Apartment Life: Obligatory Hate/Love Topic
witch:
The whole point for me is having other sims being on the lot that my playables can choose to interact with or not. Way easier than traipsing round community lots. It will be quite interesting to see what the other families do when I'm not playing them.
Kyna:
Quote from: Diala on 2008 September 15, 05:47:12
Likewise, I don't see the point of the apartment feature if everyone has to be controlled separately. I wouldn't mind it so much if the other player houses were blacked-out and the Sims inactive, say for going to work or school, but they aren't. They're fully, er, conscious and going about doing stupid things. Perhaps I am just a control freak, but it bothers me a bit.
Perhaps, once I screw around with some throwaway Sims, I'll get over it or learn to live with it.
The sims in the other families are going to work and school in my game - the adults walk to work, and the kids & teens get on the schoolbus. Teens also walk to their after school jobs if they have one. And they all head off inside their apartments at 10pm.
The other apartments on the lot are supposed to be blacked out - and are in my game. If they're not, I suspect that you are playing in the wrong premade apartments (some of the premade apartments are glitchy about blacking out, most notably the Cho/Riley lot) or that you've been using build cheats while the lot is occupied.
I enjoy watching the sims from the other families interact - especially if they're playables. As witch said, it's like going to a community lot without the loading screens. It's as if I gave the playables in the currently unplayed apartments unlimited free will, without any consequences. The currently played family can interact with their neighbours (either by free will or by macro/socialise) or they can ignore their neighbours and be busy doing whatever else I have in mind for them.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Kyna on 2008 September 15, 11:00:34
And they all head off inside their apartments at 10pm.
I have an Undiscovered Shiny aimed at addressing this particular nuisance, where they are inappropriately asleep at odd times. Despite being vampires. Or run off in the middle of your group, or other such obnoxiousness.
Diala:
Quote from: Kyna on 2008 September 15, 11:00:34
The other apartments on the lot are supposed to be blacked out - and are in my game. If they're not, I suspect that you are playing in the wrong premade apartments (some of the premade apartments are glitchy about blacking out, most notably the Cho/Riley lot) or that you've been using build cheats while the lot is occupied.
Oh, so that's what the problem is. The only co-joined lot I played was the Cho/Riley lot. I really should have played with it more before opening my yap about the issue.
Hurr durr, don't mind me.
jsalemi:
Quote from: Diala on 2008 September 15, 12:40:41
Quote from: Kyna on 2008 September 15, 11:00:34
The other apartments on the lot are supposed to be blacked out - and are in my game. If they're not, I suspect that you are playing in the wrong premade apartments (some of the premade apartments are glitchy about blacking out, most notably the Cho/Riley lot) or that you've been using build cheats while the lot is occupied.
Oh, so that's what the problem is. The only co-joined lot I played was the Cho/Riley lot. I really should have played with it more before opening my yap about the issue.
The fix for that lot is easy -- have whichever one you're playing visit the other for a bit, and then leave -- the other apartment blacks out properly after that. Do the same when you play the other one, and everything works fine from then on.
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