Furniture from Junk Yard

[Saltypaws]

I am glad it works for some people, but I cannot get the repairman to fix anything from junk yard.  That would be nice though.

[Merrilin]

For me it works when I put one item inside the main house, and the rest where-ever. He repairs everything for me. For a time, my lot looked like a yard sale.

[Twinmum]

I just did a quick trial and sent Jewel to the junkyard. She came back with one of the portable radios and one of the Audio Explosion stereo' Both only had the replace option on them so she put them in the house and called the repair technician who came and just stood outside then left after collecting $50. I thought that they were not fixed, but when she came home from the junkyard the next day with a working microwave oven plus a non working exercise machine and another stereo, I clicked on the radio and it does now work. So did you actually click on your items Saltypaws.. maybe they were fixed (just the repairman/woman didn't need to touch them)

Norma

[Saltypaws]

Yep, clicked on them and nothing.  Stereo was still smoking so I knew that one was not fixed.  Well, I will try again.  Maybe I am not patient enough, lol.  Mine only had replace option also, so had to use phone for services.  I tried this a few times in different houses.  No big deal though.

[Saltypaws]

I stand corrected, just went to junkyard and got a variety of furniture and electronics.  Took them home and called the repairman.  She stood outside for most of the day and when she left I checked the stuff and everything had been repaired, even furniture, so I apologize, I was wrong, "sniff sniff", lol.  I told you I was not a patient person, but, it worked.  What an amazing function and way to furnish a house or make money.  Now that is worth it.

[ik]

I just went to junkyard and got a variety of furniture and electronics.  Took them home and called the repairman.  She stood outside for most of the day and when she left I checked the stuff and everything had been repaired, even furniture

I had the same thing happen several times. To be honest, the whole feature has a kind of "unfinished" feel to it, like they wanted to implement the possibility to refurbish stuff from the junkyard but never got around to programming it properly. I sincerely hope they will release a patch/update one day that gives the repair person proper animations when fixing the salvaged stuff and allows the player-controlled sims (with proper handyness skill) to repair/refurbish the stuff themselves, too.

[lianne]

To be honest, the whole feature has a kind of "unfinished" feel to it, like they wanted to implement the possibility to refurbish stuff from the junkyard but never got around to programming it properly.

I agree, it seems like the sort of thing sims should be doing for themselves rather than relying on the repairman. It's pretty lucrative though, if you wait until you have quite a few items you can make several thousand simoleans from one repairman payment.

[LlamaMama]

Is it better to dig through junk piles than blow them up then?

[Leto85]

The only thing where you can use it for is to blow those up. But than you mostly get only one scrap from it, so it looks not so interesting for me. Unless there is more to do with it, of course.

[Pam]

Is it better to dig through junk piles than blow them up then?

I don't know if you get more scrap by blowing up the junk piles, but it's faster than digging through them.

[Maritah]

You can dig through them and then blow them up.

[Pam]

You can dig through them and then blow them up.

Really?  I thought that once you dig them up, they stop twinkling and you wouldn't be able to detonate.

[Maritah]

I was digging them through them yesterday then blowing them up.

If you can blow up non-twinkling stuff at the library (I couldn't resist ), then why would the junkpiles need to be twinkling to be blown up?

[Pam]

Well, they stop twinkling when they don't have any more scrap. Then it regenerates and starts twinkling again later.  And if there's no scrap in the pile, it won't let me detonate it. Maybe you're not taking all the scrap when you dig through the pile.

[Maritah]

Here's a screenshot from my game.  Testy McTestALot has just dug out all the scrap from the pile she is standing next to, and now has the option to detonate it.

Sorry for the poor image quality, I have a lousy graphics card, so play with all the graphics settings turned down as low as possible.