 Bella Goths (I had been including parents of active sims with their own personal records until I noticed the system didn't like duplicates) and changed the elder one to Bella Bachelor-Goth, but the problem was still there. I've since deleted the premade dead sims I'd included.
I don't have any new sims to add at the moment to test this out but I'll give it a shot with some random names at the next opportunity.
Bangelnuts:
Quote from: vecsta on 2005 October 28, 02:07:20
Quote from: Pegasys on 2005 October 27, 01:39:07
Quote from: vecsta on 2005 October 24, 05:36:08
And sometimes there are issues with adding partners - I have to add both partners to the database before creating the partnership, otherwise it only appears on one sim's record. You know how creating the partnership can create the second sim? Well when it does that, their relationships panel is blank. Adding the partnership to their record then leads to a duplicate record on the original sim - and working out which one is the 'duplicate' record just does not work!
Vecsta or anyone else who has had this issue -
I have tried reproducing this problem several times and can't. The only way I get a similar result is if there is another Sim with the exact same name. I suspect you may have had duplicate names in the database. I should have mentioned this earlier, but as Zythe recognized, the database goes a little funky with duplicate names. At least one character in the first or last name needs to be different. I think I'm going to add a warning message when somebody tries to enter a duplicate name.
If this is NOT the problem, please let me know, and please provide any extra detail as to how this problem occurs.
Do you mean as in the sim you are trying to create a relationship for or just having a duplicate floating around the system? I did have 2 Bella Goths (I had been including parents of active sims with their own personal records until I noticed the system didn't like duplicates) and changed the elder one to Bella Bachelor-Goth, but the problem was still there. I've since deleted the premade dead sims I'd included.
I don't have any new sims to add at the moment to test this out but I'll give it a shot with some random names at the next opportunity.
hmm I have to Bella Goths in my game one is the original and the other is a clone and lives in a different neighborhood
katemonster:
Quote from: Lynda on 2005 October 25, 13:19:51
I could just pick a random year in the recent past (1980 maybe) and use real-life dates for sim days.
This is what I'm going to do. I've got myself and my boyfriend in my neighborhood (in game, we are married with four ugly, ugly kids...too bad, neither of us is that bad-looking in the game or even in real life) and I'm going to give each of us our real birth date, then assign birthdates to all other sims based on differences in ages between siblings and differences between parents and children. I'm also going to try to link most birth dates to their star signs, just for fun, though it won't work with twins (most have different signs) or with those modeled on real people (cause I want to give us our real birthdays.) I'm actually excited about this part of it, and I have 95 sims. Probably will be less excited by the time I'm done...
Anyway--I played with this for several hours last night. At first there were some things I didn't like and found non-intuitive (the way you can't double-click a sim from the list to get to that sim's record--I had a hard time navigating around this until I realized you can click the "back" arrow and get the sim you want, but this took me a long time to figure out) but by the end I was having a good time.
One thing I would like changed is the "rank" for children. It seems that each child is only allowed to have one rank, but this doesn't work when sims have children with multiple different partners--I'd like for the rank to be assigned to the parent and not the child, if that makes sense. So if Andrea is Ellie's fourth child and her first three were by other men, I can have Carl's file say that Andrea is his first child, and not his fourth. Because that looks weird, when he only has one child.
Another thing is perhaps it could be possible to change the names of the "mother" and "father" field? I have a gay couple with three adopted kids and it kind of weirded me out to have to decide which of them was the mother. Although I'm not actually sure what I'd prefer to call them.
I would also love to have MORE REPORTS! And statistics, if at all possible! And graphs!
I would also probably die of sheer joy if you could make it actually diagram family trees. This is probably unrealistic, but I'm *thrilled* that you've got the relationship thing working, anyway. I've been keeping track of this by hand, and it's kind of annoying, what with all my sims with children by multiple partners--there are some complicated relationships in this generation.
Lastly, I'd like to add my voice to the worshipful clamor: this was a fantastic idea and thank you so much for making it public. I am having way, way too much fun with this.
SaraMK:
Quote from: katemonster on 2005 October 28, 15:43:39
Another thing is perhaps it could be possible to change the names of the "mother" and "father" field? I have a gay couple with three adopted kids and it kind of weirded me out to have to decide which of them was the mother. Although I'm not actually sure what I'd prefer to call them.
I also find this a bit of an annoyance.
My suggestion is to make the labels into drop-down menus. So instead of it just being a label it would be a drop-down menu and you could select "mother" or "father." Then you could have all the combinations. But I don't know if it could then still handle the automated creation of the second parent's file.
greeneyedsims:
I have been waiting for a program like this!! I just accidentally ran into this thread, and can't believe my eyes! I can't wait to try this out. Thaaank you so much!
I will report back after I've put it to some use. I just had to start my game completely over. So, I'll put the two new families in. *doin' a happy dance!*
I like to enter data! I'm weird like that.
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