Blank want icons since OFB - should I worry?
jsalemi:
Or sometimes just rerolling their wants with the insiminator or testing cheats does the trick. Most times, though, I've found that the roll-after-sleep clears up the blank wants problem.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: jsalemi on 2006 June 12, 17:23:12
Or sometimes just rerolling their wants with the insiminator or testing cheats does the trick. Most times, though, I've found that the roll-after-sleep clears up the blank wants problem.
Truly BLANK wants, where the box is simply empty, can be caused by simple want-tree depletion, where if you haven't played a sim for awhile, everything he formerly had will time out and he won't have any new triggers. Generally, firing up the AutoYak and yammering at some people for a bit is enough to seed the pool again so the next reroll will produce some wants. Granted, most of those wants will annoyingly involve people who aren't there, but go figure.
cwykes:
Ahhh! That might explain why a pair of townies stuck in a new house with the tombstone of L&D had no wants at all. They just didn't know what they wanted from the tree of life! I really panicked about that one - it's one of the reasons I thought my 'hood was about to explode. Then it did..... for another reason... It seems backwards that completely blank wants is less serious than wants with no icons!
At least I don't feel so alone now, I'm not the only one seeing more wants with blank icons since OFB. Mostly you can clear them up by taking the sims on an outing (not toddlers though) or letting them sleep, but some problems are persistent. I want to know why it's happening especially if it's a sign of data corruption.
What would it take to make cleaning up the genetics data easier in SimPE? Is it a massive job, or would a bit of tweaking enable users to see what records belonged to each Sim? I can put a request on the SimPE site, but I'd like to have some idea what I'm asking for in terms of effort. At least it's not as dangerous as the memory and SWAF mess. Thank you for that bit of good news.
I do think a lot of my extra SWAF files came with Veronaville - I'd have to generate a new vanilla 'hood to be sure, but from the incidence numbers I'd say it was a good bet they were Maxis made. Certainly not all the dead sims have character files and most have SWAF files even if they don't have character files!
ZephyrZodiac:
I would think that if the DNA strings for a non-existent sim (ie the result of a DAC etc.) were tagged in some way so that a mouse-over would show that, that would be sufficient.
jrd:
Optimally SimPE would have an option to remove all unused SWAFs (Want/Fears for unknowns) and unused SDNAs (DNA strings not used by any character file) by clicking one button.
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