The Sims 1 and 2 various comments

On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:32:38 GMT, "kat" <kat.RemoveThis@ntalk.org> wrote:

>Strider wrote:
>>>> They or their parents cannot order food in the hotel restaurant,
>>>> but
>>>> they can order food via room service and from the food stands on
>>>> other lots.
>>>
>>> That's what I read. But if they go out in a group, why not?
>>
>> I don't know. In my game the option of ordering food for groups never
>> shows up. Adult sims can order food but only for themselves. Unless
>> I'm doing something wrong, of course.
>
>As far as I can follow it from what maxon said I think you actually have to
>make them into a Group - as in Manage Groups - not just a party - the screen
>you get for who is going out.

I put the kids in the group with the mother before I sent them on vacation, but the option
to order food for the group doesn't come up. The kids can still only order food via room
service.

I thought there was something wrong with my game so I installed the Sims 2 and Bon voyage
clean on another computer, but the option to order food for the group doesn't show up
there either. I don't know why it doesn't work. I've tried it with the BV patch also, but
the result is the same.
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I think that what they are saying is that even though they went on vacation
together and are considered a "party," for them to eat together at a
restaurant at a hotel, you have to make them form a "group." As if they
were now going to go downtown. Even though they are on vacation together,
it does not make them a "group." Use the actions to ask them to form a
group or manage groups as has been suggested. Then the little blue plumbobs
should show up and they should be able to eat.

BD


<Strider> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:32:38 GMT, "kat" <kat DeleteThis @ntalk.org> wrote:
>
>>Strider wrote:
>>>>> They or their parents cannot order food in the hotel restaurant,
>>>>> but
>>>>> they can order food via room service and from the food stands on
>>>>> other lots.
>>>>
>>>> That's what I read. But if they go out in a group, why not?
>>>
>>> I don't know. In my game the option of ordering food for groups never
>>> shows up. Adult sims can order food but only for themselves. Unless
>>> I'm doing something wrong, of course.
>>
>>As far as I can follow it from what maxon said I think you actually have
>>to
>>make them into a Group - as in Manage Groups - not just a party - the
>>screen
>>you get for who is going out.
>
> I put the kids in the group with the mother before I sent them on
> vacation, but the option
> to order food for the group doesn't come up. The kids can still only order
> food via room
> service.
>
> I thought there was something wrong with my game so I installed the Sims 2
> and Bon voyage
> clean on another computer, but the option to order food for the group
> doesn't show up
> there either. I don't know why it doesn't work. I've tried it with the BV
> patch also, but
> the result is the same.
>
>
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On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 12:50:55 -0500, "bd85tx" <bd85tx RemoveThis @NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote:

>I think that what they are saying is that even though they went on vacation
>together and are considered a "party," for them to eat together at a
>restaurant at a hotel, you have to make them form a "group." As if they
>were now going to go downtown. Even though they are on vacation together,
>it does not make them a "group." Use the actions to ask them to form a
>group or manage groups as has been suggested. Then the little blue plumbobs
>should show up and they should be able to eat.


Yes, I've tried that, I've tried every actions related to groups but no option to order
food for groups comes up.

If there is something wrong with my game I don't know where it is. Both the game and the
expack install without a problem.



><Strider> wrote in message
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>> On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:32:38 GMT, "kat" <kat RemoveThis @ntalk.org> wrote:
>>
>>>Strider wrote:
>>>>>> They or their parents cannot order food in the hotel restaurant,
>>>>>> but
>>>>>> they can order food via room service and from the food stands on
>>>>>> other lots.
>>>>>
>>>>> That's what I read. But if they go out in a group, why not?
>>>>
>>>> I don't know. In my game the option of ordering food for groups never
>>>> shows up. Adult sims can order food but only for themselves. Unless
>>>> I'm doing something wrong, of course.
>>>
>>>As far as I can follow it from what maxon said I think you actually have
>>>to
>>>make them into a Group - as in Manage Groups - not just a party - the
>>>screen
>>>you get for who is going out.
>>
>> I put the kids in the group with the mother before I sent them on
>> vacation, but the option
>> to order food for the group doesn't come up. The kids can still only order
>> food via room
>> service.
>>
>> I thought there was something wrong with my game so I installed the Sims 2
>> and Bon voyage
>> clean on another computer, but the option to order food for the group
>> doesn't show up
>> there either. I don't know why it doesn't work. I've tried it with the BV
>> patch also, but
>> the result is the same.
>>
>>
>
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On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 12:50:55 -0500, "bd85tx" <bd85tx.DeleteThis@NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote:

>I think that what they are saying is that even though they went on vacation
>together and are considered a "party," for them to eat together at a
>restaurant at a hotel, you have to make them form a "group." As if they
>were now going to go downtown. Even though they are on vacation together,
>it does not make them a "group." Use the actions to ask them to form a
>group or manage groups as has been suggested. Then the little blue plumbobs
>should show up and they should be able to eat.

Actually I found out what was wrong:

In Bon Voyage it isn't possible to order food at hotel restaurants because they simply
don't exist. There are something that looks like a restaurant in the hotels but it cannot
be used as such. Food can be ordered via roomservice for single sims or for the group and
that's it.


If you have Nightlife installed the restaurants at the hotels turn into real restaurants
and you can use the Nightlife group management to order food for the kids.

It didn't work for me because there was something wrong with my installation of Nightlife.
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Strider wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 12:50:55 -0500, "bd85tx" <bd85tx RemoveThis @NOSPAMyahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I think that what they are saying is that even though they went on
>> vacation
>> together and are considered a "party," for them to eat together at a
>> restaurant at a hotel, you have to make them form a "group." As if
>> they
>> were now going to go downtown. Even though they are on vacation
>> together,
>> it does not make them a "group." Use the actions to ask them to
>> form a
>> group or manage groups as has been suggested. Then the little blue
>> plumbobs
>> should show up and they should be able to eat.
>
> Actually I found out what was wrong:
>
> In Bon Voyage it isn't possible to order food at hotel restaurants
> because they simply don't exist. There are something that looks like
> a restaurant in the hotels but it cannot be used as such. Food can be
> ordered via roomservice for single sims or for the group and that's
> it.
>
>
> If you have Nightlife installed the restaurants at the hotels turn
> into real restaurants and you can use the Nightlife group management
> to order food for the kids.
>
> It didn't work for me because there was something wrong with my
> installation of Nightlife.

You know, I wondered about that at one point, did it need to have NightLife
as the Groupd came with that , then forgot all about it. Did you get it
fixed?


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kat
>^..^<
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>> If you have Nightlife installed the restaurants at the hotels turn
>> into real restaurants and you can use the Nightlife group management
>> to order food for the kids.
>>
>> It didn't work for me because there was something wrong with my
>> installation of Nightlife.
>
>You know, I wondered about that at one point, did it need to have NightLife
>as the Groupd came with that , then forgot all about it. Did you get it
>fixed?

No. The group management in Nightlife never worked for me. I can form groups but the
option of calling group doesn't work for me at all but if I try to call group over or meat
at community lots, the sim picks up the phone and then put it down again. It can't be my
savedgames that is the problem because I've tried installing it clean on other computers
and it never works.

I discovered that Nightlife was the problem by accident, I was at a friend's to try to
fix a problem he had with the network and he has the games so I asked him to get a family
with kids to form a group and go to a BV hotel, and the group certainly work for him so
there is definitely something wrong with my copy of Nightlife.

Well, it doesn't really matter if Nl is the only thing that doesn't work, I never liked it
and I've only gone to downtown a few times.
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Strider wrote:
>>> If you have Nightlife installed the restaurants at the hotels turn
>>> into real restaurants and you can use the Nightlife group management
>>> to order food for the kids.
>>>
>>> It didn't work for me because there was something wrong with my
>>> installation of Nightlife.
>>
>> You know, I wondered about that at one point, did it need to have
>> NightLife
>> as the Groupd came with that , then forgot all about it. Did you
>> get it
>> fixed?
>
> No. The group management in Nightlife never worked for me. I can form
> groups but the option of calling group doesn't work for me at all but
> if I try to call group over or meat at community lots, the sim picks
> up the phone and then put it down again. It can't be my savedgames
> that is the problem because I've tried installing it clean on other
> computers and it never works.
>
> I discovered that Nightlife was the problem by accident, I was at a
> friend's to try to fix a problem he had with the network and he has
> the games so I asked him to get a family with kids to form a group
> and go to a BV hotel, and the group certainly work for him so there
> is definitely something wrong with my copy of Nightlife.
>
> Well, it doesn't really matter if Nl is the only thing that doesn't
> work, I never liked it and I've only gone to downtown a few times.

I like a lot of things about NightLife but I rarely bother with Groups.
Mostly I build my own "downtown" style lots on the main 'hood ,too.


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"kat" <kat RemoveThis @ntalk.org> wrote in message
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> Strider wrote:
> > On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 12:50:55 -0500, "bd85tx" <bd85tx RemoveThis @NOSPAMyahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I think that what they are saying is that even though they went on
> >> vacation
> >> together and are considered a "party," for them to eat together at a
> >> restaurant at a hotel, you have to make them form a "group." As if
> >> they
> >> were now going to go downtown. Even though they are on vacation
> >> together,
> >> it does not make them a "group." Use the actions to ask them to
> >> form a
> >> group or manage groups as has been suggested. Then the little blue
> >> plumbobs
> >> should show up and they should be able to eat.
> >
> > Actually I found out what was wrong:
> >
> > In Bon Voyage it isn't possible to order food at hotel restaurants
> > because they simply don't exist. There are something that looks like
> > a restaurant in the hotels but it cannot be used as such. Food can be
> > ordered via roomservice for single sims or for the group and that's
> > it.
> >
> >
> > If you have Nightlife installed the restaurants at the hotels turn
> > into real restaurants and you can use the Nightlife group management
> > to order food for the kids.
> >
> > It didn't work for me because there was something wrong with my
> > installation of Nightlife.
>
> You know, I wondered about that at one point, did it need to have
NightLife
> as the Groupd came with that , then forgot all about it. Did you get it
> fixed?

That's odd - I thought there was never anything buggy with Strider's game.
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>> I discovered that Nightlife was the problem by accident, I was at a
>> friend's to try to fix a problem he had with the network and he has
>> the games so I asked him to get a family with kids to form a group
>> and go to a BV hotel, and the group certainly work for him so there
>> is definitely something wrong with my copy of Nightlife.
>>
>> Well, it doesn't really matter if Nl is the only thing that doesn't
>> work, I never liked it and I've only gone to downtown a few times.
>
> I like a lot of things about NightLife but I rarely bother with Groups.
>Mostly I build my own "downtown" style lots on the main 'hood ,too.

I don't have any problems with Nightlife except that the group thing - which I haven't
tried much - didn't work.

Anyway, I couldn't find a way to get my savedgames to work without NL, so I bought a new
copy and installed it. And there are some changes.

First I compared the new copy of NL with the old and noticed that some of the files on the
old disks are a lot smaller then the same files on the new disks. So the problem was
definitely the disks.

Another thing I discovered is that I have to change my opinion of NL a little bit.
As the group thing now works, I realise that it's a rather useful thing after all. As
forming a group and calling it together before leaving for vacation is the only way I can
take the DMA Sims on vacation and having them stay, I like it. There's no longer any
problem ordering food in hotel restaurants or downtown or getting the group to meet on
community lots.

Now I have to build a much larger hotel that has rooms for all my sims:-(
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Strider wrote:

> Now I have to build a much larger hotel that has rooms for all my
> sims:-(

But that can be fun.

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