Uni sending YA home after one semester
ElviraGoth:
I had this bug show up early on playing TS2U, but it seemed to go away when I sent the teens to college at 5 days before becoming adult. Now its back, and I did send all my teens at 5 days before.
After one semester of freshman year, one of the college kids gets the message that they have been at school too long and must get back to the real world. Transition to adult, taxi shows up and takes them home.
When this happened before, it was on a lot that was a house, not a dorm. This time, it happened at a dorm, and it was one I had used for the previous generation. I noticed that the dorm hadn't reset after everyone left last time, as all the stuff they had acquired was still there.
Will the lot debugger work here? I have the exam bug fix, and I thought maybe that had fixed it, but it didn't. Would appreciate any thoughts on this.
ZephyrZodiac:
As far as I know, dorms always keep the stuff your sims buy, but if you move your last remaining sim to a greek House, the townies will still be there when you move in someone new, it doesn't appear to reset them unless you move the last remaining sim to the bin.
As to returning to the Real World too early, I'm not sure whether TwoJeffs FinalExam bug fix might fix this.
ElviraGoth:
Well, that's the thing. I'm playing each generation equally. I had moved the last one out from the previous generation, and it asked if I wanted to reset the dorm. I clicked on yes, because I usually use the funds the YAs accumulate from their grant money to buy new stuff. The dorms have always reset to the way they are when you move someone in for the first time when I've done this before.
I hadn't saved when the one YA was told to go home, so I moved them out of that dorm and into another and the game played like it was supposed to. They all made it all the way through college. So I would guess that dorm has picked up another fine bug from your friends at Maxis.
BTW, when I first encountered this bug, it was shortly after I had bought Uni and I did not have any downloads or hacks of any kind, and I don't think anything I've added could have caused this to recur. That was in Pleasantview, and one of the guys it happened to was a son of Alexander Goth's. It was shortly after that happened that I started getting the final exam bug, so I downloaded twojeffs' feb fix. And I hadn't had any problems since, until now. I would guess that it's been doing fine since April? And I play for a few hours every day. (Anywhere from 2-4 hours on weekdays, depending on how much other stuff I have to do. More on weekends.)
I would have to guess that somewhere in the program there's something that isn't setting a flag correctly or something. Maybe the "too many iterations"? But I only have 18 houses and one community lot in the regular neighborhood, and the only sims I've played in the Uni 'hood are the ones I've sent there. No townies. Just my own. No SS or Greek houses, period. Waste of time for the challenge I'm doing. And this neighborhood started as all CAS sims, no Maxis characters. Total sims in the regular 'hood is currently at 36, not counting NPC's or the 3 YAs that I sent to college.
This is the third generation I've sent to college, and I used this same dorm for both previous generations. I wonder if that has anything to do with it? I didn't try the lot debugger, but I will probably try moving a townie in there and use the debugger to see if that fixes it when I get a chance. I'm about at the end of this challenge, and I'm at the point where I just want to get it finished, so I can start on one of my own. I'm still formulating the rules, or should I say guidelines, that I want to limit myself to.
ZephyrZodiac:
Hey, they aren't MY friends at Maxis! I never met any of them, let alone made friends with them!
veilchen:
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2005 August 09, 23:32:41
Hey, they aren't MY friends at Maxis! I never met any of them, let alone made friends with them!
I think Elvira meant that in a general way ZZ :D. I swear, sometimes I don't know whether you are serious, or if you are pulling peoples chains, very intriguing (and funny). You do have sarcasm down to a fine art, now let's go and beat up that teacher ;D
By the way, I tried that baby-thing in SimPe and got one of my romance sims pregnant with another female. Worked like a charm, but thanks for warning me about the voice, it would probably have startled me into paranoia if I hadn't known about it in advance.
G.
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