Stupid Things I've Done
I need to rant, so I'm creating a place to do so. I'm hoping others will add their rants so I won't feel so bad about mine. You might want to bookmark this thread, so you can come back to it when you have something to add.
For the past few months or so, I've been building my own custom world. I don't have the patience to do so however. What seems to be working for me, is to export the pathetic early version, and play it. While doing so, I add and/or update the public lots, save them to the bin, add them in CAW. I play a couple of games with each version of the world. Recently my sims were invited to a party. They arrived with a full bladder, but couldn't go to the bathroom. I figured it out later after starting a game using that house. The tree at the side, bled into the house, blocking the stairs. Because of this, I have now started to move my sim family through the available houses. I've found glitches galore. This is not the stupid thing I've done.
In the most recent, as the family grew and personal collections accumulate, I bought a second lot and placed bookcases (separate shelves for skill books, recipes, fishing, general reading, sim written books), WA chests for personal belongings (graduation diplomas, school trophies, reward certificates etc.) relics, collected rocks, bugs etc., a garden (because you can't really move all the plants every time they move). I don't know if having two lots caused the quirks that entered the game, but that may have been the cause. I couldn't access the chests or bookcases. Even after moving the family to that lot, things were still screwed up. I gave up and started a new game.
Oops. I keep a list of lots with changes, both current and upcoming ideas. When I end a game, I go in one last time, save all the lots to the bin so they can be added in CAW. I don't save after each edit, because I may update them half a dozen times during any game. Because of all the bugs, I was so fed up that I forgot to save the lots. I probably lost about 20 hours worth of lot editing. At least I have a list of what I did. Now I have to edit the list, moving the edits to the needs editing column. What a waste of time.
For the past few months or so, I've been building my own custom world. I don't have the patience to do so however. What seems to be working for me, is to export the pathetic early version, and play it. While doing so, I add and/or update the public lots, save them to the bin, add them in CAW. I play a couple of games with each version of the world. Recently my sims were invited to a party. They arrived with a full bladder, but couldn't go to the bathroom. I figured it out later after starting a game using that house. The tree at the side, bled into the house, blocking the stairs. Because of this, I have now started to move my sim family through the available houses. I've found glitches galore. This is not the stupid thing I've done.
In the most recent, as the family grew and personal collections accumulate, I bought a second lot and placed bookcases (separate shelves for skill books, recipes, fishing, general reading, sim written books), WA chests for personal belongings (graduation diplomas, school trophies, reward certificates etc.) relics, collected rocks, bugs etc., a garden (because you can't really move all the plants every time they move). I don't know if having two lots caused the quirks that entered the game, but that may have been the cause. I couldn't access the chests or bookcases. Even after moving the family to that lot, things were still screwed up. I gave up and started a new game.
Oops. I keep a list of lots with changes, both current and upcoming ideas. When I end a game, I go in one last time, save all the lots to the bin so they can be added in CAW. I don't save after each edit, because I may update them half a dozen times during any game. Because of all the bugs, I was so fed up that I forgot to save the lots. I probably lost about 20 hours worth of lot editing. At least I have a list of what I did. Now I have to edit the list, moving the edits to the needs editing column. What a waste of time.
