Maxoid Sam trusts the Feedback forms as little as we do?

[KatEnigma]

Could be that the publisher/author howled and made threats of copyright litigation if EA allowed the copyright violations to continue.

Wouldn't work, anyway, quoting passages out of a book is considered to be "fair use".

And, as THEY THEMSELVES had told her before, it's not copyright violation as long as you aren't even quoting passages, just giving the information out in your own words. Apparently with one of the early guides, they'd contacted her about quoting passages, and came up with the agreement that it was okay to paraphrase- she'd PMed me with the heads up when I was the first to get one of the guides, but I'd worked in the college library, and I already knew how to stay out of trouble  To change the policy without telling anyone and then ban people for it is just being a petty dictator. Which happens when you give a moron a little power.

[rohina]

My experience of MaxoidBullSam is that he is a liar and a petty tyrant. I think katenigma was lucky not to be banned.

[ZiggyDoodle]

Wouldn't work, anyway, quoting passages out of a book is considered to be "fair use".

Maybe.  Maybe not.  It's a slippery slope.  See 17 USC 107.

[KatEnigma]

My experience of MaxoidBullSam is that he is a liar and a petty tyrant. I think katenigma was lucky not to be banned.

I agree. I think I only escaped it because it was so early on after he'd taken over.

Either that, or I was banned and just never knew it because I was so disgusted with him that I didn't go back to the BBS for months- it's not as if they always bother to tell you that you've been banned, let alone the reason for it.

[miramis]

Well, the feedback form and the e-mail link will soon be put to the test.  I already came across something on a german forum (using google to translate) that I don't like the sound of.  Two things actually.

1.  The drop down walls has apparently been changed, at the moment the walls in front of you all drop, but the new change makes it so all outer walls drop and only the inner walls are cutout.  I haven't seen anyone else mention this on the BBS as yet, though I got to the german site via a link in a thread there.  They were only looking at the pictures though and not trying to translate.  Until I try this changed feature I can't say how bad it's going to tick me off yet.

2.  They changed how the autolighting works, and I don't mean daylight/nightime, I mean the way lamps etc.. turn on.  I had a bit of difficulty understanding the translation on this one, but from what I gathered... Currently when sims walk into a room at night, the light comes on for that room right?  Well between the hours of 2am and 6am this doesn't work anymore, at least I think that is what the post said.  It's somewhat minor, but I dont' like it anyway.  It's not clear whether manually turning the light on between those hours works or not.

**edit** heh, was just trying to locate the links for this and found a new reply about the walls from someone who understands german.. they said the issue with the walls was due to greenhouse walls being used and once they were replaced with normal walls it was fine again.  So that's nice to know.
http://tinyurl.com/2d9592 This is the forum with the pictures and the german posts about the issues.
http://tinyurl.com/ywq6bs  This is the BBS thread I found the above link in, and in which HugDopey explained about the walls.

[J. M. Pescado]

Lies and propaganda. The game doesn't even exist yet, so all babble about it is nothing more than recycled speculation from the Prima Guide.

[jrd]

The light issue they discuss is basically the following:
-light went out at 2am, except in the bathroom for some reason, but it did not go on at 6am.
But this user uses some greenhouse walls, so probably the game thought their inside was actually the outside. I wouldn't pay too much attention to this. Greenhouse walls are simply weird.

[J. M. Pescado]

There are no "greenhouse" walls. This is clearly simply a made-up rumor. LIES AND PROPAGANDA!

[miramis]

Thankyou Jordi, so both are related to the greenhouse walls.  Well damn, now I have to go looking for some more problems to worry over 

And Pes, I don't have the Prima Guide   BTW, you do realise you will be able to 'rain fire' on your poor sims with this EP right?

[KatEnigma]

I wish Pirate Bay would put the darn thing up already, so we can move on from the Lies and Propaganda stage. 

Anyway, the guide did mention that Greenhouse walls work differently than regular walls for cut aways, but didn't say anything about lights. The greenhouse is supposed to BE inside- that's the point, it doesn't get the bugs or weather. But I guess it's probably designated as a separate category- not inside or outside, but both, since it does get sun, and if you want to plant things inside without greenhouse walls, you have to put up sunlamps.