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" Do I think it's fair that sims can't land anywhere else when this happens? No, absolutely not, but if they read these boards then they know not to abort those landings like that and bear partial responsibility for getting themselves stuck in the first place. If they don't read Stratics and therefore don't know this issue or how to avoid it, then again that's their responsibility for being ill-informed......"
You have to be kidding?
I get stuck not on "abort" but just trying to land. When the screen jumps to "cancel" after waiting a long time to land what do you suppose any thinking person is going to do? Sit there and time out waiting? Oh, and not everyone reads these boards, you know this.
I disagree with your thinking this is our (sims) own fault. This is a serious bug which EA needs to address.
Perhaps if they got to the bug fixing, making bugs a priority, we could get on with our games. This bug should be easily reproduceable (is that a word??).
What's the hold up? I think it is thier skewed idea of priorities.
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1. If people don't read these boards, that's their own fault. Links to this site are everywhere, and we as posters should have the URL in our sim profiles to spread the word if we are truly interested in educating our fellow sims rather than just busting each others balls over semantics. Especially if they are going to choose to be testers. Being a tester and then not reading the boards where the testers congregate to report their findings and kick around ideas on how to fix them is just the epitome of stupidity IMO. If you don't want to take the time to read, or don't have the stomach to put up with the [censored], or whatever the excuse is, then you have no business being a tester. That's my opinion.
2. Yes, it is EA's problem to fix this bug, and it's not *always* the sim's fault when they get caught by the bug, but sometimes it is. Sometimes just exercising a little bit of patience avoids problems like this, and yeah it's a pain in the ass, but which would be the bigger pain in the ass, waiting until you time out or potentially being stuck not being able to play for a whole day because the house owner has the option of whether to set or not reset? Personally, I would not put the fate of whether or not I can play my game in someone else's hands if there was any way to avoid it, but I understand that placing blame on someone else is a popular trend. Cest la vie. *shrugs*
We as players need to be more responsible for our own games, making ourselves informed of these potential problems, ESPECIALLY if we're going to choose to play in a TEST environment, and be educated on how to avoid them if at all possible. Absolutely there are going to be things that are going to happen that are totally beyond our control, because, as they say, [censored] happens. So if there are days that you can't play because of this bug or that bug, then I think you just need to suck it up and accept that that is par and parcel for playing in a test environment.....it isn't as though you can't play any of your other sims.
I understand Mandi's point about having a specific goal in mind for a specific day, and it would suck if I was in that position, but Murphy's Law prevails.....anything that can go wrong will, and also the best laid plans of mice and men will often go astray. I had plans with my Club Pogo to reach X number of badges by New Year's Eve. My computer malfunction a couple weeks ago that knocked me offline totally for 6 solid days blew that straight out of the water.....it's more than likely not gonna happen. My reaction? "Well, [censored]!".....yeah, I got upset about it, for a few minutes. But then I made the best of it and decided I was gonna use the time to home make some Christmas presents. Put it in perspective people, it's only a game. So yeah, that'd be a bite in the ass and a disappointment, but not something I'd blow my stack or lose any sleep over.
