Well I played for several hours last nights, dates are harder than I thought they were going to be, although the official guide did come in handy several times. I turned one of my families in strangetown into vampires. I only played the pre-made neighborhoods as I want to experiment with those sims before I go and play with my favorites and somehow screw them up. One of my sims is now a pleasure sim, and I do like the wants she displays, one was to have a bubble bath, that was easy enough. I didn't get around to building anything yet, that's my plan for tonight. I did find one glitch, I had my teenage vampire (Destiny) pay for a blind date with the gypsy...eh, it went okay, not the best date in the world. Once the date was over he left the lot, and the gypsy was still on the lot so Destiny went and paid for another date...thump, a new guy fell from the sky, then promptly disapeared after saying, "Hey thanks for the date it was great..." (not in those exact words of course) Umm....they didn't go on a date. But he did call the next day saying he had a good time and asked if she wanted to go on another date, so it sort of worked out. Other than that, no other major glitches noticed, it did slow down my game play quite a bit, loading takes a little longer, and sometimes the game freezes for brief moments, but normally frees up after 10 seconds or so. It's nice that you can click on the house next door to play that family instead of going to the neighborhood screen first and then choosing a house, that was the only part where my loading time was shorter, just because we get the skip that step now. Which I also have to say that my favorite part is seeing the other houses from the lot your playing, I love that.
My first Nightlife thoughts are as follows: At first I noticed a BIG loading lag. Then I refreshed my page file and increased its size to maximum for my systme (4 gig). Now it loads faster than with Uni. All of my custom content loads. As a matter of fact, after turning on custom content in the confirmation window, some of it shows now that didn't before. Wow! I am very happy about this. With over 7800 meshes, hacks, recolors, and hacked items, I was very concerned about stuff working. The MUSIC! It is AWESOME. Clasical, oldies, and housemix dance techno. Very cool. But what I noticed most is the improved and more variable build / buy music. Very needed. It breaks the audio tedium a lot better. Builder / conceptualizor characters will be relieved. More group interactive objects, including a bowling ally (I like very much, especially for less "urbanized" families), a poker table, and a ton of club and retro items. Modding groups like Retroville and others will have TONS of stuff to recolour and clone after today. People can LIVE Downtown, and not just through a life stage. This is a GREAT spot to place your Urbanite Sims. Very cool. Now there is a definite different feel between the city and the Burbs. You can see neighbor lots and community decorations from your house. This adds a ton to the feel of the game. It didnt slow down my system at all (after I increased my page file) and clicking straight to a neighbor lot to play them is a real sweet addition. Now it's not just built like a neighbor hood, you see the nieghborhood around you. Are your Sims the one trashy bungalow on the block, now they see their eyesore for what it is. Live on the poshest block in town, revel in the splendor. I like this feature A LOT! Now, I've just begun to scratch the surface. I haven't yet bought a car or built a new downtown. But I will, bet yer bottom Simolean. As it stands I haven't found a single problem with this game. Not one. Now, all i want is the Uni / NL patch to come out and fix the bad object bug, then I'll be all smiles.
Rowan, just wondering what hacks you have that are working. I have put all mine in a folder and taken them out of the game until they were either tested or updated my their programmers.
I use Monique's enhanced computer, the CEP (of course, manditory these days), the mirror blue flashy fix thing, and Gunmod's camera no-clip more realistic videos camera hack. And the InSiminator. That still seems to be working (at least the pregnancy and teleport functions). However, I did have one bug today. An entire community lot just stopped working. Everyone, including my Sim, couldnt do anything except stand around. I had to reload from the last save.
Someone at MoreAwsomeThanYou said that there was a complete lists of hacks that are incompatable with NL at VariousSimmers, but I can't find it. If anyone else finds it, will you please post the link? I miss my hacks!! WAAAAAAA
His posts are few and far between. Last one I know of was 9/7. His job or his hacking must be keeping him busy. Or his girlfriend, do you suppose? I had an email from EA today saying that my Nightlife was on the way. It's coming UPSnail, because I'm CHEAP. *Wipes eyes...blows in hanky*
i dont know if it is a bug or what, but for the lack of better explaining it without turning this into an R rated post, i was able to easily change the sexual preference of 2 female sims and get them "in love" even when they already had previous longlasting relationships with the opposite sex. this was all done in the matter of one sim night at a downtown lot. no hacks or anything as they were already disabled by the game. only other miff ive got is why the driveways have to be so long? why cant they have a garage right up by the road? cuz i just redesigned the garage on my "Luxurihome" (check the neighborhood and community forum) and i had to move it back on the lot by about 6 blocks, shorten the walkway from the house to the garage, and delete half the covered patio before it would actually work as a "garage".
MoreAwesomeThanYou had a fantastic thread with one of the maxoids asking for specific problems that need to be addressed in the patch. I was stunned Pescado didn't post. I hope he did it via personal messaging because I would assume he could list every single problem concisely. It would be awful to think he let that opportunity pass him by. He hasn't posted very much on his own board lately. Honestly, Kristal, I thought most hacks were developed for a particular ep. I thought you had to trash most of them. Most downloads should work but I thought hacks had to be specific for your game configuration. It's the main reason I wait for ep's. I want the hacks I consider essential updated first. Does the "nocheeringhack" and "phonehack" work? I won't play without those! LOL! "Collegeclock" and "clothingtool" save my sanity. I'm sure there are others I simply take for granted that make the game run smoothly. Does Merola's painting work?
I found a bugged hack. Bandcontroller 3.0 was what caused my community lot to cease. I even forgot I had it installed. In the words of Strongbad, "DELETED!"
I found my first official Nightlife bug. I made a group (The Studious Six, nerds with a penchant for bowling, video arcades, and diners) and sent two out to eat. When i returned in Khal's car the group member was seen levitating in the sitting position in front of the house and I could hear the car, but no sign of Khal or the car. My game was unplayable, I had to reset from save.
Oh, good! This site just isn't the same without you. "Group leader" oh kilted one? That's um, kind of pod like. Do they all bow and worship the computer before they go to bed? Hee hee. Just wondering. Still don't have a computer capable of running NL. My friend said "maybe this weekend." Life is so hard for the computer impaired. Waaaaaaah!
BOW, KNEEL BEFORE ZOD! Mwahahaha... or something. No, this is in reference to a new function in Nightlife: the ability to create social groups that do stuff together. For example, the AWESOME ability to invite an entire group over to your house, in ONE PHONE CALL. Those with phones and good relationship will come over in one swoop.
I have got to get me that game. Once the computer is mended I'm there. In the meantime I'll have to live vicariously through my friends at WorldSims.
