Dorm Billing Fix
Gwill:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2006 January 16, 08:36:21
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.
I do what most people out of college do if they can't afford a place of their own; move back in with your parents.
windy_moon:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2006 January 16, 08:36:21
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.
Isn't that just strainge. Well, my hefty bills do fit the "ivy league" kind of redo I did with this dorm....nice paneling, comfy couches, first rate beds... I just wasn't expecting to have to keep paying so much for it and so frequently. (I've got an 11 and 13 year old, think enough about paying for college RL as it is. :p )
No paintings, that's final!
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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.
Isn't that just strange. Wait, I already said that.
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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.
*nods*
Yeah, that's why I finally added the "highly recommended" No20Khandout hack. My previous Uni graduates have had way too cushy a start, what with high level jobs and combining 20K individuals into households.
I never stripped while I was in college ;), but I was awfully hungry for a few years afterwards...had to eat peanut butter the week the rent was due. Not sure I could have paid the bills with stripping, but I could have spared a kidney if that sort of thing had been popular in the early 80's.
Regina:
Good grief! My dorm bills come like clockwork--every three days! How is it some of you aren't getting the bills?
One benefit to living in the dorm is the instant job of playing cook in the cafeteria. I moved in one new sim a short while ago and had him enough money, between a couple of money trees and working in the cafeteria, to move into an actual house before the end of his freshman year. And his bills in the dorm were kind of high because I had renovated it with a little bit more comfy furnishings and took it down to four residents instead of five.
BlueSoup:
I wasn't getting any bills in my game, and the reason I wasn't is because I don't have any dorm room Myne doors. In fact, I don't have any beds, or bedrooms. So, every three days, I'd get an error, like clockwork. ;)
ZephyrZodiac:
I'm certain I had the bills pre NL, as I also had the problem then with the mailperson not collecting the payments because they were deflected by a passing sim, and this happened in normal Maxis dorms.
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