Birthday Cakes: Horribly and Unexplainably Buggy?
Brynne:
Quote from: Ancient Sim on 2005 August 01, 00:05:53
As for this: Quote from: sandilou on 2005 July 31, 21:49:13
No! But I'm deeply concerned...are YOU asking for help? The rest of us lipless wonders had best move away from our pcs before they explode. There is no hope. :o
This is the second time I have seen the Lip Collector ask for help. When it happens a third time I will think about worrying, because things that happen in threes are generally not good omens in my book.
The only other time I remember the "Lip Collector" asking for help was my first real introduction to him. I didn't know what I was getting myself into. There were a lot of pain-killers involved.
As for the birthday cake, I've only had the same problems everyone else here has. They don't work sometimes. But no skating around the lot and standing in couches, which is a pretty funny picture. I can just see JM's reaction to his sims gone mad! ;D I have had those symptoms in my game, however not because of a birthday cake, as far as I can remember.
I do have a possible problem with the Lot Debugger, but I'll make another thread for that.
Melodic:
I have, on more than one occasion, seen the birthday cake disappear when they try to pick it up. Once or twice they have stood in the center of a dining room chair and continued to eat. Plus, of course, the innumerable problems with the infant to toddler age transitions. This all occurred before I downloaded your lot debugger and hasn't bothered me since. This could be a coincidence or the fact that your fixes have saved my games from being a big fiery ball visible from space.
humybyrd:
I stopped using the birthday cake. Everytime I get one on my lot it only has the option to clean up. I have had problems with the wedding cake too. My couple just stood there finally I stopped the cut cake option and then later they wouldn't get into the limo. Finally the husband got in but the wife never did (he went on the honeymoon alone) both of their stats got refreshed though so I wasnt too worried. I think it is a problem with the fact that everyone on the lot has to attend these two. If it takes a while for everyone to get there it drops from the list. The few times I had problems with the birthday cake I had to buy 2 or 3 before I got one with the options and even then I am lucky if anyone will eat it, it again gives the only option as clean up so I cannot make PS's eat a peice if they don't do it autonomously after the transition. It also makes everyone freeze in place for a brief time after the transition (maybe thats when the cake is going into 'you can't have me mode'). I did have them standing up in the dining chairs once but I cant remember if that had to do with the cake or not.
ElviraGoth:
I stopped using the birthday cake, too, except for transitioning babies into toddlers. Seemed like almost every time I got a cake the sim who was supposed to transition went ahead and did it without going to the cake, even though I had told them to blow out the candles. And any time I've tried doing a wedding or birthday party, or even a graduation party, it's rarely even a good time, let alone a roof raiser, by the time its over, so I quit doing parties, too. (They might be roof raisers with 10 minutes left, and drop dramatically, even though nothing had changed otherwise.) So I think that whole birthday cake/party thing is severely buggy.
And the only reason I use the cake for babies is that I got tired of one or more of the older or adult sims in the house trying to "help with birthday" for simhours on end, then standing and holding the baby while their energy went to hell. I haven't had any problems with using the cake for that except for the occasional "clean up" notification otherwise mentioned here. Buy another cake and its ok. Haven't had to buy a third yet, though.
I guess I should also say that using cakes worked fine, at first, then seemed to slowly but surely degenerate down into the abyss of a black hole that most of the routines that developed bugs fell into. I didn't have any real problems until I started reading about other people having problems on the main site's bbs. Then, those bugs suddenly started showing up in my game! (Must be a Maxis plot - buy next expansion to fix the bugs you pick up when you visit TS2 website.)
Hmmmm..... I hope I don't have this one show up, now! ;D
themaltesebippy:
I've been using B day cakes more and more. Did 2 parties late last night child to teen and haven't had any problems. Don't use them as much for toddlers, not at all for infants. Did once for elder and no problems except depression lol.
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