Rant: Hacks are ignored by Nightlife
Zyrcona:
I received Nightlife early (Play.com) and am glad it's not shite like University. There are several nice objects and walls/floors (and the Grilled Cheese aspiration rocks), although the lack of and quality of hairstyles still stink. None of my hacks work any more -- not they conflict with the game, the game just ignores them regardless of whether Custom Content is set to on or off. So I'm back to square one with sims autonomously reading books, molesting babies, and no manual navigation. The only things that seem to work are recolours of objects and Bodyshop edited stuff. I think this is really disrespectful of Maxis, after good people like Pescado and TwoJeffs have spent time making hacks to fix the issues that they are too stupid and lazy to fix, to make an ep that negates all the hacks and means they have to remake them. That's just obnoxious and rude.
Also, the cars seem to be bugged. I got Loki Beaker to take his kids bowling, and he got into the driving seat and one of the kids got into the passenger seat, and then he got out and locked it and waved at her. The car was unselectable until I exited to the neighbourhood and came back, and then I managed to get him and the other child into the car and to drive off. At the community area the first child was missing, and upon return to the house was not recovered. The child was still missing after exiting and reloading (the thumbnail was still there but right clicking on it produced no result, and commands to interact with other objects dropped from the queue). I can only assume that the child has ceased to exist as a physical object and is stuck in limbo, where she will presumably starve to death if I continue to play this house. Okay, maybe this is what happens if you try to get three people in a sports car, but then the game shouldn't let you put three people in a sports car.
The new expansion pack also introduces several bugs that University introduced. Having removed University as a result of being sick of the enormous bloated turd of a bug it was (if this had ended up on my computer without me paying for it, I would have called it a virus) and the way it clogged up want slots with useless influence wants and wishes to buy gadgets and musical instruments in order to incessantly busk in their own houses, this is annoying. The problem with random stuff being added to the wardrobe on age transition has been reintroduced and that loathsome Prank interaction which no hacks seemed to be able to fix is back.
KellyQ:
Quote from: Zyrcona on 2005 September 14, 18:14:58
Having removed University as a result of being sick of the enormous bloated turd of a bug it was (if this had ended up on my computer without me paying for it, I would have called it a virus)
This caused me to laugh so violently that I think I have hurt myself. You will be hearing from my lawyers! ;)
Kitiara:
There have been reports on this site made by others who have NL already and claim that many of their hacks are working fine. I do not know what the problem is in your game (I don't have NL yet and could not begin to guess what happened).
As for the mmissing child, maybe you could try Merola's Mind Control Mirror to check to see if s/he is somewhere on the lot, or Inge's Teleporter Plus to summon him/her (assuming these work with NL, I don't know).
Good Luck.
Inge:
Thomas Riordan says he's been using the teleporter plus without problems.
FatedCircle:
If you can select the missing child, you could also try teleporting her to the mailbox using the testingcheats code. That usually seems to solve "missing sim" problems, but only if you are able to select her as an active character.
Just shift click on the mailbox and choose "teleport here" after typing in the code. :)
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