Any fix yet to enable buy/build mode?
sloppyhousewife:
Quote from: doren on 2008 March 22, 10:25:09
I was thinking about taking objects to the lots in the inventory and removing them again before leaving it
You cannot access your inventory on a HL. You'll have to use the dorm cheat to buy stuff after arrival and to sell it before you leave if you don't want to lose the money. On the plus side, you can sell all the crap on the lot for extra cash.
Kyna:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2008 March 22, 10:55:09
It doesn't matter what changes you make, what matters is the fact that the invisible changes, namely, the way your sims GOT there, is ALSO saved. However, the game will NOT actually save the lot when you LEAVE, as is typical of community lots, so the lot will not remember that your sims have left. These residual objects then remain there on the lot, and cause problems. Freakydeak building procedures like this will cause your game to later freak out in unexplainable ways down the line.
NORMALLY, when you visit a hobbylot, and subsequently leave, NOTHING ON THAT LOT IS SAVED. If you desecrate it utterly, perhaps by letting Brynne run around there, it will be restored to its pristine state, like any other community lot, when you leave and return. This prevents your transit from being recorded on the lot. However, if you use cheats to save the lot while you are present on the lot, it will record undesirable features, like your car (or invisible walking car), and your sims, into the lot file. These should not be there, and ordinarily would not be there, in a properly loaded and saved lot. This is why you should not save community lots while you are visiting them.
That's if you save the lot.
I have been using the dormbuild cheat to edit hobby lots while my sims are there, with no intention of saving. My sims aren't going to miss the few simoleons I spend editing it to make it usable - such as adding BUY toilet paper to the bathrooms.
That being said, all of my visits to hobby lots have been to check them out, without repeat visits (since I discovered they suck so much, and are not worth revisiting). I haven't even visited some of the hobby lots yet, and have no intention of doing so, as I don't expect they'll be any better than the ones I have visited.
J. M. Pescado:
Well, if you don't save, then you're fine. But if you revisit, you'd have to make the same changes again.
doren:
Quote from: sloppyhousewife on 2008 March 22, 10:59:06
Quote from: doren on 2008 March 22, 10:25:09
I was thinking about taking objects to the lots in the inventory and removing them again before leaving it
You cannot access your inventory on a HL. You'll have to use the dorm cheat to buy stuff after arrival and to sell it before you leave if you don't want to lose the money. On the plus side, you can sell all the crap on the lot for extra cash.
I was going to try out Bimbelina's buy/build mode enabler, which gives you access to the inventory. I was about to do that last night when my C: partition decided to go AWOL. Now I am merely distracting myself from the unpleasant thought that most of my data may be lost. I was also planning to burn my downloads on DVD's over easter...
witch:
Quote from: Kyna on 2008 March 22, 11:01:12
That being said, all of my visits to hobby lots have been to check them out, without repeat visits (since I discovered they suck so much, and are not worth revisiting). I haven't even visited some of the hobby lots yet, and have no intention of doing so, as I don't expect they'll be any better than the ones I have visited.
A great big phat DITTO to that! Ugly, useless, thrown-together-at-the-last-minute hobby lots. Urgh.
I like Emma's idea of a nice club for the dance competition, for instance. Surely the cookery contest could also be done elsewhere? Are there any other special features of the other hobby clubs? Or do they only provide the near-to-useless hobby mavens?
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