Restocking tags showing in strange places
Regina:
Quote from: Chezzie on 2006 April 01, 00:54:21
Just had my first runaway out of stock sign... ::)
I only have shelves so the trays can't be the problem and it was a vase of crafted flowers that went awol not cc ... it was odd looking too a tall standing sign post instead of the little card things i normally see ???
The standing post is the sign you get when the object is displayed on the floor instead of a shelf (things like statues, rugs, etc.). Since there's no shelf there they just revert to those kind of signs.
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I may be totally offbase, but I was able to replicate the problem fairly consistently - it seems as though the objects fly out of bounds when I try to place them too quickly, like I click on the picture in the inventory and then immediately click on the ground to place it, before the object has time to fully "load" (not sure how to really describe it).
That's something interesting to think about. I'm very slow about placing my merchandise, though, because I'm always trying to get everything to look so-so. My sims don't give a rat's patootey if the shelves are so cluttered you can't sort anything out, but I do. ;)
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I got that on my home business lot. It happened when I had used moveobjects on to display robots on shelves, when they got sold the restocking labels appeared in all sorts of strange places. Since leaving my for sale robots on the floor it hasn't happened since!
What kind of robots were you placing on the shelves? If you had to use moveobjects it must've been the big ones so it would stand to reason, since they weren't supposed to be there to begin with, that the restocking signs would have problems going back. That also brings to mind another thought. Perhaps much of my stock that keeps disappearing is objects that can be placed either on the floor OR on a shelf. I'll have to investigate that more thoroughly.
anelca:
this has happened to me today for the first time, with the maxis vases of sunflowers and some gnomes, no custom content. the only thing differently that i have done is move a sim into home business (which has a florist on the ground floor and the new sim has kept it as a florist) and then i used trays on the box shelves as i was under the impression that trays allowed you to place more objects.
signs are gathering "into" each other in one place at the back of the lot
i removed the trays and placed new stock back on the shelf.....was able to place just as many items as with the trays, but once an item was sold the restock sign appeared as usual, but when the sim went to restock it disappeared and joined the other signs at the back of the lot.
as the last poster suggested as the common theme, both the sunflowers and the gnomes are placeable on the floor or on surfaces.
shezoe:
it's happening to me, now, too. it's in a home flower shop, and it does it with snap dragons and wild flowers. The MOST interesting thing about it is how i noticed it (big lot-lots of trees) CARS (a cheap carpool car, an expensive carpool car and an ambulance)were piled up in the back corner of my lot. i whizzed over there to see what was going on and when i got there-they disappeared-leaving out of stock signs :D thought that was interesting.
Regina:
Quote from: anelca on 2006 April 04, 21:29:44
the only thing differently that i have done is move a sim into home business (which has a florist on the ground floor and the new sim has kept it as a florist)
You moved a sim into a home that had already at one point had a home business? Geez, every time I try to do that my game crashes! Every house I've had so far that have previously been home businesses end up getting dozed and replaced with their clone from the lot bin.
I believe what those trays are for is placing on top of cabinets that can't otherwise hold multiple objects. The store shelves already have that function, except for with custom content.
I didn't even get to turn on my game today--ended up having to run errands this afternoon then went on a date with DH tonight and now I'm feeling just all together too sleepy.
anelca:
well, how weird is that? there was no problem with me re-using the house as a home business. it was a downloaded house though...one of nengis Factory Living series from MTS2
yeah i was somewhat unclear about the function of the trays, thanks
i don't get the impression theres any one item which causes the signs to wander off. i used the debugger and the sunflowers no longer do it but the gnomes still do
shezoe...LOL sorry but thats funny, vehicles in a heap at the back of your lot ;D i can't play huge lots so on a 2x2 there isn't much room left for a traffic pileup
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