'Fixing' the Curious house -- help!
jsalemi:
Finally got rid of the stairs, so I figured I'd share what I did. They're modular stairs ('Holey Smoke' things), and apparently the game treats each step as a separate object, which is why I couldn't delete the whole staircase, and why just forcing an error and resetting didn't fix it. I ended up doing a 'force error/delete' on each individual step, which finally cleared them out. Took some time, but the Curious brothers now have a two-story house which loads a lot faster. :)
Mirelly:
LOL That'll be good old Maxian builders' workmanship again ... I just betcha!
Theo:
Quote from: jsalemi on 2006 July 16, 20:04:57
Quote from: MsMaria on 2006 July 16, 17:46:25
Did you try the bulldozer? I'm sure you probably did but thought I'd mention it. While in the stair section of build mode, I believe you hold down the shift key and the left mouse button to make the bulldozer appear. Then place it at the bottom of the stairs and they should disappear.
It's the control key, and yea, I tried that -- nothing changes. The stairs stay firmly stuck in place. One thing I didn't do was force an error (it was late -- that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it :) ). I'll try that later when I play the game.
What may be happening is that a portion of the stair is covered by an empty floor tile.
It's a bit hard to explain, but you can notice that in build mode, the floor tiles are "outlined", even the ones without floor covering.
These tiles block the deleter tool, even on the stair's top landing. If you hit an area of the stair that isn't covered by these tiles, normally the stair can be deleted.
But that's only in theory - I got similar problems when deleting the very same stairs, but in my case I was able to get rid of them with a bit of persistence ;D.
MyPrecious:
Humm, I have to admit that the Curious household was the first I played to get game experience on the Sims2, and I always found that the house slowed the game down due to the six levels, even tho my son said that this lot was "cool" (he has since come to his senses and does not play the Sim2 any more?).
I usually go to the house and delete the upper levels before even attempting to play this lot. Never had a problem doing this and it adds major mounts of money to the Curious household. For new peeps maybe doing this will help? Just let the house load and then freeze play; then go up 6 stories and delete all you don't want or need including all the pillars. You will find the Curious brothers are considerably richer (helping out with the maxis 2 alien babies…"holy crap! we need a nanny" thing). Try deleting the stairs before anything else it may help.
Other hints on the Curious house are, let Lazie look after the kids, less bugs and he hates his job anyway. Oh and get the kids cleaning points cos he is a bugger in the shower.
Oh yeah, if you are really new, get Laz the medical job and the reward, let him come home in his outfit (white coat) and let him ‘practice on that med table…I nearly fell off my chair laughing the first time I saw that….Argghh! "It's a rocket, put it back…heart, liver, lungs? Ahhh chuck them out…) ;D
MsMaria:
Good grief, what a chore. I'm glad you figured it out Jsalemi. I just deleted all of those stairs last night. Glad it wasn't as time consuming as yours has been.
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