AutoYakYak Macro Phone Caller (10/25/06)

[dusty]

This is a known effect of what happens if you install the phone hack while somebody is on the phone. Make sure people in all saved lots are not on the phone before installing phone-mods of any kind.

Thank you. Reinstalled it with no one on the phone and it works fine now. 

[Kitiara]

Weird. Are you SURE you're not using the WRONG version? The "new family option" is a part of the AutoYak, not the Phone Hack. Make sure you're not using the wrong Phone Hack, like Phonehack Old.

It's not the old version. And I redownloaded. But, now the autoyak features work with the phonehack out (before they wouldn't), but putting the phonehack in tends to break everything but invite. Oh well, I appreciate your suggestions; I'll just live without the phonehack.

[J. M. Pescado]

I'll look into this to see if I can reproduce the results, but this is a mystery. You say they just stand there? Get them to stand there, and while they're doing it, force an error on them and send the log.

[Process Denied]

I guess I have the old version,but I wanted to tell you how awesome this hack is.  All my sims are at max relations with all their friends all the time.  I used to go to sim pe to max their relations before they go to uni cause they would lose their friends.  Now, I give everyone a cell phone and have them all call friends together every night- it works great.  This and the Macro Socializer are my new favs.  Keep up the great work- we really appreciate it.  You and other hackers, made this game the most awesome game ever!!!  I was playing with someone elses game(to give them the ropes) and I know now that I will never want to play this game without hacks again.  Oh, did I say thanx!!!!!!

[RainbowTigress]

I have a family that I started in CAS with the mother, father, and two toddlers.  The toddlers are now grown and graduated from college, and the family has several more children, some in college and some still at home.  The first two children now are married and each has a child.  So these would be the CAS mother and father's granchildren.  But when I use the Call Family option on their cell phones, neither has the option to call the one grandchild, and only the father has the option to call the other grandchild.  Why doesn't it recognizing the grandchildren as family?

[J. M. Pescado]

Are they not home? People who are not home do not appear on the list.

[RainbowTigress]

They have been able to call them when the children are supposed to be in school.  But this time I had them both try to call at the same time, but not actually place the call, and the girl was in the father's panel but not the mother.  I believe it was in the afternoon after 3 pm because their other kids were home.  I will check it again.

[Karen]

This works great with NL, except for one very minor issue.  The Call...Friends shows up as Groups...Manage Groups when you look at the icon in the queue.  It functions just fine, only the name of the action in the queue is incorrect.

Karen

[cwykes]

Hardly dare post here...  but
Kitiara - for clarity's sake are your sims frozen completely or just frozen trying to use the phone?  I ask because I lost free will completely this week as the side effect of a misnamed file (aka a stupidity problem) - JMs nme fix was enabled but named nme.off    I just swore when I pinned that down and disabled it....

A few people on MTS2 reported phone problems - mostly sims missing from the phone book who turned out to be invisibly stuck on the lot.  Inge's shrub fixes that of course.  Clearly not your problem, but might help someone else - unless they are all invisible stuck on the lot from last time you called them!

[Kitiara]

My post was from August. About a week later it simply cleared up. No idea why. If I changed something I no longer remember what it was.

It's been awhile, but if I remember correctly they started the call just fine then would just stand there with the phone. I could cancel out, so they weren't completely frozen, just standing around like morons.

[cwykes]

That'll teach me tol read the dates before I post!   

[KnightSkyKyte]

This is one of my most valued, most used hacks.

That was before NL when it rendered children and teens jumping out of freewill interactions and standing around like posts and I had to take it out. (Bugger! It was such a sweet dream, while it lasted...)

Any chance of it being updated anytime soon, Most Awesome One?

I'd be happy to test it!

[BlueSoup]

I have been using the AutoYak with no problems, post-NL.

Do you have another hack that is conflicting?

[ZephyrZodiac]

Works fine for me too, only occasionally Cassandra goth will be called and then disappear, although my sim is still, presumably, talking to her as he/she hasn't called anyone else!  I just clear offworld loiterers since there's no icon in the queue to cancel.  I always do that now to get rid of unwanted callers.

[KnightSkyKyte]

I'll check for hack conflicts again, since I could have missed removing a non-NL approved hack. I'll check again more carefully, especially since you guys haven't have any problems with it in NL.

I'll let you know when I find out... haven't been able to play much at all lately, the other half is feeling neglected, and I need to pay him more attention, otherwise my Sims disks will go AWOL or my graphics card will go missing...

[laylei]

Ever since NL (I believe), the Call/Family option has been missing from my phone menu. Is this because of something I did, or does the hack just need to be updated? I really miss this feature, it would help so much with my massive Legacy family.

[jrd]

Are there any family members which are not at a relationship level of 100, do they have phones, and are they at home (not at school or work)?
The menu won't appear if there are no valid callees.

[ZephyrZodiac]

If they are at that level, then they may be called with Call Friends if the relationship deteriorates while the caller is on the phone.  Call Family is most useful, I find, for newly transitioned kids to get to know their cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents or older siblings away at college.

[laylei]

Are there any family members which are not at a relationship level of 100, do they have phones, and are they at home (not at school or work)?
The menu won't appear if there are no valid callees.

No, this is for family who is 0/0. Nieces, nephews, cousins. No matter what time I try, call family isn't available. It just doesn't appear at all for me.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Sounds to me like something else is interfering with the Autoyak menu.  Maybe you don't have the latest version of the Phone Hack?

Also, it might be worth checking in SimPE to make sure all these family members are actually flagged as family.

[laylei]

Sounds to me like something else is interfering with the Autoyak menu.  Maybe you don't have the latest version of the Phone Hack?

Also, it might be worth checking in SimPE to make sure all these family members are actually flagged as family.

I'm pretty sure I do, but I'll check phonehack. And SimPE scares me silly, so I don't use it.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Which version do you have?  I usually use the Classic version as I find it easier to operate.  All you need to do is the look in the Relationships menu for one of the sims you know is having this problem and see if the check box called Family is ticked.  If not, just click on it to tick it, then save it (commit).

[laylei]

Which version do you have?  I usually use the Classic version as I find it easier to operate.  All you need to do is the look in the Relationships menu for one of the sims you know is having this problem and see if the check box called Family is ticked.  If not, just click on it to tick it, then save it (commit).

I don't have any version. I had one, got horribly confused and annoyed at having to go through so many complicated menus and technobabble that I uninstalled it and got Sim2Enhancer.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Well, in that case, you should be able to do the same thing.  What seems to happen is that sometimes the game for no apparent reason just unchecks them as family.

[laylei]

Well, I checked- my phonehack is up-to-date, but somehow, I'd missed an autoyak update!  Mine was from June 19th, and the last update was July 31st. I now have the call/family menu again.

Did it always pop up with a list of people to call? I thought it used to autocall, like call/friends did. Maybe I'm remembering wrong. But I have it back now, at least. I'll just have to have them call each family member individually.