Party glitch?
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: sandilou on 2005 August 02, 00:05:03
The Soviet Russian Toilet worked a gem throughout! Sims were queueing patiently for hours! A cheerleader did die waiting - but aside from that....
Oh, that would definitely have been something to see. What, you had maybe 40-50 sims hovering over the bathroom in a holding pattern? And it actually worked? The game didn't explode? And somebody literally died waiting, even though nobody peed themselves? Cool. But yeah, when you try to land 40 planes at a single tiny airstrip capable of only servicing a single landed plane at a time, and air traffic control is forced to put them all into a holding pattern, bad things will happen when people start running out of fuel.
Quote from: sandilou on 2005 August 02, 00:05:03
The Party Glitch happened again today but this time I think I know what's caused it;
Sim A called up a party on their mobile
Sim B called a friend almost immediately using the house phone.
Sim A's party screen didn't even come up. I didn't realise the party was underway until the party balloon came up: I spun the camera around to the front of the house and saw 30+ sims arriving.
....
So this particular glitch happens if the party call is interrupted before the guest menu crops up. Guests are still called but the program seems to default to every sim listed in the neighbourhood, including npcs, uni students and townies, irregardless of whether the sim party caller has met them personally.
This sounds like a race condition, actually. Both the phonebook, and the party invite list, use arrays to determine who to invite. Presumably, this would happen if the Phone book list smushes the Party Invitee list, resulting in everyone in the smushing character's phonebook being placed on the invite list. Messy. There are several other race conditions associated with the phone, such as if a Chance Card dialog pops up at the same time as the phone book menu, your game gets FUBAR'ed.
Sandilou:
I'm pleased to say that my game didn't crash and this time I actually saved it - couldn't endure another party as most needs were met. During that 'neighbourhood party' I still managed to move in 2 other sims. I loaded pics up on MySimPage over at TS2.com but couldn't figure out how to insert one here (duh). Besides, my game is run on low picture spec because it runs so much faster (I can load it from scratch in under 2 minutes) so the pics aren't up to much.
baratron:
Like this ;). Or click the "world" symbol - 2nd row, 3rd from the left. You put the link between the two url tags. Board help --> Insert hyperlink.
Sandilou:
Thanks baratron.
Uh duh...couldn't paste the picture here. Could do the link to mysimpage but was too lazy... (Can't shorten the long version of the linkQuote
Like this
though). :-\
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