Does this only happens to me? Clean-up dishes problem.
Hegelian:
I haven't had MissDoh's problem, and I routinely have my sims leave community lots without paying any attention to whether other playable sims on the lot as visitors are eating or not. But I have had the occasional problem recently with dishes not being able to be cleaned, or even deleted with Move Objects on. What I have found is if I let the game run for a while, the dish becomes cleanable, which I know because a sim will go clean it up. I haven't done a controlled study of this, but it appears that in my game the problem is the result of the plate being "used," in that a sim has it in queue to clean even though it may not appear in as an action icon in the on-screen queue. At least once, the sim who eventually cleaned up the plate had been given the macro Clean instruction.
It was at times somewhat comical. Because the plates can be moved, just not deleted, I moved one of them across the street from the house to get it out of the way, and awhile later a sim that was macro cleaning went and got it. Another time, before I figured out what was happening, I deleted table or counter the plate was on, which got rid of the plate, but that turned out to be overkill.
As for MissDoh's problem, someone mentioned the possibility that the uncontrolled sims' states on the community lots were being saved and transferred back to their residential lots. It makes some sense that perhaps the sims who are eating are saved with the state of sitting and eating, or, alternatively, that they are being saved with the state of "plate in use" so that when back home, they see the dirty plates as being in use. This is just a guess, though. ::)
MissDoh:
Quote from: Hegelian on 2006 June 02, 20:39:38
As for MissDoh's problem, someone mentioned the possibility that the uncontrolled sims' states on the community lots were being saved and transferred back to their residential lots. It makes some sense that perhaps the sims who are eating are saved with the state of sitting and eating, or, alternatively, that they are being saved with the state of "plate in use" so that when back home, they see the dirty plates as being in use. This is just a guess, though. ::)
This does make sense since that problem never occur in my game to other sims than the one that were still eating when the controllable Sims left the community lot.
Ancient Sim:
I get something like this from time to time, but I have no idea whether it's connected to community lots. What happens is that a particular bowl (for some reason, it's usually a bowl) is totally invisible to everyone, including the maid. When I click on it, I get the "no action" response and it can't be deleted. Yet it continues to buzz and drive me crazy and I end-up having to move it to the far end of the lot or something. I have one at the moment that is behaving like this.
As for your English, it's basically fine but I had to laugh at the thought of you doing your vacuuming with a mouse. (You said "hoover" rather than "hover", which to me means cleaning the carpet).
Magicmoon:
I have had something similar, but seems connected to the plates rather than to the sims. They will buzz, etc but cannot be clicked on by sims. (I am not positive that I tried every sim on the lot though). It doesn't occur often, but when it does it is always after I have been downtown or when sims move out of a lot using Inge's Make objects stay at moveout shrub and new sims move in.
When I use burninator to get rid of them there are 3 things that get deleted...the food, the plate and if I remember correctly an invisible object. (Put the plates on the floor before burninating or you lose your table too!)
I sometimes have that same problem with flowers that die. They can't be cleaned up or deleted. But when burninated it deletes the flowers, the rubbish pile, and an invisible object. Even when they can be cleaned up by a sim, it sometimes still leaves the invisible object behind that has to be burninated before another item can be placed in that spot.
ElviraGoth:
Well, I just had one the othr night who couldn't clean up a plate and no one on the lot had been anywhere but work or school. In other words, it wasn't a community lot problem.
She cleaned up other plates, but I had no options show up when I moused-over that plate. When her husband woke up, he was able to clean it up with no problem. (Option showed up.)
I didn't have macrotastics in at the time, but I have added it since, and like Syber said, it's more of a convenience than making your sims into automatons.
A macro is something that you can set up in some programs that allows you to set up one keystroke or mouse click on a certain menu option and have it do several functions at once. Like for paying bills, you normally click on the mailbox to get the mail, then wait for them to put it down, then click on the mail to pay the bills. Macro..pay bills tells the sim to get the mail and when they put it down, they pick it back up and go back to the mailbox to pay the bills. Saves you from having to watch the sim and wait for them to put the bills on the table.
And it they're doing something like cleaning or gardening and you need to stop them for some reason, you can stop it just like anything else in their queue.
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