Is Cloning a Neighbourhood a VBT?
Mootilda:
Quote from: talysman on 2008 October 10, 16:03:44
Does the game actually open all neighborhoods simultaneously?
If so, that's some monumentally stupid programming on EAxis's part. Although that *would* explain the slowness in loading...
If I start the game and then exit without ever entering a neighborhood, all neighborhood packages are modified. This seems to imply that EA opens and modifies all of the neighborhoods at the same time. Very stupid programming indeed.
Very similar to what happens if I enter a neighborhood and then exit without ever playing a family within the neighborhood: Many of the character files are changed. Dumb dumb dumb!
Killzone:
Talysman, I was refering to your first description using the Bulk Renaming Utility to rename all the files within the copied directory. But if the game does open other hoods at the same time, then yeah I can see how cloning the hood this way would be a VBT.
If I wanted to clone it for testing purposes, then I could probably use Fourcats idea of taking the hood you arent using out of the Sims 2 folder, but if at any time I forgot to do this then... boom, so probably not worth the risk
Zazazu:
You can also move the folder over to a separate account (I'm assuming you are using Windows). All my test stuff is done on a clean account. No remembering to remove things needed.
Orikes:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2008 October 10, 10:45:46
Quote from: Orikes on 2008 October 10, 04:00:38
Basically, I want to know what degree of VBT thing this is. No offense, J.M., but your declarations of VBT are always delivered at the same intensity, so I don't know if this means immediate corruption or if it -might- cause problems. I've had a couple of other things done in the neighborhood that were delcared VBT, but haven't caused any visible issues with over a year of playing in the same hood.
Just because you are a dumb, unobservant Orikes does not mean there are no problems. I bet I could pull open your files and immediately spot tons of gunk you've caused as a result.
Pescado, I picture you as the highly strict parent going over a room with a pair of white gloves to verify that everything is completely clean and spic and span. I'm guessing you could find gunk in pretty much anyone's game. :)
I very well may be a dumb, unobservent Orikes, but nothing I've done has yet affected my game play, which is what actually concerns me. I did remove the dummy cloned hood, though. I'll only use it in another account on my machine when I need it.
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