traveling between islands in a tropical world

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Post by sittingbear » February 15th, 2018, 2:20 am

Which world is this?

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Post by littlelambsy » February 15th, 2018, 2:41 am

This is one of my tropical worlds, Manihikki. I like playing islands like this one, sunlit tides, and isle of Sims. Those are my favourite island worlds :)

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Post by sittingbear » February 15th, 2018, 2:59 am

Ah okay and speaking of Sunlit Tides been a long time since I played there (dusts of sims3pack)

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Post by brappl » February 15th, 2018, 8:35 am

@littlelambsy - I just started playing in Manihikki and I haven't noticed too many sims in the water but then I'm not yet fully populated. I'll take another look when I go in game today and report back.

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Post by littlelambsy » February 15th, 2018, 10:38 am

Thanks brappl, I'm still in the set up stage. I just finished placing all the businesses and work places, now I adding houses. Once that's done, I'll be ready to play it. It would be nice to see what you get when the world is more populated.

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Post by brappl » February 15th, 2018, 12:24 pm

Here's an update:

First: I used rapid immigration and filled up my town with lots of households of all sizes and ages. At first the sims I saw swimming were Service Sims and in a few instances, residents. Just for the heck of it I put 4 subways in to connect to an island that had an art gallery and a business I added. The residents all used the subways as did some of the service sims.

Second: I tried another scenario:
Boat Routing and Car Routing enabled in GoHere. Traffic was already set to Allow use of cars during general routing. Always Use Taxis for Inactives Lacking Vehicles set to False.

This time around sims were using either the subway, water taxis or their own boats they purchased as I changed the money option in SP and let them go on a spending spree. Might be worth it to mention that the number of veiches cleaned up by OW was no different than before I changed settings and I have not been able to find any abandoned boats.

After 5 sim days watching them this time around no sims are swimming across the ocean. I was surprised that the setting at False for Always Use Taxis for Inactives Lacking Vehicles did not impact Service/Role Sims as they are using the water taxis.

This wasn't the most scientific test as I am not sure if other settings I use in other mods such as Retuner were at work with the new settings. Might be something to consider and try out :)

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Post by littlelambsy » February 15th, 2018, 12:33 pm

Thanks brappl, that's great. I will use those setting and put in subways :) I really like this word and I'm keeping it as one of my rotations.

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Post by brappl » February 15th, 2018, 1:00 pm

You are welcome. To be honest I do not think there are "real" routing issues in this one. Rather settings we may or may not be using might be why we assume what looks like a routing problem is an actual routing problem when in fact other settings are aruging among themselves, lol. I do not mind the water taxis at all. It just seems a natural mode of transportation for island worlds.

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Post by littlelambsy » February 15th, 2018, 1:06 pm

What put me off water taxis was playing in IP, that was a nightmare! I'm looking forward to getting into playing this world :)

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Post by brappl » February 15th, 2018, 1:13 pm

I think I lasted all of about 1 day trying to play that one. I enjoy troubleshooting and trying new things out but that EP was indeed a nightmare. You will like Manihikki. My biggest problem with that world is spelling it correctly :)

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