AutoYakYak Macro Phone Caller (10/25/06)
ZephyrZodiac:
Yes, I did know about the hack, but it wasn't really what I had in mind - just like the uni campus directory only lists sims who are on the campus (whether playables or not) I had in mind that in the main hood there would just be sims attached to that hood, then the same for downtown! And not including NPCs, that your sims can meet easily enough anyway. And the uni campus directory is a separate list from your sims list of friends and acquaintances, so their own list doesn't suddenly become unmanageable! But if there is a sim you particularly want your sim to meet, then you can do it at Uni without resorting to teleporters etc. so why not in the other hoods?
RainbowTigress:
Because Maxis is stupid. >:(
J. M. Pescado:
I wouldn't say "stupid". In this case, there's a perfectly good reason: Because if you list every single sim in your neighborhood, this comes out to a few hundred sims. As people have reported, "Call Anyone" can very well lock up your game from the sheer weight.
RainbowTigress:
So they figure it should work ok on campus because there tends to be fewer sims there? I still think that a text list of playable sims shouldn't cause too much of a load, and you'd only call it up when you want it, not everytime you place a call. From the counts I've seen, there are far more nonplayable sims than actual playable ones, so only listing playable sims should result in a much smaller list. Sorting it by household much like the teleporter shrub should help as well, because it wouldn't have to list all sims at once. To look someone up in the phone book, you have to know their last name, so it should work the same way.
ZephyrZodiac:
I agree with that, Rainbow - the teleporter shrub actually lists every available sim, which can be over 600 of them, but since it doesn't list them all at once, it doesn't seem to cause any perceptible lag. And I find that calling sims on the phone results in making friends with them far more quickly than even living in the same house! How many family members never get beyond about 20 on a daily relationship until one of them moves out?
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