No Uni Invulnerability For Dormies
Ancient Sim:
Well, I have been having some amazing fun with this, I tell you. Been cracking myself up. I took quite a few pics but unfortunately because I didn't add them to the album, they aren't appearing in Storytelling. That means I have to go back to the dorm and add them, which will take a while because the second I go back one of my Sims has to go on a date. Once I've sorted it, I will be back to post the pics.
Kyna:
Quote from: vector on 2005 November 23, 11:57:42
The dormies used to do that to me even before this hack, because they're filthy slobs.
I solved this problem by spawning the Sim Modder and changing all their neat points to max. It's not very student-like, but it does mean you're able to move around. It doesn't stop them with the OCD research, but they do put their book back on the shelf instead of leaving it lying at their ass.
I pulled the hack out of my d/l folder, as I said before. Without the hack the dormies have stopped the endless cycle of "get book out - sit & research - instantly stop - put book on floor - get book out - repeat - repeat - repeat, etc". So the behaviour was caused either by the hack itself or the hack is conflicting with another hack I have.
I don't mind them leaving books out, as normally it's only a few books a day ... it was the looping behaviour, causing a situation like your picture.
While the hack was in the dormies kept trying to research as if that would satisfy their fun need, with it out they've gone back to watching tv to boost their fun. And, more importantly, they are no longer blocking the bookcase with their silly cycle of behaviour.
vector:
Quote from: Kyna on 2005 November 24, 06:42:58
I pulled the hack out of my d/l folder, as I said before. Without the hack the dormies have stopped the endless cycle of "get book out - sit & research - instantly stop - put book on floor - get book out - repeat - repeat - repeat, etc". So the behaviour was caused either by the hack itself or the hack is conflicting with another hack I have.
I don't think it's a conflict as such - just general dormie ineptness. Under normal circumstances they'd just take out a book and never get up off the sofa again (I've had dormies that spent their whole time in college doing this before). Now they try to research, but find it isn't fun enough, so want to stop right away, and then decide they want to research, "oh, but it's no fun", etc.
Perhaps an update to make researching non-autonomous for the little beggars? If it's possible.
Ancient Sim:
Mine are doing exactly the same thing with the research, but only the ones with very low fun, the others aren't researching at all. Some are coping with the hack amazingly well, others definitely are not coping. I wouldn't want it stopped though, because it helps my own YA's if they join in. The problem is that they keep trying to play the instruments but they can't because "I'm not in the mood for that, maybe later" Syndrome kicks-in. Even my own Sims won't play instruments if their fun is really low, not even to perform, they seem to think it's work rather than pleasure, but surely that reaction should only go with the practice option?
I've had one dormie just now totally bottomed-out on fun, energy and comfort. She went into another dormie's room (one vacated by one of my Sims, so it had a more comfortable bed than hers) with the bed icon in her queue. I followed her to see if she really would sleep and when I went into buy mode she was wearing her pyjamas and getting into the bed. Next I knew, she was standing beside it with the icon "Disable Me" in her queue. I've never seen that before and I have no idea what it means. The day before I was told that there wasn't enough room for my Sims (there was) and she left, only to return immediately to fill the empty space she'd created, so maybe she was disabled then as well. She's constantly bottoming out on fun, as is one of the males, but the others are basically OK most of the time. For some reason these two seem to lose their fun as quickly as they acquire it.
Kyna:
Quote from: vector on 2005 November 24, 09:44:42
I don't think it's a conflict as such - just general dormie ineptness. Under normal circumstances they'd just take out a book and never get up off the sofa again (I've had dormies that spent their whole time in college doing this before). Now they try to research, but find it isn't fun enough, so want to stop right away, and then decide they want to research, "oh, but it's no fun", etc.
Perhaps an update to make researching non-autonomous for the little beggars? If it's possible.
That's the situation exactly. I like the autonomous research as my sims can join in when they're rampaging - but perhaps an update to make dormies do something that would satisfy their fun would solve the problem. So long as they don't start kicking my flamingoes. I already spend too much time rotating those flamingoes because they get stuck when my sims kick them. Besides, flamingoes are too good for dormies, the dormies don't deserve to use them.
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