Bon Voyage time issue. <SOLVED>
Sivany:
Quote from: Inge on 2007 September 10, 09:50:14
Well there were several differences between your circumstances and the McCanns
1. due to the use of a baby monitor, you were within earshot all the time in case of choking or screaming
2. the distance they would need to cover to get to you in an emergency was a few seconds away, not a few minutes
3. the journey for you to find your parents when you did so was in a relatively safe building, not across a couple of roads and past an uncovered swimming pool.
I do agree with you about the fact that the McCanns were a rather stupid in what they did. Leaving the building completely to eat dinner, leaving the door unlocked, being so far away across so much dangerous ground (the road and pool like you say - and if they really were going back to check the kids every half hour they couldn't have been having a very relaxing dinner, surely?) was a bit much with such young children. I was just meaning that there are ways to leave a four and a two year old alone without it being a problem, they don't really need someone physically there 24/7. Also my parent stopped using the monitoring thing once I reached the age of about 6 (my brother would have been 3 and a half). I was however a rather sensible child. At the age of 8 I heard the boy in the room next door crying so I propped our door open with a pillow, knocked on his door (he didn't want to open it at first, but I was quite persuasive and he was upset) and took him down to reception so they could get his parents. I have however taught 7 year olds who I wouldn't leave alone for longer than a minute even with a baby monitor so I guess it really depends on the child. (I'm thinking here of a child who upon hearing the school fire alarm decided to go and look for the fire ::))
professorbutters:
Frankly, most of the time there is a murder like that, I assume that it probably is the parents/spouse/significant other/immediate family member, because usually that is what it is; sad, but true. I grew up without bike helmets or baby monitors or even the widespread use of seat belts, and with a lot of playground equipment you could never get away with now. Has anyone ever noticed that the whole premise of *The Cat in the Hat* is that the mother leaves "Sally and me" to sit for an indeterminate amount of time until she gets back? Because what kind of mother goes out and leaves her school age children alone for a little while? An Eisenhower era mother who knows that the kiddies don't dare move from their chairs in the window until she gets back, that's who. Without parents who leave their kids alone or abandon them in the forest or just plain die, or become separated in some other way, there virtually is no children's literature.
As for the seedy hotels in the neighborhood, I have one already and as a Mac owner, of course I do not have BV. I have a creepy Roman Romance Sim and he owns a dive called the Herculaneum Hotel. It's got a ticket machine, a photobooth downstairs (along with a DJ booth, poker tables and a bar), and upstairs it's all beds and hot tubs.
They aren't the LizLove beds, though, and without ACR regular beds aren't all that attractive to sims. It's there partly to be funny and partly so my other Romance Sims have a place to go. It isn't a lot better for illicit WooHoo than some already-existing Maxis lots, except that the upstairs is relatively uninteresting and so other lovers are unlikely to wander up there. Considering the high cost and the complicated zoning and charging issues with hotels, I think I would probably still make it an ordinary community lot, unless somebody comes up with a mod that enables Sims to be charged by the hour, which in essence ticket machines already do.
PB
Strangel:
Quote from: professorbutters on 2007 September 10, 10:33:27
Frankly, most of the time there is a murder like that, I assume that it probably is the parents/spouse/significant other/immediate family member, because usually that is what it is; sad, but true. I grew up without bike helmets or baby monitors or even the widespread use of seat belts, and with a lot of playground equipment you could never get away with now. Has anyone ever noticed that the whole premise of *The Cat in the Hat* is that the mother leaves "Sally and me" to sit for an indeterminate amount of time until she gets back? Because what kind of mother goes out and leaves her school age children alone for a little while? An Eisenhower era mother who knows that the kiddies don't dare move from their chairs in the window until she gets back, that's who. Without parents who leave their kids alone or abandon them in the forest or just plain die, or become separated in some other way, there virtually is no children's literature.
As for the seedy hotels in the neighborhood, I have one already and as a Mac owner, of course I do not have BV. I have a creepy Roman Romance Sim and he owns a dive called the Herculaneum Hotel. It's got a ticket machine, a photobooth downstairs (along with a DJ booth, poker tables and a bar), and upstairs it's all beds and hot tubs.
They aren't the LizLove beds, though, and without ACR regular beds aren't all that attractive to sims. It's there partly to be funny and partly so my other Romance Sims have a place to go. It isn't a lot better for illicit WooHoo than some already-existing Maxis lots, except that the upstairs is relatively uninteresting and so other lovers are unlikely to wander up there. Considering the high cost and the complicated zoning and charging issues with hotels, I think I would probably still make it an ordinary community lot, unless somebody comes up with a mod that enables Sims to be charged by the hour, which in essence ticket machines already do.
PB
PB, your hotel has brought me to tears more than once (mostly due to your Roman Romancer) and I can't believe I never asked how you'd set it up. LOL
Arighty, that's it. I'm making one NAO and I have ACR so this should get interesting..
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