Awesome Story Driver Beta-Testing reports
Inge:
So is it the case that a couple will not breed *unless* there is a crib in the existing house? Or do they breed anyway, and move out of town if they can't find a house with a crib?
Inge:
Then supposing your house has a double bed and a crib and that is all? When the todder grows up, what do they do for the bedless kid?
cassblonde:
As I understand it once the kid is a 6 the family will move to a house with more beds. I think I read that in this thread actually ...
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Eliste on 2009 August 12, 08:34:22
Oh yes, they do lose money to the point that they can't actually move out. Because once they move in, their cash is shared between all residents and starts depleting to feed/house bride's younger siblings and unemployed parents or roomies.
Not quite: Sims living in a house don't "split" their cash as such when splitting off to buy a house: What actually happens is that the house is bought out of the main pool of funds, and then the sims in question are just kicked out into it with only some change. The "cash is shared" effect only applies to player-initiated move-outs and splitoffs which don't include housing, such as when a homeless fambly splits.
Quote from: Eliste on 2009 August 12, 08:34:22
When they try to move out they have to purchase a house with cash, which is now divided by about 3 (in the case of Bunch family: 7 residents - two moving out) and that is not enough for a starter home not alone for a bigger house that was left behind.
Well, they can't move to ANOTHER house, no. They do, however, apparently fit in their current house.
Quote from: Eliste on 2009 August 12, 08:34:22
And in case of Frio brothers the house was not actually sold. The other brother was left there, so Jared Frio moved out with a bit over a thousand in cash to join Bunch making it 7 residents so nobody can move out because they were poor at that point (he married the youngest daughter - Darlene and all the others were still in the house).
Yes, but apparently, your Frios are broke. That tends to happen. Since NEITHER of them had enough money to buy a new house for themselves, they had to pick one or the other. This tends to happen more or less at random, based on which sim initiates the action.
Quote from: Eliste on 2009 August 12, 08:34:22
Steel can't buy his house back for the same reason: he has to share his cash with all other young adults -roomies of his bride.
No, he's fine. He can move out just fine...if they want to. Try it: Nuke some of their beds and watch as someone splits.
Quote from: Eliste on 2009 August 12, 08:34:22
I have never seen households split other than through marriage. When they have money in the beginning they move to a bigger house straight away and struggle with the bills, then downsize.
That is because the usual motivations for being able to split a house are rarely met. In order for a house to split, it has to consist of at least two fambly units. A sim that splits off will take its spouse, and non-adult children with it. The original fambly must have enough funds to support purchasing an appropriate house, otherwise, for obvious reasons, they can't do it. To motivate the desire to do so in the first place, the presently existing house must have become inadequate. This is tricky to arrange, as they wouldn't have moved into the house in the first place if it was inadequate to start, so the only event that can cause a house to suddenly become inadequate is 0s growing up to become 6ses, or the player sabotaging the house.
Quote from: jordi on 2009 August 12, 10:54:48
Yup, that's how it works: once the toddler becomes a child, the family will move to a house with one more bed, if all beds in the current house are filled. One thing I'm not sure about in this equation is whether or not the driver considers double beds as two beds.
It does.
Gelina:
When AM is determining if a family should move, is it counting the number of beds or bedrooms?
The reason that I ask is that I have a completely cleaned out Sunset Valley that only has 2 types of houses, 1.) a 3 bedroom, 3 single bed, 1 double bed, 2 crib, 2 bath house and 2.) a 4 bedroom, 6 single bed, 1 double bed, 3 crib, 3 bath house. It seems like AM always moves a family that has a baby from the smaller house to the larger house and I'm wondering why - there should be plenty of room for them to stay in the smaller house.
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