Bon Voyage dissatisfaction

[jsalemi]

Empty?  I wish mine were empty, instead of all the stupid tourists starting and not finishing sand castles until there's hardly any room for my sims to walk...

[Emma]

Oh. I finally found a way to get the tourists to swim at my public beach:

Wow how?

Because I'm tired of seeing the beaches empty with no people other than my sims.

Sounds like you have empty templates with no townie regen installed. Do you? My beach lots are swarming with vacation townies

[Zazazu]

Oh. I finally found a way to get the tourists to swim at my public beach:

Wow how?

Because I'm tired of seeing the beaches empty with no people other than my sims.

On residentials? Yeah, you don't generally get people trespassing. This is a public beach lot...a residential with a ticket-taker, hot tub, water wiggle, beach chairs, and boom box.

[jolrei]

This is a public beach lot...a residential with a ticket-taker, hot tub, water wiggle, beach chairs, and boom box.

That works, eh, on a residential lot?  I would have guessed that it would be more something to do with a comm lot, but now I appear to be wrong.  Res lot with ticket taker - is this "OFB required?"  That would explain why I don't "get it", so to speak.

[jsalemi]

Yes, the ticket taker is an OFB thing, as are home businesses.

[jolrei]

Yes, the ticket taker is an OFB thing, as are home businesses.

Thought as much.  Heigh ho.

[Zazazu]

Yes, the ticket taker is an OFB thing, as are home businesses.

Thought as much.  Heigh ho.

OFB is much fun. I didn't fully appreciate it until I started using Business Runs You (directing sales socials manually sucks). OFB is, at heart, what my current 'hood is about. That and giving townies heatstroke, apparently.

[spaceface]

Talking about heatstroke, what's with the permanent surnburn? Ugh. I have one sim who seems to have turned into a lobster.

[Ness]

My tans and sunburn don't seem to be permanent.  Although, I have only had one of each, but they seem to disappear in time - seems like quite a long time, but it does go.

[skandelouslala]

I was quite surprised to see my first sun tan sim..especially since I use custom default skins among other custom skins.  But my sim turned darker in the summer.  I did not have him layiing out in the sun though or anything so is it just something that happens in the summer season?

I'm still annoyed by the fact that most of my water surrounded terrains do not make suitable terrains for my beach lots.  There is always massive hilliness or steep slopes involved.

[Tigerlilley]

My sunburn is permanent also

You have to reburn them to get them back to normal.  THANKS EA.

[Zazazu]

My sunburns aren't permanent, but they do take a few days to slough off. The 'hood is Summer-Fall-Spring-Summer. So if there's an especially hot day in the middle of the first Summer, it might be until the first day of Fall before I see it gone. The first double-Summer was especially hot. I'd have a sim call a buddy and most of the people listed were bright red. I also have a townie (Peter Sims...why did I forget the Seasons empty template?) who is permanently sooty-faced due to getting hit by lightning during the wet season. Once I get a beauty shop going, I'll fix it. In the meantime, he's kept around for pointing and laughing at.

Heatstrokes, however, are permanent. During that same double-Summer, I lost two townies to it. Dumb idiots were hanging in the hottub on a super-hot day.

[PlayLives]

I took my sims on vacation (staying at a custom hotel) and their "guests" can not sleep or relax on a single bed. I can only get them to relax on a double bed. My household sims have no problem but how are the guests supposed to go to sleep? I tried the control pets cheat and can direct them to do other things but not sleep in the bed???
Please tell me I'm doing something wrong and not that this is the way it was programmed.   

I'm really starting to believe EA/Maxis, whoever, purposefully leaves things out of their EP's because they know some modder will make a hack for it. Less work for them.

[KatEnigma]

All my sunburns aren't permanent, just some of them. I had one kid who got burnt his first day as a child and was well into his teens before I managed to reburn him so he changed back. 

[jsalemi]

Please tell me I'm doing something wrong and not that this is the way it was programmed.   

Alas, that IS the way it was programmed. Guests don't need sleep, because the game periodically recharges their motives.  I took a guest on vacation once, and swore I'd never do it again -- it's just too borked as it's programmed.

I think there's a 'guests sleep in beds' hack floating around somewhere, but for the life of me I can't remember where I saw it right now. If I remember I'll modify this post.

[KatEnigma]

If you're playing with the testing cheats on, you can slide down their energy, and they will find a bed to sleep in.

[jsalemi]

I've had guests with energy almost in the red, and they didn't sleep, and then suddenly their energy jumped back up to about 1/2 way.

[PlayLives]

Arggh..(shakes head)...
I thought I noticed something funny with their energy motive going up a little but I thought it was just my eyes.
So I have to "cheat" in order to make the game do something that is common sense, what else is new.  

[KatEnigma]

I've had guests with energy almost in the red, and they didn't sleep, and then suddenly their energy jumped back up to about 1/2 way.

That's so odd. I definitely did it that way. I accidentally took a townie on vacation with the family one trip, and he was annoying me.  But that family was pretty borked. Maybe I just got lucky with it being borked in a good way.

[J. M. Pescado]

I've had guests with energy almost in the red, and they didn't sleep, and then suddenly their energy jumped back up to about 1/2 way.

Hmm, interesting. They probably built that cheat in for the same reason the dormie Uni protect "cheat" is there: Because the AI is so braindead stupid that if it isn't there, sims will just pee on themselves and pass out in their own urine otherwise.

[jsalemi]

Probably. The guest did 'react' to the BUY I had in the various bathrooms, so her bladder never got critical, but she wouldn't sleep.  In fact, she did get in the red while her and her boyfriend were on a comm lot, and popped up a message to the effect that she was exhausted, and was heading home.  But she never did leave the lot, and when they got back to the hotel together, her energy went back up a few minutes after they arrived. They even woohooed in the bed under ACR control, and he fell asleep, and she got up and wandered to the beach, where she stayed all night.

[Spicey]

Has anyone tried walking between lots yet? I've heard of a problem, but I don't know if the person is running hack-free.

i wondered what was up with that.  i tell my sims to walk off the lot, and then the action drops out of their queue.  also, is anyone else having as much trouble with the wants slots as i am?  i don't see any seasons wants at all since i installed bonvoyage, and after the sims get done going thought all the vacation wants, the slots stay empty.

[MutantBunny]

Walking between lots is working perfectly in my game.

[jsalemi]

i wondered what was up with that.  i tell my sims to walk off the lot, and then the action drops out of their queue.  also, is anyone else having as much trouble with the wants slots as i am?  i don't see any seasons wants at all since i installed bonvoyage, and after the sims get done going thought all the vacation wants, the slots stay empty.

You have one or more (probably more) incompatible or old version hacks in your game that are causing these problems. Make sure you update all your hacks to BV versions. If that doesn't work, take them all out and put them back in a binary search to see which one is causing the problem.

[KatEnigma]

IIRC, it was TJ's visitor controller that was the number one culprit of that (walk to lot) problem. He's since updated it.