How to Operate a Daycare?
One of my sims tried having a daycare as a business, way back when I was first playing, but it glitched out. One of the guardians who dropped off a kid stayed and was stuck and starved and got smelly until he finally moved from the spot but then fainted.
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While Grady is in the study reading the newspaper, Egduardo, a townie who brought Columbo's daycare kid yesterday, is still stuck, getting smelly, hungry and tired. Since he's just a townie with no family connections, we're just leaving him there.
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Oh my gawd, at 3.48am, almost 2 days later, Edgardo walked away from his spot. Hopefully to go home.
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No such luck, it was only to faint again. At least he's in a different room now.
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The game said if 'Dante' doesn't get fed soon the social worker will close the daycare. Dante is at home, this loser is Edgardo. Columbo offered some lobster thermidore but he's not taking it.
I don't know what I ended up doing about it but I must have reset him, and then a bit later my sim switched to a different career, and then a couple of pages later my memory-story went:
And it said:
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Her household also needs to move because the glitchy daycare left a bunch of shiny oval rugs where the parents all dropped off their kids and never left. Furniture etc can't be placed there and build and buy mode won't let me delete them, even after resetting the house and household.
Now during the time that he had the daycare, I did switch households to pick up someone's urn and switched back, and its not for certain if the trouble started before or after. However during the switch, a daycare centre symbol displayed in the neighbourhood over their house just like how parties have the party symbol, or the medical jobs appear and such. So that indicated to me that it was 'operating' while I was in the other house.
I was also not saving-as, only saving. Would either the household switch or the Save instead of Save-As been the cause of it?
I've moved on from that save years ago (2015), and never tried another daycare. However I'd like to try a daycare again now, in a different save, house and world. Is there anything anyone can tip me on for getting it to work properly, and not glitch out like that again? Or has it always had problems with no avoiding the eventual shiny oval rugs and stuck sims?
Also, does it eventually get kids as well as or instead of toddlers?