Technical Fixes: Dashboard Skill Lots
“This is what happens on skill locks when you change them on the dashboard under “Skill management” “I went back on dashboard and unlocked logic and cooking, saved it and now it shows correctly in game” Fix: The sliders had no budget awareness Each of the 6 skill sliders independently allowed values from 0 to […]
FAQ: How does Discord Rich Presence Work?
We’re using Discord’s Rich Presence/RPC integration directly from the client. NewSO ships with discord-rpc.dll, initializes it with our Discord application ID, then calls Discord_UpdatePresence whenever the player changes screens, enters a lot, enables privacy mode, etc. The Discord app has the NewSO name/assets registered, so Discord renders it as NewSO rich presence with state, lot […]
FAQ: Unable to execute file
User received this error Solution: Close the launcher, right click the launcher click “run as admin”
Technical Fixes: Tranquility Picnic Basket
What was the issue?The SimAntics Exception we were seeing: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.VMScheduler.cs:line 36was occurring because ent.Thread was null when ScheduleTick() was called. The Beach Blanket (“Tranquility Picnic Basket”) is a Multitile Master object. While executing the Init logic, it most likely interacted with its child parts (or itself) […]
Technical Fixes: Big Bong not giving fun/comfort
The bug was content tuning, not missing behavior. TDSBigAssBong.iff already had BHAV logic that changes motives during Smoke Bong / Join Bong. The problem was the local tuning table inside the IFF: Fun gain stopped at 42 Comfort gain stopped at 10 Comfort was barely advertised, or not advertised, depending on the layer So if […]
Technical Fixes: Fight Interaction not working
The fight system was working behind the scenes. The problem was that the game was trying to put the fight’s visual effects in the wrong place. What was broken The game used an invisible “Social Attack controller” object to manage the fight. That controller is not actually standing on the lot. It lives way off the […]
FAQ: In-Game chat window closed
This is a very common issue, and it’s not immediately obvious, so don’t worry if you were searching for an answer.Press Ctrl + H to toggle the in-game chat window on or off.
FAQ FIXES: Having trouble installing on an arch based system?
A user ran into issues installing this on an Arch-based Linux system. They eventually resolved it by converting the .debpackage using debtap, and then editing the PKGINFO file to replace the gtk dependency with gtk2.
FAQ Fixes: Can’t find simitone when trying to launch volcanic
FAQ Fixes: Game isn’t clickable
If the game is not responding to mouse input, but your mouse works normally in other applications, the issue is likely related to the game’s window resolution or scaling. Possible Fixes: These actions typically resolve issues where the game window is misaligned or not properly capturing input.