Invisible Memories - Virus Spreading Fast
Ancient Sim:
Sort of following on from my thread about the mass amnesia of previously-created townies & NPC's, I can't help thinking that erasing these memories was a waste of time if it was to reduce 'clog'. I was in SimPE today and I was totally amazed at the number of invisible memories everyone is picking-up, especially playable sims. Their memories files are going to multiply like a Trojan horse in no time.
To illustrate - If one of my Sims is invited to a group outing, there are usually 7 or 8 of them in the group. Add to this approximately 11 or 12 visiting Sims (I have it set for 8, but I always get 11 or 12), plus the 'resident' NPC's (cooks, etc.) and the floating ones (vampires, Mrs C, etc.) and we are talking about near enough 30 people on a downtown lot at any one time. Not only that, the visiting Sims come and go, so it's probably at least 40. Every one of these is getting invisible memories of everything going on around them and everything that's being said. Sometimes the entire page in SimPE is nothing but invisible memories.
Is this something we should be worrying about, because I don't like the look of it one bit. I've only had the game two weeks and already I can see the difference in size in all the memory files.
Velax:
What exactly are "invisible memories"? Memories that appear in SimPE but not in-game?
dizzy:
It may be time for SimPE to update the memory UI. I don't think memories are really an issue at this point, as long as you don't have thousands of sims in your neighborhood.
sanmonroe:
Probably will be a problem.
Hopefully a delete all hidden memories utility will be made, along with a delete all reference to this char file utility.
The only bad thing is you will have to wait 10 min before being able to gossip.
gynarchy:
I've noticed this as well. My Sims are currently at Uni and haven't spent much time downtown or community lots yet but they both easily have 100+ invisible memories - and that is just after a couple of Sim days (I clean them out regularly). Up until I installed NL I was still using JM's ollllllld jump bug fix that disabled the chat mechanism for spreading invisible memories. The memories were still created but at least they weren't passed around like the plague. I try to keep my file sizes down as much as possible and having 500-1000 invisible memories of every single Sim who has ever lived is certainly NOT the way to accomplish that. I'd also like to know if I'm just being a paranoid control freak by deleting them all together or if having some sort up updated chatbugfix might be in order.
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