work commute a no go?

[mido1960 19]

In some cities I always get this message from a sim: ...work commute a no go.

Is this a bug? I have excellent commute times, a very good transportation system with no traffic jams and enough jobs for every class of Sim society.

I finally sent the sim out of town but there must be another solution to that.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

The problem with using the My Sims part of the game is that you may get one looking for a specific job that really is too far, or non-existent in the city. You can move him, or you can kill him. Sims are really designed to frustrate you, so treat them like the never-to-be-sufficiently-damned advisors. Turn them off, turn off UDI, and get on with what the game really is.

  Edited June 19, 2011 by A Nonny Moose  

[IchimaruOO 8]

Hahahaha!! Well said Nonny Moose!

Too bad we can't put THEM in the worst parts of our city to suffer!!

@ Mido1960:

Seriously, sometimes a MySim couldn't find himself a job even when there was one 5 tiles away with a green stripe of road in-between. Later something occured to me: it shows green, but only because of the NAM which allows much greater traffic. Maybe the game uses its own routine and stats to assign MySims to jobs?

Anyway, I think the MySim feature COULD be fun to play with, but in its ailing (?) state... it's a pool of frustration for me too. Then again I've never been much of a Sim-person (never played other sim-games).

~ Ichi ~

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Well, Number One, I have the Sims games and I loaded them once about five years ago, fooled with them a little, discovered it was not my bag, and when I changed machines, I just didn't port them.

The wildly popular Sims games seem to be popular with the teen-aged Barbie and Ken set to a great extent, and as such are in the class of FPS, but with a lot more guts. Adding the My Sims and UDI was a marketing ploy to try to increase sales of SC4 with the Rush Hour release. In a word, foo!

  Edited June 19, 2011 by A Nonny Moose  

[mido1960 19]

Thanks buddies, this was pretty clear.

[IchimaruOO 8]

@A Nonny Moose:

Ooops, I guess I gotta clean up a possible misunderstanding with my nick. Ichimaru is made up of these characters (according to Bleach Wiki):

市 = market, town

丸 = a preferred suffix in boys' names

I simply like his character for his calm, collected and devious personality, I don't wish to look conceited or the like.

About that sales gimmick, trust such a company to do that. I'm reminded of how they called Societies a city building game.

@Mido1960:

So in short, we have no clue what to do to get those MySims to work. Sorry.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

IchimaruOO: Well that just goes to show that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I have always believed that ichi is the Nippongo word for One (つ) or First. I don't read character, not even Katakana, but I am intensely interested in languages philologically speaking.

Naturally, I believe that there are homonyms in any language. Thanks for the lesson.

[IchimaruOO 8]

@Nonny Moose:

It's fine, "Ichi" can indeed mean One if written differently. It was my fault for not putting it in my profile sooner, but I fixed this yesterday. So no harm done!

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

@Nonny Moose:

It's fine, "Ichi" can indeed mean One if written differently. It was my fault for not putting it in my profile sooner, but I fixed this yesterday. So no harm done!

My friend, it is all water under the bridge. One lives and if you don't make mistakes occasionally, you won't learn much.

[IchimaruOO 8]

Ok, thanks!