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« Reply #225 on: 2006 September 07, 10:28:35 »
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Do you recommend that in real life, also?
Real life has its own analogues to this, yes. Certain timings you want to arrange if you don't want your kids to meet various age-related cutoffs, such as how kids born after a certain date have to choose between either being held back, or homeschooled. If you don't want this happening to your kids, plan accordingly.
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« Reply #226 on: 2006 September 07, 11:51:33 »
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Do you have children JM?
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« Reply #227 on: 2006 September 07, 11:55:45 »
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is it possible to add the ammount of the played days on the family description ?
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« Reply #228 on: 2006 September 07, 13:39:12 »
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It would be rather shiny if you could know what day your houses are on without loading a lot.
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« Reply #229 on: 2006 September 07, 16:45:20 »
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if i click to jump from uni to a family the game will show the family's screen while loading but at the end of the load i'm at the dorm again  Shocked
and also, i notice that it ididn't refresh the dorm's days count .

but that little bug, with all installed (uni, nl, ofb, ffs, glamour) it works great ^^
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« Reply #230 on: 2006 September 07, 16:47:34 »
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Update to the new version. That version sounds really old. And you never did send that whatever-it-is-you-were-doing.
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« Reply #231 on: 2006 September 07, 17:05:27 »
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I get the same if I try to jump from a uni place (dorm, geek house) to a normal house.
Sync timer date 03 Sept.
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« Reply #232 on: 2006 September 07, 18:26:29 »
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ops.. i'm in old version .. thnx  butta.....

i've "Uninstalled" the package
i've saved the lot (uni - dormies)
exited the game.. replaced the LotSync.
loaded the dormies again and i've "installed for family" ... but the days remain the same :\
also, now by clicking on other family nothing happen  Shocked
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« Reply #233 on: 2006 September 07, 23:18:06 »
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I thought the Universities were only manually adjustable, not automatic?  Or has that changed since I stopped paying attention?
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« Reply #234 on: 2006 September 08, 07:11:55 »
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Nope, they're still manually adjustable, so you can pick your own rate of semester/day.
Something about the lot jumping from uni is weird though.
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« Reply #235 on: 2006 September 08, 09:16:20 »
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The current version has no lot jumping, that feature was apparently broken in OFB and remains unresolved.
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« Reply #236 on: 2006 September 08, 09:31:50 »
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So that I can attempt a jump on a uni lot to another lot is a bug, as the option is not supposed to appear at all?
That explains it then.
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« Reply #237 on: 2006 September 08, 10:40:09 »
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The current version has no lot jumping, that feature was apparently broken in OFB and remains unresolved.

The OFB director's cut still has the May 11 version of synctimer.  Can you update it with the latest version?
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« Reply #238 on: 2006 September 08, 12:02:45 »
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Oh wait... I have the DC version. Will update.
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« Reply #239 on: 2006 September 08, 14:12:56 »
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Okay, I've read over the last few pages and am good and confused now.

I'm running NL; don't have OFB yet. Does this mean that I still can use the lot jumping feature with the latest release of the Lot Sync Timer?

If so, does the no move-ins/no move-outs/no births on a jumped-into lot advice apply?

Also, is lot jumping to and from Uni lots a good idea pre-OFB?

Man, it all gets so complicated when we try to do Maxis' work for them...
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« Reply #240 on: 2006 September 08, 14:29:45 »
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I'm running NL; don't have OFB yet. Does this mean that I still can use the lot jumping feature with the latest release of the Lot Sync Timer?

If so, does the no move-ins/no move-outs/no births on a jumped-into lot advice apply?
In theory, yes. It is not known whether the problem begins in NL or not, but was not observed. Test for us.

Also, is lot jumping to and from Uni lots a good idea pre-OFB?
The option to attempt such a thing does not exist pre-OFB, as lots were not detected in other neighborhoods in the NL engine.
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« Reply #241 on: 2006 September 08, 14:44:23 »
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In theory, yes. It is not known whether the problem begins in NL or not, but was not observed. Test for us.

Yessir. Will report back with any findings of interest.

The option to attempt such a thing does not exist pre-OFB, as lots were not detected in other neighborhoods in the NL engine.

Aaah. So that's why I never autonomously attempted it.

P.S. Happy whaling! Bring back some ambergris for us all...
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« Reply #242 on: 2006 September 09, 12:10:02 »
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with the new version it didnt' jump any more form one lot to another Sad
i've broken it Huh
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« Reply #243 on: 2006 September 09, 14:54:30 »
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Read back a couple of pages. Lot jumping has been disabled since more recent Maxis code has led to some pretty undesirable effects.
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« Reply #244 on: 2006 September 09, 15:10:26 »
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 but it was working fine Tongue
i want the jumping lot back
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« Reply #245 on: 2006 September 09, 20:27:06 »
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What kind of problems was the synctimer causing with the lot jumping in OFB? I was using (still am) version dated 11 May 2006. I can jump from lot to lot and have never ran into any problems. I'm glad that I always keep the older version of a hack until I check the new ones out so I can go backwards to one that was working good for me if there is something I dont like about the new ones (like the lot jump disabled).
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« Reply #246 on: 2006 September 09, 22:17:15 »
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What kind of problems was the synctimer causing with the lot jumping in OFB? I was using (still am) version dated 11 May 2006. I can jump from lot to lot and have never ran into any problems. I'm glad that I always keep the older version of a hack until I check the new ones out so I can go backwards to one that was working good for me if there is something I dont like about the new ones (like the lot jump disabled).

Here are some problems I've experienced with the "lot jump" function: 

1) If you jump to a lot where a baby is about to be born, the game thinks the baby belongs to the previous family.  Baby items such as cribs, changing tables, etc. do not work because the game does not recognize the baby as belonging to the current family, even though the baby is present on the lot.

2) Traveling to an owned business does not work because the businesses listed are the ones that belonged to the family you just jumped from.  There is no way to access the current lot's owned businesses if you got to the current lot by jumping.

3) Change Appearance doesn't get reflected in the family portrait if you leave the lot by jumping, rather than going to the neighborhood the normal way.

It can be handy sometimes but I've found it's more trouble than it's worth.

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« Reply #247 on: 2006 September 10, 18:51:18 »
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Thanks for the info. I kind of wondered about the baby thing. But I just go into simpe and fix them so its no big deal since I really like the lot jump more than that. As for the business lots I have never used the lotsync to jump so I never noticed it from there anyway.
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« Reply #248 on: 2006 September 11, 00:59:45 »
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Here's a problem I was having with lot jumping:

I"ve played this version of PV for about 9 days or so.  Dustin is not far off from adulthood - leaving it to one day to adulthood before I send him to uni because I want to get him as many scholarships as possible.

I used the sync timer to jump from the Broke household to the Dreamer lot.  Dirk brought Dustin home from school.  At the time that Dustin was due to go to work the carpool arrived, Dustin got in the car and went off to work.  Came back when he finished work, with a message about earning cash and the cash was added to the Dreamer household.  Got a message about 2 days left to adulthood for Dustin at 6pm.  I sent Dustin home by teleporter shrub.

After playing the Dreamer lot I used the sync timer to jump to the Pleasant lot.  At 6pm I got a message about Dustin having 1 day left til adulthood.  He hadn't come home from school with the girls.  I presume he was a walkby.

When I went back into the Broke lot, Dustin was at 1 day to go until adulthood.  One more day and it would have been too late to send him off to college.

So I decided not to use the feature again.
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« Reply #249 on: 2006 September 12, 09:47:40 »
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the jumping lot was one of the best feature that i've ever seen
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