Kitchen building question
PirateFaafy:
Quote from: Kyna on 2008 December 07, 07:51:52
Quote from: PirateFaafy on 2008 December 07, 05:13:22
Quote from: Madame Mim on 2008 December 04, 22:04:07
Yes. All my sims do it too. You cancel the cooking, they put down the tray and then stomp and complain that they couldn't put down the tray. If the butlers or nanny's are being queue stomped by something else they may just be acting out this bit of eaxis stupidity the same as other Sims do, so it's an effect not a cause.
I can confirm this; I'd actually been doing some tests on it for a while. This post basically sums it up.
Faafy if your tests result in a solution, I'd be interested to hear it.
Unfortunately, the only one I've come up with so far is "Don't interrupt Sims while cooking".
jwaas:
Quote from: Bliss on 2008 December 02, 05:39:37
It seems to be the same thing happening when I click on teen/child to "do homework" that is sitting on a desk. They can only get the homework if it is on the floor or placed on a desk/table with chair directly in front of the homework. So my One Desk is not useful right now in many households.
My teens/children do the exact same thing, though I haven't noticed the kitchen problem -- but they are so similar that it makes me wonder if they are related. The One Desk is useful only in that it causes 12s and 6s to place their homework on the floor nearby. On coming home from school, the 6 or 12 will place the homework on the half of the desk where the chair isn't in front, but when instructed to do said homework, complain they can't get it. They will not put it on the half of the desk where the chair is, even if you block the other half of the desk with a lamp or other object, but will instead put it on the floor. I have yet to try this with Young Adults at Uni, which would require cancelling the action while they're in the middle of an assignment, picking up the assignment and putting it on one or the other half of the desk, and instructing them to continue doing the assignment. I may try these things with a 6/12/YA and see if I can generate an error log. Also I believe Inge has made some interesting desks/tables with assignable homework spots that may solve the problem.
I realize this is not directly related, and I apologize. :) If I get an error log with the desk thing and it doesn't appear to be due to tight pants, I'll post about it in an appropriate spot rather than in this thread.
Kyna:
Quote from: jwaas on 2008 December 12, 03:21:04
Quote from: Bliss on 2008 December 02, 05:39:37
It seems to be the same thing happening when I click on teen/child to "do homework" that is sitting on a desk. They can only get the homework if it is on the floor or placed on a desk/table with chair directly in front of the homework. So my One Desk is not useful right now in many households.
My teens/children do the exact same thing, though I haven't noticed the kitchen problem -- but they are so similar that it makes me wonder if they are related. The One Desk is useful only in that it causes 12s and 6s to place their homework on the floor nearby. On coming home from school, the 6 or 12 will place the homework on the half of the desk where the chair isn't in front, but when instructed to do said homework, complain they can't get it. They will not put it on the half of the desk where the chair is, even if you block the other half of the desk with a lamp or other object, but will instead put it on the floor. I have yet to try this with Young Adults at Uni, which would require cancelling the action while they're in the middle of an assignment, picking up the assignment and putting it on one or the other half of the desk, and instructing them to continue doing the assignment. I may try these things with a 6/12/YA and see if I can generate an error log. Also I believe Inge has made some interesting desks/tables with assignable homework spots that may solve the problem.
I realize this is not directly related, and I apologize. :) If I get an error log with the desk thing and it doesn't appear to be due to tight pants, I'll post about it in an appropriate spot rather than in this thread.
Is there a space on the right side of the desk? If the right side of the desk is next to a wall or furniture/decorative object (such as a plant), the kids can't put anything on the desk.
Back to my kitchen/butler problem, I used Inge's cat to make the butler selectable when he started preparing food. I noticed "empty potty" came up in his queue, so I cancelled the "empty potty" task, and he finished cooking. YAYzors, no half-prepared food left to rot on the kitchen counter. Once he'd done cooking, I made him unselectable again. I used Inge's cat rather than using debug mode's "make selectable" as Inge's cat doesn't turn off the NPC code.
jwaas:
Quote from: Kyna on 2008 December 12, 03:28:59
Is there a space on the right side of the desk? If the right side of the desk is next to a wall or furniture/decorative object (such as a plant), the kids can't put anything on the desk.
Very true, but the problem is that once the kid puts the homework on the left side of the desk (which in my experience they do unless there is a lamp or something there), they complain they can't get it. This appears to be the problem Bliss was noticing also.
I just checked this with debug mode on and got error logs, so I'll post them in another thread. I have a feeling that this is only a bug in the sense of being something Maxis overlooked. But I will stop hijacking this thread since I think I'm in danger of being macroed. I am certain I'm on the verge of getting the pancake/bunny one at least. :-\
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