FreeTime Patch is Out! *EA removed patch from site*

[lewisb40]

It is out here, but it doesn't fix what I wanted. I guess you can see if it helps your game.

[Tomkat]

Child Sims will no longer pop when asked to "Clean Up" the juice tray :smt104

Dont you just hate it when children pop?

[PegasusDiana]

Wow those were some critical things they fixed there. I'm impressed. lol I don't see even one of the crashing issues fixed. Good thing we have TwoJeffs, Pes, Inge, and the other modders. Oh and I noticed they didn't do a thing about all the stupid phone calls, other than the magazine one. Wohoo, wohoo.

[BeosBoxBoy]

maybe they will fix the career chance cards in the "next" patch

[BeosBoxBoy]

There were obviously serious flaws with the patch that was released - EA has removed it, so we can assume true to my previous experience, the patch was buggier than the original game or made things worse.

[Theraven]

flaws in the patch? remind me not to laugh...

and EA removed it? WOW! that's the first time they've actually realised they did a mistake...
isn't that just thypical? I downloaded the patch, but I've not installed it yet. and now I'm really glad I didn't it. to be honest, I like better to download fixes made by the gameplayers themselves (like inge jones, twojeffs and those ones). I actually trust them more than the patches!
to be honest, I've never installed a single patch (except the pets one that didn't help - now I think it was something with the cigen/accessory files or something, but I didn't know about those files then. I reinstalled the game without the patch after that)

the only bug I've noticed in my game is the C-button/drawing table that came with FT. The only one. Without patches. (I've got some fixes from the awesome creators we've got ourselves, and they do the job.)

up until now, from what I've seen in the listing of fixes the patches is suposed to do, I've had none of those problems (not counting C-button).

[BeosBoxBoy]

actually, raven they did something similar with the base game - they released a patch, removed it, and had a replacement patch that corrected the first patch within 72 hours, because the first patch actually did the exact opposite of what it was supposed to do >_<

and if memory serves they had a similar catastrophic bug patch release with the University patch, and had a replacement patch in 72 hours.

Oh, they know they make horrors, they just smile and lie through their teeth about them.

[Bev in NY]

i got a question guys...i downloaded the patch and installed it...i didn't see where it affected my game in a negative way at least not yet...but if what you are saying is true how would i remove it from my game if they come out with another patch?

[lewisb40]

When I installed the patch, I knew it would reset the lots, but now the whole game. The camera mods were written over to regular maxis code and I had to enable custom content, never had that happen with a patch before, at least I don't remember it before. Wow, they pulled it? Oh boy, when the new one comes out, I guess I will have to download the camera mod over again. Reset my lots again, my poor sims are gonna lose their jobs. LOL

[Why Lie]

0.o  Patch's reset lots?!  I'd rather play with a buggy game then... But thats just me...  I've done a lot in my lots... so yeah :s

[Tenshii~Akari]

It completely resets the lots and all the data in them? (Like the sims lose their jobs and everything?) Weird... I know in previous patches it only reset the sims themselves if they were performing an action when you had saved prior to installing a patch... that, and usually the "SimsXX" and "objects" packages that contained those updates.  :scratch:

EA's not doing well at all in convincing me to spend my money on yet another borked product of theirs.  They still haven't gotten the patches down-pat, even after all this time the game's been released... I know it's complex, but thorough testing could quite possibly prevent these things from happening... not 100%, but at least with much better results than at the current point.  :roll:

[Sam the T-man]

They don't get completely reset - what lewis probably meant was that the sims normally at work would end up back home, and consequently lose a day's work (if you have holiday time you use up one of those days). This is why I keep Squinge's skip-school-no-grade-loss in my game I do believe JM has a fix in his debugger for work performance

I've played with the patch installed and no problems, so for what it does fix, I'll keep it But then, I seem to be lucky with things like patches and securom... :angel:

[Tenshii~Akari]

Okay.  Thanks for the clarification, Sadie.  

[BeosBoxBoy]

... I know it's complex, but thorough testing could quite possibly prevent these things from happening....

Tenshii! what madness is this you speak of?!! Don't you understand? EA does thorough testing, they know exactly how short-sighted, shallow, and herd-beast-like their consumer-base is!!

[lewisb40]

I am sorry, I didn't mean to confuse everyone. My lots are "reset" to everyone is home and like when they move into a new home. They miss their jobs and the kids miss school, so they lose a grade. The data is still up to date after the last gameplay. I was worried that my sims may lose their job, if I have to install another patch.  I have to check out those mods Sadie had in her post.  The only complaint I had was the patch overwritten the camera mod and disabled custom content, I didn't remember a patch doing that.  Sorry again.