Awesome Story Driver Beta-Testing reports
Kyna:
Quote from: Inge on 2009 August 13, 15:57:51
Can't you merge the toddler with a family, in Edit Town mode?
If the toddler hadn't become a homeless family, then yes, I could have merged. But as a homeless family she was nowhere to be seen on the Edit Town screen.
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2009 August 13, 16:14:02
Let it play out and let me know how it goes. I am curious how you managed to trigger a corner-case subroutine that was not intended for service at this stage, but let's see what happens.
I family funded her the money to purchase a lot. I got a message about a move in and took note of the name of the lot she'd moved into. I went to edit town mode, and she wasn't in the lot she'd been moved into, nor was she in any other lot. I assume the social worker took her as soon as she moved into the lot. I've heard that the TS2 method of adopting & getting the last sim to go into the adoption pool doesn't work in TS3, so I haven't tried adopting her back.
I'm not sure how it happened. I started this hood a few days ago, when none of the sims were having babies under ASM. To fix the lack of spawn I started forcing pregnancies following some of the rabbit hole visits. This is where the toddler came from - the offspring of a single woman and a married man. Today I was playing the toddler's father's lot when I got the messages that the mother had married and that the toddler had been driven from the nest by the new male. The really strange thing is that the new stepfather had married another sim about an hour or so before he married the single mother, and his other wife is still alive, still married to him, and still has a good relationship with him.
I've been getting some FSEs today, which appeared to be related to romance activities, but I didn't screenshot them as I know I'm oldversioned since I didn't update AM before I started playing today. I was going to update AM, but I noticed there were reports of further CTDs, so I figured I'd stick with the version I downloaded yesterday as that wasn't crashing for me.
ProfPlumbob:
Is it possible to get updates on what's going on around town that isn't through the newspaper? I never get any updates when reading it. I noticed in the config you can enable story progression notifications, but from what I remember enacting it a few weeks back, it was a popup checkbox. I was thinking more along the lines of updates like ISM on the right side of the screen.
My observations; a gay couple moved into my neighborhood. Wasn't sure if EA or AM had included a chance of this occurring, guess so! One family had twins with only one crib. There seems to be a contagious urge to tour the town hall or science facility with someone. I think they should now correctly be labeled "cruising spots" which brings me to...
my sims have become massive whores which is amusing but kind of odd. I wouldn't expect unflirty sims to be so willing to hook up with someone. Same with those that are hopeless romantics. I typically think of a HR as someone who's very monogamous. Because of all this whoring, my sims are starting to clash big time with one another. It has become one giant soap opera with octagonal love triangles. Which again, amusing and loving it, but odd...it wouldn't be so bad if a sim in one room didn't know that in the other room his/her wife was makin' out with the gardener, but somehow these sims have xray vision. Any way to fix that? I wouldn't mind the whoring if they couldn't magically see into the next room.
it is quite hilarious finding out about new affairs when you throw a big party and so many -'s pop up reacting to romantic interactions.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: ProfPlumbob on 2009 August 13, 18:30:02
My observations; a gay couple moved into my neighborhood. Wasn't sure if EA or AM had included a chance of this occurring, guess so! One family had twins with only one crib. There seems to be a contagious urge to tour the town hall or science facility with someone. I think they should now correctly be labeled "cruising spots" which brings me to...
The number of births is not controlled by the number of cribs. Sims can end up with more than they expected! I intentionally chose not to make them ultra-cautious like I would play things, so a single crib is enough...although once they find out they have TWO, they're going to look for someplace that fits them better. If they fail, those children may end up a bit messed up.
Quote from: ProfPlumbob on 2009 August 13, 18:30:02
my sims have become massive whores which is amusing but kind of odd. I wouldn't expect unflirty sims to be so willing to hook up with someone. Same with those that are hopeless romantics.
Hopeless Romantics receive a bonus to rolling Romance actions. All sims tend to play the field a bit early on: Just because a romance action fired does not necessarily mean it was successful, or even resulted in a romantic relationship: The success or failure of the action is not indicated because that information is not known until the action resolves. If they were not able to achieve a status in a given run, they are not committed. As I intentionally did not make the thing lock on to the perfect match every time, there is some amount of randomness involved in the early stages of romance.
coconnor:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2009 August 13, 16:14:02
If the sims in question are Flirty, Commitment Issues, or worse, both, they tend to do this. If they aren't, the partnering code is still bugged. But if they are, this is working as designed. Those sims cheat.
All but one of the Sims in question had at least the Flirty trait. The other Sim has: Bookworm, Easily Impressed, Friendly, Genius & Hopeless Romantic. Could Hopeless Romantic also trigger this? This Sim had two daughters from a previous relationship (not clear if this was a previous wife, girlfriend or how he got the children, but subsequently married Blair Wainright. His other "love interest" was none other than Agnes Crumplebottom!
In any event, I amused myself by making them actively disllike their illicit love interests; in some cases, changed their traits, etc. Hopefully, that will curtail their philandering (in cases where the spouses aren't also indulging in extramarital affairs). An abbreviated form of the "Wrath of Pescado", perhaps? Punishment of sorts, in fact. He also has quit his job at least three times. But then I keep forcing him to get a new job! And these are not families I created or play regularly, just townies.
Anyway, just reporting back on the status so you can check it out if Hopeless Romantic is not a trait that could or should trigger this.
J. M. Pescado:
Hopeless Romantic should definitely not trigger it, but it's still possible to be chosen as a target if not committed.
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