What hacks/fixes are absolutely necessary
sloppyhousewife:
Quote from: cascaneda on 2008 December 07, 22:32:15
And since the basegame, fix or not, I never had a game not ending in a BFBVFS.
I wonder why ::)
notovny:
Quote from: cascaneda on 2008 December 07, 22:32:15
And since the basegame, fix or not, I never had a game not ending in a BFBVFS. Do you really still use the same NB you created the first time you installed the basegame ?
I do. I've played, almost daily, in Pleasantview since October, 2004. I install fixes when they become available, and usually install patches, as well.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: funkilla on 2008 December 07, 00:52:15
I don't use BUY either. My Sims don't really lurk in bathrooms and only go in to use to potty or shower or if I direct them to. I've never had an issue where I needed BUY.
The problem tends to be that they don't GTFO afterwards. Then some other sim decides to telepathically seek them, and pretty soon everyone is piled up in this one tiny room and no one can use it. This problem may actually be slightly reduced due to other hacks that nerf the psychic-seeking behavior, but traffic management remains an issue.
cascaneda:
Quote from: notovny on 2008 December 08, 10:47:08
Quote from: cascaneda on 2008 December 07, 22:32:15
And since the basegame, fix or not, I never had a game not ending in a BFBVFS. Do you really still use the same NB you created the first time you installed the basegame ?
I do. I've played, almost daily, in Pleasantview since October, 2004. I install fixes when they become available, and usually install patches, as well.
Really ? Well, I must admit since 2004 my computers or hard drives ended more often in a BFBVFS than the games. Perhaps it is a curse or I am really careless, I can't keep any computer working for more than 2 years, not to mention the hard drives with an average lifespan of 1 year.
I can't tell for sure but I remember the installation of nightlife was fatal to all previoulsy played neighborhoods, the best fixes came too late to save them as they were already corrupted just by installing the expansion. You probably did not get all the Eps as soon as they were released because of course patches and fixes come later than the game itself and then could prevent the corruption but not repair it afterwards.
The next major step was the installation of Freetime. I lost the previous neighborhoods here as well (lot didappearances and character corruption) Too much work to repair, It was faster to create a new neighborhood using the custom template than to repair the old ones
The oldest neighborhood I have now is a generic template I made, 2 computers ago in november 2006. As it is a template I don't really played it, I just use it as a base neighborhood
notovny:
Quote from: cascaneda on 2008 December 08, 23:11:11
I can't tell for sure but I remember the installation of nightlife was fatal to all previoulsy played neighborhoods, the best fixes came too late to save them as they were already corrupted just by installing the expansion. You probably did not get all the Eps as soon as they were released because of course patches and fixes come later than the game itself and then could prevent the corruption but not repair it afterwards.
You guess incorrectly. I've gotten every expansion that's come out either the day it was available, or within a few days. Nightlife didn't destroy my neighborhood, and if you ask around, you'll probably find it didn't kill most people's neighborhoods.
I have been using Pescado's hacks since his fix for the base game's "jump bug" manifested in my neighborhood, and the only time I've absolutely needed to reinstall was when I installed University, but I'd backed up my game like the manual mentioned, and the reinstall went smoothly.
And I've done some rather damaging things to this neighborhood, before I knew they were bad. If I hadn't known about the hacks, and put them in as news about them became available, I don't think I'd still be playing the same neighborhood now.
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