I have just purchased Sims Deluxe (Sims1 + LL) and the car pool NEVER shows up? (Outside of the tutorial). Am I missing something? I have downloaded the v1.1 patch.

Asked at 05:33 on Sunday 22 August 2004 by John Elbl (Elf__Man)

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You don't need the v1.1 patch if you have Deluxe, that v1.1 patch is for the original game only - there is a separate Deluxe patch at Maxis' site.

Assuming you've done the obvious and found your sim a job with the newspaper or computer and waited until an hour before the job start time...

If you've installed the v1.1 patch then uninstall the entire game and reinstall it. As I say, you don't need that patch so chuck it and grab the Deluxe patch from Maxis: Click Here.

Answered at 10:34 on Sunday 22 August 2004 by Neil Jones (NKTP) Answer Rating: Not Rated Yet.

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I did install the Deluxe patch to no avail. The sim has lost 2 jobs now due to no-shows.

However, this only fails on one particular house! Two other houses work fine.

Intersting note: The house that doesn't work had a mishap: The prior sim died during his first attempt at making breakfast -- while the carpool was waiting for him!

Answered at 23:36 on Monday 23 August 2004 by John Elbl (Elf__Man) Answer Rating: Not Rated Yet.

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Portal trouble then. Replace the house. Evict the family if you want to keep them. Make a note of the house number; you'll only have numbers 1-10.

Quit the game, go to C:\Program Files\Maxis\The Sims\TemplateUserData\Houses on your hard drive and copy the appropriate Housexx.iff file to C:\Program Files\Maxis\The Sims\UserData\Houses overwriting the previous file. So for example, 8 Sim Lane is House08.iff and so on.

Now fire up the game again and go back into the house that previously faulty. It should now be working again; take note that if you put a sim with a job into the house the carpool won't show up on the first day in your new house (won't affect your job) while the schoolbus will.

Disappearing portals are a common problem with early versions of the game; later expansion packs included extra code to rescue the situation. Please see my Article on this site: http://www.thesimszone.co.uk/extras/index.php?ID=74 in particular the "The Portals" section.

Answered at 01:48 on Tuesday 24 August 2004 by Neil Jones (NKTP) Answer Rating: Not Rated Yet.

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