The infinite grounding loop, RE: Generations

[J. M. Pescado]

You couldn't confine them to a shed out in the back for that purpose instead?

[morriganrant]

I thought confining to their room pretty much did that, at least with confinement to the house you can force needed household upkeep on them.

[witch]

I wish someone would confine me to my room. I never get enough computer playtime.

[morriganrant]

Back to report it's most certainly a EA issue. Using the same family, no AM, only CC is Twallans No-cd, my teen autonomously attempts to walk out the house to get on the bus and he's autonomously denied by his parent due to the grounding. I assume he wasn't denied on his way to school the first few times because he was not in the same room as the parent when he headed for the bus, this time he is. Pressing the "go to school" button and re triggering the "get on bus" action brings it back up in the queue only for it to immediately be dropped. It should probably be mentioned that the grounding is not a confinement to the house, but one to the lot, he can go out and swing on the swings in the yard just fine so far.

[J. M. Pescado]

I notice that you are using KEWIAN-BASED SUBSTITUTES. ACCEPT NO KEWIAN-BASED SUBSTITUTES.

[morriganrant]

That house is all EA made, I just dropped in a dress up chest and a tree house to fulfill some wants while I was waiting for the scenario to play itself out. Not one of my houses.

[J. M. Pescado]

I can't quite imagine how confinement to a "house" would work, anyway, since sims are not guaranteed to live in houses, as the most common startup build is "furniture on a lawn".

[morriganrant]

The grounding is confinement to the lot. The adult only has a shit fit when the teen tries to go to a location off lot, like the school bus sitting on the road. He can go out and swing on the swings in the yard, get the mail, sit on the lawn without issue, at least so far. So, you could confine the teen to a underground bunker, garage, tool shed, or even a tree house on lot for story telling purposes if the mood so took you.

[J. M. Pescado]

That was my point, yes. You're still not sending me a save to analyze this in, though.

[fway]

One solution I've found to somewhat fix this is modify the Punishment XML file by adding this in the code:

Code:

<AbsolvingAction>
  <AbsolvingActionType>GoToSchoolInRabbitHole</AbsolvingActionType>
  <TroublePointsRemoved>20</TroublePointsRemoved>
 </AbsolvingAction>

The only drawback is Sims won't be able to go to school by bus, you will have to direct them to go to school either by clicking on the rabbithole (they will go by cab) or a vehicle that they can use. At least the Sim in question won't be scolded for going to school.

[morriganrant]

The first save had it I swear. It's the same save I used to take the picture up thread.

[PA]

Not having actually looked at the file you attached, I think 0k and has nothing means the save you included was empty for some reason, not that it was OK and had nothing wrong with it.

[morriganrant]

Not having actually looked at the file you attached, I think 0k and has nothing means the save you included was empty for some reason, not that it was OK and had nothing wrong with it.

Jesus Christ was that it? My eye sight is shit. Well, I haven't been near m gaming computer for days so I wouldn't have been able to reup anyway. It rared up fine. Perhaps goombas ate it.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9TU81VDI

[J. M. Pescado]

Newest AwesomeMod now fixes this problem. Issue closed.