Can't scope room

[LynnMar]

Okay I just installed Free Time and my sim can't scope the room to find a date downtown.  I know I had this issue once before and it was either no auto. napping or no auto relax.  Why that would have anything to do with scope the room is beyond me.   Does anyone know if it is either of these?

Also I have a hack in my folder that says UIText.package.   What it is for I have no idea.   Does anyone know anything about such a hack?

thanks.

[Kyna]

Since you just installed, I'm assuming this is a new hood and a new sim.  Does your sim have a gender preference?  If not, try setting a gender preference (by "checking out" a sim of your sim's preferred gender), then try scoping the room again.

I believe UIText changes the text you get while the game is loading (i.e. reticulating splines, etc).

[Marhis]

They can't scope the room until they have a gender preference different from 0, which is how they are born.
You need to have the sim flirt->check on another sim before the "scope room" menu shows up. Maybe that's why.

The UIText.package might be a hack that modifies the lines at the loading screen (the reticulating splines etc.). If you're not sure it's updated for your current EP, you absolutely should keep it out.

EDIT: ninja'd by Kyna, you bad girl you

[Kyna]

EDIT: ninja'd by Kyna, you bad girl you

Heh, I never said I was nice.  In my MUDding days one of my characters had "is not nice" as her whois, after someone publicly chatted that my character was "not nice".  I kept that as the whois for that character for years.

[J. M. Pescado]

AHA! The truth comes out! Kyna is *ALSO* a man!

[Kyna]

We've had this discussion before, when I said I MUSHed for a while.  You said I wasn't a man, because I didn't stick with the MUSHing, and the fact that I quit showed that I wasn't a man.

[J. M. Pescado]

That was before you revealed that it took *YEARS* to quit, which means you didn't REALLY quit. Quitting is if you get sick of it relatively soon!

[Kyna]

The MUSH was only a short time.  It was the MUD that I played on & off for years, and as the years passed it became more off than on.  It's from the MUD that I got my nick - when I wanted to play a create mage, I searched baby-name sites for something that meant "wise".  Kyna went on to become one of my two main characters on the MUD.

[J. M. Pescado]

The MUSH was only a short time.  It was the MUD that I played on & off for years, and as the years passed it became more off than on.

That is still a man-thing, so you have now conclusively revealed that you are really a MAN!

[Kyna]

The MUSH was only a short time.  It was the MUD that I played on & off for years, and as the years passed it became more off than on.

That is still a man-thing, so you have now conclusively revealed that you are really a MAN!

Ah you got me.  Yes, I'm a male who was so disappointed that her his first-born child was male, that I raised that child to believe she he was female.

[rufio]

What if you quit playing MUDs because you're just not that social?  Is that an indication of [+male] or [+female]?

[J. M. Pescado]

Ah you got me.  Yes, I'm a male who was so disappointed that her his first-born child was male, that I raised that child to believe she he was female.

That's a rather convoluted explanation. A far simpler explanation for why you both behave that way is that it is clearly a genetically induced attribute. Hence, you both do the same things. What's surprising about that? Most people are like that. Like father, like son.

What if you quit playing MUDs because you're just not that social?  Is that an indication of [+male] or [+female]?

Doesn't mean anything.

[Marhis]

Meh, you're just jealous because our pricks are bigger than yours .

[Kyna]

* Kyna can't decide whether to high5 or mourn Marhis.

Pes, I always meant to ask: how does the axe-murdering rule apply to parent and offspring (e.g. Faizah & myself)?  Since no two people on the internet are not axe-murderers, does that mean that at least one of us has axe-murdered the other?  Or does the fact that we knew each other before we had internet negate the axe-murderer rule?

Also, we need a new gender option for our profiles.  Declared male, due to having played on a MU*


P.S. Apologies to LynnMar for the derailment.

[LynnMar]

Hey Kya you didn't seem mean to me.  I have been talked to way worse by some of these people.  I had one once who acted like I was a complete moron because I didn't google something.   Not JM he is my crusty old baby doll.  He just lectures me.  lol
 

Yes she is brand new with no gender preference.  I will get her attracted to someone and then try again, or else I will try the scope in one of my other hoods.  I hope I don't have to take out my hacks and put them back in a few at a time for I have a ton of them.  Yikes

I found that UIText in with my hacks but I did not put it there, that I can remember.  But I did have to edit my registry for BV because it came from the UK and the time was messed up.  It said  22:00 instead of like 2:00 am and so forth.  I had to change my language in BV from  English UK to English US but I followed the tutorial exactly.   The words that read when it is loading have always been in English.  But I got my last two HM and Free Time in the USA.   Maybe that is why I had that UItext thing in there.   


  thanks for the help guys.  love ya.   

[jolrei]

Yes she is brand new with no gender preference.  I will get her attracted to someone and then try again, or else I will try the scope in one of my other hoods.  I hope I don't have to take out my hacks and put them back in a few at a time for I have a ton of them.  Yikes

There is no reason to think that you would have to take out any hacks because of this.  Try "scope room" with a different playable sim, preferably one who has already "dated" or kissed another sim.  Scope should be available for that sim.  No need even to change hoods.

[J. M. Pescado]

Or does the fact that we knew each other before we had internet negate the axe-murderer rule?

Yes, the rule only applies to Internet-people. You two aren't Internet-people to each other. This does not rule out the possibility of you two being some kind of creepy father-and-son axe-murder team. In fact, this is pretty common on the Internet, since no two people are not axe murderers.

[Kyna]

Hey Kya you didn't seem mean to me.

Marhis and I were joking about something that happened in another thread.  At least, I hope she was joking

Lynn, to fix your scope problem all you need to do is have your sim  check out a sim of the appropriate gender (it's in the flirt menu).  If you want your sim to be bisexual, get them to check out a sim of each gender.

If the UIText file was in your downloads folder, then it was something you downloaded and installed.  It is not something that was installed by a different language version of the game, as the game doesn't install anything to your downloads directory.  Nor was it something that came with a lot, as they are given those pointless strings of numbers & letters for names.

I remember that there was a UIText posted in Peasantry here a few EPs back, so maybe you got it from here and just forgot about it?  As far as I'm aware, It's just a simple text file to overwrite the existing text when you load up the game, so it wouldn't need updating for EPs.  If you want to investigate further where it came from, maybe you could attach the file in this thread, and we could see if anyone recognises it?

[LynnMar]

thanks you all,  I tried a different sim and got the option. 
 I did not know you had to set the gender thing before the scope the room would work, as long as I have been playing the sims.  My bad.   

No, I am not an axe murderer and I am a girl.   

You guys are nuts       but you are very smart about the game.  JM the Awesome and his awesome minions. 

[jolrei]

No, I am not an axe murderer and I am a girl.   

All of our confirmed axe-murderers on this site are girls, including you.

[FourCats]

No, I am not an axe murderer and I am a girl.   

All of our confirmed axe-murderers on this site are girls, including you.

Fortunately for you, we have never held an ax.

[LynnMar]

No, I am not an axe murderer and I am a girl.   

All of our confirmed axe-murderers on this site are girls, including you.

oh no,  I have been busted.