Birthday Cakes: Horribly and Unexplainably Buggy?
cwieberdink:
Quote from: reggikko on 2005 July 31, 22:24:53
I generally have no problems with birthday cakes and I use them for practically every age transition. Every now and then, the grow-up doesn't take for some reason and I have to repeat the process, but that's it. My regular practice is also to delete the cake afterwards with move_objects rather than have the Sims clean it up.
My problem with birthdays and cakes is that usually I'm trying to make sure everyone is all set for the transition, and the child is over in the corner, acting like they have sparkly ants in their pants and aging without me. :P I need to get those bday parties started much earlier in the day.
Chris
Ancient Sim:
The only odd behaviour I've noticed with the cake is that sometimes when I place it and click on it, the only option is "Clean Up". I think that's more a problem with babies ageing to toddlers than anything else, seeing as that's when it happens. Sometimes I need 3 cakes to get it to work. And, of course, I am only using the cake in the first place because the stupid baby refuses to grow-up any other way.
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.
Syera:
I haven't used birthday cakes that much - mostly because I find them such a fuss - but I've never experienced a problem like that.
gali:
I think your FFS Lot Debugger causes it. I have in my inventory, but when I put it outside, a lot of weird thing happen. One of them is non-stop rolling of the wish panel, and lose of one wish rectangle. When I put it back in the directory - all returns to be normal. So I play with it "in and out".
Perhaps you chaeck it? It's very complicated mod, and can cause many weird consequences.
SimsHost:
I've had quite a few anomolous incidents because of birthday cakes but I haven't seen a pattern to it yet. There might be a pattern related to the infant-to-toddler transition and the teen-to-adult transition because that seems to be where I encounter these problems most often.
The glitches seem to occur between the initial noise-making and the action where the sim shakes a bit and then grows up. That must be the point where the game is setting up whatever it sets up for the sim's next stage of life.
In the teen-to-adult transition, they fall out of love with their teenage lovers. That's a clue that it might be a "too many sims" or "unknown sims" kind of problem because the game would have to be reviewing the list of people that the sims knows before it can change those relationships.
In the infant-to-toddler transition, the adults will quite often simply abort the action so that the infant doesn't grow up. Then it's a Keystone Cops routine until finally somebody helps the child grow. That might be related to waiting for the other sims to show up at the cake and make noise.
Based on my experience, I'd say that the Lot Debugger is not the smoking gun. I have it in every house in my game, and in the past couple of weeks I've had a run of at least a hundred successful birthday cake sessions in a row, including more than a dozen infants.
University precluded using the birthday cake for the teen-to-adult transition (because I always send them to college) so I don't have any recent data on that one.
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