RE: Trouble with Nanny
Quote: Originally posted by natboopsie
@salamanderer
...do you get the same message if you only place the painting and wait the sim-hour out, before using Assign?
And speaking of Assign...in my game, although the AIO for each painting can be assigned by menu to be a playable, this isn't possible on the Nanny paintings----the Nanny can only be chosen from among precreated AIO/Nannies that the paintings themselves created. Is that how it works in your game also? Or are you saying you have a menu option on the Nanny painting to assign a playable, and that that isn't working?
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Hi, natboopsie, and thanks for offering help! You are correct; I do not have "assign" for the nanny painting. Sorry if it sounded as though I did. It is only on the AIO painting.
That said, I don't remember what game time I put it up/tried to use it, but I got the same error in several different houses, which is why I counted it as an overall problem instead of a one-off.
Some things I had in mind for conflicts were made moot because they weren't duplicated across all houses. For instance, I at first thought the glitch might have happened because the pregnant Sim had brought the painting with her from her former household when she moved out, but that wasn't so in the other houses. Neither was it the teen pregnancy hack, for the same reason.
Now, you might have hit on it when mentioning the wait of an in-game hour. It is possible that I just didn't wait long enough before trying to schedule the nanny. My AIO was up and working fine for a long time in game already, so even if I had unknowingly done the same with it, it functioned perfectly, regardless. Maybe the nanny painting is just less forgiving?
Eventually, a new type nanny did show up, but after I deleted the paintings, backed out to the neighborhood, and then went back in to replace both paintings. I made sure to first assign the AIO, and hadn't even set the schedule on the nanny painting when someone appeared in front of it (though a lady in a black apron, not the old lady in woolens). So, it could very well be the timing factor. I will try to remember that for the next time I need it, and see if it gives me the error again or not.
Thanks for pointing out that very small, but oh so important step!