Hi Sarah,
I tested Simport extensively yesterday and about 8 out of 10 times hosting a Sim fails on the client side. Here are the steps:
1. I accept a hosting session and a message pops up, telling me the event time, day and place. Okay.
2. The tour icon is visible in map view. Okay
3. The next thing that should happen is another notification message shortly before the show starts. That message does NOT appear!
4. I visit the venue where the show should happen about half an hour before it should start. I wait for several hours but nothing happens. NOT okay
Obviously something went wrong with the hosting process and the cleanup don't work.
5. The show event icon keeps in the map view even at the next day.
6. The tour book still says I'm hosting a Sim.
7. I save the game because it's the only way to cancel that hosting event. Note: Please add a "cancel hosting" button at a suitable place.
8. The tour icon still remains in the map view! I have to switch to another household in order to get that away.
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I don't mean to be rude or anything, but I went digging for those threads you mentioned and could only find one about the issues with Simport yesterday, when it wasn't working at all.
Cyron43 is reporting a much different issue, and one that I've been having trouble with myself. Cyron's post was very clear and detailed, and your post seems to just be brushing him off (not so politely even) and I think the players deserve a little more than a casual brush off. :evil:
As to my hosting difficulties, they are clearly more severe than Cyron's, as I have had 100% failure on every hosting attempt since I got the game when it was released in my location last Thursday. When I attempt to host a sim by accepting a request, the game asks if I really want to and I click Yes, and then nothing happens at all or I get a spinny circle for about thirty seconds and then nothing happens except a sim is showing in my Simport page as visiting, though they never show up. When I try to save the game, it tells me that will cancel the visiting sim's tour and I save, and still it doesn't cancel that non-visiting visiting sim issue.
That's the only time I even got that far! All other times I try to host, I accept the request and absolutely nothing happens at all.
I can send any of my performer sims on tour without issue. It has never failed except when the server had issues yesterday.
While I do enjoy this EP very much, my primary reason for purchasing Showtime was HOSTING other players' sims in my game. It is extremely disappointing that this feature is not working and that Gurus are not doing enough to keep the players informed about what problems are being experienced, what is being done about them, and when/if they will be fixed.
I want to host a sim in my game. Period. If the game doesn't work and you can't provide the advertised features, I would like a full refund ASAP. I would prefer the game to work, but I don't wish to throw money away at a disappointing and unreliable product.
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@Sarah: Thanks so much for your support. I appreciate your contact to us fans. It's much of an improvement compared to the past. :thumbup:
could you do me a favor and post a link to this thread in my bug thread so I can add it to the first page ? Don't want your detailed report to get lost in the depth of the forums.
Link will do.
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thanks for your comment. I have added the link now.
Have you been able to host? I have finally had success with hosting and it was everything I hoped it would be 8) I really hope it'll work smoothly for you too!
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Then I made the mistake of patching to 1.32. That's when all the fun and games began. :roll: Thanks to Murphy's Law, EA pulled the patch shortly after I updated the game. That probably explains why I was unsuccessful in hosting/touring sims since the update. At that point, I quit using simport. But the lag-start-stop-lag issues just kept getting worse even though I wasn't logged in?? :?
I've since rolled back to 1.31 but Simport is still on crack. I can still book the gigs/tours. BUT If I book a tour:
-my sim leaves the town and is grayed out in game and in the Simport book.
-a copy of my sim also shows up in the Exports folder.
After a few minutes, Simport tells me what a great tour my sim had. That's on both my page and the other person's page who hosted my sim. Yet my sim either
-returns and I NEVER get the tour credit OR
-NEVER returns and I NEVER get the tour credit. :?
Whenever I save do a save game to cancel out, the next time I login and try to host a gig, the other person's sim ALWAYS shows up in my downloads folder--with or without cc attached. The 1/20 times I was successful in hosting a sim (i.e sim showed up to perform in my game), the downloaded sim was 7MB in size! :shock: After that sim left my game, Simport failed to remove the copy from my downloads folder. I couldn't Edit Town or Save. So I had to quit the game, manually uninstall all the CC that was attached to that sim, then manually delete it from my downloads folder. I quit using Simport after that. :?
This really blows. :? Apart from all the grind in obtaining the locked content, Simport did have the potential to add an element of unpredictability to the game. It gave your townies the ability to be entertained by different sims of different skill levels at the venues. :? After this whole fiasco, I no longer trust Simport--or any patch that claims to "block" CC from entering your game. :hunf: I guess this means I'll stick to booking my own townies at all the venues from now on. :? The only problem now is that the danged lag-pause-freeze-lag is STILL screwing up my game even though I haven't logged into Simport.... :evil:
I just started Simporting and I've attempted 3 hosting tours.... only 1 worked. The other two acted just as Cyron has described. I've had to save my game in-order to cancel the issue that I'm still hosting a tour when actually it's failed.
Must say, it's becoming a big turn off to even attempt to simport when you put the effort in and only get failure 99% of the time due to some game issues/glitches.
1. Patch 1.32 was not pulled because of more bugs but because the developers accidentaly implemented some strings for the next EP into it, which no one should see (but it's too late).
2. You say you rolled back to 1.31 and complain about Sims with cc in your downloads folder. Well that was the exct reason why they made patch 1.32. With Patch 1.31 you cannot expect anything else.
Just FYI.
Not trying to take over a thread, but I too have this issue.I also have an issue with audiences....There's never anyone watching any performances except for performances done by my friends.My friends gets tons of people, my sim gets no audience, even at simfests.These 2 issues, theone Cyron mentioned and this one is quite troubling and makes gameplay not so fun.
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Strangest though is that usually on MyPage on this site afterwards it says i hosted the sim and they had a great gig. Never says it on the game wall until i do a restart . Also i never get the simport stamp
However the icon above the lot only shows for Sims that are not in one of the three performing careers. I go to the lot at the appointed time (I don't delete the initial and only notification), but cannot set up the stage and no visiting Sim appears. I hang out for a few hours.
After going back home, some time later, I get the posts from myself and the other Simmer saying how great it was. I did still get my stamp for hosting.
It seems we can still receive credit, but are left wondering if it worked.
Okay, weird update. The problems seem to be bouncing all over the place and the same person will have different issues at different times. I hosted a Sim - the icon was there, I went, she showed up, I threw stuff at her, she went home, I went home and I have yet to receive the posts from both us saying how wonderful it was. Hit and miss!
I can't send my sim on tour either; all attempts have just ended with no report of success.
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Overall, hosting is hit or miss, sometimes it works, sometimes not.
One other "feature" I think would be nice is to see who you've sent your sim to on the simport page. There've been a couple of times where I've sent my sim out and she's come back 12 hours later, but I eventually have to cancel the gig and lose the credit since I get no acknowledgment from the host. It would be nice to know where I sent him/her to see if he/she is updating on their simpage or not playing.
I can send my Sim out via SimPort but do not receive the stamps even though the gig was successful.
http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/515443.page
I accepted a Sim for hosting and as the show didn't happen I wanted to ask the sender whether someone else has also hosted her Sim but forgot who it was. You know it's pretty much hullabaloo going on with requests flying around and I lost track.
To my disappointment there was no way of finding out whose Sim I was hosting.
The same goes for the other direction. Once sent we cannot see who is the receiver. Forget the wall for it! Those posts get drowned faster than you can say "🐸🐸🐸🐸.". :roll:
Sarah?
EDIT: now it gives me error 16! I have 8Gb of RAM
are you still experiencing the same problems with Simport since the 1.33 upgrade?
Moreover according to the bugfix list, Simport issues are not addressed with this patch.
However I'm going to test and report back.
We do not need a superpatch having to be downloaded each time we get an update . The launcher should be able to see what patch we are currently at and just then download and add the next patch in line .
Faith mentioned yesterday Simport refuses to connect due to an incompatible game version when she tried with 1.32. That's an indication they changed something in the data structure which requires to be patched to 1.33.