Fat Dormies
DavidC:
Quote from: Hook on 2007 May 18, 13:26:56
I've had treadmills in dorms before and never saw a dormie autonomously use them.
Just buy an EDS for your Dorm. Thats all I do and its always getting used by the dormies and only a couple of the really lazy ones are fat, but sometimes even they loose a bit of weight for a while. Visiting community lots with them helps keep your townies slim too.
Gus Smedstad:
Quote from: sagana on 2007 May 18, 21:51:07
I dunno if they'll stay.
Have you actually visited the professor lots since you've allocated the professors? I'm guessing they won't be there, and a random selection of townies will be there instead. Still, the idea is sound. You can always do something like put Inge's teleport shrub on the lot if you don't want to use Insim (like me), and whenever a student visits you teleport the appropriate professor there. It sounds more realistic feeling than bugging professors on the phone. I'll have to try it to see if I like it. Probably not, but who knows?
This reminds me of the feature I'd really like to see in an expansion - an option to visit other residential lots, with the active Sim or Group playable, and the residents not selectable.
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Not having enough time to skill, study, socialize and woohoo is a good part of the point. I'm tired of them *all* having 4.0 (or close) grades and graduating top of the class and everything.
I agree. The way I deal with it is that if a student doesn't have a Want for a study-related activity like a term paper or assignment, they don't do it. I've had Pleasure students graduate with a 2.0 average. I've yet to have any flunk or drop out, since attending classes is enough to pass. If only real college had been that easy.
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The clubs are what's making the community lots work. There's 8 people (that's my computer limit for groups) so when they go to a community lot, there's always a bunch of them, plus the 'whoever shows up on lots' group so there's usually a lot going on.
That makes sense, I really need a passle of students to keep it interesting. But my problem has been that I don't have 8 Sims who all want to do the limited stuff available on the Maxis EA lots. Which is why I assumed you had an all-in-one community lot, so you could find something for each of your group members.
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I wish time worked correctly in this game, but dunno any way to really make it.
I fully intend to install Crammy Boy's Community Time Project when I'm bored enough to accept a possible Fireball, but even that solve the time problem in Uni
- Gus
Sagana:
No, I haven't really been to the office tower except for very briefly and I wasn't actually paying attention then. You're probably right and they wont' be there, but as you said, it's easy enough to teleport them in with whatever mod or cheat works best for you.
I have the profs both with the office hours and as the university liason to the clubs/teams/whatever, so I have yet another option for the students to meet them (except to just call them up or go on dates.) And also it means some of the students are meeting professors outside of their study area, which I kinda like (I looked through them all and chose the one with 'celebrity chef' as a LTW for the epicurian, and a 'mad scientist' for the geek club - in other words kinda randomly by interest and wants.
No all-in-one lots, but there is enough on each of them, I think. The student center (where people end up a lot) has the cafeteria, 2 tv rooms, a music room (with a keyboard), game room (pool table, cards and pinball), and an espresso bar. The Fine Arts building has a theater and a museum, stage area, pottery wheels, easels, photography equipment. The classroom building has medical training equipment, scientific equipment, telescopes, the astronomy tower (I didn't give it a separate building), another cafeteria-type area. The library (books, computers, chess tables) and office towers have the least.
Yeah crammy's mod is what we need, but it doesn't work for uni yet.
And agree agree on all the points about grades and everything.
Hook:
Finally got around to testing the piano in the gym. And noticed something different.
It used to be that people used the weight benches and the treadmill. Now, they only use the treadmill. Did Seasons bork the weight benches to get immolating dormies from overheating on the treadmills? Is there any way to make people use the weight benches again? I haven't dug into the code yet. I know it worked ok in Uni. I don't remember if it was broken after OFB, as my Sims didn't go to the gym that often.
One problem with the fitness for all hack is that a Sim will use a treadmill until they get the signal to leave the lot. This doesn't leave them time to go through the fitness animation. Not a problem with the hack directly, but it would be nice if there was a pause before a Sim left so they could get fit. In order to make a Sim fit, you have to "shoo" them at some point before they're ready to leave the lot.
Hook
Soylent Sim:
Quote from: Gus Smedstad on 2007 May 19, 00:39:38
This reminds me of the feature I'd really like to see in an expansion - an option to visit other residential lots, with the active Sim or Group playable, and the residents not selectable.
This is already easy enough to mock up with your favorite "make selectable/unslectable" cheat/hack. Having done so has convinced me that I have no interest whatsoever in this feature until sims are significantly smarter. Especially if the visitees have young children, which is a very likely situation if a "go visiting" feature were installed.
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