Borken stuff: toddlers, birthdays, dead spots
Gus Smedstad:
For the most part, the game has been more stable than TS2. I've noticed what appear to be resets, but they don't result in endless loops or impossible actions, as with the infamous "jump bug" which was really a generic symptom for TS2 resetting an endless loop.
I did have a Sim get stuck once. She was trying to put down a book, and the neighbor she was visiting was blocking her with his constant demands to flirt. She was frozen, and could not move, because she was stuck in mid-motion putting down his book. Eventually he got tired and wandered off to pee and she returned to normal.
The problems I notice most are adult-toddler docking and birthdays. An adult and a toddler will be adjacent, and yet the toddler will crawl off 6-8 full tiles before finding an acceptable docking point.
Birthdays are more serious, but more avoidable. It seems that if you let a Sim age transition to Child, Teenager, or Young Adult without using the Birthday Cake, you get the Trait dialog, but the game discards the result. I've got a couple of Adult Sims with only 4 Traits as a result. The first time I just didn't want to bother with the cake, the second time I just forgot it was her birthday.
Personally, I don't like the fact that the Birthday Cake lets you transition well ahead of time. I understand the convenience feature, but I prefer the idea that Sims age in a natural progression, rather than some Sims aging abnormally fast. It's inconvenient for me that the Cake dialog shows every Sim on the lot, not just those I consider eligible.
It looks like something like the Hackey Sack problem is back. I have 4 tiles in one room which will not accept objects, and Sims will not walk on them. We need Buyable Fire or the Lot Debugger.
Babies also stop the automatic speed-3 transition again. They fixed that a long time ago in TS2, why did they forget it with this release?
- Gus
Roflganger:
The traits error happens when you have the first panel (the one where traits are listed) open when they age up. Just switch to a different panel before having them blow out the candles and the trait should stick. It's a bug, obviously, but at least an easy one to work around.
Ezura:
Quote from: Gus Smedstad on 2009 June 08, 18:57:02
The problems I notice most are adult-toddler docking and birthdays. An adult and a toddler will be adjacent, and yet the toddler will crawl off 6-8 full tiles before finding an acceptable docking point.
I have the exact problem, the toddler crawls several rooms away until their "pick up spot", then the family members finally picks them up.
This leads to a lot of accidents on the floor, because it takes so much time to get the toddler from the floor to the potty, even if the toddler sits next to it, it will still crawl away, because during potty training it has to be picked up.
I've tried Awesomemod to teleport the toddler to the spot I know they can be picked up, but usually they crawl into a completely different room to a new pick-up-spot!
I think the house is cursed, because the teenagers will do their homework in spots where they block people from getting out of the room or even out of the bed.
I have really buggy toddlers, when I've taught them to walk, they will at times constantly walk/sit/walk/sit/walk/sit over and over again, especially when they are on a rug, then move one grid and continue the same thing until they cancel what they are doing.
Sometimes they will bug so bad they can't get to the potty, but thanks to Awesome mod I can teleport them there. ;D
Jump Bug happens a lot with my toddlers, sometimes when they have this sit/walk/sit/walk-thing going on, they keep canceling actions and then POOF they are outside the house!
But it never happens during training/diaper changes e.t.c
I married the Social Worker in my game and one of the daughters trait list bugged when she turned toddler.
She was shown as Loner and when I was going to choose her other trait (as the dialog suggested), the military social command "Salute" was there instead of a trait and couldn't be removed.
When I clicked OK, that trait disappeared and she never got a new one.
(I play the game in Swedish, so traits probably has the wrong name)
He was quite bugged too, he only had the family sim trait and lifetime wish "Raise 5 kids from baby to teenager", so he was VERY easy to please.
His wishpanel was always filled with "Have a baby / Have a Boy / Have a Girl", so he always had 10.000 lifetime points with each birth.
They had twins twice, otherwise he would have a lot more points!
Process Denied:
I have a problem with the options menu. I have the biggest screen listed so I picked the right screen and it gave me the timer and I was clicking ok or save (whatever it is) and it wouldn't recognise it. I kept clicking and the timer finally ran out and it reverted back to default.
GnatGoSplat:
Quote from: Gus Smedstad on 2009 June 08, 18:57:02
Personally, I don't like the fact that the Birthday Cake lets you transition well ahead of time. I understand the convenience feature, but I prefer the idea that Sims age in a natural progression, rather than some Sims aging abnormally fast. It's inconvenient for me that the Cake dialog shows every Sim on the lot, not just those I consider eligible.
I think they HAD to include that because it's possible to turn aging off completely, and in that case people would need a way to age babies if desired.
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