I made two townies, or, should I say, dormies. They stayed in the dorm, they even showed up in the secret society. But, they were no longer playable characters, and I was able to move in another sim.
All NPCs are game-generated (NPC are all the sims that you can hire via the phone and the ones that man the tills at community lots, plus the social worker, nannys, bunnies & mascots etc). The townies that you generate will be found walking around the streets, and hanging out at community lots, and coming home with your playable sims.
I think I've done something stupid. I remember seeing pescado mention something about there being a university lot problem but I had no clue what it was about. Anyway, I liked a particular townhouse at one of the university campuses. No one had ever lived in them. They were off campus housing. I redid them and put them in my lot bin. I stuck them in my new neighborhood and now my sims are being told to go to freaking class! One of my adult sims is all torn up because he's evidently on academic probation for not attending exams...which would be impossible since he's an adult and I don't even have a university campus set up for this neighborhood. Is my new neighborhood fubar? Should I delete the entire neighborhood now before I get any further? I've spent a week building houses and sims and new townies. It would be painful but I need to know what to do now before I invest any more time.
I somehow put down a Uni house and it had the same problem. I moved the Sims out there and deleted the offending house. I think that fixed the problem for me. Not sure how it'd do for you.
Thanks chee-z! Maybe I'll build replicas of the townhouses and move my sims into those. Can I move the university lots back to the original university or should I bulldoze those suckers? I can understand why one might not move a university dorm or special building into a normal neighborhood but I don't understand why an unused house can't be moved around. This is frustrating.
I suspect that university lot problem is down to the mailbox/trashcan. I bet that it could be 'cured' by fooling the game with the ChangeLotZoning cheat. Try changing the lot to a community lot save back to neighborhood and then reload and change back to residential save back to hood and reload again. It should now have a normal neighborhood mailbox and trashcan
I caught Mirelly's suggestion very early this morning so I tried it. No problem changing one of the lots to community. But when I went back and changed it to residential my game terminated. It did it several times. I have no clue if it was due to changing the lot category or something else entirely. I was so frustrated I deleted the neighborhood. (One probably shouldn't do this sort of stuff before coffee. :tired: Starting all over sounded just fine at the crack of dawn. onder
Yowch! No wonder I spent the day thawing out bags of frozen peas on my ears Seriously. I don't have game access at the moment. Anyone else wanna test this out on an unimportant 'hood?
LOL! Nah...I wasn't mad. I went on a real sim housecleaning binge after that. I was in a ruthless mood. Sometimes you've just got to show this game who is the boss. But yes, it would be nice if someone who likes restarting the game over and over and over would check this idea out. Obviously, I don't have the patience. I thank everyone that does enjoy experimenting with the game. It's saved me a lot of headaches. Okay, you all know my level of computer expertise is nil but I did notice that I couldn't match the lot size when attempting to replicate those townhouses. Is it possible the lot sizes are completely different for university lots and that triggers something?
