Bon Voyage time issue. <SOLVED>
jsalemi:
Does vacation time sync with the real home lot time? IOW, if the family goes on a vacation at 8am Saturday, and stays 3 days, is it still Saturday when they return, or have 3 days passed at their home lot and it's now Monday?
jolrei:
Quote from: jsalemi on 2007 September 06, 19:30:18
Does vacation time sync with the real home lot time? IOW, if the family goes on a vacation at 8am Saturday, and stays 3 days, is it still Saturday when they return, or have 3 days passed at their home lot and it's now Monday?
The preview/adverts for BV indicated that sims do not age while on holiday, so I suspect that it may function like going to a comm lot with regular non-synched time. I would expect sims would return and it would still be Saturday, in that case, since we are now talking about moving sims from the vacation scenario back to main game scenario (where time is non-synched).
jsalemi:
Yea, I guess you're right, since they don't allow sims to give birth while on vacation. So it treats the whole vacation trip like one long visit to a comm lot. Makes sense in a EAxian sorta way, I guess.
Otherwise the Lot Sync Timer would either get a major workout, or be rendered completely useless. :)
(I'll probably pick up a copy of BV this weekend...)
jolrei:
Quote from: jsalemi on 2007 September 06, 19:39:27
Yea, I guess you're right, since they don't allow sims to give birth while on vacation. So it treats the whole vacation trip like one long visit to a comm lot. Makes sense in a EAxian sorta way, I guess.
Otherwise the Lot Sync Timer would either get a major workout, or be rendered completely useless. :)
(I'll probably pick up a copy of BV this weekend...)
I was just thinking that it would be more of a time coding issue than EA is normally willing (able?) to handle, to synch the time throughout at this stage. Anyhow, I generally don't mind the time synch issue in the main game - I can get 2 days out of one for interactions, if necessary by sending sims to the comm lots, and then running a normal day at home. I'm happy if time is synched in the vacation scenarios, because who wants a full extra day to play just inside the hotel (unless the hotel is damned interesting).
I am going to try to buy after work today - I have an order pending on Amazon, but I hate the idea of waiting until mid- to late-October for delivery. If I find one tonight, I can still cancel with Amazon. Then I can join the "fun" by the weekend (since my wife is ultra-busy right now anyway until Sunday afternoon).
syberspunk:
Quote from: cyperangel on 2007 September 06, 19:26:57
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.
Ok... I are confused. I think the OP said that, when they stayed past midnight, while still at that comm lot, they get charged (a fee if past noon, a vacation day if past midnight). Upon returning... they time warp back to the time they left i.e. they had left the home/vactaion/hotel lot at 9pm, went to a comm lot in the same vacation destination 'hood, stayed at that lot past midnight/noon, and returned to the home/vacation/hotel lot where it was still 9pm. When staying at that hotel lot past midnight they get another vacation day deducted, and when they stay past check out time, they get 'double billed' as you put it.
I confused with this sentence:
Quote from: cyperangel on 2007 September 06, 19:26:57
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).
When you say, you come back at the time it was, when you went home from the comm lot, you mean to say that it is now the later time? i.e. you leave the comm lot and it is 9pm. you stay on the comm lot Past midnight, Past noon, which results in losing a vacation day and being charged an extra night's stay in the hotel. You leave the comm lot and it is 2pm. When you get back to the hotel, it is 2 pm (or... a little after 2pm that is)?!?!?!?
At this point, you aren't charged anything extra and you don't lose any other vacation days?
So... that means some hack must be borking this?
Ste
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