Lot Sync Timer: All BlueSoups Suck Edition
nectere:
Ok I found the problem I think, when someone dies I have to reinstall for all the families. After a death, now when I enter each lot I click on the sync timer and it's only option is install for family, on a sync timer that was previously set. It is probably just my game though so no biggie. I can say however that when I do click install for family (again- like after someone in the hood dies) it does show the previously correct number of days etc. And it didnt do it right away after the death, it was after I quit the game and restarted it later. Other notes, I am not exclusively using the sync timer to jump lots, I do exit to neighborhood quite a bit still for various reasons, I dont know if that matters in any way.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Ancient Sim on 2006 January 03, 18:15:21
OK, the family number, how do I change it in SimPE? I can see where it is (Instance in Family Information) but there appears to be no way of changing it. Because I've amalgamated families and deleted lots and so on, all my numbers are totally mixed-up and it annoys me intensely that they're in the wrong order (can't help it, Virgo ascendant). Anyone know how to do it?
It is not possible to renumber families. Family numbers are assigned basically in order of instantiation, where if a family is de-instanced by merging or extinction, that number is vacant and reused later. The numbers are purely internal and under normal circumstances, users never see them. The lot clock displays these numbers to let you differentiate between families that have the same name.
Quote from: Ancient Sim on 2006 January 03, 18:15:21
And what's this thingy I found saying "Uninstall BlueSoup's game"? Did it work???
Only if you're BlueSoup.
Quote from: nectere on 2006 January 04, 14:28:50
Ok I found the problem I think, when someone dies I have to reinstall for all the families. After a death, now when I enter each lot I click on the sync timer and it's only option is install for family, on a sync timer that was previously set. It is probably just my game though so no biggie. I can say however that when I do click install for family (again- like after someone in the hood dies) it does show the previously correct number of days etc. And it didnt do it right away after the death, it was after I quit the game and restarted it later. Other notes, I am not exclusively using the sync timer to jump lots, I do exit to neighborhood quite a bit still for various reasons, I dont know if that matters in any way.
This item affects the game at a neighborhood level. If you ever remove the file from your downloads directory, all of the neighborhood level data is lost, even if you put the item back before visiting any lots (causing the item to not disappear from your lot). Do not remove the lot clock from your downloads directory for any reason, or the tracking will be lost and you will have to reinstall on everyone.
Karen:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2006 January 04, 15:21:17
This item affects the game at a neighborhood level. If you ever remove the file from your downloads directory, all of the neighborhood level data is lost, even if you put the item back before visiting any lots (causing the item to not disappear from your lot). Do not remove the lot clock from your downloads directory for any reason, or the tracking will be lost and you will have to reinstall on everyone.
So if you want to remove your downloads temporarily (such as before installing a new EP), it sounds like your best bet would be to sync up all the families ahead of time, then remove the timer from the Downloads folder. Then when you restart the game after adding the timer back into your Downloads folder, you simply add the same number of days, for example, 23 days (or 5, or -14, or whatever) to each family after you put the timer back on their lot. Does that sound right?
Karen
BlueSoup:
No, if you remove the timer from the game, all you have to do is Install for Family again, and it maintains the day settings for the family. No resynchronization required.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: karen on 2006 January 04, 17:25:13
So if you want to remove your downloads temporarily (such as before installing a new EP), it sounds like your best bet would be to sync up all the families ahead of time, then remove the timer from the Downloads folder.
Your best bet is not to actually remove the timer from your downloads folder at all. Backup your neighborhood before installing a new EP (you should do this anyway), then boot up the EP, make sure that your custom contents are still loading, and then put this one back. Self-contained objects, such as this one, are not hacks and cannot conflict with future expansion packs except in the highly unlikely event that Maxis takes to stomping people's GUIDs.
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