Bon Voyage dissatisfaction
Batelle:
Quote from: Clara on 2007 September 06, 11:44:35
This is really minor but I've noticed CAS thumbnails are generating differently. The ones made with BV are brighter and choppier than earlier ones. I found a preview screenshot that showed the same thing so it can't be any of my custom content (I took it all out and forced it to regenerate thumbnails anyway--same result). It doesn't look so bad in Body Shop because that was always pretty dark but in-game they're kind of ugly. Why would this have been changed?
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/ClaraP_photos/CASthumbnails.jpg
A lot of people complained about how dark Body Shop is. I figure the brightening is Eaxis's half-assed way of "fixing" that issue.
I've downloaded some of hacks in the Director's Cut, though I can't say if "antiwatchout" is among their numbers, and I have had no issues walking between lots.
I did have a glitch with booking a honeymoon. Brandi and Jeremy were engaged before I installed Bon Voyage and had the wants to be married locked. Brandi called to arrange a honeymoon, and there was a pop-up saying they would need someone to watch the house, which is strange because they have one cat and no kids. I agreed to the nanny and the next pop-up said that the wedding would trigger the vacation pick-up.
I decided to have them have a date to get them into platinum and then they got married at the original wedding arch. It generated the special events movie, and they have the memories of having gotten married, but it didn't fulfill their wants to get married. Then the nanny arrived and said "This lot has no children, I'm getting out of here" or something equally obnoxious and the vacation taxi never came.
I ended up cancelling the honeymoon and just booking a regular vacation at Three Lakes (and this time the nanny came and stayed). So far, they're enjoying themselves and I'm having a good time playing. My main issues so far:
1. The hotel lots, while mostly quite nice, are also huuuuuge and tedious to navigate. Brandi and Jem stayed at the cabins and it was almost comical how random the routing was. Elsewhere, the surrounding mountains cause the camera to shoot up when you move it around the lot. Lag wasn't bad, even with the neighborhood decorations and neighbors visible, until it started to snow. The beds/plumbing at the cabin and the showers at the campground are cheap, so sleeping and bathing takes an annoyingly long time to fill needs. There are also no mirrors to be found anywhere.
2. Learning a gesture is frustrating, because you have to have the local approach you with it, and they don't like to wait until you finish another action (even a cancelled action). It is hilarious to watch them try it when they still suck at it.
3. They dug about 30 holes and found two worthwhile things- both maps to the secret locations for the other two vacation destinations.
4. Skill points gained from positive chance cards don't get applied. This can be fixed by an updated skilling on community lots hack, but it's still a bunch of bullshit.
5. The locals are generated like crazy. I saw four or five that were on about every lot along with a few new faces, but then I had this happen:
Four new sims, same outfit type, same last name. This worries me.
6. The Unsavory Charlatan isn't playable. I knew this before, but now that I've seen him in his top hat and monocle, twirling his evil little mustache and cackling to himself, I want to marry him into a legacy at some point.
jsalemi:
Quote from: skandelouslala on 2007 September 06, 04:45:19
I'm so annoyed. This thing has been loading for like 40 minutes. And it's been creating "exotic destinations" for like another 10. Before I installed this EP it still took a shit ton of time to load b/c my enormous amount of CC...like 15 minutes...but me thinks 40 minutes is just ridiculous.
And that's why the first time you load it you move your downloads folder elsewhere. :)
Batelle:
Quote from: jsalemi on 2007 September 06, 14:36:31
And that's why the first time you load it you move your downloads folder elsewhere. :)
I did do that the first two times I loaded it. I played around in CAS and visited my Seasons test lot before restarting the game with CC (default replacement skins and eyes and a few BV DC hacks) in the game and then enabled. I think my honeymoon glitch was a result of the want being locked before BV was installed and, with the inevitable reset, it went a bit wonky. I don't know what the deal is with the local spawning, though.
jsalemi:
Oops -- sorry, I was actually replying to an earlier message, and the quote got borked. :) I fixed it.
Batelle:
Quote from: jsalemi on 2007 September 06, 15:26:18
Oops -- sorry, I was actually replying to an earlier message, and the quote got borked. :) I fixed it.
No problem. I've been on other boards this morning and almost all of the people complaining about problems still have their old hacks in and they seem really resistant to removing them, choosing to kvetch about Eaxis instead, which confuses what is and is not actually a bug.
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