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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Black & White 2
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on: 2005 October 08, 00:48:12
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Oh and a B&W sig. The devs have the webcam set up so you can watch them now in THIER 3RD ALL NIGHTER. Rather than communicating they are now apparently taunting the people waiting ona patch. One dev posted there would be details in "1 hr 18 min". 2 hours later, he posts. "We're still here!" (because the webcam doesn't tell you that) Then the dev who uses the monitor directly in front of the webcam puts a sign that says WAIT on his screen and leaves, someone else puts a B&W box and Fable Box up. Then after getting the nickname "table humper", rather than update in the thread one dev starts making faces in the cam, playing the guitar, while another is obviously stressed and working. Class all the way.  |
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Black & White 2
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on: 2005 October 07, 16:06:14
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Does the IotD only apply to the Sims2 BBS? The lionhead boards have some real sparklers. For example, ASAP is french and im betting you have no idea what it means. because if you did you would not be here creating fully formed neatly spaced parigraphs, when you could be out ASAPing with the rest of us. now if you excuse me i have to go ASAP. |
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: just purchased Nightlife - advice?
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on: 2005 October 07, 01:07:03
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I finally broke down and purchased it since they are supposedly close to releasing the patches. Does anyone have any wisdom to share with me so I can avoid any bugs or other irritations? All I can remember off the top of my head is to avoid the "Ask..." interactions as they can lead to crushes. And of course I know to backup and remove my hacks during the installation, I was wondering more about the game itself.
What else, sage simmers? What else can I learn from your weeks of experience?
To make your town extra dramatic,load the game up,do "intpropp maxnumofvisitingsims 20", send a sim you don't care about to a comm lot with a grill. Turn the game to lowest graphics and max speed and go to bed. When you wake load the game up and play as you normally do. You will be amazed at the new furious state, and how interactive sims that aren't being controlled can be! |
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Black & White 2
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on: 2005 October 07, 01:02:49
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The company you are dreaming of is http://www.stardock.com/ . Open betas, they release the code for modders, lots of communication with the consumers from start to finish. AND NO PUBLISHER! They ither get apublisher when the game is DONE or publish it themselves. Their biggest hit is Gal Civ. The game MoO3 was supposed to be. If you haven't played it download the demo of the old one to see just what a company can do when it works wth customers and focuses on makeing a great product. http://www.galciv.com/And you can check out the sequal, Gal Civ 2. They have beta and also let anyone who preordered play the game from late alpha to release (and as such with the preorder money can pay the Developers without going to EA, MS, Vivendi, etc. The onl;y big corporate game company I believe you can trust in their releases is NCSoft. They have some nasty practices with competition (like what they did to the Blizzard WoW team after vivendi screwed them, which is why WoW still has no expansion when in the same time EQ2 has put out 1 major and 2 mini expansions plus a complete revamp of the game's combat engine). BUT they corelease most of their games in Japan and Korea with the US. They know to make sure thier shit is together because the markets are so nasty there, a game comes out, that game will work and be tested. Otherwise it will crash and burn. I mean hell, they released a MMO with no monthly fee and are turning a profit! Thats planning! Stardock is the Firefox of game companies. |
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Black & White 2
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on: 2005 October 06, 19:40:38
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Patch delayed "at least" one more day. It seems that making people stay up 24 hours to bang out a patch at the last minute is not a good idea since they break as much as they fix. The solution? ANOTHER ALL NIGHTER!!! Drama like this arouses me in ways I know are wrong and don't fully understand. So now it looks like people who bought it on release will lose 3 days of game play, unless they have an Nvidia card in which case they won't have been able to play at all.  |
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Patch confirmation, hopefully within a week.
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on: 2005 October 06, 19:31:12
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Or the Fable forums. Get this: Fable is not compatible with Soundblaster Live! or Audigy soundcards. It also tends to crash if Norton Antivirus is installed.
Good one, Lionhead/Micro$oft!
heh EA/Lionhead still trumps that by making a game not compatabel with half the Nvidia cards, including the best ones! |
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Black & White 2
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on: 2005 October 06, 16:40:14
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Man the drama gets better and better! EA completely locked down the UK B&W forums since they had gone out of control. On the lionhead forums one of the devs is closing tons of threads and has actually sent posters PMs saying he has added them to his ignore list since they are too negative.  Oh and the patch is still not out. |
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Black & White 2
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on: 2005 October 06, 04:23:36
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Well the game was supposed to WW release this week, instead it was cahnged by EA (without telling the devs) do be released starting the 4th and in parts of the world as late as the 13th.
If you use about half the Nvidia cards, including the 6800 ultras you likely cannot play the game. There is a fix, download the leaked beta drivers. Don't know how they managed that one, I know ATI is on thier splash but you would think they would test with more than an NvidiaMX on an emachines.
There is a patch coming out that fixes "nothing critical" but just the bug fix list alone is a mass of game loss, crashing, etc. Who knows what is not in that list ot get EA to make a patch that is supposed to be out before the game hits shelves?
Well they screwed it up anyway. The patch is set for tomorrow, people got the game yesterday. So the patcher tells you you have an update available, but the link is dead.
Go read whats left on the forums over there. From the looks of it the Devs (Sam in specific) were blaming EA for not putting it up and that they have no control at all oer it. Then piece by piece it has come to be known that while that is true, EA cannot put the patch up until tomorrow SINCE THE DEVS ARE STILL CODING IT! Pull an all nighter for a patch that fixes "nothing critical".
Plus the patch is so "minor" that it won't let you use your prepatch save games. So you can play the bugged version, then patch and start the tedious training levels (you can skip the tutorial, but not the training levels) all over again, or never patch and wreck your game anyway.
Oh, and the skirmish mode didn't come with live. Maybe with a patch or expansion.
So, if you bought the game right away, HAVE FUN!
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: This new furious state
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on: 2005 October 05, 12:33:02
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Or I guess you could always just put him in a pit and every day move a plate of food down there for him to eat. If he wants to hang out at your place let him hang out in a hole with no toilet on the brink of starving forever.
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: The Phone Ringing Is Driving Me Crazy!!
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on: 2005 October 04, 23:45:29
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I don't have anybody coming over now when I talk to them on the phone but of course I am calling them because I have the ringer set to off. thank heaven, I can finally install phones in my house again but what I really miss it the taxi hack part of it. Now when you go downtown in your car, you have to take all of the sims or only one. or if you want to take another member of your family you have to ask them to go on an outing with you. I hope JM can make it where that when you get into the car you can choose who to take with you. that would be way cool.  I believe you can take your choice if you just send them all to sit in the car and then have the driver leave. |
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: This new furious state
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on: 2005 October 04, 19:05:45
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I'm of two minds on the furious thing.... sometimes it works out to an advantage, and it certainly spices things up. But it goes way overboard, is inconsistent and produces some really strange behavior. I'm to the point where I'm exceedingly annoyed with it.
Has anyone else noticed the "furious" sims coming over to the other sims house (the one they're furious with) uninvited, just walk in the house and stay. Literally for hours and hours. The other sim doesn't even have to be home.
When I first installed NL, Ajay Loner and Countess V had a nice friendship thing going on. Just a good ol' 100/100 relationship. Nothing romantic on his part, no hearts, no flirting, etc. Somehow the Countess ended up with a crush on him, even though there had been no flirting. Naturally, she shows up while he's on a date with his current love, a townie named Felicia. Countess rushes over and slaps the snot out of him. Felicia is then mad at him now, too, for unexplicable reasons. At that point Ajay bailed, since the date was about to end anyway.
Over the next three sim days the Countess would come by during the day and steal the paper or kick over the trash can, pull the "Ahhh, the sun, I must flee!" bit and leave. As soon as the sun went down (and Ajay went to work) she'd show up at his house, just stroll on inside and plonk herself down on the couch. Over the next 6 to 8 hours she'd just sit there with the burnination picture of Ajay popping up in her thought bubble. What really made it interesting is that after the first day of this Felicia started showing up and doing the same damn thing. Ajay would leave for work and the two women would show up, sit down on his couch and each one would sit there stewing with multiple burnination Ajay piccies in their thought bubbles. Oddly enough, they never, ever conversed with one another- they'd just sit there next to each other for hours on end stewing and wouldn't leave until Ajay got home from work and asked them to.
Eventually he was able to get both relationships back on track, but not without a lot of work on my part. And these were fortune sims! I'm afraid to play any of the romance aspirations at this point- the offended sim may just show up at their house and *never* leave.
I haven't seen the just come over and hang out behavior at all, and my game is a cesspool where I can't think of any sim that isn't furious with at least 3 other sims at the moment. The crush thing is probably the bug mentioned in the patch thread. Some actions cause crushes to form for no reason. Supposed to be fixed with the patch. |
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Nightlife Jump Bug?
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on: 2005 October 03, 21:55:29
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"u got HAX!!!i nevr downlode hax and i have no problemz." And the correct response to THAT is "You clearly do have a problem, you can't write without butchering the English language".. The simmasters would delete your post for saying that though. Its ok to be retarded, but wrong to be right. |
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: I now have 4 party guests
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on: 2005 October 03, 21:52:20
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Actually that got me thinking...the best dual-core AMD processor is the Athlon X2 dual-core 4800+ and it will run at 2.4 GHz. An Athlon 64 FX-57 is a single core but has the highest clock speed of 2.8 GHz. How does the Graphics Rules file cater for AMD processors? It seems to me that these users are being forced into lower settings when their systems out perform mine  I believe the game is stupid and knocks it down a catagory. |
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: I now have 4 party guests
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on: 2005 October 03, 17:09:41
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I sincerely doubt you can play Nighlife on a 1GHz system with 256 Mb RAM as is stated here. Even I can't run everything on high without experiencing lag. You "can" play it, but you won't enjoy it. Proabbly get assloads of lag even in a small 1 person house, and stuttering when rotating, light changes, people entering or leaving the lot, etc. With a 3.4, 2 gig ram, and 7800 512 you can run a MONSTER house (max size lot, many levels, shitloads of lights, some mirrors, etc. Maxxed with 8 sims and 8 guests with about 7 FPS average. So even the top of the line computers cannot run maxxed sims 2 under the extreme situations very well. 3.2, 1 gig ram, 6800 256 overclocked to the max can run the same lot with 8 sims and shadows off with 7-9 FPS average. If you max everything and use a small lot with only 1-3 sims you hovor near 30 FPS all the time. At least maxis didn't do what some companies are doing and putting preprogrammed limits on FPS rates (I AM LOOKING AT YOU SONY!!! YOU BASTARDS!!! I WANT MORE THAN 30 WITH MY SYSTEM!!!) Now I hear tell that a dual 7800 system can hit 20+ FPS constantly, but if you ahve the that kind of money to dump on graphics cards and a system that can handle them, you shouldn't be playing video games. Go better humanity with your massive wad. |
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Nightlife bugs
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on: 2005 October 03, 16:55:29
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Wine + teh internets = convoluted bug description.
Anyway I fixed it. I moved all 6 of them into one house using the teleporter and a trash sim to propose move in. then I murdered 3 doppelgangers and moved one by one the other 3 out, placed them in a town lot, saved, reloaded, and then was able to move them to NL.
If I didn't move them into a regular lot first the bug recurred when moving to a downtown lot.
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Nightlife bugs
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on: 2005 October 03, 06:05:28
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Anyone seen anything like this?
Moves 3 sims out of Uni when they graduated.
I was able to move them seperatly into houses in the regular neighboorhood, but if I put one in the downtown when it loads there is no sim and no controls.
Combined all 3 together and it loaded with only one missing, but not listed anywhere int he phone book (didn't try turning ont he porter hack)
Used propose to have thier mother invite all 3 back home then moved them out. Moved 2 into normal Neigh houses no problem. Went to Downtown to place the 3rd and in the house I combined them in, were all 3! Have 3 new files in my char files.
Moving those out I then again lost the last single sim and going tothe neighboorhood I now load the houses with thesingle sims that worked fine and they now load with no sim presnt.
God damn it.
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: The Phone Ringing Is Driving Me Crazy!!
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on: 2005 October 03, 04:14:38
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Another night done playing.
Only 1 new potentiel bug report.
At Uni in a house with no hard line phone, only 3 cells, several times sims stopped chatting before relationship scores were maxxed. This did not happen in the houses outside of uni at all and I didn't see it happen again after putting a hard line in the house.
No prehack uni play to compare though.
And pesc, I know bugs are why it isn't out yet, thats why I am reporting them, not griping :p.
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