Hack Requests? I'd Like a Newspaper Fix...
J. M. Pescado:
Here's a tip: You can entirely avoid newspapers, including the whining about the old newspapers by burying 3 of them someplace inaccessible. If there are at least 3 newspapers on the lot, the paper 12 will never show up (and thus never even be generated), and as a result, none of the 3 newspapers will ever expire. You can use the "makebuyable" hack someplace in test(?) and the old buyable-newspaper collecton, and this will let you bury newspapers, unsubscribing from this nuisance. Alternatively, if you don't hate NPC 12s clogging up the works as much as I do, just pick up the newspapers anytime you see them, before they expire, and stuff them into your sim's inventory. When you have 3, bury them under the foundation or the roof. No more newspapers.
DrNerd:
DJSSims has a hack that automatically recycles the newspapers, if you use them for job-hunting or some other nefarious purposes, and therefore want fresh papers every day. A few Sim-hours after the new paper is dropped off, the old one either fades away, or composts itself if you have a composter on the lot. I don't use the newspapers for job-hunting very often, but the free compost with no work is nice, especially in the winter when I can't see through the snow to make the Sims pick the papers up themselves.
Exiled:
I tried the stop newspaper hack at MTS2, but it literally broke my inventory system. I couldn't stuff anything in there and whenever my Sims put leftovers in the fridge they woudln't be saved. I had to remove it.
Now i use twojeffs' Visitor Controller to ban newspaper delivery lot by lot.
J. M. Pescado:
I used to maintain an unsubscribe hack, but it was discontinued after I discovered it was more effective, more portable, and reduced maintenance overhead to just bury live newspapers. With 3 live newspapers, none of them will expire, so the maid will never attempt to clean the buried, inaccessible newspapers. And no 12 will be spawned because you can haz too many newspapers.
tunaisafish:
Quote from: ReneeFox on 2009 February 23, 22:40:48
My Sims always put the paper back on an available table (if present) when checking the forecast, doing a crossword, and perhaps others. They never place it on an end-table or coffee table for reading hobby sections.
That's because you have never cancelled the crossword or forecast, and you always cancel the reading before they stop on their own due to low motives.
There's basically no difference in the code with regard to 'put away' tidiness.
So if there were another way to cancel the reading, then that minor annoyance would be dust. See .sig
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2009 February 25, 06:09:35
And no 12 will be spawned because you can haz too many newspapers.
I assume that you'd still get the 12 spawned to deliver hobby mag's, or to make the subscription call.
Quote from: Dark Trepie on 2009 February 24, 13:44:35
What's gotten annoying is that the paperboy/girl will hike all the way to your front door now and plop it down instead of at the mailbox. And any walk-bys who want to read it will do the same.
I find that annoying too. I keep forgetting to lock the gates to see if that makes a difference (on those lots that have them anyway).
Neder @ MTS2 has a hack that nukes the visitors reading the paper. Not sure about compatibility. I'm told still works fine with M&G. Thanks CandyToast.
There's probably a few ways of attacking that one with a hack.
ETA: Neder's hack compatibility.
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