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Seasoned Novice

3 years ago

Solved

I turned off NAPs and NPC voting, but Power Conservation Day still happened!

The first time the game shut off power to my sims' apartment, I looked this up and people wrote to uncheck "Eco Footprint" and "NPC Voting" in the Pack Settings. Okay, so I did. Eventually the power came back on and I happily continued playing. No problems, until JUST NOW, I got the notification that it's Power Conservation Day again and the power is shut off. I looked in the settings to see if somehow the Eco Lifestyle options had been enabled. Nope, they're still unchecked just as I left them. Why is Power Conservation Day still happening? I thought unchecking the Eco Lifestyle stuff was supposed to disable this power outage stuff.

P.S. Screenshot attached so that it's clear which options I had unchecked. Keep in mind that these were unchecked days ago. I didn't just uncheck them after the lights turned off.

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jpkarlsen
3 years ago
@SuddenlyMangos
Turning off NPC voting means that they can't vote in any new NAPs. Any existing NAPs will still be there. you need to repeal those. the ECO footprint is unrelated to this.

5 Replies

jpkarlsen
Hero (Retired)
3 years ago
@SuddenlyMangos
Turning off NPC voting means that they can't vote in any new NAPs. Any existing NAPs will still be there. you need to repeal those. the ECO footprint is unrelated to this.
CWC922
3 years ago
Yes, I've noticed that too. Its a bit odd to say the least, but that's Sims for us. If you have solar panels and windmills ALTHOUGH that WILL happen your power won't go off. Hoping that helps.
Bohuslav
Seasoned Novice
3 years ago
Okay, thank you both. I'm glad it's not a bug. I didn't realize that even though I had turned off part of it that the NAP was still there...I will repeal it. Thank you!
Bohuslav
Seasoned Novice
3 years ago
@CWC922 That does help. Thank you!
simsplayer818
Hero
3 years ago
It's extra annoying when you don't have neighbours to repeal NAPs.
Some NAPs set automatically in my game and my Sim lives in Cordelia's Secret Cottage which I made into a little farm, with only 1 neighbour. He's tried to repeal the NAP by getting signatures in the local pub as he's super popular but it said you can only repeal them in their own neighbourhood.
It's going to mean moving a family there temporarily to repeal one annoying NAP.
I finished with that Sim anyway and moved on. It was problematic as he is a farmer who runs a garden centre with every plant in the game for sale and all vegetarian preserves hand made plus he baked for the village competitions. I had him make everything from scratch to sell or use and only from his own produce. He had chickens producing special eggs.
I ended up building him a state of the art trailer on his garden centre lot in Oasis Springs. So he stayed there on power conservation day to stop losing his produce in the fridge. It's a bit of a daft one anyway as food waste is a big part of conservation so throwing out a fridge full is counter productive.