mods that do and don't work
Motoki:
The baby harassing is driving me up the wall now! I know that no baby harassment was always supposed to be experimental, but I hope we get a NL compatible version.
Also, I don't know what Tom was talking about saying those nannies are being fixed in NL, but they are just as screwed up as ever. A lot of the problem with autonomous sim actions towards babies and toddlers both in nannies and playable sims is that it is extremely biased towards hunger over all else, which I suppose is because that's what will get the social worker to come. So if a baby or toddler is only halfway hungery, but all the way down on energy or bladder, sims will stick them in a high chair while they scream bloody murder or keep going back to the refridgerator to get an endless supply of bottles which the baby always rejects because the poor thing is passed out on the floor. Sims also do not check to see if someone else is already attending to the child so it's not uncommon for 6 or 7 sims plus a nanny to all be trying to interact with the child, which causes a major traffic jam and they just sit there or all try to fight for who's going to harass the kid. >:(
Swiftgold:
I'm going to take the chance of putting the no harrassment back anyway, if as a previous poster said the only problem is not being able to directly hold a toddler. I didn't realize how well it worked until it was gone and I had a household of six adults/teens AND all the random visiting relatives swarming that poor baby when it was sleeping.
My big question about what works is with the respawn hacks. I had been happily townie-free since pre-Uni, and so I was really wanting to get rid of these new townies NL forced upon me. I'd read elsewhere that the respawn hacks worked, so I put them in and happily moved the townies' character files out and edited memories.
However, through much experimenting and a few "gasp" moments when I couldn't get past the neighborhood loading screen, I discovered that taking all those characters out made the game hang up before loading. My second proto-'hood with only a few Sims in it loaded just fine, and when I put the townies back the first 'hood finally loaded also.
So my question is - is it the respawn hack fighting against the game's want to recreate all those damned downtownies? Is it the fact there are so many "Unknown" slots in the Neighborhood/Memory file after I get rid of them? I'm on a fourth generation now with a couple hundred playable Sims, and I've made exactly one dormie playable. I don't want them, but as it stands now I'm stuck with them...
RainbowTigress:
Motoki, I just had to laugh at your description above because it so accurate. I honestly don't understand how some people say some of their sims are so good with the babies and other sims aren't good with babies. In my opinion, sims are all equally stupid and inept. Perhaps on a rare occasion a sim will change a baby's diaper if it drags the environment down enough, but I have left sims to their own devices many times with a changing table in the baby's room, and they will never use it without my telling them to. They insist on shoving bottles in the baby's face but never changing their diaper. I have seen them bathe the poor thing but only to put the dirty diaper back on them because it still needed changing!
Renatus:
Quote from: Swiftgold on 2005 October 01, 18:08:23
... so I put them in and happily moved the townies' character files out and edited memories.
I think that might be your problem right there, actually... hacking and slashing character files like that tends to lead to badness. It seems that the only safe way to deal with extra townies is not to put a downtown in in the first place, or use deleteallcharacters to wipe those neighborhoods completely clean after setting them up.
Hope you have a backup. :P
buddha pest:
Quote from: Swiftgold on 2005 October 01, 18:08:23
I'm going to take the chance of putting the no harrassment back anyway, if as a previous poster said the only problem is not being able to directly hold a toddler. I didn't realize how well it worked until it was gone and I had a household of six adults/teens AND all the random visiting relatives swarming that poor baby when it was sleeping.
I'm still using it with no problems whatsoever short of that one missing interaction. Also if you leave an infant lying on the floor, you won't be able to click it directly to pick it up again, but there are various ways to work around that.
Of course, for all I know my game could be slowly dying in secret areas I'm ignorant of, but all seems perfectly well. It's bad enough I'm playing without the phone hack.
Without nobabyharrassment, their constant desire to bathe clean toddlers drives me to kill.
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