Bon Voyage time issue. <SOLVED>
Zazazu:
Quote from: Inge on 2007 September 06, 11:18:49
I suppose the drawback is that when you get back to the hotel, exhausted at bedtime, the kids you left behind in the morning still have their green energy ready to play all night?
Kids generally tire out early anyways. I always give them naps on the weekend. Weaklings. I never took naps. That's actually how I figured out that time was passing for me...I had the family at the hotsprings and the kid was about to drop, so I took them back to the hotel for a nap until they could go out to someplace for a destination dinner. Ack! It was still 8:00 pm!
jolrei:
Quote from: Kralore on 2007 September 06, 18:08:09
I or my game is having some sort of psychotic episode... Has community lot/home time always been synchronized in Sims 2, or is there a particular expansion when time synchronization started?
Until I get BV, my game is currently running only base and Uni. comm lot/home time is not synched there. If a sim teen leaves home at 7am to go meet friends at a comm lot, and stays all day, when he returns home, it will still be 7am, time for brekkers and going to school. If comm lot/home time was synched, it was after Uni in any case.
syberspunk:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2007 September 05, 18:47:43
Quote from: akatonbo on 2007 September 05, 18:39:52
Huh. I bet that'll be in the patch, then, since aside from the fact that it causes overcharging and loss of vacation days, time in vacation subhoods is supposed to be continuous, like it is in Uni subhoods.
Yes, but Uni subhood time is broken also. It has never worked correctly either, as evidenced by what happens when only part of a lot goes out, resulting in semester times getting completely desynchronized.
I think the desynchronization is actually a purposeful feature and not really a 'bug' per se. I mean, I don't know how you guys handle it, but when I had sims synchronized, and I actually let them play out the last 72 hours of their Uni time, they all tend to age transition about the same time. Things got a little wonky for me. I had this happen to me once though, so I don't know if it's reproducable... but when the taxi came, only one sim got in. And then the other sim got left behind. I waited for another taxi to come, and it never did. 2 sim 'days' passed (that is 4 semesters worth of Uni 'time') and still no taxi. I was like wtf? ??? In the end, it wasn't a huge problem, since I think I was able to move him back home by phone. But still, he woulda persisted 'living' there like forever as an adult.
So... I think the desynchronization tends to help out in this way. The other minor annoyance with synchronized YAs, if you have 8 (or more... heh, with hacks of course) they all tend to pile up by the mailbox. Again, not a huge problem, but with autonomy on, the pile up can be hectic and annoying when they start doin stuff you don't want them to. :P
Quote from: cyperangel on 2007 September 06, 17:22:52
Ive had no trouble with the time issues mentioned. I played the game vanilla from the geto-go (got the lesson the hard way the last pack...)
When i leave the home lot (hotel, tent or vacation home) and head out somewhere, time passes as usual. If i go home again at 9, then it will be 9 when i arrive at my home lot. So no double payment there.
Someone correct me if I've misunderstood, but... I think the OP was saying that, they sent their sims to a vacation hotel lot. Then... from the vacation hotel, they sent their sims to a comm lot, that I assume is in the same vacation neighborhood.
Also... you mention that you sent your sims home at 9. But the problem occurred when the OP kept their sims past midnight/noon. They were charged an additional fee and lost an additional vacation day, even though, when they returned to the hotel lot, the time warped back to when they had first left.
Quote from: jolrei on 2007 September 06, 18:42:40
Quote from: Kralore on 2007 September 06, 18:08:09
I or my game is having some sort of psychotic episode... Has community lot/home time always been synchronized in Sims 2, or is there a particular expansion when time synchronization started?
Until I get BV, my game is currently running only base and Uni. comm lot/home time is not synched there. If a sim teen leaves home at 7am to go meet friends at a comm lot, and stays all day, when he returns home, it will still be 7am, time for brekkers and going to school. If comm lot/home time was synched, it was after Uni in any case.
I think that comm lot/home time is still not synchronized in Seasons. I'm pretty sure you needed Crammyboy's hack to keep comm lot and residential lots synchronized. That's why I mentioned that it would be great if Crammyboy could incorporate a similar fix for these vaction/hotel lot and vacation/comm lot issues.
Ste
jsalemi:
Quote from: Kralore on 2007 September 06, 18:08:09
Has community lot/home time always been synchronized in Sims 2, or is there a particular expansion when time synchronization started? The reason I ask, is I now seem to recall when seasons came out that one of the first things I noticed was that lot time was now synchronized.
As Ste said, no, time between home lots and comm lots has never been synchronized in the game (without a hack, anyway). You could have a business owner go and run 5 businesses for 12 hours each, and he/she would still be home in time for lunch. :)
From earlier discussions here (in the various BV threads), it sounds like time IS synchronized on vacation lots, at least as far as the hotel and comm lots are concerned. One or more incompatible hacks seem to be causing problems where the synchronization gets borked.
cyperangel:
Quote from: syberspunk on 2007 September 06, 19:17:21
Someone correct me if I've misunderstood, but... I think the OP was saying that, they sent their sims to a vacation hotel lot. Then... from the vacation hotel, they sent their sims to a comm lot, that I assume is in the same vacation neighborhood.
Also... you mention that you sent your sims home at 9. But the problem occurred when the OP kept their sims past midnight/noon. They were charged an additional fee and lost an additional vacation day, even though, when they returned to the hotel lot, the time warped back to when they had first left.
My poing being exactly, that I do not warp back to the time i left, i come back at the time it was when i went home from the com lot, (home being a hotel or a vacation home). This means that even if i stayed past midnight, it would be past midnight when i return to the hotel, and thus i dont get whacked with a double bill.
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