No Autonomous Pet Buying
Karen:
One major drawback of the autonomous pet-buying is the inability to customize anything. You can't even change the pet's name! When your controllable Sim buys a pet in a shop, you can customize its appearance any way you want and choose the name before you buy it. You lose all that flexibility when your Sim comes home with a pet they bought autonomously. Not to mention the fact that the message doesn't even tell you what you're adopting (large dog/small dog/cat etc.), so you are basically agreeing to bring the pet into your Sim's home without even knowing what it is.
Karen
dizzy:
You can't even register a new name by phone?
Karen:
Quote from: dizzy on 2006 October 22, 00:19:52
You can't even register a new name by phone?
You can, but only after you get the pet home.
Sweethrtcc:
Leave it to Maxis to put in a stupid option like that. Aggh.
Liz:
I may have had a problem with this hack. I'm currently running all EPs, and the only other hacks I have installed are antiwatchout, noautocongratulate, eatmoretalkless, and restaurantbarfix. After installing noautopetbuy, the lot I was playing started to have some troubling lags. These lags were under a minute, but the screen actually went completely blue while waiting for the timer to finish turning. On the final instance of this, the screen went black entirely (though I could still hear the crickets chirping on the lot). My monitor actually went to sleep; the game refused to be force-quit by any method I could think of (including ejecting the CD), and my machine locked to the point where the only thing I could do was turn it off manually. After rebooting I removed noautopetbuy from my game and haven't seen the problems since.
The problems *may* have coincided with wolf visits/interactions, but I'm not 100% sure about that. Post-removal, I did have a sim 'jump' at the same time her husband started playing Fetch with a Leader of the Pack. I'm more than willing to believe the problem was on my end, but I wanted to let you know about this, just in case.
Thanks!
Liz
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