FreeTime - Primary and secondary ASP problems?

[CtfG]

Hello all!

Problem:A sim with primary aspiration FAMILY (Const 0x013E:0x02) selects as second aspiration KNOWLEDGE (Const 0x013E:0x06). After that, global BHAV 0x0403 "Get in Temp 0 - Aspiration (Primary)" reports aspiration FORTUNE (Const 0x013E:0x03) for this sim. I rewrote global 0403 and removed the call of "Get Second Aspiration". This converted the FAMILY sim internally into a ROMANTIC sim (Const 0x013E:0x01). But the icons are still correct, for both primary and secondary aspiration.

I tried this with several primary and secondary aspirations, and every time a second ASP is entered, the primary ASP value changes.

Question: Does anyone know if adding a second aspiration affects the primary aspiration? And if yes, which sim's parameter can I adress to get the correct result?

Thank you.

Vironin (successor of CtfG)

[Sophie-David]

Hi Vironin

I am not sure I understand the problem. I haven't had any aspiration oddness when testing FT at the player level (I was doing this testing because it relates to the project I am just finishing up). Are you trying to change the aspirations programatically without player intervention? A way to bend their little minds to have Sims look at life differently? Perhaps you could borrow code from the ReNuYuSenso Orb?

David

[J. M. Pescado]

This is a known bug in the game that is fixed by the patch. There's a fix somewhere at Jeffistan for this, or you can attempt to install the official patch, which can be downloaded here (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/patch/). The patch isn't available at the official site because of an unrelated bug in the original unpatched FT that thrashes your core files like the old Crumplebottom bug, but is an unrelated problem.

[Sophie-David]

I am using the official patch, so perhaps this explains why I have not seen this problem.

[CtfG]

Thanks, Pescado, and thanks, Sophie-David! Before I posted here, I did check the official patch site, but found no file for FT. That's why I went here. I'll check it out.

@Sophie-David: No, I didn't try anything against the game rules :) I just added the second aspiration from the LTA points, and after that, the SetFlag condition in "Get Aspiration (Primary)" showed different values than expected (this "Fortune" ASP instead of "Family" which was not changed).

[CtfG]

Installing the patch did indeed fix the problem. Thanks again!

Thread can be closed.

[LtlCrys]

Does the official patch mentioned in this thread fix the game crashing for no reason problem?

[CtfG]

LtlCrys,

if the games crashes, there usually *is* a reason :) My latest game crash was kind of self-induced. I did a mass-compress in SimPE which changed all group numbers, which in turn crashed the game during loading.