Birthday Cakes: Horribly and Unexplainably Buggy?
Brynne:
I remember the first birthday party I threw for a toddler aging to a child. I had no clue what the game wanted. I thought, silly me, invite the guests, get a cake, several multi-colored tables and chairs, lots of balloons, put a stereo outside, set up the buffet...HA! "Had a lousy birthday party" memory was born. I don't even bother anymore. When it's time for them to age, they'll do it on their own.
nocomment:
The best party in my game was when two sims who were in love were invited to a party. They spent the whole time hugging each other and making out. None of the sims throwing the party interacted with them at all, but the party got a great rating. I thought it was hilarious.
Darkstormyeve - if you like formals, get Inge's door that changes every one into formals:
http://www.simlogical.com/
I love it. You could use it as the bathroom door, so everyone would change back to formal wear. I only have it on the front door, which lead to the funny situation of guests being in formals and family members being in pajamas. But I kind of like that.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: klapaucius on 2005 August 02, 06:02:38
Hate cakes, hate parties - the only time any of my Sims see a cake is when they grow up into a toddler, every other birthday they just get to grow up without the aid of a cake/stupid balloons etc.
The Baby Controller lets you grow up a baby without a cake. Especially useful since normally, the baby cannot grow up at all.
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And parties just shit me to tears, everybody always congregates in the bathroom, nobody can even LOOk at someone they're not married to without the daggers flying everywhere, and all for the sake of one lousy "Had Good Party' memory?
Sounds like you should stop having people start random affairs. And get the Romance Mod to get rid of the silly flying daggers.
baratron:
Quote from: humybyrd on 2005 August 01, 18:33:08
I stopped using the birthday cake. Everytime I get one on my lot it only has the option to clean up.
I've found that the birthday cake has a very short "table life". It seems to go bad (green clouds & flies) within an hour of being placed. So I buy it only after the party has started and immediately before I want the child to grow up.
The wedding cake doesn't seem to suffer from this problem. It lasts all night, like the gelatin.
pet_peeve:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2005 July 31, 21:24:49
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?
This one thing happened to me, just one time (and not recently). I have experienced a few other cake bugs though, such as "cake misfires" where the ceremony stops in the middle with no growing up, leaving the only option on the cake to "clean up". I've also experienced immortal cakes that never go bad (one sat on a seldom used table for an entire life stage before I noticed it, still waiting to be eaten from). I think these are all symptoms of the usual 'stuck in-use flag' class of problems. What EA/maxis content isn't buggy in this game?
Speaking of bugs, I ran into a doozy involving Bathroom Uses You. I got into an unpleastant situation where the only shower was busted. A kid I was torturing training up on the obstacle course ran into the bathroom in extreme stink mode, and ZAP - it was a line of hammer&sickles all the way across the screen and beyond. I had to replace the shower, and then delete about 40 queued actions before things became sane again. I keep hoping that the TP shows up on the firing range so that I could report it. I haven't been able to reproduce it though, which is of course every programmer's least favorite sentence.
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