Seasons: Plant sims

[maxon]

Yeah, but then some kids would barely go to school at all.  I prefer having them out of the house for the day.  It's bad enough they're home at the weekend.

Edit:
In fact, just doing some sums: without modding anything (like age lengths and season lengths)-

If you have
1. a toddler age-transition on a Friday evening
2. summer starts (for 5 days) on the Monday
3. child therefore has summer vacation starting Monday
4. autumn will arrive the following Saturday when the child is not at school
5. the child will have aged to teen on the Friday anyway

Which means the sim will never go to school as a child.  In fact, any child who aged to child at the weekend would not go to school as a child with a summer vacation mod providing the summer started on the Monday.  I'd guess you wouldn't be able to give them just a few days off during summer unless you maybe used the coding which allows snow days?

[Faizah]

Here's a question, can NPCs become PlantSims? I noticed my gardener spraying my plants... Should I fire and stop hiring gardeners, or can they spray without consequence?

Also, can Servos become PlantSims, and is this a BadThing?

[amjoie]

Why not just pop in a "no school anytime" mod, and pretend you are homeschooling. It would work for summer vacation, also, but might be a hastle to have to restart (after taking it out and putting it back in, seasonally).

The mod I have is from Carrigon, who is now over at Simlogical (Inge's revived site), but you have to register to see her stuff, otherwise she's invisible. Carrigon's no school mod for Pets is officially verified as working in Seasons.

I agree it would be nice to have a mod that automatically excused the kids for the summer, but I don't know how that could be implemented. I'm not sure it would be possible to season-link it. (And some people think summer vacation is unnecessary coddling of children -- at least those who are no longer required to go out into the field to work on crops from dawn to dusk, which is why schools used to be closed for the summer.)

[J. M. Pescado]

Not to mention then you have those accursed little monsters running around underfoot, and I'm like, "Shouldn't you be in school?"

[Ambular]

Yeah, but then some kids would barely go to school at all.  I prefer having them out of the house for the day.  It's bad enough they're home at the weekend.

Edit:
In fact, just doing some sums: without modding anything (like age lengths and season lengths)-

If you have
1. a toddler age-transition on a Friday evening
2. summer starts (for 5 days) on the Monday
3. child therefore has summer vacation starting Monday
4. autumn will arrive the following Saturday when the child is not at school
5. the child will have aged to teen on the Friday anyway

Which means the sim will never go to school as a child.  In fact, any child who aged to child at the weekend would not go to school as a child with a summer vacation mod providing the summer started on the Monday.  I'd guess you wouldn't be able to give them just a few days off during summer unless you maybe used the coding which allows snow days?

Hmm, I see your point.  Would it perhaps be possible to have a mod that would give them say, one weekday off in the middle of the summer?  Or of each season, for that matter--that way you'd also have Spring break, Christmas vacation and, I dunno, Halloween or something.

[J. M. Pescado]

Well, pretty much all toddlers transition on a Friday evening in my game, simply because this is the optimal time. You get the weekend to hammer skills. And frankly, by the time they max out well before the weekend ends, I'd much rather send them to school because there's not much else to do! Begone, imps!

[maxon]

Hmm, I see your point.  Would it perhaps be possible to have a mod that would give them say, one weekday off in the middle of the summer?  Or of each season, for that matter--that way you'd also have Spring break, Christmas vacation and, I dunno, Halloween or something.

As I said, it seems to me the most promising thing would be the coding that allows for snow days, though you'd want to fix it so they definately got the day off - one per season might be fun.

[J. M. Pescado]

Here's a question, can NPCs become PlantSims? I noticed my gardener spraying my plants... Should I fire and stop hiring gardeners, or can they spray without consequence?

Yes, they can. Do you care? Are gardeners good for anything else? I didn't think so.

[Faizah]

Here's a question, can NPCs become PlantSims? I noticed my gardener spraying my plants... Should I fire and stop hiring gardeners, or can they spray without consequence?

Yes, they can. Do you care? Are gardeners good for anything else? I didn't think so.

So it won't break my game, or anything? Alright then. Glad I don't have to stop hiring gardeners.

[Ellatrue]

That business lot problem with the plant sim is weird. Has anyone else been able to replicate it? I don't have OFB installed at the moment so I can't test this personally, but I wonder if this is only one person, or a problem for everyone?

[KatEnigma]

I had the same plant person worker problem when one of my lots hired Rose Sim. :-/ I can't remember if I tried a maxmotives to fix it or just sent her home, though.

[amjoie]

Maybe someone should spawn a plantsim kid, age it artifically, and send it to work to test whether it is all plantsims or just Rose that causes a problem.

[IAmTheRad]

Seems the latest pets patch released on sunday fixes an issue that plantsims had with vampirism. Mostly their face texture did not change... and I heard it also fixed issues of some custom skintones (or regular skintones) with the curse of being a werewolf and their face did not change...

Anyways I did make a plantsim toddler and aged it artifically, and sent it to a business to work by hiring them. I got the issue of them being hungry and refusing to work... later I'll 'artifically' make a adult a plant (by using boolprop on plants to spawn insane amounts of bugs) to see if the same thing occurs.

[ThePolygotNerd]

Is it normal that my adult plantsim has no LTW?

I looked earlier in the thread, and couldn't find an answer.

[KatEnigma]

Not normal, Mine has one.

[Kyna]

I've had sims not roll up a new LTW after satisfying a LTW.  Has your plantsim already satisfied a LTW?

[J. M. Pescado]

Is it normal that my adult plantsim has no LTW?

There's a minor bug which causes freshly-aged sims not to have an LTW until their next want reroll. Sims may also have locked themselves out of all possible LTWs by doing them already or otherwise being ineligible, but your case is probably the former.

[ThePolygotNerd]

She's newly grown, so I'll try re-rolling her wants.  Thanks

[selzi]

Has anyone seen the Ideal Plantsim wandering around his/her lot? A friend of mine took this picture when she noticed that strange guy appearing on her lot:



In the picture he looks human, but when he steps into the sunlight he turns green and looks like the Plantsim he's supposed to be.

Is this a bug or a feature? She swears she hasn't been messing around with cheats ...

[Solowren]

That's weird, selzi. Could you possibly get a screenshot of him in the sunlight?

[J. M. Pescado]

I have no interest in Plant sims til they have cc default eyes and skin. I hear lipstick won't work on them either. I got jfade's hack to prevent the Maxis horror.

That seems to be a layering issue, which vampwerefixes should fix by lowering the plantskin down to the lowest level.