Bon Voyage time issue. <SOLVED>
KatEnigma:
Yes, that's what they mean. In my game, if I leave my hotel/vaca home lot at 9 AM and stay out at a community lot until 1 AM, when I return to my hotel/vaca home, it is now 1 AM there, as well. It works like it does for Uni. It sounds to me like the OP isn't playing without their precious hacks to me, too. Which is why I asked if we were sure it wasn't a hack, since things like that aren't usually random.
Invisigoth:
Quote from: syberspunk on 2007 September 06, 20:51:05
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
Last night I tested the time thing pretty extensively with nothing but JM's director's cut in. I tested with two separate families. Both had the same results.
If my sims left the hotel at 9 AM and were gone for five hours it would be 2 PM when they returned to the hotel. The hotel time would say 2 PM.
If one sim (or more) stays at the hotel and the other sim/s leave at 9 am and are gone for 5 hours it would be 2 PM when they returned to the hotel. The only sucky thing about this is that the sim who stayed at the hotel will have the same motive state as when you left (so even if five hours have passed and they were asleep when you left their energy bar wouldn't have filled). The easy work around for this is playing in debug mode and dragging up the motive/s that you wish to impact. So if your sim was asleep when you left and five hours have passed you can drag the energy bar up so that they get "credit" for time spent asleep. I don't think that sounds cheaty since they did just lose five hours of time, but everyone is welcome to make their own decision of course.
The times are just examples, the time thing continued to work this way no matter what time they left the hotel and no matter how many hours they were gone for. This sounds like a hack conflict to me.
Kralore:
First I should say i'm running Bon Voyage with no custom content.
There seems to be a bit of confusion about what the problem is. This is how it's working on my game.
I have a family checked in to a hotel. It's 9 am in the morning. I send the family to a community lot, when they arrive at the community lot they stay for the day.
When it's 6 pm at the community lot, I send them back to the hotel.
When they arrive back at the hotel, as soon as they appear on the lot, I get a message saying "Checkout time passed while you were away from the hotel, 800$ has been added to your bill". This is correct and working properly. I've gone past the 12 noon checkout and i'm being charged for another day stay.
The problem is. the time at the hotel is still 9 am, the same time as when they left. I keep the family on the hotel lot. At 11 am I get a message saying its time to checkout, if I stay past noon, 1 day stay will be added to my bill. At 12 noon I get a message saying "Thanks for staying. Another 800$ has been added to your bill". I've been charged a second time for the same day's stay.
The way it's supposed to be, and the way it seems to be working for everyone except me LOL is this.
When I leave the community lot at 6 pm, when I get back to the hotel, I get the message saying "Checkout time passed while you were away from the hotel, 800$ has been added to your bill" like i'm supposed to, but the hotel time should be 6 pm, the same time when I left the community lot. This way the 12 noon checkout is not passing by again and i'm not being double billed for the day.
I've already tried uninstalling Bon Voyage, H&M Stuff, Celebration, and Seasons. I then reinstalled Seasons, then Bon Voyage. And i'm still getting the problem of the lot time not synching. So i'm going to uninstall the whole thing and reinstall everything from the beginning again and hopefully things will work then. I've never had problems with sims or sims 2 in the past, this is the first time i've ever had serious gameplay issues. So i'm very frustrated at the moment. I do appreciate and thank everyone for all the input you've given so far. :)
KatEnigma:
You said that the game started synching lots for you automagically with one of the EP's. That wasn't supposed to happen. Are you sure you don't accidentally have something in your downloads folder?
Skadi:
Have you actually checked the bill? I had this in my game, but when I checked out I only paid for 2 days, even though I had 3 pop ups.
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