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Offline Bogie74

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Firetruck has become the bane of my existence!!
« on: September 17, 2011, 09:48:35 PM »
I'm ready to F-L-I-P!  >:(

I have a firefighter that is level 10. He has maxed athletic and handiness skills, however, his truck is slower than molasses in January! I have improved the horsepower to level 3. I have maintained it, as well as the alarm in the firehouse yet, every time there is an emergency, that (insert not nice word here) truck is SLOW. I mean SUPER SLOW! IT'S RIDICULOUS! I had to restart my game and teleport him because he missed his award ceremony the first time. I bought him the fastest car available (no custom content) and made that his preferred car, but it doesn't matter where I tell him to go, that stupid truck shows up instead of his car!

What makes it worse, is that his job performance is always yellow, even though I complete jobs with a grade A, and have befriended all my coworkers. His lifetime wish is to save 30 Sim's and he has saved 15 thus far, but I'm really beginning to question that wish because you don't have control over the emergencies that I know of. Meaning, that the jobs show up randomly and not all jobs involve saving a sim. He's an adult with 10 days left to age, set at normal.  ??? The only 2 things in the fire house I know you can maintain are the alarm and the truck. Is that it? Did I miss something?

I did the brave, athletic Sim because I wanted to try the Firefighter thing but honestly, this has been more trouble than its worth.  >:( Does anyone else have this issue? Can you improve the horsepower past level 3? My only option when I click on the truck is maintain, and I never let it fall below 90. Am I missing something, or is this normal?  ??? 

Also, on a lighter note - He recently was called out to a small house fire. After saving the Sims, I sent him downstairs to extinguish the flames in the lobby. When he got there, Vladamir was there with an extinguisher, even though he is not part of the fire team which I thought was pretty funny considering he was a Vampire. I was thinking "Self Preservation"!  ;D
I will love him and squeeze him and pet him and call him George!!

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Re: Firetruck has become the bane of my existence!!
« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2011, 09:50:30 PM »
Do you have any mods?
Is there some kind of routing glitch? You might want to try resetsim*



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Re: Firetruck has become the bane of my existence!!
« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2011, 09:54:16 PM »
That does seem strange that your firetruck is so slow, are you sure it's not just your game that's lagging?

Other than that I think it might just be some sort of weird glitch.

That LTW does take forever to complete, and if you want to finish it before your sim dies, I suggest you turn aging of or change it to a longer setting.

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Re: Firetruck has become the bane of my existence!!
« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2011, 10:15:50 PM »
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Do you have any mods? Is there some kind of routing glitch? You might want to try resetsim*

No, I don't. Tried the "reset Sim" but it doesn't make the truck faster. I know it's not my computer because everything else works perfectly. I don't D/L MODS because I don't trust them. My game is completely vanilla. I know it's not my computer, because every thing else works perfectly, and I am somewhat of a computer nerd. ;D

 
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Re: Firetruck has become the bane of my existence!!
« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2011, 10:20:22 PM »
Do you have testing cheats on while playing?
I think that this can slow down/hurt your game sometimes.

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Re: Firetruck has become the bane of my existence!!
« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2011, 05:49:09 AM »
Having testing cheats enabled doesn't cause as many problems with Sims 3 as it did for Sims 2. 

I haven't played this particular LTW, but maybe the fire truck isn't supposed to be fast.  Has anyone actually had a fast fire truck?

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Re: Firetruck has become the bane of my existence!!
« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2011, 06:25:51 AM »
The firetruck get fast in my game but it was a while ago. The job performance bar when you get at level 10 turns yellow



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Re: Firetruck has become the bane of my existence!!
« Reply #7 on: September 23, 2011, 03:23:49 PM »
At level 10 you should have two firetrucks. One is the station's, one is personal. Make sure you've upgraded and maintained the firetruck you are using. I'm guessing you've upgraded and maintained the station firetruck, but not your personal one.

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Re: Firetruck has become the bane of my existence!!
« Reply #8 on: January 12, 2012, 05:35:59 PM »
At level 10 you should have two firetrucks. One is the station's, one is personal. Make sure you've upgraded and maintained the firetruck you are using. I'm guessing you've upgraded and maintained the station firetruck, but not your personal one.

That's what I was thinking.  She's probably using the personal one and hasn't done anything to it so that's why it's slow.


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