No choosing dialog
abelle:
I had a really strange glitch in one of my lots last night.
I usually donīt bother with fire and burglar alarms and just use the call emergency option, when something happened. So the burglar came and I woke my sim to call the police. He picked up the phone and dialled frantically, then immediately hung up. The dialog, which let me choose between police and fire station didnīt pop up.
As I play with debugmode on, I gave my sim a cellphone, thinking the phone might be corrupt. When he used that I didnīt get the choosing dialog either, but he must have called the firestation, as a firefighter showed up. He fined my sim for calling, when there was no emergency and poked him. The burglar got away with the piano, the stereo and the karaokemachine. All the sims in this house have Music and Dance as their one true hobby.
It was really bad, because the family is quite poor. Everyone else in my newly created prosperity neighbourhood is doing much better.
Later I bought them a birdcage and when I directed the same sim to stock it, no option to choose the bird and name him came up. Instead they got the red one and he got a really long name with the word Tropical in it. I think thatīs the object name for the bird.
No errors popped up at all. I donīt really expect a solution, I just had to share that. It was so frustrating to not be able to interact with the burglar at all. In fact as my sim wants to be a general and had just maxed his bodyskill I teleported the burglar in the next day and let him beat her up. That was somewhat satisfying. I really wish one could fight the burglar, while s/he is burgling, though. It is a tad unrealistic, that my sim would just stand there and let an unarmed burglar take all his most priced possessions. >:(
Sorry for the useless post. If someone has any kind of solution, I would of course be grateful to hear them. At first I thought it might be the phonehack, but as no errors popped up and the same thing happened with the bird, I am pretty sure that is not it. I couldnīt recreate the problem on another lot either.
notveryawesome:
This is how the game is designed. Once the burglar arrives, sims have no way of stopping her/him. This is meant to teach silly simmers that, unless their sims stay awake 24 hours per day, and never leave the house, then they need a burglar alarm.
kuronue:
notveryawesome, did you even read what their issue was? The issue is that they were unable to call the police because there was no popup dialog, and the same happened with naming their pet bird. Had they been able to call the police they'd have been able to free the burglar and thus interact with them.
jsalemi:
I'd say first, glitched lot, or second, hack conflict, or third, old hack for new EP.
jolrei:
Quote from: jsalemi on 2008 May 04, 21:35:50
I'd say first, glitched lot, or second, hack conflict, or third, old hack for new EP.
...not necessarily in that order?
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