Birthday Cakes: Horribly and Unexplainably Buggy?
dizzy:
I have seen lots of weird random bugginess in the game that simply goes away if you quit and restart the game. This is what I normally tell people to do.
My theory: Maxis coders rely far too heavily on unpredictable uninitialized variable values.
nothingbutsims:
I have never had any problems using the birthday cakes - no quirks or oddities or anything strange.
nenechell:
I have seen many of the issues that you have with Birthday cakes. Including them disappearing or just being unclickable. Most of the problems seem to occur with baby to toddler transitions, however, that is really the only time I use the cakes unless it is for a popularity sim. Even with your noswarm hack, if I use the cake, they seem to wait forever for everyone to come watch the transition, and if everyone else has been cued to do something else, the transition seems to fall out of cue before everyone can get there.
I have never known whether it was the cake or the transition causing the problems, so I have never worried about it, but now that I know it is happeneing to you, perhaps it is something that will now get fixed.
Nenechell
Now&Then:
I once, and only once, had the stand in the chair while sitting down thing. It was really werid. The sim was sitting at the dinning room table eating. Suddenly stood up, was frightened by a ghost. and then rather then sitting back down, he contined to eat as if he was sitting down. But in fact he was standing right in the center of the chair. Very odd. But I haven't seen it since then.
But than again, this is the same lot where I had the frightened by object thing going on, so it really didn't surprise me to see this happen.
phyllis_p:
I use the birthday cake for almost every transition, whether I have a party or not, and have never encountered any of this.
Phyllis
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2005 July 31, 21:24:49
For no particular reason I can yet find, whenever I make use of a birthday cake, horrible things start happening: Sims begin to error (of no particular thing that makes any sense), skate around the lot when they move, and stand up while sitting in chairs and couches, clipping through the couch and rendering the couch inoperable until errored replaced.
When they try to pick up the cake, many times the entire cake plate simply disappears (with no error).
Anyone else encounter anything like this?
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