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School bus not appearing

Post by notanecrophiliac » April 21st, 2019, 10:55 am

So I am having the issue of the school bus not picking up my kids for school, I have no idea why. NRaas mods I have are: Tagger, Master Controller, Traveler, Register, Overwatch, Career, Story Progression, Traffic, Error Trap, Relativity, Woohoer, Written Word, and Retuner. I know I did disable carpool for my sims, but I think it is not connected because before I had disabled it, school bus was still not showing.
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Post by sittingbear » April 21st, 2019, 11:24 am

Do the kids have their own bicycles or scooters? If they do then SP will disable the school bus.

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Post by igazor » April 21st, 2019, 11:40 am

Many players also find that Buzzler's Moar Interactions or Carpool mods from MTS (just one, both are not needed) do a somewhat better job of managing the school buses and carpools. They don't seem to conflict in any horrible way with what SP does.

In my case, I often have children and teens within the same household going to different schools in town. Getting a school bus (or two) to take them to different locations never works out well and I often insist on bicycles or other forms of transport for at least some of them when I can.

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Post by Nindigo » April 22nd, 2019, 3:41 am

notanecrophiliac, I have been able to solve this issue by evicting the family and moving them back into either the same lot or a new one. You can also try saving the household to the bin and then place them in a new save, although that is a more drastic measure.

igazor, how are you having more than one school in your town? Sorry, if that's a dumb question *blush*

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Post by igazor » April 22nd, 2019, 6:19 am

Nindigo post_id=65579 time=1555918910 user_id=20087 wrote: igazor, how are you having more than one school in your town?
Under EA Standard, a single school will max out at around 25-30 students, sooner than that sometimes depending on the world and the school lot. At that point and beyond, the game tries to cram too many students (and teachers, depending on their start times) into and out of a single door, thus leading to overcrowding, foot stomping shows of frustration as the kids and teens collide with each other, taking until 11 am or longer to get everyone inside, and often enough the kids and teens giving up and wandering away from the school lot entirely. AussomeDays' Entry/Exit mod at MTS helps relieve that by allowing sims to use more than one entry and exit doors on schools (and Uni buildings) that have them, but even so it never seems realistic to me to have only one school once worlds reach a certain population in the children and teens age groups.

More than one public school: By placing new ones, schools are just rabbitholes. Lots can be saved down to the bin and copied between worlds, new lots can be created by using the school rabbithole shells available in Build/Buy then landscaped to taste, custom made lots are available, or custom rabbithole rugs can be used. By default, sims will not register for a different school unless they have a really good reason to, but if the original school is bulldozed then two (or more) schools are placed, that should force the re-registration process. In that case, by default sims will register for the school that is closest to their home. Or instead, SP's Lot Options, together with the GoHere mod whose presence is also required, can be used to restrict the schools by age, gender, net worth, or whatever attributes one likes. Most of my worlds have at least an elementary and a high school once they reach a high enough enrollment population, some have more than one of each.

Private schools: The Careers mod's School module provides for custom specialty schools that convene at already existing community lots around town such as Military, Arts, Science, Culinary. The specialty schools build the associated skills in addition to regular child development like the public schools do. The player can decide whether these are really to be private schools, who gets to attend them or if they are open to everyone, and whether fees or automatic enrollment are involved by way of SP. In addition to providing further options to help the development of the next generation, the specialty schools can help relieve overcrowding at the public school lots. The same module also provides a Homeschooling option.

So a family with let's say two children and three teens might have one child in a public elementary school, one in arts, and teens in a high school or other Careers mod schools and they may have different start times. In these cases, the school buses can be more painful than they are helpful.

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Post by Nindigo » April 22nd, 2019, 10:13 am

Wow. Thank you for that extensive explanation - it was very helpful. Not too long ago, I had that exact problem with kids giving up on getting through the door, because there were so many. Not knowing any better, I ended up deleting many of those townie kids despite feeling terrible about it. I'm going to mess around with schools now. Again, thanks!

Note: The mod you linked to is wonderful and working as intended.

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Post by notanecrophiliac » April 23rd, 2019, 10:02 am

sittingbear wrote:
April 21st, 2019, 11:24 am
Do the kids have their own bicycles or scooters? If they do then SP will disable the school bus.
In the beginning they just took a taxi to school, but I did end up giving them a bicycle.
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Post by notanecrophiliac » April 23rd, 2019, 10:04 am

Nindigo wrote:
April 22nd, 2019, 3:41 am
notanecrophiliac, I have been able to solve this issue by evicting the family and moving them back into either the same lot or a new one. You can also try saving the household to the bin and then place them in a new save, although that is a more drastic measure.
I have tried that, and no luck. And also it seems to be a consistent problem whenever I start a new save in a different world - no school bus at all. :|
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Post by notanecrophiliac » April 23rd, 2019, 10:09 am

I have reset the school lot and the entire town through Master Controller, thinking it would fix my problem, but nothing at all. I just really want my school buses back :cry:
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Post by sittingbear » April 23rd, 2019, 1:05 pm

notanecrophiliac wrote:
April 23rd, 2019, 10:09 am
I have reset the school lot and the entire town through Master Controller, thinking it would fix my problem, but nothing at all. I just really want my school buses back :cry:
You could have a mod somewhere that is disabling the school bus.
Or it could be a mod conflict with 2 or more mods and the school bus not showing up is one of the side effects. Sometimes the results of a mod conflict isn't even related to what the mods are meant to do.

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