Bon Voyage dissatisfaction
Sivany:
Whoever it was that realised stopping the game from dialling home reduces loading times is a genius! When I started the game without cc in place it took as long as it did for Seasons to load with cc in place. When I put the cc back it was taking 40 minutes to load BV and another 10 minutes to load a neighbourhood and 5 minutes to load each lot. Now by simply removing the internet cable from the wall before playing the loading time is actually less than it was before I installed BV! Since I was about ready to uninstall BV/buy a new computer/scream/kick the cat this is a huge relief.
Now my only dissatisfaction is that hotel lots run so slowly. I used to be able to have parties on home lots with 8 sims living there and 15 guests barely any lag at all. Now in hotel lots when there are my 2 playable sims plus 12-15 tourist sims present the game crawls. Even at the fastest speed it still runs at an extremely laggy version of the slowest speed (as in one sim minute passes every 3 seconds) I sent my sims to sleep, turned the speed up and went to make lunch. When I returned my sims were still asleep. >:( Not impressed at all. I ended up building a hotel with just two rooms to limit the number of tourist sims and that plays just fine. All normal community lots at holiday destinations also run fine.
Anyhow I think the time has come to upgrade something on my computer. The graphics card (a RADEON 9600 with only 256MB RAM) is looking the most likely candidate, but if anyone knows otherwise I would be happy to hear your advice (I have 1GB RAM, should I look at increasing that?) My computer knowledge is somewhat limited and my brother doesn't play the sims so isn't really best placed to give advice. His solution is "buy a new computer, yours is rubbish" which isn't exactly helpful. :-\
Ness:
Quote from: witch on 2007 September 10, 09:13:44
Quote from: sloppyhousewife on 2007 September 10, 08:58:52
3. And please, please, please someone make a "no autonomous Tai Chi" hack, and "no autonomous sea chanty" would be very, very nice, too.
Seconded.
That bloody sea shanty - or 'chanty' as EAxis have decided to call it - is viral. My sim autonomously taught it to a local in the Far East, he's taught it to at least 3 other locals, so now I have a bunch of sims in kimonos singing sea shanties on the commlots all the time. (Shows you how long I've been hunting the damn ninja).
Tai chi is irritating but at least it's quiet.
Thirded.
I've got mountain men doing tai chi and singing sea shanties. I've got islanders doing tai chi and slap dancing. I've got sims in kimonos singing sea shanties and doing the hula. Not to mention the fact that none of the locals are using the right greeting any more! Mountain men are wanting to hang loose, sims in kimonos are chest pounding... argh!
Surely there must be some way to keep each greeting, dance, thing isolated to the appropriate vacation area?
pioupiou:
Quote from: Ness on 2007 September 10, 11:41:36
Surely there must be some way to keep each greeting, dance, thing isolated to the appropriate vacation area?
That's what I would like to have as a mod. I don't care if my playable autonomously chants or use the greetings, or dance.... But I don't want the islander to do tai chi, and the far east peaople to slap dance and so on.... If nothing gets done to stop that stupid behaviour, the sims will only need to go to one destination to learn all of the gesture, dances etc...
sloppyhousewife:
Ah, yes - the greeting. I'd like to see chest pounding towards a far east local "rewarded" with a severe relationship drop. Same for any other inappropriate greeting combos, of course, but this example seems especially rude to me.
A "locals are immune to foreign habits" hack would really be great. I wouldn't mind my sims autonomously trying to do idiot interactions, though, because behaving like idiots is just what tourists do. If it only wasn't that fucking obsessive!
trudy:
my stupid questions:
- No aging on vacation? So pregnancys are just stuck?
- Are beaches in normal neighbourhoods now swimable?
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