Campus of Death
Gus Smedstad:
I have a deliberately inefficient micro-campus which is essentially a large lot with several small buildings on it - dorm, cafeteria, library, gym, and rec hall. It's mostly flat, unlike my first pass at the concept, which has helped the frame rate issues.
Part of the aesthetic of the campus is that the official dorm "rooms" are 1x1 squares that the dormies won't use, and there are several ordinary bedrooms without the MyneDoor. This means dormies actually go to bed, and are locatable when they're in their rooms. I just don't care for the regular mechanic where dorm rooms are mysterious black holes.
It's fine for my playables, but 4 semesters, I have 8 dead dormies. The regular Uni AI is just really stupid, and with No Dormie Invulnerability, they pass out, piss themselves, and eventually starve because they'd rather do asignments or stand around brain-dead than eat.
I don't mind a death or two, it can lend a little drama to the otherwise dull college grind. But this is to the point where my playables never develop relationships with the mayflies, they just die too quickly.
I assume it's due to inefficiencies, and that the only real answers are to either design a more conventional dorm or give up on No Dorme Invulnerability.
- Gus
Diala:
Do you have a cafeteria worker serving food, or is it pretty much self-serve? I am wondering how your dormies die off so easily. Sure, mine stink, piss themselves, pass out, and do everything else, but they don't die. I want to start a campus cemetery.
Gus Smedstad:
Yes, I have a cafeteria worker. Occasionally there's a bit of a problem with food, as I have a Put Away Leftovers mod (Dizzie, I believe), and sometimes the playables get into this loop of putting away all the food served on the cafeteria island, while the cafeteria worker is busy making more.
- Gus
Gus Smedstad:
On a related note, does anyone know of a graceful way to resurrect Dormies? Obviously the Resurrect-o-Nomicon is out, and using simPE to remove the Ghost flag and the I Am Dead token is annoyingly clumsy.
- Gus
Kyna:
Quote from: Gus Smedstad on 2008 September 01, 01:55:21
On a related note, does anyone know of a graceful way to resurrect Dormies? Obviously the Resurrect-o-Nomicon is out, and using simPE to remove the Ghost flag and the I Am Dead token is annoyingly clumsy.
- Gus
Why is the reaper phone out? There's one at the Secret Societies in the pre-made hoods. If you have a custom hood, add one to your custom secret society lot. Once they're resurrected, use Inge's cat statue to send them back to the townie pool.
An alternative is to use the gypsy lamp to resurrect. You can spawn one in debug mode by shift-clicking on a sim then using the spawn menu. If you use the lamp, save first so that you can retry if you get a zombie when you didn't want one (or vice versa). Then send them back to the townie pool with the cat statue.
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