New SimPE w/gender pref
gillies:
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If you get the newest one off sourceforge, you'll notice that the archive contains both "SimPe" and "SimPe Classic". I use Classic all the time, myself. Same old UI, but with newer functionality.
With the 0.44 version I had a lot of crashing when saving files, with the new ui it happened most of the time, with the old ui it happened every time - so I'm not sure about that either. I use 0.42 which seems to work pretty well, I prefer the old way of doing family ties and editing sim descriptions anyway but I am a huge fan of nice looking programs.
Ancient Sim:
I have version 42 which is all I can get. No matter how many times I download 44, I get 42 (not sure why I don't get 43, I've never even had a message telling me that was there). As for the new interface, I don't have this blue one, I have the first new one that was brought in and I HATE IT. It was bad enough having to alter the screen resolution on the old one to see the memories, with this I have to do it for everything and the text is so tiny I can't read it. Once I found out how to go back to Classic I did, although it always opens in the new one when I want to edit files and it takes ten times as long because of it. Sounds like I won't be even attempting to download the new one anymore if it has this many errors in it.
As for the sex preferences, what about the uncle/aunt and nephew/niece (or nice as SimPE calls it). They've been upside-down ever since SimPE came out and STILL they haven't been altered. I change them myself when I see them, but I often wonder what effect changing them (or not changing them) has on the game. SimPE is a great program, but things like this shouldn't go unchanged for almost 50 releases. Doesn't hold out much hope for the gender preference getting put right!
Brynne:
Okay, so I'm not crazy. I thought the gender preference meter looked backwards. I haven't touched that part of simpe since I dl'd it because it seemed out of whack. In the extended (or "more info" browser, I think it's now called) the values show up correctly, opposite of what the meter says. And I had no idea what was up with the Mr. Potato Heads. They all showed up as "elder" unknowns; I didn't realize they were deceased relatives. I have been losing character data after playing, coincidentally since the last couple of releases, like it's going out of style. Every time I go into simpe now i find two or three characters with "no character data" and have to replace their files. You think it may actually be simpe that's doing this? Then I'm going back to an older one. I think I have a backup zip file somewhere...If not, I'll try the link above.
And is anyone else still having problems with sim surgery? Every time I try to do anything other than "export", I get an error message. Gonna go check out the forum over there, although, like someone said, answers are frustratingly rare. There are a lot of unanswered posts. I couldn't play the game without simpe, though. Must get working version!
Oddysey:
Eh, the SimPE portraits have been wiggy for me for ages. Don't really mind it, as they just tend to get stuck on a previous age group. Sort of nostalgic, more than anything.
I don't really mess with my sims in SimPE, except for dealing with corrupted memories, and messing with custom content packages. I don't mind the new UI, but it is a little trickier to work out than the old one, mainly because it's got a bunch more buttons that let you interact directly with the UI, moving windows around and such. Say, I may have to write that down, and see if I can work it out. Increasing the interactivity of the UI itself increases the complexity of using the program. Hmm.
RainbowTigress:
Quote from: Oddysey on 2005 August 15, 15:45:32
Eh, the SimPE portraits have been wiggy for me for ages. Don't really mind it, as they just tend to get stuck on a previous age group. Sort of nostalgic, more than anything.
That happens when you haven't updated a sim's appearance in the mirror since their age transition. Since I use Pescado's clothing tool, all mine tend to be updated now because change appearance is invoked after planning outfits.
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I don't mind the new UI, but it is a little trickier to work out than the old one, mainly because it's got a bunch more buttons that let you interact directly with the UI, moving windows around and such. Say, I may have to write that down, and see if I can work it out. Increasing the interactivity of the UI itself increases the complexity of using the program. Hmm.
You know, that reminds me of Windows...
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