Pary wrote:I tried to grab it to test but the file is set to private. Have you closed testing for the time being Rflong ?

Hi, Pary
I did take it down because of the freeze. I hope to have the next test version tonight. I want to run it a little first.

Okay so far with the clean slate test sim the club seems to be working just fine! I even went and turned off the strobe lights this time as I did last time just to make sure I was repeating what I did before. I have a male sim this time. No vampire bouncers this time around. And the bartender here now is horribly incompetent! LOL!

PS I feel terrible if my CC was the cause and borked up the testing. So sorry. I should never test with CC in. I think the last patch maybe rendered the blush messy? Or it could have just been a botched installation. I won't know unless I try to put the CC back in and test it with that in again. No sense doing that for your purposes though. That would just be so I know if my CC is bad. It was a Sarah Michelle Gellar face mask blush by Wil Stefan of MTS for his SMG sim that I was using on my updated Buffy Summers Sim.

Yes, you should always remove any CC or Mods before testing and delete all of the cache files as well.

Blue Test home has pots of ivy instead of sinks in its bathrooms.

DarkMirage wrote:Yes, you should always remove any CC or Mods before testing and delete all of the cache files as well.

Truly, indeed. I had left it all in because it was all running fine for many sim hours in Winter Wonderland and Bridgeport. Even after the patch in those worlds. But you are right and I have a totally brand new The Sims 3 folder and I only migrated over a library and Saved Sims folder that was purged of sims wearing CC. It was just two sims, thankfully.

SummerSong86 wrote:Blue Test home has pots of ivy instead of sinks in its bathrooms.

No, I still don't think it's the CC. I have a few pauses, too. Nothing major but I've redone the fishing Dome and the Club.
I haven't noticed any pauses this time but I also didn't see any insects spawning in the new domes. This is not good... I did add pigeons so now I'm going to remove them and hope I get the insects back.

*and the Men's urinal at the Park was tossing a path error.

*Oh, and I didn't use many sinks- water is very limited.

*The dig lot will spawn 2 dig sites but it takes a day or two.

When you have the pauses in the club, can you give me a brief sequence of events on what you did in there? And what house was your sim living in who was active at the time of the pauses.

My prior test sim was in my Dome house that I made for you. My current one resides at Blue Test house. Other differences are a vehicle--I had a Renault Twizzy before and now I have a Fast Lane formula race car--the fastest most expensive one.

Yet another difference this time around--no vampires in the club at all. Last time there was a bouncer who was a vamp. So far I have run across only ONE patron in two visits to the club.

I can't recall what the patch was supposed to do but wasn't it supposed to stop patrons from woohooing bouncers in hot tubs? I wish I could remember. Anyway that is exactly what my sim was doing when I had the big freeze last time that ended my session.

~She was living in one of the two starters, no car, a job at the Movie Set. The pauses weren't long nor at club. She didn't do any woohooing of the bouncers. She did pop out of the hot tub (reset) on an outing at the club... scared me. This was this morning.
I had her at the club today but not on an outing she was hanging with a guy she met at the club today and no pauses or jumping while they chatted in the hot tub(which is all they did on the outing)

This was before changing the doors on the outside entry ways. I think it was confusing the visitors because they were blocked from entering... With the arches they walk right inside.

I saw a Vampire today- non at the club but the one... well, the outing was with her Vampire boss. If it means anything. I haven't seen any Sims go into the Medieval Club.

I also played three families today in different houses. Fire fighter, ghost hunter, cook- but only for a Sim day.
I am worried about my insects no spawning.

I didn't patch.

Testing #2

http://www.mediafire.com/?39e3hjaacd8vtha

I also expanded the Gym- there's a Martial Arts section now.

*Oh, I
~ re-sculpted the Food Dome and rebuilt the whole lot.
~ removed the Station from the Station Club and removed the strobe lights.
~ checked out all the routing paint... and stuff.

**I also have the wrong doors on the bathrooms at the new Food Dome.
so, pink is men and blue is female.

Had to get dinner and take care of a few things but I've just dl'd the new file and am getting ready to test.

I'm glad you put a martial arts section in the gym, Rflong. One of the sims I'm using in MBC seems to regularly have the opportunity come up to learn the skill for his job. I know I need to also travel from MBC for test purposes but sure don't travel much outside of testing anymore.

I was also going to ask you how does one set the type of music that is going to play on one of those wall speakers? When I went to the side with the strobe it was playing classical music, which just didn't gel with the surroundings. I couldn't figure out how you set the genre that will play, so how is it done? You might have changed that in this version but I'ld still like to know how to do it. I miss the way the TS2 guides used to spell things like that out. Sometimes I feel so darn dense with the hit and miss method

I didn't even think to try and set the music. (I'm used to picking the music like TS2 also)
I think you just click on it, like the effects machine- maybe?

~Oh, my Sim did make out with the Bartender last night (in the hot tub). Also stole their clothes!

It's build/buy mode, shift+click I believe to change the music.


ETA: You want to be careful where you put those speakers, I stuck some in the Chapel I made and it became the neighborhood gym. Every time I would send a Sim to visit there were 5 or 6 others working out on the dance floor.

I'll try clicking again but I sure didn't see a way to change the genre, you could change the volume, skip through the songs of the genre playing and something else, I think. I know I've got to be missing something obvious, like the doors on the garages

I haven't tried stealing clothes yet. I didn't even know it could be done until someon on MTS made the towel available for download. There is definitely a learning curve where this game is concerned.

Okay, off to play in space for a while.

DarkMirage wrote:It's build/buy mode, shift+click I believe to change the music.


ETA: You want to be careful where you put those speakers, I stuck some in the Chapel I made and it became the neighborhood gym. Every time I would send a Sim to visit there were 5 or 6 others working out on the dance floor.

Thank you, DM. And for the Warning.