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Daycare Problems

Post by littlelambsy » March 27th, 2018, 10:51 pm

My sim took on the Daycare career and is having a few problems. First, one kid got reset (a resident kid) when I started up my game. Then the father brought her back and all was well. No script errors on that one. Then the father gets reset after putting the child on the floor. Uploading script error on that one.

2nd. The other toddler is a homeless (non resident) and she is fine, except her father never comes to get her. No resetting by OW. My sim put her to bed and is now getting her up in the morning. It seems she's become apart of the household (no portrait as a member of the family though).

3rd. This is the biggest problem, my sim can put the abandoned child in the crib, change her diaper and play with her but can't feed her or put her in the high chair and the kid is screaming because she's hungry. How do I solve this?

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Post by Lyneah » March 28th, 2018, 12:40 am

From what I've experienced when playing Daycare is when that happens, you got to reset the toddler with MC to fix him/her. I can't remember if carrying the toddler off the lot and dropping it outside forces it to despawn, might only work in Inactives.

Another thing to be aware of too with Daycare is that the whole thing breaks if you reset your home lot.Only way I've been able to fix that is by evict/bulldoze and place the house back down.

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Post by littlelambsy » March 28th, 2018, 12:59 am

Thanks Lyneah, ill try that next time the kid is abandoned. She did disappear around 8 am then came back at 10. Then, when my sim was off the clock, the kids were there till 11 pm then disappeared. Parents never did pick up.

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Post by yuk75 » March 28th, 2018, 8:57 am

I'd adopt her. I once found a baby literally on my sims doorstep....and no one came for her for days so I added her to family LOL.

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Post by brappl » March 28th, 2018, 10:19 am

I do not have alot to add here but I do, from time to time, experience pretty much what you described except for your 3rd point.
In one instance I had 3 homeless toddlers that were brought to the center by three different homeless adults that were not related to the toddlers. Sometimes they were picked up and sometimes they just automatically reset back home. This went on for around 5 days. The toddlers were absolutelyadorable. I tagged them and was able to find the parents and ended up keeping the entire family, making them playable in a home of their own.

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Post by littlelambsy » March 28th, 2018, 10:43 am

@brappl...That is so sweet. :) The only time my sim couldn't interact with the kids was after the report came and the kids were suppose to have been picked up. When I moused over them, there was no notes on their condition (happy, bored, hungry etc). So they were no longer considered under the care of the daycare. But I knew the kid was hungry when she had a hissy fit and showed the hunger icon over her head. i solved the problem by making her good friends with my sim.

@yuk75... I seriously thought of adopting her but I'm just starting a legacy game and the founder is already a single parent. But if she hadn't have disappeared when she did, she would have been adopted. :)

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Post by Chain_Reaction » March 29th, 2018, 3:56 am

The daycare system is a bit of a mess. I think twallan was being ambitious with that. It's kinda difficult to debug because these things don't always happen. The error is coming from EA though. They didn't add code for them getting reset so it thinks the toddler is already there when they try to bring them back. Perhaps I could sort that out somehow.

Homeless parents are an issue because there's no code to push them into the world to pickup kids. It looks like EA thought to add it to drop them off but picking them up went over their head. Not sure this one is resolvable but I'll ponder it.

For #3, use Retuner. Sims3.Gameplay.Actors / Sim / kBabyToddlerLikingThresholdToAllowInteractionsWithStrangers = 0 - I thought this was on the Retuner page but apparently it was removed?

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Post by Sarah_Sims » March 29th, 2018, 8:51 am

@Chain: I had a quick look and couldn't see whether that tuning was ever there so not sure whether it was me that accidentally deleted it but I've added it now. :-)

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Post by littlelambsy » March 29th, 2018, 10:57 am

Thanks Chain. I have had that setting in Retuner for years but it doesn't seem to work.I remember setting it when I couldn't stand screaming, starving toddlers on the street and couldn't help them. I'll take another look at my settings and make sure it is set. I solved the immediate problem by making the toddler friends with my sim, which that setting in Retuner should have give the same result (action wise).
I've played with the daycare a number of times and had different problems (kids not showing up etc) but never had kids abandoned before, this is a first. So, although it put a crimp in my sims plans, she adopted the child. I hope this doesn't continue to happen or I'll have a houseful of toddlers! :)

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Post by littlelambsy » March 30th, 2018, 12:05 am

Ok another problem I've never seen before. Its my sims day off from the Daycare which goes from M-Thurs. Today is Friday, so she decided to take her kids to the park for some fun. While there (6:30pm) I get a notice that says her daycare has been suspended for poor work habits, a report has been written for child neglect and she is no longer in the daycare career until she takes some course. What the heck is going on here and how do I correct that? I did get some notices while she was at the park about Calling a babysitter or staying there. But I ignored them because they were all on the same lot and the notices didn't make sense. Unless..... its because I teleported the two toddlers and my sim to the park. It was the only way to get them all there. She couldn't carry two toddlers.

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