I'm having some seemingly unrelated weirdness post-FT. I can interact with the newspaper normally except for finding a job, which my sim will initiate, sit down with the paper, and then stand up and dump the paper wherever handy without finding a job. Find Pet Job For... is completely absent as an option. They can read it, do the crossword, make airplanes to their heart's content. No errors show up in debug mode, they don't "jump" out of the action, the jobs simply don't pop up. They can find jobs through the computer without a problem. I wondered if it was because I upgraded a CAS sim to uni status with the FFS debugger but a townie she moved in who hadn't been upgraded was similarly unable to use the paper to find a job.
Second bit of weirdness: aforementioned sim and her dude change for work and head off as normal to their shared carpool. They have the exact same hours, and when they arrive home, both are dressed in their casual everyday wear instead of their work clothes. WTF? Did they change in the goddamn car?
Moar weirdness. They get in the hottub. Fucking ACR. I have warmthfixes from here but it's spring and their temps go down to blue. In the time it takes to woohoo. Is that normal? They're not vamps or anything, just normal sims. I'm used to them spontaneously combusting, not turning to ice cubes.
Last weirdness, a fire started on a different lot. It was extinguished by the family (because I was too stupid to remember a fire alarm) and all was well. Except the maid ran everywhere while she cleaned. When it was quitting time, she ran to her truck. I attributed it to the pouring rain but of course sims aren't that smart. Little Ben, the family's son, ran everywhere too. Didn't think much of that either, he's an active kid and likes to run. More power to him. Anyway, maid doesn't show up the next day. Huh. Actually I didn't notice for three days until the house was a green stinking fly-ridden mess. Call maid, she comes over, does her thing. Call Evil Garden Club Lady who refuses to judge my garden because "there's an emergency on your lot". Wuh? So apparently there's an invisible fire or something somewhere that's making my kid and maid run all over and keeps my maid from coming back the next day. I have NEVER seen this happen. Tried nuking scenarios with debugger and asking for Garden Club membership again. Same response. Sigh.
The first three are annoyances that can be lived with for now, I'm writing a story so I'd rather not go shuffling with my downloads just now. The last, well, I've given up on it as a corrupted lot for the moment. I'm not actively playing that family but I'd like to prevent any recurrences. So any ideas as to what would be causing any of this crap would be appreciated. I wouldn't rule out tight pants, as they do look so good on me
I have quite a few hacks from here, all from the FT-approved directory (list available upon request), some from TJ that are FT-updated, and the business-related ones from Sim Wardrobe (all FT-updated as well). I ran HCDU awhile back and none of the hacks affect the same things so I don't think it's a hack conflict but I'm non-awesome. I apologize for my verbosity (JFC I just read my post), just stab me or something.
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