The Birth Control Mirror
Finiksa:
Quote from: Buzzler on 2009 October 10, 21:45:52
Wanted to release that a lot earlier (the stuff about the petition was actually a joke), but I was low on time, low on mood, and high on migraine for the last week.
Updated to Version 6. See first post for changes.
'Sustain-on-Death' is the sustaining method outlined by tjstreak. I added a counter for births and deaths, so SoD only auto-pollinates Sims if there are more deaths than births. The configuration of Sustain-o-Mat applies to Sustain-on-Death too. Like announced this one is pretty much untested, because I simply don't feel like playing the game for a couple of hours to see if it really does what it's meant to do. And it's still too cheaty for my taste. ;)
Be aware that 'Second Victim - Random' really means random. Unlike in 'Sustain-o-Mat' there's no bias towards closer releationships!
Just had the opportunity to play again and had an elderly guy knock up some female before death. Thanks so much! I would've understood if you weren't joking but grateful that you were ;) Thanks again!
Buzzler:
Quote from: Finiksa on 2009 October 13, 01:58:54
Just had the opportunity to play again and had an elderly guy knock up some female before death.
I didn't really dig into the .DLLs to find out what exactly happens when Sims die, i.e. whether or not they get deinstantiated. Since you explicitly wanted to have old folks spread their genes before dying, I didn't install any sanity checks on how far a Sim might be on the edge. At any rate if the prospective father gets deinstantiated during the pregnancy, the offspring will have no father at all. (Parthenogenesis, yay! I wonder if this is what happened to Jesus' daddy...)
Since this is due to the (totally hare-brained) way the EAxis devs have implemented pregnancies, there isn't anything anyone can do about it. Well, actually it could be changed by a core mod, but I'd consider that awfully risky.
Buckets:
My BCM isn't working. I can set configuration settings which always provides confirmation of the changes, but nothing else works. Pollination commands do nothing. Even selecting 'Raw Data' does nothing. I only have ASM and Supercomputer mods installed. (I had others but after removing them all, there was no change.) The only other thing wrong in my game is that my pregnant Sim did not change to maternity clothes nor showed an enlarged belly, but the pregnancy proceeded normally otherwise. Does this mean that my game is borked in general and your mirror is not broken?
Buzzler:
Quote from: Buckets on 2009 October 14, 09:37:52
My BCM isn't working. I can set configuration settings which always provides confirmation of the changes, but nothing else works. Pollination commands do nothing. Even selecting 'Raw Data' does nothing.
Is twallan's supercomputer actually working without showing any oddities? If so, maybe the BCM file you downloaded, is simply borked. I'd suggest redownloading for starters.
If the mod file is ok, this is pretty bad, because it's almost definitely due to script errors preventing the code from being (further) executed. There's a slight chance, it's caused by a rare "constellation" in your game I didn't anticipate, but I doubt it. Especially Raw Data doesn't do anything sophisticated, so my guess is, that there are some dangling references in you game (i.e. non-null and invalid at the same time). That would be bad. Make that really, really bad.
If you upload your save file, I'll have a look at it.
Buckets:
Quote from: Buzzler on 2009 October 14, 16:49:56
Quote from: Buckets on 2009 October 14, 09:37:52
My BCM isn't working. I can set configuration settings which always provides confirmation of the changes, but nothing else works. Pollination commands do nothing. Even selecting 'Raw Data' does nothing.
Is twallan's supercomputer actually working without showing any oddities? If so, maybe the BCM file you downloaded, is simply borked. I'd suggest redownloading for starters.
If you upload your save file, I'll have a look at it.
Yes, twallan's supercomputer works fine. I redownloaded the BCM file with no change unfortunately.
So, there's a save file uploaded for you at http://ftp://ftp.kludgemush.com/incoming/ called BorkedBCM.zip. My population was on a downward spiral so I ended up pollinating all females in a relationship using the supercomputer. I need your tool to keep it going. I don't know why ASM alone is not keeping my population going.
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