Weekly simming 15/2015

[katrisims]

This week concludes my summer vacation for this year, and although last week was better progress-wise, I did get stuff done and I'm happy with it.


Most importantly, I finally updated the Bookacy legacy. After more than a year, too. I feel very good about getting that done, it gives hope for the future. Save for Dirk's first year in college, I'm caught up with my playing, so I'm going to get to play more before seriously getting to work with the next update.

In other writing news, I pre-arranged Dirk's college pictures so far for the next chapter, and also had a look at the next Villains chapter. I wrote six slides for that, putting me on 33 slides.

On the Lakewood side of things, I've got one day left to play in the fourth and final household of week one. And then of course finishing writing that. So, good progress there too.

Oh, and I also went and changed the appearance of my Tumblr. I didn't like that I couldn't see tags, plus too much grey color in my various blogs. I do like grey, but enough is enough. For the time being, I like the new look enough to keep it.

What's maybe not so nice is that apparently I didn't have that odd bug cornered. While playing that fourth household, it happened again with the new Cyjon mods quarantined. While I'm bummed that I wasn't able to produce a situation where it doesn't happen, I'm also sort of relieved: the quarantined new mods were about 130, so much more than I'd thought. I'm starting to be a bit baffled where to look. I'm quarantining Inge Jones mods next, but I seriously doubt it'd be them.

Seeing that the bug didn't appear during the other households, it seems that it's related to the ticket machine in particular and not sales in general. Even so, it only seems to occur very randomly, and apparently it's not even related to high prices like I thought first. It even crossed my mind that since I haven't played businesses that much before I started with Lakewood, it's possible that I've had the problem for longer and just haven't come across it before. Which makes it harder to find yet, if that's the case. I don't know. It seems non-critical, and rather just a nuisance, and I've even learned to regain control of my playable sim if they get "confused" so that I don't have to quit without saving. So I'll probably keep hunting yet, but if it seems really hard to find, I might decide to live with it.

I'm pretty annoyed with the problem, since while it's evading me, I'm reluctant to play Alphabetia or particularly Strangetown. With all this juggling around the hacks, there may be resets in my neighborhoods. I already realized that swapping my new DL folder in caused one, and I'd *just* re-made all the stored food in the apocalypse from since it last happened. Bah. Oh well. I'll sort it, one way or another.


So tomorrow morning it's back to work for me. But, there's still evenings and weekends, so we'll keep trotting along.

Comments

[esmeiolanthe.livejournal.com]

Can you describe the problem you're having again? Doe it happen when your sims are *playable* or only when you have a playable sim from a different household visit an owned business while the owner and employees are *not* actually playable? If it's the latter, there's a very faint bell ringing in the back of my mind. If it's the former, alas, I got nothin'.

[katrisims.livejournal.com]

It's when I'm running a venue business as a playable sim and try to sell tickets to customers. So far it's only happened when Dazzling, but because it's so rare I can't be sure of that. So what happens is that very rarely, easily several sim days apart if I play the business continuously, a sales action will fail. It just disappears from my sim's queue, and the sim may jump a bit. The customers jump and start browsing the ticket machine again, and the price of the tickets may change (usually to what the game considers an "average" price). The playable sim can also become "confused" at the jump, that is, when I move the cursor the sim just turns around on the spot even if the game is on pause.

It seems that I can gain control of the playable sim again if I make them do something else, like "go here". After that I can continue sales and re-set the price if necessary. So it really seems to be just an annoyance, but it would be nice to know what it is and if it's a non-critical hack, get rid of it.

[esmeiolanthe.livejournal.com]

Just an annoyance, maybe, but a very *annoying* annoyance. Unfortunately, though, I've never experienced that one -- I've never had any sims ever manage to get up to Dazzle. I'm sorry. :(

I'll keep an eye out, though, in case I see a similar problem out there on the interwebz.

[katrisims.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's a pretty annoying one indeed. Thanks for keeping an eye out for me, it's much appreciated! :)

[esmeiolanthe.livejournal.com]

PS: Congratulations on making such good progress this week!

[katrisims.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It was nice to have another good week to end the vacation. :)