How exactly can you switch households, bork or no?
BobMalarky:
In Edit Town mode there's a little button all the way on the left with two tiny house icons.
Doc Doofus:
Yup. Hover mouse, it says Change Household or something like that.
I've done it, and it works seamlessly. If your previous active household Sim was visiting the Sim of the new household, he will still be visiting when you switch. That's very different from Sims 2. The problem is, of course, that you lose your Lifetime Rewards, but I can live with that until we get a mod to save them , which I expect won't be that hard once better tools are available and widespread.
anyeone:
I had never actually visited "edit town" because to me that sounded like it was just building creation which I hadn't gotten to yet. I was able to do it without any problem once y'all pointed me in the right direction. I agree though - horrible UI design there.
I can live with it, although I'd prefer not losing the want progress, it's not a huge deal. None of the lifetime wants reset but if it is going to "lose track" of things like the "have 10 boyfriends" want (which really should be "have 10 lovers" to keep it gender neutral, but that's another story) then I will just avoid those wants.
I am sure it's sacrilege but I actually like the story progression and seeing what mischief they get up to when I'm watching another household. It may get annoying with particular sims that I have a master plan for but for others I'm finding it quite amusing.
Salomon:
Quote from: anyeone on 2009 June 07, 05:03:44
I can live with it, although I'd prefer not losing the want progress, it's not a huge deal.
What about losing your family because the game decided to delete it? I hope you're taking measures against that.
sewinglady:
Well I am seriously disappointed in the fact that each game is pretty much one household and that's that... (yes, I found that out the hard way tonight - lost about 4 hours worth of house-building/family building when the game decided to award my mommy-sim a short short adult lifespan- she'd be dead by the time her kid got to be a teenager).
Well, anyway...I got to thinking about this, and considering I never was one to play 'legacy style' and the whole 'no cheating' whining thing...oh God, if I could just get my fat fingers around their necks...
oh wait, I digress (it's late here).
One thing I used to do was to take 16 sims (usually 8 female, 8 male) university students and put them in 2 dorms and let them sort themselves out into couples and those 8 couples became the basis for the beginnings of a neighborhood...
Anyway, I'm wondering if it would be possible to make a household with 8 young adult sims (say 4 male or 4 female or who cares, get funky and do what you like) and let them mate and spawn - but now from the OP's post, I'm realizing that even that creates problems with offspring because you can't even switch between houses within the single neighborhood...
Someone at EA really was asleep at the wheel on this and the delay from Feb. didn't help any.
Please, someone tell me, is there at least NO Marsha Bruenig?
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