STOP with the dormie assignments!

[sara_dippity]

Practice safe eating:  use condiments!

I don't know wether to laugh or groan. I think groan.
Say, on a related note, anyone know of some custom table deco for when you're bored with the little lamps and condiments?

[jsalemi]

There's condiments in the game?  Damn, I missed them.  I assume under sculptures like the napkin holder?

[sara_dippity]

The napkin holder comes with ketchup, mustard, salt, and pepper.

[phyllis_p]

Update: played another Maxis dorm with all Maxis content. I had the same problem with a table and chairs. The chairs were fine, but the table was 'in use'. I replaced it and so far, so good.  I only played the lot for about an hour, but it seems to be working. I'm sure with more play those damned chairs (and table) will get stuffed again.
The candles/napkin holder are working great for the cafeteria, but my 'assignment' tables and chairs are still acting up.

You're not using the Mission table and chairs by chance, are you?  I've had problems with them in homes, so I quit using them.

[purplehaze]

Nope, they aren't the Mission things. When I play later today, I am going to take notes on what is working and not working. I have a feeling that it has nothing to do with the object and everything to do with the action of putting the damnable assignment on the table.

[Zazazu]

Practice safe eating:  use condiments!

I don't know wether to laugh or groan. I think groan.
Say, on a related note, anyone know of some custom table deco for when you're bored with the little lamps and condiments?

There's some placemats on TSR that you can use. However, I'm not sure if they block assignments. It's worth a try. Of course, it's freaking pay crap. Pay here, freeload here (useable_place_settings_set.rar).

[jsalemi]

The napkin holder comes with ketchup, mustard, salt, and pepper.

Ah, ok -- I mistakenly thought you were referring to a separate item.

[mmmyrs]

Practice safe eating:  use condiments!

I don't know wether to laugh or groan. I think groan.
Say, on a related note, anyone know of some custom table deco for when you're bored with the little lamps and condiments?

Smaller plants work as well. (daffodil, etc...) Also the OFB flowers you craft can be used as well as date rewards.  Don't know of any CC, sorry.

[notveryawesome]

Sandy at aroundthesims2.com has all kinds of decorative condiments for her kitchen sets, which can be downloaded separately if you don't want the whole set.

[Kristalrose]

I found a very simple solution to this problem:  I used the deleteallcharacters cheat when I first started my neighborhood.  No dormies.  Peaceful dorm. 

[Ness]

Will we tell her DAC is broken now, or later?

[witch]

I looked at this post earlier and thought, no I can't bring myself to be the one to tell her. When do we break the dangling SWAF news?

[J. M. Pescado]

And the failed cleanup of SDSCs, yes.

[Zazazu]

Will we tell her DAC is broken now, or later?

I think you just did.

Kristalrose: three little words: clean templates, notownieregen

Honestly, though, dorms without dormies are no fun. I normally fill an extra floor with 1x2 rooms until I have just below the number my computer can handle (28 generally). Now, with ACR on brothel settings, it should be absolutely fantastic.

[witch]

From memory, one of my very first posts on a  sims site was about my buggy hood. I carefully explained how I'd packaged each and every family and imported them into my new hood and that I was hoping this would sort out their bugginess, give the sims a fresh start, so to speak. 

[Sleepycat]

when I was playing a couple of sims in Uni last night (2 different dorms) I noticed the same problem with dormies and assignments (going missing and chair becomes unusable), thankfully placing the condiments on the tables stopped that problem.

I remember having this problem before (with Pets or OFB) and I forget what I did (or what hack I removed) to fix it - at that time it only happened in 1 maxis dorm and usually I used a custom one that I built, so it may not have actually gotten fixed - I did think it was a hack causing it at that time.

Oddly enough I also had a couple invisible dormies in one of the dorms. I used InSIM to delete them and they returned to the lot a short time later fixed, hopefully they stay fixed *laughs*

[Kristalrose]

Oh, no, I haven't tried to delete all characters lately. . . this was about a year ago.  I still play with all the no___ regen hacks though, to keep them away.  (And, yes, didn't know it was broken, either. Thanks for letting me know LOL)

Witch:  I did that, too, when TS2 1st came out.  I packaged all my favorite families and moved them to a neighborhood I had terrained with SC4.  I bragged about it, and JMP said it was bad.  I didn't take him seriously.  A few months later, I was crying and telling him, "You are right, you are more awesome than me."     If it can be broken with TS2, leave it to me to do it.  I'm worse than Maxis.  hahaha

[J. M. Pescado]

I packaged all my favorite families and moved them to a neighborhood I had terrained with SC4.  I bragged about it, and JMP said it was bad.  I didn't take him seriously.  A few months later, I was crying and telling him, "You are right, you are more awesome than me."     If it can be broken with TS2, leave it to me to do it.  I'm worse than Maxis.  hahaha

* J. M. Pescado points and laughs.

[witch]

Yeah, he pointed and laughed at me too. He also explained why it was bad, so I'll give him credit for that!

[Kristalrose]

Yeah, that's what makes him tollerable, I guess.     He at least explains why we've done something stupid as he points and laughs.

[AuKestrel]

Update: played another Maxis dorm with all Maxis content. I had the same problem with a table and chairs. The chairs were fine, but the table was 'in use'. I replaced it and so far, so good.  I only played the lot for about an hour, but it seems to be working. I'm sure with more play those damned chairs (and table) will get stuffed again.

I have played Uni more or less regularly since I got it (I just use College Adjuster to speed it up), and, yeah, I have noassignmentlitter installed too. I've noticed exactly this same thing and only since Seasons. It has happened with the cheap desk, the Oriental-style desk, and the desk that looks like a leather-type tabletop (don't know the name of it), and various tables in the cafeteria. It's driving me up the wall to the point that I am not even going to have dormies in my playable dorms from now on, just my own Sims. GRRRR.

(But thank you - I thought I was going crazy. Now I know that we're both crazy.)

[Sleepycat]

interesting, the only person to not have this 'dormie/chair in use/assignment' problem (in this thread) wasn't using noassignmentlitter (from what I could tell re-reading the posts quick)

so... could this be a bug in noassignmentlitter?

[purplehaze]

I dunno. But it has been happening a lot very recently. I can't place the blame on the hack neccessarily, I'm not sure why this is cropping up so frequently. I have 'most' of the directors cut installed and a lot of Twojeffs mods.  The only other mods are Jordi's hiders, JFades juicer tweaks, Inge's Elders Sleep through the Night, and Ctfg's faster gardening hacks.  Last night I played a dorm that I hadn't played for months. And gee..guess what happened?  Two borked tables and 2 chairs. Those tables and chairs were original to the Maxis lot. I never had a problem before, that I can recall, on that lot. I only noticed it because my sim was sitting and eating while holding his plate. Again, they were 'in use'. I had to replace them twice. Each time a dormie put the assignment down they would wave their hands about the chair not being accessable. The homework would disappear and another sim would lay down the paper...wash, rinse, repeat.This was with a brand new table and chair. No Sim had used it.

I mean, c'mon, this used to happen once in great while. It was very rare. Now it's infecting all the dorms that I have checked in on. This has been occuring since installing Seasons. I have no idea why Seasons could possibly affect this. I still have at least 6 more dorms to check up on. In fact, I just remembered, I went to remodel an uninhabited dorm that had previously held students, and I also had the 'in use' problem on a table and chair. How can it be 'in use' when there are no Sims on the lot? Bizarre.

I have used the table candles with great success to force the homework onto another table, but in one instance, the second table I placed for homework got borked also. I replaced it, and so far there's no problems. But, I didn't play the lot for a long time after the replacement. 

ETA: when MY Sim uses the newly placed tables for homework, they don't become corrupt. It's only when a dormie uses/attempts to use it.

[Sleepycat]

well I removed noassignmentlitter before playing last night since I knew I was going to be playing Uni.

I played both of the dorms that I had had the 'dormie/chair in use/assignment' problem (I removed the condiments from the tables upon entering) plus another dorm and not once did I end up with a unusable chair.

so IMO it does seem to be a bug in noassignmentlitter

[J. M. Pescado]

I made an update aimed at reducing the potential for a possible stuck chair situation, even though I highly doubt they're related, since the assignment wouldn't combust if someone were actually using it.