Can't greet strays
AnnaM:
I've installed AL, then I've been away from the Sims for a while; now I'm back and I find that I can't greet strays who come into my lots. The only options are "Shoo" and "Chase off".
I've done a bit of a search and pretty much everything here related to strays is people hating on them. Well I don't hate them, and I'd like to be able to greet and eventually adopt them like I used to, but this is now impossible. I wonder if anybody else has the same problem, or does everybody hate them so much nobody tries to pet them? :-)
(I've got the 2nd patch installed, and all my Pescaderies are updated to yesterday. Because of being away, I don't remember when the problem started, i.e. if it was immediately after installing AL or later. My pants aren't overly tight, though I've got Jeff's ACR.)
Note that something similar happens with invited friends when they arrive: you can't greet them until they've rung the bell, you can only tell them to go away -- I seem to remember this wasn't the case before AL, but see above, I may be misremembering.
tunaisafish:
I've seen this in my game, but some sims *do* have the option to pet though.
I've assumed it was tied in to some personality trait of the sim; niceness perhaps.
Total speculation, but it appears to be standard game logic.
jsalemi:
Quote from: AnnaM on 2009 January 11, 14:21:38
Note that something similar happens with invited friends when they arrive: you can't greet them until they've rung the bell, you can only tell them to go away -- I seem to remember this wasn't the case before AL, but see above, I may be misremembering.
No, I think this started with AL -- probably has something to do with apartments. If you live on the top floor, unless you run down you'd probably pass your friend on the stairs going up. :) Better to just wait for the friend to ring the bell.
talysman:
I've seen it intermittently. Usually, right before the stray is leaving the lot, but also sometimes when the sim is doing something like sitting in a chair, performing tai chi... things with minor undocking procedures. I've seen a couple other things disappear temporarily from pie menus, the most extreme being all the social interactions other than "Greet" disappearing from walkbys if the sim trying to socialize is indoors. Moving outdoors first makes the social interactions reappear. Likewise, social interactions with strays often reappear if I make a sim leave the house first, or just walk a few steps if already outside.
J. M. Pescado:
What you're seeing isn't actually a BUG, but an interaction of a hack with EAxis behaviors. Under core EAxis, you're not allowed to interact at *ALL* with sims post-AL unless first perform the stupid greeting. The shiny "interact without greeting" allows you to interact WITHOUT greeting them, but only with targets at close range, which is why if you move away, you can't do it anymore. If you removed this, the options would just NEVER appear.
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