Schlagwort: help

Help

polly-poison said: Sadly, this cute neighborhood was crashing and flashing pink whenever I loaded a lot. 😦

I’m so sorry. I have no explanation for the pink flashing, except that maybe your game can’t handle all those trees? (I do faintly remember that pink flashing may have something to do with hardware issues. Too new graphics card or sth like that?) As for the crashing, might be that your download somehow got corrupted. Have you tried re-downloading it? And if that doesn’t help, I could upload the lots for you and you could try out whether they work in another neighbourhood? 

Any other ideas what could cause this?

A college for Middleground?

So it’s time. My oldest born in game Sim is old enough to head to college which means that I have to add a college first. But I have no idea which one.

I’m pretty sure I don’t want to add the premade colleges, mainly because I would like to limit this neighbourhood to townies only and they’re- you know- populated. Instead, I would like to add the teen townies as dormies and potential romantic partners. But I also reeeeaaally don’t feel like building a whole college neighbourhood (because let’s face it, I would probably abandon the neighbourhood out of stress). I know that Kattaty has some awesome empty premade college hoods makeovers, but wouldn’t that feel… weird? I don’t know.

I’m open for suggestions.

Playtesting. I rebuilt the entire neighbourhood (since it’s a pre-made hood, it really wasn’t much work). Good news: The game seems to be able to send another Sim if one of the “favourite Sims” owns the business they’re supposed to visit. Bad news: a what I would call concerning amount of Andrea Hogan and Brandon Lillard.

I’m really at my wit’s end here. It’s a new neighbourhood, clean (I checked it before I started moving Sims in). Considering it seemed like the business feature worked just fine in my test neighbourhood (I might want to check that again though) and the hack conflict utility detected no conflicting behaviour (but, man, it HATED the bouncy baby chair from the SimsStore!), I am very confused. I will take out all of my business hacks to see if there is some conflict the utility didn’t detect, but if not… I have no idea what else to do, to be frank.

Playtesting Middleground

Okay, so I’ve got a problem (see here). Basically, whenever one of my Sims opens up their store (weirdly, it doesn’t matter whether it is an owned community lot or home business) the only two customers who would show up are Joe Carr and Brandon Lillard. A lot of friendly people have offered me their advice, but unfortunately, nothing solved the problem.

Things we/I checked:

-Brandon Lillard and Joe Carr are both playables, so it’s not an issue with only NPC showing up

-my game is fully patched and my PC is more than capable to run the game, so Sims lot restrictions shouldn’t be an issue

-loaded up my test hood and opened up a home business. All playables in that hood came by and bought stuff…

-ran HoodCleaner. It removed a bunch of random stuff but didn’t solve the problem

-loaded up all the lots with testingcheatsenabled on. Threw no error. Forcing error with the BatBox didn’t help

-switched out the cash registers on all lots that had cash registers

-sold the lots and re-bought them. Sandy Bruty was added to the Sims that always show up, but other than that, nothing changed

-pulled all mods out of my folder. Apart from a lot of newly generated townies that showed up, Joe Carr was the only playable that ever showed up…

-I DID change their names and genetics in SimPE (as my computer is set on German, SimPE assigns random names to all Sims in SimPE and when I changed their genetics (for those recessive genes and dyed hair) I changed their names just in case- so that Sandy Bruty wouldn’t suddenly be named Makoto Haasen). 

I’m reeeaaally stumped here and even consider declaring that hood doomed and recreate it… But I would really hate if somehow that happened to the new hood too and all my efforts were for nought. Does anyone have another idea what might be wrong?

EDIT: business related hacks I have: businessrunsyou, something called GW_AL_OfBeemployeesschedules_1_AdultElder (should be this one here) and the teen version and moniques buy_faster. That’s it, I think (I also have the visitor controller, but I already checked if it effed something up- doesn’t look like it). Considering that the problem is still present when I load the game without the mods, I doubt they are related to it, but who knows…