Bon Voyage time issue. <SOLVED>
akatonbo:
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.
J. M. Pescado:
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.
jolrei:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2007 September 05, 18:21:42
...but then unless your hotel lot is inordinately fascinating, you would practically never pay!
Problem (if it is one) seems to originate with EAxis using the Uni comm lot time structure without thought that there is no check out time in a dorm.
I would not mind that time is not counted on comm lots, as this is consistent with the way comm lot time runs in main hoods, and it allows more time spent away from hotel without racking up a bill. However, if this is going to be the case, check out time should only be calculated when the sim reaches 12:00noon at the hotel. However, this is generally inconsistent with the way most people run their holidays - generally, I would think that folks don't just stay in the hotel all day (well, some do if they have small kids that just want to use the pool, etc.).
If this does not work, time at comm lots could possibly be synchronized with hotel time, so that if you leave the comm lot at 11pm, having been there since 10am, it should be 11pm when the sims get back to the hotel.
I'm thinking that this may be a "feature" not a "bug", in that EAxis logic might be that if the sims are going to spend a whole day at a comm lot, and then return to the hotel to spend another whole day in the hotel (admittedly on the same day), perhaps it is fair for them to pay for two days vacation in one. We'll know whenever they patch this EP, whether they think this is a problem or not.
Kralore:
If you go from the hotel to the community lot after 12 noon, and don't stay at the community lot past 12 midnight, things are fine. This gives you aproximately 11 hours game time on any community lot. You can then return to the hotel, time would be back at the start time, and you could then go off to another community lot for another 11 hours. You could repeat this over and over and take advantage of the time issue and stay on vacation indefinitly.
jolrei:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2007 September 05, 18:47:43
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.
Yeah, a bit annoying. I generally reset time until finals using Insim when my students return to the dorm so that the term stays in synch. Maybe something like this will be necessary when on holiday - fun idea to leave the hotel after 12:00 and return before 12:00 the next day. That might eliminate the double payment problem.
Purists would have to make sure that they actually paid a bill, for overall realism.
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