Bon Voyage time issue. <SOLVED>
Kralore:
Quote from: KatEnigma on 2007 September 06, 22:29:22
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?
That is actually the one thing that is really bugging me.
I could swear after installing seasons when it came out, going to a community lot with a sim, and when that sim went back home, the time on the home lot was sychronized with the comm lot. I remember being surprised by it. But as I was writing this reply, something occured to me. Sims Pet Stories does synchronize comm/home lot times. And i'm wondering now if thats what I am remembering.
Downloads is empty, when I install a new expansion pack, I always move my current sims 2 folder, and let the game generate a new/clean sims 2 folder.
Is there anything in the directors cut (or any hack) that would synch time on lots with no player input and thats why its not working now, because I don't have the hacks in?
Quote from: Skadi on 2007 September 06, 22:37:11
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.
I've checked the bill and I am being charged extra. But I think I will go back and double check, just to make sure.
Kralore:
I feel like a complete idiot, so feel free to poke me with any large sticks you may have handy.
When your at a community lot and want to go back to your hotel, you "Call Taxi" or "Walk to...", you then get two options. Community Lot or Home. When I saw Home, I mistakenly assumed it meant ending your vacation and going back to your house in the main hood. So from the start i've been selecting Community Lot. It lists all the community lots in the hood, including your hotel with a bed symbol beside it. That's why lot times between the hotel and comm lots weren't being synchronized. I finally tried clicking on Home instead and when I got back to the hotel, the lot times were synchronized.
I think this could still be considered an issue though. If you go back to your hotel by the Community lot option instead of the Home option, lot time isn't synchronized properly and you can get hit with the double payments etc, and there is no warning at all about this.
syberspunk:
Wow. Thanks for the clarification. That is somewhat of a relief. But you shouldn't be poked at all, because I probably would have thought the same thing. Home means... home. :P
Stupid Maxis EA. ::)
And yeah, I would say that still is a problem. I mean, how fucking majorly retarded. Why would you ever want to visit your own hotel again as a community lot in the first place anyways? That just seems like plain stupidity. What would be the point of that? ???
Ste
KatEnigma:
It must be something that got left in because when you have a vacation home, you can visit hotels as community lots. And they didn't discover it in testing because of course they KNEW which option to pick. ::)
Stupid Eaxis.
akatonbo:
Prima guide, btw, makes a point of stating that 'Home' means, well, home, when you are staying at a hotel in a non-vacation neighborhood -- you can set up a community lot with a hotel in your own hood, and stay there, and then go somewhere else, and then go back to the hotel by choosing it specifically, but when you're going around your main hood, or downtown, or something, the hotel does not become your "home base" like it does on vacation. Whereas on vacation you have to use a much more deliberate command to end your vacation earlier than the number of days you booked.
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