Police & the Counterfiting Machine
windy_moon:
Quote from: Motoki on 2005 October 24, 12:14:46
If you have University and no NL multiple money trees do cause crashes for some people. I used to get them and had to stop using them. You can get away with one, but don't try any more than that. The good news is that NL seemed to fix the problem for me. I'm not sure if the University patch does or not though.
I've had the police come when using it but rarely so it may be aspiration related as was said since I rarely have my sims use it below gold. I do have the fires and make sure I have an alarm or sprinkler near it but as you said, stopping to get the cash and restarting after a bit does prevent this.
Well, my copy of NL is sitting in an Amazon box, ready to be installed...I've had it since the first week, I'm just letting everybody else do the testing for me. ;)
If NL seems to fix the money tree problems, it may be time for me to install. I reallly don't like the counterfeiting machine at all....my Sims are the sort that may believe money grows on trees, but they really wouldn't take such glee in fake money that brings the police. Except Mary Sue Pleasant who is an outright criminal.
FWIW, the Sims who were busted were in at least gold if not platinum. They are usually all in platinum, but it might have been gold ... my using the machine to drive them up to platinum.
I don't have green Sims! ;D
(Fires appear to be duration of use, as others have said. I can avoid it by keeping them to about $150 take at a time. Bit of a pain to stop and start...macrotastics "harvest money trees" is the way to go if the stupid trees don't encourage my game to crash.)
Thanks!!
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edit, just read Hook's post....yesterday's police visits came within Sim minutes of machine use. Poor John Burb had never even used the machine before. Usually it is Jennifer's job, but I was looking for just a little extra cash and he was available. He didn't have $50 before the police showed up...in his bedroom!! And then he's crying over the memory.
simmiecal:
Make sure you don't have the machine outside in the yard. It seems they come quicker if it's outside. Also, if you have it inside with a sprinkler over it, even if it catches fire, you can still grab the money from the money bag.
Motoki:
I usually put mine outside in the of the house. Either that or in a basement if the house has one. I just can't bring myself to put that big honking thing in a living room or bedroom. As long as you don't do it continuously for an extended period of time you shouldn't have problems with police or fire. Just make sure you keep stopping and starting again.
Kestran:
If you place it outside--I placed one once on a balcony--and use the move_objects cheat to put a sprinkler above it you don't have to worry about fires really. And I have found no pattern to when the money machine will catch fire. I have had it in blaze after only a few secs of use. And that darn police does sometimes show up even if your Sim is in plat. Not as often as when they are below gold but it has happened to me once or twice.
Motoki:
I've used it loads of times for short intervals and stopping and have never had police or fire that way, but I may just have been lucky. It seems like the chance of something happening increases the longer you use it. If you use it for a few seconds the chance of anything happening is probably pretty low, but if you use it for a whole sim day it's almost guaranteed you'll get the fire or police at some point.
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