Question about relocating Greek House members
C.S.:
What I did previously was move the Tri-Var Sorority and Urele-Oresha-Sham House into the student bin, bulldozed their pre-made greek houses, placed 2 new rental lots (it's ok to use residential lots from the base neighbourhood as rental lots, is it?) and renamed them as same. Then I moved them into their respective houses, clicked on the phone to see if there was an option to apply for charter, figuring the new house won't be a full-fledged greek house if there is, so I have the 2 houses re-apply for charter, then removed the extra memory of having joined a greek house in SimPE. Never got to test it any further to make sure there was no problem 'cos I messed up sim surgery in SimPE shortly after and couldn't restore my backed-up game folder (had gotton lazy and backing up only the neighbourhood folders, lesson well learnt - no short cuts from here on). So I was wondering if there is a correct way to do this, since they do already have a 'frat member' token prior to the moving. I intend to have only 2 greek houses with 6 members living in it at one time, the rest would have to wait their turn before joining and moving in. Any thoughts?
Bane~Child:
Quote from: CuriousSpurious on 2005 August 18, 08:05:21
(it's ok to use residential lots from the base neighbourhood as rental lots, is it?) Any thoughts?
Yes, it is ok to use residential lots, they just remain rental houses until you change the zoning to one of the other categories. JM said not to mess with the tokens at all when you are editing their memories, I doubt that an extra token will cause a problem. Just fill in the blanks, reorganize the memories to your satisfaction and delete the memories that are invisible and do not have one of the instance codes attached.
I agree with the way you did previously by moving them into the Student bin - I would have done this too. I don't feel it is necessary to destroy the old house unless you just don't like it, otherwise just change the zoning to either dorm or residential for a rental property.
The only other thing that I myself would do differently, is to make all your changes and carry the whole project through in one game play session. In other words, don't quit the game and leave the lot before you have everything just the way you want it. When everything is in place and you are happy with the arrangements, save the game at this point. Then I would make a back-up and save the file somewhere, such as your desktop, just in case something happens to you again.
C.S.:
Great, thanks to all ye who answered :).
veilchen:
Community it is, sorry, it was kind of late last night (for me anyway). I'm glad you got is sort of sorted though. I usually play with pristine neighborhoods, with all townies/dormies deleted at the outset. I tend to use the in-game tools to adjust college/secsoc membership/memories/friendships/interests/personality/etc. and then make them townies/dormies.
For rental property, I use mostly Reg's houses. The starter houses are nice, cheap, and very playable. One of her very usable houses comes occupied though, just use the cleaninstaller to get rid of them. Just plop them into your college neigborhood.
I also have the tendency to just build them a greek-house, letter it and go from there. I don't play them much; got burned early, and even with JM's fixes in place, I hesitate to play them. They, and the Secret Society, are mostly for cosmetic purposes. Aside from that, greek houses and SecSoc's are not native to our Universities at home, so I'm not really missing them.
As far as memory editing and their do's and don't's go, Brynne would be the one to ask. She's done extensive memory and other editing in one of her neighborhoods.
Other than that, just back up your game-folder before you start, and give it a good old college try :D
C.S.:
Quote from: veilchen on 2005 August 18, 11:32:35
I'm glad you got is sort of sorted though. I usually play with pristine neighborhoods, with all townies/dormies deleted at the outset.
Thanks ;D. Pristine neighbourhoods, me too, only I just play Pleasantview. Been trigger happy since I learned how to delete character files, no more forcing myself to try to play the immortal (hideous/boring personality) townies, no more having to see their faces in my sims' phone books+memories just because they tried to chat/dance/cut in to join my sims for a game of pinball/sat on the same bench to drink coffee/sat at the same table to eat the hotdogs meant for my sims etc etc at community lots. I mean, seriously, who exchanges phone numbers with every stranger they meet under the sun unless they are trying to sell something or they were at the same function hosted by a mutual friend or they were at a pub and had too much to drink blah blah blah you get the idea. Ugh. There should be player control for that.
Quote from: veilchen on 2005 August 18, 11:32:35
I don't play them much; got burned early, and even with JM's fixes in place, I hesitate to play them.
Hmm. I'm apprehensive too, but I didn't buy the Uni EP just to not play it, big fiery ball visible from outer space or not, dammit! They (maxis) are evil, coming up with this great concept then falling short of delivering the goods, but I'm hooked. Not gonna be so quick to buy the Nightlife EP though. There's nothing more annoying than buying a piece of game that ran great for the first 6 months then finding it was fast becoming a piece of unplayable crap >:(....
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