Homework, The One Desk, and kids of all ages
jwaas:
I've just done a study on something extremely unimportant, and oddly feel as though I've accomplished something anyway. We were discussing this in the "Kitchen Building" thread, where Bliss commented on a similar but not necessarily related problem. It involves Sim children or teens and their homework assignments, and by extension I wondered if it affected Young Adults at Uni also. This is not the problem with placing the homework on the desk, which sometimes occurs in tight quarters, but a different problem that I will try to describe succinctly.
The 6 or 12 comes home from school, and approaches The One Desk with his homework. (I am going with masculine pronouns only for the sake of clarity.) I have noticed the following variations.
1. If nothing whatsoever is on the desk, the 6 or 12 puts the assignment on the left side of the desk (as one is facing the desk).
2. If something is on that side of the desk, such as a lamp, the kid will place the assignment on the floor close by. I have never seen a Sim schoolchild put the assignment on the right side of the desk, where the chair is.
Later on, when I instruct the kid to do his homework, if he has put the assignment on the left side of the desk, he will stomp and complain that he can't pick up the assignment. If I go into build mode and move the assignment to the right side of the desk, or the floor, or an empty slot on a dining table, no problem. I have noticed this behavior even if there is a one-tile zone of empty space entirely around the desk and chair.
I have just discovered that Young Adults at Uni have the same problem. I instructed one to do an assignment, cancelled the action, moved the assignment in build mode to the left side of an empty desk in the middle of a large room, put a chair in front of the right side of the desk, and told him to continue the assignment. Same error as when I tried the same sequence with a 6 in a residential household.
Both of these times I turned debug mode on and generated error logs, which I've attached. My suspicion is that Maxis has simply made it so that 6s/12s/YAs are too stupid to pick up the assignment from the left side of the desk (even if they have put it there themselves!), bring it somewhere convenient, and then do the assignment. Particularly since Bliss and I presumably have very different setups and tight pants collections. But if tight pants gets the blame, I'd love to know about it. Failcats, Pancake Bunnies, and other such abuse will also be tolerated.
Thanks for reading! :)
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aussieone:
Quote from: jwaas on 2008 December 12, 04:27:39
My suspicion is that Maxis has simply made it so that 6s/12s/YAs are too stupid to pick up the assignment from the left side of the desk (even if they have put it there themselves!), bring it somewhere convenient, and then do the assignment.
I hope that is the case as this particular problem is driving me up the wall. Desks are an absolute neccessity, but having to move the homework all the time is a PITA.
Count Four:
I believe that is indeed the problem, because I remember grumbling over that behavior when I had nothing but the base game. Was not tight pants, because I was barely aware that hacks/mods existed at that point, and I certainly didn't have any.
So, we have learned sims are too dumb to figure out the desk-homework conundrum. Anyone going to do anything about it? *eyes Pescado*
J. M. Pescado:
I always just block the left side of the desk to prevent this behavior. This appears to have started recently, as this did not occur in the original game, probably around FT or so.
aussieone:
So does that mean that there will be no fix or it can't be fixed? Both?
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