Vacation Temp extremes

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:13:12 -0700 (PDT), DeAnn <DeAnn000.RemoveThis@gmail.com>
wrote:

>Since getting Free Time, I've noticed my vacationers are getting real
>temperature extremes. First everyone is nearly frozen in Fembril
>Winter at Three Lakes, and then everyone is melting (drink water,
>drink water, drink water, pee, drink water, eat, sleep, wake up to
>drink water, etc.) in Twiikii Island. I'm wondering if I'm just
>hitting an outlyer random set of event or if weather extremes are
>everywhere.
>
>Is anyone else noticing the weather is more extreme in thier games--
>especially on vacation? Or, maybe I just notice it more on vacation
>as I go camping. Hotels cost way more and you still have to do the
>dishes as maids don't clean hardly anything as no one works while you
>are off the lot and no one comes except during peak hours for you to
>be visiting other places and taking tours (normal daylight shift).

I have only done a few vacations, all to Twiikii Island--two before I
got FT and one after. I didn't notice temps one way or the other in
the vacations before FT.

For the FT vacation, I was paying special attention, because the Sims
were living outdoors, with only items from Castaways Stories and the
waterfall shower from MTS2--no indoors where they could get shade.
They actually did fine on a three-day vacation. One Sim's temperature
rose a few times, but either they played water balloon fight or she
cooled off in the waterfall shower or her temperature dropped back
into green in the wee hours of the morning while she was sleeping.

BW
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DeAnn wrote:
> Since getting Free Time, I've noticed my vacationers are getting real
> temperature extremes. First everyone is nearly frozen in Fembril
> Winter at Three Lakes, and then everyone is melting (drink water,
> drink water, drink water, pee, drink water, eat, sleep, wake up to
> drink water, etc.) in Twiikii Island. I'm wondering if I'm just
> hitting an outlyer random set of event or if weather extremes are
> everywhere.
>
> Is anyone else noticing the weather is more extreme in thier games--
> especially on vacation? Or, maybe I just notice it more on vacation
> as I go camping. Hotels cost way more and you still have to do the
> dishes as maids don't clean hardly anything as no one works while you
> are off the lot and no one comes except during peak hours for you to
> be visiting other places and taking tours (normal daylight shift).

Certainly sounds unusual. I haven't taken anyone on vacation since
installing FT so can't say whether it's happening in my game or not. If
anything, in my Poverty Challenge lot they just had one of the mildest
winters on record, with no snow, the pond froze over and that's about it.

What I have noticed is that playing football (soccer) is a sure way to tire
out a sim. They start playing and their energy bar plummets really fast. I
wanted the two boys in the PC lot to play together as they both have sports
as their predestined hobby. They were too tired to do thwir homework later
and both collapsed into bed. I mean their energy bars were at least half
full when they got home from school and then after about an hour of football
(soccer, not tossing a football) they both had red bars and were approaching
energy desperation. Ridiculous!

Cheers!
Engram
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Engram wrote:
> DeAnn wrote:
>> Since getting Free Time, I've noticed my vacationers are getting real
>> temperature extremes. First everyone is nearly frozen in Fembril
>> Winter at Three Lakes, and then everyone is melting (drink water,
>> drink water, drink water, pee, drink water, eat, sleep, wake up to
>> drink water, etc.) in Twiikii Island. I'm wondering if I'm just
>> hitting an outlyer random set of event or if weather extremes are
>> everywhere.
>>
>> Is anyone else noticing the weather is more extreme in thier games--
>> especially on vacation? Or, maybe I just notice it more on vacation
>> as I go camping. Hotels cost way more and you still have to do the
>> dishes as maids don't clean hardly anything as no one works while you
>> are off the lot and no one comes except during peak hours for you to
>> be visiting other places and taking tours (normal daylight shift).
>
> Certainly sounds unusual. I haven't taken anyone on vacation since
> installing FT so can't say whether it's happening in my game or not.
> If anything, in my Poverty Challenge lot they just had one of the
> mildest winters on record, with no snow, the pond froze over and
> that's about it.
> What I have noticed is that playing football (soccer) is a sure way
> to tire out a sim. They start playing and their energy bar plummets
> really fast. I wanted the two boys in the PC lot to play together as
> they both have sports as their predestined hobby. They were too tired
> to do thwir homework later and both collapsed into bed. I mean their
> energy bars were at least half full when they got home from school
> and then after about an hour of football (soccer, not tossing a
> football) they both had red bars and were approaching energy
> desperation. Ridiculous!

Even the adults get tired quickly.

I have a lad predestined for sport and he's not the least interested. The
rest of the family kick balls into nets autonomously. He wants to win a
dance contest and won't leave the synthesizer alone. Sit him in front of
the tv sports channel and his fun level drops. If ever a sim got the wrong
hobby it's him.

On the other hand weather in Desiderata Valley seems quite extreme. A lot
of snow two winters on the trot, both with snow days off school. The
family have an exercise bike outside and use it in the snow, they get hot,
but don't overheat.


--
kat
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"kat" <kat.news.TakeThisOut@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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>
> Even the adults get tired quickly.
>
> I have a lad predestined for sport and he's not the least interested. The
> rest of the family kick balls into nets autonomously. He wants to win a
> dance contest and won't leave the synthesizer alone. Sit him in front of
> the tv sports channel and his fun level drops. If ever a sim got the
> wrong hobby it's him.

There's been quite a bit of discussion of the plummeting needs - including
over at MATY. I don't know if Pescado or anyone else has posted a fix for
it though.

Best wishes
maxon
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maxon wrote:
> "kat" <kat.news.TakeThisOut@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> news:QX4Fj.631232$Ec3.114665@newsfet18.ams...
>
>>
>> Even the adults get tired quickly.
>>
>> I have a lad predestined for sport and he's not the least interested.
>> The rest of the family kick balls into nets autonomously. He wants to
>> win a dance contest and won't leave the synthesizer alone. Sit him in
>> front of the tv sports channel and his fun level drops. If ever a sim
>> got the wrong hobby it's him.
>
>
> There's been quite a bit of discussion of the plummeting needs -
> including over at MATY. I don't know if Pescado or anyone else has
> posted a fix for it though.
>
> Best wishes
> maxon

I hope someone does something soon to make it more playable..I've taken
to just dragging their motives up because it can get so
ridiculous...Pascal's little besenji, Sizi, almost doed last night...and
it was right after I had the girls feed her and take her for a walk!
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maxon wrote:
> "kat" <kat.news.TakeThisOut@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> news:QX4Fj.631232$Ec3.114665@newsfet18.ams...
>>
>> Even the adults get tired quickly.
>>
>> I have a lad predestined for sport and he's not the least
>> interested. The rest of the family kick balls into nets
>> autonomously. He wants to win a dance contest and won't leave the
>> synthesizer alone. Sit him in front of the tv sports channel and
>> his fun level drops. If ever a sim got the wrong hobby it's him.
>
> There's been quite a bit of discussion of the plummeting needs -
> including over at MATY. I don't know if Pescado or anyone else has
> posted a fix for it though.
>

It didn't plummet, just degraded a bit, whereas most sims get a lot of fun
out of watching sport on tv. Funnily enough he just got a chance card at
school about joining either the dance troupe or the gym team.


--
kat
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maxon wrote:
> "kat" <kat.news DeleteThis @ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> news:QX4Fj.631232$Ec3.114665@newsfet18.ams...
>>
>> Even the adults get tired quickly.
>>
>> I have a lad predestined for sport and he's not the least
>> interested. The rest of the family kick balls into nets
>> autonomously. He wants to win a dance contest and won't leave the
>> synthesizer alone. Sit him in front of the tv sports channel and
>> his fun level drops. If ever a sim got the wrong hobby it's him.
>
> There's been quite a bit of discussion of the plummeting needs -
> including over at MATY. I don't know if Pescado or anyone else has
> posted a fix for it though.
>
> Best wishes
> maxon

I sincerely hope someone addresses it soon. It's hugely frustrating and has
really made me not even want to bother playing for a while now. Those
"perks" to make motive decay slower actually speed it up and once you've set
them, there doesn't seem to be any way to give them back and choose
something else.

Jeanie
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Jeanie wrote:
> maxon wrote:
>> "kat" <kat.news RemoveThis @ntlworld.com> wrote in message
>> news:QX4Fj.631232$Ec3.114665@newsfet18.ams...
>>>
>>> Even the adults get tired quickly.
>>>
>>> I have a lad predestined for sport and he's not the least
>>> interested. The rest of the family kick balls into nets
>>> autonomously. He wants to win a dance contest and won't leave the
>>> synthesizer alone. Sit him in front of the tv sports channel and
>>> his fun level drops. If ever a sim got the wrong hobby it's him.
>>
>> There's been quite a bit of discussion of the plummeting needs -
>> including over at MATY. I don't know if Pescado or anyone else has
>> posted a fix for it though.
>>
>> Best wishes
>> maxon
>
> I sincerely hope someone addresses it soon. It's hugely frustrating
> and has really made me not even want to bother playing for a while
> now. Those "perks" to make motive decay slower actually speed it up
> and once you've set them, there doesn't seem to be any way to give
> them back and choose something else.
>

Mine seem to be working. So much so I have them not going to bed until 2 in
the morning at times.


--
kat
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Jeanie wrote:
> I sincerely hope someone addresses it soon. It's hugely frustrating
> and has really made me not even want to bother playing for a while
> now. Those "perks" to make motive decay slower actually speed it up
> and once you've set them, there doesn't seem to be any way to give
> them back and choose something else.
>
Use the Orb, Luke... Ahem! Jeanie

There's an option on there that lets you reset the secondary aspiration - it
resets the lot in my experience.

Cheers!
Engram
http://rothpoint.googlepages.com/home
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"kat" <kat.news.RemoveThis@ntlworld.com> wrote:

>Jeanie wrote:
>
>> I sincerely hope someone addresses it soon. It's hugely frustrating
>> and has really made me not even want to bother playing for a while
>> now. Those "perks" to make motive decay slower actually speed it up
>> and once you've set them, there doesn't seem to be any way to give
>> them back and choose something else.
>>
>
>Mine seem to be working. So much so I have them not going to bed until 2 in
>the morning at times.

Pretty much the same here.

D.
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Oct 5th, 2004 JDL
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Engram wrote:
> Jeanie wrote:
>> I sincerely hope someone addresses it soon. It's hugely frustrating
>> and has really made me not even want to bother playing for a while
>> now. Those "perks" to make motive decay slower actually speed it up
>> and once you've set them, there doesn't seem to be any way to give
>> them back and choose something else.
>>
> Use the Orb, Luke... Ahem! Jeanie
>
> There's an option on there that lets you reset the secondary
> aspiration - it resets the lot in my experience.
>
> Cheers!
> Engram
> http://rothpoint.googlepages.com/home

I've never used that Orb for anything. Maybe I should investigate.

Jeanie
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On Mar 24, 1:50 pm, "Jeanie" <Nob....DeleteThis@home.com> wrote:
> Engram wrote:
> > Jeanie wrote:
> >> I sincerely hope someone addresses it soon.  It's hugely frustrating
> >> and has really made me not even want to bother playing for a while
> >> now.  Those "perks" to make motive decay slower actually speed it up
> >> and once you've set them, there doesn't seem to be any way to give
> >> them back and choose something else.
>
> > Use the Orb, Luke... Ahem! Jeanie
>
> > There's an option on there that lets you reset the secondary
> > aspiration - it resets the lot in my experience.
>
> > Cheers!
> > Engram
> >http://rothpoint.googlepages.com/home
>
> I've never used that Orb for anything.  Maybe I should investigate.
>
> Jeanie- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

What ORB?
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On Mar 25, 1:20 pm, "Jeanie" <Nob....DeleteThis@home.com> wrote:
> maxon wrote:
> > "DeAnn" <DeAnn....DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:17dff98c-1965-45ec-b8d1-0a3d4a80ded3@n77g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>
> > What ORB?
>
> > I think they mean the aspiration changer orb - it's an aspiration
> > reward object, I think.
>
> > Best wishes
> > maxon
>
> Yes.  I've tried the Smart Milk and the Thinking Cap in the aspiration
> rewards and was unimpressed by either one.  Most of those things look so
> goofy I don't know where in the world to put them on the lot!  I've never
> even looked at the orb, though.
>
> Jeanie

I like smartmilk. Usually a parent can recover the aspiration points
they use to buy it by training the toddler (for family oriented sims,
anyway) and it gives the kid a bit of an edge in life. At one time, I
did it with all toddlers, including age transition so they would be
smart children (the effects last through that age stage if they glow
during transition). Now I just use it with some of the sims who are
more inclined to want it (family and knowledge parents).
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