Why can't every sim within a family get into a cab?
gali:
I don't know how you sent 7 sims in a taxi - there are not so many seats for 7 sims.
But, I don't have family larger than 5 sims, and when I send them to the community, I see always the 5th sim walking from one side to the other a couple of times, as if he can't find a place.
Try to build a house in an empty neighbourhood, with 7 sims, or even in VeronaVille (quite empty), and see if they all can enter the taxi. Pleasantview is not good for testing - too populated.
Perhaps the game is programmed to enable the taxi carry 8 sims, as you say. It's worth to ask a question the Tech section of EA.
C.S.:
Quote from: gali on 2005 August 15, 19:45:00
I don't know how you sent 7 sims in a taxi - there are not so many seats for 7 sims.
My memories about the game pre-Uni is pretty fuzzy now, but I remember the Pleasant family (Daniel+Mary-Sue, Angela+Dustin+one offspring, Lillith+Dirk+one offspring) could all get into the cab. I wanted new clothes for the kids, it was a get-in/get-out trip 'cos of the townies.
Post Uni, the Calientes, Michael, Nina+Komei and the two sets of twins (total of 7 sims) got into the cab when I selected the multiple sims option when prompted for "who needs a ride?". In other families with a moved-in Goth, the Goth, teenagers and children get to go but not the original owners of the house e.g. Skip+Brandi, or Darleen, or John/Jennifer. It was worse before the phone hack, where teenagers don't get an option to call for transportation on the phone, or they do but the taxi never shows up, and in any case, they also don't get to go no matter who did the calling, even after I moved the family out of the lot to eliminate the lot being the problem, and then it was either only the elders or one of the adults and a child who got into the cab. I've even had instances when only the children got into the cab, in the middle of the night which was the preferred time before I knew how to delete character files from the game folders. Good thing they could use the public phone to call for a taxi to go home.
When there are more than 4 sims getting into a vehicle, the sim already in the vehicle will sort of disappear from sight to make room for the 5th or 6th or 7th sim trying to get in, much like how 2 or more sims could get into the carpool in lower starting level careers/teen jobs, you know, the 2-doors beat-up car with the puttering exhaust.
Quote from: gali on 2005 August 15, 19:45:00
Try to build a house in an empty neighbourhood, with 7 sims, or even in VeronaVille (quite empty), and see if they all can enter the taxi. Pleasantview is not good for testing - too populated.
Perhaps the game is programmed to enable the taxi carry 8 sims, as you say. It's worth to ask a question the Tech section of EA.
Too populated? But there are only less than a handful of townies left after I got rid of the ones I didn't want in SimPE. 4 townie teens which I've sent off to college using the tools in the college town, and 3 surviving adult townies (Komei included).
Quote from: gali on 2005 August 15, 19:45:00
Perhaps the game is programmed to enable the taxi carry 8 sims, as you say. It's worth to ask a question the Tech section of EA.
Actually, I read on the BBS the taxi carries a max of 8 sims, 7 could go in my game, so there's some truth in that. Guess I may really have to ask EA Tech exactly how many sims could get into a taxi afterall. The reason behind this reluctance is their solution for everything seems to involve re-installing....
Edit: If the taxi accomodates 8 sims, maybe 7 sims from the Caliente family plus the taxi driver counts as 8. Still, the other families aren't as lucky. Anyway, I've posted the question to EA Tech. Hope it doesn't involve re-installing and smacking backup game folder back into the game like they've suggested before in another incident, which by the way, did not solve the problem....
baratron:
Quote from: gali on 2005 August 15, 19:01:15
I think that one of JMP fixes unlock this problem: Phonehack, or carpool fix - when you call transportation, and check "multiple sims", you are asked about each family member if he comes too.
For instance: The kid is in school, and the 2 parents want to go to the community lot. Call transportation, and when you are asked about the kid - answer "no".
That's one of JM's hacks? Oh! I thought it was a new feature in University!
So I get to be grateful to JMP all over again, and I didn't even realise! :-[
J. M. Pescado:
It's a part of the Phone Hack, and is totally more awesome than you. No more having to lug everyone, including the little children who will pass out on the floor since they have no way to regain energy, and would be entirely useless anyway.
C.S.:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2005 August 16, 04:40:59
It's a part of the Phone Hack, and is totally more awesome than you. No more having to lug everyone, including the little children who will pass out on the floor since they have no way to regain energy, and would be entirely useless anyway.
Yes, it used to be annoying that the option was to choose either only 1 sim or the whole family to go to a community lot, the phone hack helped loads when I only want 2 sims to go (public woohoo want on the rare occasion I don't ignore it). In this case, I wanted the whole family to go and specially had the kids rest up for the trip, in the instance of the Broke family, where I had Agnes Crumplebottom moved in. Agnes, Dustin and the youngest son got asked, but not Skip nor Brandi nor Beau, and I wanted them to have a day out at the community swimming pool which I've remodeled. Firstly to check if the communal showers and lockers I placed work and secondly for the family to meet other members of other families they haven't met.
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