After months of normal game play, I’m starting to have a problem with Sims 2.
In many of my households, there is suddenly one family member who is a “pariah.” This person–formerly tolerated and well-liked–is having problems interacting with other characters.
If s/he tries to “talk” to another character, the action vanishes from the queue of character actions. It’s impossible to have a conversation with these characters.
If the pariah character joins others at the dinner table, everyone stops eating and jumps up to their feet.
It’s the “jump bug”. When characters are chatting, the game cycles through all memories to find something to chat about. When you get too many memories, it breaks the cycle before finishing and the characters “jump out” of any chat interaction. So it doesn’t emerge until you’ve been playing a family for a while.
I haven’t played Sims 2 in months, so I don’t know if Maxis ever resolved it, but a site called www.modthesims2.com made a hack to fix it. Searching for “jump bug” or “chat bug” should find it.
Maxis came out with an update/patch for this. It fixes a bunch of other things and should speed up the game as well. I was happy to get it because it meant that neighbors wouldn’t kidnap my babies any more. Yay!
I’ve had one of my Sim toddlers kidnapped before. :rolleyes: I exited and didn’t save (which pissed me off as I lost a lot of gameplay) and I realized later on that I probably should’ve just saved because the baby would’ve returned the next time I played that family anyway.
Just wondering, for how long would I play a family before the jump bug takes effect? I rarely ever use the “aging off” cheat, and when I do, it’s only for a couple days, so I don’t think my Sims have a greater number of memories than normal. Should I be pretty safe?
It pissed me off when the youngest Broke son was kidnapped by that hussy Angela. It didn’t help that she had stood in a single spot for two hours and wouldn’t fork him over, either. I exited without saving, too, which meant I lost the extension I’d built to the Broke house. But, a couple of motherlodes later, it was back!
I’ve no idea how long you can play before you should expect your Sims to start “jumping”. I haven’t played any of my families long enough to give anybody grandkids or anything, so I’ve never had this problem. If you download the patch, you should be fine anyway.
Well, I’ve got one household into its 6th generation (yes, I’m one of those bozos playing the Legacy Challenge) and so far, with the patches, no jump bug at all. I do, however, cross my fingers, toes AND eyes everytime I play
P.S. I should also mention that every so often they seem to get stuck, in that they just won’t do anything you tell them to do. What I’ve always found helpful is just to tell them to “move” someplace. For whatever reason, that resets them and then they will once again take direction as all good Sims should
I have some families who have free will–the ones I don’t really care about. I’ve never seen the pirate yet, but I love the toddlers who play in the toilet.
