Req: Remove command that ends parties and forces guests to leave

[lady shay]

At the end of a party suddenly all the guests stop whatever they are doing (including jumping up off the toilet). This is annoying. None of the guests can be interacted with and they all leave. I don't mind the party ending, fine, but people don't just drop what they're doing and leave (not if they're your friends). The party can end, tell u the score, and the guests can stay til they feel like leaving on their own. Wouldn't that be better than total mind control forcing them to leave? I've looked everywhere for a longer party hack or anything that would stop guests from leaving but it doesn't exist. Is it possible to change the party code?  ???Having a party is a great way to invite alot of people at once but the ending sucks.

If the party code can't be changed, can another option be added? Maybe there can be some phone options like "Invite friends", "Have family Reunion", and "Entertain neighbors" (Entertain neighbors could be like having a block party where random people who the sim has never met who live on the block or in the neighborhood come over.)

[J. M. Pescado]

If you want to have an unscored party, the easiest way is to simply choose the lot debugger's "Nuke Party" option once everyone arrives. This will kill the party controller and all the visitors will then just amble about doing their usual visitor activities instead of being shooed out.

I, for one, LIKE that most of them all piss off at the end of the party. It's over! Good riddance!

[lady shay]

Is that done by enabling testing mode or what? I don't have a clue.

[J. M. Pescado]

It's the downloadable "FFS Lot Debugger" in the Firing Range. If a party controller is present, either because one is jammed on the lot, or because you actually have a party, you can nuke the party controller. Nuking the party controller, will, of course, nuke the party, including scoring, and the banishment of the guests, meaning it will stop being scored and drag on until all the guests finally sod off.

[Sandilou]

'Sod off?' Do people in the US use that expression?  I thought it was exclusively British!

[lady shay]

Oh ok. Thank you. I'll have to get that hack. That's the only hack that I don't have because I didn't really know what it was for. I guess I need it after all. 

[Ancient Sim]

Quite often I have guests who do remain behind, it seems to depend on who they are and what they're doing.  If they're in the hot-tub they always seem to stay.  Quite often when they do finally leave, they'll moan and groan about being asked to stay the night and no bed being provided, whatever that's all about. 

[Darkstormyeve]

That happens to me too Ancientsim. I don't understand it at all.

[SJActress]

'Sod off?' Do people in the US use that expression?  I thought it was exclusively British!

Well, not really.  Sometimes we like to use British phrases cuz they're so much more effective, and sound so funny (and I mean that in the best and politest possible way ).  I mean, what can Americans say to mean "sod off" that's nearly as effective?  "Bug off"?  That's just a shortening of "bugger off" I suppose, so we'd be cheating.  "Go away"?  That's just boring!  You Brits use this language so much better than us (except for the whole s for z thing, and overusing u after o--don't like that!).

[Ancient Sim]

You Brits use this language so much better than us (except for the whole s for z thing, and overusing u after o--don't like that!).

Well of course we do, WE INVENTED IT!!!  And please don't complain about our YOOS because seeing word without YOOS brings on my allergy.  As for s instead of z, well we used to use zeds but they are considered archaic now (i.e., old-fashioned as hell).  I think we stopped using them around the time of Henry VIII (well, maybe not that long ago, but it was centuries).  Anyway, to find out the TRUTH about YOOS and what makes them tick, go here: http://www.wittywoman.com/yoos.html.  I promise you will learn everything there is to know (and more).  Even I did and I wrote it.

[Sandilou]

Thank you, Ancient Sim, I'll put in my order for British Barbara now.

[SJActress]

Anyway, to find out the TRUTH about YOOS and what makes them tick, go here: http://www.wittywoman.com/yoos.html.  I promise you will learn everything there is to know (and more).  Even I did and I wrote it.

Very funny!
However, it may just be in the acting field, but I have NEVER seen the word "dialogue" spelled "dialog".  I mean, it's monologue and dialogue!  However, analog, I totally buy that.  We do spell it that way!
Love it!  Thanks for the laugh  and the headache 

[J. M. Pescado]

'Sod off?' Do people in the US use that expression?  I thought it was exclusively British!

It is?

"Bug off"?  That's just a shortening of "bugger off"

You mean Americans don't say "bugger off" anymore, either?

No wonder non-British people will randomly get this peculiar idea that I'm British. I guess these things have been lost from mainstream American usage, but I'm old and I ahve a long beard, and I live under a rock, so nobody bothers to tell me these things. That, or I probably ignored them.

[Kitiara]

SjActress - I Have actually seen the word dialog, funny how it was mostly when I was in Drama in high school. Weird that.

[veilchen]

Well of course we do, WE INVENTED IT!!!  And please don't complain about our YOOS because seeing word without YOOS brings on my allergy.  As for s instead of z, well we used to use zeds but they are considered archaic now (i.e., old-fashioned as hell).  I think we stopped using them around the time of Henry VIII (well, maybe not that long ago, but it was centuries).  Anyway, to find out the TRUTH about YOOS and what makes them tick, go here: http://www.wittywoman.com/yoos.html.  I promise you will learn everything there is to know (and more).  Even I did and I wrote it.

Ancient, that one of the funniest pieces I've ever read. My daughter and I were cracking up reading it. Both of us learned english the british way, and it was hard for us to switch from the yoos and zeds to the american way. We still slip up now and then, but MS-Word keeps reminding us that we are not doing it the american way. Every time I use words, such as color instead of colour, it seems to me that there is something missing :D

G.

[Ancient Sim]

Every time I use words, such as color instead of colour, it seems to me that there is something missing :DG.

Of course there is something missing, the YOO is missing!  And going back to what JM said, it's interesting insofar as there are still die-hard academics in America who continue to spell the British way (the way Americans always used to spell) and also to punctuate the British way.  It would appear that academics are 'allowed' to do this, but the rest of America are not.  Joking apart, the main reason so many Americans genuinely don't KNOW that they spell and punctuate differently to everyone else is because they are no longer taught this at school.  In the days of the WORLD wide web, this is totally ridiculous.  If you follow the link on my article to the more serious one written by Tina Blue, the American English professor, and read her series of articles, you will learn rather a lot, I think.  Her piece about the reason for the difference in punctuation is particularly informative (not to mention hilarious, at least to me!). 

[Oddysey]

Yeah, it's funny that Americans don't seem to realize that most people who use English also use punctuation. Bit of a culture shock online, for many people in this country. ;-)

[veilchen]

True, because that applies to my University as well. Most of my Ph.D's. and Psych Doc's don't mind anyone using proper english spelling and actually encourage british punctuation. As a matter of fact, as long as you use the APA manual for formatting they are happy. They don't allow waffling, meaning you can't switch between the styles once you commit to one, other than that they have no issues. I will try the link in your page. I was planning on it anyway, but my time-management is sadly lacking :D

G.

[J. M. Pescado]

I wasn't aware there was a specifically British style of punctuation, unless you count the fact that a growing number of Americans simply don't *USE* punctuation at all, preferring instead to form giant run-on sentences with neither capitalization nor punctuation.