Changing novel title after delivery
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: IcemanSimmer on 2008 July 05, 18:09:44
My fubar book was a romance and I remember the "plot" went Money - Cruise Ship - Sunshine - Airplane - Question Mark. But herein lay a bigger question. In my game, whenever I mouse-over the icons, I don't see any tooltip explaining WTF the icons mean. Some of the icons are seriously cryptic. Do these plot icons even have any meaning? Could I shut my eyes and randomly pick 5 icons and still get a best seller? For all I know, I could be doing that already ;D
Like all simspeech, they have only as much meaning as you give them. The icons mean nothing intrinsically.
IcemanSimmer:
Quote from: TashaFaun on 2008 July 05, 18:18:34
Wouldn't JM's "noplagiarism" work for that? Or do you mean he missed the phone call entirely?
I hate landlines. They annoy my sims. None of my lots have them by default. All sims carry cell phones instead. The game insists that the publisher's call be received on a landline (something I didn't know at the time). My sim was waiting for a call that never came.
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If townies and whohaveyou can reach me on my cell phone, why the fuck can't the publisher do the same? Writer sims lots are easily recognizable in my neighborhood cause they are the only ones with landlines for the specific purpose of receiving publisher calls. EAxis's retarded idea was made worse by poor coding in the form of other sims picking up the publisher's call and getting all the credit which JM fixed with the no plagarism hack.
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Quote from: Berg on 2008 July 05, 18:25:22
I never thought so, at least. Think they're just pretties that are supposed to appear in their "thought balloons" when they read.
Isn't it all about creative skill?
From my own game play, all those cookbooks used the same 5 icons (the bowl with the brown sludge). Whenever a sim read one of the cookbooks, the thought balloon was pretty much static showing the bowl icon. At the end, these plot icons mean whatever you want them to mean. The sims creative level definitly has a huge bearing on whether the book is a success or not.
imyourboy:
My phone was on the second floor and of course he was walking very slowly, when he got halfway up the stairs he got the publisher message without answering the phone. He got his money though. So do they really have to answer?
Emma:
My sim finished writing a novel just before his final exam. He sped off without answering the phone and didn't recieve payment for his novel. Delivery person left the book on the porch.
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