Hello, Squinge. It's me again.
I know it's been a long time since we talked about visitor detention, but I hope you memory of our discussions is still fresh.
I've been doing some fiddling with Housing/Business Lots of late, and I
was having some difficulty getting sims to clear off home. Even if I set Visitors Stay to Disabled, they still wouldn't take the hint and get out.
I DL'd Paladin's HCDU(Hack Conflict Detection Utility) and ran it. The Refresh Painting posed NO conflicts at all, but Visitors Never Leave conflicted with Twojeffs' Visitor Controller.
My own fault, I'd totally messed up and forgotten to remove Visitors Never Leave, which I should've done because this painting makes it redundant, right?
Doh!
So, after scrapping Visitors Never Leave, I tested this one again, and even with Twojeffs' hack, all seems well so far...
...but I have two small issues thatI need to raise:
1) WITHOUT this painting on a Lot, and with VNL removed, the game will use the default settings for determining whether or not visitors should go, right? So on all Lots where this painting is
NOT present, visitors won't be detained, correct?
Sorry for the confusion on my part, but it's been so long, and I've mistakenly had VNL running, so I got confused over which hack's doing what.
Yep, I'm an arse.
Sorry.
2) With Visitor Stay disabled, it seems that sims(though they
will leave eventually) need an awful lot of motive reduction(more than just 25% Energy stat) before they'll decide to clear off. I guess this is just the standard Maxis default setting... although I understand Twojeffs' VC makes them stay
later, but I don't think it alters the motive threshold.
Is there a chance that this could be altered? Perhaps a hack to raise the motive threshold so that they need fewer low motives before going home? For starters, I reckon that
IF they're not on a Sleepover, visitors should leave
before their Hygene drops low enough for them to shower. That would make sense, no? I mean, if I were dropping in round someone's house for tea but not staying over, I'd use their toilet when necessary, but I wouldn't strip off and get in their bath or shower without permission.
What do you reckon to a wee hack to raise the likelyhood of them clearing off home?
IF you feel inclined, I'll gladly do some playtesting to help ascertain a sensible level for the settings.
In any case, thanks for your work, as always.
Adam.
