Rant: Hacks are ignored by Nightlife
maxon:
An answerphone would be excellent and then your sims would be able to use the phone properly whenever they want and not either have to answer the constantly ringing phone and tell the calling sim to 'sod off and stop calling me' and then pick it up quick before it rings again or wait forever till the bloody thing stops ringing.
katemonster:
Quote from: Ancient Sim on 2005 September 15, 13:57:48
It really does need to be removed, it's not funny, it's totally pointless and ruins the game.
Yes, yes, yes. Please! This is THE reason I cannot play this game without JM's phone hack, and makes me seriously wonder if anyone even played this game (all the way to the base game) before it was released, long enough to actually build up any relationships between households--because I don't think it's possible to do more than play a single sim with no friends, without seeing how UNBELIEVABLY annoying and pointless this is.
I'm home right now anxiously awaiting UPS with my copy of Nightlife, but seriously, I'm not going to play it (beyond playing around with a clean neighborhood, not screwing up my real one) until JM's new phone hack is out. This is too bad, because I start graduate school next week and will not have time anymore--but this little "feature" makes the game UNPLAYABLE.
DaveFlew:
Quote from: Ancient Sim on 2005 September 15, 13:57:48
What I would really love to see though is the removal of that stupid "calling people to ask why they haven't called" scenario.
I've found that I can avoid those phone calls by ensuring that the DR score between friends never slips down towards 50. LTR deteriorates by 2 points per Sim day - so if you get the relationship score up to 100/100, it should be about 3 Sim weeks before that friendship gets down to 60/60, at which point those phone calls are likely to start. So I find it best to put in the effort while the friendship is new, do lots of Appreciating, Hugging and Busting of Moves, and eventually your Sim will only need to boost that friendship once every couple of weeks in order to prevent those phone calls.
Bleh. I'm stuck here without NL. Gimme gimme gimme. Etc.
vecki:
I installed NL, and forgot to remove any hacks (aside from those I'd already disabled). It wouldn't finish the installation. So I removed my downloads folder and dumped it on the desktop, and remembered the DMA live-in NPCs. I had to go through and uninstall every package of them.
Stupid me for paying for the expanded version, I never even use the NPCs in it, it's just the teleport/caller ID/pregnancy info object I kept it for. So at the moment I'm playing 'clean', but will start putting downloads (and a few hacks) back tomorrow (am actually having a social life tonight so won't be playing).
Karen:
Quote from: DaveFlew on 2005 September 15, 18:58:45
I've found that I can avoid those phone calls by ensuring that the DR score between friends never slips down towards 50. LTR deteriorates by 2 points per Sim day - so if you get the relationship score up to 100/100, it should be about 3 Sim weeks before that friendship gets down to 60/60, at which point those phone calls are likely to start. So I find it best to put in the effort while the friendship is new, do lots of Appreciating, Hugging and Busting of Moves, and eventually your Sim will only need to boost that friendship once every couple of weeks in order to prevent those phone calls.
Or just use Pescado's "autoyak" (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=207.0) and save yourself the hassle. It's working fine with NL.
Karen
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