Into The Future Bug Thread

kusurusu wrote:

amjoie wrote:

n00biityo wrote:

amjoie wrote:

n00biityo wrote:
I got another update on the Rhythm-a-con here. There's a quote from Mev and you can see the other people having the same problem as me. Mev found a work-around to at least finish the statue challenge.

Mev1015 wrote:

I don't think the party would work. The Sims in the present don't seem to have the ability to see or hear your Sim play. For some reason accepting the "opportunities" does count toward the Sims watching you play. You may have to do a lot of them. I just kept accepting all opportunities to play for award ceremonies etc. I went to the future and bang the music goes off that I have achieved the "Lustrus Entertainer" statue. I'm not sure when I reached enough but I think I had around 20.

Sims in the present of my game not only listened, but danced in place and approved. Everyone who listened gave simolean tips (some of them tipped more than once). Then some of them started dancing together to the music. It was adorable. All my sim did was play for tips in the park until enough sims had listened. I got a popup, while still in the present park, that my sim had gotten the statue. Emit even showed up to talk to my sim, in the present, as a holograph. The whole experience was fast, easy, and cute.

I don't know if it matters, but the sim I was using to get the statue was a plumbot with the music trait chip.

Please try to play for tips. It could be that was what EA had in mind. I'll try today to get a regular sim achieve the statue, but it will take a while to skill one up for it.

No freaking **** Sherlock. What do you think we have been doing? Please unless you actually have the problem or know how to fix it, please refrain from making useless comments.

Also WHY is this issue being ignored. Apparently there's a similar problem with the clothing pedestals.

The red and large letters are your emphasis, not mine. I have no idea what you are doing in your game, and only wished to share what I had done that was successful, as an aid to your troubleshooting.

I was also in the process of bringing one of my faerie sims up the level 10 (they are now half past level 9, and it has been work getting him there because he has also started a new job I'm testing) so I could ascertain whether regular sims in my game, not just bots with a musical trait chip, could successfully get a statue.

I was doing the above troubleshooting not for myself, but to give you further information -- however, it is obvious to me from your reply that you do not welcome my help, so I will no longer bother to have that sim try for a statue.

Apparently you do not consider that, in troubleshooting, it is valid and useful information that another person may be able to successfully do what you are unable to do in your game. So be it.

The Watch_LaserHarp has only advertising scores for future Sims and a few lot types. You could play on an empty community lot which is labeled as Big Park or configure the tuning file.

I just got thinking perhaps the above is also why no one is tipping me while playing the rhythm-a-con. Not only are people not watching, they won't tip either...so it looks like this bug is a bad one (since some opportunites, unfortanetly, are effected also since you never get tipped or watched properly..)

Also, sorry to bother you about these issues crinrict, but i think it will help everyone to know the following information about these particular bugs..

ONE OTHER THING: I noticed you mentioned this on the front page also, and Chopin27 mentions it, but i notice in my seasons festival park, the music justs cuts out for the dancing music, even though it shows the image around the speakers wavy (like they are blasting out music). This prevented me from dancing, even though technically, the speakers are on. This is to confirm the glitch mentioned by Chopin27.

#1. This happened in present day in a Festival big park, with walled speakers that it came with (i did not mess around with editing the lot).

NOT A GLITCH: I noticed the game auto shuts off music now if you play any kind of instrument. The glitch may have something to do with this, especially when a NPC plays a music instrument (like they do alot of times) may cause the normal function, i.e. for the speaker or the stereo, to shut off when playing a musical instrument, but instead of auto turning on, they act like they are shut off, even if it shows the graphics representation of the music coming out of the speakers/stereo..

FIX: Turn off the speakers and turn them on if you have issues with not being able to dance with the bug..it is kinda annoying you have to do this every time to fix this bug, but at least it is fixable.

I also notice when my controllable sims play instruments when at home, and the stereo is on, they play the music over the stereo music, so you can hear their music and the stereo music both playing at same time..it doesn't sound very pleasant, so this also could be related to the bug and issue with the music issue..

CONFIRMATION ON HAVING TIME PORTAL ISSUE WITH SKILL LEVEL OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY MAXED:

Several people via the social tab on my page and in the game had the issue with having maxed out advanced skill and not being able to use the time portal due to this problem. I told them to use a person in the same family with a lower level advanced skill level, and it worked for them...i suggest you post this on the front page, i mean, you even mentioned people were experiencing this bug at gamescon, and it is reproducible too and quite annoying..im afraid of what will happen when my whole family gets level 10 advanced technology skill maxed..

One person even mentioned waiting for an hour for the time portal to activate..lol..i felt sorry for them..and mentioned the above way to circumvent it.

TEMP FIX FOR TIME PORTAL WITH ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY SKILL MAXED:

Play with another sim in same family with lower level advanced technology skill in same household. This is temp fix as i don't know what will happen if all members of same household are all maxed out with the skill..

Also, it may not happen all the time, but it happens quite a bit. I suggest always saving before trying to use time portal with a maxed out advanced technology skill..