Homework, The One Desk, and kids of all ages
abelle:
Quote from: Kyna on 2008 December 12, 12:53:47
I find the One Desk to be a PITA too, but for a different reason.
My 12s come home, and one puts their homework on the right side of the desk. If it's not autumn, often they'll still be doing their homework when their 6 sibling(s) come home. As the 12's homework is pulled forward (since they're working on it), the 6 thinks the right end of the desk is clear, and puts their homework there - right where the 12 is doing homework. Then the 6 is unable to do their homework because they can't reach it. They either have to wait for the 12 to finish, or I have to go into buy mode to move their homework. This stupidity started a couple of EPs back, not sure exactly when, so it could have been with FT.
My One Desk usually ends up with a computer and a phone on it. I prefer homework on the floor to a stupid 6 putting their homework down right where a 12 is currently doing their homework.
I donīt think it can have been FT. I have everything up to FT installed and my one desk works fine. Provided there is free space beside the right side of the desk, the sims will drop their homework in the right place and have no problem sitting in front of the desk and doing their homework. Itīs true that once on sim is occupied doing homework, the desk is considered empty and the next sim will drop homework there. I kind of like that, though, because my teens are at least very close to finish doing homework when the kids come home and I like the homework to be on the desk.
ETA: I actually never had a sim putting homework on the left side of the desk, but I usually put something there.
seelindarun:
In families with more than 2 school age children, I delete the One Desk entirely. 4 children all trying to do their homework on the floor around the One Desk inevitably ends up with one or more of them trapped and frozen by macro-homework. I follow saramk's example, and let them do it in the middle of the road. In knee-deep snow. And they like it. ;D
jwaas:
You forgot "uphill" and "both ways" and "with no shoes on." ;D
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who finds this annoying! I usually put a computer and a lamp on The One Desk anyway, so my 6s and 12s just do their homework on the floor, provided I didn't forget about it due to The One Desk or some other object blocking it from view. I do not use macrotastics or similar.
Can anyone read the error logs I attached above? I hope I did it right. I can't understand them at all and had no idea error logs were so long.
I have yet to try the Ingelogical desk, but have been meaning to do so. The YAs do seem to be a bit smarter than the 6s and 12s, as they will do assignments on dining tables -- but the flip side is that the dormies then leave their assignment books everywhere, unless you use noassignmentclutter of course.
I have never seen a 6 or 12 put the homework book on the right side of the desk, no matter which EP combination I've used (and I have tried many). If there is a lamp or plant or something on the left side of the desk, they just put it on the floor. Of course they will do homework if you put their book on a dining table in buy or build mode, but I have never seen them put the assignment on a dining table by themselves either.
Granted, as TS2 annoyances go, this is probably fairly minor. But I do feel better knowing that others find it annoying too. :)
EDIT: I wonder if 6s/12s can retrieve assignments from a coffee table or end table? I will try this next and report back.
jsalemi:
Quote from: Emma on 2008 December 12, 17:22:34
Did you have any errors when the kids (teens in particular) got off the schoolbus with M&G, Joe?
Not that I recall. Only had errors with mousing over the homework.
jwaas:
I just learned that homework and Uni assignments cannot even be placed on coffee tables or end tables. However, by chance I had a 12 who was at school when I opened a lot, who had not done his homework the previous day. Just to see what would happen, I put his homework on the dining table. Sure enough, when he got home, he walked right past The One Desk and put his new homework on top of the old homework. I wouldn't be surprised if this is how the Ingelogical desk works, tricking the 6 or 12 into thinking that an old assignment of his is already on that desk.
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