Hi there. We will get you some answers, but please be patient with us. We ask that around 3 days go by before bumping unanswered questions; this forum does not typically move fast enough to always supply answers more quickly. In this case, I did try to reply a couple of times while the site was unstable overnight (not your fault) so my response kept getting lost before it was sent.

3 - A few things come to mind on the LN Style apartment.

-- Are all of the level skip markers necessary? I've never gotten that granular with apartment building design so am not the best one to comment on these, but too many of them might be confusing things (ignore this if you already have a better handle on them than I do).
-- Are you certain that the hidden room markers meant to mark out NPC-only units are the LN kind and not the WA tomb markers? The latter will certainly fog/hide the room, but won't be recognized as intended for the placement of an NPC door as that is not their intended purpose.
-- NPC Doors must face the interior of a building, not the exterior. I think one of your prior screenshots wasn't showing complete compliance with that rule, but am not sure of what I was seeing.
-- Can't recall if this is an absolute requirement, but is there a LN callbox in a common area already?

There is no point in furnishing what is to be the NPC units. The sims don't do anything in there except hibernate and there is no way to enter/visit them in-game; they stay permanently dark. These units, once you get them set up and recognized, if utilized are a substitute for some homeless NPCs going off the map to hibernate when they aren't needed for their service/roll or co-worker assignments and they are still considered homeless sims.

If any room in the building has no marker at all, then it will be "part" of the one usable residential unit even if disjointed. But I'm not sure I always see my resident sims always making it into what should be their own unit when they "Go Home." Sometimes the elevator will be stuck, but often enough they are content to hang around in the lobby. What is worse though is when as inactive residents they instantiate inside of a private room (darkened) and can't get out; this is what causes much lag in Bridgeport often until these units are unscrambled and in many cases private NPC units shifted off of the ground floor.

2 - On the lot tag question, yes I believe by default the lot will always pick up a lot tag corresponding to a rabbit hole if any is on the lot rather than a venue.

4 - Sorry, but I don't know what to say here. If you don't like NRaas SP, then remove the mod and don't use it. If you want to deactivate progression but keep the mod, NRaas > SP > General Options > Enable Progression > False. It's already False by default on newly started games, but you are asked on initial startup of a newly established game if you want to activate it.

Many of us here find SP and its progression to be a very satisfying component to gameplay as we "play the town" and guide its development beyond that of an active household, and it's not really possible to maintain any kind of rotational play across different households in turns without either SP or AwesomeMod to help control what "our" households are allowed to do while the player's attention and focus is elsewhere. If SP progression is running too fast for a system to keep up with or for the tastes of the player, it can be slowed down from Normal with the Speed selection on the same General menu. But, of course, to each their own.

And finally,

1 - I think the Homeworld Uni question should get its own thread.

Yes, that version of Careers is a bit stale and would recommend updating it and any other mods that may be older, but that shouldn't outright prevent a Homeworld Uni from functioning properly. And it's fine if the discussion stays on this thread, was just trying to be helpful with the separation idea since this is so far removed from the now resolved NPC door questions.

I've never heard of the 8 limit on NPC doors, but there could be something to that.

 

grallonsphere wrote: ↑

November 24th, 2018, 3:01 pm

The latest version listed here is v 87, under the career sub-forum.  Is there another place where I can download a newer version?

What I meant was, if you have a version of Careers dated Oct 2015, then that is v86. The current version is v87, either that or the v88a beta testing version Trey mentions would be more up to date.