Macro Control: Macrotastics

[J. M. Pescado]

Low-quality practice junk gets automatically sold with full EIC under Skillinating, to keep you from running out of funds and clogging your inventory with garbage.

[krolyn]

In AUTO>Hobbinate, could our sims feed cats and dogs has they do in Power Idle ? Thanks. My cats always finished starving while bowls are empty.

[J. M. Pescado]

I thought they already did. The pet-handler routines are in there already.

[Entgleichen]

I get errors when having employees as farmers, as well when clicking on specific sims. This only happens on a specific lot and could have to do with the fact that it is a real big 6x5 farm.
Is there a chance that you might fix this, J.M.?

[sparkle]

I had to take the macrotastics file out of my game because I wasn't getting the Natural Talent pop up. Is this a known issue. It only started when I put the latest version in my game

[krolyn]

My sims take care of the bird, but they still forget to fill the cat bowl. I've bought new cat bowls in case, and I've checked I have the last version of macrostatic and skillinator, but still I have to manually direct my sims to fill them.
Is there any condition for the pet-handler routine to start (except having a sims waiting for his next hobby action) ?

[jsalemi]

Easy solution -- get this auto pet feeder that Pes converted from Pet Stories to TS2.  Fill once and forget.

[Zazazu]

That thing is great. My four-cat household only has to refill once a day, as opposed to having say three bowls refilled twice a day. Luckily, sim cats don't know how to trip the hopper like my real one.

[nekonoai]

I'm still having issues with my sims STARVING TO DEATH when left on their own in fishbowl mode. I tend to not have them be power idle, so they can be sadorandom and do quirky things. I've had 4 sims drop dead of starvation with a FULL fridge on the lot, and even some made foods in their inventories. This didn't happen before FT, so.... yeah...

[Gwill]

Minor issue with hobbinating in university...  If a sim is blogging on the computer, "go to class" will pop into the queue between blogging and the hobbinate icon, this seems to disrupt the cancellation check, so they just keep blogging when the hobby is maxed, and since they're in the zone sims keep blogging forever and ever, missing exams.

[nekonoai]

Minor issue with hobbinating in university...  If a sim is blogging on the computer, "go to class" will pop into the queue between blogging and the hobbinate icon, this seems to disrupt the cancellation check, so they just keep blogging when the hobby is maxed, and since they're in the zone sims keep blogging forever and ever, missing exams.

Kids don't go to school and adults don't go to work either.

[Nec]

I have noticed that sims don't stop reading when skilling cooking, even if sleepclock calls them. Only cooking it seems. Haven't had any problems with cleaning or mechanical.

[jsalemi]

Yea, I noticed that cooking thing today.  And it only seems when they're reading -- if they're watching the yummy channel, the sleepclock stops them.

[witch]

Under Hobbinate/Auto, the letterbox icon is displayed when WatchMovie is current.

[Emma]

Would it be possible to add macro>bug hunt?

[lordrichter]

Would it be possible to add macro>bug hunt?

That's something EA should have done before they released the game.   

[gynarchy]

There are lots of things EAxis should have done before they released the game, but here we are... 

[Emma]

Mind you-the sims seem to keep bug-hunting even if they are chased by bees, find stuff etc until the action is cancelled. Might not be needed. I just hate clicking on the ground rather than my sim if he/she is indoors. Same with birdwatching.

[Emma]

I discovered that 'write novel' doesn't gain your sim creativity anymore. I used macro>skill and as the computer was the only thing on lot to allow this, that is what my sim automatically chose. I chose the plot/storyline thing and off he went. He wrote for about 7 hours and no skill gain. He was only level 4, (which was part-filled from comm-skilling on the karaoke machine) so it isn't as if he had to do loads to get to the next level.

[J. M. Pescado]

I discovered that 'write novel' doesn't gain your sim creativity anymore. I used macro>skill and as the computer was the only thing on lot to allow this, that is what my sim automatically chose. I chose the plot/storyline thing and off he went. He wrote for about 7 hours and no skill gain. He was only level 4, (which was part-filled from comm-skilling on the karaoke machine) so it isn't as if he had to do loads to get to the next level.

Noted. Next update will remove this option from skilling creativity if you have FT+.

[Faizah]

Huh. I could have sworn I had a Sim gaining creativity from novel-writing the other day. I clicked on the computer and queued it, if that makes any difference.

[Jelenedra]

Manually directing them to write novels still gains creativity in my game. It's the only thing one of my families have for creativity.

[Cappuccino]

I don't know if this is related (like "write novel manually" = creativity gain, "skillinate creativity via novel writing" = no skill gain) but when I Macro-Caffeinate and the available caffeine provider in the lot is the new FT coffee-machine, the sim keeps drinking and disposing of the cups but doesn't gain energy at all. (I think the same happened with the LS Stories super coffee machine too) They do gain energy normally though through the CoffeeBeanShrub from CS  Stories.

[Emma]

Mine uses Riley's Coffemaker and usually, if a sim is sat chatting while chugging then 2 cups will do it.

Manually directing them to write novels still gains creativity in my game. It's the only thing one of my families have for creativity.

Thnaks Jel, I'll manually direct to novel-write and see if it helps gain creativity in my game. If not, it might be a hack conflict. I don't have any that relate to 'novel writing' or 'creativity' though, apart from skillinator.

[jolrei]

Mine uses Riley's Coffemaker and usually, if a sim is sat chatting while chugging then 2 cups will do it.

I want to check this again, because simZazazu (who had no bed at the time and really needed the caffeine) was macro-caffeinating on a pre-FT modified comm lot, and it took bloody near forever for her to get out of the red.

Naturally, the "really have to pee now" function worked perfectly.