I have a Sim who's been preparing meals in the same house for a while now without problems. Now, for the first time, all her options when she attempts to Serve Lunch are greyed out, with advisory text saying that the Sim "must have a counter to prepare" this or that. But the counters are right next to the fridge, clean and uncluttered. How can I fix this?
Figured it out — there's another one of those "social jig" ovals on the floor in front of the counters. I can't see it, but when I move the cursor over that area, I get the "No interactions available" message.
I just moved the property to this location to exorcise it of the several social jigs I already had. Did the trick, but why do they keep coming up?
Try deleting them with moveObjects on. Not sure if that works if you can't see them.
Would you mind sharing your savegame ? I'd like to make a blog post about it and try out several things myself but I need a game that hast them in order to do so.
If that would be ok with you, please send me a PM.
The SocialJigs are one of those temp items that the games fails to clean out properly.
Thanks much for the response. 🙂
I can't delete the social jigs even when I can see them; I had to move the property to another space to get rid of them, though in doing that I created another undeletable object — the sculpture base, which I had to use moveObjects on to move to an out-of-the-way corner.
Happy to share a saved game ... how do I do that? And what's a PM?
Private Message. Just click on the little envelope in the upper right corner.
You will need to zip up the whole folder containing the savegame (in documents\electronicarts\thesims3\saves and upload to some file sharing site like mediafire (anything I don't have to register to download) and then send me the link.
Only have use if they social jigs are still there.
Have you had a chance to check out the savegame?
In the two weeks since I sent it, I got around the problem simply by moving the household to a different property — the treehouse property at 404 Huckleberry Lane. The social jigs seem to become visible when I switch to another household and then switch back, so I simply never switched to any other household.
That worked until yesterday, when I split up the household and switched to the offshoot family for a couple sim days; when I switched back to the household at 404 Huckleberry Lane, I found two social jigs in the kitchen that weren't there before.
I expect I'll have to switch a lot between the main household and the offshoot one in the near future, though I'm afraid to since, the more I switch, the more social jigs accumulate on the properties until they become unlivable.
Sorry, did you expect an answer back ? I thougth you had it kinda sorted for the moment ?
Wanted your savegame so I can make a blog post on it and no, I haven't gotten round to doing that.
I can look at it tomorrow if you need feedback.
