AutoYakYak Macro Phone Caller (10/25/06)

[dream_operator]

I'm having the same problem.   I have autoyak installed and macrotastics installed and I still have no options to call friends or targets...neither on the sim or on the phone.  The targets are at home and I can make him call them manually, but I can't seem to use the autoyak at all.  I have had this problem ever since I got Pets and I have downloaded the autoyak every time it is updated because I keep hoping the problem will be fixed.  The only hacks I have are Pescado's.  I suppose what I will now do is take everything out except the autoyak and see if that works.  I'll be back.

Dream

ETA: OK, with all hacks gone except for autoyak and macrotastics, it works.  So I will now go through the long process of putting everything back in one at a time to find the culprit.  I'll let you all know which one it is.

[miros]

bets on the Kitten Killer

[dream_operator]

LOL! That would be my bet if I had the kitten killer!

I do have an update on my problem though.  I put my whole hack folder back into the game with the intent on sorting it out later tonight (I just wanted to play for now) and when I did that the autoyak still worked! I have no idea why, but I'm not complaning! 

Dream

[miros]

When I take my electronics in for repair and it works perfectly both there and when I get back home, I say:

It wanted a ride in the car!

[Venusy]

Yay for updating this hack! Thanks!  I always preferred it over other phone hacks since it was simple and easy to use.

make sure you have Macrotastics installed, it's now a requirement.

I haven't played my game yet to test this but I hope it isn't true. Requiring Macrotastics isn't listed on the first page of this thread or in the RTFM. A previous comment (on page 4) by JMP also didn't mention it.

Payne

Okay, we seem to have hit a stable release.

First, the few changes:: The Call X option will no longer appear on the regular phone, because Maxis has crippled phone plugins. The option will instead appear on your sim, either seamlessly with the rest of your cellphone call options, or by themselves if you lack a cellphone. Note that Macrotastics will be required if you lack a cellphone, as the Macro library is used to locate a regular phone to use. Other than that, it should largely work as before.

[syberspunk]

IIRC moveinall modifies the TTAB for PersonGlobals, and is therefore the most likely to cause all sorts of mayhem.

pinhead finally updated this (for NL at least I think, definitely by OFB) to use the social plug-in method, so it no longer conflicts with the TTAB for PersonGlobals. However, if you have Pets, you should not be using moveinall (or any of it's variations) because the update has not yet been officially released. I have been communicating with pinhead, and he has provided me his updated version. I will pretty much be taking custody of the moveinall hack and the responsibility for its future compatibility. When I get around to it, I'll test it out myself a bit before releasing a public version for testing. Probably sometime this week; if not today, then probably by the weekend.

Ste

[RainbowTigress]

Yay!!!

[J. M. Pescado]

All Rainbows suck!

[RainbowTigress]

All Syberspunks are awesome, and all Pescados suck. 

[Gwill]

I can't get "Call enemies" to work when trying to harrass a vampire.
The option does appear at the correct time (during daylight hours) and and she does call the vampire (once), but the relationship does not seem to be affected.
Is it because my sim has too many nice points, or is it related to the vampirism somehow?

[J. M. Pescado]

If you called once, and it worked, then that sim already bottomed out. Note that YOUR side of the relationship isn't affected, but whoever you harassed gets -50 towards you.

[witch]

I was trying to get a sim to call a vamp the other day, forgetting about daytime harassment, but I didn't get an option to ring the vamp at all in the day, only at night.

[ThyGuy]

Is there anyway to make them keep talking to a friend on the phone until their social bar is maxed out? This would prevent them from trying to call a maxed out friend every ten seconds while macro'ed.

[Liss]

I've been meaning to ask this a long time: what is "call targets?"

[Karen]

I've been meaning to ask this a long time: what is "call targets?"

Targets are Sims who are known to the caller but not friends.  You can use Call...Targets to call an acquaintance and talk until they become friends.  Very useful if you need a friend for promotion or to fulfill a "make a friend" want.

[miramis]

I've been meaning to ask this a long time: what is "call targets?"

Targets are Sims who are known to the caller but not friends.  You can use Call...Targets to call an acquaintance and talk until they become friends.  Very useful if you need a friend for promotion or to fulfill a "make a friend" want.

Damn, I never knew that.  Always thought it was a harassment thing.

[RainbowTigress]

Targets are also sims that aren't friends of any other sims in the family because only family friends are counted for promotions.  Your sim would be wasting time making friends with a sim who was already friends with someone else in the household.

[Liss]

cool, good to know. 

[Wanda]

Does anyone know if this works with Seasons? I am attempting to try it out - so far it isn't working. Am going to try removing all my hacks except for autoyak and see if that makes any difference. I so love this hack but when I got seasons I removed all my hacks and lost this one. I am hoping it will work again!

Thanks!

[Zazazu]

It does. Make sure to run Paladin's Hack Conflict Detector in case something's interfering.

[miros]

Also make sure you've got the Seasons version of the hack.  I think the Pets version is very non-Seasons compliant, if I'm remembering correctly.

[J. M. Pescado]

Actually, it's all the same version, there's actually only one Autoyak version that's compatible with everything.

[myskaal]

Curious if anyone else has recently lost the "Call Friends" option from the pie menu?
I still have "Call Targets" available, but not the "Call Friends" No idea why and befoer I go digging through hack to find out which one borked out of no where sometime between last week and this week I just wanted to check if anyone else has run into something similar.

[J. M. Pescado]

Are you sure the option is actually "lost"? The option will only appear when the algorithm detects people to call. The logic of WHEN that is was recently altered for improved efficiency: It no longer attempts to rabidly maintain EVERYTHING at 100, only those where STR is close to LTR. Which means if you're already at 100/100, it will fight off decay as before, but if you're at, say, 100/20, it will do nothing and just let LTR cook on its own until the two numbers are closer.

[myskaal]

Hmmm. Yes it was temporarily "lost". What when why or how is known only by the gods of sims2 WTFness. After making the above post I redownloaded the directors cut and overwrote all the hacks I have from it, which includes autoyak, fired up the game and viola. Call Friends option was back.

Guessing the version I had was somehow corrupted or... something.