Dream Home Decorator
Sul Sul! ๐ I'm here to report a few issues (bugs?) with the latest DLC Dream Home Decorator. I have tried to search up if anyone was having the same problems, but I couldn't find the specifics so he...
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That's kinda the problem. Most gigs you only get three "bubbles" of what they like or dislike. I try asking several people to "even" it out, but with only three to go on... I WISH I had the simology panel so I could just look at everyone and see ALL their likes and dislikes, but like I said, it's BROKEN. In the end all I have to go on is the THREE listed and most of the time, they don't help.
Like a bathroom and all I get is "Likes violin", "Hates bowling", and "Hates Purple". What the heck am I supposed to do with that? Since there's NOTHING about decor I can't "Suggest" a new one so I am sure to fail even IF I put a "violin" in the bathroom.
Only a few additions? You've GOT to be kidding. I have like 20-30 gigs on my UI list and HALF of them are "additions". Maybe because I've been skipping them all because the game is broken for them. Edit: Just counted them, I have 37 gigs and 17 of them are "Additions", so just under HALF.
Edit: Just tried ANOTHER "Addition", a "Level Addition". Said "Restricted to top level". Top level had 3 roof pieces, I could delete ONE but not the other TWO. (And they were all on the same level) I tried creating walls and got the same error I always get. I tried creating walls EVERYWHERE on EVERY level and still get the same error. I'm forced to cancel the gig, lose the money and a TON of reputation. The whole system is FUBAR.
I can DO the gigs and get paid every time IF I skip "Addition" gigs and somehow am lucky enough to get some decent "likes and dislikes" during the RANDOM selections...
Just like all other packs that have come out the past year, it's COMPLETELY BROKEN.
Why do I keep buying these? I REALLY need to stop. They simply aren't worth it.
You can only see the active sims simology panel. Mine works fine. Since you only see the active sims I don't see how that would help you. Are you thinking of something else?
I don't know why on earth you would place a violin in a bathroom. It should be evident that noone in their right mind would like one there. So I'm not surprised you got a fail on that. May I suggest that you in the future give some thought to if a given item belongs in the room you are redesigning. You wouldn't place a toilet in the living room would you. You say hates purple that one is easy make sure that the tiles and appliances are not purple.
Simple things like that goes a long way to success with a gig.
I mean If I that have never been accused of being a good interior designer can make the entire Caliente household be ecstatic about a simple redesign as this living room then you certainly should be able to pass your Gigs.
Likes Island decor and Garden decor. Dislikes Bowling.
Wall covering doors and rug from Island Living and a Collection of Small Garden Planters at the far wall and a cowplant poster plus a few plants to add just a hint of gardening. No hint of Bowling in sight the rest are mainly from DHD.
If you post before and after pictures of a failed gig thegig description and any likes/dislikes you learned I may be able to give you some specific pointers I haven't done any full levels yet so can't help you there.
Well, If I had those to work with, that would be easy. But if the only options I have are Likes Violin, hates purple, hates bowling... what else can I do but put a violin in the bathroom? Everything else is guesswork besides not using purple or bowling stuff. I suspect that a violin as a single "like" isn't enough. Maybe they like island decor? I don't know because I CAN'T SEE the sim profile panel! All I can do is GUESS. and since there are what... two DOZEN different decor styles... The chance of me randomly guessing the right decor is remote.
If I can get even ONE decor style "like", and preferably one color "like" then I have that gig locked down. Guaranteed. Problem is, most of the time we don't even get "LIKES", let alone DECOR likes. You need both. As I said, I got one gig with nothing but four color likes and NO decor. I failed because I had to GUESS on the decor and I guessed wrong. Just choosing the right colors isn't enough.
Just pick a simple consistent style for the bathroom that does not include something purple and don't put something there that does not belong. Do not add too much clutter either. Just as in real life they tend to not like that. If you post the before and after photos (in your screenshots folder) I can be more specific.
That's what I've BEEN DOING.
Since I have to GUESS at the decor, I usually just pick one and go with that. Most of the time I fail because I didn't randomly pick the decor they liked.
I don't think I'll be continuing it. Since ALL the high-paying gigs are all "Addition" gigs, and since ALL addition gigs are BROKEN, I only have the $300-600 gigs to choose from. I can get twice that much from writing a single book, painting, or garden harvest. It's just not worth the hassle. And I HATE having to rely upon "Guessing".
Well you are the only one claiming that it is too hard while several others I have seen says it is too easy. That should tell you something. I have offered to help but you do not seem interested in that.
- @jpkarlsen Unless you can remove the "Guesswork", fix the sim profile panel bug, and re-program the "Additions" gigs so they actually work... there isn't anything you can do.
I'm gonna just leave it until its fixed. And seeing the state of the older packs that never got fixed... I won't hold my breath. I hopped on DHD right away, because I was specifically super excited to finally have chaises-longues (a must-have for lux builds, in my book), but usually I try to give packs a good six to eight weeks after release, simply because there are inevitably wrinkles in the implementation of new features.
I try to take bugs philosophically. At least I am learning how the gigs work, and getting practice with the system, so when it is patched, I know what I am doing. Even my guesswork builds have been fairly well received - maybe I have been lucky.@Psychotps you mentioned getting conflicting likes and dislikes in a gig.... was that from a lone Sim or from a household with multiple Sims? If you are getting conflicting likes and dislikes from the same Sim, then something is indeed wrong๐ . But if it is for a household that is very realistic (it happens all the time on design shows in real life!!! Even with my own parents it was a problem! ๐คญ ๐ )
My first gig was for the Heckings of Brindleton Bay. One loved gray, the other hated gray. So I decided it was best to ignore gray altogether. That only left me with Loves Snowboarding. So I put one snowboard and one winter sports rack in the bedroom and just redid a normal bedroom with out using gray. They loved it! Here are the pics of the before and after>>>You can see the aqua colored snowboard on the floor in front of the winter sports rack.
My next clients loved Mid Century, loved orange, and hated something I don't even remember what it way now. Thee kitchen items for Mid Century weren't classified as orange, even though they certainly looked orange to me, so they might have been tagged as red or brown. So to make up for that I put in a lot of orange clutter, which was my mistake! Just like real life, clutter alone isn't going to make a room. ( If you have your big ticket items in French Country, sprinkling a few Modern items won't make your room suddenly modern!) Here is my failure:
You can see all the clutter that is just lining the right wall. ( @jpkarlsen was the one who told me that a lot of clutter doesn't work, and after following his advise on that I've been sucessful! ๐) They hated it! They hated it so much they sent me several mean letters! ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฃ
I still had fun doing the gig, and it was a good learning experience!
After that I didn't put nearly as much clutter and have been successful each time! Even when I redid a room for the Spencer-Kim-Lewis family from the base game... there are 5 people to please in that household! But the gig was for a kid's room, so I concentrated on the little girl to fill up the icons... She loved pink, yellow, and rocket science. But then I noticed I could ask the other people their likes and dislikes and wrote them down. Mom also loved pink, Dad hated white, Grandpa hated something irrelevant, and Grandma loved black. So, I concentrated mostly on pink and yellow, with some bits of black. Avoided white, Avoided the irrelevant thing grandpa hated, and used the bb.showhiddenobjects cheat to unlock a completed rocket science project (from Parenthood) and the level 1 Rocket Science skill book that I put on her desk! I don't know if those last 2 items counted, but they didn't hurt since the gig was a success! That was a very hard gig since I had to please 5 people! ๐You can kink of see the rocket project in the center of the room!
I also did a successful renovation for some of the people in Glimmerbrook, with just a few choice items. I hardly touched their budget -- in fact I hardly did anything! ๐คจ But they loved it! ๐
I did another kitchen makeover for the Landgraabs (I wasn't sure if they would count the dinning room or not since it was kind of open to the kitchen so I did that too just in case. They all liked it and Geoffrey even hugged me and cried for joy! ๐
I also think it is fun not knowing exactly if your clients will like your work or not! Kind of thrilling! ๐ However, if I was starting a rags to riches play and failed that wouldn't be as fun, to be sure! But I do enjoy the element of surprise! ๐ฅณ
@Sindocat there is an element of luck to it, I'm sure, but there is also some logic as well. We are all just learning right now anyway. I think the important thing is to not take it too seriously and have fun with it! ๐ Also, I'm sure there will be people who will play this pack with the intent of giving their clients what they don't want! ๐ฟ๐
