Graduation Party Memory Fix
vecki:
Downloading, although I currently have an issue with Grad parties (meh, I hardly ever bother with any parties anymore, anyway).
Most of my sims go through Uni in batches of 4 or so students, and tend to stay in some sort of time sync all the way through courtesy of the college clock. When they all graduate though, no one gets an option to throw a grad party until at least one sim has returned to the home neighbourhood. So at least one sim will miss out on that last shindig.
Also (although for all I know this one's already been fixed), when I first got Uni, every time I had a group of students graduate, and (prior to the lack of grad party option problem) throw a party, only the sim throwing the party will put on the grad cap and gown, then age up and leave at the end of the party. I thought sims they were friends with were also meant to put on the cap and gown and actually 'graduate' together.
Does that make sense?
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: vecki on 2006 February 13, 01:06:20
Also (although for all I know this one's already been fixed), when I first got Uni, every time I had a group of students graduate, and (prior to the lack of grad party option problem) throw a party, only the sim throwing the party will put on the grad cap and gown, then age up and leave at the end of the party. I thought sims they were friends with were also meant to put on the cap and gown and actually 'graduate' together.
This appears to be by-design, as opposed to a bug. Graduation parties graduate sims one at a time, a rather annoying feature which greatly detracts from the value of graduation parties, since it's only feasible to throw them if one or two people are graduating, since otherwise it will take FOREVER to throw 8 parties given that you might be able to fit in maybe one or two a day before it's too late to party.
ZephyrZodiac:
I suppose they did it that way because of the limit on guests. I tend to throw the party for the sim who wants to party, not for those who don't. And often, if I'm graduating an engaged couple who share a house, I throw the party for one, move him or her back to the home neighbourhood, then get the fiance/fiancee to phone for a cab to take them back too.
RainbowTigress:
Maxoid Tom said at first that it should graduate all sims who had eligible at one time when you threw the party, then when someone pointed out that this wasn't happening, he went and asked and came back and said this was apparently as designed. ::)
In my game, I have noticed that NPCs such as the cheerleader or mascot will change into cap and gown if they are friends with the graduate, but not any of my playable sims regardless of how high their relationship is. I had gotten so used to it not happening that I was surprised when the cheerleader showed up in cap and gown at one of my sims parties. I realized that is what was happening later when the llama mascot did the same thing. Weird.
vecki:
Well that's just ... dumb and stuff.
Even if multiple sims can't age transition at the same time at the party, why should the mascot and cheerleader get special privileges and change into the cap and gown when their best friend, who they've known since they were toddlers (ok, children) can't?
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