Banzai Lounge glitched?

[CharlieChomper]

Has anyone encountered or heard of any issues with the Sims3 Bridgeport lot, Banzai Lounge (with all packs installed up through Into the Future)?

I've heard it said in the past that the neighborhood of Bridgeport, itself, may have been glitched/glitchy, but had hoped it had been in some way resolved (though, perhaps also wishful thinking...) by this point.

The reason I ask is because when I've had some time to play Sims3 again, I elected to have a sim I've been playing move from one neighborhood to another in hopes of taking advantage of each neighborhood by pack given some of the advantages some have had over others (for example, dive lots in Paradise Island, show business venues in Starlight Shores, various drinks in Bridgeport, etc.) before moving onto the next and before I decide upon where I eventually hope to move her permanently. Plus, given past experience in trying to get sims to learn new things or explore them in neighborhoods that did not ship with a given pack, I've sometimes found issues (such as not all drinks being available to learn outside of Bridgeport).

At the moment, she's in Bridgeport and has learned most of the drinks--except that for some reason, the VIP section is unavailable (it's physically there, but there's no bouncer to be found and sims can't seem to get past the ropes for some reason--with the exception of the mixologist working the other side who also for some reason is now refusing to work on his side and instead has been the only sim able to get into the VIP section and just sits there having drinks) and the elevator has been glitchy enough to where I've had to put in stairs to help sims get up and down from the other side as they otherwise get stuck (in fact, I've had to actually reset my sim because of it). Another issue I seem to be having with this lot is that the clock is completely off--one moment, it's reading (and even stuck at) 12:59AM and then skips ahead until past 2AM!

If not for the fact she still has a few more drinks to learn there, I wouldn't even honestly have bothered with it (and have also had to bulldoze and reinstall another lot, Plasma 501?--the one with the vampire lounge) and after this, plan on relocating her to another neighborhood that's hopefully less glitchy than this.

[Kiri]

Sorry, no idea CC. I haven't played TS3 for a couple of months.

[Jessica]

It does seem like people are having trouble with Banzai Lounge, CC. I found this in the official forums: forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/289146.page
Also, as you said, Bridgeport is infamous for being really glitchy. If you have Twallan's Master Controller you could try using its "Reset lot" command and see whether it fixes things, or its "DebugEnabler", which is what they suggest at the very last post in the thread I linked to:

KaneMagus: "I used the NRaas DebugEnabler to Force Reset the elevator, and it started working after that. With that mod installed, click on the elevator, then select NRaas -> DebugEnabler... -> Options -> Object... -> Force Reset. "

I hope you can sort out the problems! It sounds like a great idea, playing in each world for a while. :) I am also trying to test out the features in all EPs lately... with TS4 a year away, we still have time to discover TS3 properly!

EDITED: Forgot to add! You can always try loading up a new Bridgeport, putting a copy of the Lounge in the Lot Bin and try replacing the one in your save with it, see if a fresh lot works better.

Also, here you have the files to fix Bridgeport, although if you are going to leave that world soon it might not be worth it (that creator has fixed many EA Worlds, take a look at her uploads!): modthesims.info/d/452601

[CharlieChomper]

Thanks for all the help, Jessica!

Right now, I'm leaning toward having my sim just move from Bridgeport (she's learned all the special drinks except for the mummy-specific drinks anyway)--it's just not worth the frustration to me that it's caused to keep her there. However, I did discover just how much "easier" it actually is for a sim with different musical instrument skills to actually earn the 25,000 simoleon challenge in that neighborhood...

It's funny as the last time I played that neighborhood, part of me was about to just write it off completely never to play it again as I ended up losing my sim family I had been playing up until that point due to all the glitches during that last attempt.

However, I am happy that we now have the option to move our sims to a different neighborhood, at least.

In the meantime, I've had Sims2 keeping me occupied for when I've had time to play (I hope to be able to post some images of some of what I've been working on in that game when I can find the time to upload the images).