Ambular
23rd Feb 2007, 07:38 AM
Hey all. I and at least a few other people with Pets have experienced strays, including master wolves, wandering in and out of custom CAS screens. An example from my game:
http://pics.livejournal.com/amberdiceless/pic/0001r8ks
It's also a known phenomenon that if you put an object in a CAS house that normally spawns NPC's, those NPC's will then appear in the CAS as well.
These CAS visitors appear harmless enough, but SaraMK over at MATY theorizes they could damage a neighborhood due to junk files and borked relationship data, as per this discussion:
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,7388.html
So now I'm a bit concerned that my CAS might be hazardous to downloaders, to say nothing of my own game, and I thought I'd invite discussion of the matter here and see what other experienced modders might have to say about it. Is this likely to cause a problem? If so, it's easy enough to avoid using NPC-spawning items when building a CAS lot, but is there any way to prevent strays from entering one?
Opinions, theories, prophecies of impending Sim doom? Any input would be appreciated.
ETA: Pescado has declared this a dangerous, even fireball-causing problem. He also offers the possible solution of forcing errors and deleting all NPC-related invisible objects from the lot before the final save. Thoughts?
http://pics.livejournal.com/amberdiceless/pic/0001r8ks
It's also a known phenomenon that if you put an object in a CAS house that normally spawns NPC's, those NPC's will then appear in the CAS as well.
These CAS visitors appear harmless enough, but SaraMK over at MATY theorizes they could damage a neighborhood due to junk files and borked relationship data, as per this discussion:
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,7388.html
So now I'm a bit concerned that my CAS might be hazardous to downloaders, to say nothing of my own game, and I thought I'd invite discussion of the matter here and see what other experienced modders might have to say about it. Is this likely to cause a problem? If so, it's easy enough to avoid using NPC-spawning items when building a CAS lot, but is there any way to prevent strays from entering one?
Opinions, theories, prophecies of impending Sim doom? Any input would be appreciated.
ETA: Pescado has declared this a dangerous, even fireball-causing problem. He also offers the possible solution of forcing errors and deleting all NPC-related invisible objects from the lot before the final save. Thoughts?