Which hacks cause resets?
cwykes:
I'd really like to know which hacks are known to cause resets when added/removed. Searching gave me so many threads to look at that I gave up - feel free to point me elsewhere... I've read these two cause resets:.
noinstantlove
dramafix
I'd like to put a whole new hood/sub-hood available for download from my new MATY space and the prospect of resets messing up my scenarios is annoying. I'd like to put up a hack free version for download, but if I understand it right, the hood will reset when put into a game that has cetain hacks in it. If I put up a version made with hacks in the game, it will reset if someone takes the hacks out. I'm not sure which way to jump on this - the answer probably depends on which hacks we're talking about.
Meadow Lawns was intended to be a new business sub-hood but it has a lot of sims and lots so I'll probably put it up as a hood in its own right. I hope to get a version up in the next week or so. I thought some of you might like to explore The Seasons and it's new bugs by playing a pre-made hood not thrown together by maxoids at EA.
Kyna:
I think you'll find that the sims would reset anyway, even if the person downloading had a completely hack free game.
cwykes:
Why would they reset? All the hood info is contained in that one folder - you should just be able to drop it in somewhere else and continue playiing from exactly where you were - provided the game set up matched. I guess dropping the hood into a game with a different set of EPs might be a problem too. If I can't avoid a reset, I need to set certain things up differently.
Apart from the whole question of what do I do about this hood, I'd really like to know which hacks cause resets so that I don't move them around casually!
Kyna:
I remember when I installed MATYville when it first came out, I did it on a separate login. The only hacks on that login were the ones included with the MATYville download - in other words they were identical to those used to produce the neighbourhood.
All the sims were reset when I went into the neighbourhood for the first time. In some of the houses it was the middle of the night and sims were standing next to their beds.
So if you were wanting sims to be still watching tv, or on the workout machine, or at work ... then I don't think that's going to be possible. I suspect that when someone opens the neighbourhood for the first time on their computer the sims will instead be standing next to the sofa or the workout machine or by the letterbox. Even if their hacks & EP/SPs installed are identical to yours.
RainbowTigress:
I think even in Maxis pre-made hoods the sims will be reset like this. I couldn't remember what the sims were doing when I first played TS2, but when I installed TS2 on my other machine and opened the Pleasant's house as it was shipped, everyone was standing around in the dining room area, and it was early in the morning before Mary Sue and the twins headed off to work/school. The Dreamers were standing in the living room just before Dirk heads to school. The Goths were standing in the back yard next to the wedding arch with Don there waiting for Cassandra to propose to him. And of course, Don was standing in his house doing nothing. And the Caliente twins were standing looking at each other on top of their condo, waiting for Mortimer to walk by. So everyone was standing around, not in the process of doing anything, and most of these were early in the day when reset motives wouldn't be much of a problem. And obviously any patch or EP applied subsequently will result in a reset. So I think it's nearly impossible to avoid resets and should actually be planned for.
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