Graduation Party Memory Fix
RainbowTigress:
Good question, Vecki!
vecki:
I know, Captain Obvious at work again :D
syberspunk:
Quote from: vecki on 2006 February 13, 04:54:35
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?
I concur, with the being dumb and stuff. Despite being Obvious, something must be obscuring Maxian vision. :P Yeah, I know we/I bitch about it. I still love the game, and without Maxis/EA, the game wouldn't exist in the first place. But we/I also love to bitch and complain too. ;D
Anyways, I wouldn't think that it should be that hard to have parties be a collective thing. Like those damned Sports Party wants. If you're all living in the same household, wouldn't it make sense that, having a party in that household should satisfy all of those sims wants? It can't be that hard to do, can it? Why does the party only have to count for the sim that does the inviting?
And, as for the multiple Age Transitioning, well... if you have twins (or trips or quads for that matter), you can have multiple age transitions at a Birthday Party. So why can't they have more than one during a Grad Party? Bleh.
If I'm super bored (I always am) and have time (I never do, well I really shouldn't :P) and feel masochistic (modding is such a pain in the ass, but I don't which is more painful, modding or playing the game when you feel like things should be corrected :P) maybe I'll try and take a look at this. Perhaps I can start simple and see if I can get all party wants to be satisfied. That shouldn't be that hard to do. Then see about this graduating thing.
Can someone describe to me, what exactly happens in a grad party anyways? Do the sims auto Age Transition at the end? Are there any special event movies for them? If so, is the Age Transition and/or movies only for the Sim who initiated the Party i.e. invited the party goers? Is the party immediately followed up by an Age Transition and/or Move Out? If that's the case, it probably would be a pain to have to deal with a dialog box for moving out each individual sim at the time. That is probably why they handle sims individually.
Ste
RainbowTigress:
Quote from: syberspunk on 2006 February 13, 05:49:28
Can someone describe to me, what exactly happens in a grad party anyways? Do the sims auto Age Transition at the end? Are there any special event movies for them? If so, is the Age Transition and/or movies only for the Sim who initiated the Party i.e. invited the party goers? Is the party immediately followed up by an Age Transition and/or Move Out? If that's the case, it probably would be a pain to have to deal with a dialog box for moving out each individual sim at the time. That is probably why they handle sims individually.
Yes. I believe there is a cinematic, but I haven't seen it. After the sim gets the party score rating box, they get an icon in their queue that has a graduation cap and says "Graduate," which pretty much interrupts whatever they are doing--eating, sleeping, woohooing, etc.--and they come to a standstill. Then they age transition. If you have JM's clothing mod globals, this is when it kicks in and you pick all the adult everyday, formal, undies, etc. you want them to wear, and change appearance. Then the message comes up that a taxi has arrived to take so-and-so back to the home neighborhood. The sim then makes the final walk to the cab, gets in, and disappears (although they still appear to be on the lot with Merola's mirror or Inge's teleporter until you save and reload the lot, for some reason. ???) Then you get a message saying so-and-so has returned to the home neighborhood, and you can find them in the sim bin and move them in blah blah. That's pretty much it.
You're probably right about it being too complicated for the game to handle multiple transitions and moving them back to the neighborhood. But it still sucks. :D
ZephyrZodiac:
It's like when you move your sim to college in the first place - if you send a group together, only one gets seen off by a parent, the others just get out of the taxi, parent leaves, other teens transition and that pretty much it! And if you send just one and move them into an inhabited house or dorm, they don't get seen off either! Now, wouldn't you think, if Dustin's living in the house and Brandi arrives to say goodbye to Beau, that she'd pop in to say hallo to Dustin?
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