Dorm Billing Fix
vecki:
Post-NL my dorms have gotten ridiculously expensive to live in (about 150 simoleons per sim per semester). I have to move students out and into housing as soon as possible because otherwise they just wouldn't be able to afford it! Previously dorms were meant to be the 'cheap' option at University, houses are now charging about a sixth of the cost. (42 simoleons for 2 students per semester)
IDIOT Question: Does this hack help with this (expensive bills) problem at all? I don't remove doors from dorms so I'm not sure if it's a similar problem affecting me.
Venusy:
Dorm bills are meant to be the the entire cost for the dorm (i.e. the bill if it was a normal house) divided by the number of Myne doors on the lot. If there are no dorm doors, then without this hack, the game would get a divide by zero error. This hack fixes that. I'm not sure if it fixes anything else.
PlayLives:
What are Myne doors? :P
Andygal:
they are the claimable dorm doors.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: windy_moon on 2006 January 16, 04:01:02
I hate asking unawesome questions, :-\ , but how much are the bills supposed to be anyway? And how often do they come?
I don't know, and I don't know. It seems to be a total crapshoot if they come at all, but how much they are seems to be related to how shiny your dorm is. I would advise eschewing shiny paintings and other goodies which add no functionality.
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Anyway, I just downloaded this fix before starting to play 8 Sims in a tricked out dorm...and I got two sets of bills over $1000 in the first semester alone. :o They have enough scholorship money to handle it for now, but I'm wondering if I need to plan for this as a regular occurance.
It seems to be the case that a dorm will either be non-bill-paying or always be bill-paying. Which one it is seems to be directly affected by whether the mailperson ever visits your lot for any reason. I had a dorm that never received any bills until the mailperson stopped by to deliver a love letter from a date. After that, the bills started up.
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Playing with the no 20K handout hack for the first time... we need to have some money to live on once we graduate! :P
I dunno, the sadistic poverty of sending a sim out on the street with barely enough to even afford a lot sounds rather realistic to me. Since when did most college graduates have money to live on? Maybe you should be trying to earn more money from odd-jobs before you graduate. A lot of college students tend to take up stripping for extra income. Or sell their kidneys. Or at least *A* kidney.
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