More Awesome Than You!
Welcome,
Guest
. Please
login
or
register
.
2024 October 31, 22:48:52
1 Hour
1 Day
1 Week
1 Month
Forever
Login with username, password and session length
Search:
Advanced search
SUPPORT THE MUNICIPALITY!
Have you destroyed a paysite today?
"Jelenedra" is the new "gay".
All Lythdans are stupid and suck!
DEATH TO ALL STUPID HAIRY-BELLIED NESSES!
All Kewians are stupid and suck! Accept no Kewian-based substitutes!
Clearly, BlueSoup has failed us! You must not! BlueSoup has a fat head!
Hobbsee has a
scrawny pencil neck.
Rohina the Ugly Butted is a Horny Turkey
540282
Posts in
18067
Topics by
6543
Members
Latest Member:
tyerules
More Awesome Than You!
TS2: Burnination
The Podium
Changing novel title after delivery
0 Members and 1 Chinese Bot are viewing this topic.
« previous
next »
Pages:
[
1
]
Author
Topic: Changing novel title after delivery (Read 7592 times)
IcemanSimmer
Asinine Airhead
Posts: 23
Changing novel title after delivery
«
on:
2008 July 04, 14:22:27 »
I accidentily hit the check button when my sim completed her novel and now its stuck with the default "Book Title". Is there a way to change the title now that the novel has been delivered to me?
I searched through the files in my docs using simpe to see if any fields contained the novel title. No luck
The title must be stored somewhere if I only knew where it was.
Now I seek the help of you more awesome ones.
Thanks.
(I have FT so the novel was written using the new system)
Logged
J. M. Pescado
Fat Obstreperous Jerk
El Presidente
Posts: 26286
Re: Changing novel title after delivery
«
Reply #1 on:
2008 July 05, 01:41:34 »
If it's stored anywhere at all, it's probably in the lot file. Somewhere.
Logged
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I cannot accept, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those I had to kill because they pissed me off.
IcemanSimmer
Asinine Airhead
Posts: 23
Re: Changing novel title after delivery
«
Reply #2 on:
2008 July 05, 14:34:02 »
Right after opening this thread, I sent the family on vacation. None of the bookcases at their vacation home contained any of her previously written novels. Logically it would make sense that the data would be located in the lots file. In my case, I haven't "fused" the novel into the lot as yet. It's in her inventory.
I opened up her character file, looked through the inventory items and found the reference to her book. Sadly, the book title is not saved as plain text but rather hexcode. ARGHHH!!!! I had to take my new title and convert each ascii character into hex and then manually input them one at a time. What a royal pain in the ass!!!
Here's the lesson for all you kiddies out there: Make sure your title and description are spot on. Correcting them later is a pain in......
Peace
Logged
Berg
Dimwitted Dunce
Posts: 178
I ARE 2 BLAME 4 HUR TYPOES!
Re: Changing novel title after delivery
«
Reply #3 on:
2008 July 05, 14:56:57 »
Not really related, but still... What's up with the ridiculously short titles for the books? I had carefully planned that the title of the first custom novel written with FT would be "The Mysterious Case Of The Countless Clues" but oh noes! Way too many characters! I had to do with just "The Mysterious Case" which wasn't nearly as thrilling.
The book description, which is even only readable when the book's stuck in a sim's inventory, can go on and on and on but the title must be limited to, like, 6 characters. Bah!
</rant>
Logged
My Sims 2 crap
?
IcemanSimmer
Asinine Airhead
Posts: 23
Re: Changing novel title after delivery
«
Reply #4 on:
2008 July 05, 15:24:21 »
The character limit imbalance is simple PHAIL!!! And don't get me started on the complete uselessness of book description. I give my sims novels simple, to the point titles which also act as desciptors. My current sim has an entire series of "The Art of..." cookbooks (Fine Cuisne, Dessert, Grilling Fish, Juice Making, etc).
Peace
Logged
J. M. Pescado
Fat Obstreperous Jerk
El Presidente
Posts: 26286
Re: Changing novel title after delivery
«
Reply #5 on:
2008 July 05, 15:57:41 »
I'm still trying to make "Lessons I Learned From Brynne" appear.
Logged
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I cannot accept, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those I had to kill because they pissed me off.
Berg
Dimwitted Dunce
Posts: 178
I ARE 2 BLAME 4 HUR TYPOES!
Re: Changing novel title after delivery
«
Reply #6 on:
2008 July 05, 17:25:30 »
Ah, one of my bestselling sims went with the "... And You"-series. Cooking, cleaning, gardening, pet care... You name it; she knew it all. Then she met Peter Sims of the dread Garden Club, fell in love and started to write crappy romance. They all had "mysterious, handsome count" in the description, somwhere (oh, another peeve! There is a romantic book cover, but hardly no romantic plot icons? Wtf?)
Quote from: J. M. Pescado
I'm still trying to make "Lessons I Learned From Brynne" appear.
Wait! Any sim who attempts to read it will pee themselves? Please say it is so!
Logged
My Sims 2 crap
?
Zazazu
Fuzzy Pumpkin
Whiny Wussy
Posts: 8583
Potiron flou
Re: Changing novel title after delivery
«
Reply #7 on:
2008 July 05, 17:37:25 »
I have one sim who works as a police psychic and writes crime novels, but due to my rotation usually he's mid-novel when I switch to a new home. The first time I had him write a novel I forgot what my plans were for him, and it ended up being titled "Dude, seriously?". I wish the title screen came up first, when you choose the plot points.
Logged
Capitalism, Ho!
"Continue to beat it in masturbatory ecstasy if you like, but only Pescado can make it go away." - Lemmiwinks
My Urinal
IcemanSimmer
Asinine Airhead
Posts: 23
Re: Changing novel title after delivery
«
Reply #8 on:
2008 July 05, 18:09:44 »
Quote from: Berg on 2008 July 05, 17:25:30
(oh, another peeve! There is a romantic book cover, but hardly no romantic plot icons? Wtf?)
My fubar book was a romance and I remember the "plot" went Money - Cruise Ship - Sunshine - Airplane - Question Mark. But herein lay a bigger question. In my game, whenever I mouse-over the icons, I don't see any tooltip explaining WTF the icons mean. Some of the icons are seriously cryptic. Do these plot icons even have any meaning? Could I shut my eyes and randomly pick 5 icons and still get a best seller? For all I know, I could be doing that already
Quote from: Zazazu on 2008 July 05, 17:37:25
The first time I had him write a novel I forgot what my plans were for him, and it ended up being titled "Dude, seriously?". I wish the title screen came up first, when you choose the plot points.
When I was trying to find a solution to my problem, I kept thinking that in the 4 months that FT has been out, there MUST be lots of players having issues with titles for one reason or another. There MUST be an easier way to alter titles. You are dead right that the title screen should be part of the initial plot screen. When the novel is done, a popup should appear informing you of that and to also expect a phone call on your HOME PHONE from the publisher. The first time I wrote a novel, I thought the publisher would call my cell phone. But no!!! It had to be a landline and I didn't get my royalties
Now I keep a phone next to all my writer sims computers.
Logged
Berg
Dimwitted Dunce
Posts: 178
I ARE 2 BLAME 4 HUR TYPOES!
Re: Changing novel title after delivery
«
Reply #9 on:
2008 July 05, 18:25:22 »
Quote from: Zazazu
The first time I had him write a novel I forgot what my plans were for him, and it ended up being titled "Dude, seriously?". I wish the title screen came up first, when you choose the plot points.
Lol! I had the same thing happen (because it took the guy half his adulthood to write the damn thing) so i thought "Teh kewl stuff!!1" was an open enough title
I remember it sold badly, not too surprising (although it might have had more to do with his lack of creative skillz...). So, yes, I agree about the title screen thing wholeheartedly.
Quote from: IcemanSimmer
My fubar book was a romance and I remember the "plot" went Money - Cruise Ship - Sunshine - Airplane - Question Mark.
But I want heart, kiss and woohoo!
Quote from: IcemanSimmer
Do these plot icons even have any meaning?
I never thought so, at least. Think they're just pretties that are supposed to appear in their "thought balloons" when they read.
Quote from: IcemanSimmer
Could I shut my eyes and randomly pick 5 icons and still get a best seller?
I can't see why not?
I did it all the time after Joseph Hart had written over ten books and I couldn't feel creative about the whole thing anymore (he wrote a total of 21 novels!) Isn't it all about creative skill?
Logged
My Sims 2 crap
?
J. M. Pescado
Fat Obstreperous Jerk
El Presidente
Posts: 26286
Re: Changing novel title after delivery
«
Reply #10 on:
2008 July 05, 18:52:05 »
Quote from: IcemanSimmer on 2008 July 05, 18:09:44
My fubar book was a romance and I remember the "plot" went Money - Cruise Ship - Sunshine - Airplane - Question Mark. But herein lay a bigger question. In my game, whenever I mouse-over the icons, I don't see any tooltip explaining WTF the icons mean. Some of the icons are seriously cryptic. Do these plot icons even have any meaning? Could I shut my eyes and randomly pick 5 icons and still get a best seller? For all I know, I could be doing that already
Like all simspeech, they have only as much meaning as you give them. The icons mean nothing intrinsically.
Logged
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I cannot accept, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those I had to kill because they pissed me off.
IcemanSimmer
Asinine Airhead
Posts: 23
Re: Changing novel title after delivery
«
Reply #11 on:
2008 July 05, 19:39:54 »
Quote from: TashaFaun on 2008 July 05, 18:18:34
Wouldn't JM's "noplagiarism" work for that? Or do you mean he missed the phone call entirely?
I hate landlines. They annoy my sims. None of my lots have them by default. All sims carry cell phones instead. The game insists that the publisher's call be received on a landline (something I didn't know at the time). My sim was waiting for a call that never came.
<rant>
If townies and whohaveyou can reach me on my cell phone, why the fuck can't the publisher do the same? Writer sims lots are easily recognizable in my neighborhood cause they are the only ones with landlines for the specific purpose of receiving publisher calls. EAxis's retarded idea was made worse by poor coding in the form of other sims picking up the publisher's call and getting all the credit which JM fixed with the no plagarism hack.
</rant>
Quote from: Berg on 2008 July 05, 18:25:22
I never thought so, at least. Think they're just pretties that are supposed to appear in their "thought balloons" when they read.
Isn't it all about creative skill?
From my own game play, all those cookbooks used the same 5 icons (the bowl with the brown sludge). Whenever a sim read one of the cookbooks, the thought balloon was pretty much static showing the bowl icon. At the end, these plot icons mean whatever you want them to mean. The sims creative level definitly has a huge bearing on whether the book is a success or not.
Logged
imyourboy
Dimwitted Dunce
Posts: 152
Re: Changing novel title after delivery
«
Reply #12 on:
2008 July 10, 02:00:19 »
My phone was on the second floor and of course he was walking very slowly, when he got halfway up the stairs he got the publisher message without answering the phone. He got his money though. So do they really have to answer?
Logged
Emma
Goopy Lover
Dead Member
Posts: 6109
All Pescados Suck.
Re: Changing novel title after delivery
«
Reply #13 on:
2008 July 10, 05:50:03 »
My sim finished writing a novel just before his final exam. He sped off without answering the phone and didn't recieve payment for his novel. Delivery person left the book on the porch.
Logged
Illusions of Grandeur
|
Laverwinkle Sims
Pages:
[
1
]
« previous
next »
Jump to:
Please select a destination:
-----------------------------
TS4: The Pee-ening
-----------------------------
=> Insert Amusing Name Here
=> Facts and Strategery
-----------------------------
TS3/TSM: The Pudding
-----------------------------
=> The World Of Pudding
=> Facts & Strategery
=> Pudding Factory
===> World of Puddings
===> Pudding Plots
-----------------------------
TS2: Burnination
-----------------------------
=> The Podium
===> Oops! You Broke It!
=> The War Room
=> Planet K 20X6
===> Building Contest of Awesomeness
=> Peasantry
===> Taster's Choice
-----------------------------
The Bowels of Trogdor
-----------------------------
=> The Small Intestines of Trogdor
=> The Large Intestines of Trogdor
-----------------------------
Awesomeware
-----------------------------
=> TS4 Stuff
=> Armoire of Invincibility
===> AwesomeMod!
=> The Armory
===> Playsets & Toys
===> The Scrapyard
-----------------------------
Darcyland
-----------------------------
=> Lord Darcy Investigates
-----------------------------
Ye Olde Simmes 2 Archives: Dead Creators
-----------------------------
=> Ye Olde Crammyboye Archives
=> Ye Olde Syberspunke Archives
-----------------------------
Serious Business
-----------------------------
===> Spore Discussions
Loading...